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Jehoram slain.

11. KINGS.

Death of Jezebel. 15 But king Joram was returned to, Jezreelite: for remember how that, be healed in Jezreel of the wounds when I and thou rode together after which the Syrians had given him, Ahab his father, the Lono laid this when he fought with Hazael king of burden upon him;

Syria;) and Jehu said, If it be your 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the minds, then let none go forth nor es-blood of Naboth, and the blood of his cape out of the city to go to tell it in sons, saith the LORD; and I will re Jezreel.

16 So Jebu rode in a chariot,and went to Jezreel; (for Joram lay there.) And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a borseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace ?

quite thee in this plat, saith the Lond. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

27 ¶ But when Abaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house; and Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam: and he fled to Megiddo, and died there. 23 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

18 So there went oue on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace ? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace ? turn thee behind me. And the watch-|| 29 And in the eleventh year of Joram unan told, saying, The messenger came the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to to them, but he cometh not again. reign over Judah.

19 Then be sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

30 T And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

31. And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master ?

32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is ou my side? who? And there looked out to him

21 And Joram said, Make ready, two or three eunuchs, And his chariot was made ready. And| 33 And he said, Throw her down. Joram king of Israel, and Ahaziah So they threw her down; and some of king of Judah, went out, each in his her blood was sprinkled on the wall, chariot, and they went out against and on the horses: and he trode her Jehu, and met him in the portion of under foot. Naboth the Jezreelite.

22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy moth er Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

23 And Jorain turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Abaziah !

24 T And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his cap tain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the

34 And when he was come in, be did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter. 35 And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palins of her hands.

36 Wherefore they came again, and told him and he said, This is the word of the Lono, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, la the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;

37 And the carcase of Jezepel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel

Sons of Ahab

CHAP. X.

СНАР. Х.

slain in Samarra.

his great men, and his kinsfolk, and

AND Ahab bad seventy sons in Sa- his priests, until he left his none re

maria. And Jebu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria,unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders,and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying, 2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you,and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also,and

arinour;

maining.

12 ¶ And he arose and departed,and came to Samaria: and as he was al the shearing-house in the way,

13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziab king of Judah, and said, Whe are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Abaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the 3 Look even out the best and meet-king, and the children of the queen. est of your master's sons, and set him 14 And he said, Take them alive on his father's throne, and fight for And they took them alive, and slew your master's house. them at the pit of the shearing-house. even two and forty men; neither left be any of thein.

4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not pefore him; how then shall we stand? 15 And when he was departed 5 And he that cas over the house, thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the and be that was over the city, the el-son of Rechab coming to meet him ders also, and the briugers-up of the and he saluted him, and said to him, children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are Is thy heart right, as my heart is with! thy servants, and will do all that thou thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, shalt bid us; we will not make any It is. If it be, give me thy hand. And king: do thou that which is good in he gave him bis band; and he took chine eyes. him up to him into the chariot.

6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons,and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. (Now the king's sons being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.)

16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

17 And when he came to Samaria, be slew all that remained unto Ahab' in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,according to the saying of the Lons, which he spake to Elijah.

18 And Jehu gathered all the peo7 And it came to pass, when the let-ple together and said unto them, Abab ter came to them, that they took the served Baal a little; but Jehu shall king's sons and slew seventy persons, jserve him much. and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

8 ¶ And there came a messenger,and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps, at the entering in of the gate until the morning.

19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests, let none be want ing; for I have a great sacrifice to de to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. 9 And it came to pass in the morning, 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn that he went out, and stood, and said assembly for Baal. And they proclaimto all the people, Ye be righteous: be-fed it.

hold, I conspired against my master, 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel; and slew him; but who slew all these? and all the worshippers of Baal came, 10 Know now, that there shall fall so that there was not a man left that unto the earth nothing of the word of|came not. And they came into the the LORD, which the Lond spake con-house of Baal; and the house of Baut cerning the house of Ahab: for the was full from one end to another. LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijab.

11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Alab in Jezreel, and all

22 And ne said unto him that was over the vestry,Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

Jchi's inconsistency.

11. KINGS.

Jehoash's life saved. 23. And Jehu went, and Jehonadabfand all that he did, and all his might, the son of Rechab, into the house of are they not written in the book of the Baal,and said unto the worshippers of Chronicles of the kings of Israel? Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD,but the worshippers of Baal only.

35 And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Jeboabaz his son reigned in his stead. 36 And the time that Jehu reigned

24 And when they went in to offer over Israel in Samaria was twenty and sacrifices and burnt-offerings, Jehu ap-eight years. pointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he

CHAP. XI.

that letteth him go, his life shat e AND when Athaliah, the mother of

for the life of him.

Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the sced-royal.

25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt- 2 But Jebosheba the daughter of king offering, that Jehu said to the guard, Joram, sister of Ahaziab, took Joasi and to the captains, Go iu and slay the son of Ahaziah, and stole him them; let none come forth. And they from among the king's sons which smote them with the edge of the sword; were slain; and they hid him, even and the guard and the captains cast him and his nurse, in the bed chamthem out, and went to the city of the ber, from Athaliab, so that he was not house of Baal. slain.

26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.

27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal,and made it a draught-house unto this day.

3 And he was with her hid in the house of the Lono six years; and Athaliah did reign ever the land.

4 ¶ And the seventh year Jehoiada seat aud fetched the rulers over hondreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of house of the Lono, and made a cove Israel. nant with them, and took an oath of 29 ¶ Howbeit from the sins of Jero-them in the house of the Lord, and boam the son of Nebat, who made Is-showed them the king's son. rael to sin, Jehu departed not from 5 And he commanded them, saying, after them, to wit, the golden calves This is the thing that ye shall do; a that were in Beth-el, and that were in third part of you that enter in on the Dan. sabbath shall even be keepers of the 30 Aad the Lord said unto Jehu,Be- watch of the king's house ; cause thou hast done well in executing 6 And a third part shall be at the gate that which is right in mine eyes, and of Sur; and a third part at the gate behast done unto the house of Abáb ac-hind the guard: so shall ye keep the cording to all that was in my heart, watch of the house, that it be not brokthy children of the fourth generation en down. shall sit on the throne of Israel.

31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart; for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam,which made Israel to sin.

32 T In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel.

33 From Jordan castward, all the fand of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lono about the king.

8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometn within the ranges let him be slain; and be ye with the king as he goeth out, and as he cometh in.

9 And the captains over the hundreda did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men that were to 31 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehu,[come in on the sabbath, with ther

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12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands,and said, God save the king.

13 ¶ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard, and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lond.

CHAP. XII.

the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign,and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zinah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

3 But the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things 14 And when she looked, behold, the that is brought into the house of the king stood by a pillar, as the manner LORD, even the money of every one was, and the princes and the trumpet-that passeth the account, the money ers by the king; and all the people that every man is set at, and all the of the land rejoiced, and blew with money that cometh into any man's trumpets. And Athaliah rent her heart to bring into the house of the clothes, and cried, Treason, treason! Lond,

15 But Jehoiada the priest command- 5 Let the priests take it to them, ed the captains of the hundreds, the every man of his acquaintance; and officers of the host,and said unto them, let them repair the breaches of the Have her forth without the ranges; house, wheresoever any breach shall and him that followeth her kill with be found. the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

16 And they laid hands on ber: and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house; and there was she slain.

6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jeloash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

7 Then king Jeboash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priest, and said unto them,Why repair ye not 17 T And Jehoiada made a covenant the breaches of the house? now therehetween the Lonn and the king and fore recieve no more money of your the people, that they should be the facquaintance, but deliver it for the Lond's people; between the king also breaches of the house.

and the people.

8 And the priests consentedto receive 18 And all the people of the land uo more money of the people, neither went into the house of Baal, and brake to repair the breaches of the house. it down; his altars and his images 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, brake they in pieces thoroughly, and and bored a hole in the lid of it, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before set it beside the altar, on the right side the altars and the priest appointed as one cometh into the house of the officers over the house of the Lond. Lonv: and the priests that kept the 19 And he took the rulers over hun-door put therein all the money that dreds,and the captains, and the guard, was brought into the house of the and all the people of the land; and Lord, they brought down the king from the house of the Loup, and came by the of the gate of the guard to the

way

10 And it was so,when they saw that there was much money in the chest that the king's scribe and the high

Joash slain

Sehoahaz' wicked regn

CHAP. XIII.

N the three and twentieth year of Joach the son of thuziah king of Judah, Jehoabazthe son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

11. KINGS. priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD. 11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that bad the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LonD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin : he departed not therefrom.

12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed 3 And the anger of the LORD was stone to repair the breaches of the kindled against Israel, and he deliverbouse of the Lond, and for all that was fed them into the hand of Hazael king laid out for the house to repair it

13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lono bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days. 4 And Jehoalaz besought the LORD, and the Lond hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. 5 And the LORD gave Israel a sa14 But they gave that to the work-viour, so that they went out from unmen, and repaired therewith the house der the hand of the Syrians: and the of the LORD. children of Israel dwelt in their tents,

15 Moreover they reckoned not with as beforetime. the men into whose hand they deliver- 6 Nevertheless they departed not fron ed the money to be bestowed on work-the sins of the house of Jeroboam,whe men: for they dealt faithfully. made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

16 The trespass-moucy and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

17 ¶ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahazial, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lono, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.

19¶ And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David : and Amaziab his son reigned in his stead.

7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jeboahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots,and tenthousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

ST Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might. are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel ? 9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fa thers; and they buried him in Sama ria: and Joash his son reigued in his stead.

10 ¶ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jeboash the son of Jeboahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria,ond reigned sixteen years.

11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Long; be departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin but he walked therem.

12 And the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziau king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kinge [of Israel ?

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