Jehoash giveth order for

878.

Before the guard, and all the people of CHRIST the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

o 2 Chr. 24. 1.

20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house. 21 Seven years old was Jchoash when he began to reign.

CHAPTER XII.

1 Jehoash reigneth well all the days of Jehoiada. 4 He giveth order for the repair of the temple. 17 Hazael is diverted from Jerusalem by a present of the hallowed treasures. 19 Jchoash being slain by his servants, Amaziah succeedeth him.

A2 Chr. 21. 1. TN the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

bl Kin.15.14. & 22. 43. ch. 14. 4.

c ch. 22. 4. | Or, holy "things.

+ Reb, holinesses.

d Ex. 30. 13. + Heb, the money of the souls of his estimation, Lev. 27. 2. + Heb, ascendeth upon the heart of a man. e Ex. 35. 5.

1 Chr. 29.9.

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 bthe 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 1t dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that fe cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach

shall be found.

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

856.

twentieth year and third year. f2 Chr. 21, 5.

7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why 82 Chr. 21. 6. repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

9 But Jehoiada the priest took 12 Chr. 24.8, ha chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD. 10 And it was so, when they saw

+ Heb.

threshold.

the repair of the temple. that there was much money in the Before chest, that the king's scribe and CHRIST the high 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 had the oversight of the house of the LORD and they flaid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

12 And to masons, and hewers of stone to repair the breaches of the stone, and to buy timber and hewed house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

13 Howbeit i there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of

silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.

17 T Then "Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his o See 2 Chr. face to go up to Jerusalem.

24. 23.

el, 18, 15, 16.

18 And Jehoash king of Judah Ptook all the hallowed things that plKin. 15.18. Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, 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 LORD, 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 Jo

ash, 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 Shime

Jehoahaz' wicked reign.

Before CHRIST

856.

+ Heb. the twentieth year and

third year.

Nf the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. 2 And he did that which was evil in + Heb. walked the sight of the LORD, and † followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

after.

about 849. Judg. 2. 14.

b ch. 8. 12.

about 842. e Pa. 78. 31. d Ex. 3. 7. ch. 11. 26.

e See ver. 25. & ch. 11. 25, 27.

+ Heb. as yesterday, and third day. + Heb. he walked.

3 T And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of b Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all their days. 4 And Jehoahaz

besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for dhe saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, tas beforetime.

6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but † walked therein: fand there fremained fl Kin. 16. 33. the grove also in Samaria.)

↑ Heb, stood.

g Amos 1. 3.

839.

ver. 10, Jeheash.

* Alone. 841. I In consort with his father, ch. 14. 1.

h ch. 14. 15. i See ver. 14, & 25,

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

8 T 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?

Elisha's sickness and death. Joash the king of Israel came down | Before unto him, and wept over his face, CHRIST and said, O my father, my father! the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.

about 839.

1 ch. 2. 12.

+ Heb. Nake thine hand to ride.

16 And he said to the king of Israel, † Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. 17 And he said, Open the window. eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou ml Kin. 20, have consumed them. 18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: "whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

20 T And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

10 T In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

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

12 hAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and k his might wherewith he fought against k ch. 14.9,&c. Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

+ Heb. face.

about 859.

returnal and

took.

25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz † took again out of the hand of Heb. Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, ver. 18, 19. and recovered the cities of Israel. about 836.

1 Amaziah's good reign. 5 His justice on CHAPTER XIV. the murderers of his father. 7 His victory over Edom. 8 Amaziah, provoking Jehoash, is overcome and spoiled. 15 Jeroboam succeedeth Jehoash. 17 Amaziah slain by a conspiracy. 21 Azariah succeedeth him. 23 Jeroboam's wicked reign. 28 Zachariah succeedeth him. TN a the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned a ch. 13. 10.

Before |b Amaziah the son of Joash king of CHRIST Judah.

839.

b 2Chr. 25. 1.

e ch. 12, 3,

d ch. 12, 20,

Deut. 21. 16. Ea. 18. 4. 20.

about 827.

f2 Chr. 25.11. g2 Sam. 8. 13. Ps. 60, title. Or, The rock.

h Josh. 15. 38. about 826. Joseph. Ant. IX.

i2 Chr. 25.17, 18, &c.

k See Judg. 9.

8.

11 Kin. 4. 33.

m Deut. 8. 11.

2 Chr. 32. 25.

Fa. 28.2,5,17.
Hab. 2. 4.

+Heb. at thy

house.

n Josh, 19.38. & 21. 16.

↑ Heb. was smitten.

2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

5 T And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants dwhich had slain the king his father. 6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 7 f He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took ||Selah by war, hand called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

8 TiThen Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, k The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the Icedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at "Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

12 And Judah † was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jchoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of JerusaNeh.8.16. & lem from the gate of Ephraim unto Pthe corner gate, four hundred cubits.

12. 39.

pJer. 31. 38, Zech. 14. 10. q 1 Kin. 7. 51.

14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house,

He is slain by a conspiracy.

and hostages, and returned to Sa- | maria.

15 TNow the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Before CHRIST about 825.

r ch. 13. 12.

16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead. 17 And Amaziah the son of Jo-2 Chr. 25.25. ash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

&c.

u Josh. 10. 31. 810.

19 Now they made a conspiracy 12 Chr. 25. 27. against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to "Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. 20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

21 T And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen xeh. 15. 13. & years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

2 Chr. 26. 1. he is called Uzziah. y ch. 16. 6.

22 He built Y Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept 2 Chr. 26. 2. with his fathers.

23 T In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departcd not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

25 He restored the coast of Israel 2 from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.

26 For the LORD d saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

28 T Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,

which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and h Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

825.

Now he be

gins to reign alone.

Num. 13.2L

& 34. 8.

a Deut. 3 17.

b Jonah 1. 1.

Matt. 12. 59, 40, called Jonas. eJosh, 19, 13. 822.

d ch. 13. 4. • Deut. 32, 36. fch. 13. 5.

82 Sam. &. 6. 1 Kin. 11.24 2 Chr. 8. 3. b After an interreg mum of 11 years, ch. 15. 8.

784.

Azariah's good reign.

Before

about 810.

CHAPTER XV.

Before

CHRIST 1 Azariah's good reign. 5 He dying a leper, Jotham succeedeth. 8 Zachariah, the last of Jehu's generation, reigning ill, is slain by Shallum. 13 Shallum, reign ing a month, is slain by Menahem. 16 Menahem strengtheneth himself by Pul. 21 Pekahiah succeedeth him. 23 Peka hiah is slain by Pekah. 27 Pekah is oppressed by Tiglath-pileser, and slain by Hoshea. 32 Jotham's good reign. 36 Ahaz succeedeth him.

This is the

27th year of Jeroboam's partnership in the kingdom with his father, who made

him consort at his going to the Byrian wars. It

is the six

teenth year of Jerobo am's non

archy. ach. 14. 21. 2 Chr. 26. 1, 3, 4.

b Called Czziah, ver. 13, 30, &c. &

2 Chr. 26. 1. c ver. 25. ch. 12. 3. & 14. 4.

about 765.

d2 Chr. 26, 19 -21.

e Lev. 13. 46.

about 758. (2 Chr. 25,23.

about 773. There having

been an interregnum for 11 years.

about 772. g As prophiesied, Amos 7, 9,

h ch. 10. 30.

about 772.

i Matt. 1.8, 9,

Ieroboam King of Israel began

N the twenty and seventh year of

Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

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

7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and fthey buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. 8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers. had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

12 This was hthe word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.

13 T Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of i Uzziah king of Judah; and called Ozias, he reigned a full month in Samaria. 14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from k Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slow him, and reigned in his stead.

and ver. 1. Asariah. + Heb. a

month of days. k1 Kin.14.17.

16 T Then Menahem smote 1 Tiph-11 Kin. 4. 24. sah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.

18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

m ch. 8. 12.

772.

771.

19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land and Mena-a1 Chr. 5. 26. hem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to "confirm the kingdom in his hand.

20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

21 T And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

23 T In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Is. 9. 1.
Hos. 8. 9.

och, 14. 5.

Heb. caused to come forth.

761.

Assyria, and took Ijon, and AbelCHRIST beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

■ After an anarchy for some years, ch. 17. 1. Hos. 10. 3, 7, 15.

tIn the fourth year of Ahaz, in the twenti

31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

32 T In the second year of Pekah eth year aft the son of Remaliah king of Israel began "Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

er Jotham

had begun to reign: Cal.

758.

33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he u 2 Chr. 27. 1. reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

I ver. 3.

y ver. 4.

34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah

had done.

35 TY Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high 2 Chr. 27.3. places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

&c.

about 742.

At the end of Jotham's reign.

a ch. 16. 5. Is. 7. 1.

b ver. 27.

742.

about 742.

a2 Chr. 28. 1, &c.

b Lev. 19. 21.

2 Chr. 28. 3.

Pa 106.37.38. e Deut. 12.31.

36 T Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and b Pekah the son of Remaliah.

38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER XVI.

He maketh a new altar. 5T Then Rezin king of Syria, and Before Pekah son of Remaliah king of Is- CHRIST rael, came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

742.

e Is. 7. 1, 4. &c.

6 At that time Rezin king of Syria, frecovered Elath to Syria, and dravc fch. 14, 22. the Jews from † Elath: and the Syr-+ Heb. Eleth. ians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

Tilgathmileser.

7 So Ahaz sent messengers & tot Tig-sch. 15. 29. lath-pileser king of Assyria, saying,+ Heb. I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

8 And Ahaz htook the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and i took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

10 T And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.

12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and k the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.

son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Isracl, yea, band made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and don the 1 Kin. 14.23. hills, and under every green tree.

d Deut. 12, 2,

1 Chr. 5. 26. & 2 Chr. 28. 20, Tilgath. pilneser.

15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning m Ex. 29. 39. burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.