14. 16. 8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judahi did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. 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 See 1 Kin. of Nebat, "wherewith he made Israel to sin. 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, Amos and "smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. II Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 12 This was ch. 10.30. the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass. 7.9. 13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in Samaria. 14 And Menahem the son of Gadi went up from "Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 15 Now 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. 16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders 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. 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. 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, wherewith he made Israel to sin. 19 There came against the land "Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave "Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. 20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land. 21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. 25 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of Kin. 16. the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he slew him, and reigned in his stead. 26 Now 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. 27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a where with he made Israel to sin. 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliali, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 31 Now 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. 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. 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned 1 Or, palace 18 (& mg. for mg.). 9 ver. 3. 27.6. h See 20 & 27. 3. II. KINGS. sixteen years in Jerusalem : his mother's name was Jerusha the and daughter of Zadok. that which was right in the eyes of 34 And he did the LORD: he did according to all Cp. 2 Chr. that his father Uzziah had done. 35 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the 12 Chr. 23. high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD. 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? 37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. 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. j ch. 16. 5. k For ver. 2-4, 28.1-4. 37, 38. See Lev. 18. 21. m ch. 21. 2. 12.31 & 18. 9. » Cp. ch. 14. 4. o Deut. 12.2. 1 Kin. 14. 23. 1 In the seventeenth year of 16 Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2*Twenty sec 2 Chr. years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way 1Cp. Ps. 106. of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire," according to the abominations Cp. Deut. of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4" And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every ch. 15. 37. green tree. 5o 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. 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered "Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from 1rElath and the 2 Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there, unto this day. 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser 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 u See ch. 12. me. 8 And Ahaz "took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the trea Cp. 2 Chr. 28.5, 6. › See ch. 14. 22. 28. 16. * See 2 Chr. See ch. 15. 29. 18. [CHAP. 16, v. 19. 28. 21. for a present to the king of Assyria. sures of the king's house, and sent it ened unto him: and the king of 9" And the king of Assyria heark- Cp. 2 Chr. Assyria went up against Damascus, of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. and took it, and carried the people cus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Io And king Ahaz went to DamasAssyria, and saw the altar that was to Urijah the priest the fashion y Isai. 8. 2. at Damascus and king Ahaz sent of the altar, and the pattern of it, thereof. according to all the workmanship : 11 And Urijah the priest king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, built an altar: according to all that so did Urijah the priest make it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king was the altar: and the king drew near come from Damascus, the king saw 13 And he burnt his burnt offering unto the altar, and 3 offered thereon. & 9.7. Amos 1.5 See 2 Chr. 26. 16-19. a2 Chr. 4. ). Cp. Ex. e: 11. c ver. 11. 41. and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of this peace offerings, upon the altar. 14 And the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar. 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt dEx. 29. 89offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of and their drink offerings; and the land, and their meal offering, sprinkle upon it all the blood of the the sacrifice: but the brasen altar e ver. 14. burnt offering, and all the blood of shall be for me to inquire by. cording to all that king Ahaz com16 Thus did Urijah the priest, acmanded. 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 brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone. 18 And the covered way for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he unto the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria. 19 Now the rest of the 25.26. acts of Ahaz which he did, are they Cp. 2 Chr. not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, iCp. 2 Chr. and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. 25.27. j Cp. eh. 15. 2. * For ver. 3-7, see ch. 18. 9-12. ICp. Hos. 10. 14. 13. 16. * Cp. Lev. 2. 32, 33 & Deut. 28. 36, 64 & 29. 27, 28. o eh. 18. 11. m In the twelfth year of 17 Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 3 Against him came up 'Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered 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. 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the Cp. Hos. king of Assyria took Samaria," and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of P Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 And Cp. 1 Chr. it was so, because the children of plai.7.12. Israel had sinned against the LORD Ezra their God, which brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Dan. 5. 28, Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8* and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, Deut. 18.9. and of the kings of Israel, which they made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly 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. 10 And they set them up 2 pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 12 and they served idols, * whereof the LORD had said unto 1 Or, practised 2 Or, obelisks 5. 26. Isai. 13. 17 & 21.2. Jer. 31. 11. 31, al. r ver. 36. Lev. 25. 38. See Ex. 20. 2. t ver. 19. ch. 16. 3. u eh. 18, 8. v See Ex. 23. 24. Cp. Ex. 34.13 & 1 Kin. 14.23 & Mic. & 14, al. J See Ex. 20. 4. 9.9. & 25. 5 & 35. 15. e Deut. 9. 6. 2 Chr. 30.8. Cp. Deut. 31.27 & Acts 7. them, Ye shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified unto Is- y Neh. 9. 30. rael, and unto Judah, by the hand z ver. 23. of every prophet, aand of every a See1 Sam. seer, saying, Turn ye from your Jer. 18. 11 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 the hand of my servants the prophets. 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, e Deut. 32. and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them. 16 And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made see 1 Kin. an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17' And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used m divination and enchantments, and sold & ch. 11. 18. themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but P the tribe of Judah only. 197 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 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. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the 1 Kin. 12. son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam 21.20. 1. 10. C, Lev. See 1 Kin. pCp. Kin. 1220 Cp. Jer. 11. 13, 32 3. 8. . x Ezra 4. 2, 10. y ver. 30. Cp. ch. 18. a Seel Kin. 34. 8.65. b ver. 31. ch. 18. 34 & 19. 13. was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day. 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from a Hamath and 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. 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 killed some of them. 25 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast carried away, 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. 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. 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and c1 Kin. 12. dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29. 31 & 13. 32. e ver. 24. f See ver. 17. 9 Cp. ch. 19. 37. 29 Howbeit every nation made gods 1 Kin. 12. 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. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to 9 Adrammelech and Anammelech, the 1 gods of Sepharvaim. 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been car ried away. 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they hver. 24. 1.3. Cp. Zeph. See 1 Kin. 12. 31. k ver. 29. Gen. 32. 28 & 35. 10. 1 10. n See Ex. 20.5. over. 7. Ex. 6. 6. Deut. 4. 34. 9 Deut. 6.13. after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 35 with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, m Ye shall not fear other gods, "nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: 36 but the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and unto him shall ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye sacrifice: 37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, "ye shall r Deut. 5.32. observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods: 38 and the covenant that I have made with you 'ye shall not forget; neither Deut. 4.23. shall ye fear other gods: 39 but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day. I Now it came to pass in Cp. ch. 18 the third year of Hoshea son w 16. 2 & 17. 1. 27. u2 Chr. 28. Matt. 1.9. "For see 2 Chr. 29.1, 2. ver. 2, 3, of Elah king of Israel, that "Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. 4" He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it 3 Nehushtan. 5He trusted in the LORD; the God of Israel; dso that deh. 23. 25. after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6 For he clave to the LORD, he departed 2 Chr. 15. 2. aCp. ch. 16. 7. A Cp. Isai. 14. 29. i ch. 17. 9. J For ver. 9-12, see ch. 17. 9-7. k ch. 17. 6. 1 For 2.1-20 & Isai. 36. 1-22. m Ecclus. 48. 18. not from following him, but kept 9 And it came to pass in the fourth 7 t 20. Cp. Ezek. 29, 6, 7. See Isai. 30, 2, 3, 7. & 2 Chr. 31. 1. come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, 9 Isi. 7. 3. which is in the high way of the Cp. ch. 20. fuller's field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of r Isai. 22.20. Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebnah the 4 scribe, and s Isai. 22. 15. Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 20 Thou sayest, but they are but 6 vain words, There is counNow sel and strength for the war. on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? 21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon 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. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he "whose high u Cp. ver. 4 places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jeru salem? 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then canst 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? 25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 26 Then said "Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian Cp. Ezra language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 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, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you? 28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the The titles of Assyrian officers. 7 Or, make a wager with 13'Now in the fourteenth year of ee 2 Chr. king Hezekiah "did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou a Cp. ch. 23. 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. 15 And Hezekiah Cp. ch. 12. gave him all the silver that was found in the house of, the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 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. 17 And the king of Assyria sent 3p Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were 18 & 12. 8. p Isai. 20, 1. 1 Heb. Sanherib. 4.7 & Dan. 2. 4. |