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The Second Book of Kings, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and
sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to
those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying, {10:2} "Now as soon as
this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, and
there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and
armor. {10:3} Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set
him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
{10:4} But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two
kings didn't stand before him! How then shall we stand?" {10:5} He who
was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also,
and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your
servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man
king. You do that which is good in your eyes."
{10:6} Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If
you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads
of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow
this time."
Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men
of the city, who brought them up. {10:7} It happened, when the letter
came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even
seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him
to Jezreel. {10:8} A messenger came, and told him, "They have brought
the heads of the king's sons."
He said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until
the morning." {10:9} It happened in the morning, that he went out, and
stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Behold, I
conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?
{10:10} Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of
the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For the
LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."
{10:11} So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his
priests, until he left him none remaining.
{10:12} He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the
shearing house of the shepherds on the way, {10:13} Jehu met with the
brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?"
They answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to
greet the children of the king and the children of the queen."
{10:14} He said, "Take them alive!"
They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing
house, even forty-two men. He didn't leave any of them. {10:15} When
he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming
to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as
my heart is with your heart?"
Jehonadab answered, "It is."
"If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him
up to him into the chariot. {10:16} He said, "Come with me, and see my
zeal for the LORD." So they made him ride in his chariot. {10:17} When
he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria,
until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which
he spoke to Elijah. {10:18} Jehu gathered all the people together, and
said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him
much. {10:19} Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all
of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent; for I
have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live."
But Jehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the
worshippers of Baal.
{10:20} Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!"
They proclaimed it. {10:21} Jehu sent through all Israel; and all
the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that
didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal
was filled from one end to another. {10:22} He said to him who was
over the vestry, "Bring out robes for all the worshippers of Baal!"
He brought robes out to them. {10:23} Jehu went with Jehonadab the
son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshippers
of Baal, "Search, and look that there are here with you none of the
servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only."
{10:24} They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now
Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the
men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life
shall be for the life of him."
{10:25} It happened, 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 kill them! Let none escape." They struck 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. {10:26} They brought out the pillars
that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. {10:27} They broke
down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it
a latrine, to this day. {10:28} Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
{10:29} However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with
which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from after them, the
golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan. {10:30} The
LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which
is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to
all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit
on the throne of Israel."
{10:31} But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the
God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn't depart from the sins of
Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin. {10:32} In those days the
LORD began to cut off from Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the
borders of Israel; {10:33} from the Jordan eastward, all the land of
Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from
Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
{10:34} Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all
his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? {10:35} Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried
him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. {10:36} The
time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
{11:1} Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. {11:2} But
Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash
the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who
were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and
they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain; {11:3} He was
with her hidden in the house of the LORD six years. Athaliah reigned
over the land. {11:4} In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched
the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and
brought them to him into the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant
with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and
showed them the king's son. {11:5} He commanded them, saying, "This is
the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the
Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house; {11:6} A
third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate
behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a
barrier. {11:7} The two companies of you, even all who go out on the
Sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD around the
king. {11:8} You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons
in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be
with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in."
{11:9} The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada
the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were
to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the
Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. {11:10} The priest delivered
to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been
king David's, which were in the house of the LORD. {11:11} The guard
stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of
the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the
house, around the king. {11:12} Then he brought out the king's son,
and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony; and they made
him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said,
"Long live the king!"
{11:13} When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the
people, she came to the people into the house of the LORD: {11:14} and
she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition
was, and the captains and the [1>]shofars[<1] by the king; and all the
people of the land rejoiced, and blew [2>]shofars[<2]. Then Athaliah
tore her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"
{11:15} Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who
were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the
ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword." For the priest said,
"Don't let her be slain in the house of the LORD." {11:16} So they
made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the
king's house. She was slain there. {11:17} 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. {11:18} All the
people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his
altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed
Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed
officers over the house of the LORD. {11:19} He took the captains over
hundreds, and the Carites, 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. He sat
on the throne of the kings. {11:20} So all the people of the land
rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the
sword at the king's house. {11:21} Jehoash was seven years old when he
began to reign.
{12:1} In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of
Beersheba. {12:2} Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the
LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. {12:3}
However the high places were not taken away; the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. {12:4} Jehoash said
to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into
the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for
whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's
heart to bring into the house of the LORD, {12:5} let the priests take
it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the
breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found."
{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. {12:7}
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other
priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the breaches of the
house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but
deliver it for the breaches of the house."
{12:8} The priests consented that they should take no more money
from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. {12:9} But
Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set
it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of
the LORD: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the
money that was brought into the house of the LORD. {12:10} 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
counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD. {12:11}
They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who
did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they
paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the
house of the LORD, {12:12} and to the masons and the stone cutters,
and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the
house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to
repair it. {12:13} But there were not made for the house of the LORD
cups of silver, snuffers, basins, [3>]shofars[<3], any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the
house of the LORD; {12:14} for they gave that to those who did the
work, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD. {12:15} Moreover
they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they
delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt
faithfully. {12:16} The money for the trespass offerings, and the
money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of the
LORD: it was the priests'. {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. {12:18} Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things
that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah,
had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was
found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and of the king's
house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from
Jerusalem. {12:19} Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he
did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? {12:20} His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck
Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
{12:21} For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in
his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {11:14} or, trumpets
[2] {11:14} or, trumpets
[3] {12:13} or, trumpets
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