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+<book name='2 Chronicles' permalink='2-chronicles' id='14'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his  kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him  exceedingly.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of  thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in  all Israel, the chief of the fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the  high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the  congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in  the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim  to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent  for it at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the  son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and  Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the  LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a  thousand burnt offerings upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto  him, Ask what I shall give thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto  David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be  established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of  the earth in multitude.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come  in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so  great?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart,  and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of  thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom  and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom  I have made thee king:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give  thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had  that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the  like.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that  was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the  congregation, and reigned over Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a  thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which  he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous  as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in  the vale for abundance.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:  the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a  chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred  and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the  Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the  LORD, and an house for his kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear  burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three  thousand and six hundred to oversee them.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou  didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him  an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to  dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the  continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening,  on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the  LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the house which I build is great: for great is our God  above all gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and  heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should  build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in  silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and  blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me  in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of  Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in  Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which  I am about to build shall be wonderful great.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that  cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty  thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and  twenty thousand baths of oil.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he  sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made  thee king over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that  made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son,  endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for  the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with  understanding, of Huram my father's,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father  was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in  iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen,  and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out  every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with  the cunning men of my lord David thy father.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the  wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt  need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou  shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land  of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered  them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three  thousand and six hundred.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers  of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and  three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at  Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his  father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of  Ornan the Jebusite.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he began to build in the second day of the second month,  in the fourth year of his reign.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for  the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first  measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length  of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the  height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure  gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he  overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:  and the gold was gold of Parvaim.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the  walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims  on the walls.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was  according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth  thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to  six hundred talents.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And  he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image  work, and overlaid them with gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one  wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the  house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the  wing of the other cherub.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching  to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also,  joining to the wing of the other cherub.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty  cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and  fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five  cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was  five cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the  heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on  the chains.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the  right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on  the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length  thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the  height thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,  round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of  thirty cubits did compass it round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass  it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two  rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north,  and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south,  and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them,  and all their hinder parts were inward.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of  it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it  received and held three thousand baths.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and  five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the  burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to  wash in.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their  form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on  the left.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five  on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons  of gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great  court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with  brass.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over  against the south.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons.  And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for  the house of God;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters  which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover  the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows  of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the  chapiters which were upon the pillars.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>One sea, and twelve oxen under it.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all  their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the  house of the LORD of bright brass.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay  ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for  the weight of the brass could not be found out.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of  God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was  set;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should  burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of  gold, and that perfect gold;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the  censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors  thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the  temple, were of gold.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the  LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his  father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the  instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the  heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of  Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD  out of the city of David, which is Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto  the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up  the ark.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the  congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,  these did the priests and the Levites bring up.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that  were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen,  which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the  LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy  place, even under the wings of the cherubims:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of  the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof  above.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of  the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not  seen without. And there it is unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses  put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children  of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the  holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and  did not then wait by course:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of  Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being  arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood  at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty  priests sounding with trumpets:)</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as  one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;  and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and  instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good;  for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a  cloud, even the house of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of  the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in  the thick darkness.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a  place for thy dwelling for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole  congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath  with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my  father David, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land  of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an  house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a  ruler over my people Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;  and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house  for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in  thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it  was in thine heart:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son  which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for  my name.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath  spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on  the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house  for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the  LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of  all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long,  and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the  midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his  knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands  toward heaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in  the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy  unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that  which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast  fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant  David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall  not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet  so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou  hast walked before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,  which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?  behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much  less this house which I have built!</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to  his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer  which thy servant prayeth before thee:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,  upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name  there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this  place.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and  of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear  thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest,  forgive.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon  him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this  house;</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,  by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and  by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his  righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the  enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and  confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this  house;</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy  people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to  them and to their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because  they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and  confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy  servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good  way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou  hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if  there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their  enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or  whatsoever sickness there be:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made  of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his  own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this  house:</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive,  and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou  knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as  they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people  Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and  thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in  this house;</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling  place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for;  that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth  thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is  called by thy name.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way  that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city  which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their  supplication, and maintain their cause.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth  not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their  enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are  carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their  captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt  wickedly;</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>If they return to thee with all their heart and with all  their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried  them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their  fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the  house which I have built for thy name:</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling  place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause,  and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and  let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place,  thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be  clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:  remember the mercies of David thy servant.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came  down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices;  and the glory of the LORD filled the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD,  because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came  down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves  with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and  praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for  ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two  thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king  and all the people dedicated the house of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also  with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made  to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David  praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before  them, and all Israel stood.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was  before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and  the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon  had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat  offerings, and the fat.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and  all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of  Hamath unto the river of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they  kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he  sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the  goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to  Israel his people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's  house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of  the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto  him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for  an house of sacrifice.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command  the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my  people;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble  themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked  ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and  will heal their land.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the  prayer that is made in this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my  name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there  perpetually.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy  father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and  shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as  I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail  thee a man to be ruler in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my  commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other  gods, and worship them;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which  I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name,  will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a  byword among all nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to  every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD  done thus unto this land, and unto this house?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God  of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,  and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them:  therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein  Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon  built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store  cities, which he built in Hamath.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether,  fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and  all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that  Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout  all the land of his dominion.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and  the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,  which were not of Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But of their children, who were left after them in the land,  whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay  tribute until this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants  for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and  captains of his chariots and horsemen.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even  two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the  city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My  wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the  places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the  altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to  the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on  the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of  unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of  tabernacles.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he appointed, according to the order of David his  father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to  their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty  of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate:  for so had David the man of God commanded.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto  the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the  treasures.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the  foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the  house of the LORD was perfected.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea  side in the land of Edom.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and  servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants  of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of  gold, and brought them to king Solomon.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon,  she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very  great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and  precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with  him of all that was in her heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was  nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,  and the house that he had built,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,  and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers  also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the  house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard  in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine  eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy  wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which  stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set  thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God  loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king  over them, to do judgment and justice.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,  and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there  any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,  which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house  of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for  singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,  whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king.  So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was  six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the  kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to  Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:  six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three  hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in  the house of the forest of Lebanon.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid  it with pure gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of  gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the  sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the  other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold,  and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure  gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the  days of Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of  Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold,  and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches  and wisdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of  Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,  and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and  mules, a rate year by year.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and  chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot  cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto  the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar  trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in  abundance.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out  of all lands.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are  they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy  of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against  Jeroboam the son of Nebat?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty  years.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the  city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel  come to make him king.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was  in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard  it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel  came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou  somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that  he put upon us, and we will serve thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days.  And the people departed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had  stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What  counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this  people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy  servants for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and  took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that  stood before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may  return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease  somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto  him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee,  saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat  lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall  be thicker than my father's loins.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put  more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will  chastise you with scorpions.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third  day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam  forsook the counsel of the old men,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying,  My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father  chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was  of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the  hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto  them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in  David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to  your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all  Israel went to their tents.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities  of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute;  and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But  king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to  Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this  day.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the  house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen  men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring  the kingdom again to Rehoboam.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and  to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against  your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of  me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going  against Jeroboam.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for  defence in Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and  in Benjamin fenced cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them,  and store of victual, and of oil and wine.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And in every several city he put shields and spears, and  made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel  resorted to him out of all their coasts.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and  came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them  off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the  devils, and for the calves which he had made.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set  their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to  sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam  the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in  the way of David and Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the  son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of  Jesse;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which  bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all  his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and  threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore  daughters.)</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be  ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children  throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced  city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the  kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD,  and all Israel with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam  Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had  transgressed against the LORD,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand  horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of  Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and  came to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the  princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of  Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me,  and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled  themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word  of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves;  therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some  deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the  hand of Shishak.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know  my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took  away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the  king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold  which Solomon had made.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and  committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the  entrance of the king's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the  guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard  chamber.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned  from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah  things went well.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and  reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to  reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the  LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.  And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not  written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer  concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and  Jeroboam continually.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the  city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to  reign over Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also  was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between  Abijah and Jeroboam.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant  men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set  the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,  being mighty men of valour.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount  Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the  kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a  covenant of salt?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the  son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of  Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of  Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not  withstand them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the  hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are  with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of  Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of  the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate  himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest  of them that are no gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken  him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of  Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening  burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in  order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps  thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our  God; but ye have forsaken him.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his  priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of  Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall  not prosper.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them:  so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before  and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with  the trumpets.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah  shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before  Abijah and Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God  delivered them into their hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter:  so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time,  and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD  God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,  Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and  Ephraim with the towns thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of  Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and  begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his  sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the  city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the  land was quiet ten years.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the  LORD his God:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the  high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers,  and to do the law and the commandment.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high  places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest,  and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and  make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is  yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought  him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and  prospered.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out  of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields  and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were  mighty men of valour.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an  host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto  Mareshah.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in  array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is  nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no  power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we  go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail  against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before  Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto  Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover  themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his  host; and they carried away very much spoil.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the  fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for  there was exceeding much spoil in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep  and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me,  Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with  him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake  him, he will forsake you.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God,  and without a teaching priest, and without law.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of  Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And in those times there was no peace to him that went out,  nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the  inhabitants of the countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for  God did vex them with all adversity.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for  your work shall be rewarded.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the  prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all  the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had  taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was  before the porch of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers  with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell  to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God  was with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the  third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil  which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of  their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should  be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with  shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with  all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was  found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he  removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove:  and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook  Kidron.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:  nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And he brought into the house of God the things that his  father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and  gold, and vessels.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year  of the reign of Asa.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha  king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent  that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of  the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad  king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>There is a league between me and thee, as there was between  my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go,  break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains  of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and  Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off  building of Ramah, and let his work cease.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the  stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building;  and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah,  and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and  not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of  Syria escaped out of thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with  very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the  LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole  earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is  perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from  henceforth thou shalt have wars.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison  house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa  oppressed some of the people the same time.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are  written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was  diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his  disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and  fortieth year of his reign.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made  for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was  filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the  apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and  strengthened himself against Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and  set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which  Asa his father had taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the  first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his  commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and  all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour  in abundance.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD:  moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes,  even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel,  and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah,  and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and  Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama  and Jehoram, priests.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the  LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and  taught the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the  lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against  Jehoshaphat.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents,  and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand  and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in  Judah castles, and cities of store.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men  of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And these are the numbers of them according to the house of  their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief,  and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two  hundred and fourscore thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly  offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty  men of valour.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him  armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and  fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in  the fenced cities throughout all Judah.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and  joined affinity with Ahab.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And  Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people  that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to  Ramothgilead.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,  Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou  art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I  pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets  four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to  battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver  it into the king's hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the  LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet  one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he  never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the  son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and  said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat  either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a  void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the  prophets prophesied before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of  iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria  until they be consumed.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to  Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand  of the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him,  saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with  one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of  their's, and speak thou good.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God  saith, that will I speak.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him,  Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And  he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your  hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee  that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the  mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These  have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in  peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell  thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw  the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing  on his right hand and on his left.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel,  that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after  this manner, and another saying after that manner.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and  said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the  mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him,  and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in  the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote  Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD  from me to speak unto thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when  thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him  back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison,  and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction,  until I return in peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then  hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went  up to Ramothgilead.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will  disguise myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy  robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the  battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the  chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great,  save only with the king of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw  Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they  compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD  helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots  perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again  from pursuing him.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the  king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to  his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the  host; for I am wounded.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of  Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the  even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in  peace to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him,  and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love  them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that  thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared  thine heart to seek God.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again  through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them  back unto the LORD God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced  cities of Judah, city by city,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge  not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take  heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor  respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites,  and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the  judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to  Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of  the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren  that dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and  commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they  trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon  your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all  matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the  house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be  officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the  good.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab,  and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites,  came against Jehoshaphat to battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There  cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side  Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD,  and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the  LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and  Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in  heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and  in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to  withstand thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of  this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of  Abraham thy friend for ever?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary  therein for thy name, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or  pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence,  (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction,  then thou wilt hear and help.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount  Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of  the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of  thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might  against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what  to do: but our eyes are upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones,  their wives, and their children.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah,  the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,  came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of  Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be  not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the  battle is not yours, but God's.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by  the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,  before the wilderness of Jeruel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves,  stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and  Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them:  for the LORD will be with you.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground:  and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD,  worshipping the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of  the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel  with a loud voice on high.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the  wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and  said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the  LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so  shall ye prosper.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed  singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness,  as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his  mercy endureth for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set  ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which  were come against Judah; and they were smitten.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the  inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when  they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to  destroy another.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the  wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead  bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the  spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the  dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for  themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days  in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the  valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name  of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and  Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with  joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and  trumpets unto the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those  countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies  of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him  rest round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five  years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years  in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not  from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the  people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,  behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is  mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself  with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to  Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied  against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with  Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken,  that they were not able to go to Tarshish.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with  his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his  stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and  Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all  these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of  gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the  kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father,  he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and  divers also of the princes of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign,  and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did  the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he  wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David,  because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised  to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of  Judah, and made themselves a king.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his  chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites  which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto  this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand;  because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and  caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and  compelled Judah thereto.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet,  saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast  not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of  Asa king of Judah,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast  made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to  the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of  thy father's house, which were better than thyself:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people,  and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,  until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of  the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried  away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons  also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save  Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an  incurable disease.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end  of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died  of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the  burning of his fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and  he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being  desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the  sepulchres of the kings.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest  son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians  to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram  king of Judah reigned.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign,  and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was  Athaliah the daughter of Omri.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his  mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the  house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his  father to his destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram  the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at  Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the  wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king  of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see  Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to  Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the  son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment  upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of  the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid  in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they  buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who  sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no  power to keep still the kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was  dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the  son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were  slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the  daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was  the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him  not.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and  Athaliah reigned over the land.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and  took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael  the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son  of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out  of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and  they came to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in  the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall  reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you  entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be  porters of the doors;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third  part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the  courts of the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the  priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for  they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every  man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the  house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh  in, and when he goeth out.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things  that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that  were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the  sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of  hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's,  which were in the house of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in  his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the  temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the  crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and  his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and  praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at  the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all  the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the  singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise.  Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of  hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her  forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the  sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the  entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all  the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it  down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan  the priest of Baal before the altars.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD  by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in  the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it  is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it  was ordained by David.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the  LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and  the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and  brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through  the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne  of the kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was  quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he  reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of  Beersheba.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD  all the days of Jehoiada the priest.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and  daughters.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to  repair the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and  said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel  money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that  ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto  him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah  and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of  Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for  the tabernacle of witness?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up  the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the  LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it  without at the gate of the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to  bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid  upon Israel in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought  in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought  unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw  that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's  officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his  place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of  the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters  to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and  brass to mend the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them,  and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the  money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the  house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and  spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt  offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of  Jehoiada.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died;  an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And they buried him in the city of David among the kings,  because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his  house.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah,  and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers,  and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem  for this their trespass.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the  LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of  Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them,  Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye  cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also  forsaken you.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones  at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which  Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he  died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of  Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and  destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent  all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of  men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because  they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed  judgment against Joash.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in  great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood  of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he  died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not  in the sepulchres of the kings.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son  of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a  Moabitess.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens  laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are  written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son  reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='25'>
+    <verse no='1'>Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to  reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his  mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,  but not with a perfect heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to  him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in  the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The  fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die  for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them  captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the  houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he  numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three  hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle  spear and shield.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out  of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not  the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to  wit, with all the children of Ephraim.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God  shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and  to cast down.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for  the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the  man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come  to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was  greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people,  and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten  thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah  carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast  them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in  pieces.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that  they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah,  from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and  took much spoil.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the  slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of  Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before  them, and burned incense unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah,  and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou  sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own  people out of thine hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king  said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why  shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know  that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this,  and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash,  the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let  us see one another in the face.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Joash 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='19'>Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine  heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou  meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah  with thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he  might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought  after the gods of Edom.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one  another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh,  which belongeth to Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled  every man to his tent.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the  son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to  Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of  Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels  that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of  the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the  death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold,  are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following  the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled  to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his  fathers in the city of Judah.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='26'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen  years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the  king slept with his fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he  reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was  Jecoliah of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,  according to all that his father Amaziah did.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had  understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD,  God made him to prosper.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and  brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of  Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the  Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread  abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself  exceedingly.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner  gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and  fortified them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells:  for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:  husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for  he loved husbandry.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out  to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand  of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah,  one of the king's captains.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty  men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and  seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to  help the king against the enemy.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host  shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings  to cast stones.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men,  to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great  stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously  helped, till he was strong.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his  destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went  into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him  fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It  appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but  to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense:  go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be  for thine honour from the LORD God.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn  incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose  up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from  beside the incense altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked  upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust  him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the  LORD had smitten him.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death,  and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from  the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house,  judging the people of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did  Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with  his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for  they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='27'>
+    <verse no='1'>Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,  and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was  Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,  according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not  into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the  wall of Ophel he built much.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in  the forests he built castles and towers.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed  against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an  hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten  thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him,  both the second year, and the third.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before  the LORD his God.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and  his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and  Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and  reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in  the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='28'>
+    <verse no='1'>Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he  reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right  in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made  also molten images for Baalim.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of  Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of  the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and  on the hills, and under every green tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of  the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great  multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was  also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with  a great slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and  twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they  had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the  king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was  next to the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the children of Israel carried away captive of their  brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took  also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded:  and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto  them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with  Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in  a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and  Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with  you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which  ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the  LORD is upon you.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,  Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and  Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up  against them that came from the war,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives  hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye  intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is  great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the  princes and all the congregation.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took  the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among  them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to  drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon  asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their  brethren: then they returned to Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to  help him.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and  carried away captives.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low  country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and  Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah  with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and  they dwelt there.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of  Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and  distressed him, but strengthened him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD,  and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto  the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more  against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote  him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them,  therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they  were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God,  and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the  doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner  of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And in every several city of Judah he made high places to  burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his  fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and  last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the  city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres  of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='29'>
+    <verse no='1'>Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years  old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his  mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,  according to all that David his father had done.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,  opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered  them together into the east street,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now  yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and  carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was  evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have  turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned  their backs.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out  the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in  the holy place unto the God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and  Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and  to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons  and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God  of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you  to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto  him, and burn incense.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel  the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of  Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of  the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the  sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the  sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves,  and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the  LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the  LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they  found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the  LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook  Kidron.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now they began on the first day of the first month to  sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of  the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and  in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have  cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering,  with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the  vessels thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did  cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and,  behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers  of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven  lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for  the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of  Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the  blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed  the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the  lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering  before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon  them:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation  with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel:  for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering  should be made for all Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with  cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment  of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so  was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the  priests with the trumpets.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the  altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began  also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king  of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang,  and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt  offering was finished.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all  that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the  Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of  Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed  their heads and worshipped.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated  yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank  offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in  sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart  burnt offerings.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the number of the burnt offerings, which the  congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams,  and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three  thousand sheep.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay  all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help  them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had  sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to  sanctify themselves than the priests.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat  of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt  offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had  prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='30'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters  also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the  LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the  congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests  had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people  gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout  all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep  the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not  done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So the posts went with the letters from the king and his  princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the  commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto  the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the  remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of  Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren,  which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore  gave them up to desolation, as ye see.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield  yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath  sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness  of his wrath may turn away from you.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your  children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so  that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is  gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye  return unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So the posts passed from city to city through the country of  Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn,  and mocked them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun  humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to  do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the  feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great  congregation.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they arose and took away the altars that were in  Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them  into the brook Kidron.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the  second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and  sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the  house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And they stood in their place after their manner, according  to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood,  which they received of the hand of the Levites.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For there were many in the congregation that were not  sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the  passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and  Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did  they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah  prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his  fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the  sanctuary.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem  kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and  the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with  loud instruments unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that  taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the  feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to  the LORD God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven  days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a  thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the  congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great  number of priests sanctified themselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the  Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the  strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,  rejoiced.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of  Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in  Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people:  and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy  dwelling place, even unto heaven.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='31'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present  went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and  cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out  of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had  utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned,  every man to his possession, into their own cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the  Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the  priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to  minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents  of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for  the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt  offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new  moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to  give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be  encouraged in the law of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of  Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and  honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all  things brought they in abundantly.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt  in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and  sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the  LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the  heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps,  they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites  concerning the heaps.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered  him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the  house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for  the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great  store.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of  the LORD; and they prepared them,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the  dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler,  and Shimei his brother was the next.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and  Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and  Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his  brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler  of the house of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the  east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the  oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and  Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in  their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the  great as to the small:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and  upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD,  his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their  courses;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their  fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their  charges by their courses;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives,  and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for  in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the  fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men  that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among  the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the  Levites.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that  which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And in every work that he began in the service of the house  of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he  did it with all his heart, and prospered.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='32'>
+    <verse no='1'>After these things, and the establishment thereof,  Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped  against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he  was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop  the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did  help him.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all  the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land,  saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that  was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without,  and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in  abundance.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered  them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake  comfortably to them, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the  king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there  be more with us than with him:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God  to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves  upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants  to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his  power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that  were at Jerusalem, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust,  that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to  die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us  out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and  his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship  before one altar, and burn incense upon it?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the  people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any  ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my  fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine  hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you  on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or  kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the  hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of  mine hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and  against his servant Hezekiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and  to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands  have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God  of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto  the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to  trouble them; that they might take the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the  gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of  man.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah  the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men  of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of  Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he  was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own  bowels slew him there with the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of  Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from  the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and  presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the  sight of all nations from thenceforth.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed  unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit  done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath  upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of  his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath  of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he  made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious  stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant  jewels;</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and  oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks  and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of  Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of  David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of  Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in  the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in  his heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness,  behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son  of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in  the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and  the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh  his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='33'>
+    <verse no='1'>Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he  reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like  unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before  the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father  had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves,  and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the  LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.</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 caused his children to pass through the fire in the  valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used  enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,  and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to  provoke him to anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in  the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his  son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all  the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out  of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will  take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole  law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to  err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed  before the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they  would not hearken.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the  host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and  bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God,  and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard  his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.  Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on  the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the  fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great  height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the  house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of  the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed  thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to  serve the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high  places, yet unto the LORD their God only.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto  his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of  the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the  kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all  his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high  places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled:  behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in  his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign,  and reigned two years in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as  did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images  which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his  father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his  own house.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But 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>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='34'>
+    <verse no='1'>Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he  reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD,  and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the  right hand, nor to the left.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young,  he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth  year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and  the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence;  and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the  groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in  pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them  that had sacrificed unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and  cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and  Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and  had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols  throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged  the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and  Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the  recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they  delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the  Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and  Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and  Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the  oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen  that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy  hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the  kings of Judah had destroyed.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of  them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and  Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it  forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments  of musick.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were  overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of  the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when they brought out the money that was brought into  the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of  the LORD given by Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have  found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah  delivered the book to Shaphan.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the  king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants,  they do it.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they have gathered together the money that was found in  the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the  overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the  priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of  the law, that he rent his clothes.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of  Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah  a servant of the king's, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left  in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found:  for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because  our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is  written in this book.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to  Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son  of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the  college:) and they spake to her to that effect.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,  Tell ye the man that sent you to me,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this  place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are  written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>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 poured out upon this place,  and shall not be quenched.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the  LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel  concerning the words which thou hast heard;</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble  thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place,  and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me,  and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee  also, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be  gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the  evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the  same. So they brought the king word again.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of  Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the  men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and  the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their  ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the  house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And the king stood in his place, 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 his heart, and with all his  soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this  book.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and  Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according  to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the  countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that  were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And  all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of  their fathers.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='35'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem:  and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them  to the service of the house of the LORD,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were  holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son  of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your  shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after  your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and  according to the writing of Solomon his son.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of  the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the  division of the families of the Levites.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare  your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by  the hand of Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids,  all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the  number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of  the king's substance.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the  priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers  of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings  two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and  Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the  Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five  hundred oxen.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their  place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's  commandment.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the  blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give  according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto  the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with  the oxen.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And they roasted the passover with fire according to the  ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in  caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the  priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering  of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites  prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place,  according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and  Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they  might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites  prepared for them.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to  keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the  LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the children of Israel that were present kept the  passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from  the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel  keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites,  and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of  Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this  passover kept.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho  king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and  Josiah went out against him.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do  with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but  against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make  haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he  destroy thee not.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but  disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto  the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the  valley of Megiddo.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to  his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put  him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to  Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his  fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men  and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this  day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are  written in the lamentations.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness,  according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in  the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='36'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,  and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to  reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and  condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of  gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over  Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took  Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to  reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which  was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and  bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of  the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations  which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written  in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son  reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and  he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that  which was evil in the sight of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and  brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the  LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to  reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his  God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from  the mouth of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had  made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his  heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people,  transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and  polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his  messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion  on his people, and on his dwelling place:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his  words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose  against his people, till there was no remedy.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who  slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary,  and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that  stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small,  and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the  king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of  Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed  all the goodly vessels thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to  Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign  of the kingdom of Persia:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah,  until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay  desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word  of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the  LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a  proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the  earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to  build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among  you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>