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+<crossway-bible translation="English Standard Version" revision="2006-10-26" xmlns="http://www.crosswaybibles.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="schema/crossway.bibles.xsd"> 
+<book title="2 Kings" num="12">
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001001"/>
+  <chapter num="1">
+    <heading>Elijah Denounces Ahaziah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="a" cid="c12001001.1"/>After the death of Ahab, Moab <crossref let="b" cid="c12001001.2"/>rebelled against Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2">Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001002.1" from="12001002.1" to="12001002.2"/>Go, inquire of <crossref let="c" cid="c12001002.1"/>Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, <crossref let="d" cid="c12001002.2"/>whether I shall recover from this sickness.<q class="end-double" qid="12001002.2" from="12001002.1" to="12001002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Elijah <crossref let="e" cid="c12001003.1"/>the Tishbite, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001003.1" from="12001003.1" to="12001004.2"/>Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, <q class="begin-single" qid="12001003.2" from="12001003.2" to="12001004.1"/>Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of <crossref let="c" cid="c12001003.2"/>Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Now therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="f" cid="c12001004.1"/>You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.<q class="end-single" qid="12001004.1" from="12001003.2" to="12001004.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="12001004.2" from="12001003.1" to="12001004.2"/> So Elijah went.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001005.1" from="12001005.1" to="12001005.2"/>Why have you returned?<q class="end-double" qid="12001005.2" from="12001005.1" to="12001005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And they said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001006.1" from="12001006.1" to="12001006.4"/>There came a man to meet us, and said to us, <q class="begin-single" qid="12001006.2" from="12001006.2" to="12001006.3"/>Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of <crossref let="c" cid="c12001006.1"/>Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.<q class="end-single" qid="12001006.3" from="12001006.2" to="12001006.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12001006.4" from="12001006.1" to="12001006.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001007"/>
+    <verse num="7">He said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001007.1" from="12001007.1" to="12001007.2"/>What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?<q class="end-double" qid="12001007.2" from="12001007.1" to="12001007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001008"/>
+    <verse num="8">They answered him, <crossref let="g" cid="c12001008.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12001008.1" from="12001008.1" to="12001008.2"/>He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.<q class="end-double" qid="12001008.2" from="12001008.1" to="12001008.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001008.3" from="12001008.3" to="12001008.4"/>It is Elijah the Tishbite.<q class="end-double" qid="12001008.4" from="12001008.3" to="12001008.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, <crossref let="h" cid="c12001009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12001009.1" from="12001009.1" to="12001009.4"/>O man of God, the king says, <q class="begin-single" qid="12001009.2" from="12001009.2" to="12001009.3"/>Come down.<q class="end-single" qid="12001009.3" from="12001009.2" to="12001009.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12001009.4" from="12001009.1" to="12001009.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001010.1" from="12001010.1" to="12001010.2"/>If I am a man of God, <crossref let="i" cid="c12001010.1"/>let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.<q class="end-double" qid="12001010.2" from="12001010.1" to="12001010.2"/> Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001011.1" from="12001011.1" to="12001011.4"/>O man of God, this is the king&apos;s order, <q class="begin-single" qid="12001011.2" from="12001011.2" to="12001011.3"/>Come down quickly!<q class="end-single" qid="12001011.3" from="12001011.2" to="12001011.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12001011.4" from="12001011.1" to="12001011.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001012"/>
+    <verse num="12">But Elijah answered them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001012.1" from="12001012.1" to="12001012.2"/>If I am a man of God, <crossref let="j" cid="c12001012.1"/>let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.<q class="end-double" qid="12001012.2" from="12001012.1" to="12001012.2"/> Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001013.1" from="12001013.1" to="12001014.1"/>O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, <crossref let="k" cid="c12001013.1"/>be precious in your sight.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.<q class="end-double" qid="12001014.1" from="12001013.1" to="12001014.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Then the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Elijah, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001015.1" from="12001015.1" to="12001015.2"/>Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.<q class="end-double" qid="12001015.2" from="12001015.1" to="12001015.2"/> So he arose and went down with him to the king</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001016"/>
+    <verse num="16">and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12001016.1" from="12001016.1" to="12001016.4"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-single" qid="12001016.2" from="12001016.2" to="12001016.3"/>Because you have sent messengers to inquire of <crossref let="c" cid="c12001016.1"/>Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron&emdash;is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?&emdash;therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.<q class="end-single" qid="12001016.3" from="12001016.2" to="12001016.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12001016.4" from="12001016.1" to="12001016.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">So he died according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place <crossref let="l" cid="c12001017.1"/>in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12001018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002001"/>
+  <chapter num="2">
+    <heading>Elijah Taken to Heaven</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was about to <crossref let="m" cid="c12002001.1"/>take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and <crossref let="n" cid="c12002001.2"/>Elisha were on their way from <crossref let="o" cid="c12002001.3"/>Gilgal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Elijah said to Elisha, <crossref let="p" cid="c12002002.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12002002.1" from="12002002.1" to="12002002.2"/>Please stay here, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sent me as far as Bethel.<q class="end-double" qid="12002002.2" from="12002002.1" to="12002002.2"/> But Elisha said, <crossref let="q" cid="c12002002.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12002002.3" from="12002002.3" to="12002002.4"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.<q class="end-double" qid="12002002.4" from="12002002.3" to="12002002.4"/> So they went down to Bethel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And <crossref let="r" cid="c12002003.1"/>the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002003.1" from="12002003.1" to="12002003.2"/>Do you know that today the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will take away your master from over you?<q class="end-double" qid="12002003.2" from="12002003.1" to="12002003.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002003.3" from="12002003.3" to="12002003.4"/>Yes, I know it; keep quiet.<q class="end-double" qid="12002003.4" from="12002003.3" to="12002003.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Elijah said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002004.1" from="12002004.1" to="12002004.2"/>Elisha, <crossref let="p" cid="c12002004.1"/>please stay here, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sent me to <crossref let="t" cid="c12002004.2"/>Jericho.<q class="end-double" qid="12002004.2" from="12002004.1" to="12002004.2"/> But he said, <crossref let="q" cid="c12002004.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12002004.3" from="12002004.3" to="12002004.4"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.<q class="end-double" qid="12002004.4" from="12002004.3" to="12002004.4"/> So they came to Jericho.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="r" cid="c12002005.1"/>The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002005.1" from="12002005.1" to="12002005.2"/>Do you know that today the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will take away your master from over you?<q class="end-double" qid="12002005.2" from="12002005.1" to="12002005.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002005.3" from="12002005.3" to="12002005.4"/>Yes, I know it; keep quiet.<q class="end-double" qid="12002005.4" from="12002005.3" to="12002005.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Then Elijah said to him, <crossref let="p" cid="c12002006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12002006.1" from="12002006.1" to="12002006.2"/>Please stay here, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sent me to the Jordan.<q class="end-double" qid="12002006.2" from="12002006.1" to="12002006.2"/> But he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002006.3" from="12002006.3" to="12002006.4"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.<q class="end-double" qid="12002006.4" from="12002006.3" to="12002006.4"/> So the two of them went on.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Fifty men of <crossref let="r" cid="c12002007.1"/>the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then Elijah <crossref let="u" cid="c12002008.1"/>took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, <crossref let="v" cid="c12002008.2"/>and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002009.1" from="12002009.1" to="12002009.2"/>Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.<q class="end-double" qid="12002009.2" from="12002009.1" to="12002009.2"/> And Elisha said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002009.3" from="12002009.3" to="12002009.4"/>Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.<q class="end-double" qid="12002009.4" from="12002009.3" to="12002009.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002010.1" from="12002010.1" to="12002010.2"/>You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.<q class="end-double" qid="12002010.2" from="12002010.1" to="12002010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And as they still went on and talked, behold, <crossref let="w" cid="c12002011.1"/>chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Elisha saw it and he cried, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002012.1" from="12002012.1" to="12002012.2"/>My father, my father! <crossref let="x" cid="c12002012.1"/>The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!<q class="end-double" qid="12002012.2" from="12002012.1" to="12002012.2"/> And he saw him no more.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>Then he took hold of his own clothes <crossref let="y" cid="c12002012.2"/>and tore them in two pieces.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002014.1" from="12002014.1" to="12002014.2"/>Where is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Elijah?<q class="end-double" qid="12002014.2" from="12002014.1" to="12002014.2"/> And when he had struck the water, <crossref let="v" cid="c12002014.1"/>the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002015"/>
+    <heading>Elisha Succeeds Elijah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Now when <crossref let="r" cid="c12002015.1"/>the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002015.1" from="12002015.1" to="12002015.2"/>The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.<q class="end-double" qid="12002015.2" from="12002015.1" to="12002015.2"/> And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And they said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002016.1" from="12002016.1" to="12002016.2"/>Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that <crossref let="z" cid="c12002016.1"/>the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.<q class="end-double" qid="12002016.2" from="12002016.1" to="12002016.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002016.3" from="12002016.3" to="12002016.4"/>You shall not send.<q class="end-double" qid="12002016.4" from="12002016.3" to="12002016.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002017"/>
+    <verse num="17">But when they urged him <crossref let="a" cid="c12002017.1"/>till he was ashamed, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002017.1" from="12002017.1" to="12002017.2"/>Send.<q class="end-double" qid="12002017.2" from="12002017.1" to="12002017.2"/> They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002018.1" from="12002018.1" to="12002018.4"/>Did I not say to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="12002018.2" from="12002018.2" to="12002018.3"/>Do not go<q class="end-single" qid="12002018.3" from="12002018.2" to="12002018.3"/>?<q class="end-double" qid="12002018.4" from="12002018.1" to="12002018.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Now the men of the city said to Elisha, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002019.1" from="12002019.1" to="12002019.2"/>Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.<q class="end-double" qid="12002019.2" from="12002019.1" to="12002019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002020"/>
+    <verse num="20">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002020.1" from="12002020.1" to="12002020.2"/>Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.<q class="end-double" qid="12002020.2" from="12002020.1" to="12002020.2"/> So they brought it to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Then he went to the spring of water and <crossref let="b" cid="c12002021.1"/>threw salt in it and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002021.1" from="12002021.1" to="12002021.2"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.<q class="end-double" qid="12002021.2" from="12002021.1" to="12002021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002022"/>
+    <verse num="22">So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12002023.1" from="12002023.1" to="12002023.2"/>Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!<q class="end-double" qid="12002023.2" from="12002023.1" to="12002023.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And he turned around, and when he saw them, <crossref let="c" cid="c12002024.1"/>he cursed them in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12002025"/>
+    <verse num="25">From there he went on to <crossref let="d" cid="c12002025.1"/>Mount Carmel, and from there he returned <crossref let="e" cid="c12002025.2"/>to Samaria.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003001"/>
+  <chapter num="3">
+    <heading>Moab Rebels Against Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="f" cid="c12003001.1"/>In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003002"/>
+    <verse num="2">He did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the <crossref let="g" cid="c12003002.1"/>pillar of Baal <crossref let="h" cid="c12003002.2"/>that his father had made.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Nevertheless, he clung to <crossref let="i" cid="c12003003.1"/>the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="j" cid="c12003003.2"/>which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, <crossref let="k" cid="c12003004.1"/>and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003005"/>
+    <verse num="5">But <crossref let="l" cid="c12003005.1"/>when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So King Jehoram marched out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: <q class="begin-double" qid="12003007.1" from="12003007.1" to="12003007.2"/>The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?<q class="end-double" qid="12003007.2" from="12003007.1" to="12003007.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003007.3" from="12003007.3" to="12003007.4"/>I will go. <crossref let="m" cid="c12003007.1"/>I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.<q class="end-double" qid="12003007.4" from="12003007.3" to="12003007.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003008.1" from="12003008.1" to="12003008.2"/>By which way shall we march?<q class="end-double" qid="12003008.2" from="12003008.1" to="12003008.2"/> Jehoram answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003008.3" from="12003008.3" to="12003008.4"/>By the way of the wilderness of Edom.<q class="end-double" qid="12003008.4" from="12003008.3" to="12003008.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and <crossref let="n" cid="c12003009.1"/>the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Then the king of Israel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003010.1" from="12003010.1" to="12003010.2"/>Alas! <crossref let="o" cid="c12003010.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.<q class="end-double" qid="12003010.2" from="12003010.1" to="12003010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="p" cid="c12003011.1"/>And Jehoshaphat said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003011.1" from="12003011.1" to="12003011.2"/>Is there no prophet of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> here, through whom we may inquire of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?<q class="end-double" qid="12003011.2" from="12003011.1" to="12003011.2"/> Then one of the king of Israel&apos;s servants answered, <crossref let="q" cid="c12003011.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12003011.3" from="12003011.3" to="12003011.4"/>Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, <crossref let="r" cid="c12003011.3"/>who poured water on the hands of Elijah.<q class="end-double" qid="12003011.4" from="12003011.3" to="12003011.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Jehoshaphat said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003012.1" from="12003012.1" to="12003012.2"/>The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is with him.<q class="end-double" qid="12003012.2" from="12003012.1" to="12003012.2"/> So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">And Elisha said to the king of Israel, <crossref let="s" cid="c12003013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12003013.1" from="12003013.1" to="12003013.2"/>What have I to do with you? Go to <crossref let="t" cid="c12003013.2"/>the prophets of your father and to <crossref let="u" cid="c12003013.3"/>the prophets of your mother.<q class="end-double" qid="12003013.2" from="12003013.1" to="12003013.2"/> But the king of Israel said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003013.3" from="12003013.3" to="12003013.4"/>No; it is <crossref let="o" cid="c12003013.4"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.<q class="end-double" qid="12003013.4" from="12003013.3" to="12003013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And Elisha said, <crossref let="v" cid="c12003014.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12003014.1" from="12003014.1" to="12003015.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003015"/>
+    <verse num="15">But now <crossref let="w" cid="c12003015.1"/>bring me a musician.<q class="end-double" qid="12003015.1" from="12003014.1" to="12003015.1"/> And when the musician played, <crossref let="x" cid="c12003015.2"/>the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came upon him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003016.1" from="12003016.1" to="12003019.1"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-single" qid="12003016.2" from="12003016.2" to="12003016.3"/>I will make this dry streambed full of pools.<q class="end-single" qid="12003016.3" from="12003016.2" to="12003016.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-single" qid="12003017.1" from="12003017.1" to="12003017.2"/>You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.<q class="end-single" qid="12003017.2" from="12003017.1" to="12003017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003018"/>
+    <verse num="18">This is a light thing in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He will also give the Moabites into your hand,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003019"/>
+    <verse num="19">and you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop up all springs of water <crossref let="y" cid="c12003019.1"/>and ruin every good piece of land with stones.<q class="end-double" qid="12003019.1" from="12003016.1" to="12003019.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003020"/>
+    <verse num="20">The next morning, about the time of <crossref let="z" cid="c12003020.1"/>offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12003023.1" from="12003023.1" to="12003023.2"/>This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!<q class="end-double" qid="12003023.2" from="12003023.1" to="12003023.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003024"/>
+    <verse num="24">But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went.<note nid="n12003024.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And they overthrew the cities, and <crossref let="a" cid="c12003025.1"/>on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in <crossref let="b" cid="c12003025.2"/>Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003026"/>
+    <verse num="26">When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 <crossref let="c" cid="c12003026.1"/>swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12003027"/>
+    <verse num="27">Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place <crossref let="d" cid="c12003027.1"/>and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004001"/>
+  <chapter num="4">
+    <heading>Elisha and the Widow&apos;s Oil</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now the wife of one of the <crossref let="e" cid="c12004001.1"/>sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004001.1" from="12004001.1" to="12004001.2"/>Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="f" cid="c12004001.2"/>but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.<q class="end-double" qid="12004001.2" from="12004001.1" to="12004001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Elisha said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004002.1" from="12004002.1" to="12004002.2"/>What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?<q class="end-double" qid="12004002.2" from="12004002.1" to="12004002.2"/> And she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004002.3" from="12004002.3" to="12004002.4"/>Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.<q class="end-double" qid="12004002.4" from="12004002.3" to="12004002.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Then he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004003.1" from="12004003.1" to="12004004.1"/>Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.<q class="end-double" qid="12004004.1" from="12004003.1" to="12004004.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004006"/>
+    <verse num="6">When the vessels were full, she said to her son, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004006.1" from="12004006.1" to="12004006.2"/>Bring me another vessel.<q class="end-double" qid="12004006.2" from="12004006.1" to="12004006.2"/> And he said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004006.3" from="12004006.3" to="12004006.4"/>There is not another.<q class="end-double" qid="12004006.4" from="12004006.3" to="12004006.4"/> Then the oil stopped flowing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004007"/>
+    <verse num="7">She came and told the <crossref let="g" cid="c12004007.1"/>man of God, and he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004007.1" from="12004007.1" to="12004007.2"/>Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.<q class="end-double" qid="12004007.2" from="12004007.1" to="12004007.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004008"/>
+    <heading>Elisha and the Shunammite Woman</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">One day Elisha went on to <crossref let="h" cid="c12004008.1"/>Shunem, where a <crossref let="i" cid="c12004008.2"/>wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And she said to her husband, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004009.1" from="12004009.1" to="12004010.1"/>Behold now, I know that this is a holy <crossref let="g" cid="c12004009.1"/>man of God who is continually passing our way.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.<q class="end-double" qid="12004010.1" from="12004009.1" to="12004010.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And he said to <crossref let="j" cid="c12004012.1"/>Gehazi his servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004012.1" from="12004012.1" to="12004012.2"/>Call this Shunammite.<q class="end-double" qid="12004012.2" from="12004012.1" to="12004012.2"/> When he had called her, she stood before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004013.1" from="12004013.1" to="12004013.4"/>Say now to her, <q class="begin-single" qid="12004013.2" from="12004013.2" to="12004013.3"/>See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to <crossref let="k" cid="c12004013.1"/>the commander of the army?<q class="end-single" qid="12004013.3" from="12004013.2" to="12004013.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12004013.4" from="12004013.1" to="12004013.4"/> She answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004013.5" from="12004013.5" to="12004013.6"/>I dwell among my own people.<q class="end-double" qid="12004013.6" from="12004013.5" to="12004013.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004014.1" from="12004014.1" to="12004014.2"/>What then is to be done for her?<q class="end-double" qid="12004014.2" from="12004014.1" to="12004014.2"/> Gehazi answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004014.3" from="12004014.3" to="12004014.4"/>Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.<q class="end-double" qid="12004014.4" from="12004014.3" to="12004014.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004015"/>
+    <verse num="15">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004015.1" from="12004015.1" to="12004015.2"/>Call her.<q class="end-double" qid="12004015.2" from="12004015.1" to="12004015.2"/> And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004016.1" from="12004016.1" to="12004016.2"/>At this season, <crossref let="l" cid="c12004016.1"/>about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.<q class="end-double" qid="12004016.2" from="12004016.1" to="12004016.2"/> And she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004016.3" from="12004016.3" to="12004016.4"/>No, my lord, <crossref let="g" cid="c12004016.2"/>O man of God; <crossref let="m" cid="c12004016.3"/>do not lie to your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="12004016.4" from="12004016.3" to="12004016.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004017"/>
+    <verse num="17">But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time <crossref let="l" cid="c12004017.1"/>the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004018"/>
+    <heading>Elisha Raises the Shunammite&apos;s Son</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And he said to his father, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004019.1" from="12004019.1" to="12004019.2"/>Oh, <crossref let="n" cid="c12004019.1"/>my head, my head!<q class="end-double" qid="12004019.2" from="12004019.1" to="12004019.2"/> The father said to his servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004019.3" from="12004019.3" to="12004019.4"/>Carry him to his mother.<q class="end-double" qid="12004019.4" from="12004019.3" to="12004019.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And she went up <crossref let="o" cid="c12004021.1"/>and laid him on the bed of the <crossref let="g" cid="c12004021.2"/>man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then she called to her husband and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004022.1" from="12004022.1" to="12004022.2"/>Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to <crossref let="g" cid="c12004022.1"/>the man of God and come back again.<q class="end-double" qid="12004022.2" from="12004022.1" to="12004022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004023.1" from="12004023.1" to="12004023.2"/>Why will you go to him today? It is neither <crossref let="p" cid="c12004023.1"/>new moon nor Sabbath.<q class="end-double" qid="12004023.2" from="12004023.1" to="12004023.2"/> She said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004023.3" from="12004023.3" to="12004023.4"/>All is well.<q class="end-double" qid="12004023.4" from="12004023.3" to="12004023.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004024.1" from="12004024.1" to="12004024.2"/>Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.<q class="end-double" qid="12004024.2" from="12004024.1" to="12004024.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004025"/>
+    <verse num="25">So she set out and came to the man of God <crossref let="q" cid="c12004025.1"/>at Mount Carmel.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004025.1" from="12004025.1" to="12004026.3"/>Look, there is the Shunammite.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Run at once to meet her and say to her, <q class="begin-single" qid="12004026.1" from="12004026.1" to="12004026.2"/>Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?<q class="end-single" qid="12004026.2" from="12004026.1" to="12004026.2"/><q class="end-double" qid="12004026.3" from="12004025.1" to="12004026.3"/> And she answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004026.4" from="12004026.4" to="12004026.5"/>All is well.<q class="end-double" qid="12004026.5" from="12004026.4" to="12004026.5"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And when she came <crossref let="r" cid="c12004027.1"/>to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004027.1" from="12004027.1" to="12004027.2"/>Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has hidden it from me and has not told me.<q class="end-double" qid="12004027.2" from="12004027.1" to="12004027.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Then she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004028.1" from="12004028.1" to="12004028.4"/>Did I ask my lord for a son? <crossref let="s" cid="c12004028.1"/>Did I not say, <q class="begin-single" qid="12004028.2" from="12004028.2" to="12004028.3"/>Do not deceive me?<q class="end-single" qid="12004028.3" from="12004028.2" to="12004028.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12004028.4" from="12004028.1" to="12004028.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004029"/>
+    <verse num="29">He said to Gehazi, <crossref let="t" cid="c12004029.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12004029.1" from="12004029.1" to="12004029.2"/>Tie up your garment and <crossref let="u" cid="c12004029.2"/>take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, <crossref let="v" cid="c12004029.3"/>do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And <crossref let="u" cid="c12004029.4"/>lay my staff on the face of the child.<q class="end-double" qid="12004029.2" from="12004029.1" to="12004029.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Then the mother of the child said, <crossref let="w" cid="c12004030.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12004030.1" from="12004030.1" to="12004030.2"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.<q class="end-double" qid="12004030.2" from="12004030.1" to="12004030.2"/> So he arose and followed her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004031.1" from="12004031.1" to="12004031.2"/>The child <crossref let="x" cid="c12004031.1"/>has not awakened.<q class="end-double" qid="12004031.2" from="12004031.1" to="12004031.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004033"/>
+    <verse num="33">So he went in and <crossref let="y" cid="c12004033.1"/>shut the door behind the two of them <crossref let="z" cid="c12004033.2"/>and prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004034"/>
+    <verse num="34">Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as <crossref let="a" cid="c12004034.1"/>he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up <crossref let="a" cid="c12004035.1"/>and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Then he summoned Gehazi and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004036.1" from="12004036.1" to="12004036.2"/>Call this Shunammite.<q class="end-double" qid="12004036.2" from="12004036.1" to="12004036.2"/> So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004036.3" from="12004036.3" to="12004036.4"/>Pick up your son.<q class="end-double" qid="12004036.4" from="12004036.3" to="12004036.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004037"/>
+    <verse num="37">She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground. <crossref let="b" cid="c12004037.1"/>Then she picked up her son and went out.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004038"/>
+    <heading>Elisha Purifies the Deadly Stew</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="38">And Elisha came again to <crossref let="c" cid="c12004038.1"/>Gilgal when <crossref let="d" cid="c12004038.2"/>there was a famine in the land. And as <crossref let="e" cid="c12004038.3"/>the sons of the prophets <crossref let="f" cid="c12004038.4"/>were sitting before him, he said to his servant, <crossref let="g" cid="c12004038.5"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12004038.1" from="12004038.1" to="12004038.2"/>Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.<q class="end-double" qid="12004038.2" from="12004038.1" to="12004038.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004039"/>
+    <verse num="39">One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004040"/>
+    <verse num="40">And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew, they cried out, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004040.1" from="12004040.1" to="12004040.2"/>O man of God, there is death in the pot!<q class="end-double" qid="12004040.2" from="12004040.1" to="12004040.2"/> And they could not eat it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004041"/>
+    <verse num="41">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004041.1" from="12004041.1" to="12004041.2"/>Then bring flour.<q class="end-double" qid="12004041.2" from="12004041.1" to="12004041.2"/> <crossref let="h" cid="c12004041.1"/>And he threw it into the pot and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004041.3" from="12004041.3" to="12004041.4"/>Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.<q class="end-double" qid="12004041.4" from="12004041.3" to="12004041.4"/> And there was no harm in the pot.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004042"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="42">A man came from <crossref let="i" cid="c12004042.1"/>Baal-shalishah, <crossref let="j" cid="c12004042.2"/>bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, <crossref let="k" cid="c12004042.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12004042.1" from="12004042.1" to="12004042.2"/>Give to the men, that they may eat.<q class="end-double" qid="12004042.2" from="12004042.1" to="12004042.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004043"/>
+    <verse num="43">But his servant said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004043.1" from="12004043.1" to="12004043.2"/>How can I set this before a hundred men?<q class="end-double" qid="12004043.2" from="12004043.1" to="12004043.2"/> So he repeated, <q class="begin-double" qid="12004043.3" from="12004043.3" to="12004043.6"/>Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-single" qid="12004043.4" from="12004043.4" to="12004043.5"/>They shall eat and have some left.<q class="end-single" qid="12004043.5" from="12004043.4" to="12004043.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="12004043.6" from="12004043.3" to="12004043.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12004044"/>
+    <verse num="44">So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005001"/>
+  <chapter num="5">
+    <heading>Naaman Healed of Leprosy</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="l" cid="c12005001.1"/>Naaman, <crossref let="m" cid="c12005001.2"/>commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.<note nid="n12005001.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Now the Syrians on <crossref let="n" cid="c12005002.1"/>one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman&apos;s wife.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005003"/>
+    <verse num="3">She said to her mistress, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005003.1" from="12005003.1" to="12005003.2"/>Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.<q class="end-double" qid="12005003.2" from="12005003.1" to="12005003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So Naaman went in and told his lord, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005004.1" from="12005004.1" to="12005004.2"/>Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="12005004.2" from="12005004.1" to="12005004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And the king of Syria said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005005.1" from="12005005.1" to="12005005.2"/>Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="12005005.2" from="12005005.1" to="12005005.2"/>
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>So he went, <crossref let="o" cid="c12005005.1"/>taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels<note nid="n12005005.1"/> of gold, and ten <crossref let="p" cid="c12005005.2"/>changes of clothing.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005006.1" from="12005006.1" to="12005006.2"/>When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.<q class="end-double" qid="12005006.2" from="12005006.1" to="12005006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And when the king of Israel read the letter, <crossref let="q" cid="c12005007.1"/>he tore his clothes and said, <crossref let="r" cid="c12005007.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005007.1" from="12005007.1" to="12005007.2"/>Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only <crossref let="s" cid="c12005007.3"/>consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.<q class="end-double" qid="12005007.2" from="12005007.1" to="12005007.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">But when Elisha the <crossref let="t" cid="c12005008.1"/>man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005008.1" from="12005008.1" to="12005008.2"/>Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="12005008.2" from="12005008.1" to="12005008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha&apos;s house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, <crossref let="u" cid="c12005010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005010.1" from="12005010.1" to="12005010.2"/>Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.<q class="end-double" qid="12005010.2" from="12005010.1" to="12005010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005011"/>
+    <verse num="11">But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005011.1" from="12005011.1" to="12005012.1"/>Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Are not Abana<note nid="n12005012.1"/> and Pharpar, the rivers of <crossref let="v" cid="c12005012.1"/>Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?<q class="end-double" qid="12005012.1" from="12005011.1" to="12005012.1"/> So he turned and went away in a rage.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005013"/>
+    <verse num="13">But his servants came near and said to him, <crossref let="w" cid="c12005013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005013.1" from="12005013.1" to="12005013.4"/>My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="12005013.2" from="12005013.2" to="12005013.3"/>Wash, and be clean<q class="end-single" qid="12005013.3" from="12005013.2" to="12005013.3"/>?<q class="end-double" qid="12005013.4" from="12005013.1" to="12005013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005014"/>
+    <verse num="14">So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, <crossref let="x" cid="c12005014.1"/>and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, <crossref let="y" cid="c12005014.2"/>and he was clean.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005015"/>
+    <heading>Gehazi&apos;s Greed and Punishment</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005015.1" from="12005015.1" to="12005015.2"/>Behold, I know that <crossref let="z" cid="c12005015.1"/>there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so <crossref let="a" cid="c12005015.2"/>accept now a present from your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="12005015.2" from="12005015.1" to="12005015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005016"/>
+    <verse num="16">But he said, <crossref let="b" cid="c12005016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005016.1" from="12005016.1" to="12005016.2"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, before whom I stand, <crossref let="c" cid="c12005016.2"/>I will receive none.<q class="end-double" qid="12005016.2" from="12005016.1" to="12005016.2"/> And he urged him to take it, but he refused.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then Naaman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005017.1" from="12005017.1" to="12005018.1"/>If not, please let there be given to your servant two mule loads of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005018"/>
+    <verse num="18">In this matter may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of <crossref let="d" cid="c12005018.1"/>Rimmon to worship there, <crossref let="e" cid="c12005018.2"/>leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> pardon your servant in this matter.<q class="end-double" qid="12005018.1" from="12005017.1" to="12005018.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005019"/>
+    <verse num="19">He said to him, <crossref let="f" cid="c12005019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005019.1" from="12005019.1" to="12005019.2"/>Go in peace.<q class="end-double" qid="12005019.2" from="12005019.1" to="12005019.2"/>
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>But when Naaman had gone from him a short distance,
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="g" cid="c12005020.1"/>Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005020.1" from="12005020.1" to="12005020.2"/>See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. <crossref let="h" cid="c12005020.2"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, I will run after him and get something from him.<q class="end-double" qid="12005020.2" from="12005020.1" to="12005020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005021"/>
+    <verse num="21">So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, <crossref let="i" cid="c12005021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005021.1" from="12005021.1" to="12005021.2"/>Is all well?<q class="end-double" qid="12005021.2" from="12005021.1" to="12005021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005022.1" from="12005022.1" to="12005022.4"/>All is well. My master has sent me to say, <q class="begin-single" qid="12005022.2" from="12005022.2" to="12005022.3"/>There have just now come to me from <crossref let="j" cid="c12005022.1"/>the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and <crossref let="k" cid="c12005022.2"/>two changes of clothing.<q class="end-single" qid="12005022.3" from="12005022.2" to="12005022.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12005022.4" from="12005022.1" to="12005022.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And Naaman said, <crossref let="l" cid="c12005023.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12005023.1" from="12005023.1" to="12005023.2"/>Be pleased to accept two talents.<q class="end-double" qid="12005023.2" from="12005023.1" to="12005023.2"/> And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005025"/>
+    <verse num="25">He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005025.1" from="12005025.1" to="12005025.2"/>Where have you been, Gehazi?<q class="end-double" qid="12005025.2" from="12005025.1" to="12005025.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005025.3" from="12005025.3" to="12005025.4"/>Your servant went nowhere.<q class="end-double" qid="12005025.4" from="12005025.3" to="12005025.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005026"/>
+    <verse num="26">But he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12005026.1" from="12005026.1" to="12005027.1"/>Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12005027"/>
+    <verse num="27">Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.<q class="end-double" qid="12005027.1" from="12005026.1" to="12005027.1"/> So he went out from his presence <crossref let="m" cid="c12005027.1"/>a leper, like snow.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006001"/>
+  <chapter num="6">
+    <heading>The Axe Head Recovered</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now <crossref let="n" cid="c12006001.1"/>the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006001.1" from="12006001.1" to="12006002.1"/>See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.<q class="end-double" qid="12006002.1" from="12006001.1" to="12006002.1"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006002.2" from="12006002.2" to="12006002.3"/>Go.<q class="end-double" qid="12006002.3" from="12006002.2" to="12006002.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Then one of them said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006003.1" from="12006003.1" to="12006003.2"/>Be pleased to go with your servants.<q class="end-double" qid="12006003.2" from="12006003.1" to="12006003.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006003.3" from="12006003.3" to="12006003.4"/>I will go.<q class="end-double" qid="12006003.4" from="12006003.3" to="12006003.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006005"/>
+    <verse num="5">But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006005.1" from="12006005.1" to="12006005.2"/>Alas, my master! It was borrowed.<q class="end-double" qid="12006005.2" from="12006005.1" to="12006005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then the man of God said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006006.1" from="12006006.1" to="12006006.2"/>Where did it fall?<q class="end-double" qid="12006006.2" from="12006006.1" to="12006006.2"/> When he showed him the place, <crossref let="o" cid="c12006006.1"/>he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006007.1" from="12006007.1" to="12006007.2"/>Take it up.<q class="end-double" qid="12006007.2" from="12006007.1" to="12006007.2"/> So he reached out his hand and took it.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006008"/>
+    <heading>Horses and Chariots of Fire</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006008.1" from="12006008.1" to="12006008.2"/>At such and such a place shall be my camp.<q class="end-double" qid="12006008.2" from="12006008.1" to="12006008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006009.1" from="12006009.1" to="12006009.2"/>Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.<q class="end-double" qid="12006009.2" from="12006009.1" to="12006009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006011.1" from="12006011.1" to="12006011.2"/>Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?<q class="end-double" qid="12006011.2" from="12006011.1" to="12006011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And one of his servants said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006012.1" from="12006012.1" to="12006012.2"/>None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.<q class="end-double" qid="12006012.2" from="12006012.1" to="12006012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006013.1" from="12006013.1" to="12006013.2"/>Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.<q class="end-double" qid="12006013.2" from="12006013.1" to="12006013.2"/> It was told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006013.3" from="12006013.3" to="12006013.4"/>Behold, he is in <crossref let="p" cid="c12006013.1"/>Dothan.<q class="end-double" qid="12006013.4" from="12006013.3" to="12006013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006014"/>
+    <verse num="14">So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006015.1" from="12006015.1" to="12006015.2"/>Alas, my master! What shall we do?<q class="end-double" qid="12006015.2" from="12006015.1" to="12006015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006016"/>
+    <verse num="16">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006016.1" from="12006016.1" to="12006016.2"/>Do not be afraid, <crossref let="q" cid="c12006016.1"/>for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.<q class="end-double" qid="12006016.2" from="12006016.1" to="12006016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then Elisha prayed and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006017.1" from="12006017.1" to="12006017.2"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, please <crossref let="r" cid="c12006017.1"/>open his eyes that he may see.<q class="end-double" qid="12006017.2" from="12006017.1" to="12006017.2"/> So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of <crossref let="s" cid="c12006017.2"/>horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006018.1" from="12006018.1" to="12006018.2"/>Please strike this people with blindness.<q class="end-double" qid="12006018.2" from="12006018.1" to="12006018.2"/> <crossref let="t" cid="c12006018.1"/>So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And Elisha said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006019.1" from="12006019.1" to="12006019.2"/>This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.<q class="end-double" qid="12006019.2" from="12006019.1" to="12006019.2"/> And he led them to Samaria.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006020.1" from="12006020.1" to="12006020.2"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="r" cid="c12006020.1"/>open the eyes of these men, that they may see.<q class="end-double" qid="12006020.2" from="12006020.1" to="12006020.2"/> So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006021"/>
+    <verse num="21">As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, <crossref let="u" cid="c12006021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12006021.1" from="12006021.1" to="12006021.2"/>My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?<q class="end-double" qid="12006021.2" from="12006021.1" to="12006021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006022"/>
+    <verse num="22">He answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006022.1" from="12006022.1" to="12006022.2"/>You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive <crossref let="v" cid="c12006022.1"/>with your sword and with your bow? <crossref let="w" cid="c12006022.2"/>Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.<q class="end-double" qid="12006022.2" from="12006022.1" to="12006022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006023"/>
+    <verse num="23">So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again <crossref let="x" cid="c12006023.1"/>on raids into the land of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006024"/>
+    <heading>Ben-hadad&apos;s Siege of Samaria</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Afterward <crossref let="y" cid="c12006024.1"/>Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey&apos;s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab<note nid="n12006025.1"/> of dove&apos;s dung for five shekels of silver.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006026.1" from="12006026.1" to="12006026.2"/>Help, my lord, O king!<q class="end-double" qid="12006026.2" from="12006026.1" to="12006026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006027.1" from="12006027.1" to="12006027.2"/>If the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?<q class="end-double" qid="12006027.2" from="12006027.1" to="12006027.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And the king asked her, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006028.1" from="12006028.1" to="12006028.2"/>What is your trouble?<q class="end-double" qid="12006028.2" from="12006028.1" to="12006028.2"/> She answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006028.3" from="12006028.3" to="12006029.3"/>This woman said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="12006028.4" from="12006028.4" to="12006028.5"/>Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.<q class="end-single" qid="12006028.5" from="12006028.4" to="12006028.5"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006029"/>
+    <verse num="29"><crossref let="z" cid="c12006029.1"/>So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, <q class="begin-single" qid="12006029.1" from="12006029.1" to="12006029.2"/>Give your son, that we may eat him.<q class="end-single" qid="12006029.2" from="12006029.1" to="12006029.2"/> But she has hidden her son.<q class="end-double" qid="12006029.3" from="12006028.3" to="12006029.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006030"/>
+    <verse num="30">When the king heard the words of the woman, <crossref let="a" cid="c12006030.1"/>he tore his clothes&emdash;now he was passing by on the wall&emdash;and the people looked, and behold, <crossref let="a" cid="c12006030.2"/>he had sackcloth beneath on his body&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006031"/>
+    <verse num="31">and he said, <crossref let="b" cid="c12006031.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12006031.1" from="12006031.1" to="12006031.2"/>May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.<q class="end-double" qid="12006031.2" from="12006031.1" to="12006031.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">Elisha was sitting in his house, <crossref let="c" cid="c12006032.1"/>and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006032.1" from="12006032.1" to="12006032.2"/>Do you see how this <crossref let="d" cid="c12006032.2"/>murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master&apos;s feet behind him?<q class="end-double" qid="12006032.2" from="12006032.1" to="12006032.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12006033"/>
+    <verse num="33">And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12006033.1" from="12006033.1" to="12006033.2"/>This trouble is from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>! <crossref let="e" cid="c12006033.1"/>Why should I wait for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> any longer?<q class="end-double" qid="12006033.2" from="12006033.1" to="12006033.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007001"/>
+  <chapter num="7">
+    <heading>Elisha Promises Food</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">But Elisha said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007001.1" from="12007001.1" to="12007001.2"/>Hear the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="f" cid="c12007001.1"/>Tomorrow about this time a seah<note nid="n12007001.1"/> of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel,<note nid="n12007001.2"/> and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.<q class="end-double" qid="12007001.2" from="12007001.1" to="12007001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Then <crossref let="g" cid="c12007002.1"/>the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, <crossref let="h" cid="c12007002.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12007002.1" from="12007002.1" to="12007002.2"/>If the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?<q class="end-double" qid="12007002.2" from="12007002.1" to="12007002.2"/> But he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007002.3" from="12007002.3" to="12007002.4"/>You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.<q class="end-double" qid="12007002.4" from="12007002.3" to="12007002.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007003"/>
+    <heading>The Syrians Flee</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">Now there were four men who were lepers<note nid="n12007003.1"/> <crossref let="i" cid="c12007003.1"/>at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007003.1" from="12007003.1" to="12007004.3"/>Why are we sitting here until we die?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007004"/>
+    <verse num="4">If we say, <q class="begin-single" qid="12007004.1" from="12007004.1" to="12007004.2"/>Let us enter the city,<q class="end-single" qid="12007004.2" from="12007004.1" to="12007004.2"/> the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.<q class="end-double" qid="12007004.3" from="12007003.1" to="12007004.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007006"/>
+    <verse num="6">For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians <crossref let="j" cid="c12007006.1"/>hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007006.1" from="12007006.1" to="12007006.2"/>Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us <crossref let="k" cid="c12007006.2"/>the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.<q class="end-double" qid="12007006.2" from="12007006.1" to="12007006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="l" cid="c12007007.1"/>So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Then they said to one another, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007009.1" from="12007009.1" to="12007009.2"/>We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king&apos;s household.<q class="end-double" qid="12007009.2" from="12007009.1" to="12007009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007010"/>
+    <verse num="10">So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007010.1" from="12007010.1" to="12007010.2"/>We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.<q class="end-double" qid="12007010.2" from="12007010.1" to="12007010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king&apos;s household.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007012.1" from="12007012.1" to="12007012.4"/>I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, <q class="begin-single" qid="12007012.2" from="12007012.2" to="12007012.3"/>When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.<q class="end-single" qid="12007012.3" from="12007012.2" to="12007012.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12007012.4" from="12007012.1" to="12007012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And one of his servants said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007013.1" from="12007013.1" to="12007013.2"/>Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.<q class="end-double" qid="12007013.2" from="12007013.1" to="12007013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007014"/>
+    <verse num="14">So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007014.1" from="12007014.1" to="12007014.2"/>Go and see.<q class="end-double" qid="12007014.2" from="12007014.1" to="12007014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007015"/>
+    <verse num="15">So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, <crossref let="m" cid="c12007016.1"/>according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Now the king had appointed <crossref let="n" cid="c12007017.1"/>the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said <crossref let="o" cid="c12007017.2"/>when the king came down to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007018"/>
+    <verse num="18">For when the man of God had said to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007018.1" from="12007018.1" to="12007018.2"/>Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,<q class="end-double" qid="12007018.2" from="12007018.1" to="12007018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="n" cid="c12007019.1"/>the captain had answered the man of God, <q class="begin-double" qid="12007019.1" from="12007019.1" to="12007019.2"/>If the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?<q class="end-double" qid="12007019.2" from="12007019.1" to="12007019.2"/> And he had said, <crossref let="p" cid="c12007019.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12007019.3" from="12007019.3" to="12007019.4"/>You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.<q class="end-double" qid="12007019.4" from="12007019.3" to="12007019.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12007020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008001"/>
+  <chapter num="8">
+    <heading>The Shunammite&apos;s Land Restored</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now Elisha had said to the woman <crossref let="q" cid="c12008001.1"/>whose son he had restored to life, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008001.1" from="12008001.1" to="12008001.2"/>Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="r" cid="c12008001.2"/>has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for <crossref let="s" cid="c12008001.3"/>seven years.<q class="end-double" qid="12008001.2" from="12008001.1" to="12008001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Now the king was talking with <crossref let="t" cid="c12008004.1"/>Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008004.1" from="12008004.1" to="12008004.2"/>Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.<q class="end-double" qid="12008004.2" from="12008004.1" to="12008004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And while he was telling the king how <crossref let="q" cid="c12008005.1"/>Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008005.1" from="12008005.1" to="12008005.2"/>My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.<q class="end-double" qid="12008005.2" from="12008005.1" to="12008005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008006.1" from="12008006.1" to="12008006.2"/>Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.<q class="end-double" qid="12008006.2" from="12008006.1" to="12008006.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008007"/>
+    <heading>Hazael Murders Ben-hadad</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">Now Elisha came to <crossref let="u" cid="c12008007.1"/>Damascus. <crossref let="v" cid="c12008007.2"/>Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008007.1" from="12008007.1" to="12008007.2"/>The man of God has come here,<q class="end-double" qid="12008007.2" from="12008007.1" to="12008007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008008"/>
+    <verse num="8">the king said to <crossref let="w" cid="c12008008.1"/>Hazael, <crossref let="x" cid="c12008008.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12008008.1" from="12008008.1" to="12008008.4"/>Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, <crossref let="y" cid="c12008008.3"/>and inquire of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> through him, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="12008008.2" from="12008008.2" to="12008008.3"/>Shall I recover from this sickness?<q class="end-single" qid="12008008.3" from="12008008.2" to="12008008.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12008008.4" from="12008008.1" to="12008008.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels&apos; loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, <crossref let="z" cid="c12008009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12008009.1" from="12008009.1" to="12008009.4"/>Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="12008009.2" from="12008009.2" to="12008009.3"/>Shall I recover from this sickness?<q class="end-single" qid="12008009.3" from="12008009.2" to="12008009.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12008009.4" from="12008009.1" to="12008009.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And Elisha said to him, <crossref let="a" cid="c12008010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12008010.1" from="12008010.1" to="12008010.4"/>Go, say to him, <q class="begin-single" qid="12008010.2" from="12008010.2" to="12008010.3"/>You shall certainly recover,<q class="end-single" qid="12008010.3" from="12008010.2" to="12008010.3"/> but<note nid="n12008010.1"/> the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has shown me that <crossref let="b" cid="c12008010.2"/>he shall certainly die.<q class="end-double" qid="12008010.4" from="12008010.1" to="12008010.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, <crossref let="c" cid="c12008011.1"/>until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Hazael said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008012.1" from="12008012.1" to="12008012.2"/>Why does my lord weep?<q class="end-double" qid="12008012.2" from="12008012.1" to="12008012.2"/> He answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008012.3" from="12008012.3" to="12008012.4"/>Because I know <crossref let="d" cid="c12008012.1"/>the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword <crossref let="e" cid="c12008012.2"/>and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.<q class="end-double" qid="12008012.4" from="12008012.3" to="12008012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Hazael said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008013.1" from="12008013.1" to="12008013.2"/>What is your servant, <crossref let="f" cid="c12008013.1"/>who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?<q class="end-double" qid="12008013.2" from="12008013.1" to="12008013.2"/> Elisha answered, <crossref let="g" cid="c12008013.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12008013.3" from="12008013.3" to="12008013.4"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.<q class="end-double" qid="12008013.4" from="12008013.3" to="12008013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008014.1" from="12008014.1" to="12008014.2"/>What did Elisha say to you?<q class="end-double" qid="12008014.2" from="12008014.1" to="12008014.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12008014.3" from="12008014.3" to="12008014.4"/>He told me <crossref let="h" cid="c12008014.1"/>that you would certainly recover.<q class="end-double" qid="12008014.4" from="12008014.3" to="12008014.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008015"/>
+    <verse num="15">But the next day he took the bed cloth<note nid="n12008015.1"/> and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008016"/>
+    <heading>Jehoram Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">In the fifth year of <crossref let="i" cid="c12008016.1"/>Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah,<note nid="n12008016.1"/> Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008017"/>
+    <verse num="17">He was <crossref let="j" cid="c12008017.1"/>thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for <crossref let="k" cid="c12008018.1"/>the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Yet the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, <crossref let="l" cid="c12008019.1"/>since he promised to give <crossref let="m" cid="c12008019.2"/>a lamp to him and to his sons forever.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up <crossref let="n" cid="c12008020.1"/>a king of their own.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Then Joram<note nid="n12008021.1"/> passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army <crossref let="o" cid="c12008021.1"/>fled home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="p" cid="c12008022.1"/>So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then <crossref let="q" cid="c12008022.2"/>Libnah revolted at the same time.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008024"/>
+    <verse num="24">So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried <crossref let="r" cid="c12008024.1"/>with his fathers in the city of David, and <crossref let="s" cid="c12008024.2"/>Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008025"/>
+    <heading>Ahaziah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="t" cid="c12008025.1"/>In the <crossref let="u" cid="c12008025.2"/>twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Ahaziah was <crossref let="v" cid="c12008026.1"/>twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Athaliah; she was <crossref let="w" cid="c12008026.2"/>a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008027"/>
+    <verse num="27">He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against <crossref let="x" cid="c12008028.1"/>Hazael king of Syria at <crossref let="y" cid="c12008028.2"/>Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12008029"/>
+    <verse num="29"><crossref let="z" cid="c12008029.1"/>And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at <crossref let="a" cid="c12008029.2"/>Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And <crossref let="b" cid="c12008029.3"/>Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009001"/>
+  <chapter num="9">
+    <heading>Jehu Anointed King of Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Then Elisha the prophet called one of <crossref let="c" cid="c12009001.1"/>the sons of the prophets and said to him, <crossref let="d" cid="c12009001.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12009001.1" from="12009001.1" to="12009003.3"/>Tie up your garments, and take this <crossref let="e" cid="c12009001.3"/>flask of oil in your hand, and go to <crossref let="f" cid="c12009001.4"/>Ramoth-gilead.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And when you arrive, look there for Jehu <crossref let="g" cid="c12009002.1"/>the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among <crossref let="h" cid="c12009002.2"/>his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, <q class="begin-single" qid="12009003.1" from="12009003.1" to="12009003.2"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="i" cid="c12009003.1"/>I anoint you king over Israel.<q class="end-single" qid="12009003.2" from="12009003.1" to="12009003.2"/> Then open the door and flee; do not linger.<q class="end-double" qid="12009003.3" from="12009001.1" to="12009003.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009005.1" from="12009005.1" to="12009005.2"/>I have a word for you, O commander.<q class="end-double" qid="12009005.2" from="12009005.1" to="12009005.2"/> And Jehu said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009005.3" from="12009005.3" to="12009005.4"/>To which of us all?<q class="end-double" qid="12009005.4" from="12009005.3" to="12009005.4"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009005.5" from="12009005.5" to="12009005.6"/>To you, O commander.<q class="end-double" qid="12009005.6" from="12009005.5" to="12009005.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009006.1" from="12009006.1" to="12009010.1"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, <crossref let="i" cid="c12009006.1"/>I anoint you king over the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, over Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge <crossref let="j" cid="c12009007.1"/>on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009008"/>
+    <verse num="8">For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, <crossref let="k" cid="c12009008.1"/>and I will cut off from Ahab <crossref let="l" cid="c12009008.2"/>every male, <crossref let="m" cid="c12009008.3"/>bond or free, in Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And I will make the house of Ahab like <crossref let="n" cid="c12009009.1"/>the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like <crossref let="o" cid="c12009009.2"/>the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="p" cid="c12009010.1"/>And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.<q class="end-double" qid="12009010.1" from="12009006.1" to="12009010.1"/> Then he opened the door and fled.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, <crossref let="q" cid="c12009011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12009011.1" from="12009011.1" to="12009011.2"/>Is all well? Why did <crossref let="r" cid="c12009011.2"/>this mad fellow come to you?<q class="end-double" qid="12009011.2" from="12009011.1" to="12009011.2"/> And he said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009011.3" from="12009011.3" to="12009011.4"/>You know the fellow and his talk.<q class="end-double" qid="12009011.4" from="12009011.3" to="12009011.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009012.1" from="12009012.1" to="12009012.2"/>That is not true; tell us now.<q class="end-double" qid="12009012.2" from="12009012.1" to="12009012.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009012.3" from="12009012.3" to="12009012.6"/>Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="12009012.4" from="12009012.4" to="12009012.5"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, I anoint you king over Israel.<q class="end-single" qid="12009012.5" from="12009012.4" to="12009012.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="12009012.6" from="12009012.3" to="12009012.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Then in haste <crossref let="s" cid="c12009013.1"/>every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare<note nid="n12009013.1"/> steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, <crossref let="t" cid="c12009013.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12009013.1" from="12009013.1" to="12009013.2"/>Jehu is king.<q class="end-double" qid="12009013.2" from="12009013.1" to="12009013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009014"/>
+    <heading>Jehu Assassinates Joram and Ahaziah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (<crossref let="u" cid="c12009014.1"/>Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against <crossref let="v" cid="c12009014.2"/>Hazael king of Syria,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009015"/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="w" cid="c12009015.1"/>but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009015.1" from="12009015.1" to="12009015.2"/>If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.<q class="end-double" qid="12009015.2" from="12009015.1" to="12009015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009017.1" from="12009017.1" to="12009017.2"/>I see a company.<q class="end-double" qid="12009017.2" from="12009017.1" to="12009017.2"/> And Joram said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009017.3" from="12009017.3" to="12009017.6"/>Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, <q class="begin-single" qid="12009017.4" from="12009017.4" to="12009017.5"/>Is it peace?<q class="end-single" qid="12009017.5" from="12009017.4" to="12009017.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="12009017.6" from="12009017.3" to="12009017.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009018"/>
+    <verse num="18">So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009018.1" from="12009018.1" to="12009018.4"/>Thus says the king, <q class="begin-single" qid="12009018.2" from="12009018.2" to="12009018.3"/>Is it peace?<q class="end-single" qid="12009018.3" from="12009018.2" to="12009018.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12009018.4" from="12009018.1" to="12009018.4"/> And Jehu said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009018.5" from="12009018.5" to="12009018.6"/>What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.<q class="end-double" qid="12009018.6" from="12009018.5" to="12009018.6"/> And the watchman reported, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009018.7" from="12009018.7" to="12009018.8"/>The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.<q class="end-double" qid="12009018.8" from="12009018.7" to="12009018.8"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009019.1" from="12009019.1" to="12009019.4"/>Thus the king has said, <q class="begin-single" qid="12009019.2" from="12009019.2" to="12009019.3"/>Is it peace?<q class="end-single" qid="12009019.3" from="12009019.2" to="12009019.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12009019.4" from="12009019.1" to="12009019.4"/> And Jehu answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009019.5" from="12009019.5" to="12009019.6"/>What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.<q class="end-double" qid="12009019.6" from="12009019.5" to="12009019.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Again the watchman reported, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009020.1" from="12009020.1" to="12009020.2"/>He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving <crossref let="x" cid="c12009020.1"/>is like the driving of Jehu <crossref let="y" cid="c12009020.2"/>the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.<q class="end-double" qid="12009020.2" from="12009020.1" to="12009020.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">Joram said, <crossref let="z" cid="c12009021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12009021.1" from="12009021.1" to="12009021.2"/>Make ready.<q class="end-double" qid="12009021.2" from="12009021.1" to="12009021.2"/> And they made ready his chariot. <crossref let="a" cid="c12009021.2"/>Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him <crossref let="b" cid="c12009021.3"/>at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009022.1" from="12009022.1" to="12009022.2"/>Is it peace, Jehu?<q class="end-double" qid="12009022.2" from="12009022.1" to="12009022.2"/> He answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009022.3" from="12009022.3" to="12009022.4"/>What peace can there be, so long as <crossref let="c" cid="c12009022.1"/>the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?<q class="end-double" qid="12009022.4" from="12009022.3" to="12009022.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009023.1" from="12009023.1" to="12009023.2"/>Treachery, O Ahaziah!<q class="end-double" qid="12009023.2" from="12009023.1" to="12009023.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Jehu said to Bidkar <crossref let="d" cid="c12009025.1"/>his aide, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009025.1" from="12009025.1" to="12009026.3"/>Take him up and throw him <crossref let="b" cid="c12009025.2"/>on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how <crossref let="e" cid="c12009025.3"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> made this <crossref let="f" cid="c12009025.4"/>pronouncement against him:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009026"/>
+    <verse num="26"><q class="begin-single" qid="12009026.1" from="12009026.1" to="12009026.2"/>As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons&emdash;declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&emdash;I will repay you on this plot of ground.<q class="end-single" qid="12009026.2" from="12009026.1" to="12009026.2"/> Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="12009026.3" from="12009025.1" to="12009026.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="g" cid="c12009027.1"/>When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009027.1" from="12009027.1" to="12009027.2"/>Shoot him also.<q class="end-double" qid="12009027.2" from="12009027.1" to="12009027.2"/> And they shot him<note nid="n12009027.1"/> in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by <crossref let="h" cid="c12009027.2"/>Ibleam. And he fled to <crossref let="h" cid="c12009027.3"/>Megiddo and died there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009028"/>
+    <verse num="28"><crossref let="i" cid="c12009028.1"/>His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009029"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="29">In the <crossref let="j" cid="c12009029.1"/>eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009030"/>
+    <heading>Jehu Executes Jezebel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30">When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And <crossref let="k" cid="c12009030.1"/>she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009031"/>
+    <verse num="31">And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, <crossref let="l" cid="c12009031.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12009031.1" from="12009031.1" to="12009031.2"/>Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?<q class="end-double" qid="12009031.2" from="12009031.1" to="12009031.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009032"/>
+    <verse num="32">And he lifted up his face to the window and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009032.1" from="12009032.1" to="12009032.2"/>Who is on my side? Who?<q class="end-double" qid="12009032.2" from="12009032.1" to="12009032.2"/> Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009033"/>
+    <verse num="33">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009033.1" from="12009033.1" to="12009033.2"/>Throw her down.<q class="end-double" qid="12009033.2" from="12009033.1" to="12009033.2"/> So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009034"/>
+    <verse num="34">Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009034.1" from="12009034.1" to="12009034.2"/>See now to this cursed woman and bury her, <crossref let="m" cid="c12009034.1"/>for she is a king&apos;s daughter.<q class="end-double" qid="12009034.2" from="12009034.1" to="12009034.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009035"/>
+    <verse num="35">But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009036"/>
+    <verse num="36">When they came back and told him, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12009036.1" from="12009036.1" to="12009037.2"/>This is the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: <crossref let="n" cid="c12009036.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="12009036.2" from="12009036.2" to="12009037.1"/>In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12009037"/>
+    <verse num="37">and the corpse of Jezebel shall be <crossref let="o" cid="c12009037.1"/>as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.<q class="end-single" qid="12009037.1" from="12009036.2" to="12009037.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="12009037.2" from="12009036.1" to="12009037.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010001"/>
+  <chapter num="10">
+    <heading>Jehu Slaughters Ahab&apos;s Descendants</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now Ahab had seventy sons in <crossref let="p" cid="c12010001.1"/>Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city,<note nid="n12010001.1"/> to the elders, and to <crossref let="q" cid="c12010001.2"/>the guardians of the sons<note nid="n12010001.2"/> of Ahab, saying,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><q class="begin-double" qid="12010002.1" from="12010002.1" to="12010003.1"/>Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master&apos;s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010003"/>
+    <verse num="3">select the best and fittest of your master&apos;s sons and set him on his father&apos;s throne and fight for your master&apos;s house.<q class="end-double" qid="12010003.1" from="12010002.1" to="12010003.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010004"/>
+    <verse num="4">But they were exceedingly afraid and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010004.1" from="12010004.1" to="12010004.2"/>Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?<q class="end-double" qid="12010004.2" from="12010004.1" to="12010004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, <crossref let="r" cid="c12010005.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12010005.1" from="12010005.1" to="12010005.2"/>We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.<q class="end-double" qid="12010005.2" from="12010005.1" to="12010005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010006.1" from="12010006.1" to="12010006.2"/>If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master&apos;s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.<q class="end-double" qid="12010006.2" from="12010006.1" to="12010006.2"/> Now the king&apos;s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, <crossref let="q" cid="c12010006.1"/>who were bringing them up.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king&apos;s sons <crossref let="s" cid="c12010007.1"/>and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010008"/>
+    <verse num="8">When the messenger came and told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010008.1" from="12010008.1" to="12010008.2"/>They have brought the heads of the king&apos;s sons,<q class="end-double" qid="12010008.2" from="12010008.1" to="12010008.2"/> he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010008.3" from="12010008.3" to="12010008.4"/>Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.<q class="end-double" qid="12010008.4" from="12010008.3" to="12010008.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010009.1" from="12010009.1" to="12010010.1"/>You are innocent. <crossref let="t" cid="c12010009.1"/>It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Know then that there shall <crossref let="u" cid="c12010010.1"/>fall to the earth nothing of the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has done <crossref let="v" cid="c12010010.2"/>what he said by his servant Elijah.<q class="end-double" qid="12010010.1" from="12010009.1" to="12010010.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010011"/>
+    <verse num="11">So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Jehu met <crossref let="w" cid="c12010013.1"/>the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010013.1" from="12010013.1" to="12010013.2"/>Who are you?<q class="end-double" qid="12010013.2" from="12010013.1" to="12010013.2"/> And they answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010013.3" from="12010013.3" to="12010013.4"/>We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.<q class="end-double" qid="12010013.4" from="12010013.3" to="12010013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010014"/>
+    <verse num="14">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010014.1" from="12010014.1" to="12010014.2"/>Take them alive.<q class="end-double" qid="12010014.2" from="12010014.1" to="12010014.2"/> And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">And when he departed from there, he met <crossref let="x" cid="c12010015.1"/>Jehonadab the son of <crossref let="y" cid="c12010015.2"/>Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010015.1" from="12010015.1" to="12010015.2"/>Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?<q class="end-double" qid="12010015.2" from="12010015.1" to="12010015.2"/> And Jehonadab answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010015.3" from="12010015.3" to="12010015.4"/>It is.<q class="end-double" qid="12010015.4" from="12010015.3" to="12010015.4"/> Jehu said,<note nid="n12010015.1"/> <q class="begin-double" qid="12010015.5" from="12010015.5" to="12010015.6"/>If it is, <crossref let="z" cid="c12010015.3"/>give me your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="12010015.6" from="12010015.5" to="12010015.6"/> So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010016.1" from="12010016.1" to="12010016.2"/>Come with me, and see <crossref let="a" cid="c12010016.1"/>my zeal for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="12010016.2" from="12010016.1" to="12010016.2"/> So he<note nid="n12010016.1"/> had him ride in his chariot.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And when he came to Samaria, <crossref let="b" cid="c12010017.1"/>he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="v" cid="c12010017.2"/>that he spoke to Elijah.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010018"/>
+    <heading>Jehu Strikes Down the Prophets of Baal</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, <crossref let="c" cid="c12010018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12010018.1" from="12010018.1" to="12010019.1"/>Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Now therefore call to me all the <crossref let="d" cid="c12010019.1"/>prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live.<q class="end-double" qid="12010019.1" from="12010018.1" to="12010019.1"/> But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And Jehu ordered, <crossref let="e" cid="c12010020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12010020.1" from="12010020.1" to="12010020.2"/>Sanctify <crossref let="f" cid="c12010020.2"/>a solemn assembly for Baal.<q class="end-double" qid="12010020.2" from="12010020.1" to="12010020.2"/> So <crossref let="g" cid="c12010020.3"/>they proclaimed it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered <crossref let="h" cid="c12010021.1"/>the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010022"/>
+    <verse num="22">He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010022.1" from="12010022.1" to="12010022.2"/>Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal.<q class="end-double" qid="12010022.2" from="12010022.1" to="12010022.2"/> So he brought out the vestments for them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010023.1" from="12010023.1" to="12010023.2"/>Search, and see that there is no servant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.<q class="end-double" qid="12010023.2" from="12010023.1" to="12010023.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Then they<note nid="n12010024.1"/> went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010024.1" from="12010024.1" to="12010024.2"/>The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape <crossref let="i" cid="c12010024.1"/>shall forfeit his life.<q class="end-double" qid="12010024.2" from="12010024.1" to="12010024.2"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010025"/>
+    <verse num="25">So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, <crossref let="j" cid="c12010025.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12010025.1" from="12010025.1" to="12010025.2"/>Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.<q class="end-double" qid="12010025.2" from="12010025.1" to="12010025.2"/> So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010026"/>
+    <verse num="26">and they brought out the <crossref let="k" cid="c12010026.1"/>pillar that was in <crossref let="h" cid="c12010026.2"/>the house of Baal and burned it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And they demolished the <crossref let="k" cid="c12010027.1"/>pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it <crossref let="l" cid="c12010027.2"/>a latrine to this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010028"/>
+    <heading>Jehu Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010029"/>
+    <verse num="29">But Jehu did not turn aside from <crossref let="m" cid="c12010029.1"/>the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="n" cid="c12010029.2"/>which he made Israel to sin&emdash;that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Jehu, <q class="begin-double" qid="12010030.1" from="12010030.1" to="12010030.2"/>Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, <crossref let="o" cid="c12010030.1"/>your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="12010030.2" from="12010030.1" to="12010030.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010031"/>
+    <verse num="31">But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, with all his heart. <crossref let="p" cid="c12010031.1"/>He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">In those days the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="q" cid="c12010032.1"/>began to cut off parts of Israel. <crossref let="r" cid="c12010032.2"/>Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010033"/>
+    <verse num="33">from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from <crossref let="s" cid="c12010033.1"/>Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, <crossref let="t" cid="c12010033.2"/>Gilead and Bashan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010034"/>
+    <verse num="34">Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010035"/>
+    <verse num="35">So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12010036"/>
+    <verse num="36">The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011001"/>
+  <chapter num="11">
+    <heading>Athaliah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="u" cid="c12011001.1"/>Now when <crossref let="v" cid="c12011001.2"/>Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011002"/>
+    <verse num="2">But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took <crossref let="w" cid="c12011002.1"/>Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king&apos;s sons who were being put to death, and she put<note nid="n12011002.1"/> him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they<note nid="n12011002.2"/> hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, while Athaliah reigned over the land.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011004"/>
+    <heading>Joash Anointed King in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="x" cid="c12011004.1"/>But in the seventh year <crossref let="y" cid="c12011004.2"/>Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of <crossref let="z" cid="c12011004.3"/>the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and he showed them the king&apos;s son.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And he commanded them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12011005.1" from="12011005.1" to="12011008.1"/>This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, <crossref let="a" cid="c12011005.1"/>those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king&apos;s house</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011006"/>
+    <verse num="6">(<crossref let="b" cid="c12011006.1"/>another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.<note nid="n12011006.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on behalf of the king,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011008"/>
+    <verse num="8">shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king <crossref let="c" cid="c12011008.1"/>when he goes out and when he comes in.<q class="end-double" qid="12011008.1" from="12011005.1" to="12011008.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And the priest gave to the captains the spears and <crossref let="d" cid="c12011010.1"/>shields that had been King David&apos;s, which were in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house on behalf of the king.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Then he brought out the king&apos;s son and put <crossref let="e" cid="c12011012.1"/>the crown on him and gave him <crossref let="f" cid="c12011012.2"/>the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, <crossref let="g" cid="c12011012.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12011012.1" from="12011012.1" to="12011012.2"/>Long live the king!<q class="end-double" qid="12011012.2" from="12011012.1" to="12011012.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And when she looked, there was the king standing <crossref let="h" cid="c12011014.1"/>by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and <crossref let="i" cid="c12011014.2"/>blowing trumpets. And Athaliah <crossref let="j" cid="c12011014.3"/>tore her clothes and cried, <q class="begin-double" qid="12011014.1" from="12011014.1" to="12011014.2"/>Treason! Treason!<q class="end-double" qid="12011014.2" from="12011014.1" to="12011014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, <q class="begin-double" qid="12011015.1" from="12011015.1" to="12011015.2"/>Bring her out between the ranks, and put to death with the sword anyone who follows her.<q class="end-double" qid="12011015.2" from="12011015.1" to="12011015.2"/> For the priest said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12011015.3" from="12011015.3" to="12011015.4"/>Let her not be put to death in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="12011015.4" from="12011015.3" to="12011015.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011016"/>
+    <verse num="16">So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses&apos; entrance to the king&apos;s house, and there she was put to death.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">And Jehoiada <crossref let="k" cid="c12011017.1"/>made a covenant between the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and the king and people, that they should be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s people, and also <crossref let="l" cid="c12011017.2"/>between the king and the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Then all the people of the land went to <crossref let="m" cid="c12011018.1"/>the house of Baal and tore it down; <crossref let="n" cid="c12011018.2"/>his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And he took the captains, <crossref let="o" cid="c12011019.1"/>the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, marching through <crossref let="p" cid="c12011019.2"/>the gate of the guards to the king&apos;s house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011020"/>
+    <verse num="20">So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword at the king&apos;s house.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12011021"/>
+    <heading>Jehoash Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21"><note nid="n12011021.1"/> <crossref let="q" cid="c12011021.1"/>Jehoash<note nid="n12011021.2"/> was seven years old when he began to reign.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012001"/>
+  <chapter num="12">
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash<note nid="n12012001.1"/> began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Nevertheless, <crossref let="r" cid="c12012003.1"/>the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012004"/>
+    <heading>Jehoash Repairs the Temple</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Jehoash said to the priests, <q class="begin-double" qid="12012004.1" from="12012004.1" to="12012005.1"/>All the money of the holy things <crossref let="s" cid="c12012004.1"/>that is brought into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the money for which each man is assessed&emdash;the money from the assessment of persons&emdash;and <crossref let="t" cid="c12012004.2"/>the money that a man&apos;s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012005"/>
+    <verse num="5">let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.<q class="end-double" qid="12012005.1" from="12012004.1" to="12012005.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012006"/>
+    <verse num="6">But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12012007.1" from="12012007.1" to="12012007.2"/>Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.<q class="end-double" qid="12012007.2" from="12012007.1" to="12012007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012008"/>
+    <verse num="8">So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Then Jehoiada the priest took <crossref let="u" cid="c12012009.1"/>a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king&apos;s secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted <crossref let="v" cid="c12012010.1"/>the money that was found in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012012"/>
+    <verse num="12">and <crossref let="w" cid="c12012012.1"/>to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="x" cid="c12012013.1"/>But there were not made for the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="y" cid="c12012013.2"/>basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012014"/>
+    <verse num="14">for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And <crossref let="z" cid="c12012015.1"/>they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012016"/>
+    <verse num="16">The money from <crossref let="a" cid="c12012016.1"/>the guilt offerings and the money from the <crossref let="b" cid="c12012016.2"/>sin offerings was not brought into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; <crossref let="c" cid="c12012016.3"/>it belonged to the priests.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">At that time <crossref let="d" cid="c12012017.1"/>Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face <crossref let="e" cid="c12012017.2"/>to go up against Jerusalem,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Jehoash king of Judah <crossref let="f" cid="c12012018.1"/>took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, <crossref let="g" cid="c12012018.2"/>and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and of the king&apos;s house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012019"/>
+    <heading>The Death of Joash</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="h" cid="c12012020.1"/>His servants arose and made a conspiracy <crossref let="i" cid="c12012020.2"/>and struck down Joash in the house of <crossref let="j" cid="c12012020.3"/>Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12012021"/>
+    <verse num="21">It was <crossref let="k" cid="c12012021.1"/>Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of <crossref let="k" cid="c12012021.2"/>Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, <crossref let="l" cid="c12012021.3"/>and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013001"/>
+  <chapter num="13">
+    <heading>Jehoahaz Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013002"/>
+    <verse num="2">He did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="m" cid="c12013002.1"/>which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="n" cid="c12013003.1"/>And the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of <crossref let="o" cid="c12013003.2"/>Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of <crossref let="p" cid="c12013003.3"/>Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then Jehoahaz <crossref let="q" cid="c12013004.1"/>sought the favor of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> listened to him, <crossref let="r" cid="c12013004.2"/>for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013005"/>
+    <verse num="5">(Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave Israel <crossref let="s" cid="c12013005.1"/>a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in <crossref let="t" cid="c12013005.2"/>their homes as formerly.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, <crossref let="m" cid="c12013006.1"/>which he made Israel to sin, but walked<note nid="n12013006.1"/> in them; and <crossref let="u" cid="c12013006.2"/>the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust <crossref let="v" cid="c12013007.1"/>at threshing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013010"/>
+    <heading>Jehoash Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash<note nid="n12013010.1"/> the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013011"/>
+    <verse num="11">He also did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="m" cid="c12013011.1"/>which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="w" cid="c12013012.1"/>Now the rest of the acts of Joash <crossref let="x" cid="c12013012.2"/>and all that he did, <crossref let="y" cid="c12013012.3"/>and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013014"/>
+    <heading>The Death of Elisha</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, <crossref let="z" cid="c12013014.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12013014.1" from="12013014.1" to="12013014.2"/>My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!<q class="end-double" qid="12013014.2" from="12013014.1" to="12013014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Elisha said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013015.1" from="12013015.1" to="12013015.2"/>Take a bow and arrows.<q class="end-double" qid="12013015.2" from="12013015.1" to="12013015.2"/> So he took a bow and arrows.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Then he said to the king of Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013016.1" from="12013016.1" to="12013016.2"/>Draw the bow,<q class="end-double" qid="12013016.2" from="12013016.1" to="12013016.2"/> and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king&apos;s hands.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013017.1" from="12013017.1" to="12013017.2"/>Open the window eastward,<q class="end-double" qid="12013017.2" from="12013017.1" to="12013017.2"/> and he opened it. Then Elisha said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013017.3" from="12013017.3" to="12013017.4"/>Shoot,<q class="end-double" qid="12013017.4" from="12013017.3" to="12013017.4"/> and he shot. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013017.5" from="12013017.5" to="12013017.6"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in <crossref let="a" cid="c12013017.1"/>Aphek until you have made an end of them.<q class="end-double" qid="12013017.6" from="12013017.5" to="12013017.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013018.1" from="12013018.1" to="12013018.2"/>Take the arrows,<q class="end-double" qid="12013018.2" from="12013018.1" to="12013018.2"/> and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013018.3" from="12013018.3" to="12013018.4"/>Strike the ground with them.<q class="end-double" qid="12013018.4" from="12013018.3" to="12013018.4"/> And he struck three times and stopped.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Then <crossref let="b" cid="c12013019.1"/>the man of God was angry with him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12013019.1" from="12013019.1" to="12013019.2"/>You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only <crossref let="c" cid="c12013019.2"/>three times.<q class="end-double" qid="12013019.2" from="12013019.1" to="12013019.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of <crossref let="d" cid="c12013020.1"/>Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="e" cid="c12013022.1"/>Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="f" cid="c12013023.1"/>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was gracious to them and had compassion on them, <crossref let="g" cid="c12013023.2"/>and he turned toward them, <crossref let="h" cid="c12013023.3"/>because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12013025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities <crossref let="i" cid="c12013025.1"/>that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. <crossref let="j" cid="c12013025.2"/>Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014001"/>
+  <chapter num="14">
+    <heading>Amaziah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="k" cid="c12014001.1"/>In the <crossref let="l" cid="c12014001.2"/>second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, <crossref let="m" cid="c12014001.3"/>Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014002"/>
+    <verse num="2">He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And he did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="n" cid="c12014004.1"/>But the high places were not removed; <crossref let="o" cid="c12014004.2"/>the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And as soon as the royal power was <crossref let="p" cid="c12014005.1"/>firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants <crossref let="q" cid="c12014005.2"/>who had struck down the king his father.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014006"/>
+    <verse num="6">But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded, <crossref let="r" cid="c12014006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12014006.1" from="12014006.1" to="12014006.2"/>Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.<q class="end-double" qid="12014006.2" from="12014006.1" to="12014006.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="s" cid="c12014007.1"/>He struck down ten thousand Edomites in <crossref let="t" cid="c12014007.2"/>the Valley of Salt and took <crossref let="u" cid="c12014007.3"/>Sela by storm, and called it <crossref let="v" cid="c12014007.4"/>Joktheel, which is its name to this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="w" cid="c12014008.1"/>Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash<note nid="n12014008.1"/> the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12014008.1" from="12014008.1" to="12014008.2"/>Come, <crossref let="x" cid="c12014008.2"/>let us look one another in the face.<q class="end-double" qid="12014008.2" from="12014008.1" to="12014008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, <crossref let="y" cid="c12014009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12014009.1" from="12014009.1" to="12014010.1"/>A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="12014009.2" from="12014009.2" to="12014009.3"/>Give your daughter to my son for a wife,<q class="end-single" qid="12014009.3" from="12014009.2" to="12014009.3"/> and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014010"/>
+    <verse num="10">You have indeed <crossref let="z" cid="c12014010.1"/>struck down Edom, <crossref let="a" cid="c12014010.2"/>and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?<q class="end-double" qid="12014010.1" from="12014009.1" to="12014010.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah <crossref let="x" cid="c12014011.1"/>faced one another in battle at <crossref let="b" cid="c12014011.2"/>Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Judah was defeated by Israel, <crossref let="c" cid="c12014012.1"/>and every man fled to his home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits,<note nid="n12014013.1"/> from <crossref let="d" cid="c12014013.1"/>the Ephraim Gate to <crossref let="e" cid="c12014013.2"/>the Corner Gate.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And he seized <crossref let="f" cid="c12014014.1"/>all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and in the treasuries of the king&apos;s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="g" cid="c12014015.1"/>Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="h" cid="c12014017.1"/>Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to <crossref let="i" cid="c12014019.1"/>Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014022"/>
+    <verse num="22">He built <crossref let="j" cid="c12014022.1"/>Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014023"/>
+    <heading>Jeroboam II Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="k" cid="c12014024.1"/>which he made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="l" cid="c12014025.1"/>He restored the border of Israel <crossref let="m" cid="c12014025.2"/>from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of <crossref let="n" cid="c12014025.3"/>the Arabah, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant <crossref let="o" cid="c12014025.4"/>Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from <crossref let="p" cid="c12014025.5"/>Gath-hepher.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014026"/>
+    <verse num="26">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="q" cid="c12014026.1"/>saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, <crossref let="r" cid="c12014026.2"/>for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014027"/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="s" cid="c12014027.1"/>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored <crossref let="t" cid="c12014028.1"/>Damascus and <crossref let="u" cid="c12014028.2"/>Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12014029"/>
+    <verse num="29">And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015001"/>
+  <chapter num="15">
+    <heading>Azariah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="v" cid="c12015001.1"/>In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, <crossref let="w" cid="c12015001.2"/>Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015002"/>
+    <verse num="2">He was <crossref let="x" cid="c12015002.1"/>sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And he did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="y" cid="c12015004.1"/>Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="z" cid="c12015005.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> touched the king, so that he was a leper<note nid="n12015005.1"/> to the day of his death, <crossref let="a" cid="c12015005.2"/>and he lived in a separate house.<note nid="n12015005.2"/> And Jotham the king&apos;s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers <crossref let="b" cid="c12015007.1"/>in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015008"/>
+    <heading>Zechariah Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="c" cid="c12015009.1"/>which he made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and <crossref let="d" cid="c12015010.1"/>struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015012"/>
+    <verse num="12">(This was <crossref let="e" cid="c12015012.1"/>the promise of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that he gave to Jehu, <q class="begin-double" qid="12015012.1" from="12015012.1" to="12015012.2"/>Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.<q class="end-double" qid="12015012.2" from="12015012.1" to="12015012.2"/> And so it came to pass.)</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015013"/>
+    <heading>Shallum Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of <crossref let="f" cid="c12015013.1"/>Uzziah<note nid="n12015013.1"/> king of Judah, and he reigned one month in <crossref let="g" cid="c12015013.2"/>Samaria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from <crossref let="h" cid="c12015014.1"/>Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015016"/>
+    <verse num="16">At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, <crossref let="i" cid="c12015016.1"/>and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015017"/>
+    <heading>Menahem Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="j" cid="c12015019.1"/>Pul<note nid="n12015019.1"/> the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave <crossref let="j" cid="c12015019.2"/>Pul a thousand talents<note nid="n12015019.2"/> of silver, that he might help him <crossref let="k" cid="c12015019.3"/>to confirm his hold on the royal power.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels<note nid="n12015020.1"/> of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015023"/>
+    <heading>Pekahiah Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="c" cid="c12015024.1"/>which he made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king&apos;s house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015027"/>
+    <heading>Pekah Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27">In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="l" cid="c12015028.1"/>which he made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015029"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="29">In the days of Pekah king of Israel, <crossref let="m" cid="c12015029.1"/>Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured <crossref let="n" cid="c12015029.2"/>Ijon, <crossref let="o" cid="c12015029.3"/>Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, <crossref let="p" cid="c12015029.4"/>Kedesh, <crossref let="q" cid="c12015029.5"/>Hazor, Gilead, and <crossref let="r" cid="c12015029.6"/>Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, <crossref let="s" cid="c12015030.1"/>in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015032"/>
+    <heading>Jotham Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015033"/>
+    <verse num="33">He was <crossref let="t" cid="c12015033.1"/>twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015034"/>
+    <verse num="34">And he did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="u" cid="c12015034.1"/>according to all that his father Uzziah had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015035"/>
+    <verse num="35"><crossref let="v" cid="c12015035.1"/>Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built <crossref let="w" cid="c12015035.2"/>the upper gate of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015037"/>
+    <verse num="37">In those days the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> began to send <crossref let="x" cid="c12015037.1"/>Rezin the king of Syria and <crossref let="x" cid="c12015037.2"/>Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12015038"/>
+    <verse num="38">Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016001"/>
+  <chapter num="16">
+    <heading>Ahaz Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Ahaz was <crossref let="y" cid="c12016002.1"/>twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God, as his father David had done,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016003"/>
+    <verse num="3">but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. <crossref let="z" cid="c12016003.1"/>He even burned his son as an offering,<note nid="n12016003.1"/> <crossref let="a" cid="c12016003.2"/>according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> drove out before the people of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="b" cid="c12016004.1"/>And he sacrificed and made offerings <crossref let="c" cid="c12016004.2"/>on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="d" cid="c12016005.1"/>Then Rezin king of Syria and <crossref let="d" cid="c12016005.2"/>Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz <crossref let="e" cid="c12016005.3"/>but could not conquer him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016006"/>
+    <verse num="6">At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered <crossref let="f" cid="c12016006.1"/>Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from <crossref let="f" cid="c12016006.2"/>Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="g" cid="c12016007.1"/>So Ahaz sent messengers to <crossref let="h" cid="c12016007.2"/>Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12016007.1" from="12016007.1" to="12016007.2"/>I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.<q class="end-double" qid="12016007.2" from="12016007.1" to="12016007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Ahaz also <crossref let="i" cid="c12016008.1"/>took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and in the treasures of the king&apos;s house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="j" cid="c12016009.1"/>And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus <crossref let="k" cid="c12016009.2"/>and took it, carrying its people captive to <crossref let="l" cid="c12016009.3"/>Kir, and he killed Rezin.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet <crossref let="m" cid="c12016010.1"/>Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to <crossref let="n" cid="c12016010.2"/>Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. <crossref let="o" cid="c12016012.1"/>Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016013"/>
+    <verse num="13">and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And <crossref let="p" cid="c12016014.1"/>the bronze altar that was before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> he removed <crossref let="q" cid="c12016014.2"/>from the front of the house, from the place between <crossref let="r" cid="c12016014.3"/>his altar and the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and put it on the north side of <crossref let="r" cid="c12016014.4"/>his altar.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12016015.1" from="12016015.1" to="12016015.2"/>On the great altar burn <crossref let="s" cid="c12016015.1"/>the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king&apos;s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but <crossref let="t" cid="c12016015.2"/>the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.<q class="end-double" qid="12016015.2" from="12016015.1" to="12016015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down <crossref let="u" cid="c12016017.1"/>the sea<note nid="n12016017.1"/> from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, because of the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written <crossref let="v" cid="c12016019.1"/>in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12016020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And Ahaz slept with his fathers and <crossref let="w" cid="c12016020.1"/>was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017001"/>
+  <chapter num="17">
+    <heading>Hoshea Reigns in Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, <crossref let="x" cid="c12017001.1"/>Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="y" cid="c12017003.1"/>Against him came up <crossref let="z" cid="c12017003.2"/>Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017004"/>
+    <verse num="4">But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017006"/>
+    <heading>The Fall of Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria <crossref let="a" cid="c12017006.1"/>captured Samaria, <crossref let="b" cid="c12017006.2"/>and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria <crossref let="c" cid="c12017006.3"/>and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of <crossref let="d" cid="c12017006.4"/>Gozan, and in the cities of <crossref let="e" cid="c12017006.5"/>the Medes.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017007"/>
+    <heading>Exile Because of Idolatry</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God, <crossref let="f" cid="c12017007.1"/>who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="g" cid="c12017008.1"/>and walked in the customs of the nations whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> drove out before the people of Israel, <crossref let="h" cid="c12017008.2"/>and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And the people of Israel did secretly against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, <crossref let="i" cid="c12017009.1"/>from watchtower to fortified city.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017010"/>
+    <verse num="10">They set up for themselves <crossref let="j" cid="c12017010.1"/>pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017011"/>
+    <verse num="11">and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to anger,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017012"/>
+    <verse num="12">and they served idols, <crossref let="k" cid="c12017012.1"/>of which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12017012.1" from="12017012.1" to="12017012.2"/>You shall not do this.<q class="end-double" qid="12017012.2" from="12017012.1" to="12017012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Yet the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="l" cid="c12017013.1"/>warned Israel and Judah <crossref let="m" cid="c12017013.2"/>by every prophet <crossref let="n" cid="c12017013.3"/>and every seer, saying, <crossref let="o" cid="c12017013.4"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12017013.1" from="12017013.1" to="12017013.2"/>Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.<q class="end-double" qid="12017013.2" from="12017013.1" to="12017013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">But they would not listen, <crossref let="p" cid="c12017014.1"/>but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017015"/>
+    <verse num="15">They despised his statutes <crossref let="q" cid="c12017015.1"/>and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after <crossref let="r" cid="c12017015.2"/>false idols <crossref let="s" cid="c12017015.3"/>and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the <crossref let="t" cid="c12017015.4"/><span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had commanded them that they should not do like them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And they abandoned all the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God, and made for themselves metal images of <crossref let="u" cid="c12017016.1"/>two calves; and they <crossref let="v" cid="c12017016.2"/>made an Asherah and <crossref let="w" cid="c12017016.3"/>worshiped all the host of heaven and served <crossref let="x" cid="c12017016.4"/>Baal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="y" cid="c12017017.1"/>And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings<note nid="n12017017.1"/> and used <crossref let="z" cid="c12017017.2"/>divination and <crossref let="a" cid="c12017017.3"/>omens and <crossref let="b" cid="c12017017.4"/>sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, provoking him to anger.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but <crossref let="c" cid="c12017018.1"/>the tribe of Judah only.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="d" cid="c12017019.1"/>Judah also did not keep the commandments of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them <crossref let="e" cid="c12017020.1"/>and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="f" cid="c12017021.1"/>When he had torn Israel from the house of David, <crossref let="g" cid="c12017021.2"/>they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="h" cid="c12017021.3"/>and made them commit great sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017022"/>
+    <verse num="22">The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017023"/>
+    <verse num="23">until the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> removed Israel out of his sight, <crossref let="i" cid="c12017023.1"/>as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. <crossref let="j" cid="c12017023.2"/>So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017024"/>
+    <heading>Assyria Resettles Samaria</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="k" cid="c12017024.1"/>And the king of Assyria brought people from <crossref let="l" cid="c12017024.2"/>Babylon, Cuthah, <crossref let="m" cid="c12017024.3"/>Avva, <crossref let="n" cid="c12017024.4"/>Hamath, and <crossref let="o" cid="c12017024.5"/>Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent lions among them, which killed some of them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017026"/>
+    <verse num="26">So the king of Assyria was told, <q class="begin-double" qid="12017026.1" from="12017026.1" to="12017026.2"/>The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.<q class="end-double" qid="12017026.2" from="12017026.1" to="12017026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017027"/>
+    <verse num="27">Then the king of Assyria commanded, <q class="begin-double" qid="12017027.1" from="12017027.1" to="12017027.2"/>Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him<note nid="n12017027.1"/> go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.<q class="end-double" qid="12017027.2" from="12017027.1" to="12017027.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017028"/>
+    <verse num="28">So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in <crossref let="p" cid="c12017028.1"/>Bethel and taught them how they should fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017029"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="29">But every nation still made gods of its own and put them <crossref let="q" cid="c12017029.1"/>in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017030"/>
+    <verse num="30">The men of <crossref let="r" cid="c12017030.1"/>Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017031"/>
+    <verse num="31">and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites <crossref let="s" cid="c12017031.1"/>burned their children in the fire to <crossref let="t" cid="c12017031.2"/>Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of <crossref let="u" cid="c12017031.3"/>Sepharvaim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017032"/>
+    <verse num="32"><crossref let="v" cid="c12017032.1"/>They also feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="w" cid="c12017032.2"/>and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of <crossref let="x" cid="c12017032.3"/>the high places.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017033"/>
+    <verse num="33">So they feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017034"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="34">To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded the children of Jacob, <crossref let="y" cid="c12017034.1"/>whom he named Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017035"/>
+    <verse num="35">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> made a covenant with them and commanded them, <crossref let="z" cid="c12017035.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12017035.1" from="12017035.1" to="12017039.1"/>You shall not fear other gods <crossref let="a" cid="c12017035.2"/>or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017036"/>
+    <verse num="36">but <crossref let="b" cid="c12017036.1"/>you shall fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="c" cid="c12017036.2"/>who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and <crossref let="d" cid="c12017036.3"/>with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, <crossref let="e" cid="c12017037.1"/>you shall always be careful to do. <crossref let="z" cid="c12017037.2"/>You shall not fear other gods,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017038"/>
+    <verse num="38">and <crossref let="f" cid="c12017038.1"/>you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. <crossref let="z" cid="c12017038.2"/>You shall not fear other gods,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017039"/>
+    <verse num="39">but <crossref let="b" cid="c12017039.1"/>you shall fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.<q class="end-double" qid="12017039.1" from="12017035.1" to="12017039.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017040"/>
+    <verse num="40">However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12017041"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="41"><crossref let="g" cid="c12017041.1"/>So these nations feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children&apos;s children&emdash;as their fathers did, so they do to this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018001"/>
+  <chapter num="18">
+    <heading>Hezekiah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="h" cid="c12018001.1"/>In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, <crossref let="i" cid="c12018001.2"/>Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018002"/>
+    <verse num="2">He was <crossref let="j" cid="c12018002.1"/>twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was <crossref let="k" cid="c12018002.2"/>Abi the daughter of Zechariah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="l" cid="c12018003.1"/>And he did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, according to all that David his father had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="m" cid="c12018004.1"/>He removed the high places and broke the <crossref let="n" cid="c12018004.2"/>pillars and cut down <crossref let="o" cid="c12018004.3"/>the Asherah. And he broke in pieces <crossref let="p" cid="c12018004.4"/>the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).<note nid="n12018004.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="q" cid="c12018005.1"/>He trusted in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, <crossref let="r" cid="c12018005.2"/>so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="s" cid="c12018006.1"/>For he held fast to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="t" cid="c12018007.1"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with him; wherever he went out, <crossref let="u" cid="c12018007.2"/>he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="v" cid="c12018008.1"/>He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, <crossref let="w" cid="c12018008.2"/>from watchtower to fortified city.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, <crossref let="x" cid="c12018009.1"/>Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018010"/>
+    <verse num="10">and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018011"/>
+    <verse num="11">The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in <crossref let="y" cid="c12018011.1"/>Halah, and on the <crossref let="y" cid="c12018011.2"/>Habor, <crossref let="y" cid="c12018011.3"/>the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018012"/>
+    <verse num="12">because they did not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018013"/>
+    <heading>Sennacherib Attacks Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="z" cid="c12018013.1"/>In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018014.1" from="12018014.1" to="12018014.2"/>I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.<q class="end-double" qid="12018014.2" from="12018014.1" to="12018014.2"/> <crossref let="a" cid="c12018014.1"/>And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents<note nid="n12018014.1"/> of silver and thirty talents of gold.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Hezekiah <crossref let="b" cid="c12018015.1"/>gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and in the treasuries of the king&apos;s house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018016"/>
+    <verse num="16">At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And the king of Assyria sent the <crossref let="c" cid="c12018017.1"/>Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by <crossref let="d" cid="c12018017.2"/>the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer&apos;s Field.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And when they called for the king, there came out to them <crossref let="e" cid="c12018018.1"/>Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and <crossref let="f" cid="c12018018.2"/>Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">And the Rabshakeh said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018019.1" from="12018019.1" to="12018025.4"/>Say to Hezekiah, <q class="begin-single" qid="12018019.2" from="12018019.2" to="12018025.3"/>Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of <crossref let="g" cid="c12018021.1"/>a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018022"/>
+    <verse num="22">But if you say to me, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="12018022.1" from="12018022.1" to="12018022.2"/>We trust in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God,<q class="end-inner-double" qid="12018022.2" from="12018022.1" to="12018022.2"/> is it not he <crossref let="h" cid="c12018022.1"/>whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="12018022.3" from="12018022.3" to="12018022.4"/>You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem<q class="end-inner-double" qid="12018022.4" from="12018022.3" to="12018022.4"/>?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018024"/>
+    <verse num="24">How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master&apos;s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Moreover, is it without the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018025.1" from="12018025.1" to="12018025.2"/>Go up against this land and destroy it.<q class="end-double" qid="12018025.2" from="12018025.1" to="12018025.2"/><q class="end-single" qid="12018025.3" from="12018019.2" to="12018025.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12018025.4" from="12018019.1" to="12018025.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">Then <crossref let="e" cid="c12018026.1"/>Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and <crossref let="f" cid="c12018026.2"/>Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018026.1" from="12018026.1" to="12018026.2"/>Please speak to your servants in <crossref let="i" cid="c12018026.3"/>Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.<q class="end-double" qid="12018026.2" from="12018026.1" to="12018026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But the Rabshakeh said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018027.1" from="12018027.1" to="12018027.2"/>Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?<q class="end-double" qid="12018027.2" from="12018027.1" to="12018027.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: <q class="begin-double" qid="12018028.1" from="12018028.1" to="12018035.2"/>Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Thus says the king: <q class="begin-single" qid="12018029.1" from="12018029.1" to="12018030.1"/>Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my<note nid="n12018029.1"/> hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> by saying, The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.<q class="end-single" qid="12018030.1" from="12018029.1" to="12018030.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: <q class="begin-single" qid="12018031.1" from="12018031.1" to="12018035.1"/>Make your peace with me<note nid="n12018031.1"/> and come out to me. Then <crossref let="j" cid="c12018031.1"/>each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018032"/>
+    <verse num="32">until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, <crossref let="k" cid="c12018032.1"/>a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and <crossref let="l" cid="c12018032.2"/>honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018032.1" from="12018032.1" to="12018032.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will deliver us.<q class="end-double" qid="12018032.2" from="12018032.1" to="12018032.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018033"/>
+    <verse num="33"><crossref let="m" cid="c12018033.1"/>Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="n" cid="c12018034.1"/>Where are the gods of <crossref let="o" cid="c12018034.2"/>Hamath and <crossref let="p" cid="c12018034.3"/>Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and <crossref let="q" cid="c12018034.4"/>Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, <crossref let="r" cid="c12018035.1"/>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?<q class="end-single" qid="12018035.1" from="12018031.1" to="12018035.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="12018035.2" from="12018028.1" to="12018035.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018036"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="36">But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king&apos;s command was, <q class="begin-double" qid="12018036.1" from="12018036.1" to="12018036.2"/>Do not answer him.<q class="end-double" qid="12018036.2" from="12018036.1" to="12018036.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12018037"/>
+    <verse num="37">Then <crossref let="s" cid="c12018037.1"/>Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah <crossref let="t" cid="c12018037.2"/>with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019001"/>
+  <chapter num="19">
+    <heading>Isaiah Reassures Hezekiah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="u" cid="c12019001.1"/>As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, <crossref let="t" cid="c12019001.2"/>he tore his clothes and <crossref let="v" cid="c12019001.3"/>covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, <crossref let="v" cid="c12019002.1"/>covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019003"/>
+    <verse num="3">They said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12019003.1" from="12019003.1" to="12019004.1"/>Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="w" cid="c12019004.1"/>It may be that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent <crossref let="x" cid="c12019004.2"/>to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for <crossref let="y" cid="c12019004.3"/>the remnant that is left.<q class="end-double" qid="12019004.1" from="12019003.1" to="12019004.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019005"/>
+    <verse num="5">When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Isaiah said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12019006.1" from="12019006.1" to="12019007.2"/>Say to your master, <q class="begin-single" qid="12019006.2" from="12019006.2" to="12019007.1"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which <crossref let="z" cid="c12019006.1"/>the servants of the king of Assyria have <crossref let="a" cid="c12019006.2"/>reviled me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that <crossref let="b" cid="c12019007.1"/>he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him <crossref let="c" cid="c12019007.2"/>fall by the sword in his own land.<q class="end-single" qid="12019007.1" from="12019006.2" to="12019007.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="12019007.2" from="12019006.1" to="12019007.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019008"/>
+    <heading>Sennacherib Defies the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against <crossref let="d" cid="c12019008.1"/>Libnah, for he heard that the king had left <crossref let="e" cid="c12019008.2"/>Lachish.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="f" cid="c12019009.1"/>Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, <q class="begin-double" qid="12019009.1" from="12019009.1" to="12019009.2"/>Behold, he has set out to fight against you.<q class="end-double" qid="12019009.2" from="12019009.1" to="12019009.2"/> So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><q class="begin-double" qid="12019010.1" from="12019010.1" to="12019013.2"/>Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: <q class="begin-single" qid="12019010.2" from="12019010.2" to="12019013.1"/>Do not let your God <crossref let="g" cid="c12019010.1"/>in whom you trust deceive you by promising that <crossref let="h" cid="c12019010.2"/>Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="i" cid="c12019012.1"/>Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, <crossref let="j" cid="c12019012.2"/>Gozan, <crossref let="k" cid="c12019012.3"/>Haran, Rezeph, and the people of <crossref let="l" cid="c12019012.4"/>Eden who were in Telassar?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="m" cid="c12019013.1"/>Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?<q class="end-single" qid="12019013.1" from="12019010.2" to="12019013.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="12019013.2" from="12019010.1" to="12019013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019014"/>
+    <heading>Hezekiah&apos;s Prayer</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">Hezekiah received <crossref let="n" cid="c12019014.1"/>the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and spread it before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Hezekiah prayed before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said: <q class="begin-double" qid="12019015.1" from="12019015.1" to="12019019.1"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, <crossref let="o" cid="c12019015.1"/>enthroned above the cherubim, <crossref let="p" cid="c12019015.2"/>you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="q" cid="c12019016.1"/>Incline your ear, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and hear; <crossref let="r" cid="c12019016.2"/>open your eyes, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent <crossref let="s" cid="c12019016.3"/>to mock the living God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Truly, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, <crossref let="t" cid="c12019018.1"/>but the work of men&apos;s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019019"/>
+    <verse num="19">So now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, save us, please, from his hand, <crossref let="u" cid="c12019019.1"/>that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that <crossref let="p" cid="c12019019.2"/>you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, are God alone.<q class="end-double" qid="12019019.1" from="12019015.1" to="12019019.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019020"/>
+    <heading>Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib&apos;s Fall</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12019020.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria <crossref let="v" cid="c12019020.1"/>I have heard.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019021"/>
+    <verse num="21">This is the word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken concerning him:
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="12019021.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>She despises you, she scorns you&emdash;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="w" cid="c12019021.1"/>the virgin daughter of Zion;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>she <crossref let="x" cid="c12019021.2"/>wags her head behind you&emdash;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>the daughter of Jerusalem.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="22">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="12019022.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>Whom have you <crossref let="y" cid="c12019022.1"/>mocked and <crossref let="z" cid="c12019022.2"/>reviled?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>Against whom have you raised your voice<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>and lifted your eyes to the heights?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>Against <crossref let="a" cid="c12019022.3"/>the Holy One of Israel!<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019023"/>
+    <verse num="23">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="b" cid="c12019023.1"/>By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and you have said, <crossref let="c" cid="c12019023.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="12019023.1" from="12019023.1" to="12019024.1"/>With my many chariots<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>I have gone up the heights of the mountains,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>to the far recesses of <crossref let="d" cid="c12019023.3"/>Lebanon;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>I felled its tallest cedars,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>its choicest cypresses;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>I entered its farthest lodging place,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>its most <crossref let="e" cid="c12019023.4"/>fruitful forest.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019024"/>
+    <verse num="24">
+        <begin-line/>I dug wells<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and drank foreign waters,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>and I dried up with the sole of my foot<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>all the streams <crossref let="f" cid="c12019024.1"/>of Egypt.<q class="end-single" qid="12019024.1" from="12019023.1" to="12019024.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019025"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="25">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="12019025.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>Have you not heard<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>that <crossref let="g" cid="c12019025.1"/>I determined it long ago?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>I planned from days of old<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>what <crossref let="h" cid="c12019025.2"/>now I bring to pass,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>that you should turn fortified cities<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>into heaps of ruins,<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019026"/>
+    <verse num="26">
+        <begin-line/>while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>are dismayed and confounded,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>and have become <crossref let="i" cid="c12019026.1"/>like plants of the field<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and like tender grass,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>like grass on the housetops,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>blighted before it is grown.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="27">
+        <begin-line/><q class="continue-double" qid="12019027.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>But I know your sitting down<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="j" cid="c12019027.1"/>and your going out and coming in,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and your raging against me.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019028"/>
+    <verse num="28">
+        <begin-line/>Because you have raged against me<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and your complacency has come into my ears,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>I will <crossref let="k" cid="c12019028.1"/>put my hook in your nose<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and my bit in your mouth,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>and <crossref let="l" cid="c12019028.2"/>I will turn you back on the way<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>by which you came.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019029"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="29"><q class="continue-double" qid="12019029.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>And this shall be <crossref let="m" cid="c12019029.1"/>the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019030"/>
+    <verse num="30"><crossref let="n" cid="c12019030.1"/>And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019031"/>
+    <verse num="31">For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion <crossref let="o" cid="c12019031.1"/>a band of survivors. <crossref let="p" cid="c12019031.2"/>The zeal of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will do this.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32"><q class="continue-double" qid="12019032.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/>Therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or <crossref let="q" cid="c12019032.1"/>cast up a siege mound against it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019033"/>
+    <verse num="33"><crossref let="r" cid="c12019033.1"/>By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="s" cid="c12019034.1"/>For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake <crossref let="t" cid="c12019034.2"/>and for the sake of my servant David.<q class="end-double" qid="12019034.1" from="12019020.1" to="12019034.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019035"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="35">And that night <crossref let="u" cid="c12019035.1"/>the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at <crossref let="v" cid="c12019036.1"/>Nineveh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12019037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, <crossref let="w" cid="c12019037.1"/>Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020001"/>
+  <chapter num="20">
+    <heading>Hezekiah&apos;s Illness and Recovery</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="x" cid="c12020001.1"/>In those days <crossref let="y" cid="c12020001.2"/>Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020001.1" from="12020001.1" to="12020001.4"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="z" cid="c12020001.3"/><q class="begin-single" qid="12020001.2" from="12020001.2" to="12020001.3"/>Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.<q class="end-single" qid="12020001.3" from="12020001.2" to="12020001.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="12020001.4" from="12020001.1" to="12020001.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, saying,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><q class="begin-double" qid="12020003.1" from="12020003.1" to="12020003.2"/>Now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="a" cid="c12020003.1"/>please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and <crossref let="b" cid="c12020003.2"/>with a whole heart, <crossref let="c" cid="c12020003.3"/>and have done what is good in your sight.<q class="end-double" qid="12020003.2" from="12020003.1" to="12020003.2"/> <crossref let="d" cid="c12020003.4"/>And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to him:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><q class="begin-double" qid="12020005.1" from="12020005.1" to="12020006.1"/>Turn back, and say to Hezekiah <crossref let="e" cid="c12020005.1"/>the leader of my people, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of David your father: <crossref let="f" cid="c12020005.2"/>I have heard your prayer; <crossref let="g" cid="c12020005.3"/>I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020006"/>
+    <verse num="6">and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, <crossref let="h" cid="c12020006.1"/>and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David&apos;s sake.<q class="end-double" qid="12020006.1" from="12020005.1" to="12020006.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And Isaiah said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020007.1" from="12020007.1" to="12020007.2"/>Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.<q class="end-double" qid="12020007.2" from="12020007.1" to="12020007.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020008.1" from="12020008.1" to="12020008.2"/>What shall be the sign that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on the third day?<q class="end-double" qid="12020008.2" from="12020008.1" to="12020008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Isaiah said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020009.1" from="12020009.1" to="12020009.2"/>This shall be <crossref let="i" cid="c12020009.1"/>the sign to you from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?<q class="end-double" qid="12020009.2" from="12020009.1" to="12020009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And Hezekiah answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020010.1" from="12020010.1" to="12020010.2"/>It is an easy thing for the shadow <crossref let="j" cid="c12020010.1"/>to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.<q class="end-double" qid="12020010.2" from="12020010.1" to="12020010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And Isaiah the prophet called to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="k" cid="c12020011.1"/>and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020012"/>
+    <heading>Hezekiah and the Babylonian Envoys</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="l" cid="c12020012.1"/>At that time <crossref let="m" cid="c12020012.2"/>Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, <crossref let="n" cid="c12020012.3"/>sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them <crossref let="o" cid="c12020013.1"/>all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020014.1" from="12020014.1" to="12020014.2"/>What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?<q class="end-double" qid="12020014.2" from="12020014.1" to="12020014.2"/> And Hezekiah said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020014.3" from="12020014.3" to="12020014.4"/>They have come from a far country, from Babylon.<q class="end-double" qid="12020014.4" from="12020014.3" to="12020014.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020015"/>
+    <verse num="15">He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020015.1" from="12020015.1" to="12020015.2"/>What have they seen in your house?<q class="end-double" qid="12020015.2" from="12020015.1" to="12020015.2"/> And Hezekiah answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020015.3" from="12020015.3" to="12020015.4"/>They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.<q class="end-double" qid="12020015.4" from="12020015.3" to="12020015.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020016.1" from="12020016.1" to="12020018.1"/>Hear the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Behold, the days are coming, when <crossref let="p" cid="c12020017.1"/>all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="q" cid="c12020018.1"/>And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, <crossref let="r" cid="c12020018.2"/>and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.<q class="end-double" qid="12020018.1" from="12020016.1" to="12020018.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, <crossref let="s" cid="c12020019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12020019.1" from="12020019.1" to="12020019.2"/>The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that you have spoken is good.<q class="end-double" qid="12020019.2" from="12020019.1" to="12020019.2"/> For he thought, <q class="begin-double" qid="12020019.3" from="12020019.3" to="12020019.4"/>Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?<q class="end-double" qid="12020019.4" from="12020019.3" to="12020019.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="t" cid="c12020020.1"/>The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made <crossref let="u" cid="c12020020.2"/>the pool and the conduit <crossref let="v" cid="c12020020.3"/>and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12020021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="w" cid="c12020021.1"/>And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021001"/>
+  <chapter num="21">
+    <heading>Manasseh Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="x" cid="c12021001.1"/>Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Hephzibah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="y" cid="c12021002.1"/>according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> drove out before the people of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For he rebuilt the high places <crossref let="z" cid="c12021003.1"/>that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made <crossref let="a" cid="c12021003.2"/>an Asherah, <crossref let="b" cid="c12021003.3"/>as Ahab king of Israel had done, <crossref let="c" cid="c12021003.4"/>and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="d" cid="c12021004.1"/>And he built altars in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, of which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had said, <crossref let="e" cid="c12021004.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12021004.1" from="12021004.1" to="12021004.2"/>In Jerusalem will I put my name.<q class="end-double" qid="12021004.2" from="12021004.1" to="12021004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And he built altars <crossref let="c" cid="c12021005.1"/>for all the host of heaven in <crossref let="f" cid="c12021005.2"/>the two courts of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="g" cid="c12021006.1"/>And he burned his son as an offering<note nid="n12021006.1"/> and <crossref let="h" cid="c12021006.2"/>used fortune-telling and <crossref let="i" cid="c12021006.3"/>omens and dealt <crossref let="j" cid="c12021006.4"/>with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, provoking him to anger.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And the carved image of <crossref let="a" cid="c12021007.1"/>Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to David and to Solomon his son, <q class="begin-double" qid="12021007.1" from="12021007.1" to="12021008.1"/>In this house, <crossref let="e" cid="c12021007.2"/>and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="k" cid="c12021008.1"/>And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.<q class="end-double" qid="12021008.1" from="12021007.1" to="12021008.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> destroyed before the people of Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021010"/>
+    <heading>Manasseh&apos;s Idolatry Denounced</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said by his servants the prophets,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="l" cid="c12021011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12021011.1" from="12021011.1" to="12021015.1"/>Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things <crossref let="m" cid="c12021011.2"/>more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, <crossref let="n" cid="c12021011.3"/>and has made Judah also to sin <crossref let="o" cid="c12021011.4"/>with his idols,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021012"/>
+    <verse num="12">therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster<note nid="n12021012.1"/> that the ears of everyone who hears of it <crossref let="p" cid="c12021012.1"/>will tingle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="q" cid="c12021013.1"/>And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021015"/>
+    <verse num="15">because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.<q class="end-double" qid="12021015.1" from="12021011.1" to="12021015.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="r" cid="c12021016.1"/>Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin <crossref let="s" cid="c12021016.2"/>that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="t" cid="c12021017.1"/>Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="u" cid="c12021018.1"/>And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, <crossref let="v" cid="c12021018.2"/>in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021019"/>
+    <heading>Amon Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="w" cid="c12021020.1"/>as Manasseh his father had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021021"/>
+    <verse num="21">He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served <crossref let="x" cid="c12021021.1"/>the idols that his father served and worshiped them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="y" cid="c12021022.1"/>He abandoned the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021024"/>
+    <verse num="24">But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12021026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And he was buried in his tomb <crossref let="z" cid="c12021026.1"/>in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022001"/>
+  <chapter num="22">
+    <heading>Josiah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="a" cid="c12022001.1"/>Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of <crossref let="b" cid="c12022001.2"/>Bozkath.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And he did what was right in the eyes of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and walked in all the way of David his father, <crossref let="c" cid="c12022002.1"/>and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022003"/>
+    <heading>Josiah Repairs the Temple</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, saying,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><q class="begin-double" qid="12022004.1" from="12022004.1" to="12022007.1"/>Go up to <crossref let="d" cid="c12022004.1"/>Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money <crossref let="e" cid="c12022004.2"/>that has been brought into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which <crossref let="f" cid="c12022004.3"/>the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="g" cid="c12022005.1"/>And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, repairing the house</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022006"/>
+    <verse num="6">(that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022007"/>
+    <verse num="7">But <crossref let="h" cid="c12022007.1"/>no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.<q class="end-double" qid="12022007.1" from="12022004.1" to="12022007.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022008"/>
+    <heading>Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, <q class="begin-double" qid="12022008.1" from="12022008.1" to="12022008.2"/>I have found <crossref let="i" cid="c12022008.1"/>the Book of the Law in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="12022008.2" from="12022008.1" to="12022008.2"/> And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="12022009.1" from="12022009.1" to="12022009.2"/>Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="12022009.2" from="12022009.1" to="12022009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="12022010.1" from="12022010.1" to="12022010.2"/>Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.<q class="end-double" qid="12022010.2" from="12022010.1" to="12022010.2"/> And Shaphan read it before the king.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, <crossref let="j" cid="c12022011.1"/>he tore his clothes.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and <crossref let="k" cid="c12022012.1"/>Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and <crossref let="l" cid="c12022012.2"/>Achbor the son of <crossref let="l" cid="c12022012.3"/>Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king&apos;s servant, saying,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><q class="begin-double" qid="12022013.1" from="12022013.1" to="12022013.2"/>Go, inquire of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is <crossref let="m" cid="c12022013.1"/>the wrath of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.<q class="end-double" qid="12022013.2" from="12022013.1" to="12022013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of <crossref let="n" cid="c12022014.1"/>Tikvah, son of <crossref let="n" cid="c12022014.2"/>Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in <crossref let="o" cid="c12022014.3"/>the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And she said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="12022015.1" from="12022015.1" to="12022020.2"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: <q class="begin-single" qid="12022015.2" from="12022015.2" to="12022020.1"/>Tell the man who sent you to me,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="p" cid="c12022017.1"/>Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore <crossref let="m" cid="c12022017.2"/>my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022018"/>
+    <verse num="18">But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="q" cid="c12022019.1"/>because your heart was penitent, and you <crossref let="r" cid="c12022019.2"/>humbled yourself before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become <crossref let="s" cid="c12022019.3"/>a desolation and <crossref let="t" cid="c12022019.4"/>a curse, and you <crossref let="u" cid="c12022019.5"/>have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12022020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and <crossref let="v" cid="c12022020.1"/>you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.<q class="end-single" qid="12022020.1" from="12022015.2" to="12022020.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="12022020.2" from="12022015.1" to="12022020.2"/> And they brought back word to the king.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023001"/>
+  <chapter num="23">
+    <heading>Josiah&apos;s Reforms</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="w" cid="c12023001.1"/>Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And the king went up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And <crossref let="x" cid="c12023002.1"/>he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant <crossref let="y" cid="c12023002.2"/>that had been found in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And the king stood <crossref let="z" cid="c12023003.1"/>by the pillar and <crossref let="a" cid="c12023003.2"/>made a covenant before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="b" cid="c12023003.3"/>to walk after the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests <crossref let="c" cid="c12023004.1"/>of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all the vessels made for <crossref let="d" cid="c12023004.2"/>Baal, for <crossref let="e" cid="c12023004.3"/>Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. <crossref let="f" cid="c12023004.4"/>He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations <crossref let="g" cid="c12023005.1"/>and all the host of the heavens.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And he brought out <crossref let="h" cid="c12023006.1"/>the Asherah from the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, <crossref let="i" cid="c12023006.2"/>and burned it at the brook Kidron <crossref let="j" cid="c12023006.3"/>and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves <crossref let="k" cid="c12023006.4"/>of the common people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And he broke down the houses of <crossref let="l" cid="c12023007.1"/>the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="m" cid="c12023007.2"/>where the women wove hangings for <crossref let="h" cid="c12023007.3"/>the Asherah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from <crossref let="n" cid="c12023008.1"/>Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one&apos;s left at the gate of the city.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="o" cid="c12023009.1"/>However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And he defiled <crossref let="p" cid="c12023010.1"/>Topheth, which is <crossref let="q" cid="c12023010.2"/>in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, <crossref let="r" cid="c12023010.3"/>that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to <crossref let="s" cid="c12023010.4"/>Molech.<note nid="n12023010.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts.<note nid="n12023011.1"/> And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And the altars <crossref let="t" cid="c12023012.1"/>on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars <crossref let="u" cid="c12023012.2"/>that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, he pulled down and broke in pieces<note nid="n12023012.1"/> and cast the dust of them <crossref let="v" cid="c12023012.3"/>into the brook Kidron.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of <crossref let="w" cid="c12023013.1"/>the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for <crossref let="x" cid="c12023013.2"/>Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for <crossref let="y" cid="c12023013.3"/>Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for <crossref let="z" cid="c12023013.4"/>Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And he broke in pieces the <crossref let="a" cid="c12023014.1"/>pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected <crossref let="b" cid="c12023015.1"/>by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, <crossref let="c" cid="c12023015.2"/>who made Israel to sin, <crossref let="d" cid="c12023015.3"/>that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned,<note nid="n12023015.1"/> reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, <crossref let="e" cid="c12023016.1"/>according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12023017.1" from="12023017.1" to="12023017.2"/>What is that monument that I see?<q class="end-double" qid="12023017.2" from="12023017.1" to="12023017.2"/> And the men of the city told him, <crossref let="f" cid="c12023017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12023017.3" from="12023017.3" to="12023017.4"/>It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted<note nid="n12023017.1"/> these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.<q class="end-double" qid="12023017.4" from="12023017.3" to="12023017.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12023018.1" from="12023018.1" to="12023018.2"/>Let him be; let no man move his bones.<q class="end-double" qid="12023018.2" from="12023018.1" to="12023018.2"/> So they let his bones alone, with the bones <crossref let="g" cid="c12023018.1"/>of the prophet who came out of Samaria.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were <crossref let="h" cid="c12023019.1"/>in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And <crossref let="i" cid="c12023020.1"/>he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, <crossref let="j" cid="c12023020.2"/>and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023021"/>
+    <heading>Josiah Restores the Passover</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">And the king commanded all the people, <crossref let="k" cid="c12023021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="12023021.1" from="12023021.1" to="12023021.2"/>Keep the Passover to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, <crossref let="l" cid="c12023021.2"/>as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.<q class="end-double" qid="12023021.2" from="12023021.1" to="12023021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="m" cid="c12023022.1"/>For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Moreover, Josiah put away <crossref let="n" cid="c12023024.1"/>the mediums and the necromancers and <crossref let="o" cid="c12023024.2"/>the household gods and <crossref let="p" cid="c12023024.3"/>the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish <crossref let="q" cid="c12023024.4"/>the words of the law that were written in the book <crossref let="r" cid="c12023024.5"/>that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="s" cid="c12023025.1"/>Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">Still the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, <crossref let="t" cid="c12023026.1"/>because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <q class="begin-double" qid="12023027.1" from="12023027.1" to="12023027.2"/>I will remove Judah also out of my sight, <crossref let="u" cid="c12023027.1"/>as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, <crossref let="v" cid="c12023027.2"/>and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.<q class="end-double" qid="12023027.2" from="12023027.1" to="12023027.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023028"/>
+    <heading>Josiah&apos;s Death in Battle</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023029"/>
+    <verse num="29"><crossref let="w" cid="c12023029.1"/>In his days <crossref let="x" cid="c12023029.2"/>Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at <crossref let="y" cid="c12023029.3"/>Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023030"/>
+    <verse num="30"><crossref let="z" cid="c12023030.1"/>And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from <crossref let="y" cid="c12023030.2"/>Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. <crossref let="a" cid="c12023030.3"/>And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father&apos;s place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023031"/>
+    <heading>Jehoahaz&apos;s Reign and Captivity</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31"><crossref let="b" cid="c12023031.1"/>Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was <crossref let="c" cid="c12023031.2"/>Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023032"/>
+    <verse num="32">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="d" cid="c12023032.1"/>according to all that his fathers had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023033"/>
+    <verse num="33">And <crossref let="x" cid="c12023033.1"/>Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at <crossref let="e" cid="c12023033.2"/>Riblah in the land of <crossref let="f" cid="c12023033.3"/>Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents<note nid="n12023033.1"/> of silver and a talent of gold.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023034"/>
+    <verse num="34">And <crossref let="x" cid="c12023034.1"/>Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and <crossref let="g" cid="c12023034.2"/>changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, <crossref let="h" cid="c12023034.3"/>and he came to Egypt and died there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023035"/>
+    <verse num="35">And Jehoiakim <crossref let="i" cid="c12023035.1"/>gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023036"/>
+    <heading>Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="36"><crossref let="j" cid="c12023036.1"/>Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12023037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="d" cid="c12023037.1"/>according to all that his fathers had done.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024001"/>
+  <chapter num="24">
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="k" cid="c12024001.1"/>In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent against him bands of the <crossref let="l" cid="c12024002.1"/>Chaldeans and <crossref let="m" cid="c12024002.2"/>bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, <crossref let="n" cid="c12024002.3"/>according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that he spoke by his servants the prophets.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, to remove them out of his sight, <crossref let="o" cid="c12024003.1"/>for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024004"/>
+    <verse num="4">and also <crossref let="p" cid="c12024004.1"/>for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> would not pardon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024005"/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="q" cid="c12024005.1"/>Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So Jehoiakim <crossref let="r" cid="c12024006.1"/>slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="s" cid="c12024007.1"/>And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, <crossref let="t" cid="c12024007.2"/>for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt <crossref let="u" cid="c12024007.3"/>from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024008"/>
+    <heading>Jehoiachin Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="v" cid="c12024008.1"/>Jehoiachin was <crossref let="w" cid="c12024008.2"/>eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="x" cid="c12024009.1"/>according to all that his father had done.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024010"/>
+    <heading>Jerusalem Captured</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">At that time the servants of <crossref let="y" cid="c12024010.1"/>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And <crossref let="y" cid="c12024011.1"/>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="z" cid="c12024012.1"/>and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. <crossref let="a" cid="c12024012.2"/>The king of Babylon took him prisoner <crossref let="b" cid="c12024012.3"/>in the eighth year of his reign</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024013"/>
+    <verse num="13">and carried off all the treasures of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="c" cid="c12024013.1"/>and the treasures of the king&apos;s house, <crossref let="d" cid="c12024013.2"/>and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="e" cid="c12024013.3"/>which Solomon king of Israel had made, <crossref let="f" cid="c12024013.4"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had foretold.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="g" cid="c12024014.1"/>He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, <crossref let="h" cid="c12024014.2"/>10,000 captives, <crossref let="i" cid="c12024014.3"/>and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, <crossref let="j" cid="c12024014.4"/>except the poorest people of the land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024015"/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="k" cid="c12024015.1"/>And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king&apos;s mother, the king&apos;s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, <crossref let="l" cid="c12024016.1"/>7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="m" cid="c12024017.1"/>And the king of Babylon <crossref let="n" cid="c12024017.2"/>made Mattaniah, <crossref let="o" cid="c12024017.3"/>Jehoiachin&apos;s uncle, king in his place, <crossref let="p" cid="c12024017.4"/>and changed his name to Zedekiah.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024018"/>
+    <heading>Zedekiah Reigns in Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="q" cid="c12024018.1"/>Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother&apos;s name was <crossref let="r" cid="c12024018.2"/>Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And he did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="s" cid="c12024019.1"/>according to all that Jehoiakim had done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12024020"/>
+    <verse num="20">For because of the anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/><crossref let="t" cid="c12024020.1"/>And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025001"/>
+  <chapter num="25">
+    <heading>Fall and Captivity of Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="u" cid="c12025001.1"/>And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, <crossref let="v" cid="c12025001.2"/>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. <crossref let="w" cid="c12025001.3"/>And they built siegeworks all around it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025003"/>
+    <verse num="3">On the ninth day of the fourth month <crossref let="x" cid="c12025003.1"/>the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by <crossref let="y" cid="c12025004.1"/>the king&apos;s garden, and <crossref let="z" cid="c12025004.2"/>the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the <crossref let="a" cid="c12025004.3"/>Arabah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025005"/>
+    <verse num="5">But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then they captured the king <crossref let="b" cid="c12025006.1"/>and brought him up to the king of Babylon at <crossref let="c" cid="c12025006.2"/>Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025007"/>
+    <verse num="7">They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, <crossref let="d" cid="c12025007.1"/>and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="e" cid="c12025008.1"/>In the fifth month, on <crossref let="f" cid="c12025008.2"/>the seventh day of the month&emdash;that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon&emdash;Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="g" cid="c12025009.1"/>And he burned the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="h" cid="c12025009.2"/>and the king&apos;s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, <crossref let="i" cid="c12025010.1"/>broke down the walls around Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="j" cid="c12025011.1"/>And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025012"/>
+    <verse num="12">But the captain of the guard left <crossref let="k" cid="c12025012.1"/>some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="l" cid="c12025013.1"/>And the pillars <crossref let="m" cid="c12025013.2"/>of bronze that were in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and <crossref let="n" cid="c12025013.3"/>the stands and <crossref let="o" cid="c12025013.4"/>the bronze sea that were in the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="p" cid="c12025014.1"/>And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025015"/>
+    <verse num="15">the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025016"/>
+    <verse num="16">As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="q" cid="c12025016.1"/>the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="r" cid="c12025017.1"/>The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,<note nid="n12025017.1"/> and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="s" cid="c12025018.1"/>And the captain of the guard took <crossref let="t" cid="c12025018.2"/>Seraiah the chief priest and <crossref let="u" cid="c12025018.3"/>Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025019"/>
+    <verse num="19">and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and <crossref let="v" cid="c12025019.1"/>five men of the king&apos;s council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at <crossref let="w" cid="c12025020.1"/>Riblah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at <crossref let="w" cid="c12025021.1"/>Riblah in the land of Hamath. <crossref let="x" cid="c12025021.2"/>So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025022"/>
+    <heading>Gedaliah Made Governor of Judah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed <crossref let="y" cid="c12025022.1"/>Gedaliah the son of <crossref let="z" cid="c12025022.2"/>Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="a" cid="c12025023.1"/>Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at <crossref let="b" cid="c12025023.2"/>Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="12025024.1" from="12025024.1" to="12025024.2"/>Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.<q class="end-double" qid="12025024.2" from="12025024.1" to="12025024.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="c" cid="c12025025.1"/>But in the seventh month, <crossref let="d" cid="c12025025.2"/>Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025026"/>
+    <verse num="26"><crossref let="e" cid="c12025026.1"/>Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025027"/>
+    <heading>Jehoiachin Released from Prison</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="f" cid="c12025027.1"/>And in the thirty-seventh year of <crossref let="g" cid="c12025027.2"/>the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously <crossref let="h" cid="c12025027.3"/>freed<note nid="n12025027.1"/> Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025029"/>
+    <verse num="29">So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life <crossref let="i" cid="c12025029.1"/>he dined regularly at the king&apos;s table,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v12025030"/>
+    <verse num="30">and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+</crossway-bible>