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Chronicles, 2nd","Category: History - Religious","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 SECOND BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 1\n\nSolomon offereth sacrifices at Gabaon. His choice of wisdom which God\ngiveth him.\n\n1:1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and\nthe Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a high degree.\n\n1:2. And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of\nthousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of all\nIsrael, and the heads of the families:\n\n1:3. And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon,\nwhere was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the\nservant of God made, in the wilderness.\n\n1:4. For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the\nplace, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a\ntabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.\n\n1:5. And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the son of\nHur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon\nand all the assembly sought it:\n\n1:6. And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before the\ntabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a thousand\nvictims.\n\n1:7. And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou\nwilt that I should give thee.\n\n1:8. And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my\nfather David: and hast made me king in his stead.\n\n1:9. Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou\nhast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy\ngreat people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.\n\n1:10. Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before\nthy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so\ngreat?\n\n1:11. And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased thy\nheart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the\nlives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but hast asked\nwisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people, over which I have\nmade thee king,\n\n1:12. Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee\nriches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee,\nnor after thee, shall be like thee.\n\n1:13. Then Solomon came from the high place of Gabaon to Jerusalem\nbefore the tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned over Israel.\n\n1:14. And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a\nthousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he\nplaced them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in\nJerusalem.\n\n1:15. And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones,\nand cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great\nmultitude.\n\n1:16. And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the\nking's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,\n\n1:17. A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a\nhorse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all the\nkingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 2\n\nSolomon's embassy to Hiram, who sends him a skilful workman and timber.\n\n2:1. And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of the Lord,\nand a palace for himself.\n\n2:2. And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and\neighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six\nhundred to oversee them.\n\n2:3. He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst with\nDavid my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a house, in\nwhich he dwelt:\n\n2:4. So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my\nGod, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with\naromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and for\nthe holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the new\nmoons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which are\ncommanded for Israel.\n\n2:5. For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is\ngreat above all gods.\n\n2:6. Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if heaven, and\nthe heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I that I should be\nable to build him a house? but to this end only, that incense may be\nburnt before him.\n\n2:7. Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work in gold,\nand in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and in blue,\nand that hath skill in engraving, with the artificers, which I have with\nme in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.\n\n2:8. Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from Libanus:\nfor I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus,\nand my servants shall be with thy servants,\n\n2:9. To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to\nbuild, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.\n\n2:10. And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut down the\ntrees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many cores\nof barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and twenty thousand\nmeasures of oil.\n\n2:11. And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying: Because\nthe Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee king over\nthem.\n\n2:12. And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who\nmade heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing\nson, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the\nLord, and a palace for himself.\n\n2:13. I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most\nskilful man,\n\n2:14. The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a\nTyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in\niron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also, and violet, and silk\nand scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and to devise\ningeniously all that there may be need of in the work with thy\nartificers, and with the artificers of my lord David thy father.\n\n2:15. The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the wine,\nwhich thou, my lord, hast promised, send to thy servants.\n\n2:16. And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as thou shalt\nwant, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe: and it will be thy\npart to bring them thence to Jerusalem.\n\n2:17. And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel,\nafter the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found\na hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.\n\n2:18. And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their\nshoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three\nthousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 3\n\nThe plan and ornaments of the temple: the cherubims, the veil, and the\npillars.\n\n3:1. And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in\nmount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place\nwhich David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.\n\n3:2. And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of\nhis reign.\n\n3:3. Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the\nhouse of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth\ntwenty cubits.\n\n3:4. And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according\nto the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the\nheight was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with\npure gold.\n\n3:5. And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them\nwith plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees,\nand like little chains interlaced with one another.\n\n3:6. He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious marble, of\ngreat beauty.\n\n3:7. And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the house, and\nthe beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of\nthe finest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.\n\n3:8. He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it\naccording to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth\nof it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of\ngold, amounting to about six hundred talents.\n\n3:9. He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail was fifty\nsicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with gold.\n\n3:10. He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims of\nimage work: and he overlaid them with gold.\n\n3:11. The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that\none wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and\nthe other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the\nother cherub.\n\n3:12. In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five cubits long,\nand reached to the wall: and his other wing was five cubits long, and\ntouched the wing of the other cherub.\n\n3:13. So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and were\nextended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet, and their\nfaces were turned toward the house without.\n\n3:14. He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk: and\nwrought in it cherubims.\n\n3:15. He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which\nwere five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.\n\n3:16. He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put\nthem on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he\nput between the little chains.\n\n3:17. These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the\nright hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand,\nhe called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.\n\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 4\n\nThe altar of brass, the molten sea upon twelve oxen, the ten loaves, the\ncandlesticks and other vessels and ornaments of the temple.\n\n4:1. He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty\ncubits broad, and ten cubits high.\n\n4:2. Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in\ncompass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed\nit round about.\n\n4:3. And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain engravings\non the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were\nwith two rows.\n\n4:4. And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve\noxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward the\nwest: and other three toward the south, and the other three that\nremained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder\nparts of the oxen were inward under the sea.\n\n4:5. Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was\nlike the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand\nmeasures.\n\n4:6. He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and\nfive on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer\nfor holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.\n\n4:7. And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which\nthey were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five\non the right hand, and five on the left.\n\n4:8. Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on\nthe right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.\n\n4:9. He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors\nin the hall, which he covered with brass.\n\n4:10. And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward\nthe south.\n\n4:11. And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished\nall the king's work the house of God:\n\n4:12. That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the\nchapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.\n\n4:13. And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that\ntwo rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the\npommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.\n\n4:14. He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:\n\n4:15. One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;\n\n4:16. And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did\nHiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest\nbrass.\n\n4:17. In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay\nground between Sochot and Saredatha.\n\n4:18. And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight\nof the brass was not known.\n\n4:19. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the\ngolden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of proposition,\n\n4:20. The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give\nlight before the oracle, according to the manner.\n\n4:21. And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of\nthe finest gold.\n\n4:22. The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the bowls,\nand the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner\ntemple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the temple\nwithout were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which Solomon\nmade in the house of the Lord.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 5\n\nThe ark is brought with great solemnity into the temple: the temple is\nfilled with the glory of God.\n\n5:1. Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had\nvowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the\ntreasures of the house of God.\n\n5:2. And after this he gathered together the ancients of Israel and all\nthe princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families, of the\nchildren of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of the\nLord out of the city of David, which is Sion.\n\n5:3. And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of the\nseventh month.\n\n5:4. And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up\nthe ark,\n\n5:5. And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the\ntabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the\nsanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.\n\n5:6. And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel and all that were\ngathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without\nnumber: so great was the multitude of the victims.\n\n5:7. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into\nits place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies\nunder the wings of the cherubims:\n\n5:8. So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place, in which\nthe ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its staves.\n\n5:9. Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because\nthey were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man\nwere a little outward, he could not see them.  So the ark has been there\nunto this day.\n\n5:10. And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables which\nMoses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the children of\nIsrael, at their coming out of Egypt.\n\n5:11. Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, for all the\npriests that could be found there, were sanctified: and as yet at that\ntime the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among\nthem,\n\n5:12. Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both they that were\nunder Asaph, and they that were under Heman, and they that were under\nIdithun, with their sons, and their brethren, clothed with fine linen,\nsounded with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps, standing on the east\nside of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests, sounding\nwith trumpets.\n\n5:13. So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice,\nand cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments,\nand lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so that\nwhen they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the Lord\nfor he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God was\nfilled with a cloud.\n\n5:14. Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the cloud.\nFor the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 6\n\nSolomon's blessings and prayer.\n\n6:1. Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell in a\ncloud.\n\n6:2. But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell there for\never.\n\n6:3. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the multitude of\nIsrael for all the multitude stood attentive and he said:\n\n6:4. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath accomplished in\ndeed that which he spoke to David my father, saying:\n\n6:5. From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I\nchose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in\nit to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my\npeople Israel.\n\n6:6. But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose\nDavid to set him over my people Israel.\n\n6:7. And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name\nof the Lord the God of Israel,\n\n6:8. The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house\nto my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:\n\n6:9. But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who shall come out\nof thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n6:10. The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he spoke: and\nI am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit upon the throne\nof Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of\nthe Lord God of Israel.\n\n6:11. And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord,\nwhich he made with the children of Israel.\n\n6:12. And he stood before the altar of the Lord, in presence of all the\nmultitude of Israel, and stretched forth his hands.\n\n6:13. For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in the\nmidst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five cubits broad,\nand three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then kneeling down in the\npresence of all the multitude of Israel, and lifting up his hands\ntowards heaven,\n\n6:14. He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven\nnor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that\nwalk before thee with all their hearts:\n\n6:15. Who hast performed to thy servant David my father all that thou\nhast promised him: and hast accomplished in fact, what thou hast spoken\nwith thy mouth, as also the present time proveth.\n\n6:16. Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfil to thy servant David my\nfather, whatsoever thou hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail\nthee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of Israel: yet so that\nthy children take heed to their ways, and walk in my law, as thou hast\nwalked before me.\n\n6:17. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established which\nthou hast spoken to thy servant David.\n\n6:18. Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth?\nIf heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less\nthis house, which I have built?\n\n6:19. But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the\nprayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest\nhear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.\n\n6:20. That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon\nthe place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called\nupon,\n\n6:21. And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant prayeth in\nit: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people\nIsrael. Whosoever shall pray in its place, hear thou from thy dwelling\nplace, that is, from heaven, and shew mercy.\n\n6:22. If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear against\nhim, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house:\n\n6:23. Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to\nrequite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and\nto revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.\n\n6:24. If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for they will\nsin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance, and call upon\nthy name, and pray to thee in this place,\n\n6:25. Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people\nIsrael and bring them back into the land which thou gavest to them, and\ntheir fathers.\n\n6:26. If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by reason of the\nsin of the people, and they shall pray to thee in this place, and\nconfess to thy name, and be converted from their sins, where thou dost\nafflict them,\n\n6:27. Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy\nservants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which\nthey may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy\npeople to possess.\n\n6:28. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or blasting, or\nmildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their enemies waste the\ncountry, and besiege the cities, whatsoever scourge or infirmity shall\nbe upon them:\n\n6:29. Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge and\ninfirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,\n\n6:30. Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive,\nand render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to\nhave in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of\nmen:\n\n6:31. That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that\nthey live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our\nfathers.\n\n6:32. If the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, come from a\nfar country, for the sake of thy great name, and thy strong hand, and\nthy stretched out arm, and adore in this place:\n\n6:33. Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that\nwhich that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of the\nearth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel, and\nmay know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.\n\n6:34. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by the way that\nthou shalt send them, and adore thee towards the way of this city, which\nthou hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:\n\n6:35. Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their supplications,\nand revenge them.\n\n6:36. And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth\nnot) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies,\nand they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at\nhand,\n\n6:37. And if they be converted in their heart in the land to which they\nwere led captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in the land of their\ncaptivity saying: We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have dealt\nunjustly:\n\n6:38. And return to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul,\nin the land of their captivity, to which they were led away, and adore\nthee towards the way of their own land which thou gavest their fathers,\nand of the city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have\nbuilt to thy name:\n\n6:39. Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm dwelling place,\ntheir prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy people, although they\nhave sinned:\n\n6:40. For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and\nlet thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.\n\n6:41. Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and\nthe ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation,\nand thy saints rejoice in good things.\n\n6:42. O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the\nmercies of David thy servant.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 7\n\nFire from heaven consumeth the sacrifices. The solemnity of the\ndedication of the temple. God signifieth his having heard Solomon's\nprayer: yet so if he continue to serve him.\n\n7:1. And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, fire came down from\nheaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and the majesty of\nthe Lord filled the house.\n\n7:2. Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the Lord,\nbecause the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:3. Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and\nthe glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces\nto the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the\nLord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n7:4. And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before the Lord.\n\n7:5. And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen,\nand one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the\npeople dedicated the house of God.\n\n7:6. And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites with the\ninstruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to praise the\nLord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the hymns of David by\ntheir ministry: and the priests sounded with trumpets before them, and\nall Israel stood.\n\n7:7. Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple\nof the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the\npeace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not\nhold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:\n\n7:8. And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days, and all\nIsrael with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Emath\nto the torrent of Egypt.\n\n7:9. And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because he had\nkept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had celebrated the\nsolemnity seven days.\n\n7:10. So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent\naway the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that\nthe Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all Israel his\npeople.\n\n7:11. And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house,\nand all that he had designed in his heart to do, in the house of the\nLord, and in his own house, and he prospered.\n\n7:12. And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy\nprayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.\n\n7:13. If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders,\nand command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among\nmy people:\n\n7:14. And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall\nmake supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their\nmost wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their\nsins and will heal their land.\n\n7:15. My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of\nhim that shall pray in this place.\n\n7:16. For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name\nmay be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there\nperpetually.\n\n7:17. And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father\nwalked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my\njustices and my judgments:\n\n7:18. I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised to David\nthy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be\nruler in Israel.\n\n7:19. But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments\nwhich I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and\nadore them,\n\n7:20. I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given\nyou: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away\nfrom before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all\nnations.\n\n7:21. And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and\nthey shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this\nland, and to this house?\n\n7:22. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of\ntheir fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold\non strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all\nthese evils are come upon them.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 8\n\nSolomon's buildings and other acts.\n\n8:1. And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of\nthe Lord and his own house:\n\n8:2. He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused\nthe children of Israel to dwell there.\n\n8:3. He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.\n\n8:4. And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong\ncities in Emath.\n\n8:5. And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether,\nwalled cities with gates and bars and locks.\n\n8:6. Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon's, and all\nthe cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen.  All that\nSolomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus,\nand in all the land of his dominion.\n\n8:7. All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites,\nand the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of\nthe stock of Israel:\n\n8:8. Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of\nIsrael had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this day.\n\n8:9. But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king's\nworks: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his\nchariots and horsemen.\n\n8:10. And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred\nand fifty, who taught the people.\n\n8:11. And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to\nthe house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall\nnot dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified:\nbecause the ark of the Lord came into it.\n\n8:12. Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the\nLord which he had built before the porch,\n\n8:13. That every day an offering might be made on it according to the\nordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the\nfestival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of\nunleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of\ntabernacles.\n\n8:14. And he appointed according to the order of David his father the\noffices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their\norder to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the\nduty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate:\nfor so David the man of God had commanded.\n\n8:15. And the priests and Levites departed not from the king's\ncommandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the\nkeeping of the treasures.\n\n8:16. Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded the\nhouse of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.\n\n8:17. Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of\nthe Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.\n\n8:18. And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and skilful\nmariners, and they went with Solomon's servants to Ophir, and they took\nthence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to king\nSolomon.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 9\n\nThe queen of Saba admireth the wisdom of Solomon. His riches and glory.\nHis death.\n\n9:1. And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came\nto try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and\ncamels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and precious\nstones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed to him all that\nwas in her heart.\n\n9:2. And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and there was\nnot any thing that he did not make clear unto her.\n\n9:3. And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of Solomon,\nand the house which he had built,\n\n9:4. And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his\nservants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his\ncupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered in\nthe house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so\nastonished.\n\n9:5. And she said to the king: The word is true which I heard in my\ncountry of thy virtues and wisdom.\n\n9:6. I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had\nseen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told\nme: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues.\n\n9:7. Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always\nbefore thee, and hear thy wisdom.\n\n9:8. Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on\nhis throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and\nwill preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them,\nto do judgment and justice.\n\n9:9. And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and\nspices in great abundance, and most precious stones: there were no such\nspices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.\n\n9:10. And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of Solomon,\nbrought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most precious stones:\n\n9:11. And the king made of the thyine trees stairs in the house of the\nLord, and in the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singing\nmen: never were there seen such trees in the land of Juda.\n\n9:12. And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired,\nand that she asked, and many more things than she brought to him: so she\nreturned, and went to her own country with her servants.\n\n9:13. And the weight of the gold, that was brought to Solomon every\nyear, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:\n\n9:14. Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the\nmerchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the\nlords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon.\n\n9:15. And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six\nhundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:\n\n9:16. And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold,\nwhich went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in the\narmoury, which was compassed with a wood.\n\n9:17. The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with\npure gold.\n\n9:18. And six steps to go up to the throne, and a footstool of gold, and\ntwo arms one on either side, and two lions standing by the arms:\n\n9:19. Moreover twelve other little lions standing upon the steps on both\nsides: there was not such a throne in any kingdom.\n\n9:20. And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and the\nvessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold.\nFor no account was made of silver in those days.\n\n9:21. For the king's ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram,\nonce in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and ivory,\nand apes, and peacocks.\n\n9:22. And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for\nriches and glory.\n\n9:23. And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of Solomon,\nthat they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his heart.\n\n9:24. And every year they brought him presents, vessels of silver and of\ngold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.\n\n9:25. And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and twelve\nthousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of the\nchariots and where the king was in Jerusalem.\n\n9:26. And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river\nEuphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.\n\n9:27. And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars\nas common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.\n\n9:28. And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of all\ncountries.\n\n9:29. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are written in\nthe words of Nathan the prophet, and in the books of Ahias the Silonite,\nand in the vision of Addo the seer, against Jeroboam the son of Nabat.\n\n9:30. And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.\n\n9:31. And he slept with his fathers: and they buried him in the city of\nDavid: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 10\n\nRoboam answereth the people roughly: upon which ten tribes revolt.\n\n10:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were assembled,\nto make him king.\n\n10:2. And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt, (for he was\nfled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.\n\n10:3. And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke\nto Roboam, saying:\n\n10:4. Thy father oppressed with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us\nwith a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude,\nand ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.\n\n10:5. And he said to them: Come to me again after three days.  And when\nthe people were gone,\n\n10:6. He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father\nSolomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I\nmay answer the people?\n\n10:7. And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them\nwith kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.\n\n10:8. But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat\nwith the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his\ntrain.\n\n10:9. And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I\nanswer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father\nlaid upon us?\n\n10:10. But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in\npleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to\nthee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou\nanswer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.\n\n10:11. My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more weight\nto it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with\nscorpions.\n\n10:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as\nhe commanded them.\n\n10:13. And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the\nancients.\n\n10:14. And he spoke according to the advice of the young men: My father\nlaid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat\nyou with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.\n\n10:15. And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it was the\nwill of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had spoken by the\nhand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.\n\n10:16. And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said thus\nunto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai.\nReturn to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David feed thy own\nhouse. And Israel went away to their dwellings.\n\n10:17. But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt in the\ncities of Juda.\n\n10:18. And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes, and the\nchildren of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made haste\nto get up into his chariot, and fled into Jerusalem.\n\n10:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this day.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 11\n\nRoboam's reign. His kingdom is strengthened.\n\n11:1. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the house of\nJuda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men and\nwarriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to him.\n\n11:2. And the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God, saying:\n\n11:3. Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and to all\nIsrael, in Juda and Benjamin:\n\n11:4. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your\nbrethren: let every man return to his own house, for by my will this\nthing has been done. And when they heard the word of the Lord, they\nreturned, and did not go against Jeroboam,\n\n11:5. And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in Juda.\n\n11:6. And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Thecue,\n\n11:7. And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,\n\n11:8. And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,\n\n11:9. And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,\n\n11:10. Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Juda and\nBenjamin, well fenced cities.\n\n11:11. And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them\ngovernors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of wine.\n\n11:12. Moreover in every city he made an armoury of shields and spears,\nand he fortified them with great diligence, and he reigned over Juda,\nand Benjamin,\n\n11:13. And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel, came to him\nout of all their seats,\n\n11:14. Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing over to\nJuda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off,\nfrom executing the priestly office to the Lord.\n\n11:15. And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the\ndevils, and for the calves which he had made.\n\n11:16. Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave their\nheart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to\nsacrifice their victims before the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n11:17. And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and established Roboam\nthe son of Solomon for three years: for they walked in the ways of David\nand of Solomon, only three years.\n\n11:18. And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the\nson of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.\n\n11:19. And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somorias, and Zoom.\n\n11:20. And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom, who bore\nhim Abia, and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.\n\n11:21. And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his\nwives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore\nconcubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore\ndaughters.\n\n11:22. But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to be the\nchief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him king,\n\n11:23. Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and in all\nthe countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the walled cities:\nand he gave them provisions in abundance, and he sought many wives.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 12\n\nRoboam for his sins is delivered up into the hands of the king of Egypt:\nwho carrieth away all the treasures of the temple.\n\n12:1. And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he\nforsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.\n\n12:2. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt\ncame up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against the Lord)\n\n12:3. With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and\nthe people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit,\nLibyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.\n\n12:4. And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to Jerusalem.\n\n12:5. And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of\nJuda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and\nhe said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left\nyou in the hand of Sesac.\n\n12:6. And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation,\nsaid: The Lord is just.\n\n12:7. And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of the Lord\ncame to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy\nthem, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath shall not fall\nupon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.\n\n12:8. But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference\nbetween my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.\n\n12:9. So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the\ntreasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden\nshields that Solomon had made,\n\n12:10. Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to\nthe captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the\npalace.\n\n12:11. And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the\nshieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to their\narmoury.\n\n12:12. But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord turned\naway from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda\nthere were found good works.\n\n12:13. King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned:\nhe was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nseventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all\nthe tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his\nmother was Naama an Ammonitess.\n\n12:14. But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.\n\n12:15. Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the books of\nSemeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded: and\nthere was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their days.\n\n12:16. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 13\n\nAbia's reign: his victory over Jeroboam.\n\n13:1. In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned over Juda.\n\n13:2. Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was\nMichaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia\nand Jeroboam.\n\nMichaia... Alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom,\nor Abessalom, and Uriel.\n\n13:3. And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four hundred\nthousand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array\nagainst him, eight hundred thousand men, who were also chosen and most\nvaliant for war.\n\n13:4. And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim, and said:\nHear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:\n\n13:5. Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the\nkingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of\nsalt?\n\nA covenant of salt... That is, a firm and perpetual covenant. See Num.\n18.19.\n\n13:6. And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the son of\nDavid, rose up: and rebelled against his lord.\n\n13:7. And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial:\nand they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was\nunexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.\n\n13:8. And now you say that you are able to withstand the kingdom of the\nLord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and you have a great\nmultitude of people, and golden calves, which Jeroboam hath made you for\ngods.\n\n13:9. And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron,\nand the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of\nthe earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of\nthe herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no\ngods.\n\n13:10. But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the priests who\nminister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their\norder.\n\n13:11. And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and\nevening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the\nloaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the\ngolden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the\nevening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have\nforsaken.\n\n13:12. Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who\nsound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel,\nfight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good\nfor you.\n\n13:13. While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to\ncome about behind him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he\nencompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with his army.\n\n13:14. And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming upon them\nboth before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests\nbegan to sound with the trumpets.\n\n13:15. And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they shouted,\nGod terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia and Juda.\n\n13:16. And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord\ndelivered them into their hand.\n\n13:17. And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter, and\nthere fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant men.\n\n13:18. And the children of Israel were brought down, at that time, and\nthe children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened, because they had\ntrusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n13:19. And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel\nand her daughters, and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and her\ndaughters.\n\n13:20. And Jeroboam was not able to resist any more, in the days of\nAbia: and the Lord struck him, and he died.\n\n13:21. But Abia, being strengthened in his kingdom, took fourteen wives:\nand begot two and twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.\n\n13:22. And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of his ways and works, are\nwritten diligently in the book of Addo the prophet.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 14\n\nThe reign of Asa: his victory over the Ethiopians.\n\n14:1. And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof David: an Asa his son reigned in his stead: in his days the land was\nquiet ten years.\n\n14:2. And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his\nGod, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high\nplaces.\n\n14:3. And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.\n\n14:4. And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers,\nand to do the law, and all the commandments.\n\n14:5. And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and\ntemples, and reigned in peace.\n\n14:6. He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was quiet, and there\nhad no wars risen in his time, the Lord giving peace.\n\n14:7. And he said to Juda: Let us build these cities, and compass them\nwith walls, and fortify them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all\nis quiet from wars, because we have sought the Lord the God of our\nfathers, and he hath given us peace round about. So they built, and\nthere was no hinderance in building.\n\n14:8. And Asa had in his army of men that bore shields and spears of\nJuda three hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and drew\nbows, two hundred and eighty thousand, all these were most valiant men.\n\n14:9. And Zara the Ethiopian came out against them with his army of ten\nhundred thousand men, and with three hundred chariots: and he came as\nfar as Maresa.\n\n14:10. And Asa went out to meet him, and set his army in array for\nbattle in the vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa:\n\n14:11. And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no\ndifference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us,\nO Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come\nagainst this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail\nagainst thee.\n\n14:12. And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians before Asa and Juda: and\nthe Ethiopians fled.\n\n14:13. And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerara:\nand the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord slew\nthem, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed. And\nthey took abundance of spoils,\n\n14:14. And they took all the cities round about Gerara: for a great fear\nwas come upon all men: and they pillaged the cities, and carried off\nmuch booty.\n\n14:15. And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number of\ncattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 15\n\nThe prophecy of Azarias. Asa's covenant with God. He deposeth his\nmother.\n\n15:1. And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,\n\n15:2. And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and\nall Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with\nhim. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will\nforsake you.\n\n15:3. And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and\nwithout a priest a teacher, and without the law.\n\n15:4. And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God\nof Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.\n\n15:5. At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and\ncometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the\nearth.\n\n15:6. For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for\nthe Lord will trouble them with all distress.\n\n15:7. Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened:\nfor there shall be a reward for your work.\n\n15:8. And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the\nson of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of\nall the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of\nmount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the\nLord, which was before the porch of the Lord.\n\n15:9. And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers\nwith them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over\nto him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.\n\n15:10. And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the\nfifteenth year of the reign of Asa,\n\n15:11. They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the\nprey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand\nrams.\n\n15:12. And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should\nseek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with\nall their soul.\n\n15:13. And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let\nhim die, whether little or great, man or woman.\n\n15:14. And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful\nshouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,\n\n15:15. All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they\nswore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and\nthe Lord gave them rest round about.\n\n15:16. Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal\nauthority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he\nentirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the\ntorrent Cedron.\n\n15:17. But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of\nAsa was perfect all his days.\n\n15:18. And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had\nvowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and\nvessels of divers uses.\n\n15:19. And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the\nkingdom of Asa.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 16\n\nAsa is reproved for seeking help from the Syrians: his last acts and\ndeath.\n\n16:1. And in the six and thirtieth year of his kingdom, Baasa the king\nof Israel came up against Juda, and built a wall about Rama, that no one\nmight safely go out or come in of the kingdom of Asa.\n\nSix and thirtieth year of his kingdom... That is, of the kingdom of\nJuda, taking the date of it from the beginning of the reign of Reboam.\n\n16:2. Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the\nhouse of the Lord, and of the king's treasures, and sent to Benadad king\nof Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:\n\n16:3. There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my\nfather and thy father, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that\nthou mayst break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, and make him\ndepart from me.\n\n16:4. And when Benadad heard this, he sent the captains of his armies\nagainst the cities of Israel: and they took Ahion, and Dan, and\nAbelmaim, and all the walled cities of Nephtali.\n\n16:5. And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and\ninterrupted his work.\n\n16:6. Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the\nstones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he\nbuilt with them Gabaa, and Maspha.\n\n16:7. At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and said\nto him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and not\nin the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria\nescaped out of thy hand.\n\n16:8. Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in\nchariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because\nthou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand?\n\n16:9. For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength\nto those who with a perfect heart trust in him.  Wherefore thou hast\ndone foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise\nagainst thee.\n\n16:10. And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in\nprison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to\ndeath many of the people at that time.\n\n16:11. But the works of Asa the first and last are written in the book\nof the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n16:12. And Asa fell sick in the nine and thirtieth year of his reign, of\na most violent pain in his feet, and yet in his illness he did not seek\nthe Lord, but rather trusted in the skill of physicians.\n\n16:13. And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and\nfortieth year of his reign.\n\n16:14. And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for\nhimself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of\nspices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the\nperfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 17\n\nJosaphat's reign: his care for the instruction of his people: his\nnumerous forces.\n\n17:1. And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against\nIsrael.\n\n17:2. And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of\nJuda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of\nEphraim, which Asa his father had taken.\n\n17:3. And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first\nways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,\n\n17:4. But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and\nnot according to the sins of Israel.\n\n17:5. And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda\nbrought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much\nglory.\n\n17:6. And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he\ntook away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.\n\n17:7. And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes\nBenhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach\nin the cites of Juda:\n\n17:8. And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias,\nand Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and\nThobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests.\n\n17:9. And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of\nthe law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and\ninstructed the people.\n\n17:10. And the fear of the Lord came upon all the kingdoms of the lands\nthat were round about Juda, and they durst not make war against\nJosaphat.\n\n17:11. The Philistines also brought presents to Josaphat, and tribute in\nsilver, and the Arabians brought him cattle, seven thousand seven\nhundred rams, and as many he goats.\n\n17:12. And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding great: and he built in\nJuda houses like towers, and walled cities.\n\n17:13. And he prepared many works in the cities of Juda: and he had\nwarriors, and valiant men in Jerusalem.\n\n17:14. Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every\none: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three\nhundred thousand most valiant men.\n\n17:15. After him Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and\neighty thousand.\n\n17:16. And after him was Amasias the son of Zechri, consecrated to the\nLord, and with him were two hundred thousand valiant men.\n\n17:17. After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and with him two hundred\nthousand armed with bow and shield.\n\n17:18. After him also was Jozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty\nthousand ready for war.\n\n17:19. All these were at the hand of the king, beside others, whom he\nhad put in the walled cities, in all Juda.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 18\n\nJosaphat accompanies Achab in his expedition against Ramoth; where Achab\nis slain, as Micheas had foretold.\n\n18:1. Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and was joined by\naffinity to Achab.\n\n18:2. And he went down to him after some years to Samaria: and Achab at\nhis coming killed sheep and oxen in abundance for him and the people\nthat came with him: and he persuaded him to go up to Ramoth Galaad.\n\n18:3. And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda: Come with\nme to Ramoth Galaad. And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my\npeople as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war.\n\n18:4. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee,\nat present the word of the Lord.\n\n18:5. So the king of Israel gathered together of the prophets four\nhundred men, and he said to them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight,\nor shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and God will deliver into the\nking's hand.\n\n18:6. And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that\nwe may inquire also of him?\n\n18:7. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of whom\nwe may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never\nprophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of\nJemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.\n\n18:8. And the king of Israel called one of the eunuchs, and said to him:\nCall quickly Micheas the son of Jemla.\n\n18:9. Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, both sat on\ntheir thrones, clothed in royal robes, and they sat in the open court by\nthe gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.\n\n18:10. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made him horns of iron, and\nsaid: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou\ndestroy it.\n\n18:11. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, and said: Go up\nto Ramoth Galaad, and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will deliver them\ninto the king's hand.\n\n18:12. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, said to him: Behold\nthe words of all the prophets with one mouth declare good to the king: I\nbeseech thee therefore let not thy word disagree with them, and speak\nthou also good success.\n\n18:13. And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God\nshall say to me, that will I speak.\n\n18:14. So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall\nwe go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go up,\nfor all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be delivered\ninto your hands.\n\n18:15. And the king said: I adjure thee again and again to say nothing\nbut the truth to me, in the name of the Lord.\n\n18:16. Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like\nsheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let\nevery man return to his own house in peace.\n\n18:17. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee that\nthis man would not prophesy me any good, but evil?\n\n18:18. Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the\nLord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him\non the right hand and on the left,\n\n18:19. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that\nhe may go up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in this\nmanner, and another otherwise:\n\nWho shall deceive, etc... See the annotations, 3 Kings 22.\n\n18:20. There came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I\nwill deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou\ndeceive him?\n\n18:21. And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the\nmouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and\nshalt prevail: go out, and do so.\n\n18:22. Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a spirit of lying in the\nmouth of all thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.\n\n18:23. And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the\ncheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak\nto thee?\n\n18:24. And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see in that day, when thou\nshalt go in from chamber to chamber, to hide thyself.\n\n18:25. And the king of Israel commanded, saying: Take Micheas, and carry\nhim to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joas the son of Amelech,\n\n18:26. And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and give\nhim bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.\n\n18:27. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not\nspoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.\n\n18:28. So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda went up to Ramoth\nGalaad.\n\n18:29. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: I will change my dress,\nand so I will go to the battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And\nthe king of Israel having changed his dress, went to the battle.\n\n18:30. Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his cavalry,\nsaying: Fight ye not with small, or great, but with the king of Israel\nonly.\n\n18:31. So when the captains of the cavalry saw Josaphat, they said: This\nis the king of Israel. And they surrounded him to attack him: but he\ncried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned them away from him.\n\n18:32. For when the captains of the cavalry saw, that he was not the\nking of Israel, they left him.\n\n18:33. And it happened that one of the people shot an arrow at a\nventure, and struck the king of Israel between the neck and the\nshoulders, and he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and carry me\nout of the battle, for I am wounded.\n\n18:34. And the fight was ended that day: but the king of Israel stood in\nhis chariot against the Syrians until the evening, and died at the\nsunset.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 19\n\nJosaphat's charge to the judges and to the Levites.\n\n19:1. And Josaphat king of Juda returned to his house in peace to\nJerusalem.\n\n19:2. And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou\nhelpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that\nhate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the\nLord:\n\n19:3. But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the\ngroves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the\nLord the God of thy fathers.\n\n19:4. And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the\npeople from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord\nthe God of their fathers.\n\n19:5. And he set judges of the land in all the fenced cities of Juda, in\nevery place.\n\n19:6. And charging the judges, he said: Take heed what you do: for you\nexercise not the judgment of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you\njudge, it shall redound to you.\n\n19:7. Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with\ndiligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect\nof persons, nor desire of gifts.\n\n19:8. In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and\nchiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause of\nthe Lord for the inhabitants thereof.\n\n19:9. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of the\nLord faithfully, and with a perfect heart.\n\n19:10. Every cause that shall come to you of your brethren, that dwell\nin their cities, between kindred and kindred, wheresoever there is\nquestion concerning the law, the commandment, the ceremonies, the\njustifications: shew it them, that they may not sin against the Lord,\nand that wrath may not come upon you and your brethren: and so doing you\nshall not sin.\n\n19:11. And Amarias the priest your high priest shall be chief in the\nthings which regard God: and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler\nin the house of Juda, shall be over those matters which belong to the\nking's office: and you have before you the Levites for masters, take\ncourage and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you in good things.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 20\n\nThe Ammonites, Moabites, and Syrians combine against Josaphat: he\nseeketh God's help by public prayer and fasting. A prophet foretelleth\nthat God will fight for his people: the enemies destroy one another.\nJosaphat with his men gathereth the spoils. He reigneth in peace, but\nhis navy perisheth, for his society with wicked Ochozias.\n\n20:1. After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and\nwith them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against\nJosaphat.\n\n20:2. And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There cometh\na great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of Syria,\nand behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.\n\n20:3. And Josaphat being seized with fear betook himself wholly to pray\nto the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Juda.\n\n20:4. And Juda gathered themselves together to pray to the Lord: and all\ncame out of their cities to make supplication to him.\n\n20:5. And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and\nJerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,\n\n20:6. And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and\nrulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and\npower, and no one can resist thee.\n\n20:7. Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land\nbefore thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy\nfriend for ever?\n\n20:8. And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanctuary to thy name,\nsaying:\n\n20:9. If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment, or pestilence, or\nfamine, we will stand in thy presence before this house, in which thy\nname is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our afflictions, and\nthou wilt hear, and save us.\n\n20:10. Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and\nmount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass,\nwhen they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew\nthem not,\n\n20:11. Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us out of the possession\nwhich thou hast delivered to us.\n\n20:12. O our God, wilt thou not then judge them? as for us we have not\nstrength enough, to be able to resist this multitude, which cometh\nviolently upon us. But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our\neyes to thee.\n\n20:13. And all Juda stood before the Lord with their little ones, and\ntheir wives, and their children.\n\n20:14. And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias, the son of Banaias, the son of\nJehiel, the son of Mathanias, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, was there,\nupon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the multitude,\n\n20:15. And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you that dwell in\nJerusalem, and thou king Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye\nnot, and be not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is not yours,\nbut God's.\n\n20:16. To morrow you shall go down against them: for they will come up\nby the ascent named Sis, and you shall find them at the head of the\ntorrent, which is over against the wilderness of Jeruel.\n\n20:17. It shall not be you that shall fight, but only stand with\nconfidence, and you shall see the help of the Lord over you, O Juda, and\nJerusalem: fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow you shall go out\nagainst them, and the Lord will be with you.\n\n20:18. Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem\nfell flat on the ground before the Lord, and adored him.\n\n20:19. And the Levites of the sons of Caath, and of the sons of Core\npraised the Lord the God of Israel with a loud voice, on high.\n\n20:20. And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the\ndesert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the\nmidst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of\nJerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure:\nbelieve his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.\n\n20:21. And he gave counsel to the people, and appointed the singing men\nof the Lord, to praise him by their companies, and to go before the\narmy, and with one voice to say: Give glory to the Lord, for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n20:22. And when they began to sing praises, the Lord turned their\nambushments upon themselves, that is to say, of the children of Ammon,\nand of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were come out to fight against Juda,\nand they were slain.\n\n20:23. For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the\ninhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had\nmade an end of them, they turned also against one another, and destroyed\none another.\n\n20:24. And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the\ndesert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of\ndead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death.\n\n20:25. Then Josaphat came, and all the people with him to take away the\nspoils of the dead, and they found among the dead bodies, stuff of\nvarious kinds, and garments, and most precious vessels: and they took\nthem for themselves, insomuch that they could not carry all, nor in\nthree days take away the spoils, the booty was so great.\n\n20:26. And on the fourth day they were assembled in the valley of\nBlessing: for there they blessed the Lord, and therefore they called\nthat place the valley of Blessing until this day.\n\n20:27. And every man of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem returned,\nand Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem with great joy, because the\nLord had made them rejoice over their enemies.\n\n20:28. And they came into Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and\ntrumpets into the house of the Lord.\n\n20:29. And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands\nwhen they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.\n\n20:30. And the kingdom of Josaphat was quiet, and God gave him peace\nround about.\n\n20:31. And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he was five and thirty years\nold, when he began to reign: and he reigned five and twenty years in\nJerusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi.\n\n20:32. And he walked in the way of his father Asa and departed not from\nit, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.\n\n20:33. But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not\nyet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n20:34. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, are written\nin the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested into the books\nof the kings of Israel.\n\n20:35. After these things Josaphat king of Juda made friendship with\nOchozias king of Israel, whose works were very wicked.\n\n20:36. And he was partner with him in making ships, to go to Tharsis:\nand they made the ships in Asiongaber.\n\n20:37. And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa prophesied to Josaphat,\nsaying: Because thou hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath\ndestroyed thy works, and the ships are broken, and they could not go to\nTharsis.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 21\n\nJoram's wicked reign: his punishment and death.\n\n21:1. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.\n\n21:2. And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and\nZacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the\nsons of Josaphat king of Juda.\n\n21:3. And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and\npensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram,\nbecause he was the eldest.\n\n21:4. So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had\nestablished himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some\nof the princes of Israel.\n\n21:5. Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem.\n\n21:6. And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of\nAchab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in\nthe sight of the Lord.\n\n21:7. But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the\ncovenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give\na lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.\n\n21:8. In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made\nthemselves a king.\n\n21:9. And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with\nhim, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had surrounded\nhim, and all the captains of his cavalry.\n\n21:10. However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda unto\nthis day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his hand.\nFor he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers.\n\n21:11. Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he\nmade the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to\ntransgress.\n\n21:12. And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in\nwhich it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father:\nBecause thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in\nthe ways of Asa king of Juda,\n\n21:13. But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made\nJuda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating\nthe fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed\nthy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,\n\n21:14. Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all\nthy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.\n\n21:15. And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels,\ntill thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.\n\n21:16. And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the\nPhilistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.\n\n21:17. And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they\ncarried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, his\nsons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz,\nwho was the youngest.\n\nJoachaz... Alias Ochozias.\n\n21:18. And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable\ndisease in his bowels.\n\n21:19. And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years\npassed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void\nhis very bowels, his disease ended with his life.  And he died of a most\nwretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him\naccording to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.\n\n21:20. He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he\nreigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they\nburied him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 22\n\nThe reign and death of Ochozias. The tyranny of Athalia.\n\n22:1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son\nking in his place: for the rovers of the Arabians, who had broke in upon\nthe camp, had killed all that were his elder brothers. So Ochozias the\nson of Joram king of Juda reigned.\n\n22:2. Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia\nthe daughter of Amri.\n\nForty-two, etc... Divers Greek Bibles read thirty-two, agreeably to 4\nKings 8.17.\n\n22:3. He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother\npushed him on to do wickedly.\n\n22:4. So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab\ndid: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his\ndestruction.\n\n22:5. And he walked after their counsels. And he went with Joram the son\nof Achab king of Israel, to fight against Hazael king of Syria, at\nRamoth Galaad: and the Syrians wounded Joram.\n\n22:6. And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for he received many\nwounds in the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of\nJuda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel where he lay\nsick.\n\n22:7. For it was the will of God against Ochozias that he should come to\nJoram: and when he was come should go out also against Jehu the son of\nNamsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Achab.\n\n22:8. So when Jehu was rooting out the house of Achab, he found the\nprinces of Juda, and the sons of the brethren of Ochozias, who served\nhim, and he slew them.\n\n22:9. And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in\nSamaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried\nhim: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with\nall his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of\nthe race of Ochozias.\n\n22:10. For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up,\nand killed all the royal family of the house of Joram.\n\n22:11. But Josabeth the king's daughter took Joas the son of Ochozias,\nand stole him from among the king's sons that were slain. And she hid\nhim with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth that hid him, was\ndaughter of king Joram, wife of Joiada the high priest, and sister of\nOchozias, and therefore Athalia did not kill him.\n\n22:12. And he was with them hid in the house of God six years, during\nwhich Athalia reigned over the land.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 23\n\nJoiada the high priest causeth Joas to be made king: Athalia to be\nslain, and idolatry to be destroyed.\n\n23:1. And in the seventh year Joiada being encouraged, took the captains\nof hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of\nJohanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and Maasias the son of Adaias, and\nElisaphat the son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.\n\n23:2. And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of\nall the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and\nthey came to Jerusalem.\n\n23:3. And all the multitude made a covenant with the king in the house\nof God: and Joiada said to them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as\nthe Lord hath said of the sons of David.\n\n23:4. And this is the thing that you shall do:\n\n23:5. A third part of you that come to the sabbath, of the priests, and\nof the Levites, and of the porters shall be at the gates: and a third\npart at the king's house: and a third at the gate that is called the\nFoundation: but let all the rest of the people be in the courts of the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\nTo the sabbath... That is, to perform in your weeks the functions of\nyour office, or the weekly watches.\n\n23:6. And let no one come into the house of the Lord, but the priests,\nand they that minister of the Levites: let them only come in, because\nthey are sanctified: and let all the rest of the people keep the watches\nof the Lord.\n\n23:7. And let the Levites be round about the king, every man with his\narms; and if any other come into the temple, let him be slain; and let\nthem be with the king, both coming in, and going out.\n\n23:8. So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the\nhigh priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were\nunder him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who\nhad fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high\npriest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to\nsucceed one another every week.\n\n23:9. And Joiada the priest gave to the captains the spears, and the\nshields, and targets of king David, which he had dedicated in the house\nof the Lord.\n\n23:10. And he set all the people with swords in their hands from the\nright side of the temple, to the left side of the temple, before the\naltar, and the temple, round about the king.\n\n23:11. And they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him,\nand the testimony, and gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they\nmade him king: and Joiada the high priest and his sons anointed him: and\nthey prayed for him, and said: God save the king.\n\n23:12. Now when Athalia heard the noise of the people running and\npraising the king, she came in to the people, into the temple of the\nLord.\n\n23:13. And when she saw the king standing upon the step in the entrance,\nand the princes, and the companies about him, and all the people of the\nland rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets, and playing on instruments\nof divers kinds, and the voice of those that praised, she rent her\ngarments, and said: Treason, treason.\n\n23:14. And Joiada the high priest going out to the captains, and the\nchiefs of the army, said to them: Take her forth without the precinct of\nthe temple, and when she is without let her be killed with the sword.\nFor the priest commanded that she should not be killed in the house of\nthe Lord.\n\n23:15. And they laid hold on her by the neck: and when she was come\nwithin the horse gate of the palace, they killed her there.\n\n23:16. And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people,\nand the king, that they should be the people of the lord.\n\n23:17. And all the people went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it:\nand they broke down his altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the\npriest of Baal before the altars.\n\n23:18. And Joiada appointed overseers in the house of the Lord, under\nthe hands of the priests, and the Levites, whom David had distributed in\nthe house of the Lord: to offer holocausts to the Lord, as it is written\nin the law of Moses, with joy and singing, according to the disposition\nof David.\n\n23:19. He appointed also porters in the gates of the house of the Lord,\nthat none who was unclean in any thing should enter in.\n\n23:20. And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men,\nand the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they\nbrought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him\nthrough the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal\nthrone.\n\n23:21. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet:\nbut Athalia was slain with the sword.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 24\n\nJoas reigneth well all the days of Joiada: afterwards falleth into\nidolatry and causeth Zacharias to be slain. He is slain himself by his\nservants.\n\n24:1. Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned\nforty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.\n\n24:2. And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of\nJoiada the priest.\n\n24:3. And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and\ndaughters.\n\n24:4. After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.\n\n24:5. And he assembled the priests, and the Levites, and said to them:\nGo out to the cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair\nthe temple of your God, from year to year: and do this with speed: but\nthe Levites were negligent.\n\n24:6. And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast\nthou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and\nJerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord\nfor all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the\ntestimony?\n\n24:7. For that wicked woman Athalia, and her children have destroyed the\nhouse of God, and adorned the temple of Baal with all the things that\nhad been dedicated in the temple of the Lord.\n\n24:8. And the king commanded, and they made a chest: and set it by the\ngate of the house of the Lord on the outside.\n\n24:9. And they made a proclamation in Juda and Jerusalem, that every man\nshould bring to the Lord the money which Moses the servant of God\nappointed for all Israel, in the desert.\n\n24:10. And all the princes, and all the people rejoiced: and going in\nthey contributed and cast so much into the chest of the Lord, that it\nwas filled.\n\n24:11. And when it was time to bring the chest before the king by the\nhands of the Levites, (for they saw there was much money,) the king's\nscribe, and he whom the high priest had appointed went in: and they\npoured out the money that was in the chest: and they carried back the\nchest to its place: and thus they did from day to day, and there was\ngathered an immense sum of money.\n\n24:12. And the king and Joiada gave it to those who were over the works\nof the house of the Lord: but they hired with it stonecutters, and\nartificers of every kind of work to repair the house of the Lord: and\nsuch as wrought in iron and brass, to uphold what began to be falling.\n\n24:13. And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was\nclosed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its\nformer state, and made it stand firm.\n\n24:14. And when they had finished all the works, they brought the rest\nof the money before the king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels\nfor the temple for the ministry, and for holocausts and bowls, and other\nvessels of gold and silver: and holocausts were offered in the house of\nthe Lord continually all the days of Joiada.\n\n24:15. But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a\nhundred and thirty years old.\n\n24:16. And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because\nhe had done good to Israel, and to his house.\n\n24:17. And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and\nworshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened\nto them.\n\n24:18. And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers,\nand served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for\nthis sin.\n\n24:19. And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and\nthey would not give ear when they testified against them.\n\n24:20. The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the\npriest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus\nsaith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which\nwill not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him\nforsake you?\n\n24:21. And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him\nat the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.\n\n24:22. And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his\nfather had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said:\nThe Lord see, and require it.\n\n24:23. And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against\nhim: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes of\nthe people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.\n\n24:24. And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the\nLord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had\nforsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed\nshameful judgments.\n\n24:25. And departing they left him in great diseases: and his servants\nrose up against him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the\npriest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him\nin the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.\n\n24:26. Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of\nSemmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.\n\n24:27. And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered\nunder him, and the repairing the house of God, they are written more\ndiligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his\nstead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 25\n\nAmasias' reign: he beginneth well, but endeth ill: he is overthrown by\nJoas, and slain by his people.\n\n25:1. Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother\nwas Joadan of Jerusalem.\n\n25:2. And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not\nwith a perfect heart.\n\n25:3. And when he saw himself strengthened in his kingdom, he put to\ndeath the servants that had slain the king his father.\n\n25:4. But he slew not their children, as it is written in the book of\nthe law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall\nnot be slain for the children, nor the children for their fathers, but\nevery man shall die for his own sin.\n\n25:5. Amasias therefore gathered Juda together, and appointed them by\nfamilies, and captains of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and\nBenjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, and\nfound three hundred thousand young men that could go out to battle, and\ncould hold the spear and shield.\n\n25:6. He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand valiant men, for a\nhundred talents of silver.\n\n25:7. But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army\nof Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the\nchildren of Ephraim:\n\n25:8. And if thou think that battles consist in the strength of the\narmy, God will make thee to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth\nto God both to help, and to put to flight.\n\n25:9. And Amasias said to the man of God: What will then become of the\nhundred talents which I have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the\nman of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough to be able to give thee\nmuch more than this.\n\n25:10. Then Amasias separated the army, that came to him out of Ephraim,\nto go home again: but they being much enraged against Juda, returned to\ntheir own country.\n\n25:11. And Amasias taking courage led forth his people, and went to the\nvale of saltpits, and slew of the children of Seir ten thousand.\n\n25:12. And other ten thousand men the sons of Juda took, and brought to\nthe steep of a certain rock, and cast them down headlong from the top,\nand they all were broken to pieces.\n\n25:13. But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not\ngo with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from\nSamaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much\nspoil.\n\n25:14. But Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of\nthe children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and\nadored them, and burnt incense to them.\n\n25:15. Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet to\nhim, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not delivered\ntheir own people out of thy hand?\n\n25:16. And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the\nking's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet\ndeparting, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou\nhast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.\n\n25:17. Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad counsel, sent to Joas\nthe son of Joachaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us\nsee one another.\n\n25:18. But he sent back the messengers, saying: The thistle that is in\nLibanus, sent to the cedar in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my\nson to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the wood of Libanus\npassed by and trod down the thistle.\n\n25:19. Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart\nis lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil\nagainst thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.\n\n25:20. Amasias would not hearken to him, because it was the Lord's will\nthat he should be delivered into the hands of enemies, because of the\ngods of Edom.\n\n25:21. So Joas king of Israel went up, and they presented themselves to\nbe seen by one another: and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames of\nJuda:\n\n25:22. And Juda fell before Israel, and they fled to their dwellings.\n\n25:23. And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king of Juda, the son of\nJoas, the son of Joachaz, in Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem:\nand broke down the walls thereof from the gate of Ephraim, to the gate\nof the corner, four hundred cubits.\n\n25:24. And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that\nhe found in the house of God, and with Obededom, and in the treasures of\nthe king's house, moreover also the sons of the hostages, he brought\nback to Samaria.\n\n25:25. And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death\nof Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen years.\n\n25:26. Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n25:27. And after he revolted from the Lord, they made a conspiracy\nagainst him in Jerusalem. And he fled into Lachis, and they sent, and\nkilled him there.\n\n25:28. And they brought him back upon horses, and buried him with his\nfathers in the city of David.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 26\n\nOzias reigneth prosperously, till he invadeth the priests' office, upon\nwhich he is struck with a leprosy.\n\n26:1. And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen\nyears old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.\n\n26:2. He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after\nthat the king slept with his fathers.\n\n26:3. Ozias 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 of\nJerusalem.\n\n26:4. And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according\nto all that Amasias his father had done.\n\n26:5. And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias that understood\nand saw God: and as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him in all\nthings.\n\n26:6. Moreover he went forth and fought against the Philistines, and\nbroke down the wall of Geth, and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of\nAzotus: and he built towns in Azotus, and among the Philistines.\n\n26:7. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the\nArabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.\n\n26:8. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and his name was spread\nabroad even to the entrance of Egypt for his frequent victories.\n\n26:9. And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner,\nand over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the\nwall, and fortified them.\n\n26:10. And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many cisterns, for\nhe had much cattle both in the plains, and in the waste of the desert:\nhe had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the mountains, and in\nCarmel: for he was a man that loved husbandry.\n\n26:11. And the army of his fighting men, that went out to war, was under\nthe hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under the\nhand of Henanias, who was one of the king's captains.\n\n26:12. And the whole number of the chiefs by the families of valiant men\nwere two thousand six hundred.\n\n26:13. And the whole army under them three hundred and seven thousand\nfive hundred: who were fit for war, and fought for the king against the\nenemy.\n\n26:14. And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for the whole army,\nshields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and\nslings to cast stones.\n\n26:15. And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he\nplaced in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows,\nand great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord\nhelped him, and had strengthened him.\n\n26:16. But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his\ndestruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the\ntemple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of\nincense.\n\n26:17. And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with\nhim fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,\n\n26:18. Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias,\nto burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of\nAaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the sanctuary,\ndo not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by\nthe Lord God.\n\n26:19. And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn\nincense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in\nhis forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar\nof incense.\n\n26:20. And Azarias the high priest, and all the rest of the priests\nlooked upon him, and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and they made\nhaste to thrust him out. Yea himself also being frightened, hasted to go\nout, because he had quickly felt the stroke of the Lord.\n\n26:21. And Ozias the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and he\ndwelt in a house apart being full of the leprosy, for which he had been\ncast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham his son governed the\nking's house, and judged the people of the land.\n\n26:22. But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and last were written by\nIsaias the son of Amos, the prophet.\n\n26:23. And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\nfield of the royal sepulchres, because he was a leper: and Joatham his\nson reigned in his stead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 27\n\nJoatham's good reign.\n\n27:1. Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa\nthe daughter of Sadoc.\n\n27:2. And he did that which was right before the Lord, according to all\nthat Ozias his father had done, only that he entered not into the temple\nof the Lord, and the people still transgressed.\n\n27:3. He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall\nof Ophel he built much.\n\n27:4. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Juda, and castles and\ntowers in the forests.\n\n27:5. He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame\nthem, and the children of Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents\nof silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and as many measures of\nbarley: so much did the children of Ammon give him in the second and\nthird year.\n\n27:6. And Joatham was strengthened, because he had his way directed\nbefore the Lord his God.\n\n27:7. Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his\nworks, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.\n\n27:8. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.\n\n27:9. And Joatham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the\ncity of David: and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 28\n\nThe wicked and unhappy reign of Achaz.\n\n28:1. Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nsixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the sight\nof the Lord as David his father had done,\n\n28:2. But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he\ncast statues for Baalim.\n\n28:3. It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and\nconsecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations,\nwhich the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.\n\n28:4. He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on\nthe hills, and under every green tree.\n\n28:5. And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of\nSyria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and\ncarried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king\nof Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.\n\n28:6. For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda a hundred and twenty\nthousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord\nthe God of their fathers.\n\n28:7. At the same time Zechri a powerful man of Ephraim, slew Maasias\nthe king's son, and Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana who\nwas next to the king.\n\n28:8. And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two\nhundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they\nbrought it to Samaria.\n\n28:9. At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was\nOded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to\nthem: Behold the Lord the God of your fathers being angry with Juda,\nhath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them\ncruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.\n\n28:10. Moreover you have a mind to keep under the children of Juda and\nJerusalem for your bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to be done:\nfor you have sinned in this against the Lord your God.\n\n28:11. But hear ye my counsel, and release the captives that you have\nbrought of your brethren, because a great indignation of the Lord\nhangeth over you.\n\n28:12. Then some of the chief men of the sons of Ephraim, Azarias the\nson of Johanan, Barachias the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of\nSellum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against them that came from\nthe war.\n\n28:13. And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives\nhither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and\nheap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce\nanger of the Lord hangeth over Israel.\n\n28:14. So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that they had taken,\nbefore the princes and all the multitude.\n\n28:15. And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the\ncaptives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when\nthey had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink,\nand anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them,\nthey set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts,\nand brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren,\nand they returned to Samaria.\n\n28:16. At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking\nhelp.\n\n28:17. And the Edomites came and slew many of Juda, and took a great\nbooty.\n\n28:18. The Philistines also spread themselves among the cities of the\nplains, and to the south of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon,\nand Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with their villages,\nand they dwelt in them.\n\n28:19. For the Lord had humbled Juda because of Achaz the king of Juda,\nfor he had stripped it of help, and had contemned the Lord.\n\nFor he had stripped it of help... That is, Achaz stripped the kingdom of\nJuda of the divine assistance by his wickedness, and by his introducing\nidolatry.\n\n28:20. And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the\nAssyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any\nresistance.\n\n28:21. And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the\nkings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians,\nand yet it availed him nothing.\n\n28:22. Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt\nagainst the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,\n\n28:23. Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and\nhe said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease\nthem with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they\nwere the ruin of him, and of all Israel.\n\n28:24. Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God,\nand broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made\nhimself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.\n\n28:25. And in all the cities of Juda he built altars to burn\nfrankincense, and he provoked the Lord the God of his fathers to wrath.\n\n28:26. But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are\nwritten in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.\n\n28:27. And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings\nof Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 29\n\nEzechias purifieth the temple, and restoreth religion.\n\n29:1. Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years\nold, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his\nmother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.\n\n29:2. And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord,\naccording to all that David his father had done.\n\n29:3. In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of\nthe house of the Lord, and repaired them.\n\n29:4. And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in\nthe east street.\n\n29:5. And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified,\npurify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all\nfilth out of the sanctuary.\n\n29:6. Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the sight of the Lord\nGod, forsaking him: they have turned away their faces from the\ntabernacle of the Lord, and turned their backs.\n\n29:7. They have shut up the doors that were in the porch, and put out\nthe lamps, and have not burnt incense, nor offered holocausts in the\nsanctuary of the God of Israel.\n\n29:8. Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been stirred up against Juda\nand Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, and to\ndestruction, and to be hissed at, as you see with your eyes.\n\n29:9. Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword, our sons, and our\ndaughters, and wives are led away captives for this wickedness.\n\n29:10. Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord\nthe God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation\nfrom us.\n\n29:11. My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath chosen you to stand\nbefore him, and to minister to him, and to worship him, and to burn\nincense to him.\n\n29:12. Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the\nson of Azarias, of the sons of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the\nson of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of the sons of Gerson,\nJoah the son of Zemma, and Eden the son of Joah.\n\n29:13. And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and Jahiel. Also of the sons\nof Asaph, Zacharias, and Mathanias.\n\n29:14. And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Semei: and of the sons of\nIdithun, Semeias, and Oziel.\n\n29:15. And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified\nthemselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and\nthe precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.\n\n29:16. And the priests went into the temple of the Lord to sanctify it,\nand brought out all the uncleanness that they found within to the\nentrance of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took it away, and\ncarried it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.\n\n29:17. And they began to cleanse on the first day of the first month,\nand on the eighth day of the same month they came into the porch of the\ntemple of the Lord, and they purified the temple in eight days, and on\nthe sixteenth day of the same month they finished what they had begun.\n\n29:18. And they went in to king Ezechias, and said to him: We have\nsanctified all the house of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and\nthe vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with all its vessels,\n\n29:19. And all the furniture of the temple, which king Achaz in his\nreign had defiled, after his transgression; and behold they are all set\nforth before the altar of the Lord.\n\n29:20. And king Ezechias rising early, assembled all the rulers of the\ncity, and went up into the house of the Lord:\n\n29:21. And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and\nseven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the\nsanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to\noffer them upon the altar of the Lord.\n\n29:22. Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the priests took the\nblood, and poured it upon the altar; they killed also the rams, and\ntheir blood they poured also upon the altar, and they killed the lambs,\nand poured the blood upon the altar.\n\n29:23. And they brought the he goats for sin before the king, and the\nwhole multitude, and they laid their hand upon them:\n\n29:24. And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before\nthe altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded\nthat the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.\n\n29:25. And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and\npsalteries, and harps according to the regulation of David the king, and\nof Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for it was the commandment\nof the Lord by the hand of his prophets.\n\n29:26. And the Levites stood, with the instruments of David, and the\npriests with trumpets.\n\n29:27. And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocausts upon the\naltar: and when the holocausts were offered, they began to sing praises\nto the Lord, and to sound with trumpets, and divers instruments which\nDavid the king of Israel had prepared.\n\n29:28. And all the multitude adored, and the singers, and the\ntrumpeters, were in their office till the holocaust was finished.\n\n29:29. And when the oblation was ended, the king, and all that were with\nhim bowed down and adored.\n\n29:30. And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Levites to praise the\nLord with the words of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised him\nwith great joy, and bowing the knee adored.\n\n29:31. And Ezechias added, and said: You have filled your hands to the\nLord, come and offer victims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And\nall the multitude offered victims, and praises, and holocausts with a\ndevout mind.\n\n29:32. And the number of the holocausts which the multitude offered, was\nseventy bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.\n\n29:33. And they consecrated to the Lord six hundred oxen, and three\nthousand sheep.\n\n29:34. But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the\nholocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the\nwork was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are\nsanctified with an easier rite than the priests.\n\n29:35. So there were many holocausts, and the fat of peace offerings,\nand the libations of holocausts: and the service of the house of the\nLord was completed.\n\n29:36. And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry of\nthe Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing was\ntaken suddenly.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 30\n\nEzechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the pasch; the solemnity is\nkept fourteen days.\n\n30:1. And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to\nEphraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in\nJerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel,\n\n30:2. For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the\nassembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.\n\n30:3. For they could not keep it in its time; because there were not\npriests enough sanctified, and the people was not as yet gathered\ntogether to Jerusalem.\n\nThe host of heaven... The sun, moon, and stars.\n\n30:4. And the thing pleased the king, and all the people.\n\n30:5. And they decreed to send messengers to all Israel from Bersabee\neven to Dan, that they should come, and keep the phase to the Lord the\nGod of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had not kept it as it is prescribed\nby the law.\n\n30:6. And the posts went with letters by commandment of the king, and\nhis princes, to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the king's\norders: Ye children of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God of\nAbraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant\nof you that have escaped the hand of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n30:7. Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who departed from the Lord\nthe God of their fathers, and he hath given them up to destruction, as\nyou see.\n\n30:8. Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to\nthe Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever:\nserve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his indignation\nshall be turned away from you.\n\n30:9. For if you turn again to the Lord, your brethren, and children\nshall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive,\nand they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is merciful,\nand will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.\n\n30:10. So the posts went speedily from city to city, through the land of\nEphraim, and of Manasses, even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at them\nand mocked them.\n\n30:11. Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon,\nyielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.\n\n30:12. But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do the\nword of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of the\nprinces.\n\n30:13. And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the\nsolemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:\n\n30:14. And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem,\nand took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast\nthem into the torrent Cedron.\n\n30:15. And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second\nmonth. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified\noffered holocausts in the house of the Lord.\n\n30:16. And they stood in their order according to the disposition and\nlaw of Moses the man of God: but the priests received the blood which\nwas to be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,\n\n30:17. Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the\nLevites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be\nsanctified to the Lord.\n\n30:18. For a great part of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and\nIssachar, and Zabulon, that had not been sanctified, ate the phase\notherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed for them, saying: The\nLord who is good will shew mercy,\n\n30:19. To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God of\ntheir fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not\nsanctified.\n\n30:20. And the Lord heard him, and was merciful to the people.\n\n30:21. And the children of Israel, that were found at Jerusalem, kept\nthe feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy, praising the\nLord every day, the Levites also, and the priests, with instruments that\nagreed to their office.\n\n30:22. And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the Levites, that had good\nunderstanding concerning the Lord: and they ate during the seven days of\nthe solemnity, immolating victims of peace offerings, and praising the\nLord the God of their fathers.\n\n30:23. And it pleased the whole multitude to keep other seven days:\nwhich they did with great joy.\n\n30:24. For Ezechias the king of Juda had given to the multitude a\nthousand bullocks, and seven thousand sheep: and the princes had given\nthe people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand sheep: and a great\nnumber of priests was sanctified.\n\n30:25. And all the multitude of Juda with the priests and Levites, and\nall the assembly, that came out of Israel; and the proselytes of the\nland of Israel, and that dwelt in Juda were full of joy.\n\n30:26. And there was a great solemnity in Jerusalem, such as had not\nbeen in that city since the time of Solomon the son of David king of\nIsrael.\n\n30:27. And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people:\nand their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling\nplace of heaven.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 31\n\nIdolatry is abolished; and provisions made for the ministers.\n\n31:1. And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that\nwere found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols,\nand cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the\naltars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also\nand Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the\nchildren of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.\n\n31:2. And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites,\nby their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the\npriests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to\nminister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the\nLord.\n\n31:3. And the king's part was, that of his proper substance the\nholocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the\nsabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written\nin the law of Moses.\n\n31:4. He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to\nthe priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to\nthe law of the Lord.\n\n31:5. Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the\nchildren of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,\nand oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground\nbringeth forth.\n\n31:6. Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the cities\nof Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of\nholy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and carrying\nthem all, made many heaps.\n\n31:7. In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps,\nand in the seventh month, they finished them.\n\n31:8. And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and\nthey blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.\n\n31:9. And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay\nso.\n\n31:10. Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him,\nsaying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the\nLord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left,\nbecause the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is\nthis great store which thou seest.\n\n31:11. Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of\nthe Lord. And when they had done so,\n\n31:12. They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes,\nand all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the\nLevite, and Semei his brother was the second,\n\n31:13. And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and\nJerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and\nBanaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother,\nby the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of\nthe house of God, to whom all things appertained.\n\n31:14. But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east\ngate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord,\nand of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.\n\n31:15. And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias,\nand Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute\nfaithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:\n\n31:16. Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that\nwent into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in\nthe ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.\n\n31:17. To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the\ntwentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.\n\n31:18. And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their\nchildren of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things\nthat had been sanctified.\n\n31:19. Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the\nsuburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions\nto all the males, among the priests and the Levites.\n\n31:20. So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and\nwrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his\nGod,\n\n31:21. In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law\nand the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he\ndid it and prospered.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 32\n\nIdolatry is abolished; and provisions made for the ministers.\n\n32:1. And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that\nwere found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols,\nand cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the\naltars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also\nand Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the\nchildren of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.\n\n32:2. And Ezechias appointed companies of the priests, and the Levites,\nby their courses, every man in his own office, to wit, both of the\npriests, and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace offerings, to\nminister, and to praise, and to sing in the gates of the camp of the\nLord.\n\n32:3. And the king's part was, that of his proper substance the\nholocaust should be offered always morning and evening, and on the\nsabbaths, and the new moons and the other solemnities, as it is written\nin the law of Moses.\n\n32:4. He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to\nthe priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to\nthe law of the Lord.\n\n32:5. Which when it was noised abroad in the ears of the people, the\nchildren of Israel offered in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,\nand oil, and honey: and brought the tithe of all things which the ground\nbringeth forth.\n\n32:6. Moreover the children of Israel and Juda, that dwelt in the cities\nof Juda, brought in the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of\nholy things, which they had vowed to the Lord their God: and carrying\nthem all, made many heaps.\n\n32:7. In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps,\nand in the seventh month, they finished them.\n\n32:8. And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and\nthey blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.\n\n32:9. And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay\nso.\n\n32:10. Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him,\nsaying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the\nLord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left,\nbecause the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is\nthis great store which thou seest.\n\n32:11. Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of\nthe Lord. And when they had done so,\n\n32:12. They brought in faithfully both the firstfruits, and the tithes,\nand all they had vowed. And the overseer of them was Chonenias the\nLevite, and Semei his brother was the second,\n\n32:13. And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Nahath, and Asael, and\nJerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and\nBanaias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his brother,\nby the commandment of Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest of\nthe house of God, to whom all things appertained.\n\n32:14. But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the porter of the east\ngate, was overseer of the things which were freely offered to the Lord,\nand of the firstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy of holies.\n\n32:15. And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias,\nand Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute\nfaithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:\n\n32:16. Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that\nwent into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in\nthe ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.\n\n32:17. To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the\ntwentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.\n\n32:18. And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their\nchildren of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things\nthat had been sanctified.\n\n32:19. Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the\nsuburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions\nto all the males, among the priests and the Levites.\n\n32:20. So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and\nwrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his\nGod,\n\n32:21. In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law\nand the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he\ndid it and prospered.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 33\n\nManasses for his manifold wickedness is led captive to Babylon: he\nrepenteth, and is restored to his kingdom, and destroyeth idolatry: his\nsuccessor Amon is slain by his servants.\n\n33:1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.\n\n33:2. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations\nof the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:\n\n33:3. And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his\nfather had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves,\nand he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.\n\nThe host of heaven... The sun, moon, and stars.\n\n33:4. He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord\nhad said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.\n\n33:5. And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of\nthe house of the Lord.\n\n33:6. And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of\nBenennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to\nmagic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many\nevils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.\n\n33:7. He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of\nwhich God had said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this house, and\nin Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will\nI put my name for ever.\n\n33:8. And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the\nland which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take\nheed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the\nceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.\n\n33:9. So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do\nevil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the\nface of the children of Israel.\n\n33:10. And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken.\n\n33:11. Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the\nking of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound\nwith chains and fetters to Babylon.\n\n33:12. And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God:\nand did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.\n\n33:13. And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard\nhis prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and\nManasses knew that the Lord was God.\n\n33:14. After this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west\nside of Gihon in the valley, from the entering in of the gate round\nabout to Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he appointed\ncaptains of the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:\n\n33:15. And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house\nof the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house\nof the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the city.\n\n33:16. And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed upon it\nvictims, and peace offerings, and praise: and he commanded Juda to serve\nthe Lord the God of Israel.\n\n33:17. Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to\nthe Lord their God.\n\n33:18. But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God,\nand the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the\nGod of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.\n\n33:19.  His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and\ncontempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves,\nand statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.\n\n33:20. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his\nhouse: and his son Amon reigned in his stead.\n\n33:21. Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned two years in Jerusalem.\n\n33:22. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father\nhad done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had\nmade, and served them.\n\n33:23. And he did not humble himself before the lord, as Manasses his\nfather had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.\n\n33:24. And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own\nhouse.\n\n33:25. But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them that had\nkilled Amon, and made Josias his son king in his stead.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 34\n\nJosias destroyeth idolatry, repaireth the temple, and reneweth the\ncovenant between God and the people.\n\n34:1. Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\none and thirty years in Jerusalem.\n\n34:2. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and\nwalked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the\nright hand, nor to the left.\n\n34:3. And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he\nbegan to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after\nhe began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places,\nand the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.\n\n34:4. And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and\ndemolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the\ngroves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the\nfragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.\n\n34:5. And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols,\nand he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n34:6. And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even\nto Nephtali he demolished all.\n\n34:7. And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had\nbroken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples\nthroughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.\n\n34:8. Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the\nland, and the temple of the Lord, he sent Saphan the son of Elselias,\nand Maasias the governor of the city, Joha the son of Joachaz the\nrecorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.\n\n34:9. And they came to Helcias the high priest: and received of him the\nmoney which had been brought into the house of the Lord, and which the\nLevites and porters had gathered together from Manasses, and Ephraim,\nand all the remnant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin, and the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem,\n\n34:10. Which they delivered into the hands of them that were over the\nworkmen in the house of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all\nthat was weak.\n\n34:11. But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy\nstones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the\nbuilding, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had\ndestroyed.\n\n34:12. And they did all faithfully. Now the overseers of the workmen\nwere Jahath and Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of\nthe sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all Levites skilful to play on\ninstruments.\n\n34:13. But over them that carried burdens for divers uses, were scribes,\nand masters of the number of the Levites, and porters.\n\n34:14. Now when they carried out the money that had been brought into\nthe temple of the Lord, Helcias the priest found the book of the law of\nthe Lord, by the hand of Moses.\n\n34:15. And he said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the\nlaw in the house of the Lord: and he delivered it to him.\n\n34:16. But he carried the book to the king, and told him, saying: Lo,\nall that thou hast committed to thy servants, is accomplished.\n\n34:17. They have gathered together the silver that was found in the\nhouse of the Lord: and it is given to the overseers of the artificers,\nand of the workmen, for divers works.\n\n34:18. Moreover Helcias the priest gave me this book. And he read it\nbefore the king.\n\n34:19. And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his garments:\n\n34:20. And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Abdon\nthe son of Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa the king's servant,\nsaying:\n\n34:21. Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for the remnant of Israel,\nand Juda, concerning all the words of this book, which is found: for the\ngreat wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, because our fathers have\nnot kept the words of the Lord, to do all things that are written in\nthis book.\n\n34:22. And Helcias and they that were sent with him by the king, went to\nOlda the prophetess, the wife of Sellum the son of Thecuath, the son of\nHasra keeper of the wardrobe: who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second part:\nand they spoke to her the words above mentioned.\n\n34:23. And she answered them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nTell the man that sent you to me:\n\n34:24. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring evils upon this place,\nand upon the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses that are written in\nthis book which they read before the king of Juda.\n\n34:25. Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange\ngods, to provoke me to wrath with all the works of their hands,\ntherefore my wrath shall fail upon this place, and shall not be\nquenched.\n\n34:26. But as to the king of Juda that sent you to beseech the Lord,\nthus shall you say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:\nBecause thou hast heard the words of this book,\n\n34:27. And thy heart was softened, and thou hast humbled thyself in the\nsight of God for the things that are spoken against this place, and the\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast rent thy\ngarments, and wept before me: I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.\n\n34:28. For now I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be\nbrought to thy tomb in peace: and thy eyes shall not see all the evil\nthat I will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants thereof.  They\ntherefore reported to the king all that she had said.\n\n34:29. And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n34:30. And went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Juda,\nand the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all\nthe people from the least to the greatest. And the king read in their\nhearing, in the house of the Lord, all the words of the book.\n\n34:31. And standing up in his tribunal, he made a covenant before the\nLord to walk after him, and keep his commandments, and testimonies, and\njustifications with all his heart, and with all his soul, and to do the\nthings that were written in that book which he had read.\n\n34:32. And he adjured all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to\ndo the same: and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the\ncovenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n34:33. And Josias took away all the abominations out of all the\ncountries of the children of Israel and made all that were left in\nIsrael, to serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived they departed\nnot from the Lord the God of their fathers.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 35\n\nJosias celebrateth a most solemn pasch. He is slain by the king of\nEgypt.\n\n35:1. And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was\nsacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.\n\n35:2. And he set the priests in their offices, and exhorted them to\nminister in the house of the Lord.\n\n35:3. And he spoke to the Levites, by whose instruction all Israel was\nsanctified to the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the\ntemple, which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built: for you\nshall carry it no more: but minister now to the Lord your God, and to\nhis people Israel.\n\n35:4. And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to\nyour courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son\nhath written.\n\n35:5. And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of\nLevi.\n\n35:6. And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren,\nthat they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand\nof Moses.\n\n35:7. And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the\nsolemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of other\nsmall cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all these were\nof the king's substance.\n\n35:8. And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the\npeople and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and\nZacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the\npriests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and\nthree hundred oxen.\n\n35:9. And Chonenias, and Semeias and Nathanael, his brethren, and\nHasabias, and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave to the\nrest of the Levites to celebrate the phase five thousand small cattle,\nand five hundred oxen.\n\n35:10. And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their\noffice: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's\ncommandment.\n\n35:11. And the phase was immolated: and the priests sprinkled the blood\nwith their hand, and the Levites flayed the holocausts:\n\n35:12. And they separated them, to give them by the houses and families\nof every one, and to be offered to the Lord, as it is written in the\nbook of Moses, and with the oxen they did in like manner.\n\n35:13. And they roasted the phase with fire, according to that which is\nwritten in the law: but the victims of peace offerings they boiled in\ncaldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they distributed them speedily\namong all the people.\n\n35:14. And afterwards they made ready for themselves, and for the\npriests: for the priests were busied in offering of holocausts and the\nfat until night, wherefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for\nthe priests the sons of Aaron last.\n\n35:15. And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in their order, according\nto the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun, the\nprophets of the king: and the porters kept guard at every gate, so as\nnot to depart one moment from their service, and therefore their\nbrethren the Levites prepared meats for them.\n\n35:16. So all the service of the Lord was duly accomplished that day,\nboth in keeping the phase and offering holocausts upon the altar of the\nLord, according to the commandment of king Josias.\n\n35:17. And the children of Israel that were found there, kept the phase\nat that time, and the feast of unleavened seven days.\n\n35:18. There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of\nSamuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such\na phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda,\nand Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n35:19.  In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase\ncelebrated.\n\n35:20. After that Josias had repaired the temple, Nechao king of Egypt\ncame up to fight in Charcamis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to\nmeet him.\n\n35:21. But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with\nthee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight\nagainst another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste:\nforbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.\n\n35:22. Josias would not return, but prepared to fight against him, and\nhearkened not to the words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but went to\nfight in the field of Mageddo.\n\n35:23. And there he was wounded by the archers, and he said to his\nservants: Carry me out of the battle, for I am grievously wounded.\n\n35:24. And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed\nhim after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem,\nand he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda\nand Jerusalem mourned for him,\n\n35:25. Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the\nsinging men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a\nlaw in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.\n\n35:26. Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of his mercies, according\nto what was commanded by the law of the Lord:\n\n35:27. And his works first and last, are written in the book of the\nkings of Juda and Israel.\n\n2 Paralipomenon Chapter 36\n\nThe reigns of Joachaz, Joakim, Joachin, and Sedecias: the captivity of\nBabylon released at length by Cyrus.\n\n36:1. Then the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and\nmade him king instead of his father in Jerusalem.\n\n36:2. Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned three months in Jerusalem.\n\n36:3. And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, and deposed him, and\ncondemned the land in a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.\n\n36:4. And he made Eliakim his brother king in his stead, over Juda and\nJerusalem: and he turned his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with\nhim and carried him away into Egypt.\n\n36:5. Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord\nhis God.\n\n36:6. Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans, and led\nhim bound in chains into Babylon.\n\n36:7. And he carried also thither the vessels of the Lord, and put them\nin his temple.\n\n36:8. But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which he\nwrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the\nbook of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in his\nstead.\n\n36:9. Joachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned\nthree months and ten days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of\nthe Lord.\n\nEight years old... He was associated by his father to the kingdom, when\nhe was but eight years old; but after his father's death, when he\nreigned alone, he was eighteen years old. 4 Kings 24.8.\n\n36:10. And at the return of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and\nbrought him to Babylon, carrying away at the same time the most precious\nvessels of the house of the Lord: and he made Sedecias his uncle king\nover Juda and Jerusalem.\n\n36:11. Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and\nhe reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.\n\n36:12. And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not\nreverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the\nmouth of the Lord.\n\n36:13. He also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him swear\nby God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to the\nLord the God of Israel.\n\n36:14. Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly\ntransgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they\ndefiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in\nJerusalem.\n\n36:15. And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand\nof his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he\nspared his people and his dwelling place.\n\n36:16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words,\nand misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his\npeople, and there was no remedy.\n\n36:17. For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew\ntheir young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no\ncompassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for\nage, but he delivered them all into his hands.\n\n36:18. And all the vessels of the house of Lord, great and small, and\nthe treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he\ncarried away to Babylon.\n\n36:19. And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the\nwall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious\nthey destroyed.\n\n36:20. Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there\nserved the king and his sons, till the reign of the king of Persia,\n\n36:21. That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be\nfulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the\ndesolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.\n\n36:22. But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfil\nthe word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the\nLord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the Persians: who commanded\nit to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also,\nsaying:\n\n36:23. Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All the kingdoms of the\nearth hath the Lord the God of heaven given to me, and he hath charged\nme to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea: who is there\namong you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him\ngo up.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":27299}