Athaliah slain. 2 CHRONICLES, XXIV. Joash's good reign. according to all things that Jehoia-| B. C. 878. it is written v in the law of Moses, da the priest had commanded, and with rejoicing and with singing, as to come in on the sabbath, with/ & ICh.XXIV, it was ordained 6 by David. XXV. them that were to go out on the sabbath for Jehoiada the priest h 2Sa.8.7. dismissed not the courses.g 2 shoulder. i De. 17.18-20. Let the 9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hun- 3 house. dreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which h were in the house of God. 10 And he set all the people,: (every man having his weapon ink Ps. 14.5. his hand,) from the right 2 side of the 3 temple to the left side of the 1 Pr.11.10. temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about. 11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony,i 5 conspiracy. and made him king. And Jehoiada o Ex.21.14. and his sons anointed him, and said, 4 God save the king. m 1Ch.25.6-8. n Ec.9.12. p Ne.3.28. q Ps.5.6. 55.23. Ja.2.13. r De.29.1-15. 19 And he set the porters w at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in. 20 And he took the captains a of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. 21 And all the people of the land y rejoiced and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword. CHAPTER XXIV. Joash reigns well all the days of Je hoiada. JOASH OASH a was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem, his mother's name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days b of Jehoiada the priest. 3 And Jehoiada tock for him two wives, and he begat sons and XXIV. daughters. 12 T Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD: 13 And k she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the s De.26.17-19. entering in, and the princes, and t De. 13.9. the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, u 1Ch. XXIII and sounded with trumpets, also the m singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then n Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, 5 Treason, Treason! v NuXXVIII. &c. 6 by the 14 Then Jehoiada the priest hands of. brought out the captains of hun- w 1Ch.26.1, dreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth o of the ranges: and whoso 2 2Ki.11.19. followeth her, let him be slain with y Ps.58.10.11. the sword. For the priest said, Re. 18.20. Slay her not in the house of the LORD. 19.1,2. (CHAP. 24.) a 2Ki.11.21. 12.1,&c. b ch.26.5. Is.29.13. 15 So they laid hands on her; and and when she was come to the entering of the horse-gate p by the king's house, they slew q her there. 16 T And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that s they should be the c Ex.30.12. LORD's people. 1 renew. 16. Ac.7.44. 17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it d Nu. 1.50. down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and t slew Mat-e ch.21.17. tan the priest of Baal before the altars. f Eze.16.17. 19. Ho.2.8, 13. 18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD, by the hand of the priests the Le-2 voice. vites whom David had distributed u g ver.6. in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt-offerings of the LORD, as 4 T And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to 1 repair the house of the LORD. 5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, the collection, according to the commandment c of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for thed tabernacle of witness? 7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up e the house of God; and also all the dedicated things f of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim. 8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD. 9 And they made a 2 proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection g that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness. 10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, h and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. h 2Co.9.7. i1Co.16.2. 3 the healing went up upon the work. 11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw 4 or, pestils. that there was much money, the k ver.2,12,14. king's scribe and the high priest's ch.XXIII. officer came and emptied the 1 Pr.26.8. chest, and took it, and carried m Pr.29.12. it to his place again. Thus they n 1Ki.14.23. did day by day, i and gathered o ch.28.13. money in abundance. 12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD. 13 So the workmen wrought, and 3 the work was perfected by them. and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it. 29.8. 36.14-16. Ju.5.8. Ho.5.10, 14. Zep.1.4-6. Ep.5.6. p Je.7.25,26. 25.4. 26.5. Ps.95.7-8. Ac.7.51. 5 clothed, Ju.6.34. r Nu.14.41. 14 And when they had finished it, & ch. 15.2. they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for thet Je. 18. 18. house of the LORD, even vessels tou Mat.21.35. minister, and 4 to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt-offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada. 15 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good k in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance l to the king. Then the king hearkened m unto them. 23.35. Ac.7.58,59. v Pr.17.13. w Ps. 10.14. Je.51.56. Lu.11.51. 2Ti.4.16. in the revolution of. x 2Ki.12. İ7. Darmesek. y Le.26.37. De.32.30. Is.30.17. z Le.26.25. De.28.25, 48, a ch.22.8. 8 Is. 10.5. b ver.21,22. or, Jozachar, 2Ki.12.21. or, Shomer. 11 or, coinmentary. (CHAP. 25.) a 2Ki.14.1,&c 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served n groves and idols and wrath came o upon Judah and Je-10 foundling rusalem for this their trespass. 19 Yet p he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them but q they would not give ear. 20 And the spirit of God 5 came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, 1 confirmed Thus saith God, Why r transgress b Ps.78.37. Is.29.13. Ja.1.8. 4.8. upon him. ve the commandments of the LORD,c De.24.16. ye that ye cannot prosper? because sd Je.31.30. ye have forsaken the LORD, he Eze. 18.20. hath also forsaken you. Joash slan. 21 And they conspired t against him, and stoned u him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but v slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require w it. 23 T And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of 7 Damascus. 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small y company of men, and the LORD delivered z a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment a against Joash. 25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiadab the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. 26 And these are they that conspired against him; 8 Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of 9 Shimrith a Moabitess. 27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the 10 repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the 11 story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER XXV. 1 Amaziah's reign: 17 He provoketh Joash to his overthrow. A MAZIAH a was twenty and five years old when he began tʊ reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not b with a perfect heart. 3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was 1 established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written'c in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The d fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die Amaziah's reign. 2 CHRONICLES, XXV. Amaziah is overthrown. for the fathers, but every man shall B. C. 810. die for his own sin. f ch.20.6. Ps.62.11. Ec.9.11. 5 T Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made theme Nu. 1.3. captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty e years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand 2 band. choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. g Ps.24.1. 6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. 7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim. 8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for Godf hath power to help, and to cast down. Fr. 10.22. Phi.4.19. 3 to their place. 4 heat of anger. 5 sons of the h ch.28.23. Ex.20.3,5. Is.44.19. 9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the 2 army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able g to give thee much more than this. 10 Then Amaziah separated them, & ver.11,12. to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go 9 home again wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in 4 great 1 1Sa.2.25. anger. 11 T And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. 12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought Ps.96.5. 6 counselled. m 2Ki.14.8, &c. 7 or, furze bush, or, thorn. LORD was kindled against Amaziahı, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? 16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear, why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath 6 determined to destroy thee, because I thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel. 17 ¶ Then m Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face. 18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The 7 thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a 8 wild beast that was in Lebanon and trode down the thistle. 19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? 20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it n came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom. 21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah. 22 And Judah was 9put to the worse before Israel, and they fled them unto the top of the rock, and 8 beast of the every mían to his tent. cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. field. n ver. 16. ch.22,7. 1Ki. 12.15. 13 But the 5 soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Ju-9 smitten. dah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand o ch.21.17. of them, and took much spoil. that look 14 Now it came to pass, after 10 gate of it that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he eth. brought h the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his P ch.26.9. gods, and bowed i down himself before them, and burned incense 92Ki.14.17, unto them. 15 Wherefore the anger of the &c. 23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, o at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the 10 corner-gate, p four hundred cubits. 24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. 25 T And q Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judali lived after the death of Joash, son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 26 Now the rest of the acts of r ch.15.2. tains. He waxeth proud. Amaziah, first and last, behold, are B. C. 810. Hananiah, one of the king's capthey not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred. 27 T Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from 11 following the LORD they 12 made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there. 28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in 13 the city of Judah. CHAPTER XXVI. Uzziah invadeth the priest's office, and is smitten. THE HEN a all the people of Judah took 1 Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 11 after. cy. 13 And under their hand was 9 an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host, shields, 22 and spears, and helmets, and haber15.1,&c.geons, and bows, and 10 slings to or, Azariah. cast stones. (CHAP. 26.) 1 b ch.24.2. 38. Da. 1.17. 2 seeing. 3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jeru-d salem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. Is. 14.29. e ch.21.16. 4 And he did that which was right fch.17.11. in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. 5 And he sought God in the days b of Zechariah, who had understanding in the 2 visions of God: and as long c as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. sor,repaired. many cis- 6 And he went forth, and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities 3 about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. the power 7 And God helped him against of an army. the Philistines, e and against the 10 stones of Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, slings. and the Mehunims. 11 went forth. 8 And the Ammonites gave gifts ƒh ch.25.19. to Uzziah: and his name 4 spread De.8.14. abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself i Pr. 16.18. exceedingly. 32.15. 15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal: and his name 11 spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped till he was strong. 16 Buth when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: i for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went k into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men: 18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him. It appertaineth not m unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated n to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary ; shall it be for thine honour p from for thou hast trespassed; neither the LORD God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, g and had a ceuser in his hand to burn incense; and while r he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense-altar. in Jerusalem at the corner-gate, gm Nu. 16.40. and all the priests, looked upon 20 And Azariah the chief priest, and at the valley-gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified Ex.30.7,8.him, and, behold, he was leprous in 10 Also he built towers in the de-o Co.5.5. sert, and 6 digged many wells: for p 1Sa.2.30. he had much cattle, both in the 7 ch.25.16. low country and in the plains; hus-r Nu. 12.10. bandmen also, and vine-dressers in 2Ki.5.27. the mountains, and in 7 Carmel: . Es.6.12. for he loved 8 husbandry. t 2Ki. 15.5, 12 free. u Le. 13.46. Nu.5.2. 12.15. 2Ki.7.3. Is.1.1. 11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself s hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him. 21 And t Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a 12 several house, u being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: aml Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. 22 T Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiahı v the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. Jotham reigneth well. 2 CHRONICLES, XXVII, XXVIII. 23 So w Uzziah slept with his fa- B. C. 741. thers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial to Is.6.1. 1 Jotham reigneth well. 9 Ahaz suc-1 the tower, ceedeth him. JOTHAM a was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly. 3 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of 1 Ophel he built much. 4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. 5 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year and the third. 6 So Jotham became mighty, b because he 3 prepared c his ways before the LORD his God. 2 So 7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9 T And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER XXVIII. AHAZ a was twenty years old when he began to reign, and ch.33.14. Ne.3.26,27. or, estab- a 2Ki. 16.2, & Ju.2.11. d 2Ki.33.10. Le. 18.21. Mi.6.7. Ahaz's wicked reign. 4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 5 Wherefore f the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to 2 Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. 6 T For Pekah g the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all 3 valiant men; because h they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. 7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was 4 next to the king. 8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren i two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye k have slain them in a rage that reacheth 7 up unto heaven. 10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen m and bond women unto you: but are there not with you, even n with you, sins against the LORD your God? 11 Now hear me, therefore, and the second. deliver o the captives again, which 4 ye have taken captive of your brethren: forp the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you. 12 Then certain of the heads of Je.50.17,18. the children of Ephraim, Azariah Eze.25.12- the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai stood up against them that came from the war, he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was | I Ge.4.10. right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: 13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended 2 For he walked in the ways of m Le.25.39, against the LORD already, ye intend the kings of Israel, and made also molten b images for Baalim.c 3 Moreover he 1 burnt incense in the valley d of the son of Hinnom, and e burnt his children in the fire, o Is.58.6. after the abominations of the heaJe.34.14. then whom the LORD had cast out P Ja.2.13. before the children of Israel. to add more to our sins and our trespass for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel. 14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. 15 And the men which were ex |