Ahab deccrved

by his prophets.

they shall be delivered into your hand.

2 CHRONICLES, XVIII. people that he had with him, and B. C. 914. persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.

d 1Sa.23.2,4,

2$a.2.1.

3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? e Je.23.14. And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the 2 yet, or,

war.

9.

28.1,&c.

more.

55.3.

4 T And Jehoshaphat said unto f Ps.34.21. the king of Israel, Inquire, d I pray thee, at the word of the LORD today.

5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And e they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.

6 But Jehoshaphat said, is there not here a prophet of the LORD 2 besides, that we might inquire of him?

69.14.
Pr.29.10.
Am.5.10.
Lu.6.22.

3 or,cunuchs.
4 Hasten.

5

or, floor.
g Je.28. 10,11.
& thou con-

sume them.

mouth.

h Is.30.10.
Mi.2.6.

i

Nu.22.18,

20. 23.12,26. 24.13.

7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD but I hate f him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. 8 And the king of Israel called fork Je.23.1,2. Eze.34.5-8. one of his 3 officers, and said, 4 Zec. 10.2. Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a 5 void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus g saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until 6 they be consumed.

13.7.

125a.2.7.

2Ki. 10.3.

for evil.
m Is.6.1,&c.

Da.7.9,10.
Ac.7.55,56.
Re. 1.10, 12,

11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD 9 Is.19.14.

shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one 7 assent; let h thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.

13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even i what my God saith, that will I speak.

15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?

16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered k upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.

17 (And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, & but evil?)

18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw m the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the hosts n of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

19 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

20 Then there came out a spirit, o and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice p him. And the LORD said unto him, wherewith?

21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out and do

even so.

22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put q a lving spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil r against thee.

23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote s Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee? 24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go 9 into 10 an inner chamber to hide thyself.

25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this t fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction chamber to and with water of affliction, until I return in peace. 10a chamber 27 And Micaiah said, If u thou cerin a cham-tainly return in peace, then v hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people. 28 So the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

2 CHRONICLES, XIX, XX. B. C. 897. w ch.35.22,

Jehoshaphat's prayer.

2 CHRONICLES, XX. Ammon and Moab smitten.

and gavest it to the seed h of Abra-] B. C. 897. | went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and ham thy friend i for ever?

8 And they dwelt therein, and h Is.41.8. have built thee a sanctuary therein i Ja.2.23. for thy name, saying,

k ch.6.28-30.
i Mat. 18.20.

m ch.6.20.

9 If, k when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, In De.2.4.9, (for thy name m is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldst not n let Israel invade, when they cames out of the land of Egypt, but they o turned from them, and destroyed them not;

11 Behold I say, how they reward us, top come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes q are upon thee. 13 And all Judah stood before the

LORD, with their little ones, their

wives and their children.

19.

o Nu.20.21.

p Ps.83.12.
9 Ps. 123. 1,2.
Is.65.24.
Da.9.20,21.
ch. 15. 1,2.

24.20.
Nu.11.25,
26.

24.2.

t ch.32.7.8.
Ex.14.13,
14.

4

De.1.29,30.

31.6,8.
Is.43.1,2.
ascent.
or, valley.
Is.30.7,15.
La.3.26.

Nu. 14.9.

Ro.8.31. w Ex.4.31. x Job 1.20. Ps.95.6.

14 T Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Matta-y Ne. 12.42,43 niah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, z Ps.81.1. came the Spirits of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

95.1,2.

He.11.6.

15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jeru-a Is.7.9. salem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, b ch.5.13. Thus saith the LORD unto you, Bet not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your's, but God's.

16 To-morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the 3 cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the 4 brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

5 praisers.

c 1Ch.16.29.

d ch.7.3,6.

e Ps.cxxxvi.

6 in the time

that.
in singing
and praise.

1Sa, 14.20. for the destruction. g Ex. 14.30.

8 or, smote 17 Ye shall not need to fight in this one another. battle: set yourselves, stand u yef Ju.7.22. still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to-morrow go out against them: for v the LORD will be with you. 18 And Jehoshaphat bowed w his head with his face to the ground : and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell z before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

19 And the Levites of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise y the LORD God of Israel with a loud z voice on high.

20 ¶ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they

1Ch.5.22.
Is.37.36.
10 there was

not an
escaping,
Ezr.9.14.

h Eze.39.8.9.
11 i.e. blessing

12 head.
i Ne. 12.43.
A ch.17.10.

22 ¶ And 6 when they began 7 to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they 8 were smitten.

23 Forf the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped 9 to destroy another.

24 And when Judah came toward the watch-tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead g bodies fallen to the earth, and 10 none escaped.

25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, (which they stripped off for themselves,) more than they could carry away and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it h was so much.

26 ¶ And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of 11 Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalemi, and Jehoshaphat in the 12 forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy: for i the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets, unto the house of the LORD.

29 And the fear k of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

ch.15.15. 30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat Job 34.29. was quiet: for his God gave him m 1Ki.22.41, rest round about. 31 ¶ And m Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five

&c.

Jehoram's reign.

2 CHRONICLES, XXI.

Edom and Libnah revolt.

years old when he began to reign, B. C. 896. that which was evil in the eyes of and he reigned twenty and five the LORD. years in Jerusalem. And his mo

ther's name was Azubah the daugh-n ch.17.6. ter of Shilhi.

19.3. De.29.4.

32 And he walked in the way of o ch.12.14. Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

33 Howbeit n the high places were

13 words.

7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a 1 light d to him and to his sons for ever.

8 T In his days the Edomites revolted from under the 2 dominion of

not taken away: for as yet the peo-14 was made Judah,and made themselves a king.

ple had not prepared o their hearts

unto the God of their fathers.

to ascend.

49.

34 Now the rest of the acts of Je-p 1Ki.22.48, hoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the 13 book of

Pr.13.20.

Jehu the son of Hanani, who 14 is 9 Jos.7.11,12.
mentioned in the book of the kings
of Israel.

35 And after this did Jehosha

7 ch.9.21.

9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.

10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Lib

phat king of Judah join himself (CHAP. 21.) nah revolt from under his hand; with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

a 1Ki.22.50.

36 And p he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tar-b 2Ki.8.16, shish and they made the ships in Ezion-gaber.

37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because q thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.r

c ch.22.2.

&c.

1 lamp, or,
candle.

d 2Sa.7.12.13.
1Ki.11.36.

2Ki.8.19.

2 hand.

e ver. 13.
Le.20.5.
Re.2.20-22.

Ex.34.15.

De.31.16.
Je.3.8,9.

33.

because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, e and compelled Judah thereto.

12 T And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to goƒ a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, g and also hast slain h thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:

14 Behold, with a great 3 plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives,

and Zechariah, and Azariah, and 1Ki. 16.31- and all thy goods:
Michael, and Shephatiah: all these
were the sons of Jehoshaphat king
of Israel.

2Ki.9.22.

15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, i until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

16 ¶ Moreover the LORD stirred up k against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:

17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried 4 away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save 5 Jehoaor, Ahazi-haz, the youngest of his sons. ah, ch.22.1. 18 T And after all this the LORD or, Azariah, smotel him in his bowels with an ch.22.6. incurable disease.

4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all 4 captive, his brethren with the sword, and Jivers also of the princes of Israel. 5T Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab for c he had the daughter of Ahab to wife and he wrought

I ver. 15.
Ac.12.23.

19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sole

Ahaziah's wicked reign. 2 CHRONICLES, XXII, XXIII. diseases. And his people made no B. C. 885. burning for him, like the burning m

of his fathers.

m ch.16.14.

20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he 6 desire. reigned in Jerusalem eight years, n Je.22.18. and departed without being n de-(CHAP. 22.) sired. Howbeit they buried him

the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

CHAPTER XXII.

1 Ahaziah reigneth wickedly: 5 He
is slain by Jehu.
ND the inhabitants of Jerusa-c
lem made Ahaziah a his young-
est son king in his stead: for the
band of men that came with the
Arabians to the camp had slain all
the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

a ver.6.
ch.21.17.
2Ki.8.24,
&c.

b ch.21.6.
Ge.27. 12, 13.

Ge.27.12,13.

13.6-10.

Mat. 10.37.
Ac.4.19.

d Pr.12.5.

e Mi.6.16.

they
wounded

2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign ; |ƒ 2Ki.9. 15. and he reigned one year in Jerusa-1 wherewith lem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother c was his counsellor to do wickedly.

him.
2 called
Ahaziah,
ver.1, and
Jehoahaz,

ch.21.17.

4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab for they were his counsellors d after the death of his father 3 treading to his destruction.

5 T He walked e also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

down.

g ch.10.15.

De.32.35.
Ju. 14.4.
1Ki. 12. 15.
Ho.14.9.

h 2Ki.9.21.

i 2Ki.9.6,7.

14.

6 Andƒ he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds 1 which were given him at Ramah, k 2Ki. 10.12when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And 2 Azariah the son 1 2Ki.9.27. of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of m 1Ki. 14.13. Ahab at Jezreel, because he was n ch.17.4. sick.

&c.

7 And the 3 destruction of Ahaziah wasg of God by coming to Joram; o 2Ki.11.1, for when he was come, he h went out with Jehoram against Jehu the p 2Ki. 11.2, son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had Jehosheba. anointed to cut off the house of (CHAP. 23.)

Ahab.

&c.

8 And it came to pass, that, when a 2Ki. 11.4, Jehu was i executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found kb 2Sa.5.3. the princes of Judah, and the sons c ch.21.7. of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.

253.7.12,16.

IKI.9.5.
Ps.89.29.

11 But Jehoshabeath,p the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bed-chamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.

12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land. CHAPTER XXIII.

Jehoiada restoreth the worship of
God.

ND a in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

3 And all the congregation made a covenant b with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said c of the sons of David.

4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you d entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the 1 doors;

5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they e that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the

watch of the LORD.

7 And the Levites shall compass 9 And he sought Ahaziah: and diCh.9.19-27. the king round about, every man they caught him, (for he was hid 1 thresholds. in Samaria,) and brought him to with his weapons in his hand; and Jehu: and when they had slaine 1Ch.23.28, house, he shall be put to death: whosoever else cometh intoƒ the him, they buried him: Because, m said they, he is the son of Jehosha-f Nu.3.10,38.cometh in, and when he goeth out. but be you with the king when he phat, who n sought the LORD with 8 So the Levites and all Judah did

29.