15 Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt + faithfully.

16 The trespass-money and sin-money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'. 171 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and Chr 24, fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set b2 chr. 20, his face to go up to Jerusalem.

23.

S.

Jer. 42, 15.

Joash's victories over Ber-hadad.

Before

but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, CHRIST and had made them like the dust by threshing.

8, 12

8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all Amos 1,5 that he did, and his might, are they not written in 11 Kings the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

0

16, 27.

17, 50.

9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they m1 Sam. buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

1.1 Kings 10.

0 1 Kings

10 1 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah, began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign 14, 18. over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

Job 3, 14.

Kings

841.

11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of 16,29 the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; but he Gen 38, walked therein.

Deut. 9, 18 1 Kings 21

ch. 20, 3. &

12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against 21,6. Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam 'sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

14 1 Now Elisha was fallen sick, of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came

r1 Kings 1 13.

cir. 839.

18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hal-down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O Isa. 57, 1

Ezek. 21,2 lowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and

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, & 144, 1. John 15, 5. shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou have con

20 And his servants arose, and made † a conspiracy, 1 Kings 9, and slew Jehoash in the house of Millo, which go-and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for thou

18 And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite 10. 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

1
N the three and twentieth year of Joash, the sonit: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
the
Jehu, began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned seventeen years.

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

Deut. 4, therefrom.

Heh. 12, 29.

3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Judg. 2, Israel; and he delivered them into the hand of

1. 10, 5, 6.

d ch. 8, 13.

e1 Kings 15,18.

cir. 842.

(Ps. 78, 34.

Isa. 38, 21.

cir. 898.

20 1 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the ach. 3, 2. coming in of the year.

+ Heb. and

tent and

21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and the man they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: † and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

22 1 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel

Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-all the days of Jehoahaz.
hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD. and the LORD
hearkened unto him; for & he saw the oppression of
Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that g Ex. 3, 7. they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and b Neh. 9,21. the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as beforetime.

6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of

b Ezek. 37,
10.
Mat. 14. 3

tev. 11, 11.

c ch. 8, 13,

13.

23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had 15. compassion on them, and had respect unto them, be- d Exod. 32 cause of his covenant with Abrahain, Isaac, and Ps. 195, ч. Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presencefas yet.

24 So Hazael the king of Syria died; and Ben{hadad his son reigned in his stead.

25 And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again, the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walk-out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, the Deut. 7,5. ed therein: and there remained the 'grove also in Kings, Samaria.)

e Gen. 18, 11. & 17, 7. & 26, 24.

f1 Kings 17, 18 Amos 4, 6. cir. 839, Before 1

Jeroboam's wicked reign.

Amaziah's good reign. II. KINGS. CHAPTER XIV. not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings CHRIST 1 Amaziah's good reign....5 His justice on the murderers of of Judah? his father.

839.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did ac

18. Chr. 24, cording to all things das Joash his father did.

e ch. 12, 3.

f1 Kings 2,

12.

g Num. 35,

33.

h ch. 12, 20.

i verse 3.

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

5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which 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, Ezek. 18,20, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fa

k Deut. 24, 16.

1 ch. 8, 22. thers; but every man shall be put to death for his In 2 Chr. 25, own sin.

11.

7 He' slew of Edom, in the valley of Salt, ten n Gen. 14,7. thousand, and took || Selah by war, and called the P.. 60, title. name of it || Joktheel unto this day.

2 Sam. 8,13.

o 2 Clır. 25,

12.

That is,

The rock,

Isa. 16, 1.

of God, Chr. 25.

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

28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all 6,9, that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how x 2 Sam. & he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which be- 6. longed to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in Amos 6. A

9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah That is king of Judah, saying, Thethistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there pass-the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? z 1 Kings ed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode P1 Sam. 14, down the thistle.

12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; } salem: and his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jeru-1,5. Exod. 14, and they fled every man to their tents.

e ch. 14, 2.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of 2 Chr. 26, the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah fi Kings had done;

15, 14.

25.

4 Save that the 'high places were not removed: gi Kings & the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the 15. 56, 9,

high places.

10.

10.

5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was h Job 34,19 a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a i Num. 12, † several house. And Jotham the king's son was over 2 Chr. 26, 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 they

16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Je-buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and
roboam his son reigned in his stead.

17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz king King of Israel, fifteen years.

14, 18, 19.

CHAPTER XVI.

The reigns of Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, Hoshea, Jotham, &c. Before LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from } * Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took 1 Ijon, and CHRIST the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Abel-beth-maachah, and "Janoah, and Kedesh, and

• chap. 10, 31.4 13, 2,

Israel to sin.

10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired 11.& 14, 24. against him, and smote him before the people, and P1 Kings

16, 3.

slew him, and reigned in his stead.

11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, 22 Chr. 21, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the

20

r ch. 10, 30.

Titus 1, 2.

8ch. 13.1,

2. 14, 16.

kings of Israel.

12 This was the 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 1 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in Mat. 1, 9. the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah ; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

ui Khugs

14, 17.

Pr-28, 2.

y Kings 4,

น.

14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

34 And he did that which was " right in the sight of Mat the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 35 Howbeit, the

high places were not removed: 16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that the people sacrificed and burnt incense still in the high were therein, and the coast thereof from Tirzah: be-places. He built the higher gate of the house of the cause they opened not to him, therefore he smote it;

1 Judg. 8,5, and all the women therein that were with child he

758.

12 Chr. 27,

Mat. 1, 9.

17. & 25, 14 & 26, 16.

36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that x1 Kings he did, are they not written in the book of the Chroni- 15,14.

17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah kingcles of the kings of Judah ?

1 Kings 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.

19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul || a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him, tod 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 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 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 King, his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, ver. 10. 14. in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and

Arieh, and with hini nfty men of the Gileadites: and
he killed him, and reigned in his room.

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

27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

28 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.

29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, came

y ch. 11, 6.

2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to a 2 Chr. 28, reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusaleın, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD b ch. 15, 33, his God, like David his father.

c Gen. 6, 12

3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; Ps. 1, 1. yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, ac- d Lev. 18, cording to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Ps. 106, 57 LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

21.

e Lev. 26,

f1 Kings

2

Isa. 7, 4, 11.

4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high 50. places, and on the hills, and & under every green tree. 14 5 Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Re- g Den. 12, maliah king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. Kings 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath 20hr.7,16. to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the i1 Kings Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. 14, 22. 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to 'Tiglath-pileser king k 2 Chr. 28 of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant, and thy son: Ich. 14, 2. come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, 13. which rise up against me.

Ahaz spoileth the tempie.

Before

8

II. KINGS.

10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet CHRIST Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah 22. Chr. 28, the priest the fashion of the 'altar, and the pattern of $ Josh. 7, 2. it, according to all the workmanship thereof.

Ecel. 2, 14. 11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according Jer. 2,9. to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so 1sa.8,2. Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came

Hos. 7, 7.

2 Tim 4, 10.

Before

Israel carried away captive. ned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand CHRIST of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared" other gods,

721.

1 Ετ. 20, 1

8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, 2 whom the LORD cast out from before the children of m Gen. 35. Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had 2 made.

In Jer 2.1S

9 And the children of Israel † did secretly those 01 Kings things that were not right against the LORD their God, verse 19.

from Damascus. 12 And when the king was come from Damascus, & and they built them high places in all theircities, from the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. Gal. 1, 10. the altar, and offered thereon.

x Lev. 19,
17.
Mal. 2, 7.

▼ verse 10.

2 Tim. 3,13.

Lev.

& 2, 1.& 8, 1.

a 2 Chr. 4, 1.

10 And they set them up images and groves in

13 And he burnt his burnt-offering, and his meat-every high hill, and under every green tree :

offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled
the blood of his peace-offerings upon the altar.

14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which
was before the LORD, from the fore-front of the house,

h Ex. 40, 29. from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

c verse 11.

Acts 5, 29.

4.

15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-Judah, by all " the prophets, and by all the seers, sayoffering, and the evening meat-offering, and the king'sing, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my burnt-sacrifice, and his meat-offering, with the burnt-commandments and my statutes, according to all the 14,11 offering of all the people of the land, and their meat-law which I commanded your fathers, and which I 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

Thess, that king Ahaz commanded.

Jude 11.

739.

Heb.

shuttings,

1 Kings,

27, 38.

17 And king Ahaz cut off the † borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones:

18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had 42 Chr. 28, built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

Jer. 2, 11.

726.

f ch. 12. 21.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried 4 with his fathers in the city of David: and Heze-{ kiah his son reigned in his stead.

25 & 28, 27.

sent to you by my servants the prophets.

14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but

hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fa- Pr. 23, 1 thers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became 2 vain, and went after the heathen 2 Rom. 1, that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like a Josh. 28,7. them.

N the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, began
19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the 12.
Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over { LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel ker. 3, 8.

Israel nine years.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

C

3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of shuting up, Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in † prison.

2 Chr. 33. 11.

793.

e Ex.34,24.

5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and & carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the

A mixture of religions.

CHAPTER XVIJI.

Hezekiah's good reign. 25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in CHRIST there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the CHRIST

Before

☑ LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.

t Isa. 29, 13. Mat. 15, 8. Eph. 2. 12.

a Judg. 17,

13.

26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

daughter of Zachariah.

Before

c ch. 14,2

15, 5.

3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. d ch 20, 3 4 He removed the high places, and brake the e! Kings images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces f Deut. 7, the brazen serpent & that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to Num. 2 it: and he called it || Nehushtan.

27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, 1 Kings 12, Carry thither one of the "priests whom ye brought Chr.11.13. from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and { Judah, nor any that were before him. Rom. 16,13. let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of

31.

21.

30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and

Lev. 13, the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to || Adram-syria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. m ch. 16, 7

That is, A glorious king.

melech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 So they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high b Zeph. 1,5. places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the el Kings high places.

12, 31.

33 They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD
their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that 9 ch.17 #
Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and Dan. 9. 6
would not hear them, nor do them.

34 Unto this day they do after the former man-
ners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after
their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the
law and commandment which the LORD Commanded { kiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against

25. & 33, 10. the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel:

37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods

38 And the covenant that I have made with you 124,11. ye shall not forget, neither shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear: and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their fornier manner.

17 I And the king of Assyria "sent Tartan, and b Isn. 7, 5. Rabsaris, and Rab-shakeh, from Lachish to king & 22, 9. Hezekiah, with a great host against Jerusalem: and e Isa. 22, 15. they went up, and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the con- Jer.6, 9. duit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of 19 the fuller's field.

d verse 29

Zech.

1,3,

e verse 50

18 And when they had called to the king, there Rev. 13, 6.
came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and

CHAPTER XVIII.
1 Hezekiah's good reign....4 He destroyeth idolatry, and pros-Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

NOW

Chr.28, b

pereth.

19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now 71, 11. & 78, Ho-to Hezekiah, Tous saith the great king, the king Mat. 4,3. of Assyria, What 'confidence is this wherein thou flek trustest?

OW it came to pass, in the third year of
shea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah

the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began

words of the lips Psalm 146,

20 Thou sayest (but they are but vain † words,) Is..