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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 24</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 24:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 24:1:
And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.
</s>1 Samuel 24:2:
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
</s>1 Samuel 24:3:
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
</s>1 Samuel 24:4:
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
</s>1 Samuel 24:5:
And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
</s>1 Samuel 24:6:
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
</s>1 Samuel 24:7:
So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
</s>1 Samuel 24:8:
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
</s>1 Samuel 24:9:
And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
</s>1 Samuel 24:10:
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
</s>1 Samuel 24:11:
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
</s>1 Samuel 24:12:
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
</s>1 Samuel 24:13:
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
</s>1 Samuel 24:14:
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
</s>1 Samuel 24:15:
The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
</s>1 Samuel 24:16:
And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
</s>1 Samuel 24:17:
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
</s>1 Samuel 24:18:
And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
</s>1 Samuel 24:19:
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
</s>1 Samuel 24:20:
And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
</s>1 Samuel 24:21:
Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
</s>1 Samuel 24:22:
And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 25</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 25:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 25:1:
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
</s>1 Samuel 25:2:
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
</s>1 Samuel 25:3:
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
</s>1 Samuel 25:4:
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
</s>1 Samuel 25:5:
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
</s>1 Samuel 25:6:
And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
</s>1 Samuel 25:7:
And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
</s>1 Samuel 25:8:
Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
</s>1 Samuel 25:9:
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
</s>1 Samuel 25:10:
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
</s>1 Samuel 25:11:
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
</s>1 Samuel 25:12:
So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
</s>1 Samuel 25:13:
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
</s>1 Samuel 25:14:
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
</s>1 Samuel 25:15:
But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
</s>1 Samuel 25:16:
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
</s>1 Samuel 25:17:
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
</s>1 Samuel 25:18:
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
</s>1 Samuel 25:19:
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
</s>1 Samuel 25:20:
And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
</s>1 Samuel 25:21:
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
</s>1 Samuel 25:22:
So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
</s>1 Samuel 25:23:
And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
</s>1 Samuel 25:24:
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
</s>1 Samuel 25:25:
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
</s>1 Samuel 25:26:
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
</s>1 Samuel 25:27:
And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
</s>1 Samuel 25:28:
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
</s>1 Samuel 25:29:
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
</s>1 Samuel 25:30:
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
</s>1 Samuel 25:31:
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offense of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
</s>1 Samuel 25:32:
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
</s>1 Samuel 25:33:
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
</s>1 Samuel 25:34:
For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
</s>1 Samuel 25:35:
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
</s>1 Samuel 25:36:
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
</s>1 Samuel 25:37:
But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
</s>1 Samuel 25:38:
And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
</s>1 Samuel 25:39:
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
</s>1 Samuel 25:40:
And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
</s>1 Samuel 25:41:
And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
</s>1 Samuel 25:42:
And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
</s>1 Samuel 25:43:
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
</s>1 Samuel 25:44:
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 26</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 26:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 26:1:
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
</s>1 Samuel 26:2:
Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
</s>1 Samuel 26:3:
And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
</s>1 Samuel 26:4:
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
</s>1 Samuel 26:5:
And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
</s>1 Samuel 26:6:
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
</s>1 Samuel 26:7:
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
</s>1 Samuel 26:8:
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
</s>1 Samuel 26:9:
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
</s>1 Samuel 26:10:
David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
</s>1 Samuel 26:11:
The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
</s>1 Samuel 26:12:
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
</s>1 Samuel 26:13:
Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:
</s>1 Samuel 26:14:
And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
</s>1 Samuel 26:15:
And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
</s>1 Samuel 26:16:
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
</s>1 Samuel 26:17:
And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
</s>1 Samuel 26:18:
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
</s>1 Samuel 26:19:
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
</s>1 Samuel 26:20:
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
</s>1 Samuel 26:21:
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
</s>1 Samuel 26:22:
And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
</s>1 Samuel 26:23:
The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
</s>1 Samuel 26:24:
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
</s>1 Samuel 26:25:
Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 27</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 27:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 27:1:
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
</s>1 Samuel 27:2:
And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
</s>1 Samuel 27:3:
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
</s>1 Samuel 27:4:
And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
</s>1 Samuel 27:5:
And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
</s>1 Samuel 27:6:
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
</s>1 Samuel 27:7:
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
</s>1 Samuel 27:8:
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
</s>1 Samuel 27:9:
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
</s>1 Samuel 27:10:
And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
</s>1 Samuel 27:11:
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
</s>1 Samuel 27:12:
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 28</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 28:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 28:1:
And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
</s>1 Samuel 28:2:
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
</s>1 Samuel 28:3:
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
</s>1 Samuel 28:4:
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
</s>1 Samuel 28:5:
And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
</s>1 Samuel 28:6:
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
</s>1 Samuel 28:7:
Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
</s>1 Samuel 28:8:
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
</s>1 Samuel 28:9:
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
</s>1 Samuel 28:10:
And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
</s>1 Samuel 28:11:
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
</s>1 Samuel 28:12:
And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
</s>1 Samuel 28:13:
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
</s>1 Samuel 28:14:
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
</s>1 Samuel 28:15:
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
</s>1 Samuel 28:16:
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
</s>1 Samuel 28:17:
And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbor, even to David:
</s>1 Samuel 28:18:
Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
</s>1 Samuel 28:19:
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
</s>1 Samuel 28:20:
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
</s>1 Samuel 28:21:
And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
</s>1 Samuel 28:22:
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
</s>1 Samuel 28:23:
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
</s>1 Samuel 28:24:
And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
</s>1 Samuel 28:25:
And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 29</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 29:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 29:1:
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
</s>1 Samuel 29:2:
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
</s>1 Samuel 29:3:
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
</s>1 Samuel 29:4:
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
</s>1 Samuel 29:5:
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
</s>1 Samuel 29:6:
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favor thee not.
</s>1 Samuel 29:7:
Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
</s>1 Samuel 29:8:
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
</s>1 Samuel 29:9:
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
</s>1 Samuel 29:10:
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
</s>1 Samuel 29:11:
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 30</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 30:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 30:1:
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
</s>1 Samuel 30:2:
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
</s>1 Samuel 30:3:
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
</s>1 Samuel 30:4:
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
</s>1 Samuel 30:5:
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
</s>1 Samuel 30:6:
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
</s>1 Samuel 30:7:
And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
</s>1 Samuel 30:8:
And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
</s>1 Samuel 30:9:
So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
</s>1 Samuel 30:10:
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
</s>1 Samuel 30:11:
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
</s>1 Samuel 30:12:
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
</s>1 Samuel 30:13:
And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
</s>1 Samuel 30:14:
We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
</s>1 Samuel 30:15:
And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
</s>1 Samuel 30:16:
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
</s>1 Samuel 30:17:
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
</s>1 Samuel 30:18:
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
</s>1 Samuel 30:19:
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
</s>1 Samuel 30:20:
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
</s>1 Samuel 30:21:
And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
</s>1 Samuel 30:22:
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
</s>1 Samuel 30:23:
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
</s>1 Samuel 30:24:
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
</s>1 Samuel 30:25:
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
</s>1 Samuel 30:26:
And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
</s>1 Samuel 30:27:
To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
</s>1 Samuel 30:28:
And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
</s>1 Samuel 30:29:
And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
</s>1 Samuel 30:30:
And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
</s>1 Samuel 30:31:
And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Samuel Chapter 31</s> | <|user|>1 Samuel 31:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Samuel 31:1:
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
</s>1 Samuel 31:2:
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sons.
</s>1 Samuel 31:3:
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
</s>1 Samuel 31:4:
Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
</s>1 Samuel 31:5:
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
</s>1 Samuel 31:6:
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
</s>1 Samuel 31:7:
And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
</s>1 Samuel 31:8:
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
</s>1 Samuel 31:9:
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
</s>1 Samuel 31:10:
And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
</s>1 Samuel 31:11:
And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
</s>1 Samuel 31:12:
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
</s>1 Samuel 31:13:
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>1 Thessalonians 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:1:
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:2:
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:3:
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:4:
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:5:
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:6:
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:7:
So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:8:
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:9:
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
</s>1 Thessalonians 1:10:
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>1 Thessalonians 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:1:
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:2:
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:3:
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:4:
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:5:
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:6:
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:7:
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:8:
So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:9:
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:10:
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:11:
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:12:
That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:13:
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:14:
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:15:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:16:
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:17:
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:18:
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:19:
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
</s>1 Thessalonians 2:20:
For ye are our glory and joy.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>1 Thessalonians 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:1:
Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:2:
And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:3:
That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:4:
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:5:
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:6:
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:7:
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:8:
For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:9:
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:10:
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:11:
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:12:
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
</s>1 Thessalonians 3:13:
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4</s> | <|user|>1 Thessalonians 4:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:1:
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:2:
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:3:
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:4:
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:5:
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:6:
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:7:
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:8:
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:9:
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:10:
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:11:
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:12:
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:13:
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:14:
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:15:
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:16:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:17:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
</s>1 Thessalonians 4:18:
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5</s> | <|user|>1 Thessalonians 5:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:1:
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:2:
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:3:
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:4:
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:5:
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:6:
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:7:
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:8:
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:9:
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:10:
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:11:
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:12:
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:13:
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:14:
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:15:
See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:16:
Rejoice evermore.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:17:
Pray without ceasing.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:18:
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:19:
Quench not the Spirit.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:20:
Despise not prophesyings.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:21:
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:22:
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:23:
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:24:
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:25:
Brethren, pray for us.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:26:
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:27:
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
</s>1 Thessalonians 5:28:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Timothy Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>1 Timothy 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Timothy 1:1:
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
</s>1 Timothy 1:2:
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
</s>1 Timothy 1:3:
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
</s>1 Timothy 1:4:
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
</s>1 Timothy 1:5:
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
</s>1 Timothy 1:6:
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
</s>1 Timothy 1:7:
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
</s>1 Timothy 1:8:
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
</s>1 Timothy 1:9:
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
</s>1 Timothy 1:10:
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
</s>1 Timothy 1:11:
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
</s>1 Timothy 1:12:
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
</s>1 Timothy 1:13:
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
</s>1 Timothy 1:14:
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
</s>1 Timothy 1:15:
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
</s>1 Timothy 1:16:
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
</s>1 Timothy 1:17:
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
</s>1 Timothy 1:18:
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
</s>1 Timothy 1:19:
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
</s>1 Timothy 1:20:
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Timothy Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>1 Timothy 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Timothy 2:1:
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
</s>1 Timothy 2:2:
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
</s>1 Timothy 2:3:
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
</s>1 Timothy 2:4:
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
</s>1 Timothy 2:5:
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
</s>1 Timothy 2:6:
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
</s>1 Timothy 2:7:
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
</s>1 Timothy 2:8:
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
</s>1 Timothy 2:9:
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
</s>1 Timothy 2:10:
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
</s>1 Timothy 2:11:
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
</s>1 Timothy 2:12:
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
</s>1 Timothy 2:13:
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
</s>1 Timothy 2:14:
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
</s>1 Timothy 2:15:
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Timothy Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>1 Timothy 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Timothy 3:1:
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
</s>1 Timothy 3:2:
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
</s>1 Timothy 3:3:
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
</s>1 Timothy 3:4:
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
</s>1 Timothy 3:5:
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
</s>1 Timothy 3:6:
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
</s>1 Timothy 3:7:
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
</s>1 Timothy 3:8:
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
</s>1 Timothy 3:9:
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
</s>1 Timothy 3:10:
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
</s>1 Timothy 3:11:
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
</s>1 Timothy 3:12:
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
</s>1 Timothy 3:13:
For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
</s>1 Timothy 3:14:
These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
</s>1 Timothy 3:15:
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
</s>1 Timothy 3:16:
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Timothy Chapter 4</s> | <|user|>1 Timothy 4:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Timothy 4:1:
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
</s>1 Timothy 4:2:
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
</s>1 Timothy 4:3:
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
</s>1 Timothy 4:4:
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
</s>1 Timothy 4:5:
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
</s>1 Timothy 4:6:
If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
</s>1 Timothy 4:7:
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
</s>1 Timothy 4:8:
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
</s>1 Timothy 4:9:
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
</s>1 Timothy 4:10:
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
</s>1 Timothy 4:11:
These things command and teach.
</s>1 Timothy 4:12:
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
</s>1 Timothy 4:13:
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
</s>1 Timothy 4:14:
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
</s>1 Timothy 4:15:
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
</s>1 Timothy 4:16:
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Timothy Chapter 5</s> | <|user|>1 Timothy 5:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Timothy 5:1:
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
</s>1 Timothy 5:2:
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
</s>1 Timothy 5:3:
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
</s>1 Timothy 5:4:
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
</s>1 Timothy 5:5:
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
</s>1 Timothy 5:6:
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
</s>1 Timothy 5:7:
And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
</s>1 Timothy 5:8:
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
</s>1 Timothy 5:9:
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
</s>1 Timothy 5:10:
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
</s>1 Timothy 5:11:
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
</s>1 Timothy 5:12:
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
</s>1 Timothy 5:13:
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
</s>1 Timothy 5:14:
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
</s>1 Timothy 5:15:
For some are already turned aside after Satan.
</s>1 Timothy 5:16:
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
</s>1 Timothy 5:17:
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
</s>1 Timothy 5:18:
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
</s>1 Timothy 5:19:
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
</s>1 Timothy 5:20:
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
</s>1 Timothy 5:21:
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
</s>1 Timothy 5:22:
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
</s>1 Timothy 5:23:
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
</s>1 Timothy 5:24:
Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.
</s>1 Timothy 5:25:
Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 1 Timothy Chapter 6</s> | <|user|>1 Timothy 6:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>1 Timothy 6:1:
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
</s>1 Timothy 6:2:
And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
</s>1 Timothy 6:3:
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
</s>1 Timothy 6:4:
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
</s>1 Timothy 6:5:
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
</s>1 Timothy 6:6:
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
</s>1 Timothy 6:7:
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
</s>1 Timothy 6:8:
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
</s>1 Timothy 6:9:
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
</s>1 Timothy 6:10:
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
</s>1 Timothy 6:11:
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
</s>1 Timothy 6:12:
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
</s>1 Timothy 6:13:
I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
</s>1 Timothy 6:14:
That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
</s>1 Timothy 6:15:
Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
</s>1 Timothy 6:16:
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
</s>1 Timothy 6:17:
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
</s>1 Timothy 6:18:
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
</s>1 Timothy 6:19:
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
</s>1 Timothy 6:20:
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
</s>1 Timothy 6:21:
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 1:1:
And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:2:
Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:3:
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:4:
But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:5:
Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:6:
And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:7:
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:8:
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:9:
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:10:
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
</s>2 Chronicles 1:11:
And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
</s>2 Chronicles 1:12:
Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:13:
Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:14:
And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:15:
And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:16:
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
</s>2 Chronicles 1:17:
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 2:1:
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:2:
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:3:
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:4:
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:5:
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:6:
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
</s>2 Chronicles 2:7:
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:8:
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
</s>2 Chronicles 2:9:
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:10:
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:11:
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:12:
Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:13:
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,
</s>2 Chronicles 2:14:
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:15:
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
</s>2 Chronicles 2:16:
And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:17:
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
</s>2 Chronicles 2:18:
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 3:1:
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:2:
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:3:
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:4:
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:5:
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:6:
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:7:
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:8:
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:9:
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:10:
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:11:
And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:12:
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:13:
The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:14:
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:15:
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:16:
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
</s>2 Chronicles 3:17:
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 4</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 4:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 4:1:
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:2:
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:3:
And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:4:
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:5:
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:6:
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:7:
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:8:
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basins of gold.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:9:
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:10:
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:11:
And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
</s>2 Chronicles 4:12:
To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
</s>2 Chronicles 4:13:
And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:14:
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
</s>2 Chronicles 4:15:
One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:16:
The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:17:
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:18:
Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
</s>2 Chronicles 4:19:
And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
</s>2 Chronicles 4:20:
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
</s>2 Chronicles 4:21:
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
</s>2 Chronicles 4:22:
And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 5</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 5:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 5:1:
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:2:
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:3:
Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:4:
And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:5:
And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:6:
Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:7:
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim:
</s>2 Chronicles 5:8:
For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:9:
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:10:
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
</s>2 Chronicles 5:11:
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
</s>2 Chronicles 5:12:
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
</s>2 Chronicles 5:13:
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
</s>2 Chronicles 5:14:
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 6</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 6:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:1:
Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:2:
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:3:
And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:4:
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 6:5:
Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:6:
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:7:
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:8:
But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:9:
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:10:
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:11:
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:12:
And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:14:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:17:
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:18:
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!
</s>2 Chronicles 6:19:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:22:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:23:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:24:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:26:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:27:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:28:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:29:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:30:
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:)
</s>2 Chronicles 6:31:
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:32:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:33:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:34:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:35:
Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:36:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:37:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 6:38:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 6:39:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:40:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:41:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 6:42:
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 7</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 7:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 7:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:2:
And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:3:
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 worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:4:
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:5:
And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:6:
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 for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:12:
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 an house of sacrifice.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:13:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 7:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:15:
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:16:
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:17:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 7:18:
Then will I stablish 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:19:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 7:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 7:21:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 7:22:
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 worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 8</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 8:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 8:1:
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
</s>2 Chronicles 8:2:
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:3:
And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:4:
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:5:
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
</s>2 Chronicles 8:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:7:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 8:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:10:
And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:12:
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
</s>2 Chronicles 8:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:15:
And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:17:
Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
</s>2 Chronicles 8:18:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 9</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 9:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 9:1:
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 bare 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:2:
And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:3:
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
</s>2 Chronicles 9:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:5:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 9:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:7:
Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:8:
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 for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:9:
And she gave the king an 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:10:
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:13:
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
</s>2 Chronicles 9:14:
Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:15:
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:17:
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:18:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 9:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:22:
And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:23:
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:24:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:26:
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:27:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:28:
And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:29:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 9:30:
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
</s>2 Chronicles 9:31:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 10</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 10:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 10:1:
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:2:
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:3:
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 10:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:5:
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:6:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 10:7:
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:9:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 10:10:
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:13:
And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
</s>2 Chronicles 10:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:15:
So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:17:
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 10:19:
And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 11</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 11:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 11:1:
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:2:
But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 11:3:
Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 11:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:5:
And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:6:
He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
</s>2 Chronicles 11:7:
And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
</s>2 Chronicles 11:8:
And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
</s>2 Chronicles 11:9:
And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
</s>2 Chronicles 11:10:
And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:11:
And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:12:
And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:13:
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:14:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 11:15:
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:18:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 11:19:
Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:20:
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:21:
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
</s>2 Chronicles 11:22:
And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
</s>2 Chronicles 11:23:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 12</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 12:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 12:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:2:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 12:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:4:
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:6:
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:8:
Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:14:
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 12:16:
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 13</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 13:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 13:1:
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:4:
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
</s>2 Chronicles 13:5:
Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
</s>2 Chronicles 13:6:
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:8:
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 your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:10:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 13:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:13:
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:16:
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:17:
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:19:
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:20:
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:21:
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
</s>2 Chronicles 13:22:
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 14</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 14:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 14:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:2:
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
</s>2 Chronicles 14:3:
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
</s>2 Chronicles 14:4:
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:5:
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:8:
And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:9:
And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:10:
Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:11:
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 no man prevail against thee.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:12:
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 14:15:
They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 15</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 15:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 15:1:
And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
</s>2 Chronicles 15:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:3:
Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:4:
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:6:
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:7:
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:10:
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:11:
And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:12:
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
</s>2 Chronicles 15:13:
That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:14:
And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:17:
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 15:19:
And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 16</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 16:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 16:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:2:
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 Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 16:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:4:
And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:5:
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:11:
And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:13:
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
</s>2 Chronicles 16:14:
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odorous and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 17</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 17:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 17:1:
And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:3:
And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
</s>2 Chronicles 17:4:
But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:5:
Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honor in abundance.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:6:
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:7:
Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:8:
And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:12:
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:13:
And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valor, were in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:15:
And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:17:
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:18:
And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
</s>2 Chronicles 17:19:
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 18</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 18:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 18:1:
Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:2:
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 Ramothgilead.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:3:
And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:4:
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:5:
Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:6:
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
</s>2 Chronicles 18:7:
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:8:
And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:11:
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:12:
And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:13:
And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:14:
And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:15:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 18:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:17:
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
</s>2 Chronicles 18:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:19:
And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:20:
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
</s>2 Chronicles 18:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:22:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:23:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 18:24:
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:25:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 18:26:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:27:
And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:28:
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:29:
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:30:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:31:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:32:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:33:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 18:34:
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.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 19</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 19:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 19:1:
And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:4:
And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:5:
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
</s>2 Chronicles 19:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:9:
And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:10:
And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in your 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 19:11:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 20</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 20:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 20:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:2:
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 Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:3:
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:5:
And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
</s>2 Chronicles 20:6:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 20:7:
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 for ever?
</s>2 Chronicles 20:8:
And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 20:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:10:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 20:11:
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:13:
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:14:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 20:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:16:
To morrow 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:17:
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; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:18:
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:21:
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 for ever.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:22:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:23:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:24:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:26:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:27:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:28:
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:29:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:30:
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:31:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:32:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:33:
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:34:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:35:
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
</s>2 Chronicles 20:36:
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
</s>2 Chronicles 20:37:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 21</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 21:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 21:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:5:
Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:7:
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 for ever.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:8:
In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:11:
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:12:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 21:13:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 21:14:
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
</s>2 Chronicles 21:15:
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:16:
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
</s>2 Chronicles 21:17:
And they came up into Judah, and brake 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:18:
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 21:20:
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 sepulchres of the kings.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 22</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 22:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 22:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:3:
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:5:
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 Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 22:12:
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 23</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 23:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 23:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:4:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 23:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:12:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 23:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:16:
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:17:
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 23:21:
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 24</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 24:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 24:1:
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 Beersheba.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:2:
And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:3:
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:4:
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:5:
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:6:
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
</s>2 Chronicles 24:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:8:
And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:10:
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:11:
Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:12:
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:13:
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:15:
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:17:
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:19:
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:22:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:23:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:24:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:25:
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of 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 sepulchres of the kings.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:26:
And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
</s>2 Chronicles 24:27:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 25</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 25:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 25:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:2:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:3:
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:6:
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:7:
But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:13:
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 Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:15:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 25:16:
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:18:
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 trode down the thistle.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:19:
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
</s>2 Chronicles 25:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:21:
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:22:
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:23:
And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:24:
And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:25:
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:26:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 25:27:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 25:28:
And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 26</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 26:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 26:1:
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:2:
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:4:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:6:
And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:7:
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:8:
And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:10:
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 vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:11:
Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:12:
The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor were two thousand and six hundred.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:14:
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:15:
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:17:
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
</s>2 Chronicles 26:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:20:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:22:
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
</s>2 Chronicles 26:23:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 27</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 27:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 27:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:2:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:3:
He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:4:
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:5:
He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:6:
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:7:
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:8:
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 27:9:
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 28</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 28:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 28:1:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 28:2:
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:4:
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:6:
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:7:
And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:9:
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:10:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 28:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:12:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 28:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:14:
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:16:
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:17:
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:18:
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:19:
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:20:
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:22:
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:23:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:24:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:26:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 28:27:
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 29</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 29:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 29:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:2:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:3:
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:4:
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
</s>2 Chronicles 29:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:9:
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:12:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 29:13:
And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
</s>2 Chronicles 29:14:
And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:20:
Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:22:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:23:
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
</s>2 Chronicles 29:24:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:26:
And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:27:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:28:
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:29:
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:30:
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 worshipped.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:31:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:32:
And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:33:
And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:34:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:35:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 29:36:
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 30</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 30:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 30:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:2:
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:4:
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:5:
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:8:
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:11:
Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:13:
And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:18:
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
</s>2 Chronicles 30:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:20:
And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:22:
And Hezekiah spake 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:23:
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:24:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:26:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 30:27:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 31</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 31:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 31:1:
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:7:
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:8:
And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:9:
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:11:
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
</s>2 Chronicles 31:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:15:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 31:16:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 31:17:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 31:18:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 31:19:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:20:
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
</s>2 Chronicles 31:21:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 32</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 32:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 32:1:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:2:
And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
</s>2 Chronicles 32:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:4:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:6:
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 spake comfortably to them, saying,
</s>2 Chronicles 32:7:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 32:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:9:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 32:10:
Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:11:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:12:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:13:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:14:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:15:
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?
</s>2 Chronicles 32:16:
And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:18:
Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:19:
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:20:
And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:22:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:23:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:24:
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:26:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:27:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 32:28:
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:29:
Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:30:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:31:
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:32:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 32:33:
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres 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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 33</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 33:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 33:1:
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
</s>2 Chronicles 33:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:3:
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 worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:4:
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:5:
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:7:
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 for ever:
</s>2 Chronicles 33:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:10:
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:12:
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
</s>2 Chronicles 33:13:
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:17:
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:18:
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:19:
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:20:
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:21:
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:22:
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;
</s>2 Chronicles 33:23:
And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:24:
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
</s>2 Chronicles 33:25:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 34</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 34:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 34:1:
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:2:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:3:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:4:
And they brake 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 brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:5:
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:6:
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:10:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 34:11:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:18:
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:19:
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:20:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 34:21:
Go, enquire 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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:22:
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 spake to her to that effect.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:23:
And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,
</s>2 Chronicles 34:24:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 34:25:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:26:
And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
</s>2 Chronicles 34:27:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:28:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:29:
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:30:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:31:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:32:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 34:33:
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.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 35</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 35:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 35:1:
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:2:
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
</s>2 Chronicles 35:3:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 35:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:6:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:7:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:10:
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:11:
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:15:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:17:
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:19:
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:20:
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:21:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:22:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:23:
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:24:
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 sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:25:
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
</s>2 Chronicles 35:26:
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
</s>2 Chronicles 35:27:
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Chronicles Chapter 36</s> | <|user|>2 Chronicles 36:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Chronicles 36:1:
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:2:
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:3:
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:4:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:5:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:6:
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:7:
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:8:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:9:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:10:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:11:
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:12:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:13:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:14:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:15:
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
</s>2 Chronicles 36:16:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:17:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:18:
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.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:19:
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:20:
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:
</s>2 Chronicles 36:21:
To fulfil 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 fulfil threescore and ten years.
</s>2 Chronicles 36:22:
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,
</s>2 Chronicles 36:23:
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 an 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.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 1:1:
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
</s>2 Corinthians 1:2:
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:3:
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
</s>2 Corinthians 1:4:
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:5:
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:6:
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:7:
And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:8:
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
</s>2 Corinthians 1:9:
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
</s>2 Corinthians 1:10:
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
</s>2 Corinthians 1:11:
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:12:
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:13:
For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
</s>2 Corinthians 1:14:
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:15:
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
</s>2 Corinthians 1:16:
And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:17:
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
</s>2 Corinthians 1:18:
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:19:
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:20:
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:21:
Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
</s>2 Corinthians 1:22:
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:23:
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
</s>2 Corinthians 1:24:
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 2:1:
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:2:
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
</s>2 Corinthians 2:3:
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:4:
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:5:
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:6:
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:7:
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:8:
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:9:
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:10:
To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
</s>2 Corinthians 2:11:
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:12:
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
</s>2 Corinthians 2:13:
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:14:
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
</s>2 Corinthians 2:15:
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
</s>2 Corinthians 2:16:
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
</s>2 Corinthians 2:17:
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 3:1:
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
</s>2 Corinthians 3:2:
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
</s>2 Corinthians 3:3:
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:4:
And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
</s>2 Corinthians 3:5:
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
</s>2 Corinthians 3:6:
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:7:
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
</s>2 Corinthians 3:8:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
</s>2 Corinthians 3:9:
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:10:
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:11:
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:12:
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
</s>2 Corinthians 3:13:
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
</s>2 Corinthians 3:14:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:15:
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:16:
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:17:
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
</s>2 Corinthians 3:18:
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 4</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 4:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 4:1:
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
</s>2 Corinthians 4:2:
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:3:
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
</s>2 Corinthians 4:4:
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:5:
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:6:
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:7:
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:8:
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
</s>2 Corinthians 4:9:
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
</s>2 Corinthians 4:10:
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:11:
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:12:
So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:13:
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
</s>2 Corinthians 4:14:
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:15:
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:16:
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
</s>2 Corinthians 4:17:
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
</s>2 Corinthians 4:18:
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 5</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 5:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 5:1:
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:2:
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
</s>2 Corinthians 5:3:
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:4:
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:5:
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:6:
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
</s>2 Corinthians 5:7:
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
</s>2 Corinthians 5:8:
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:9:
Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:10:
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:11:
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:12:
For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:13:
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:14:
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
</s>2 Corinthians 5:15:
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:16:
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:17:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:18:
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
</s>2 Corinthians 5:19:
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:20:
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
</s>2 Corinthians 5:21:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 6</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 6:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 6:1:
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:2:
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
</s>2 Corinthians 6:3:
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
</s>2 Corinthians 6:4:
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
</s>2 Corinthians 6:5:
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
</s>2 Corinthians 6:6:
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
</s>2 Corinthians 6:7:
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
</s>2 Corinthians 6:8:
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
</s>2 Corinthians 6:9:
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
</s>2 Corinthians 6:10:
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:11:
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:12:
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:13:
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:14:
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
</s>2 Corinthians 6:15:
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
</s>2 Corinthians 6:16:
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:17:
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
</s>2 Corinthians 6:18:
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 7</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 7:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 7:1:
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:2:
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:3:
I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:4:
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:5:
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:6:
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
</s>2 Corinthians 7:7:
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:8:
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:9:
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:10:
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:11:
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:12:
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:13:
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:14:
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:15:
And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
</s>2 Corinthians 7:16:
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 8</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 8:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 8:1:
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
</s>2 Corinthians 8:2:
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:3:
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
</s>2 Corinthians 8:4:
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:5:
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:6:
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:7:
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:8:
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:9:
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:10:
And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:11:
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:12:
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:13:
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
</s>2 Corinthians 8:14:
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
</s>2 Corinthians 8:15:
As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:16:
But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:17:
For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:18:
And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
</s>2 Corinthians 8:19:
And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
</s>2 Corinthians 8:20:
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
</s>2 Corinthians 8:21:
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:22:
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:23:
Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 8:24:
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 9</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 9:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 9:1:
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
</s>2 Corinthians 9:2:
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:3:
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
</s>2 Corinthians 9:4:
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:5:
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:6:
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:7:
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:8:
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
</s>2 Corinthians 9:9:
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:10:
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
</s>2 Corinthians 9:11:
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:12:
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
</s>2 Corinthians 9:13:
Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
</s>2 Corinthians 9:14:
And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
</s>2 Corinthians 9:15:
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 10</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 10:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 10:1:
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
</s>2 Corinthians 10:2:
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:3:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
</s>2 Corinthians 10:4:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
</s>2 Corinthians 10:5:
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
</s>2 Corinthians 10:6:
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:7:
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:8:
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
</s>2 Corinthians 10:9:
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:10:
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:11:
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:12:
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:13:
But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:14:
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
</s>2 Corinthians 10:15:
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
</s>2 Corinthians 10:16:
To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:17:
But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
</s>2 Corinthians 10:18:
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 11</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 11:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 11:1:
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:2:
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:3:
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:4:
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:5:
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:6:
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:7:
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
</s>2 Corinthians 11:8:
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:9:
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:10:
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:11:
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:12:
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:13:
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:14:
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:15:
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:16:
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:17:
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:18:
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:19:
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:20:
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:21:
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:22:
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:23:
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:24:
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:25:
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
</s>2 Corinthians 11:26:
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
</s>2 Corinthians 11:27:
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:28:
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:29:
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
</s>2 Corinthians 11:30:
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:31:
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
</s>2 Corinthians 11:32:
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
</s>2 Corinthians 11:33:
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 12</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 12:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 12:1:
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:2:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:3:
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
</s>2 Corinthians 12:4:
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:5:
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:6:
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:7:
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:8:
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:9:
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:10:
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:11:
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:12:
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:13:
For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:14:
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:15:
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:16:
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:17:
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
</s>2 Corinthians 12:18:
I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
</s>2 Corinthians 12:19:
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
</s>2 Corinthians 12:20:
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
</s>2 Corinthians 12:21:
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 13</s> | <|user|>2 Corinthians 13:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Corinthians 13:1:
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:2:
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
</s>2 Corinthians 13:3:
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:4:
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:5:
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
</s>2 Corinthians 13:6:
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:7:
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:8:
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:9:
For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:10:
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:11:
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:12:
Greet one another with an holy kiss.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:13:
All the saints salute you.
</s>2 Corinthians 13:14:
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 John Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>2 John 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 John 1:1:
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
</s>2 John 1:2:
For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
</s>2 John 1:3:
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
</s>2 John 1:4:
I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
</s>2 John 1:5:
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
</s>2 John 1:6:
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
</s>2 John 1:7:
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
</s>2 John 1:8:
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
</s>2 John 1:9:
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
</s>2 John 1:10:
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
</s>2 John 1:11:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
</s>2 John 1:12:
Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
</s>2 John 1:13:
The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 1:1:
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
</s>2 Kings 1:2:
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
</s>2 Kings 1:3:
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
</s>2 Kings 1:4:
Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
</s>2 Kings 1:5:
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
</s>2 Kings 1:6:
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
</s>2 Kings 1:7:
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
</s>2 Kings 1:8:
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
</s>2 Kings 1:9:
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
</s>2 Kings 1:10:
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
</s>2 Kings 1:11:
Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
</s>2 Kings 1:12:
And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
</s>2 Kings 1:13:
And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
</s>2 Kings 1:14:
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
</s>2 Kings 1:15:
And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
</s>2 Kings 1:16:
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
</s>2 Kings 1:17:
So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
</s>2 Kings 1:18:
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 2:1:
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
</s>2 Kings 2:2:
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
</s>2 Kings 2:3:
And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
</s>2 Kings 2:4:
And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
</s>2 Kings 2:5:
And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
</s>2 Kings 2:6:
And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
</s>2 Kings 2:7:
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
</s>2 Kings 2:8:
And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
</s>2 Kings 2:9:
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
</s>2 Kings 2:10:
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
</s>2 Kings 2:11:
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
</s>2 Kings 2:12:
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
</s>2 Kings 2:13:
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
</s>2 Kings 2:14:
And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
</s>2 Kings 2:15:
And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
</s>2 Kings 2:16:
And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
</s>2 Kings 2:17:
And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
</s>2 Kings 2:18:
And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
</s>2 Kings 2:19:
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
</s>2 Kings 2:20:
And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
</s>2 Kings 2:21:
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
</s>2 Kings 2:22:
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
</s>2 Kings 2:23:
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
</s>2 Kings 2:24:
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
</s>2 Kings 2:25:
And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 3:1:
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
</s>2 Kings 3:2:
And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
</s>2 Kings 3:3:
Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
</s>2 Kings 3:4:
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
</s>2 Kings 3:5:
But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 3:6:
And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
</s>2 Kings 3:7:
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
</s>2 Kings 3:8:
And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
</s>2 Kings 3:9:
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
</s>2 Kings 3:10:
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
</s>2 Kings 3:11:
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
</s>2 Kings 3:12:
And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
</s>2 Kings 3:13:
And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
</s>2 Kings 3:14:
And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
</s>2 Kings 3:15:
But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
</s>2 Kings 3:16:
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
</s>2 Kings 3:17:
For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
</s>2 Kings 3:18:
And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
</s>2 Kings 3:19:
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
</s>2 Kings 3:20:
And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
</s>2 Kings 3:21:
And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood in the border.
</s>2 Kings 3:22:
And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
</s>2 Kings 3:23:
And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
</s>2 Kings 3:24:
And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.
</s>2 Kings 3:25:
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
</s>2 Kings 3:26:
And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
</s>2 Kings 3:27:
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 4</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 4:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 4:1:
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
</s>2 Kings 4:2:
And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
</s>2 Kings 4:3:
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
</s>2 Kings 4:4:
And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
</s>2 Kings 4:5:
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
</s>2 Kings 4:6:
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
</s>2 Kings 4:7:
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
</s>2 Kings 4:8:
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
</s>2 Kings 4:9:
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
</s>2 Kings 4:10:
Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
</s>2 Kings 4:11:
And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
</s>2 Kings 4:12:
And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
</s>2 Kings 4:13:
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
</s>2 Kings 4:14:
And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
</s>2 Kings 4:15:
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
</s>2 Kings 4:16:
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
</s>2 Kings 4:17:
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
</s>2 Kings 4:18:
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
</s>2 Kings 4:19:
And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
</s>2 Kings 4:20:
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
</s>2 Kings 4:21:
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
</s>2 Kings 4:22:
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
</s>2 Kings 4:23:
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
</s>2 Kings 4:24:
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
</s>2 Kings 4:25:
So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
</s>2 Kings 4:26:
Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well:
</s>2 Kings 4:27:
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
</s>2 Kings 4:28:
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
</s>2 Kings 4:29:
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
</s>2 Kings 4:30:
And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
</s>2 Kings 4:31:
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
</s>2 Kings 4:32:
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
</s>2 Kings 4:33:
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 4:34:
And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
</s>2 Kings 4:35:
Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
</s>2 Kings 4:36:
And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
</s>2 Kings 4:37:
Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
</s>2 Kings 4:38:
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
</s>2 Kings 4:39:
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
</s>2 Kings 4:40:
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
</s>2 Kings 4:41:
But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
</s>2 Kings 4:42:
And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
</s>2 Kings 4:43:
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
</s>2 Kings 4:44:
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 5</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 5:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 5:1:
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
</s>2 Kings 5:2:
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
</s>2 Kings 5:3:
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
</s>2 Kings 5:4:
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 5:5:
And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
</s>2 Kings 5:6:
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
</s>2 Kings 5:7:
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
</s>2 Kings 5:8:
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
</s>2 Kings 5:9:
So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
</s>2 Kings 5:10:
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
</s>2 Kings 5:11:
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
</s>2 Kings 5:12:
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
</s>2 Kings 5:13:
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
</s>2 Kings 5:14:
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
</s>2 Kings 5:15:
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
</s>2 Kings 5:16:
But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
</s>2 Kings 5:17:
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 5:18:
In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
</s>2 Kings 5:19:
And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
</s>2 Kings 5:20:
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
</s>2 Kings 5:21:
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
</s>2 Kings 5:22:
And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
</s>2 Kings 5:23:
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
</s>2 Kings 5:24:
And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
</s>2 Kings 5:25:
But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
</s>2 Kings 5:26:
And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
</s>2 Kings 5:27:
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 6</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 6:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 6:1:
And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
</s>2 Kings 6:2:
Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
</s>2 Kings 6:3:
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
</s>2 Kings 6:4:
So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
</s>2 Kings 6:5:
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
</s>2 Kings 6:6:
And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
</s>2 Kings 6:7:
Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
</s>2 Kings 6:8:
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
</s>2 Kings 6:9:
And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
</s>2 Kings 6:10:
And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
</s>2 Kings 6:11:
Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 6:12:
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
</s>2 Kings 6:13:
And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
</s>2 Kings 6:14:
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
</s>2 Kings 6:15:
And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
</s>2 Kings 6:16:
And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
</s>2 Kings 6:17:
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
</s>2 Kings 6:18:
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
</s>2 Kings 6:19:
And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 6:20:
And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 6:21:
And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
</s>2 Kings 6:22:
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
</s>2 Kings 6:23:
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 6:24:
And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 6:25:
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
</s>2 Kings 6:26:
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
</s>2 Kings 6:27:
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
</s>2 Kings 6:28:
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
</s>2 Kings 6:29:
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
</s>2 Kings 6:30:
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
</s>2 Kings 6:31:
Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
</s>2 Kings 6:32:
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
</s>2 Kings 6:33:
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 7</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 7:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 7:1:
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 7:2:
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
</s>2 Kings 7:3:
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
</s>2 Kings 7:4:
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
</s>2 Kings 7:5:
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
</s>2 Kings 7:6:
For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
</s>2 Kings 7:7:
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
</s>2 Kings 7:8:
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
</s>2 Kings 7:9:
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
</s>2 Kings 7:10:
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
</s>2 Kings 7:11:
And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
</s>2 Kings 7:12:
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
</s>2 Kings 7:13:
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
</s>2 Kings 7:14:
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
</s>2 Kings 7:15:
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
</s>2 Kings 7:16:
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 7:17:
And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
</s>2 Kings 7:18:
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
</s>2 Kings 7:19:
And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
</s>2 Kings 7:20:
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 8</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 8:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 8:1:
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
</s>2 Kings 8:2:
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
</s>2 Kings 8:3:
And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
</s>2 Kings 8:4:
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
</s>2 Kings 8:5:
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
</s>2 Kings 8:6:
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
</s>2 Kings 8:7:
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
</s>2 Kings 8:8:
And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
</s>2 Kings 8:9:
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
</s>2 Kings 8:10:
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall surely die.
</s>2 Kings 8:11:
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
</s>2 Kings 8:12:
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
</s>2 Kings 8:13:
And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
</s>2 Kings 8:14:
So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
</s>2 Kings 8:15:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 8:16:
And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
</s>2 Kings 8:17:
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 8:18:
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 8:19:
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
</s>2 Kings 8:20:
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
</s>2 Kings 8:21:
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
</s>2 Kings 8:22:
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
</s>2 Kings 8:23:
And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 8:24:
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 8:25:
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
</s>2 Kings 8:26:
Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 8:27:
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
</s>2 Kings 8:28:
And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
</s>2 Kings 8:29:
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 9</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 9:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 9:1:
And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
</s>2 Kings 9:2:
And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
</s>2 Kings 9:3:
Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
</s>2 Kings 9:4:
So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
</s>2 Kings 9:5:
And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
</s>2 Kings 9:6:
And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
</s>2 Kings 9:7:
And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
</s>2 Kings 9:8:
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
</s>2 Kings 9:9:
And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
</s>2 Kings 9:10:
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
</s>2 Kings 9:11:
Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
</s>2 Kings 9:12:
And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
</s>2 Kings 9:13:
Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
</s>2 Kings 9:14:
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
</s>2 Kings 9:15:
But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
</s>2 Kings 9:16:
So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
</s>2 Kings 9:17:
And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
</s>2 Kings 9:18:
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
</s>2 Kings 9:19:
Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
</s>2 Kings 9:20:
And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
</s>2 Kings 9:21:
And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
</s>2 Kings 9:22:
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
</s>2 Kings 9:23:
And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
</s>2 Kings 9:24:
And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
</s>2 Kings 9:25:
Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
</s>2 Kings 9:26:
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 9:27:
But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
</s>2 Kings 9:28:
And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
</s>2 Kings 9:29:
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
</s>2 Kings 9:30:
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
</s>2 Kings 9:31:
And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?
</s>2 Kings 9:32:
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
</s>2 Kings 9:33:
And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
</s>2 Kings 9:34:
And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
</s>2 Kings 9:35:
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
</s>2 Kings 9:36:
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
</s>2 Kings 9:37:
And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 10</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 10:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 10:1:
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
</s>2 Kings 10:2:
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armor;
</s>2 Kings 10:3:
Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
</s>2 Kings 10:4:
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
</s>2 Kings 10:5:
And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.
</s>2 Kings 10:6:
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
</s>2 Kings 10:7:
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
</s>2 Kings 10:8:
And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
</s>2 Kings 10:9:
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
</s>2 Kings 10:10:
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
</s>2 Kings 10:11:
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolk, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
</s>2 Kings 10:12:
And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,
</s>2 Kings 10:13:
Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
</s>2 Kings 10:14:
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
</s>2 Kings 10:15:
And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
</s>2 Kings 10:16:
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
</s>2 Kings 10:17:
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
</s>2 Kings 10:18:
And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
</s>2 Kings 10:19:
Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
</s>2 Kings 10:20:
And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
</s>2 Kings 10:21:
And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
</s>2 Kings 10:22:
And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
</s>2 Kings 10:23:
And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
</s>2 Kings 10:24:
And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
</s>2 Kings 10:25:
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
</s>2 Kings 10:26:
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
</s>2 Kings 10:27:
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
</s>2 Kings 10:28:
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 10:29:
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
</s>2 Kings 10:30:
And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 10:31:
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
</s>2 Kings 10:32:
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
</s>2 Kings 10:33:
From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
</s>2 Kings 10:34:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 10:35:
And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 10:36:
And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 11</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 11:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 11:1:
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
</s>2 Kings 11:2:
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
</s>2 Kings 11:3:
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
</s>2 Kings 11:4:
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
</s>2 Kings 11:5:
And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
</s>2 Kings 11:6:
And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
</s>2 Kings 11:7:
And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
</s>2 Kings 11:8:
And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
</s>2 Kings 11:9:
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
</s>2 Kings 11:10:
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 11:11:
And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
</s>2 Kings 11:12:
And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
</s>2 Kings 11:13:
And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 11:14:
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
</s>2 Kings 11:15:
But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 11:16:
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
</s>2 Kings 11:17:
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king also and the people.
</s>2 Kings 11:18:
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 11:19:
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
</s>2 Kings 11:20:
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
</s>2 Kings 11:21:
Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 12</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 12:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 12:1:
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
</s>2 Kings 12:2:
And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
</s>2 Kings 12:3:
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
</s>2 Kings 12:4:
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
</s>2 Kings 12:5:
Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
</s>2 Kings 12:6:
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
</s>2 Kings 12:7:
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
</s>2 Kings 12:8:
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
</s>2 Kings 12:9:
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 12:10:
And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 12:11:
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
</s>2 Kings 12:12:
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
</s>2 Kings 12:13:
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
</s>2 Kings 12:14:
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 12:15:
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
</s>2 Kings 12:16:
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
</s>2 Kings 12:17:
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 12:18:
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 12:19:
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 12:20:
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
</s>2 Kings 12:21:
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 13</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 13:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 13:1:
In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
</s>2 Kings 13:2:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
</s>2 Kings 13:3:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
</s>2 Kings 13:4:
And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
</s>2 Kings 13:5:
(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
</s>2 Kings 13:6:
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
</s>2 Kings 13:7:
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
</s>2 Kings 13:8:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 13:9:
And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 13:10:
In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
</s>2 Kings 13:11:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
</s>2 Kings 13:12:
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 13:13:
And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 13:14:
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
</s>2 Kings 13:15:
And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
</s>2 Kings 13:16:
And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
</s>2 Kings 13:17:
And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
</s>2 Kings 13:18:
And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.
</s>2 Kings 13:19:
And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
</s>2 Kings 13:20:
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
</s>2 Kings 13:21:
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
</s>2 Kings 13:22:
But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
</s>2 Kings 13:23:
And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
</s>2 Kings 13:24:
So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 13:25:
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 14</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 14:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 14:1:
In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
</s>2 Kings 14:2:
He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 14:3:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
</s>2 Kings 14:4:
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
</s>2 Kings 14:5:
And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
</s>2 Kings 14:6:
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
</s>2 Kings 14:7:
He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
</s>2 Kings 14:8:
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
</s>2 Kings 14:9:
And Jehoash the 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 trode down the thistle.
</s>2 Kings 14:10:
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
</s>2 Kings 14:11:
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
</s>2 Kings 14:12:
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
</s>2 Kings 14:13:
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
</s>2 Kings 14:14:
And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 14:15:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 14:16:
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 14:17:
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
</s>2 Kings 14:18:
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 14:19:
Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
</s>2 Kings 14:20:
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
</s>2 Kings 14:21:
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
</s>2 Kings 14:22:
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
</s>2 Kings 14:23:
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
</s>2 Kings 14:24:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
</s>2 Kings 14:25:
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
</s>2 Kings 14:26:
For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
</s>2 Kings 14:27:
And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
</s>2 Kings 14:28:
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 14:29:
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 15</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 15:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 15:1:
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
</s>2 Kings 15:2:
Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 15:3:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
</s>2 Kings 15:4:
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
</s>2 Kings 15:5:
And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
</s>2 Kings 15:6:
And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 15:7:
So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 15:8:
In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
</s>2 Kings 15:9:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
</s>2 Kings 15:10:
And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 15:11:
And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 15:12:
This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
</s>2 Kings 15:13:
Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 15:14:
For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 15:15:
And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 15:16:
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
</s>2 Kings 15:17:
In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 15:18:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
</s>2 Kings 15:19:
And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
</s>2 Kings 15:20:
And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
</s>2 Kings 15:21:
And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
</s>2 Kings 15:22:
And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 15:23:
In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
</s>2 Kings 15:24:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
</s>2 Kings 15:25:
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
</s>2 Kings 15:26:
And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 15:27:
In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
</s>2 Kings 15:28:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
</s>2 Kings 15:29:
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
</s>2 Kings 15:30:
And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
</s>2 Kings 15:31:
And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 15:32:
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
</s>2 Kings 15:33:
Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
</s>2 Kings 15:34:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
</s>2 Kings 15:35:
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 15:36:
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 15:37:
In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
</s>2 Kings 15:38:
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 16</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 16:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 16:1:
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
</s>2 Kings 16:2:
Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
</s>2 Kings 16:3:
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 16:4:
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
</s>2 Kings 16:5:
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
</s>2 Kings 16:6:
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
</s>2 Kings 16:7:
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
</s>2 Kings 16:8:
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
</s>2 Kings 16:9:
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
</s>2 Kings 16:10:
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
</s>2 Kings 16:11:
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
</s>2 Kings 16:12:
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
</s>2 Kings 16:13:
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
</s>2 Kings 16:14:
And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
</s>2 Kings 16:15:
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
</s>2 Kings 16:16:
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
</s>2 Kings 16:17:
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.
</s>2 Kings 16:18:
And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
</s>2 Kings 16:19:
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 16:20:
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 17</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 17:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 17:1:
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
</s>2 Kings 17:2:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
</s>2 Kings 17:3:
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
</s>2 Kings 17:4:
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
</s>2 Kings 17:5:
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
</s>2 Kings 17:6:
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
</s>2 Kings 17:7:
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
</s>2 Kings 17:8:
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
</s>2 Kings 17:9:
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
</s>2 Kings 17:10:
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
</s>2 Kings 17:11:
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
</s>2 Kings 17:12:
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
</s>2 Kings 17:13:
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
</s>2 Kings 17:14:
Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
</s>2 Kings 17:15:
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
</s>2 Kings 17:16:
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
</s>2 Kings 17:17:
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
</s>2 Kings 17:18:
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
</s>2 Kings 17:19:
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
</s>2 Kings 17:20:
And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
</s>2 Kings 17:21:
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
</s>2 Kings 17:22:
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
</s>2 Kings 17:23:
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
</s>2 Kings 17:24:
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
</s>2 Kings 17:25:
And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
</s>2 Kings 17:26:
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
</s>2 Kings 17:27:
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
</s>2 Kings 17:28:
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 17:29:
Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
</s>2 Kings 17:30:
And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
</s>2 Kings 17:31:
And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
</s>2 Kings 17:32:
So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
</s>2 Kings 17:33:
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
</s>2 Kings 17:34:
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
</s>2 Kings 17:35:
With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
</s>2 Kings 17:36:
But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
</s>2 Kings 17:37:
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
</s>2 Kings 17:38:
And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
</s>2 Kings 17:39:
But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
</s>2 Kings 17:40:
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
</s>2 Kings 17:41:
So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 18</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 18:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 18:1:
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
</s>2 Kings 18:2:
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
</s>2 Kings 18:3:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
</s>2 Kings 18:4:
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
</s>2 Kings 18:5:
He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
</s>2 Kings 18:6:
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
</s>2 Kings 18:7:
And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
</s>2 Kings 18:8:
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
</s>2 Kings 18:9:
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
</s>2 Kings 18:10:
And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
</s>2 Kings 18:11:
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
</s>2 Kings 18:12:
Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
</s>2 Kings 18:13:
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
</s>2 Kings 18:14:
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
</s>2 Kings 18:15:
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
</s>2 Kings 18:16:
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
</s>2 Kings 18:17:
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
</s>2 Kings 18:18:
And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
</s>2 Kings 18:19:
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
</s>2 Kings 18:20:
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
</s>2 Kings 18:21:
Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
</s>2 Kings 18:22:
But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
</s>2 Kings 18:23:
Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
</s>2 Kings 18:24:
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
</s>2 Kings 18:25:
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
</s>2 Kings 18:26:
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
</s>2 Kings 18:27:
But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
</s>2 Kings 18:28:
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
</s>2 Kings 18:29:
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
</s>2 Kings 18:30:
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
</s>2 Kings 18:31:
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
</s>2 Kings 18:32:
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
</s>2 Kings 18:33:
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
</s>2 Kings 18:34:
Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
</s>2 Kings 18:35:
Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
</s>2 Kings 18:36:
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
</s>2 Kings 18:37:
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 19</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 19:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 19:1:
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 19:2:
And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
</s>2 Kings 19:3:
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
</s>2 Kings 19:4:
It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
</s>2 Kings 19:5:
So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
</s>2 Kings 19:6:
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
</s>2 Kings 19:7:
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
</s>2 Kings 19:8:
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
</s>2 Kings 19:9:
And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
</s>2 Kings 19:10:
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
</s>2 Kings 19:11:
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
</s>2 Kings 19:12:
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
</s>2 Kings 19:13:
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
</s>2 Kings 19:14:
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 19:15:
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
</s>2 Kings 19:16:
LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
</s>2 Kings 19:17:
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
</s>2 Kings 19:18:
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
</s>2 Kings 19:19:
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
</s>2 Kings 19:20:
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
</s>2 Kings 19:21:
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
</s>2 Kings 19:22:
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 19:23:
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
</s>2 Kings 19:24:
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
</s>2 Kings 19:25:
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
</s>2 Kings 19:26:
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
</s>2 Kings 19:27:
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
</s>2 Kings 19:28:
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
</s>2 Kings 19:29:
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
</s>2 Kings 19:30:
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
</s>2 Kings 19:31:
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
</s>2 Kings 19:32:
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
</s>2 Kings 19:33:
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 19:34:
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
</s>2 Kings 19:35:
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
</s>2 Kings 19:36:
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
</s>2 Kings 19:37:
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 20</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 20:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 20:1:
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
</s>2 Kings 20:2:
Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
</s>2 Kings 20:3:
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
</s>2 Kings 20:4:
And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
</s>2 Kings 20:5:
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 20:6:
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
</s>2 Kings 20:7:
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
</s>2 Kings 20:8:
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
</s>2 Kings 20:9:
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
</s>2 Kings 20:10:
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
</s>2 Kings 20:11:
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
</s>2 Kings 20:12:
At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
</s>2 Kings 20:13:
And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
</s>2 Kings 20:14:
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
</s>2 Kings 20:15:
And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.
</s>2 Kings 20:16:
And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 20:17:
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 20:18:
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
</s>2 Kings 20:19:
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
</s>2 Kings 20:20:
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 20:21:
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 21</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 21:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 21:1:
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
</s>2 Kings 21:2:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 21:3:
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
</s>2 Kings 21:4:
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
</s>2 Kings 21:5:
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 21:6:
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
</s>2 Kings 21:7:
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
</s>2 Kings 21:8:
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
</s>2 Kings 21:9:
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
</s>2 Kings 21:10:
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
</s>2 Kings 21:11:
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
</s>2 Kings 21:12:
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
</s>2 Kings 21:13:
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
</s>2 Kings 21:14:
And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
</s>2 Kings 21:15:
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
</s>2 Kings 21:16:
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 21:17:
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 21:18:
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 21:19:
Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
</s>2 Kings 21:20:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
</s>2 Kings 21:21:
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
</s>2 Kings 21:22:
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 21:23:
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
</s>2 Kings 21:24:
And 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.
</s>2 Kings 21:25:
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 21:26:
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 22</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 22:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 22:1:
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
</s>2 Kings 22:2:
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
</s>2 Kings 22:3:
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
</s>2 Kings 22:4:
Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
</s>2 Kings 22:5:
And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
</s>2 Kings 22:6:
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
</s>2 Kings 22:7:
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
</s>2 Kings 22:8:
And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
</s>2 Kings 22:9:
And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 22:10:
And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
</s>2 Kings 22:11:
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
</s>2 Kings 22:12:
And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
</s>2 Kings 22:13:
Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
</s>2 Kings 22:14:
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
</s>2 Kings 22:15:
And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
</s>2 Kings 22:16:
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
</s>2 Kings 22:17:
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 kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
</s>2 Kings 22:18:
But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
</s>2 Kings 22:19:
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 22:20:
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 23</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 23:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 23:1:
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 23:2:
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 23:3:
And the king stood by a pillar, 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 their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
</s>2 Kings 23:4:
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
</s>2 Kings 23:5:
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
</s>2 Kings 23:6:
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
</s>2 Kings 23:7:
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
</s>2 Kings 23:8:
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
</s>2 Kings 23:9:
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
</s>2 Kings 23:10:
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
</s>2 Kings 23:11:
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
</s>2 Kings 23:12:
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
</s>2 Kings 23:13:
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
</s>2 Kings 23:14:
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
</s>2 Kings 23:15:
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
</s>2 Kings 23:16:
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
</s>2 Kings 23:17:
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
</s>2 Kings 23:18:
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
</s>2 Kings 23:19:
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
</s>2 Kings 23:20:
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 23:21:
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
</s>2 Kings 23:22:
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
</s>2 Kings 23:23:
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 23:24:
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
</s>2 Kings 23:25:
And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
</s>2 Kings 23:26:
Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
</s>2 Kings 23:27:
And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
</s>2 Kings 23:28:
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 23:29:
In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
</s>2 Kings 23:30:
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
</s>2 Kings 23:31:
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
</s>2 Kings 23:32:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
</s>2 Kings 23:33:
And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
</s>2 Kings 23:34:
And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
</s>2 Kings 23:35:
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.
</s>2 Kings 23:36:
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
</s>2 Kings 23:37:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 24</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 24:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 24:1:
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
</s>2 Kings 24:2:
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
</s>2 Kings 24:3:
Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
</s>2 Kings 24:4:
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
</s>2 Kings 24:5:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
</s>2 Kings 24:6:
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
</s>2 Kings 24:7:
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
</s>2 Kings 24:8:
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
</s>2 Kings 24:9:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
</s>2 Kings 24:10:
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
</s>2 Kings 24:11:
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
</s>2 Kings 24:12:
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
</s>2 Kings 24:13:
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
</s>2 Kings 24:14:
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
</s>2 Kings 24:15:
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
</s>2 Kings 24:16:
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
</s>2 Kings 24:17:
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
</s>2 Kings 24:18:
Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
</s>2 Kings 24:19:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
</s>2 Kings 24:20:
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Kings Chapter 25</s> | <|user|>2 Kings 25:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Kings 25:1:
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
</s>2 Kings 25:2:
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
</s>2 Kings 25:3:
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
</s>2 Kings 25:4:
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
</s>2 Kings 25:5:
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
</s>2 Kings 25:6:
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
</s>2 Kings 25:7:
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
</s>2 Kings 25:8:
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
</s>2 Kings 25:9:
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
</s>2 Kings 25:10:
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
</s>2 Kings 25:11:
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
</s>2 Kings 25:12:
But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
</s>2 Kings 25:13:
And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
</s>2 Kings 25:14:
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
</s>2 Kings 25:15:
And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
</s>2 Kings 25:16:
The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
</s>2 Kings 25:17:
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathed work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathed work.
</s>2 Kings 25:18:
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
</s>2 Kings 25:19:
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
</s>2 Kings 25:20:
And Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
</s>2 Kings 25:21:
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
</s>2 Kings 25:22:
And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
</s>2 Kings 25:23:
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
</s>2 Kings 25:24:
And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
</s>2 Kings 25:25:
But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
</s>2 Kings 25:26:
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.
</s>2 Kings 25:27:
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
</s>2 Kings 25:28:
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
</s>2 Kings 25:29:
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
</s>2 Kings 25:30:
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Peter Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>2 Peter 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Peter 1:1:
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
</s>2 Peter 1:2:
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
</s>2 Peter 1:3:
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
</s>2 Peter 1:4:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
</s>2 Peter 1:5:
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
</s>2 Peter 1:6:
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
</s>2 Peter 1:7:
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
</s>2 Peter 1:8:
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
</s>2 Peter 1:9:
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
</s>2 Peter 1:10:
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
</s>2 Peter 1:11:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
</s>2 Peter 1:12:
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
</s>2 Peter 1:13:
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
</s>2 Peter 1:14:
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
</s>2 Peter 1:15:
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
</s>2 Peter 1:16:
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
</s>2 Peter 1:17:
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
</s>2 Peter 1:18:
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
</s>2 Peter 1:19:
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
</s>2 Peter 1:20:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
</s>2 Peter 1:21:
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
</s> |
<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Peter Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>2 Peter 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Peter 2:1:
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
</s>2 Peter 2:2:
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
</s>2 Peter 2:3:
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
</s>2 Peter 2:4:
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
</s>2 Peter 2:5:
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
</s>2 Peter 2:6:
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
</s>2 Peter 2:7:
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
</s>2 Peter 2:8:
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
</s>2 Peter 2:9:
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
</s>2 Peter 2:10:
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
</s>2 Peter 2:11:
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
</s>2 Peter 2:12:
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
</s>2 Peter 2:13:
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
</s>2 Peter 2:14:
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
</s>2 Peter 2:15:
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
</s>2 Peter 2:16:
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
</s>2 Peter 2:17:
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
</s>2 Peter 2:18:
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
</s>2 Peter 2:19:
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
</s>2 Peter 2:20:
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
</s>2 Peter 2:21:
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
</s>2 Peter 2:22:
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Peter Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>2 Peter 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Peter 3:1:
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
</s>2 Peter 3:2:
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
</s>2 Peter 3:3:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
</s>2 Peter 3:4:
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
</s>2 Peter 3:5:
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
</s>2 Peter 3:6:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
</s>2 Peter 3:7:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
</s>2 Peter 3:8:
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
</s>2 Peter 3:9:
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
</s>2 Peter 3:10:
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
</s>2 Peter 3:11:
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
</s>2 Peter 3:12:
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
</s>2 Peter 3:13:
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
</s>2 Peter 3:14:
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
</s>2 Peter 3:15:
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
</s>2 Peter 3:16:
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
</s>2 Peter 3:17:
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
</s>2 Peter 3:18:
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Samuel Chapter 1</s> | <|user|>2 Samuel 1:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Samuel 1:1:
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
</s>2 Samuel 1:2:
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
</s>2 Samuel 1:3:
And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
</s>2 Samuel 1:4:
And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
</s>2 Samuel 1:5:
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
</s>2 Samuel 1:6:
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
</s>2 Samuel 1:7:
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
</s>2 Samuel 1:8:
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
</s>2 Samuel 1:9:
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
</s>2 Samuel 1:10:
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
</s>2 Samuel 1:11:
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
</s>2 Samuel 1:12:
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
</s>2 Samuel 1:13:
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
</s>2 Samuel 1:14:
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?
</s>2 Samuel 1:15:
And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
</s>2 Samuel 1:16:
And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD's anointed.
</s>2 Samuel 1:17:
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
</s>2 Samuel 1:18:
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
</s>2 Samuel 1:19:
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
</s>2 Samuel 1:20:
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
</s>2 Samuel 1:21:
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
</s>2 Samuel 1:22:
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
</s>2 Samuel 1:23:
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
</s>2 Samuel 1:24:
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
</s>2 Samuel 1:25:
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
</s>2 Samuel 1:26:
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
</s>2 Samuel 1:27:
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Samuel Chapter 2</s> | <|user|>2 Samuel 2:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Samuel 2:1:
And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
</s>2 Samuel 2:2:
So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
</s>2 Samuel 2:3:
And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
</s>2 Samuel 2:4:
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.
</s>2 Samuel 2:5:
And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have showed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
</s>2 Samuel 2:6:
And now the LORD show kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
</s>2 Samuel 2:7:
Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
</s>2 Samuel 2:8:
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
</s>2 Samuel 2:9:
And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
</s>2 Samuel 2:10:
Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
</s>2 Samuel 2:11:
And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
</s>2 Samuel 2:12:
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
</s>2 Samuel 2:13:
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
</s>2 Samuel 2:14:
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
</s>2 Samuel 2:15:
Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
</s>2 Samuel 2:16:
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
</s>2 Samuel 2:17:
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
</s>2 Samuel 2:18:
And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
</s>2 Samuel 2:19:
And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
</s>2 Samuel 2:20:
Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.
</s>2 Samuel 2:21:
And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
</s>2 Samuel 2:22:
And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
</s>2 Samuel 2:23:
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
</s>2 Samuel 2:24:
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
</s>2 Samuel 2:25:
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
</s>2 Samuel 2:26:
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
</s>2 Samuel 2:27:
And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
</s>2 Samuel 2:28:
So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
</s>2 Samuel 2:29:
And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
</s>2 Samuel 2:30:
And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
</s>2 Samuel 2:31:
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
</s>2 Samuel 2:32:
And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
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<|system|>Context about the book of 2 Samuel Chapter 3</s> | <|user|>2 Samuel 3:1 KJV:
</s><|assistant|>Sure, here's the KJV translation of:
</s>2 Samuel 3:1:
Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
</s>2 Samuel 3:2:
And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
</s>2 Samuel 3:3:
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
</s>2 Samuel 3:4:
And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
</s>2 Samuel 3:5:
And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
</s>2 Samuel 3:6:
And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
</s>2 Samuel 3:7:
And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
</s>2 Samuel 3:8:
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do show kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
</s>2 Samuel 3:9:
So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
</s>2 Samuel 3:10:
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
</s>2 Samuel 3:11:
And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
</s>2 Samuel 3:12:
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
</s>2 Samuel 3:13:
And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
</s>2 Samuel 3:14:
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
</s>2 Samuel 3:15:
And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
</s>2 Samuel 3:16:
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
</s>2 Samuel 3:17:
And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
</s>2 Samuel 3:18:
Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
</s>2 Samuel 3:19:
And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
</s>2 Samuel 3:20:
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
</s>2 Samuel 3:21:
And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
</s>2 Samuel 3:22:
And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
</s>2 Samuel 3:23:
When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
</s>2 Samuel 3:24:
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
</s>2 Samuel 3:25:
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
</s>2 Samuel 3:26:
And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
</s>2 Samuel 3:27:
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
</s>2 Samuel 3:28:
And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
</s>2 Samuel 3:29:
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
</s>2 Samuel 3:30:
So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
</s>2 Samuel 3:31:
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
</s>2 Samuel 3:32:
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
</s>2 Samuel 3:33:
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
</s>2 Samuel 3:34:
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
</s>2 Samuel 3:35:
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
</s>2 Samuel 3:36:
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
</s>2 Samuel 3:37:
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
</s>2 Samuel 3:38:
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
</s>2 Samuel 3:39:
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
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