The Second Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now Ach'av had seventy sons in Shomron. Yehu wrote letters,
and sent to Shomron, to the rulers of Yizre`el, even the Zakenim, and
to those who brought up [the sons of] Ach'av, saying, {10:2} Now as
soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with
you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city
also, and armor; {10:3} look you out the best and meet of your
master's sons, and 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 Zakenim also, and those who brought up [the children], sent
to Yehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall
bid 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 be 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 Yizre`el 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 Yizre`el. {10:8} There came a
messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the
king's sons. He said, Lay you 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 there shall fall to the [1>]eretz[<1]
nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the
house of Ach'av: for the LORD has done that which he spoke by his
servant Eliyah. {10:11} So Yehu struck all that remained of the house
of Ach'av in Yizre`el, and all his great men, and his familiar
friends, and his [2>]Kohanim[<2], until he left him none remaining.
{10:12} He arose and departed, and went to Shomron. As he was at the
shearing-house of the shepherds in the way, {10:13} Yehu met with the
brothers of Achazyah king of Yehudah, and said, Who are you? They
answered, We are the brothers of Achazyah: and we go 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 two and forty men; neither left he any of
them. {10:15} When he was departed there, he lighted on Yehonadav the
son of Rechav coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him,
Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? Yehonadav
answered, It is. If it be, 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 Shomron, he struck all who remained
to Ach'av in Shomron, until he had destroyed him, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spoke to Eliyah. {10:18} Yehu gathered all
the people together, and said to them, Ach'av served Ba`al a little;
but Yehu will serve him much. {10:19} Now therefore call to me all the
prophets of Ba`al, all his worshippers, and all his [3>]Kohanim[<3];
let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Ba`al;
whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Yehu did it in
subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of
Ba`al. {10:20} Yehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Ba`al. They
proclaimed it. {10:21} Yehu sent through all Yisra'el: and all the
worshippers of Ba`al came, so that there was not a man left that
didn't come. They came into the house of Ba`al; and the house of Ba`al
was filled from one end to another. {10:22} He said to him who was
over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of
Ba`al. He brought them forth vestments. {10:23} Yehu went, and
Yehonadav the son of Rechav, into the house of Ba`al; and he said to
the worshippers of Ba`al, Search, and look that there be here with you
none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Ba`al only.
{10:24} They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Yehu
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 Yehu said to the guard and to
the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. 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 Ba`al. {10:26} They
brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Ba`al, and burned
them. {10:27} They broke down the pillar of Ba`al, and broke down the
house of Ba`al, and made it a latrine, to this day. {10:28} Thus Yehu
destroyed Ba`al out of Yisra'el. {10:29} However from the sins of
Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin, Yehu
didn't depart from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that were
in Beit-El, and that were in Dan. {10:30} The LORD said to Yehu,
Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my
eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ach'av according to all that was
in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the
throne of Yisra'el. {10:31} But Yehu took no heed to walk in the law
of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, with all his heart: he didn't depart
from the sins of Yarov`am, with which he made Yisra'el to sin. {10:32}
In those days the LORD began to cut off from Yisra'el: and Haza'el
struck them in all the borders of Yisra'el; {10:33} from the Yarden
eastward, all the land of Gil`ad, the Gadi, and the Re'uveni, and the
Manashshi, from `Aro`er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even
Gil`ad and Bashan. {10:34} Now the rest of the acts of Yehu, and all
that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el? {10:35} Yehu slept with his
fathers; and they buried him in Shomron. Yeho'achaz his son reigned in
his place. {10:36} The time that Yehu reigned over Yisra'el in Shomron
was twenty-eight years.
{11:1} Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. {11:2} But
Yehosheva, the daughter of king Yoram, sister of Achazyah, took Yo'ash
the son of Achazyah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who
were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber;
and they hid him from `Atalyah, so that he was not slain; {11:3} He
was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. `Atalyah reigned
over the land. {11:4} In the seventh year Yehoiada sent and fetched
the captains over hundreds of the Kari 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 shown
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
Shabbat, 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 shall you keep the watch of the house, and be a
barrier. {11:7} The two companies of you, even all who go forth on the
Shabbat, shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
{11:8} You shall compass the king round about, every man with his
weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be
slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and when he comes
in. {11:9} The captains over hundreds did according to all that
Yehoiada the [1>]Kohen[<1] commanded; and they took every man his men,
those who were to come in on the Shabbat, with those who were to go
out on the Shabbat, and came to Yehoiada the [2>]Kohen[<2]. {11:10}
The [3>]Kohen[<3] 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, by the king round about. {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
`Atalyah 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 manner was, and the
captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land
rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then `Atalyah tore her clothes, and
cried, Treason! treason! {11:15} Yehoiada the [4>]Kohen[<4] commanded
the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them,
Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with
the sword. For the [5>]Kohen[<5] 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: and there was she
slain. {11:17} Yehoiada 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 Ba`al, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke
they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the [6>]Kohen[<6] of
Ba`al before the altars. The [7>]Kohen[<7] appointed officers over the
house of the LORD. {11:19} He took the captains over hundreds, and the
Kari, 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. `Atalyah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
{11:21} Yeho'ash was seven years old when he began to reign.
{12:1} In the seventh year of Yehu began Yeho'ash to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Tzivyah
of Be'er-Sheva. {12:2} Yeho'ash did that which was right in the eyes
of the LORD all his days in which Yehoiada the [1>]Kohen[<1]
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} Yeho'ash said to the [2>]Kohanim[<2], 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 [3>]Kohanim[<3] 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 Yeho'ash the [4>]Kohanim[<4] had not
repaired the breaches of the house. {12:7} Then king Yeho'ash called
for Yehoiada the [5>]Kohen[<5], and for the [other] [6>]Kohanim[<6],
and said to them, Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? now
therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it
for the breaches of the house. {12:8} The [7>]Kohanim[<7] consented
that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair
the breaches of the house. {12:9} But Yehoiada the [8>]Kohen[<8] took
a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the
altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD: and
the [9>]Kohanim[<9] 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
[10>]Sofer[<10] and the [11>]Kohen Gadol[<11] 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 hewn 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, trumpets, 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 [12>]Kohanim[<12]'. {12:17} Then Haza'el king of Aram
went up, and fought against Gat, and took it; and Haza'el set his face
to go up to Yerushalayim. {12:18} Yeho'ash king of Yehudah took all
the holy things that Yehoshafat and Yehoram and Achazyah, his fathers,
kings of Yehudah, 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 Haza'el king of Aram: and he went
away from Yerushalayim. {12:19} Now the rest of the acts of Yo'ash,
and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Yehudah? {12:20} His servants arose, and made a
conspiracy, and struck Yo'ash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that
goes down to Silla. {12:21} For Yozakhar the son of Shim`at, and
Yehozavad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died;
and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and
Amatzyah his son reigned in his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:10} earth
[2] {10:11} priests
[3] {10:19} priests
[1] {11:9} priest
[2] {11:9} priest
[3] {11:10} priest
[4] {11:15} priest
[5] {11:15} priest
[6] {11:18} priest
[7] {11:18} priest
[1] {12:2} priest
[2] {12:4} priests
[3] {12:5} priests
[4] {12:6} priests
[5] {12:7} priest
[6] {12:7} priests
[7] {12:8} priests
[8] {12:9} priest
[9] {12:9} priests
[10] {12:10} scribe
[11] {12:10} high priest
[12] {12:16} priests
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