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[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:12", "Text": "And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:13", "Text": "For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:14", "Text": "And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:15", "Text": "Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:16", "Text": "Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:17", "Text": "Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:18", "Text": "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:19", "Text": "Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:20", "Text": "That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:21", "Text": "Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:22", "Text": "If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:23", "Text": "Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:24", "Text": "And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:25", "Text": "Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:26", "Text": "When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:27", "Text": "Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:28", "Text": "If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be :" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:29", "Text": "Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:30", "Text": "Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men: )" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:31", "Text": "That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:32", "Text": "Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:33", "Text": "Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:34", "Text": "If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:35", "Text": "Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:36", "Text": "If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:37", "Text": "Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:38", "Text": "If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:39", "Text": "Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:40", "Text": "Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:41", "Text": "Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 6:42", "Text": "O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:1", "Text": "Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:2", "Text": "And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:3", "Text": "And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and praised the LORD, saying , For he is good; for his mercy endureth forever." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:4", "Text": "Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:5", "Text": "And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:6", "Text": "And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth forever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:7", "Text": "Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:8", "Text": "Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:9", "Text": "And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:10", "Text": "And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:11", "Text": "Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:12", "Text": "And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:13", "Text": "If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:14", "Text": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:15", "Text": "Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:16", "Text": "For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:17", "Text": "And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:18", "Text": "Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:19", "Text": "But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:20", "Text": "Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:21", "Text": "And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 7:22", "Text": "And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:1", "Text": "And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:2", "Text": "That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:3", "Text": "And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:4", "Text": "And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:5", "Text": "Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:6", "Text": "And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:7", "Text": "As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:8", "Text": "But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:9", "Text": "But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:10", "Text": "And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bore rule over the people." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:11", "Text": "And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:12", "Text": "Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:13", "Text": "Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:14", "Text": "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:15", "Text": "And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:16", "Text": "Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:17", "Text": "Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 8:18", "Text": "And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:1", "Text": "And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:2", "Text": "And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:3", "Text": "And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:4", "Text": "And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:5", "Text": "And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:6", "Text": "Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it : and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:7", "Text": "Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:8", "Text": "Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:9", "Text": "And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:10", "Text": "And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:11", "Text": "And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:12", "Text": "And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:13", "Text": "Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:14", "Text": "Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:15", "Text": "And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:16", "Text": "And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:17", "Text": "Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:18", "Text": "And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:19", "Text": "And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:20", "Text": "And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:21", "Text": "For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:22", "Text": "And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:23", "Text": "And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:24", "Text": "And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:25", "Text": "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:26", "Text": "And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:27", "Text": "And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:28", "Text": "And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:29", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:30", "Text": "And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 9:31", "Text": "And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:1", "Text": "And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:2", "Text": "And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it , that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:3", "Text": "And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:4", "Text": "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:5", "Text": "And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:6", "Text": "And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:7", "Text": "And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants forever." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:8", "Text": "But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:9", "Text": "And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:10", "Text": "And the young men that were brought up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:11", "Text": "For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:12", "Text": "So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:13", "Text": "And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:14", "Text": "And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:15", "Text": "So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:16", "Text": "And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:17", "Text": "But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:18", "Text": "Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 10:19", "Text": "And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:1", "Text": "And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men , which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:2", "Text": "But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:3", "Text": "Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:4", "Text": "Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:5", "Text": "And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:6", "Text": "He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:7", "Text": "And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:8", "Text": "And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:9", "Text": "And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:10", "Text": "And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:11", "Text": "And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:12", "Text": "And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:13", "Text": "And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:14", "Text": "For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:15", "Text": "And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:16", "Text": "And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:17", "Text": "So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:18", "Text": "And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:19", "Text": "Which bore him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:20", "Text": "And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:21", "Text": "And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begot twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:22", "Text": "And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 11:23", "Text": "And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:1", "Text": "And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:2", "Text": "And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:3", "Text": "With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:4", "Text": "And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:5", "Text": "Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:6", "Text": "Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:7", "Text": "And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:8", "Text": "Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:9", "Text": "So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:10", "Text": "Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:11", "Text": "And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:12", "Text": "And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:13", "Text": "So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:14", "Text": "And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:15", "Text": "Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 12:16", "Text": "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:1", "Text": "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:2", "Text": "He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:3", "Text": "And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:4", "Text": "And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:5", "Text": "Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:6", "Text": "Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:7", "Text": "And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:8", "Text": "And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:9", "Text": "Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:10", "Text": "But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:11", "Text": "And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:12", "Text": "And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:13", "Text": "But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:14", "Text": "And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:15", "Text": "Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:16", "Text": "And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:17", "Text": "And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:18", "Text": "Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:19", "Text": "And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:20", "Text": "Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:21", "Text": "But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begot twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 13:22", "Text": "And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:1", "Text": "So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:2", "Text": "And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:3", "Text": "For he took away the altars of the strange gods , and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:4", "Text": "And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:5", "Text": "Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:6", "Text": "And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:7", "Text": "Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him , and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:8", "Text": "And Asa had an army of men that bore targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:9", "Text": "And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with a host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:10", "Text": "Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:11", "Text": "And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:12", "Text": "So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:13", "Text": "And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:14", "Text": "And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 14:15", "Text": "They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:1", "Text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:2", "Text": "And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:3", "Text": "Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:4", "Text": "But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:5", "Text": "And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:6", "Text": "And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:7", "Text": "Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:8", "Text": "And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:9", "Text": "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:10", "Text": "So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:11", "Text": "And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:12", "Text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:13", "Text": "That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:14", "Text": "And they swore unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:15", "Text": "And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:16", "Text": "And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it , and burnt it at the brook Kidron." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:17", "Text": "But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:18", "Text": "And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 15:19", "Text": "And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:1", "Text": "In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:2", "Text": "Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:3", "Text": "There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:4", "Text": "And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:5", "Text": "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it , that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:6", "Text": "Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:7", "Text": "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:8", "Text": "Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:9", "Text": "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:10", "Text": "Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing . And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:11", "Text": "And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:12", "Text": "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great : yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:13", "Text": "And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 16:14", "Text": "And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:1", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:2", "Text": "And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:3", "Text": "And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:4", "Text": "But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:5", "Text": "Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honor in abundance." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:6", "Text": "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:7", "Text": "Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:8", "Text": "And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:9", "Text": "And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:10", "Text": "And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:11", "Text": "Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:12", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:13", "Text": "And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valor, were in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:14", "Text": "And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:15", "Text": "And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:16", "Text": "And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:17", "Text": "And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:18", "Text": "And next him was Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 17:19", "Text": "These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:1", "Text": "Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:2", "Text": "And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:3", "Text": "And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art , and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:4", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD today." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:5", "Text": "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 they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:6", "Text": "But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:7", "Text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:8", "Text": "And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:9", "Text": "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 void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:10", "Text": "And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:11", "Text": "And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:12", "Text": "And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:13", "Text": "And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:14", "Text": "And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:15", "Text": "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?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:16", "Text": "Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:17", "Text": "And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:18", "Text": "Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:19", "Text": "And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:20", "Text": "Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:21", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:22", "Text": "Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:23", "Text": "Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:24", "Text": "And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:25", "Text": "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;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:26", "Text": "And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:27", "Text": "And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:28", "Text": "So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:29", "Text": "And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:30", "Text": "Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:31", "Text": "And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:32", "Text": "For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:33", "Text": "And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 18:34", "Text": "And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:1", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:2", "Text": "And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:3", "Text": "Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:4", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:5", "Text": "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:6", "Text": "And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:7", "Text": "Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it : for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:8", "Text": "Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:9", "Text": "And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:10", "Text": "And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 19:11", "Text": "And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:1", "Text": "It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:2", "Text": "Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:3", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:4", "Text": "And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:5", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:6", "Text": "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:7", "Text": "Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:8", "Text": "And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:9", "Text": "If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:10", "Text": "And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:11", "Text": "Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:12", "Text": "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 are upon thee." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:13", "Text": "And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:14", "Text": "Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:15", "Text": "And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:16", "Text": "Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:17", "Text": "Ye shall not need to fight in this battle : set yourselves, stand ye still , and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:18", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:19", "Text": "And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:20", "Text": "And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:21", "Text": "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth forever." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:22", "Text": "And when they began 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 were smitten." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:23", "Text": "For 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 to destroy another." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:24", "Text": "And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:25", "Text": "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 was so much." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:26", "Text": "And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:27", "Text": "Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:28", "Text": "And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:29", "Text": "And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:30", "Text": "So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:31", "Text": "And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:32", "Text": "And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:33", "Text": "Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:34", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:35", "Text": "And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:36", "Text": "And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 20:37", "Text": "Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because 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." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:1", "Text": "Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:2", "Text": "And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:3", "Text": "And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:4", "Text": "Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:5", "Text": "Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:6", "Text": "And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:7", "Text": "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 light to him and to his sons forever." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:8", "Text": "In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:9", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:10", "Text": "So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:11", "Text": "Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto ." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:12", "Text": "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," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:13", "Text": "But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:14", "Text": "Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:15", "Text": "And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:16", "Text": "Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:17", "Text": "And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried 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 Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:18", "Text": "And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:19", "Text": "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 sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 21:20", "Text": "Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchers of the kings." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:1", "Text": "And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:2", "Text": "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:3", "Text": "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:4", "Text": "Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:5", "Text": "He walked 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:6", "Text": "And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:7", "Text": "And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:8", "Text": "And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:9", "Text": "And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:10", "Text": "But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:11", "Text": "But Jehoshabeath, 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 bedchamber. 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 22:12", "Text": "And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:1", "Text": "And 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:2", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:3", "Text": "And all the congregation made a covenant 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 of the sons of David." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:4", "Text": "This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:5", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:6", "Text": "But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:7", "Text": "And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:8", "Text": "So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:9", "Text": "Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:10", "Text": "And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:11", "Text": "Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:12", "Text": "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:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:13", "Text": "And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of music, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:14", "Text": "Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:15", "Text": "So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:16", "Text": "And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:17", "Text": "Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:18", "Text": "Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:19", "Text": "And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:20", "Text": "And he took the captains 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 23:21", "Text": "And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:1", "Text": "Joash 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:2", "Text": "And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:3", "Text": "And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:4", "Text": "And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:5", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:6", "Text": "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 of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:7", "Text": "For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:8", "Text": "And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:9", "Text": "And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:10", "Text": "And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:11", "Text": "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 that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:12", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:13", "Text": "So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:14", "Text": "And when they had finished it , they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and 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." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:15", "Text": "But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:16", "Text": "And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:17", "Text": "Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:18", "Text": "And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:19", "Text": "Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:20", "Text": "And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:21", "Text": "And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:22", "Text": "Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it , and require it ." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:23", "Text": "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 Damascus." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:24", "Text": "For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:25", "Text": "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 Jehoiada 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 sepulchers of the kings." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:26", "Text": "And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 24:27", "Text": "Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:1", "Text": "Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:2", "Text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:3", "Text": "Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:4", "Text": "But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:5", "Text": "Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them 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 years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:6", "Text": "He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:7", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:8", "Text": "But if thou wilt go, do it , be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:9", "Text": "And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:10", "Text": "Then Amaziah separated them, to wit , the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:11", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:12", "Text": "And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:13", "Text": "But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:14", "Text": "Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:15", "Text": "Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, 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?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:16", "Text": "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 forbore, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:17", "Text": "Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:18", "Text": "And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The 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 wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:19", "Text": "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?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:20", "Text": "But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies , because they sought after the gods of Edom." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:21", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:22", "Text": "And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:23", "Text": "And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:24", "Text": "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." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:25", "Text": "And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:26", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:27", "Text": "Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 25:28", "Text": "And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:1", "Text": "Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:2", "Text": "He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:3", "Text": "Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:4", "Text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:5", "Text": "And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:6", "Text": "And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:7", "Text": "And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:8", "Text": "And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:9", "Text": "Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall , and fortified them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:10", "Text": "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also , and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:11", "Text": "Moreover Uzziah had a 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 Hananiah, one of the king's captains." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:12", "Text": "The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor were two thousand and six hundred." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:13", "Text": "And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:14", "Text": "And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:15", "Text": "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 spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:16", "Text": "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:17", "Text": "And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:18", "Text": "And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from the LORD God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:19", "Text": "Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:20", "Text": "And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:21", "Text": "And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:22", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 26:23", "Text": "So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:1", "Text": "Jotham 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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:2", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:3", "Text": "He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:4", "Text": "Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:5", "Text": "He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:6", "Text": "So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:7", "Text": "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." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:8", "Text": "He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 27:9", "Text": "And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:1", "Text": "Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:2", "Text": "For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:3", "Text": "Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:4", "Text": "He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:5", "Text": "Wherefore 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 Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:6", "Text": "For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:7", "Text": "And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:8", "Text": "And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:9", "Text": "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 have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:10", "Text": "And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:11", "Text": "Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:12", "Text": "Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah 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," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:13", "Text": "And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already , ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:14", "Text": "So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:15", "Text": "And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:16", "Text": "At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:17", "Text": "For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:18", "Text": "The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:19", "Text": "For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:20", "Text": "And Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:21", "Text": "For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:22", "Text": "And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:23", "Text": "For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:24", "Text": "And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:25", "Text": "And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:26", "Text": "Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 28:27", "Text": "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:1", "Text": "Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:2", "Text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:3", "Text": "He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:4", "Text": "And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:5", "Text": "And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place ." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:6", "Text": "For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:7", "Text": "Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:8", "Text": "Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:9", "Text": "For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:10", "Text": "Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:11", "Text": "My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:12", "Text": "Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:13", "Text": "And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:14", "Text": "And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:15", "Text": "And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:16", "Text": "And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it , and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it , to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:17", "Text": "Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:18", "Text": "Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:19", "Text": "Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:20", "Text": "Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:21", "Text": "And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:22", "Text": "So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:23", "Text": "And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:24", "Text": "And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:25", "Text": "And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:26", "Text": "And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:27", "Text": "And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:28", "Text": "And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:29", "Text": "And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:30", "Text": "Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:31", "Text": "Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:32", "Text": "And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:33", "Text": "And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:34", "Text": "But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:35", "Text": "And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 29:36", "Text": "And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:1", "Text": "And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:2", "Text": "For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:3", "Text": "For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:4", "Text": "And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:5", "Text": "So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:6", "Text": "So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:7", "Text": "And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:8", "Text": "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:9", "Text": "For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:10", "Text": "So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:11", "Text": "Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:12", "Text": "Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:13", "Text": "And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:14", "Text": "And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:15", "Text": "Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:16", "Text": "And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:17", "Text": "For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:18", "Text": "For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:19", "Text": "That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:20", "Text": "And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:21", "Text": "And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:22", "Text": "And Hezekiah spoke comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:23", "Text": "And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:24", "Text": "For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:25", "Text": "And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:26", "Text": "So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 30:27", "Text": "Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:1", "Text": "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:2", "Text": "And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:3", "Text": "He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit , for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:4", "Text": "Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:5", "Text": "And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:6", "Text": "And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:7", "Text": "In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:8", "Text": "And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:9", "Text": "Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:10", "Text": "And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:11", "Text": "Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them ," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:12", "Text": "And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:13", "Text": "And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:14", "Text": "And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:15", "Text": "And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:16", "Text": "Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:17", "Text": "Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:18", "Text": "And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:19", "Text": "Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:20", "Text": "And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 31:21", "Text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:1", "Text": "After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:2", "Text": "And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:3", "Text": "He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:4", "Text": "So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:5", "Text": "Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:6", "Text": "And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:7", "Text": "Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:8", "Text": "With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:9", "Text": "After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:10", "Text": "Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:11", "Text": "Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:12", "Text": "Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:13", "Text": "Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:14", "Text": "Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:15", "Text": "Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:16", "Text": "And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:17", "Text": "He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:18", "Text": "Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:19", "Text": "And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:20", "Text": "And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:21", "Text": "And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:22", "Text": "Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other , and guided them on every side." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:23", "Text": "And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:24", "Text": "In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spoke unto him, and he gave him a sign." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:25", "Text": "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:26", "Text": "Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:27", "Text": "And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:28", "Text": "Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:29", "Text": "Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:30", "Text": "This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:31", "Text": "Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:32", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 32:33", "Text": "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:1", "Text": "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:2", "Text": "But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:3", "Text": "For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:4", "Text": "Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:5", "Text": "And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:6", "Text": "And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:7", "Text": "And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:8", "Text": "Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:9", "Text": "So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:10", "Text": "And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:11", "Text": "Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:12", "Text": "And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:13", "Text": "And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:14", "Text": "Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:15", "Text": "And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:16", "Text": "And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:17", "Text": "Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:18", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:19", "Text": "His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:20", "Text": "So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:21", "Text": "Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:22", "Text": "But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:23", "Text": "And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:24", "Text": "And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 33:25", "Text": "But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:1", "Text": "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:2", "Text": "And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:3", "Text": "For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:4", "Text": "And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them , and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:5", "Text": "And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:6", "Text": "And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:7", "Text": "And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:8", "Text": "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:9", "Text": "And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:10", "Text": "And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:11", "Text": "Even to the artificers and builders gave they it , to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:12", "Text": "And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:13", "Text": "Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:14", "Text": "And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:15", "Text": "And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:16", "Text": "And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it ." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:17", "Text": "And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:18", "Text": "Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:19", "Text": "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:20", "Text": "And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:21", "Text": "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:22", "Text": "And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed , went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college: ) and they spoke to her to that effect ." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:23", "Text": "And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:24", "Text": "Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:25", "Text": "Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:26", "Text": "And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:27", "Text": "Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:28", "Text": "Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:29", "Text": "Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:30", "Text": "And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:31", "Text": "And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:32", "Text": "And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it . And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 34:33", "Text": "And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:1", "Text": "Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:2", "Text": "And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:3", "Text": "And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:4", "Text": "And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:5", "Text": "And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:6", "Text": "So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:7", "Text": "And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:8", "Text": "And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle , and three hundred oxen." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:9", "Text": "Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle , and five hundred oxen." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:10", "Text": "So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:11", "Text": "And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them ." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:12", "Text": "And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:13", "Text": "And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:14", "Text": "And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:15", "Text": "And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:16", "Text": "So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:17", "Text": "And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:18", "Text": "And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:19", "Text": "In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:20", "Text": "After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:21", "Text": "But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:22", "Text": "Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:23", "Text": "And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:24", "Text": "His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:25", "Text": "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:26", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD," } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 35:27", "Text": "And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:1", "Text": "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:2", "Text": "Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:3", "Text": "And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:4", "Text": "And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:5", "Text": "Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:6", "Text": "Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:7", "Text": "Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:8", "Text": "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:9", "Text": "Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:10", "Text": "And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:11", "Text": "Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:12", "Text": "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:13", "Text": "And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:14", "Text": "Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:15", "Text": "And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up quickly, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:16", "Text": "But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:17", "Text": "Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:18", "Text": "And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:19", "Text": "And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof." }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:20", "Text": "And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:" }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:21", "Text": "To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years." } ]

[ { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:22", "Text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying," }, { "Reference": "2 Chronicles 36:23", "Text": "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 1:1", "Text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:2", "Text": "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:3", "Text": "Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:4", "Text": "And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:5", "Text": "Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:6", "Text": "And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 1:7", "Text": "Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:8", "Text": "Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:9", "Text": "And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:10", "Text": "Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 1:11", "Text": "All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 2:1", "Text": "Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:2", "Text": "Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:3", "Text": "The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:4", "Text": "The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:5", "Text": "The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:6", "Text": "The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:7", "Text": "The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:8", "Text": "The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:9", "Text": "The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:10", "Text": "The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:11", "Text": "The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:12", "Text": "The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:13", "Text": "The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:14", "Text": "The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:15", "Text": "The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:16", "Text": "The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:17", "Text": "The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:18", "Text": "The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:19", "Text": "The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:20", "Text": "The children of Gibbar, ninety and five." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:21", "Text": "The children of Bethlehem, a hundred twenty and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:22", "Text": "The men of Netophah, fifty and six." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:23", "Text": "The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:24", "Text": "The children of Azmaveth, forty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:25", "Text": "The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:26", "Text": "The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:27", "Text": "The men of Michmas, a hundred twenty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:28", "Text": "The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:29", "Text": "The children of Nebo, fifty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:30", "Text": "The children of Magbish, a hundred fifty and six." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:31", "Text": "The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:32", "Text": "The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:33", "Text": "The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:34", "Text": "The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:35", "Text": "The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:36", "Text": "The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:37", "Text": "The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:38", "Text": "The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:39", "Text": "The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:40", "Text": "The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:41", "Text": "The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:42", "Text": "The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:43", "Text": "The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:44", "Text": "The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:45", "Text": "The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:46", "Text": "The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:47", "Text": "The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:48", "Text": "The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:49", "Text": "The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:50", "Text": "The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:51", "Text": "The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:52", "Text": "The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:53", "Text": "The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:54", "Text": "The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:55", "Text": "The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:56", "Text": "The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:57", "Text": "The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:58", "Text": "All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:59", "Text": "And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:60", "Text": "The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:61", "Text": "And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:62", "Text": "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:63", "Text": "And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:64", "Text": "The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:65", "Text": "Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:66", "Text": "Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:67", "Text": "Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:68", "Text": "And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:69", "Text": "They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 2:70", "Text": "So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 3:1", "Text": "And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:2", "Text": "Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:3", "Text": "And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 3:4", "Text": "They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:5", "Text": "And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:6", "Text": "From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:7", "Text": "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 3:8", "Text": "Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:9", "Text": "Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:10", "Text": "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:11", "Text": "And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:12", "Text": "But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 3:13", "Text": "So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 4:1", "Text": "Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity built the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:2", "Text": "Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do ; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:3", "Text": "But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:4", "Text": "Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:5", "Text": "And hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 4:6", "Text": "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 4:7", "Text": "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:8", "Text": "Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:9", "Text": "Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:10", "Text": "And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:11", "Text": "This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:12", "Text": "Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof , and joined the foundations." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:13", "Text": "Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be built, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:14", "Text": "Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:15", "Text": "That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:16", "Text": "We certify the king that, if this city be built again , and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:17", "Text": "Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:18", "Text": "The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:19", "Text": "And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:20", "Text": "There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:21", "Text": "Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until another commandment shall be given from me." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:22", "Text": "Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:23", "Text": "Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 4:24", "Text": "Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 5:1", "Text": "Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:2", "Text": "Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:3", "Text": "At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:4", "Text": "Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:5", "Text": "But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter ." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 5:6", "Text": "The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:7", "Text": "They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:8", "Text": "Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:9", "Text": "Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:10", "Text": "We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:11", "Text": "And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:12", "Text": "But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:13", "Text": "But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:14", "Text": "And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one , whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:15", "Text": "And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in his place." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:16", "Text": "Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 5:17", "Text": "Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so , that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 6:1", "Text": "Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:2", "Text": "And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:3", "Text": "In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:4", "Text": "With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:5", "Text": "And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:6", "Text": "Now therefore , Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:7", "Text": "Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:8", "Text": "Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:9", "Text": "And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:10", "Text": "That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savors unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:11", "Text": "Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:12", "Text": "And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 6:13", "Text": "Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:14", "Text": "And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built, and finished it , according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:15", "Text": "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 6:16", "Text": "And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:17", "Text": "And offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:18", "Text": "And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 6:19", "Text": "And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:20", "Text": "For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:21", "Text": "And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 6:22", "Text": "And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 7:1", "Text": "Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:2", "Text": "The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:3", "Text": "The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:4", "Text": "The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:5", "Text": "The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:6", "Text": "This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:7", "Text": "And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:8", "Text": "And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:9", "Text": "For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:10", "Text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it , and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 7:11", "Text": "Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:12", "Text": "Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace , and at such a time." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:13", "Text": "I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:14", "Text": "Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:15", "Text": "And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:16", "Text": "And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:17", "Text": "That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:18", "Text": "And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:19", "Text": "The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:20", "Text": "And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:21", "Text": "And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:22", "Text": "Unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much ." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:23", "Text": "Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:24", "Text": "Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:25", "Text": "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:26", "Text": "And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 7:27", "Text": "Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 7:28", "Text": "And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 8:1", "Text": "These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:2", "Text": "Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:3", "Text": "Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:4", "Text": "Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:5", "Text": "Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:6", "Text": "Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:7", "Text": "And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:8", "Text": "And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:9", "Text": "Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:10", "Text": "And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him a hundred and threescore males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:11", "Text": "And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:12", "Text": "And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him a hundred and ten males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:13", "Text": "And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:14", "Text": "Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 8:15", "Text": "And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:16", "Text": "Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:17", "Text": "And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:18", "Text": "And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:19", "Text": "And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:20", "Text": "Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 8:21", "Text": "Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:22", "Text": "For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:23", "Text": "So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 8:24", "Text": "Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them," }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:25", "Text": "And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:26", "Text": "I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents, and of gold a hundred talents;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:27", "Text": "Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:28", "Text": "And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:29", "Text": "Watch ye, and keep them , until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:30", "Text": "So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 8:31", "Text": "Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:32", "Text": "And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:33", "Text": "Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;" }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:34", "Text": "By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:35", "Text": "Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 8:36", "Text": "And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God." } ]

[ { "Reference": "Ezra 9:1", "Text": "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 9:2", "Text": "For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 9:3", "Text": "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished." }, { "Reference": "Ezra 9:4", "Text": "Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice." } ]