12:018:017 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
12:018:018 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
12:018:019 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
12:018:020 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
12:018:021 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
12:018:022 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
12:018:023 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
12:018:024 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
12:018:025 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
12:018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
12:018:027 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
12:018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
12:018:029 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
12:018:030 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
12:018:031 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
12:018:032 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
12:018:033 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12:018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
12:018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
12:018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
12:018:037 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
12:019:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
12:019:002 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
12:019:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
12:019:004 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
12:019:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
12:019:006 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
12:019:007 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
12:019:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
12:019:009 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
12:019:010 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
12:019:011 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
12:019:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
12:019:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
12:019:014 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
12:019:015 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
12:019:016 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
12:019:017 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
12:019:018 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
12:019:019 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
12:019:020 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
12:019:021 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
12:019:022 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
12:019:023 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
12:019:024 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
12:019:025 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
12:019:026 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
12:019:027 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
12:019:028 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
12:019:029 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
12:019:030 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
12:019:031 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
12:019:032 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
12:019:033 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
12:019:034 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
12:019:035 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
12:019:036 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
12:019:037 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
12:020:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
12:020:002 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
12:020:003 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
12:020:004 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
12:020:005 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
12:020:006 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
12:020:007 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
12:020:008 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
12:020:009 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
12:020:010 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
12:020:011 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
12:020:012 At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
12:020:013 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
12:020:014 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
12:020:015 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
12:020:016 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
12:020:017 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
12:020:018 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
12:020:019 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
12:020:020 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:020:021 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
12:021:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
12:021:002 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
12:021:003 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
12:021:004 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
12:021:005 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
12:021:006 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
12:021:007 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
12:021:008 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
12:021:009 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
12:021:010 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
12:021:011 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
12:021:012 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
12:021:013 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
12:021:014 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
12:021:015 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
12:021:016 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
12:021:017 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:021:018 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
12:021:019 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
12:021:020 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
12:021:021 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
12:021:022 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
12:021:023 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
12:021:024 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
12:021:025 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:021:026 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
12:022:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
12:022:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
12:022:003 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
12:022:004 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
12:022:005 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
12:022:006 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
12:022:007 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
12:022:008 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
12:022:009 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
12:022:010 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
12:022:011 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
12:022:012 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
12:022:013 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
12:022:014 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
12:022:015 And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
12:022:016 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
12:022:017 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
12:022:018 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
12:022:019 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
12:022:020 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
12:023:001 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
12:023:002 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
12:023:003 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
12:023:004 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
12:023:005 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
12:023:006 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
12:023:007 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
12:023:008 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
12:023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
12:023:010 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
12:023:011 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12:023:012 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
12:023:013 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
12:023:014 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
12:023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
12:023:016 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
12:023:017 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
12:023:018 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
12:023:019 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
12:023:020 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
12:023:021 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
12:023:022 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
12:023:023 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
12:023:024 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
12:023:025 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
12:023:026 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
12:023:027 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
12:023:028 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?
12:023:029 In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
12:023:030 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
12:023:031 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
12:023:032 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
12:023:033 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
12:023:034 And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
12:023:035 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
12:023:036 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
12:023:037 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
12:024:001 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
12:024:002 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
12:024:003 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
12:024:004 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
12:024:005 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:024:006 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
12:024:007 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
12:024:008 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
12:024:009 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
12:024:010 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
12:024:011 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12:024:012 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
12:024:013 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
12:024:014 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
12:024:015 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
12:024:016 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
12:024:017 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
12:024:018 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
12:024:019 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
12:024:020 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
12:025:001 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
12:025:002 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
12:025:003 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
12:025:004 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
12:025:005 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
12:025:006 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
12:025:007 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
12:025:008 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
12:025:009 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
12:025:010 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
12:025:011 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
12:025:012 But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
12:025:013 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
12:025:014 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
12:025:015 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
12:025:016 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
12:025:017 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
12:025:018 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
12:025:019 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
12:025:020 And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
12:025:021 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
12:025:022 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
12:025:023 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
12:025:024 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
12:025:025 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
12:025:026 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
12:025:027 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
12:025:028 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
12:025:029 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
12:025:030 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
Book 13 1 Chronicles
13:001:001 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
13:001:002 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
13:001:003 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
13:001:004 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
13:001:005 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
13:001:006 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
13:001:007 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
13:001:008 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
13:001:009 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
13:001:010 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
13:001:011 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
13:001:012 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
13:001:013 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
13:001:014 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
13:001:015 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
13:001:016 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
13:001:017 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
13:001:018 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
13:001:019 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.
13:001:020 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
13:001:021 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
13:001:022 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
13:001:023 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
13:001:024 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
13:001:025 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
13:001:026 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
13:001:027 Abram; the same is Abraham.
13:001:028 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
13:001:029 These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
13:001:030 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
13:001:031 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
13:001:032 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
13:001:033 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
13:001:034 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
13:001:035 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
13:001:036 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
13:001:037 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
13:001:038 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
13:001:039 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.
13:001:040 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. and the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
13:001:041 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
13:001:042 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.
13:001:043 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
13:001:044 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
13:001:045 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
13:001:046 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
13:001:047 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
13:001:048 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
13:001:049 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
13:001:050 And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
13:001:051 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,
13:001:052 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
13:001:053 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
13:001:054 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.
13:002:001 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
13:002:002 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
13:002:003 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.
13:002:004 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
13:002:005 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
13:002:006 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
13:002:007 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
13:002:008 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
13:002:009 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
13:002:010 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
13:002:011 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
13:002:012 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
13:002:013 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
13:002:014 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
13:002:015 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
13:002:016 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
13:002:017 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
13:002:018 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
13:002:019 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
13:002:020 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
13:002:021 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
13:002:022 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
13:002:023 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
13:002:024 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
13:002:025 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
13:002:026 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
13:002:027 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
13:002:028 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab and Abishur.
13:002:029 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
13:002:030 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.
13:002:031 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.
13:002:032 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
13:002:033 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
13:002:034 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
13:002:035 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
13:002:036 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
13:002:037 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
13:002:038 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
13:002:039 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
13:002:040 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
13:002:041 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
13:002:042 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
13:002:043 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
13:002:044 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
13:002:045 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
13:002:046 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
13:002:047 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
13:002:048 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
13:002:049 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
13:002:050 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim.
13:002:051 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.
13:002:052 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
13:002:053 And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites,
13:002:054 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
13:002:055 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
13:003:001 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
13:003:002 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
13:003:003 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
13:003:004 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.
13:003:005 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:
13:003:006 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
13:003:007 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
13:003:008 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
13:003:009 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.
13:003:010 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
13:003:011 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
13:003:012 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
13:003:013 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
13:003:014 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
13:003:015 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
13:003:016 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
13:003:017 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,
13:003:018 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
13:003:019 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
13:003:020 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.
13:003:021 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
13:003:022 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
13:003:023 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
13:003:024 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
13:004:001 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
13:004:002 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
13:004:003 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:
13:004:004 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
13:004:005 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
13:004:006 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
13:004:007 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
13:004:008 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
13:004:009 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
13:004:010 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
13:004:011 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
13:004:012 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.
13:004:013 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.
13:004:014 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
13:004:015 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.
13:004:016 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
13:004:017 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
13:004:018 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
13:004:019 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
13:004:020 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
13:004:021 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
13:004:022 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things.
13:004:023 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
13:004:024 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
13:004:025 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
13:004:026 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
13:004:027 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
13:004:028 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
13:004:029 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
13:004:030 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
13:004:031 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
13:004:032 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
13:004:033 And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
13:004:034 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,
13:004:035 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
13:004:036 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
13:004:037 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
13:004:038 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
13:004:039 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
13:004:040 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
13:004:041 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
13:004:042 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
13:004:043 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
13:005:001 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
13:005:002 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
13:005:003 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
13:005:004 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
13:005:005 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,
13:005:006 Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
13:005:007 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
13:005:008 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:
13:005:009 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
13:005:010 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
13:005:011 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:
13:005:012 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
13:005:013 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.
13:005:014 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
13:005:015 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
13:005:016 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
13:005:017 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
13:005:018 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
13:005:019 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
13:005:020 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
13:005:021 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
13:005:022 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
13:005:023 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
13:005:024 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
13:005:025 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
13:005:026 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
13:006:001 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
13:006:002 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
13:006:003 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
13:006:004 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
13:006:005 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
13:006:006 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
13:006:007 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
13:006:008 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
13:006:009 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
13:006:010 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
13:006:011 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
13:006:012 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,
13:006:013 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
13:006:014 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
13:006:015 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
13:006:016 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
13:006:017 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
13:006:018 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
13:006:019 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
13:006:020 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,