22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. a 12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass. f 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria. g 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. f 15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel. g 16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein, that were with child he ripped up. 17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria. c 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. f 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. 20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land. f 21 T And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 23 ¶ In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. g 25 But Pekah the son of RemaTiah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. ƒ 26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel. 27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. c 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he de parted not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. g 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbeth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. f30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel. f32 In the second year of Pe kah the son of Remaliah king of and they besieged Ahaz, but could Israel began Jotham the son of Uz-not overcome him. ziah king of Judah to reign. 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. e 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. f 35 T Howbeit, the high places were not removed; the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD. g 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. f7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. 8 And Abaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 36 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chro-g 9 And the king of Assyria hearknicles of the kings of Judah? 37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. 33 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: And Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XVI. the seventeenth year of Pe ened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Re zin. f 10 T And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workman Ikah the son of Remaliah, ship thereof. Ahaz the son of Jotham king of e 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz his father. p 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. f5¶ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus : so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. f 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. 13 And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meat-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings upon the altar. 14 And he brought also the bra. zen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar." 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the shut him up, and bound him in great altar burn the morning burnt-prison. offering, and the evening meat-of-5 ¶ Then the king of Assyria fering, and the king's burnt-sacrifice, came up throughout all the land, and his meat-offering, with the burnt- and went up to Samaria, and beoffering of all the people of the land, sieged it three years. and their meat-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. f17 And king Ahaz cut off the horders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. 18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria. 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. IN CHAP. XVII. : the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah, to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. c 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. f3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year therefore the king of Assyria g 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. c 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: p 12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. d 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. c 14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, CHAPTER XVII. that did not believe in the LORD from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sephartheir God. p 15 And they rejected his statutes, vaim, and placed them in the cities and his covenant that he made with of Samaria instead of the children their fathers, and his testimonies of Israel: and they possessed Sawhich he testified against them; and maria, and dwelt in the cities therethey followed vanity, and became of. vain, and went after the heathen f 25 And so it was at the beginning that were round about them, concern- of their dwelling there, that they ing whom the LORD had charged feared not the LORD: therefore the them, that they should not do like LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. them. ner of the nations whom they car-ƒ 4 ¶ He removed the high places, ried away from thence. and brake the images, and cut down f 34 Unto this day they do after the the groves, and brake in pieces the former manners: they fear not the brazen serpent that Moses had LORD, neither do they after their made; for unto those days the chilstatutes, or after their ordinances, or dren of Israel did burn incense to after the law and commandment it: and he called it Nehushtan. which the LORD commanded the c 5 He trusted in the LORD God of children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; so that after him was none Israel; like him among all the kings of Ju dah, nor any that were before him. d 6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. b7 And the LORD was with him: and he prospered whithersoever he went forth and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: P 36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched-outarm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. d 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the cominandment which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. d 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former man ner. g 8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 9¶ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, (that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,) Samaria was taken. 41 So these nations feared the g 11 And the king of Assyria did LORD, and served their graven carry away Israel unto Assyria, and images, both their children, and put them in Halah and in Habor by their children's children: as did the river of Gozan, and in the cities their fathers, so do they unto this day. of the Medes: CHAP. XVIII. TOW it came to pass in the Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. 2 Twenty and five years old was 13 ¶ Now in the fourteenth year he when he began to reign; and he of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib reigned twenty and nine years in king of Assyria come up against all Jerusalem. His mother's name also the fenced cities of Judah, and took was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. them. c 3 And he did that which was right g 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah in the sight of the LORD, according sent to the king of Assyria to Lato all that David his father did. chish, saying, I have offended; re |