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Kings, 2nd","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS\n\n4 Kings Chapter 1\n\nOchozias sendeth to consult Beelzebub: Elias foretelleth his death: and\ncauseth fire to come down from heaven, upon two captains and their\ncompanies.\n\n\n1:1. And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.\n\n1:2. And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which\nhe had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them:\nGo, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of\nthis my illness.\n\n1:3. And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\nArise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say\nto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub,\nthe god of Accaron?\n\n1:4. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art\ngone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias\nwent away.\n\n1:5. And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them:\nWhy are you come back?\n\n1:6. But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return\nto the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the\nLord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to\nBeelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from\nthe bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.\n\n1:7. And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and\nspoke these words?\n\n1:8. But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his\nloins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.\n\n1:9. And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were\nunder him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a\nhill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come\ndown.\n\n1:10. And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man\nof God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty.\nAnd there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty\nthat were with him.\n\nLet fire, etc... Elias was inspired to call for fire from heaven upon\nthese captains, who came to apprehend him; not out of a desire to\ngratify any private passion; but to punish the insult offered to\nreligion, to confirm his mission, and to shew how vain are the efforts\nof men against God, and his servants, whom he willeth to protect.\n\n1:11. And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his\nfifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king:\nMake haste and come down.\n\n1:12. Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down\nfrom heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And fire came down from\nheaven, and consumed him and his fifty.\n\n1:13. Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that\nwere with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before\nElias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and\nthe lives of thy servants that are with me.\n\n1:14. Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first\ncaptains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I\nbeseech thee to spare my life.\n\n1:15. And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with\nhim, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king,\n\n1:16. And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent\nmessengers to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there\nwere not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word;\ntherefore, from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come\ndown, but thou shalt surely die.\n\n1:17. So he died, according to the word of the Lord, which Elias spoke;\nand Joram, his brother, reigned in his stead, in the second year of\nJoram, the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had no son.\n\nThe second year of Joram, etc... Counted from the time that he was\nassociated to the throne by his father Josaphat.\n\n1:18. But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n4 Kings Chapter 2\n\nEliseus will not part from Elias. The water of the Jordan is divided by\nElias' cloak. Elias is taken up in a fiery chariot, and his double\nspirit is given to Eliseus. Eliseus healeth the waters by casting in\nsalt. Boys are torn by bears for mocking Eliseus.\n\n2:1. And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias, into\nheaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.\n\nHeaven... By heaven here is meant the air, the lowest of the heavenly\nregions.\n\n2:2. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath\nsent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth,\nand as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come\ndown to Bethel,\n\n2:3. The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to\nEliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will\ntake away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold\nyour peace.\n\nThe sons of the prophets... That is, the disciples of the prophets; who\nseem to have had their schools, like colleges or communities, in Bethel,\nJericho, and other places in the days of Elias and Eliseus.\n\n2:4. And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me\nto Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I\nwill not leave thee.  And when they were come to Jericho,\n\n2:5. The sons of the prophets, that were at Jericho, came to Eliseus,\nand said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away\nthy master from thee? And he said: I also know it: hold your peace.\n\n2:6. And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as\nfar as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul\nliveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together.\n\n2:7. And fifty men, of the sons of the prophets, followed them, and\nstood in sight, at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan.\n\n2:8. And Elias took his mantle, and folded it together, and struck the\nwaters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed\nover on dry ground.\n\n2:9. And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou\nwilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And\nEliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be thy double spirit.\n\nDouble spirit... A double portion of thy spirit, as the eldest son and\nheir: or thy spirit which is double in comparison of that which God\nusually imparteth to his prophets.\n\n2:10. And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if\nthou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast\nasked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.\n\n2:11. And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery\nchariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by\na whirlwind into heaven.\n\n2:12. And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot\nof Israel, and the driver thereof.  And he saw him no more: and he took\nhold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.\n\n2:13. And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going\nback, he stood on the bank of the Jordan;\n\n2:14. And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had fallen\nfrom him, and they were not divided.  And he said: Where is now the God\nof Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided hither and\nthither, and Eliseus passed over.\n\n2:15. And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against\nhim, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And\ncoming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground.\n\nThey worshipped him... viz., with an inferior, yet religious veneration,\nnot for any temporal, but spiritual excellency.\n\n2:16. And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty\nstrong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit\nof the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some monntain, or into\nsome valley. And he said: Do not send.\n\n2:17. But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they\nsent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not.\n\n2:18. And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to\nthem: Did I not say to you?  Do not send.\n\n2:l9. And the men of the city, said to Eliseus: Behold the situation of\nthis city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very\nbad, and the ground barren.\n\n2:20. And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when\nthey had brought it,\n\n2:21. He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into\nit, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there\nshall be no more in them death or barrenness.\n\n2:22. And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of\nEliseus, which he spoke.\n\n2:23. And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by\nthe way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up,\nthou bald head, go up, thou bald head.\n\n2:24. And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the\nLord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of\nthem, two and forty boys.\n\nCursed them... This curse, which was followed by so visible a judgment\nof God, was not the effect of passion, or of a desire of revenging\nhimself; but of zeal for religion, which was insulted by these boys, in\nthe person of the prophet; and of a divine inspiration: God punishing in\nthis manner the inhabitants of Bethel, (the chief seat of the calf\nworship,) who had trained up their children in a prejudice against the\ntrue religion and its ministers.\n\n2:25. And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence he\nreturned to Samaria.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 3\n\nThe kings of Israel, Juda, and Edom, fight against the king of Moab.\nThey want water, which Eliseus procureth without rain: and prophesieth\nvictory. The king of Moab is overthrown, his city is besieged: he\nsacrificeth his firstborn son: so the Israelites raise the siege.\n\n3:1. And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the\neighteenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years.\n\n3:2. And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his\nmother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.\n\n3:3. Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat,\nwho made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.\n\n3:4. Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the\nking of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams,\nwith their fleeces.\n\n3:5. And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with\nthe king of Israel.\n\n3:6. And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all\nIsrael.\n\n3:7. And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is\nrevolted from me: come with me against him to battle. And he answered: I\nwill come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people are thy people: and\nmy horses, thy horses.\n\n3:8. And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the\ndesert of Edom.\n\n3:9. So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom,\nwent, and they fetched a compass of seven days journey, and there was no\nwater for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them.\n\n3:10. And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord hath\ngathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab.\n\n3:11. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that\nwe may beseech the Lord by him?  And one of the servants of the king of\nIsrael answered: Here is Eliseus, the son of Saphat, who poured water on\nthe hands of Elias.\n\n3:12. And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king\nof Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down\nto him.\n\n3:13. And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with\nthee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of\nIsrael said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three\nkings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab?\n\n3:14. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose\nsight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat, king of\nJuda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.\n\n3:15. But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played,\nthe hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:\n\n3:16. Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of\nditches.\n\n3:17. For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet\nthis channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and\nyour families, and your beasts.\n\n3:18. And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover, he\nwill deliver, also, Moab into your hands.\n\n3:19. And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city,\nand shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the\nsprings of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones.\n\n3:20. And it came to pass, in the morning, when the sacrifices used to\nbe offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country\nwas filled with water.\n\n3:21. And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight\nagainst them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon\nthem, and stood in the borders.\n\n3:22. And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and\nshining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them\nred, like blood,\n\n3:23. And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have fought\namong themselves, and they have killed one another: go now, Moab, to the\nspoils.\n\n3:24. And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up,\ndefeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went and\nsmote Moab.\n\n3:25. And they destroyed the cities: And they filled every goodly field,\nevery man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of\nwaters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls\nonly remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part\nthereof destroyed.\n\nBrick walls only remained... It was the proper name of the capital city\nof the Moabites. In Hebrew, Kir-Haraseth.\n\n3:26. And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the enemies had\nprevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to\nbreak in upon the king of Edom: but they could not.\n\n3:27. Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his\nstead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there was\ngreat indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him, and\nreturned into their own country.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 4\n\nMiracles of Eliseus. He raiseth a dead child to life.\n\n4:1. Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus,\nsaying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy\nservant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take\naway my two sons to serve him.\n\n4:2. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee? Tell\nme, what hast thou in thy house?  And she answered: I, thy handmaid,\nhave nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.\n\n4:3. And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels,\nnot a few.\n\n4:4. And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons:\nand pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full,\ntake them away.\n\n4:5. So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons:\nthey brought her the vessels, and she poured in.\n\n4:6. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a\nvessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.\n\n4:7. And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the\noil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.\n\n4:8. And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a\ngreat woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often\nthat way, he turned into her house to eat bread.\n\n4:9. And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of\nGod, who often passeth by us.\n\n4:10. Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed\nin it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he\ncometh to us he may abide there.\n\n4:11. Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the\nchamber, and rested there.\n\n4:12. And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess.  And when\nhe had called her, and she stood before him,\n\n4:13. He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently\nserved us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast\nthou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the\ngeneral of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own\npeople.\n\n4:14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said:\nDo not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.\n\n4:15. Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood\nbefore the door,\n\n4:16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in\ncompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I\nbeseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.\n\n4:17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and\nat the same hour that Eliseus had said.\n\n4:18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his\nfather to the reapers,\n\n4:19. He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said\nto his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother.\n\n4:20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat\nhim on her knees, until noon, and then he died.\n\n4:21. And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and\nshut the door: and going out,\n\n4:22. She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee,\none of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and\ncome again.\n\n4:23. And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him?  to day is neither\nnew moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.\n\n4:24. And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make\nhaste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.\n\n4:25. So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel:\nand when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his\nservant: Behold that Sunamitess.\n\n4:26. Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee,\nand with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well.\n\n4:27. And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold\non his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let\nher alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me,\nand hath not told me.\n\n4:28. And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord?  did I not say to\nthee: Do not deceive me?\n\n4:29. Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy\nhand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man\nsalute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the\nchild.\n\nSalute him not... He that is sent to raise to life the sinner\nspiritually dead, must not suffer himself to be called off, or diverted\nfrom his enterprise, by the salutations or ceremonies of the world.\n\n4:30. But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy\nsoul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed\nher.\n\n4:31. But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face\nof the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet\nhim, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.\n\nSt. Augustine considers a great mystery in this miracle wrought by the\nprophet Eliseus, thus: By the staff sent by his servant is figured the\nrod of Moses, or the Old Law, which was not sufficient to bring mankind\nto life then dead in sin. It was necessary that Christ himself should\ncome, and by taking on human nature, become flesh of our flesh, and\nrestore us to life. In this Eliseus was a figure of Christ, as it was\nnecessary that he should come himself to bring the dead child to life\nand restore him to his mother, who is here, in a mystical sense, a\nfigure of the Church.\n\n4:32. Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay\ndead on his bed:\n\n4:33. And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and\nprayed to the Lord.\n\n4:34. And he went up, and lay upon the child: and put his mouth upon his\nmouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he\nbowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm.\n\n4:35. Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he\nwent up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened\nhis eyes.\n\n4:36. And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And\nshe being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son.\n\n4:37. She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and\ntook up her son, and went out.\n\n4:38. And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the\nland, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one\nof his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of\nthe prophets.\n\n4:39. And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found\nsomething like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field,\nand filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the pot of\npottage; for he knew not what it was.\n\nWild gourds of the field... Colocynthidas. They are extremely bitter,\nand therefore are called the gall of the earth; and are poisonous if\ntaken in a great quantity.\n\n4:40. And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they\nhad tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the pot,\nO man of God.  And they could not eat thereof.\n\n4:41. But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he\ncast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may\neat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot.\n\n4:42. And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of\nGod, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in\nhis scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.\n\n4:43. And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set\nit before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they\nmay eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be\nleft.\n\n4:44. So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left,\naccording to the word of the Lord.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 5\n\nNaaman the Syrian is cleansed of his leprosy. He professeth his belief\nin one God, promising to serve him. Giezi taketh gifts of Naaman, and is\nstruck with leprosy.\n\n5:1. Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man\nwith his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to\nSyria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.\n\n5:2. Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive\nout of the land of Israel, a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's\nwife.\n\n5:3. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the\nprophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the\nleprosy which he hath.\n\n5:4. Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and\nthus said the girl from the land of Israel.\n\n5:5. And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and I will send a letter to\nthe king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of\nsilver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment;\n\n5:6. And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When\nthou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman, my\nservant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy.\n\n5:7. And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his\ngarments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that\nthis man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how\nhe seeketh occasions against me.\n\n5:8. And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the\nking of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast\nthou rent thy garments?  let him come to me, and let him know that there\nis a prophet in Israel.\n\n5:9. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door\nof the house of Eliseus:\n\n5:10. And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven\ntimes in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt\nbe clean.\n\n5:11. Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have\ncome out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord\nhis God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed\nme.\n\n5:12. Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better\nthan all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made\nclean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,\n\n5:13. His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet\nhad bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how\nmuch rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be\nclean?\n\n5:14. Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times, according\nto the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored, like the\nflesh of a little child: and he was made clean.\n\n5:15. And returning to the man of God, with all his train, he came, and\nstood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in\nall the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee, therefore, take a\nblessing of thy servant.\n\nA blessing... a present.\n\n5:16. But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will\nreceive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.\n\n5:17. And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me,\nthy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy\nservant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods,\nbut to the Lord.\n\n5:18. But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for\nthy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship\nthere, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of Remmon,\nwhen he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me, thy\nservant, for this thing.\n\n5:19. And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the\nspring time of the earth.\n\nGo in peace... What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward\nconformity to an idolatrous worship; but only a service which by his\noffice he owed to his master: who on all public occasions leaned on him:\nso that his bowing down when his master bowed himself down was not in\neffect adoring the idols: nor was it so understood by the standers by,\nsince he publicly professed himself a worshipper of the only true and\nliving God, but it was no more than doing a civil office to the king his\nmaster, whose leaning upon him obliged him to bow at the same time that\nhe bowed.\n\n5:20. But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath\nspared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he\nbrought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of\nhim.\n\n5:21. And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after\nhim, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well?\n\n5:22. And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just\nnow there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons\nof the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of\ngarments.\n\n5:23. And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he\nforced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes\nof garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they carried\nthem before him.\n\n5:24. And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them\nfrom their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away,\nand they departed.\n\n5:25. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said:\nWhence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.\n\n5:26. But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back,\nfrom his chariot, to meet thee?  So now thou hast received money, and\nreceived garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen,\nand men-servants, and maid-servants.\n\n5:27. But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy\nseed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 6\n\nEliseus maketh iron to swim upon the water: he leadeth the Syrians that\nwere sent to apprehend him into Samaria, where there eyes being opened,\nthey are courteously entertained. The Syrians besiege Samaria: the\nfamine there causeth a woman to eat her own child. Upon this the king\ncommandeth Eliseus to be put to death.\n\n6:1. And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place\nwhere we dwell with thee is too strait for us.\n\n6:2. Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out of the wood every man\na piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And\nhe said: Go.\n\n6:3. And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He\nanswered: I will come.\n\n6:4. So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan, they\ncut down wood.\n\n6:5. And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of\nthe ax fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas,\nalas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.\n\n6:6. And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the\nplace: Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the\niron swam.\n\n6:7. And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand, and took it.\n\n6:8. And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with\nhis servants, saying: In such and such a place, let us lay an ambush.\n\n6:9. And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that\nthou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.\n\n6:10. And the king of Israel, sent to the place which the man of God had\ntold him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once\nnor twice.\n\n6:11. And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing.\nAnd calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who\nit is that betrays me to the king of Israel?\n\n6:12. And one of his servants said: No one, my lord, O king: but\nEliseus, the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all\nthe words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.\n\n6:13. And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send and\ntake him. And they told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.\n\n6:14. Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength\nof an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.\n\n6:15. And the servant of the man of God, rising early went out, and saw\nan army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him,\nsaying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?\n\n6:16. But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with\nthem.\n\n6:17. And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may\nsee. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and\nbehold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round\nabout Eliseus.\n\n6:18. And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord,\nsaying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the Lord\nstruck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.\n\nBlindness... The blindness here spoken of was of a particular kind,\nwhich hindered them from seeing the objects that were really before\nthem; and represented other different objects to their imagination: so\nthat they no longer perceived the city of Dothan, nor were able to know\nthe person of Eliseus; but were easily led by him, whom they took to be\nanother man, to Samaria. So that he truly told them, this is not the\nway, neither is this the city, etc., because he spoke with relation to\nthe way and to the city, which was represented to them.\n\n6:19. And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this the\ncity: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he led\nthem into Samaria.\n\n6:20. And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open the\neyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes,\nand they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.\n\n6:21. And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My\nfather, shall I kill them?\n\n6:22. And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take\nthem with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set\nbread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to\ntheir master.\n\n6:23. And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate\nand drank; and he let them go: and they went away to their master: and\nthe robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.\n\n6:24. And it came to pass, after these things, that Benadad, king of\nSyria, gathered together all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.\n\n6:25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege\ncontinue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of\nsilver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces\nof silver.\n\n6:26. And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman\ncried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.\n\n6:27. And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee?\nout of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her:\nWhat aileth thee? And she answered:\n\n6:28. This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today,\nand we will eat my son tomorrow.\n\n6:29. So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next\nday: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.\n\n6:30. When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon\nthe wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next\nto his flesh.\n\n6:31. And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add\nmore, if the head of Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him this\nday.\n\n6:32. But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So he\nsent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the\nancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off\nmy head? Look then when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and\nsuffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master's feet is\nbehind him.\n\n6:33. While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was\ncoming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord:\nwhat shall I look for more from the Lord?\n\n4 Kings Chapter 7\n\nEliseus prophesieth a great plenty, which presently ensueth upon the\nsudden flight of the Syrians; of which four lepers bring the news to the\ncity. The incredulous nobleman is trod to death.\n\n7:1. And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the\nLord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold\nfor a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of\nSamaria.\n\nA stater... It is the same as a sicle or shekel.\n\n7:2. Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering\nthe man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can\nthat possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with\nthy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.\n\n7:3. Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and\nthey said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?\n\n7:4. If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and\nif we will remain here, we must also die: come therefore, and let us run\nover to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if\nthey kill us, we shall but die.\n\n7:5. So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp. And when\nthey were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found\nno man there.\n\n7:6. For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of\nchariots, and of horses, and of a very great army: and they said one to\nanother: Behold, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of\nthe Hethites, and of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us.\n\n7:7. Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left their\ntents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled, desiring to\nsave their lives.\n\n7:8. So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they\nwent into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence silver,\nand gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came again, and\nwent into another tent, and carried from thence in like manner, and hid\nit.\n\n7:9. Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day of\ngood tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the morning,\nwe shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go, and tell it in the\nking's court.\n\n7:10. So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We\nwent to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses,\nand asses tied, and the tents standing.\n\n7:11. Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within in the king's\npalace.\n\n7:12. And he arose in the night, and said to his servants: I tell you\nwhat the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine,\nand therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields,\nsaying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and\nthen we may get into the city.\n\n7:13. And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that\nare remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole\nmultitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and let us send and\nsee.\n\n7:14. They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the camp\nof the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.\n\n7:15. And they went after them, as far as the Jordan: and behold, all\nthe way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast\naway, in their fright, and the messengers returned, and told the king.\n\n7:16. And the people going out, pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a\nbushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley\nfor a stater, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n7:17. And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to stand\nat the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the gate;\nand he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down to him.\n\n7:18. And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God,\nwhich he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be\nfor a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time\ntomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.\n\n7:19. When that lord answered the man of God, and said: Although the\nLord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which\nthou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, and\nshalt not eat thereof.\n\n7:20. And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people trod\nupon him in the gate, and he died.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 8\n\nAfter seven years' famine foretold by Eliseus, the Sunamitess returning\nhome, recovereth her lands, and revenues. Eliseus foresheweth the death\nof Benadad, king of Syria, and the reign of Hazael. Joram's wicked reign\nin Juda. He dieth, and his son Ochozias succeedeth.\n\n8:1. And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life,\nsaying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever\nthou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come\nupon the land seven years.\n\n8:2. And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and\ngoing with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines\nmany days.\n\n8:3. And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the\nland of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her\nhouse and for her lands.\n\n8:4. And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God,\nsaying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.\n\n8:5. And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to\nlife, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to\nthe king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord, O king,\nthis is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.\n\n8:6. And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king\nappointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all\nthe revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this\npresent.\n\n8:7. Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad, king of Syria was sick;\nand they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.\n\n8:8. And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to\nmeet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover\nof this my illness?\n\n8:9. And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the\ngood things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood\nbefore him, he said: Thy son, Benadad, the king of Syria, hath sent me\nto thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?\n\n8:10. And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: but the\nLord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.\n\nTell him: thou shalt recover... By these words the prophet signified\nthat the king's disease was not mortal: and that he would recover if no\nviolence were used. Or he might only express himself in this manner, by\nway of giving Hazael to understand that he knew both what he would say\nand do; that he would indeed tell the king he should recover; but would\nbe himself the instrument of his death.\n\n8:11. And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and\nthe man of God wept.\n\n8:12. And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said:\nBecause I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel.\nTheir strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou\nwilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up\ntheir pregnant women.\n\n8:13. And Hazael said: But what am I, thy servant, a dog, that I should\ndo this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that thou\nshalt be king of Syria.\n\n8:14. And when he was departed from Eliseus he came to his master, who\nsaid to him: What said Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me:\nThou shalt recover.\n\n8:15. And on the next day, he took a blanket, and poured water on it,\nand spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his\nstead.\n\n8:16. In the fifth year of Joram, son of Achab, king of Israel, and of\nJosaphat, king of Juda, reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.\n\nAnd of Josaphat, etc... That is, Josaphat being yet alive, who sometime\nbefore his death made his son Joram king, as David had done before by\nhis own son Solomon.\n\n8:17. He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem.\n\n8:18. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of\nAchab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did\nthat which was evil in the sight of the Lord.\n\n8:19. But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake,\nas he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.\n\n8:20. In his days Edom revolted from being under Juda, and made\nthemselves a king.\n\n8:21. And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he\narose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him,\nand the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.\n\n8.22. So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna\nalso revolted at the same time.\n\n8:23. But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n8:24. And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, and Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n8:25. In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of Achab, king of Israel,\nreigned Ochozias, son of Joram, king of Juda.\n\n8:26. Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the\ndaughter of Amri king of Israel.\n\nDaughter... That is, grand-daughter; for she was daughter of Achab son\nof Amri, ver. 18.\n\n8:27. And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil\nbefore the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of\nthe house of Achab.\n\n8:28. He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael,\nking of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:\n\n8:29. And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians\nhad wounded him in Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king of Syria\nAnd Ochozias, the son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to visit Joram,\nthe son of Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 9\n\nJehu is anointed king of Israel, to destroy the house of Achab and\nJezebel. He killeth Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda.\nJezebel is eaten by dogs.\n\n9:1. And Eliseus the prophet, called one of the sons of the prophets,\nand said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil\nin thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad.\n\n9:2. And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the son of\nJosaphat the son of Namsi: and going in, thou shalt make him rise up\nfrom amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber.\n\n9:3. Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it on his\nhead, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over\nIsrael. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay there.\n\n9:4. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went away to Ramoth\nGalaad,\n\n9:5. And went in thither: and behold, the captains of the army were\nsitting, and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said:\nUnto whom of us all?  And he said: To thee, O prince.\n\n9:6. And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured the oil upon\nhis head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have anointed\nthee king over Israel, the people of the Lord.\n\n9:7. And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab, thy master, and I will\nrevenge the blood of my servants, the prophets, and the blood of all the\nservants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel.\n\n9:8. And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from\nAchab, him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and\nthe meanest in Israel.\n\n9:9. And I will make the house of Achab, like the house of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa, the son of Ahias.\n\n9:10. And the dogs shall eat Jezabel, in the field of Jezrahel, and\nthere shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and fled.\n\n9:11. Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his Lord: and they said to\nhim: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to\nthem: You know the man, and what he said.\n\n9:12. But they answered: It is false; but rather do thou tell us. And he\nsaid to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus saith\nthe Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.\n\n9:13. Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it\nunder his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded\nthe trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.\n\n9:14. So Jehu, the son of Josaphat, the son of Namsi, conspired against\nJoram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he, and all Israel,\nfighting with Hazael, king of Syria:\n\n9:15. And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds; for the\nSyrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. And\nJehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or flee out of the\ncity, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.\n\n9:16. And he got up, and went into Jezrahel for Joram was sick there,\nand Ochozias king of Juda, was come down to visit Joram.\n\n9:17. The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw\nthe troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take\na chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all\nwell?\n\n9:18. So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said: Thus saith\nthe king: Are all things peaceable?  And Jehu said: What hast thou to do\nwith peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying: The\nmessenger came to them, but he returneth not.\n\n9:19. And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to them, and\nsaid: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast thou\nto do with peace? pass, and follow me.\n\n9:20. And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but returneth\nnot: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Namsi; for\nhe drives furiously.\n\n9:21. And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made ready his\nchariot: and Joram, king of Israel, and Ochozias, king of Juda, went\nout, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in\nthe field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.\n\n9:22. And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he\nanswered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy\nmother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour.\n\n9:23. And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias: There is\ntreachery, Ochozias.\n\n9:24. But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the\nshoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he\nfell in his chariot.\n\n9:25. And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain: Take him, and cast him into\nthe field of Naboth, the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and thou,\nsitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this man's father, that the Lord\nlaid this burden upon him, saying:\n\n9:26. If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the\nblood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw\nyesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field,\naccording to the word of the Lord.\n\n9:27. But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this, fled by the way of the\ngarden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his\nchariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by\nJeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.\n\n9:28. And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to\nJerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the\ncity of David.\n\n9:29. In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned\nover Juda;\n\n9:30. And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel, hearing of his coming\nin, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and looked\nout of a window.\n\n9:31. At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for\nZambri, that hath killed his master?\n\n9:32. And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this?\nAnd two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.\n\n9:33. And he said to them: Throw her down headlong; And they threw her\ndown, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the\nhorses trod upon her.\n\n9:34. And when he was come in to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see\nafter that cursed woman, and bury her; because she is a king's daughter.\n\n9:35. And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull,\nand the feet, and the extremities of her hands.\n\n9:36. And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of\nthe Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In\nthe field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel.\n\n9:37. And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the\nearth in the field of Jezrahel; so that they who pass by shall say: Is\nthis that same Jezabel?\n\n4 Kings Chapter 10\n\nJehu destroyeth the house of Achab: abolisheth the worship of Baal, and\nkilleth the worshippers: but sticketh to the calves of Jeroboam. Israel\nis afflicted by the Syrians.\n\n10:1. And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote letters, and\nsent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and\nto them that brought up Achab's children, saying:\n\n10:2. As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your master's\nsons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and armour,\n\n10:3. Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your\nmaster's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the\nhouse of your master.\n\n10:4. But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could\nnot stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?\n\n10:5. Therefore they that were over the king's house, and the rulers of\nthe city, and the ancients, and the bringers up of the children, sent to\nJehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatsoever thou shalt command us we\nwill do; we will not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth thee.\n\n10:6. And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be\nmine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and\ncome to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time. Now the king's sons,\nbeing seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.\n\n10:7. And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and\nslew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to\nhim to Jezrahel.\n\n10:8. And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the\nheads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the\nentering in of the gate until the morning.\n\n10:9. And when it was light, he went out, and standing, said to all the\npeople: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him;\nwho hath slain all these?\n\n10:10. See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any of\nthe words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of\nAchab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his\nservant Elias.\n\n10:11. So Jehu slew all that were left of the honse of Achab in\nJezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till\nthere were no remains left of him.\n\n10:12. And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the\nshepherds' cabin in the way,\n\n10:13. He met with the brethren of Ochozias, king of Juda, and he said\nto them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren of\nOchozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons\nof the queen.\n\n10:14. And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and\nkilled them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not\nany of them.\n\n10:15. And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab, the son of\nRechab, coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him: Is\nthy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab said: It is.\nIf it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And he lifted\nhim up to him into the chariot,\n\n10:16. And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So\nhe made him ride in his chariot,\n\n10:17. And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were left of\nAchab, in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the Lord which he\nspoke by Elias.\n\n10:18. And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them:\nAchab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.\n\nI will worship him more... Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship\nBaal, and causing sacrifice to be offered to him: because evil is not to\nbe done, that good may come of it. Rom. 3.8.\n\n10:19. Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his\nservants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great\nsacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting, shall not live.\nNow Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of\nBaal.\n\n10:20. And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,\n\n10:21. And he sent into all the borders of Israel; and all the servants\nof Baal came: there was not one left that did not come. And they went\ninto the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end\nto the other.\n\n10:22. And he said to them that were over the wardrobe: Bring forth\ngarments for all the servants of Baal.  And they brought them forth\ngarments.\n\n10:23. And Jehu, and Jonadab, the son of Rechab, went to the temple of\nBaal, and said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see that there be\nnot any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the\nservants of Baal only.\n\n10:24. And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings: but\nJehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any of\nthe men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth him\ngo, shall answer life for life.\n\n10:25. And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that Jehu\ncommanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them: let\nnone escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge of\nthe sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the temple\nof Baal,\n\n10:26. And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it,\n\n10:27. And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal,\nand made a jakes in its place unto this day.\n\n10:28. So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel:\n\n10:29. But yet he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that\nwere in Bethel, and Dan.\n\n10:30. And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou hast diligently executed\nthat which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house\nof Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit\nupon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.\n\n10:31. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of\nIsrael, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of\nJeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.\n\n10:32. In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael\nravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,\n\n10:33. From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and\nRuben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon, and\nGalaad, and Basan.\n\n10:34. But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his\nstrength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n10:35. And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria:\nand Joachaz, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n10:36. And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was eight\nand twenty years.\n\n4 Kings 11\n\nAthalia's usurpation and tyranny. Joas is made king. Athalia is slain.\n\n11:1. Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead,\narose and slew all the royal seed.\n\n11:2. But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took\nJoas, the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that\nwere slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the\nface of Athalia; so that he was not slain.\n\n11:3. And he was with her six years, hid in the house of the Lord. And\nAthalia reigned over the land.\n\n11:4. And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions and\nsoldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a\ncovenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord,\nshewed them the king's son:\n\n11:5. And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do.\n\n11:6. Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch\nof the king's house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur; and let\na third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers;\nand you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.\n\n11:7. But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep\nthe watch of the house of the Lord about the king.\n\n11:8. And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your\nhands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be\nslain: and you shall be with the king, coming in and going out.\n\n11:9. And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the\npriest, had commanded them: and takiug every one their men, that went in\non the sabbath, with them that went out in the sabbath, came to Joiada,\nthe priest.\n\n11:10. And he gave them the spears, and the arms of king David, which\nwere in the house of the Lord.\n\n11:11. And they stood, having every one their weapons in their hands,\nfrom the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and\nof the temple, about the king.\n\n11:12. And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him,\nand the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and\nclapping their hands, they said: God save the king.\n\nThe testimony... The book of the law.\n\n11:13. And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in\nto the people into the temple of the Lord,\n\n11:14. She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and\nthe singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land\nrejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and\ncried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.\n\nA tribunal... A tribune, or a place elevated above the rest.\n\n11:15. But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and\nsaid to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and\nwhosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the\npriest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.\n\n11:16. And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by\nwhich the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.\n\n11:17. And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and\nthe people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the\nking and the people.\n\n11:18. And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and\nbroke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly:\nthey slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the\npriest set guards in the house of the Lord.\n\n11:19. And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi, and the\nPhelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from\nthe house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the\nshieldbearers into the palace, and he sat on the throne of the kings.\n\n11:20. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:\nbut Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.\n\n11:21. Now Joas was seven years old when he began to reign.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 12\n\nThe temple is repaired. Hazael is bought off from attacking Jerusalem.\nJoas is slain.\n\n12:1. In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned\nforty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee.\n\n12:2. And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days\nthat Joiada, the priest, taught him.\n\n12:3. But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still\nsacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.\n\n12:4. And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified\nthings, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass,\nwhich is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord,\nand of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:\n\nSanctified... That is, dedicated to God's service.-Ibid. The price of a\nsoul... That is, the ordinary oblation, which every soul was to offer by\nthe law. Ex. 30.\n\n12:5. Let the priests take it according to their order and repair the\nhouse, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.\n\n12:6. Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas the priests did\nnot make the repairs of the temple.\n\n12:7. And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests,\nsaying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore,\nmoney no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing\nof the temple.\n\n12:8. And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the\npeople, and to make the repairs of the house.\n\n12:9. And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the\ntop, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into\nthe house of the Lord; and the priests that kept the doors, put therein\nall the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.\n\n\n12:10. And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest,\nthe king's scribe, and the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and\ncounted the money that was found in the house of the Lord.\n\n12:11. And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them\nthat were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it\nout to the carpenters, and the masons, that wrought in the house of the\nLord,\n\n12:12. And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy\ntimber, and stones to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the\nLord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of\nexpenses to uphold the house.\n\n12:13. But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the\nLord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of\ngold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the\nLord:\n\n12:14. For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of\nthe Lord might be repaired.\n\n12:15. And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to\ndistribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.\n\n12:16. But the money for trespass, and the money for sins, they brought\nnot into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.\n\n12:17. Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and fought against Geth, and\ntook it, and set his face to go up to Jerusalem.\n\n12:18. Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the sanctified things,\nwhich Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda,\nhad dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all\nthe silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the\nLord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of Syria,\nand he went off from Jerusalem.\n\n12:19. And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n12:20. And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew\nJoas, in the house of Mello, in the descent of Sella.\n\n12:21. For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer his\nservant, struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his fathers\nin the city of David; and Amasias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\nThe city of David... He was buried in the same city with his fathers,\nbut not in the sepulchres of the kings. 2 Par. 14.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 13\n\nThe reign of Joachaz and of Joas kings of Israel. The last acts and\ndeath of Eliseus the prophet: a dead man is raised to life by the touch\nof his bones.\n\n13:1. In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias, king of\nJuda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu, reigned over Israel, in Samaria,\nseventeen years.\n\n13:2. And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of\nJeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; and he departed not\nfrom them.\n\n13:3. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he\ndelivered them into the hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the\nhand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days.\n\n13:4. But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him:\nfor he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had\noppressed them:\n\n13:5. And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out of\nthe hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their\npavilions as yesterday and the day before.\n\n13:6. But yet they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,\nwho made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a\ngrove also in Samaria.\n\nA grove... Dedicated to the worship of idols.\n\n13:7. And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen,\nand ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had\nslain them, and had brought them low as dust by threshing in the\nbarnfloor.\n\n13:8. But the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his\nvalour, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the\nkings of Israel?\n\n13:9. And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in\nSamaria: and Joas, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n13:10. In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king of Juda, Joas the\nson of Joachaz reigned over Israel, in Samaria, sixteen years.\n\n13:11. And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he\ndeparted not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made\nIsrael to sin; but he walked in them.\n\n13:12. But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his\nvalour wherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n13:13. And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his\nthrone. But Joas was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel.\n\n13:14. Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas,\nking of Israel, went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my\nfather, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the guider thereof.\n\n13:15. And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and arrows. And when he had\nbrought him a bow and arrows,\n\n13:16. He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand upon the bow. And\nwhen he had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands over the king's hands,\n\n13:17. And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened it,\nEliseus said: Shoot an arrow.  And he shot. And Eliseus said: The arrow\nof the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria:\nand thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them.\n\n13:18. And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he said\nto him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three times,\nand stood still.\n\n13:19. And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst\nsmitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to\nutter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.\n\nIf thou hadst smitten, etc... By this it appears that God had revealed\nto the prophet that the king should overcome the Syrians as many times\nas he should then strike on the ground; but as he had not at the same\ntime revealed to him how often the king would strike, the prophet was\nconcerned to see that he struck but thrice.\n\n13:20. And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab\ncame into the land the same year.\n\n13:21. And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the\nbody into the sepulchre of Eliseus.  And when it had touched the bones\nof Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon his feet.\n\n13:22. Now Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the days of\nJoachaz.\n\n13:23. And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of\nhis covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and\nhe would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present\ntime.\n\n13:24. And Hazael, king of Syria, died; and Benadad, his son, reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n13:25. Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took the cities out of the hand of\nBenadad, the son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of\nJoachaz, his father, by war; three times did Joas beat him, and he\nrestored the cities to Israel.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 14\n\nAmasias reigneth in Juda: he overcometh the Edomites: but is overcome by\nJoas king of Israel. Jereboam the second reigneth in Israel.\n\n14:1. In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel, reigned\nAmasias son of Joas, king of Juda.\n\n14:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine\nand twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was\nJoadan, of Jerusalem.\n\n14:3. And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like\nDavid his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father,\ndid:\n\n14:4. But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the\npeople sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:\n\n14:5. And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to\ndeath that had slain the king, his father.\n\n14:6. But the children of the murderers he did not put to death,\naccording to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,\nwherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to\ndeath for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.\n\n14:7. He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits, ten thousand men,\nand took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto\nthis day.\n\n14:8. Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son of Joachaz, son of Jehu,\nking of Israel, saying: Come, let us see one another.\n\nLet us see one another... This was a challenge to fight.\n\n14:9. And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda,\nsaying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus,\nsaying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the\nforest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.\n\n14:10. Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath\nlifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why\nprovokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee?\n\n14:11. But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas, king of Israel, went\nup; and he and Amasias, king of Juda, saw one another in Bethsames, a\ntown in Juda.\n\n14:12. And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every\nman to their dwellings.\n\n14:13. But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king of Juda, the son of\nJoas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into Jerusalem;\nand he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the\ngate of the corner, four hundred cubits.\n\n14:14. And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that\nwere found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, and\nhostages, and returned to Samaria.\n\n14:15. But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour,\nwherewith he fought against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written\nin the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n14:16. And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with\nthe kings of Israel: and Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n14:17. And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda, lived after the death\nof Joas, son of Joachaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.\n\n14:18. And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the\nbook of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n14:19. Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled\nto Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.\n\n14:20. And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in\nJerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.\n\n14:21. And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years\nold, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.\n\n14:22. He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king\nslept with his fathers.\n\n14:23. In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda,\nreigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and\nforty years:\n\n14:24. And he did that which is evil before the Lord.  He departed not\nfrom all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n14:25. He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath,\nunto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord, the\nGod of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas, the son of Amathi,\nthe prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.\n\nOpher... The tribe of Zabulon.\n\n14:26. For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was\nexceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were\nshut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to\nhelp Israel.\n\n14:27. And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of\nIsrael from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the\nson of Joas.\n\n14:28. But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and\nhis valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Emath\nto Juda, in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of the\ndays of the kings of Israel?\n\n14:29. And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and\nZacharias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 15\n\nThe reign of Azarias, and Joatham in Juda: and of Zacharias, Sellum,\nManahem, Phaceia, and Phacee in Israel.\n\n15:1. In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel,\nreigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda.\n\nAzarias... Otherwise called Ozias.\n\n15:2. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\ntwo and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia,\nof Jerusalem.\n\n15:3. And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to\nall that his father, Amasias, had done.\n\n15:4. But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed,\nand burnt incense in the high places.\n\n15:5. And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day\nof his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the\nking's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.\n\nA leper... In punishment of his usurping the priestly function. 2 Par.\n26.\n\n15:6. And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n15:7. And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his\nancestors in the city of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n15:8. In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nZacharias, son of Jeroboam, over Israel, in Samaria, six months:\n\n15:9. And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had\ndone: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who\nmade Israel to sin.\n\n15:10. And Sellum, the son of Jabes, conspired against him: and struck\nhim publicly, and killed him, and reigned in his place.\n\n15:11. Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in\nthe book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n15:12. This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying:\nThy children, to the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of\nIsrael. And so it came to pass.\n\n15:13. Sellum, the son of Jabes, began to reign in the nine and\nthirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda: and reigned one month in\nSamaria.\n\n15:14. And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Thersa, and he came\ninto Samaria, and struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and slew\nhim, and reigned in his stead.\n\n15:15. And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy which he\nmade, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the\nkings of Israel?\n\n15:16. Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it, and the\nborders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he\nslew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up.\n\n15:17. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nManahem, son of Gadi, over Israel, ten years, in Samaria.\n\n15:18. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, all\nhis days.\n\n15:19. And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem\ngave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him\nin the kingdom.\n\n15:20. And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and\nrich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sicles of\nsilver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in\nthe land.\n\n15:21. And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:22. And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n15:23. In the fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned Phaceia,\nthe son of Manahem, over Israel, in Samaria, two years.\n\n15:24. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n15:25. And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain, conspired against\nhim, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near\nArgob, and near Arie, and with him fifty men of the sons of the\nGalaadites, and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.\n\n15:26. And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda, reigned\nPhacee, the son of Romelia, over Israel, in Samaria, twenty years.\n\n15:28. And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not\nfrom the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n15:29. In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar,\nking of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and\nCedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali:\nand carried them captives into Assyria.\n\n15:30. Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against\nPhacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in\nhis stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.\n\nIn the twentieth year of Joatham... That is, in the twentieth year, from\nthe beginning of Joatham's reign. The sacred writer chooses rather to\nfollow here this date than to speak of the years of Achaz, who had not\nyet been mentioned.\n\n15:31. But the rest of the acts of Phacee, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n15:32. In the second year of Phacee, the son of Romelia king of Israel,\nreigned Joatham, son of Ozias, king of Juda.\n\n15:33. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa,\nthe daughter of Sadoc.\n\n15:34. And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all\nthat his father Ozias had done, so did he.\n\n15:35. But the high places he took not away: the people still\nsacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest\ngate of the house of the Lord.\n\n15:36. But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n15:37. In those days the Lord began to send into Juda, Rasin king of\nSyria, and Phacee the son of Romelia.\n\n15:38. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, his father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 16\n\nThe wicked reign of Achaz: the kings of Syria and Israel war against\nhim: he hireth the king of the Assyrians to assist him: he causeth an\naltar to be made after the pattern of that of Damascus.\n\n16:1. In the seventeenth year of Phacee, the son of Romelia reigned\nAchaz, the son of Joatham, king of Juda.\n\n16:2. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nsixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the\nsight of the Lord, his God, as David, his father.\n\n16:3. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he\nconsecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according to\nthe idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of\nIsrael.\n\n16:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on\nthe hills, and under every green tree.\n\n16:5. Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son of Romelia, king of\nIsrael, came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but were\nnot able to overcome him.\n\n16:6. At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and\ndrove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and\ndwelt there unto this day.\n\n16:7. And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar, king of the\nAssyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me\nout of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of\nIsrael, who are risen up together against me.\n\n16:8. And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could\nbe found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, he sent\nit for a present to the king of the Assyrians.\n\n16:9. And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went up\nagainst Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the inhabitants\nthereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew.\n\n16:10. And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of\nthe Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz\nsent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according\nto all the work thereof.\n\n16:11. And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king\nAchaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king\nAchaz came from Damascus.\n\n16:12. And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and\nworshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own\nsacrifice;\n\n16:13. And he offered libations, and poured the blood of the peace\nofferings, which he had offered, upon the altar.\n\n16:14. But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from\nthe face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the\nplace of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar\ntowards the north.\n\n16:15. And king Achaz commanded Urias, the priest, saying: Upon the\ngreat altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and\nthe king's holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole\npeople of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all\nthe blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, thou shalt\npour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.\n\n16:16. So Urias, the priest, did according to all that king Achaz had\ncommanded him.\n\n16:17. And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that was\nupon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held it\nup, and put it upon a pavement of stone.\n\n16:18. The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the\ntemple, and the king's entry from without, he turned into the temple of\nthe Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.\n\nMusach... The covert, or pavilion, or tribune, for the king.\n\n16:19. Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n16:20. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, and Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 17\n\nThe reign of Osee. The Israelites for their sins are carried into\ncaptivity: other inhabitants are sent to Samaria, who make a mixture of\nreligion.\n\n17:1. In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela\nreigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years.\n\nIn the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda... He began to reign before:\nbut was not in quiet possession of the kingdom to the twelfth year of\nAchaz.\n\n17:2. And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel\nthat had been before him.\n\n17:3. Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee\nbecame his servant, and paid him tribute.\n\n17:4. And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring\nto rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might\nnot pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year,\nhe besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison.\n\n17:5. And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he\nbesieged it three years.\n\n17:6. And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took\nSamaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala,\nand Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.\n\n17:7. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the\nLord, their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under\nthe hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.\n\n17:8. And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord\nhad destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings\nof Israel: because they had done in like manner.\n\n17:9. And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with\nthings that were not right: and built them high places in all their\ncities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.\n\n17:10. And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and\nunder every shady tree:\n\n17:11. And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of the\nnations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked\nthings, provoking the Lord.\n\n17:12. And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had\ncommanded them that they should not do this thing.\n\n17:13. And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the\nhand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked\nways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law\nwhich I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of\nmy servants the prophets.\n\n17:14. And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck\nof their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God.\n\n17:15. And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made\nwith their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them:\nand they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the\nnations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had\ncommanded them that they should not do as they did.\n\n17:16. And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and\nmade to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the\nhost of heaven: and they served Baal,\n\n17:17. And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire:\nand they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they\ndelivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.\n\n17:18. And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from\nhis sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.\n\n17:19. But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord,\ntheir God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had\nwrought.\n\n17:20. And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them,\nand delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away\nfrom his face:\n\n17:21. Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of\nDavid, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam\nseparated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.\n\n17:22. And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam,\nwhich he had done: and they departed not from them,\n\n17:23. Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in\nthe hand of all his servants, the prophets: and Israel was carried away\nout of their land to Assyria, unto this day.\n\n17:24. And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and\nfrom Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and\nplaced them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel:\nand they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.\n\n17:25. And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and\nthe Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.\n\n17:26. And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The\nnations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of\nSamaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord\nhath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know\nnot the manner of the God of the land.\n\n17:27. And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither\none of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go,\nand dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of\nthe land.\n\n17:28. So one of the priests, who had been carried away captive from\nSamaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should\nworship the Lord.\n\n17:29. And every nation made gods of their own and put them in the\ntemples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation\nin their cities where they dwelt.\n\n17:30. For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made\nNergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.\n\n17:31. And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and Tharthac.  And they that were\nof Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech,\nthe gods of Sepharvaim.\n\n17:32. And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to\nthemselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and\nthey placed them in the temples of the high places.\n\n17:33. And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own\ngods, according to the custom of the nations out of which they were\nbrought to Samaria:\n\n17:34. Unto this day they follow the old manner: they fear not the Lord,\nneither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the\ncommandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he\nsurnamed Israel:\n\n17:35. With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall\nnot fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor\nsacrifice to them.\n\n17:36. But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,\nwith great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him\nshall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.\n\n17:37. And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment,\nwhich he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you\nshall not fear strange gods.\n\n17:38. And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget:\nneither shall ye worship strange Gods,\n\n17:39. But fear the Lord, your God, and he shall deliver you out of the\nhand of all your enemies.\n\n17:40. But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old\ncustom.\n\n17:41. So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also\ntheir idols: their children also, and grandchildren, as their fathers\ndid, so do they unto this day.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 18\n\nThe reign of Ezechias: he abolisheth idolatry and prospereth.\nSennacherib cometh up against him: Rabsaces soliciteth the people to\nrevolt; and blasphemeth the Lord.\n\n18:1. In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, reigned\nEzechias, the son of Achaz, king of Juda.\n\n18:2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he\nreigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAbi, the daughter of Zacharias.\n\n18:3. And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all\nthat David, his father, had done:\n\n18:4. He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and\ncut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made:\nfor till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he\ncalled its name Nohestan.\n\nAnd he called its name Noheston... That is, their brass; or a little\nbrass. So he called it in contempt, because they had made an idol of it.\n\n18:5. He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel: so that after him there\nwas none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were\nbefore him:\n\n18:6. And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but\nkept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.\n\n18:7. Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which\nhe went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the\nking of the Assyrians, and served him not.\n\n18:8. He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders,\nfrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.\n\n18:9. In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh vear of\nOsee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians,\ncame up to Samaria, and besieged it,\n\n18:10. And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of\nEzechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria\nwas taken:\n\n18:11. And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria,\nand placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the\ncities of the Medes.\n\n18:12. Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God,\nbut transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord,\ncommanded, they would not hear, nor do.\n\n18:13. In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the\nAssyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.\n\n18:14. Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the\nAssyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all\nthat thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians\nput a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of\nsilver, and thirty talents of gold.\n\n18:15. And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of\nthe Lord, and in the king's treasures.\n\n18:16. At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord,\nand the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to\nthe king of the Assyrians.\n\n18:17. And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and\nRabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to\nJerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the\nconduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field.\n\n18:18. And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim,\nthe son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and\nJoahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.\n\n18:19. And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the\ngreat king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein\nthou trustest?\n\n18:20. Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle.\nOn whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?\n\n18:21. Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if\na man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is\nPharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.\n\n18:22. But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not\nhe, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath\ncommanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in\nJerusalem?\n\n18:23. Now therefore come over to my master, the king of the Assyrians,\nand I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to\nhave riders for them.\n\n18:24. And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my\nmaster's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for\nhorsemen?\n\n18:25. Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this\nplace to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and\ndestroy it.\n\n18:26. Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to\nRabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we\nunderstand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in\nthe hearing of the people that are upon the wall.\n\n18:27. And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to thy\nmaster, and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the men\nthat sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink\ntheir urine with you?\n\n18:28. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews'\nlanguage, and said: Hear the word of the great king, the king of the\nAssyrians.\n\n18:29. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall\nnot be able to deliver you out of my hand.\n\n18:30. Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will\nsurely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the\nking of the Assyrians.\n\n18:31. Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the\nAssyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to\nme: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own\nfig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns,\n\n18:32. Till I come, and take you away, to a land, like to your own land,\na fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a\nland of olives, and oil, and honey, and you shall live, and not die.\nHearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will\ndeliver us.\n\n18:33. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the\nhand of the king of Assyria?\n\n18:34. Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad?  where is the god of\nSepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava?  have they delivered Samaria out of my\nhand?\n\n18:35. Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have\ndelivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver\nJerusalem out of my hand?\n\n18:36. But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for\nthey had received commandment from the king that they should not answer\nhim.\n\n18:37. And Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and\nSobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to\nEzechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 19\n\nEzechias is assured of God's help by Isaias the prophet. The king of the\nAssyrians still threateneth and blasphemeth. Ezechias prayeth, and God\npromiseth to protect Jerusalem. An angel destroyeth the army of the\nAssyrians, their king returneth to Nineve, and is slain by his two sons.\n\n19:1. And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments,\nand covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.\n\n19:2. And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna, the\nscribe, and the ancients of the priests, covered with sackcloths, to\nIsaias, the prophet, the son of Amos.\n\n19:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of\ntribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to\nthe birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength.\n\n19:4. It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear all the words of Rabsaces,\nwhom the king of the Assyrians, his master, hath sent to reproach the\nliving God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord, thy God, hath\nheard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.\n\n19:5. So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.\n\n19:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with\nwhich the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.\n\n19:7. Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message,\nand shall return into his own country, and I will make him fall by the\nsword in his own country.\n\n19:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians\nbesieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.\n\n19:9. And when he heard of Tharaca, king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is come\nout to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent messengers to\nEzechias, saying:\n\n19:10. Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of Juda: Let not thy God\ndeceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not\nbe delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n19:11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done\nto all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou alone be\ndelivered?\n\n19:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my\nfathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the\nchildren of Eden, that were in Thelassar?\n\n19:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king\nof the city of Sepharvaim, and of Ana, and of Ava?\n\n19:14. And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the\nmessengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and\nspread it before the Lord,\n\n19:15. And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who\nsittest upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of\nthe earth: thou madest heaven and earth:\n\n19:16. Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and\nhear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the\nliving God.\n\n19:17. Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed\nnations, and the lands of them all.\n\n19:18. And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not\ngods, but the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed\nthem.\n\n19:19. Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all\nthe kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the only God.\n\n19:20. And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made to\nme concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians.\n\n19:21. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin,\nthe daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the\ndaughtor of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.\n\n19:22. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against\nwhom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high?\nagainst the holy one of Israel.\n\n19:23. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and\nhast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the\nheight of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its\ntall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the\nfurthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.\n\nCarmel... A pleasant fruitful hill in the forest. These expressions are\nfigurative, signifying under the names of mountains and forests, the\nkings and provinces whom the Assyrians had triumphed over.\n\n19:24. I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried\nup with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.\n\n19:25. Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the\ndays of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that\nfenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins:\n\nI have formed it, etc... All thy exploits, in which thou takest pride,\nare no more than what I have decreed; and are not to be ascribed to thy\nwisdom or strength, but to my will and ordinance: who have given to thee\nto take and destroy so many fenced cities, and to carry terror wherever\nthou comest.-Ibid. Heaps of ruin... Literally ruin of the hills.\n\n19:26. And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and\nwere confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green\nherb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.\n\n19:27. Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I\nknew before, and thy rage against me.\n\n19:28. Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my\nears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy\nlips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.\n\n19:29. And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what\nthou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of\nthemselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat\nthe fruit of them.\n\n19:30. And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take\nroot downward, and bear fruit upward.\n\n19:31. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which\nshall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do\nthis.\n\n19:32. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the\nAssyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it,\nnor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.\n\n19:33. By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he\nshall not come, saith the Lord.\n\n19:34. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake,\nand for David, my servant's sake.\n\n19:35. And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came,\nand slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five\nthousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies\nof the dead.\n\n19:36. And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and\nhe returned and abode in Ninive.\n\n19:37. And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch, his god,\nAdramelech and Sarasar, his sons, slew him with the sword, and they fled\ninto the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his son, reigned in his\nstead.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 20\n\nEzechias being sick, is told by Isaias that he shall die; but praying to\nGod, he obtaineth longer life, and in confirmation thereof receiveth a\nsign by the sun's returning back. He sheweth all his treasures to the\nambassadors of the king of Babylon: Isaias reproving him for it,\nforetelleth the Babylonish captivity.\n\n20:1. In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias, the son of\nAmos, the prophet, came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give\ncharge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not llve.\n\n20:2. And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord,\nsaying:\n\n20:3. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in\ntruth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing\nbefore thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.\n\n20:4. And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the\nword of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n20:5. Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I\nhave seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day\nthou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.\n\n20:6. And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee\nand this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will\nprotect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.\n\n20:7. And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had\nbrought it, and laid it upon his boil, he was healed.\n\n20:8. And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the\nLord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the\nthird day?\n\n20:9. And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that\nthe Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the\nshadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?\n\n20:10. And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go\nforward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it\nreturn back ten degrees.\n\n20:11. And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the Lord, and he brought the\nshadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone\ndown on the dial of Achaz.\n\n20:12. At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the\nBabylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard\nthat Ezechias had been sick.\n\n20:13. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the\nhouse of his aromatical spices, and the gold, and the silver, and divers\nprecious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all\nthat he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all\nhis dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not.\n\n20:14. And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him:\nWhat said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said\nto him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon.\n\n20:15. And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They\nsaw all the things that are in my house: There is nothing among my\ntreasures that I have not shewed them.\n\n20:16. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord.\n\n20:17. Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and\nthat thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried\ninto Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.\n\n20:18. And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt\nbeget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of\nthe king of Babylon.\n\n20:19. Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast\nspoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.\n\n20:20. And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and all his might, and how\nhe made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda?\n\n20:21. And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses, his son\nreigned in his stead.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 21\n\nThe wickedness of Manasses: God's threats by his prophets. His wicked\nson Amon succeedeth him, and is slain by his servants.\n\n21:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nHaphsiba.\n\n21:2. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols\nof the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the\nchildren of Israel.\n\n21:3. And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his\nfather, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as\nAchab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of\nheaven, and served them.\n\n21:4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord\nsaid: In Jerusalem I will put my name.\n\n21:5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts\nof the temple of the Lord.\n\n21:6. And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations,\nand observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers,\nto do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.\n\nPythons... That is, diviners by spirits.\n\n21:7. He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple\nof the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his\nson: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all\nthe tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.\n\n21:8. And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the\nland, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all\nthat I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant Moses\ncommanded them.\n\n21:9. But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil\nmore than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of\nIsrael.\n\n21:10. And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets,\nsaying:\n\n21:11. Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked\nabominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath\nmade Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:\n\n21:12. Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will\nbring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of\nthem, both his ears shall tingle.\n\n21:13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the\nweight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings\ntables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw\nthe pencil often over the face thereof.\n\n21:14. And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver\nthem into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and\na spoil to all their enemies.\n\n21:15. Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to\nprovoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto\nthis day.\n\n21:16. Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he\nfilled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made\nJuda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.\n\n21:17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and\nhis sin, which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words\nof the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n21:18. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden\nof his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in\nhis stead.\n\n21:19. Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth,\nthe daughter of Harus, of Jeteba.\n\n21:20. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses, his\nfather, had done.\n\n21:21. And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and\nhe served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored\nthem.\n\n21:22. And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in\nthe way of the Lord.\n\n21:23. And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his\nown house.\n\n21:24. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired\nagainst king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead.\n\n21:25. But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not\nwritten in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n21:26. And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and\nhis son, Josias, reigned in his stead.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 22\n\nJosias repaireth the temple. The book of the law is found, upon which\nthey consult the Lord, and are told that great evils shall fall upon\nthem, but not in the time of Josias.\n\n22:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one\nand thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the\ndaughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.\n\n22:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and\nwalked in all the ways of David, his father: he turned not aside to the\nright hand, or to the left.\n\n22:3. And in the eighteenth year of king Josias, the king sent Saphan,\nthe son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the\nLord, saying to him:\n\n22:4 .Go to Helcias, the high priest, that the money may be put together\nwhich is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of\nthe temple have gathered of the people.\n\n22:5. And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house\nof the Lord: and let them distribute it to those that work in the temple\nof the Lord, to repair the temple:\n\n22:6. That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches:\nand that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to repair\nthe temple of the Lord.\n\n22:7. But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which\nthey receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust.\n\n22:8. And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have\nfound the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the\nbook to Saphan, and he read it.\n\nThe book of the law... That is, Deuteronomy.\n\n22:9. And Saphan, the scribe, came to the king, and brought him word\nagain concerning that which he had commanded, and said: Thy servants\nhave gathered together the money that was found in the house of the\nLord: and they have given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the\noverseers of the works of the temple of the Lord.\n\n22:10. And Saphan, the scribe, told the king, saying: Helcias, the\npriest, hath delivered to me a book. And when Saphan had read it before\nthe king,\n\n22:11. And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent\nhis garments.\n\n22:12. And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, the son of\nSaphan, and Achobor, the son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and\nAsaia, the king's servant, saying:\n\n22:13. Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all\nJuda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great\nwrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not\nhearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us.\n\n22:14. So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Sapham, and\nAsaia, went to Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the son of\nThecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in\nJerusalem, in the Second: and they spoke to her.\n\nThe Second... A street, or part of the city, so called; in Hebrew,\nMassem.\n\n22:15. And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:\nTell the man that sent you to me:\n\n22:16. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place,\nand upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the\nking of Juda hath read:\n\n22:17. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my\nindignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be\nquenched.\n\n22:18. But to the king of Juda, who sent you to consult the Lord, thus\nshall you say: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: for as much as\nthou hast heard the words of the book,\n\n22:19. And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled\nthyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the\ninhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a\ncurse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me; I also have\nheard thee; saith the Lord.\n\n22:20. Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be\ngathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the\nevils which I will bring upon this place.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 23\n\nJosias readeth the law before all the people. They promise to observe\nit. He abolisheth all idolatry, celebrateth the phase: is slain in\nbattle by the king of Egypt. The short reign of Joachaz, in whose place\nJoakim is made king.\n\n23:1. And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he\nsent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.\n\n23:2. And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of\nJuda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, and\nthe prophets, and all the people, both little and great: and in the\nhearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant,\nwhich was found in the house of the Lord.\n\n23:3. And the king stood upon the step: and he made a covenant with the\nLord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his\ntestimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all\ntheir soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were\nwritten in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.\n\nThe king stood upon the step... That is, his tribune, or tribunal, a\nmore eminent place, from whence he might be seen and heard by the\npeople.\n\n23:4. And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests\nof the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of\nthe Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove,\nand for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in\nthe valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.\n\n23:5. And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had\nappointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and\nround about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the\nsun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of\nheaven.\n\n23:6. And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the\nLord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there,\nand reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common\npeople.\n\n23:7. He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in\nthe house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little\ndwellings for the grove.\n\n23:8. And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of\nJuda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered\nsacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the\ngates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of the\ncity, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.\n\n23:9. However, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar\nof the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only eat of the unleavened bread among\ntheir brethren.\n\n23:10. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of\nEnnom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter,\nthrough fire, to Moloch.\n\n23:11. And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to\nthe sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber\nof Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the\nchariots of the sun with fire.\n\n23:12. And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of\nAchaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses\nhad made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke\ndown: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the\ntorrent Cedron.\n\n23:13. The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of\nthe Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to\nAstaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab,\nand to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king\ndefiled.\n\n23:14. And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and\nhe filled their places with the bones of dead men.\n\n23:15. Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place,\nwhich Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both\nthe altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to\npowder, and burnt the grove.\n\n23:16. And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that\nwere in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres,\nand burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of\nthe Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.\n\n23:17. And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of\nthat city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from\nJuda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of\nBethel.\n\n23:18. And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his\nbones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out\nof Samaria.\n\n23:19. Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the\ncities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the\nLord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts\nthat he had done in Bethel.\n\n23:20. And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there,\nupon the altars; and he burnt men's bones upon them: and returned to\nJerusalem.\n\n23:21. And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the\nLord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.\n\n23:22. Now there was no such a Phase kept from the days of the judges,\nwho judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of\nthe kings of Juda,\n\n23:23. As was this Phase, that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the\neighteenth year of king Josias.\n\n23:24. Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the\nfigures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had\nbeen in the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might\nperform the words of the law, that were written in the book, which\nHelcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.\n\n23:25. There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the\nLord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his\nstrength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did there\narise any like unto him.\n\n23:26. But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great\nindignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of\nthe provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him.\n\n23:27. And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face,\nas I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which\nI chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.\n\n23:28. Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\n\n23:29. In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, went up against the\nking of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet\nhim: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.\n\n23:30. And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought\nhim to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of\nthe land took Joachaz, the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and\nmade him king in his father's stead.\n\n23:31. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign,\nand he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAmital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.\n\n23:32. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his\nfathers had done.\n\n23:33. And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of\nEmath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon the\nland, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.\n\n23:34. And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son of Josias, king in the\nroom of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took\nJoachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.\n\n23:35. And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had\ntaxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the commandment\nof Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of the people of\nthe land, of every man according to his ability: to give to Pharao\nNechao.\n\n23:36. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida,\nthe daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma.\n\n23:37. And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers\nhad done.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 24\n\nThe reign of Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias.\n\n24:1. In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim\nbecame his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.\n\n24:2. And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the\nrovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children\nof Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the\nword of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets.\n\nThe Lord sent against him the rovers... Latrunculos. Bands or parties of\nmen, who pillaged and plundered wherever they came.\n\n24:3. And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them\nfrom before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;\n\n24:4. And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with\ninnocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.\n\n24:5. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\nAnd Joakim slept with his fathers:\n\n24:6. And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n24:7. And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own\ncountry: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the\nking of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.\n\n24:8. Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta,\nthe daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.\n\n24:9. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father\nhad done.\n\n24:10. At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon,\ncame up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts.\n\n24:11. And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his\nservants, to assault it.\n\n24:12. And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he,\nand his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and\nthe king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.\n\n24:13. And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of\nthe Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces\nall the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the\ntemple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.\n\n24:14. And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all\nthe valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into\ncaptivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the\npoor sort of the people of the land.\n\n24:15. And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother,\nand the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he\ncarried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon.\n\n24:16. And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and\nthe smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men, and fit for war: and\nthe king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.\n\n24:17. And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle, in his stead: and called\nhis name Sedecias.\n\n24:18. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital,\nthe daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.\n\n24:19. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim had\ndone.\n\n24:20. For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till\nhe cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of\nBabylon.\n\n4 Kings Chapter 25\n\nJerusalem is besieged and taken by Nabuchodonosor: Sedecias is taken:\nthe city and temple are destroyed. Godolias, who is left governor, is\nslain. Joachin is exalted by Evilmerodach.\n\n25:1. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth\nmonth, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon,\ncame, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it:\nand raised works round about it.\n\n25:2. And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of\nking Sedecias,\n\n25:3. The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city,\nand there was no bread for the people of the land.\n\n25:4. And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled\nin the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the\nChaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way\nthat leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.\n\n25:5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook\nhim in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him\nwere scattered, and left him:\n\n25:6. So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to\nReblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.\n\n25:7. And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out\nhis eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.\n\n25:8. In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, the same is the\nnineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander of\nthe army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.\n\n25:9. And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the\nhouses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.\n\n25:10. And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander of\nthe troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.\n\n25:11. And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest\nof the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had\ngone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.\n\n25:12. But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and\nhusbandmen.\n\n25:13. And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and\nthe bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the\nChaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.\n\n25:14. They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the\nforks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with\nwhich they ministered.\n\n25:15. Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as were of gold in\ngold: and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the army took\naway.\n\n25:16. That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had\nmade in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was\nwithout weight.\n\n25:17. One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and the chapiter of brass,\nwhich was upon it, was three cubits high: and the network, and the\npomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of\nbrass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.\n\n25:18. And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and\nSophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers:\n\n25:19. And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over the men of\nwar: and five men of them who had stood before the king, whom he found\nin the city, and Sopher, the captain of the army, who exercised the\nyoung soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the\ncommon people, who were found in the city:\n\n25:20. These Nabuzardan, the general of the army, took away, and carried\nthem to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha.\n\n25:21. And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha, in\nthe land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.\n\n25:22. But over the people that remained in the land of Juda, which\nNabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, had left, he gave the government to\nGodolias, the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan.\n\n25:23. And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they\nand the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had\nmade Godolias governor they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael, the son\nof Nathanias, and Johanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of\nThanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias, the son of Maachathi, they\nand their men.\n\n25:24. And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying: Be not\nafraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of\nBabylon, and it shall be well with you.\n\n25:25. But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son of\nNathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men with\nhim, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and the\nChaldees that were with him in Maspha.\n\n25:26. And all the people, both little and great, and the captains of\nthe soldiers, rising up, went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.\n\n25:27. And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the\ncaptivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and\ntwentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year\nthat he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out\nof prison.\n\n25:28. And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the\nthrone of the kings that were with him in Babylon.\n\n25:29. And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate\nbread always before him, all the days of his life.\n\n25:30. And he appointed him a continual allowance, which was also given\nhim by the king, day by day, all the days of his life.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":26295}