The Second Book Melakhim
1:1Mo'av rebelled against Yisra'el after the death of Ach'av.
1:2Achazyah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that
was in Shomron, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them,
Go, inquire of Ba`al-Zevuv, the G-d of `Ekron, whether I shall recover of
this sickness.
1:3But the angel of the LORD said to
Eliyah the Tishbi, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Shomron, and tell them, Is it because there is no G-d in Yisra'el, that
you go to inquire of Ba`al-Zevuv, the G-d of `Ekron?
1:4Now therefore thus says the LORD, You shall not come down from
the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die. Eliyah departed.
1:5The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it
that you have returned? 1:6They said to him,
There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king
who sent you, and tell him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no
G-d in Yisra'el, that you send to inquire of Ba`al-Zevuv, the G-d of `Ekron?
therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but
shall surely die.
1:7He said to them, What manner of
man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
1:8They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of
leather about his loins. He said, It is Eliyah the Tishbi.
1:9Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his
fifty. He went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the
hill. He spoke to him, man of G-d, the king has said, Come down.
1:10Eliyah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of G-d,
let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came
down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
1:11Again
he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him,
man of G-d, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.
1:12Eliyah answered them, If I be a man of G-d, let fire come down
from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of G-d came down
from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
1:13Again
he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of
fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Eliyah, and begged
him, and said to him, man of G-d, please let my life, and the life of
these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
1:14Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former
captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in
your sight.
1:15The angel of the LORD said to Eliyah,
Go down with him: don't be afraid of him. He arose, and went down with him
to the king.
1:16He said to him, Thus says the LORD,
Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba`al-Zevuv, the G-d of `Ekron,
is it because there is no G-d in Yisra'el to inquire of his word?
therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but
shall surely die.
1:17So he died according to the word
of the LORD which Eliyah had spoken. Yehoram began to reign in his place
in the second year of Yehoram the son of Yehoshafat king of Yehudah;
because he had no son. 1:18Now the rest of
the acts of Achazyah which he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el?
2:1It happened, when the LORD would take up Eliyah by a whirlwind
into heaven, that Eliyah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2:2Eliyah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for the LORD has sent me
as far as Beit-El. Elisha said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives,
I will not leave you. So they went down to Beit-El.
2:3The
sons of the prophets who were at Beit-El came forth to Elisha, and said to
him, "Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from your head
today?"
He said, "Yes, I know it; hold your shalom."
2:4Eliyah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for the LORD has
sent me to Yericho. He said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I
will not leave you. So they came to Yericho.
2:5The
sons of the prophets who were at Yericho came near to Elisha, and said to
him, "Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from your head
today?"
He answered, "Yes, I know it. Hold your shalom."
2:6Eliyah said to him, "Please wait here, for the LORD has sent me
to the Yarden."
He said, "As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I
will not leave you." They two went on.
2:7Fifty
men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar
off: and they two stood by the Yarden.
2:8Eliyah
took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they
were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground.
2:9It happened, when they had gone over, that Eliyah said to Elisha,
Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. Elisha said,
please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.
2:10He said, You have asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if you
see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so to you; but if not, it
shall not be so.
2:11It happened, as they still went
on, and talked, that behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and Eliyah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven. 2:12Elisha saw it,
and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra'el and the
horsemen of it! He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes,
and tore them in two pieces. 2:13He took up also
the mantle of Eliyah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the
bank of the Yarden. 2:14He took the
mantle of Eliyah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said,
Where is the LORD, the G-d of Eliyah? and when he also had struck the
waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.
2:15When the sons of the prophets who were at Yericho over against
him saw him, they said, The spirit of Eliyah does rest on Elisha. They
came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2:16They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty
strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the
Spirit of the LORD has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or
into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
2:17When
they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore
fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find him.
2:18They came back to him, while he stayed at Yericho; and he said to
them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"
2:19The
men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this
city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land
miscarries.
2:20He said, Bring me a new jar, and put
salt therein. They brought it to him.
2:21He
went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said,
Thus says the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from
there any more death or miscarrying.
2:22So
the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which
he spoke. 2:23He went up from there to Beit-El; and as he was going up by the
way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said
to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.
2:24He
looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD.
There came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and mauled forty-two lads
of them. 2:25He went from there to Mount Karmel, and from there he returned to
Shomron.
3:1Now Yehoram the son of Ach'av began to reign over Yisra'el in
Shomron in the eighteenth year of Yehoshafat king of Yehudah, and reigned
twelve years.
3:2He did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away
the pillar of Ba`al that his father had made.
3:3Nevertheless
he cleaved to the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made
Yisra'el to sin; he didn't depart from it.
3:4Now
Mesha king of Mo'av was a sheep-master; and he rendered to the king of
Yisra'el the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred
thousand rams.
3:5But it happened, when Ach'av was dead,
that the king of Mo'av rebelled against the king of Yisra'el.
3:6King Yehoram went out of Shomron at that time, and mustered all
Yisra'el. 3:7He went and sent to Yehoshafat the king of Yehudah, saying, The
king of Mo'av has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Mo'av
to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your
people, my horses as your horses. 3:8He said, Which way
shall we go up? He answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.
3:9So the king of Yisra'el went, and the king of Yehudah, and the
king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there
was no water for the host, nor for the animals that followed them.
3:10The king of Yisra'el said, Alas! for the LORD has called these
three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Mo'av.
3:11But Yehoshafat said, Isn't there here a prophet of the LORD, that
we may inquire of the LORD by him? One of the king of Yisra'el's servants
answered, Elisha the son of Shafat is here, who poured water on the hands
of Eliyah.
3:12Yehoshafat said, The word of the LORD
is with him. So the king of Yisra'el and Yehoshafat and the king of Edom
went down to him.
3:13Elisha said to the king of
Yisra'el, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your
father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Yisra'el said to
him, No; for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver
them into the hand of Mo'av. 3:14Elisha said, As
the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I
regard the presence of Yehoshafat the king of Yehudah, I would not look
toward you, nor see you. 3:15But now bring me
a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the
LORD came on him.
3:16He said, Thus says the LORD, Make
this valley full of trenches. 3:17For thus says the
LORD, You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain; yet that valley
shall be filled with water, and you shall drink, both you and your cattle
and your animals.
3:18This is but a light thing in the
sight of the LORD: he will also deliver the Mo`avim into your hand.
3:19You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and
shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every
good piece of land with stones. 3:20It happened in
the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, there
came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
3:21Now when all the Mo`avim heard that the kings had come up to
fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able
to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.
3:22They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the
water, and the Mo`avim saw the water over against them as red as blood:
3:23and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and
they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, Mo'av, to the spoil.
3:24When they came to the camp of Yisra'el, the Yisra'elites rose up
and struck the Mo`avim, so that they fled before them; and they went
forward into the land smiting the Mo`avim.
3:25They
beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man
his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and
felled all the good trees, until in Kir-Hareset only they left the
stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck
it. 3:26When the king of Mo'av saw that the battle was too severe for
him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through
to the king of Edom; but they could not.
3:27Then
he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered
him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against
Yisra'el: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know
that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take to
him my two children to be bondservants.
4:2Elisha
said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house?
She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
4:3Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your
neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4:4You
shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into
all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
4:5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons;
they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out.
4:6It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her
son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel.
The oil stayed.
4:7Then she came and told the man of
G-d. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your
sons of the rest.
4:8It fell on a day, that Elisha
passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat
bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat
bread. 4:9She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy
man of G-d, that passes by us continually.
4:10Let
us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him
there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be,
when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.
4:11It
fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay
there. 4:12He said to Gechazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had
called her, she stood before him. 4:13He said to him,
Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care;
what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the
captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
4:14He said, What then is to be done for her? Gechazi answered, Most
assuredly she has no son, and her husband is old.
4:15He
said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
4:16He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall
embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of G-d, do not lie to your
handmaid. 4:17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time
came round, as Elisha had said to her.
4:18When
the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to
the reapers.
4:19He said to his father, My head, my
head. He said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.
4:20When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on
her knees until noon, and then died.
4:21She
went up and laid him on the bed of the man of G-d, and shut the door
on him, and went out. 4:22She called to her
husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the
donkeys, that I may run to the man of G-d, and come again.
4:23He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor
Shabbat. She said, It shall be well.
4:24Then
she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward;
don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you.
4:25So
she went, and came to the man of G-d to Mount Karmel. It happened, when
the man of G-d saw her afar off, that he said to Gechazi his servant,
Behold, yonder is the Shunammite: 4:26please run now to
meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband?
is it well with the child? She answered, It is well.
4:27When she came to the man of G-d to the hill, she caught hold of
his feet. Gechazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of G-d said,
Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and the LORD has hid it
from me, and has not told me. 4:28Then she said,
Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?
4:29Then he said to Gechazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in
your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, Don't greet him; and if
anyone greets you, don't answer him again: and lay my staff on the face of
the child.
4:30The mother of the child said, As the
LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and
followed her.
4:31Gechazi passed on before them, and
laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor
hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The
child has not awakened. 4:32When Elisha was
come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
4:33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed
to the LORD.
4:34He went up, and lay on the child, and
put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his
hands: and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew
warm. 4:35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth;
and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven
times, and the child opened his eyes.
4:36He
called Gechazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. When she
was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.
4:37Then
she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and
she took up her son, and went out. 4:38Elisha came again
to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets
were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot,
and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
4:39One
went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and
gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the
pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.
4:40So
they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of
the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of G-d, there is death in the
pot. They could not eat of it. 4:41But he said, Then
bring meal. He cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people,
that they may eat. There was no harm in the pot.
4:42There
came a man from Ba`al-Shalishah, and brought the man of G-d bread of the
first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his
sack. He said, Give to the people, that they may eat.
4:43His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men?
But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says the LORD,
They shall eat, and shall leave of it.
4:44So
he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, according to the word
of the LORD.
5:1Now Na`aman, captain of the host of the king of Aram, was a great
man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given
victory to Aram: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a
leper. 5:2The Aram had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out
of Eretz-Yisra'el a little maiden; and she waited on Na`aman's wife.
5:3She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the
prophet who is in Shomron! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
5:4One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the
maiden who is of Eretz-Yisra'el. 5:5The king of Aram
said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Yisra'el. He
departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand
pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
5:6He
brought the letter to the king of Yisra'el, saying, Now when this letter
is come to you, behold, I have sent Na`aman my servant to you, that you
may recover him of his leprosy. 5:7It happened, when
the king of Yisra'el had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and
said, Am I G-d, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me
to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he
seeks a quarrel against me. 5:8It was so, when
Elisha the man of G-d heard that the king of Yisra'el had torn his
clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes?
let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in
Yisra'el. 5:9So Na`aman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood
at the door of the house of Elisha.
5:10Elisha
sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Yarden seven times,
and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.
5:11But Na`aman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of
the LORD his G-d, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
5:12Aren't Amanah and Parpar, the rivers of Dammesek, better than all
the waters of Yisra'el? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned
and went away in a rage. 5:13His servants came
near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do
some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he
says to you, Wash, and be clean? 5:14Then went he
down, and dipped himself seven times in the Yarden, according to
the saying of the man of G-d; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a
little child, and he was clean. 5:15He returned to
the man of G-d, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him;
and he said, See now, I know that there is no G-d in all the earth, but in
Yisra'el: now therefore, please take a present from your servant.
5:16But he said, As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will
receive none. He urged him to take it; but he refused.
5:17Na`aman said, If not, yet, please let there be given to your
servant two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth offer
neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD.
5:18In this thing the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes
into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I
bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of
Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this thing.
5:19He said to him, Go in shalom. So he departed from him a little
way. 5:20But Gechazi the servant of Elisha the man of G-d, said, Behold,
my master has spared this Na`aman the Arammian, in not receiving at his
hands that which he brought: as the LORD lives, I will run after him, and
take somewhat of him. 5:21So Gechazi
followed after Na`aman. When Na`aman saw one running after him, he
alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
5:22He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even
now there are come to me from the hill-country of Efrayim two young men of
the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two
changes of clothing. 5:23Na`aman said, Be
pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver
in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his
servants; and they bore them before him.
5:24When
he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in
the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
5:25But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him,
Whence come you, Gechazi? He said, Your servant went no where.
5:26He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned
from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to
receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and
men-servants and maid-servants? 5:27The leprosy
therefore of Na`aman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He
went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
6:1The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place where
we dwell before you is too strait for us.
6:2Let
us go, we pray you, to the Yarden, and take there every man a beam, and
let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.
6:3One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He
answered, I will go. 6:4So he went with
them. When they came to the Yarden, they cut down wood.
6:5But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water;
and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
6:6The man of G-d said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He
cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.
6:7He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.
6:8Now the king of Aram was warring against Yisra'el; and he took
counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my
camp. 6:9The man of G-d sent to the king of Yisra'el, saying, Beware that
you not pass such a place; for there the Aram are coming down.
6:10The king of Yisra'el sent to the place which the man of G-d told
him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
6:11The heart of the king of Aram was sore troubled for this thing;
and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show me which of
us is for the king of Yisra'el? 6:12One of his
servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in
Yisra'el, tells the king of Yisra'el the words that you speak in your
bedchamber.
6:13He said, Go and see where he is, that
I may send and get him. It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dotan.
6:14Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host:
and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
6:15When
the servant of the man of G-d was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a
host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said
to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
6:16He
answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those
who are with them.
6:17Elisha prayed, and said, LORD,
Please open his eyes, that he may see. The LORD opened the eyes of the
young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha.
6:18When
they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, Please smite
this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the
word of Elisha.
6:19Elisha said to them, This is not
the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the
man whom you seek. He led them to Shomron.
6:20It
happened, when they were come into Shomron, that Elisha said, LORD, open
the eyes of these men, that they may see. The LORD opened their eyes, and
they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Shomron.
6:21The king of Yisra'el said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father,
shall I strike them? shall I strike them?
6:22He
answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have
taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water
before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
6:23He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and
drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Aram
came no more into Eretz-Yisra'el. 6:24It happened after
this, that Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all his host, and went up, and
besieged Shomron.
6:25There was a great famine in
Shomron: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for
eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's
dung for five pieces of silver.
6:26As
the king of Yisra'el was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to
him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
6:27He
said, If the LORD doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the
threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
6:28The
king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give
your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
6:29So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next
day, Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son.
6:30It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he
tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people
looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
6:31Then he said, G-d do so to me, and more also, if the head of
Elisha the son of Shafat shall stand on him this day.
6:32But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting
with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but before the
messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a
murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes,
shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his
master's feet behind him? 6:33While he was yet
talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said,
Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any
longer?
7:1Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD,
Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for
a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Shomron.
7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man
of G-d, and said, Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might
this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall
not eat of it.
7:3Now there were four leprous men at the
entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until
we die? 7:4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the
city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now
therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Aram: if they save us
alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
7:5They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Aram; and
when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Aram, behold,
there was no man there. 7:6For the Lord had
made the host of the Aram to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of
horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another,
Behold, the king of Yisra'el has hired against us the kings of the Chitti,
and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.
7:7Therefore
they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their
horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their
life. 7:8When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they
went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold,
and clothing, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into
another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.
7:9Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is
a day of good news, and we hold our shalom: if we wait until the morning
light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell
the king's household. 7:10So they came and
called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to
the camp of the Aram, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice
of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they
were. 7:11He called the porters; and they told it to the king's household
within. 7:12The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now
show you what the Aram have done to us. They know that we are hungry;
therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field,
saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get
into the city.
7:13One of his servants answered,
Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the
city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Yisra'el who are left in
it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Yisra'el who are consumed);
and let us send and see. 7:14They took
therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of
the Aram, saying, Go and see. 7:15They went after
them to the Yarden: and, behold, all the way was full of garments and
vessels, which the Aram had cast away in their haste. The messengers
returned, and told the king. 7:16The people went
out, and plundered the camp of the Aram. So a measure of fine flour was
sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according
to the word of the LORD. 7:17The king
appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the
gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of
G-d had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
7:18It happened, as the man of G-d had spoken to the king, saying,
Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a
shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Shomron;
7:19and that captain answered the man of G-d, and said, Now, behold,
if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he
said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:
7:20it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the
gate, and he died.
8:1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to
life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever
you can sojourn: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also
come on the land seven years. 8:2The woman arose,
and did according to the word of the man of G-d; and she went with her
household, and sojourned in the land of the Pelishtim seven years.
8:3It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out
of the land of the Pelishtim: and she went forth to cry to the king for
her house and for her land. 8:4Now the king was
talking with Gechazi the servant of the man of G-d, saying, Please tell me
all the great things that Elisha has done.
8:5It
happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who
was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried
to the king for her house and for her land. Gechazi said, My lord, O king,
this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
8:6When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and
all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even
until now. 8:7Elisha came to Dammesek; and Ben-Hadad the king of Aram was sick;
and it was told him, saying, The man of G-d is come here.
8:8The king said to Chaza'el, Take a present in your hand, and go,
meet the man of G-d, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I
recover of this sickness? 8:9So Chaza'el went
to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of
Dammesek, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said,
Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, Shall I
recover of this sickness? 8:10Elisha said to
him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; however the LORD has shown me
that he shall surely die. 8:11He settled his
gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed: and the man of G-d
wept. 8:12Chaza'el said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the
evil that you will do to the children of Yisra'el: their strongholds will
you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and
will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
8:13Chaza'el said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that
he should do this great thing? Elisha answered, the LORD has shown me that
you shall be king over Aram. 8:14Then he departed
from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to
you? He answered, He told me that you would surely recover.
8:15It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and
dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and
Chaza'el reigned in his place. 8:16In the fifth year
of Yoram the son of Ach'av king of Yisra'el, Yehoshafat being then king of
Yehudah, Yehoram the son of Yehoshafat king of Yehudah began to reign.
8:17Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign; and he
reigned eight years in Yerushalayim.
8:18He
walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, as did the house of Ach'av:
for he had the daughter of Ach'av as wife; and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD. 8:19However the LORD
would not destroy Yehudah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised
him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
8:20In
his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yehudah, and made a king
over themselves.
8:21Then Yoram passed over to Tza`ir,
and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the
Edom who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people
fled to their tents. 8:22So Edom revolted
from under the hand of Yehudah to this day. Then did Livna revolt at the
same time.
8:23The rest of the acts of Yoram, and all
that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Yehudah?
8:24Yoram slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Achazyah his son
reigned in his place. 8:25In the twelfth
year of Yoram the son of Ach'av king of Yisra'el did Achazyah the son of
Yehoram king of Yehudah begin to reign.
8:26Twenty-two
years old was Achazyah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in
Yerushalayim. His mother's name was `Atalyah the daughter of `Omri king of
Yisra'el. 8:27He walked in the way of the house of Ach'av, and did that which
was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ach'av; for he was
the son-in-law of the house of Ach'av.
8:28He
went with Yoram the son of Ach'av to war against Chaza'el king of Aram at
Ramot-Gil`ad: and the Aram wounded Yoram.
8:29King
Yoram returned to be healed in Yizre`el of the wounds which the Aram had
given him at Ramah, when he fought against Chaza'el king of Aram. Achazyah
the son of Yehoram king of Yehudah went down to see Yoram the son of
Ach'av in Yizre`el, because he was sick.
9:1Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and
said to him, Gird up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand,
and go to Ramot-Gil`ad. 9:2When you come
there, look out there Yehu the son of Yehoshafat the son of Nimshi, and go
in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an
inner chamber.
9:3Then take the vial of oil, and pour it
on his head, and say, Thus says the LORD, I have anointed you king over
Yisra'el. Then open the door, and flee, and don't wait.
9:4So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to
Ramot-Gil`ad.
9:5When he came, behold, the captains of
the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Yehu
said, To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain.
9:6He arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his
head, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, I have
anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Yisra'el.
9:7You shall strike the house of Ach'av your master, that I may
avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of the LORD, at the hand of Izevel.
9:8For
the whole house of Ach'av shall perish; and I will cut off from Ach'av
every man-child, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in
Yisra'el. 9:9I will make the house of Ach'av like the house of Yarov`am the
son of Nevat, and like the house of Ba`sha the son of Achiyah.
9:10The dogs shall eat Izevel in the portion of Yizre`el, and there
shall be none to bury her. He opened the door, and fled.
9:11Then Yehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to
him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? He said to them, You
know the man and what his talk was.
9:12They
said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me,
saying, Thus says the LORD, I have anointed you king over Yisra'el.
9:13Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the shofar,
saying, Yehu is king. 9:14So Yehu the son
of Yehoshafat the son of Nimshi conspired against Yoram. (Now Yoram was
keeping Ramot-Gil`ad, he and all Yisra'el, because of Chaza'el king of
Aram; 9:15but king Yoram was returned to be healed in Yizre`el of the
wounds which the Aram had given him, when he fought with Chaza'el king of
Aram.) Yehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth
out of the city, to go to tell it in Yizre`el.
9:16So
Yehu rode in a chariot, and went to Yizre`el; for Yoram lay there.
Achazyah king of Yehudah was come down to see Yoram.
9:17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Yizre`el, and he
spied the company of Yehu as he came, and said, I see a company. Yoram
said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it
shalom? 9:18So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says
the king, Is it shalom? Yehu said, What have you to do with shalom? turn
you behind me. The watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but
he isn't coming back. 9:19Then he sent out
a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus says the king, Is
it shalom? Yehu answered, What have you to do with shalom? turn you behind
me. 9:20The watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and isn't coming
back: and the driving is like the driving of Yehu the son of Nimshi; for
he drives furiously. 9:21Yoram said, Make
ready. They made ready his chariot. Yoram king of Yisra'el and Achazyah
king of Yehudah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet
Yehu, and found him in the portion of Navot the Yizre`eli.
9:22It happened, when Yoram saw Yehu, that he said, Is it shalom,
Yehu? He answered, What shalom, so long as the prostitution of your mother
Izevel and her witchcraft abound? 9:23Yoram turned his
hands, and fled, and said to Achazyah, There is treachery, Achazyah.
9:24Yehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Yoram
between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in
his chariot.
9:25Then said Yehu to Bidgar his
captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Navot the
Yizre`eli; for remember how that, when I and you rode together after
Ach'av his father, the LORD laid this burden on him:
9:26Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Navot, and the blood of
his sons, says the LORD; and I will requite you in this plat, says the
LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground,
according to the word of the LORD. 9:27But when Achazyah
the king of Yehudah saw this, he fled by the way of the Beit-Haggan. Yehu
followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: and they
struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Yivle`am. He fled to
Megiddo, and died there. 9:28His servants
carried him in a chariot to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his tomb with
his fathers in the city of David. 9:29In the eleventh
year of Yoram the son of Ach'av began Achazyah to reign over Yehudah.
9:30When Yehu was come to Yizre`el, Izevel heard of it; and she
painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
9:31As Yehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it shalom, you Zimri,
your master's murderer? 9:32He lifted up his
face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? There looked out to
him two or three eunuchs. 9:33He said, Throw
her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on
the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
9:34When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, See now to
this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.
9:35They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
9:36Therefore
they came back, and told him. He said, This is the word of the LORD, which
he spoke by his servant Eliyah the Tishbi, saying, In the portion of
Yizre`el shall the dogs eat the flesh of Izevel;
9:37and
the body of Izevel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the
portion of Yizre`el, so that they shall not say, This is Izevel.
10:1Now Ach'av had seventy sons in Shomron. Yehu wrote letters, and
sent to Shomron, to the rulers of Yizre`el, even the elders, and to those
who brought up the sons of Ach'av, saying,
10:2Now
as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with
you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also,
and armor;
10:3look you out the best and meet of your
master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your
master's house.
10:4But they were exceedingly afraid,
and said, Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we
stand? 10:5He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the
elders also, and those who brought up the children, sent to Yehu,
saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we
will not make any man king: you do that which is good in your eyes.
10:6Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be
on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men
your master's sons, and come to me to Yizre`el by tomorrow this time. Now
the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the
city, who brought them up. 10:7It happened, when
the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them,
even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him
to Yizre`el.
10:8There came a messenger, and told him,
saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. He said, Lay you
them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.
10:9It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said
to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my
master, and killed him; but who struck all these?
10:10Know
now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD,
which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ach'av: for the LORD has done
that which he spoke by his servant Eliyah.
10:11So
Yehu struck all that remained of the house of Ach'av in Yizre`el, and all
his great men, and his familiar friends, and his kohanim,
until he left him none remaining. 10:12He arose and
departed, and went to Shomron. As he was at the shearing-house of the
shepherds in the way, 10:13Yehu met with
the brothers of Achazyah king of Yehudah, and said, Who are you? They
answered, We are the brothers of Achazyah: and we go down to Greet the
children of the king and the children of the queen.
10:14He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them
at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he
any of them.
10:15When he was departed there, he
lighted on Yehonadav the son of Rechav coming to meet him; and he greeted
him, and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?
Yehonadav answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. He gave him his
hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
10:16He
said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in
his chariot.
10:17When he came to Shomron, he struck
all who remained to Ach'av in Shomron, until he had destroyed him,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to Eliyah.
10:18Yehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ach'av
served Ba`al a little; but Yehu will serve him much.
10:19Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Ba`al, all his
worshippers, and all his kohanim; let none be wanting:
for I have a great sacrifice to do to Ba`al; whoever shall be
wanting, he shall not live. But Yehu did it in subtlety, to the intent
that he might destroy the worshippers of Ba`al.
10:20Yehu
said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Ba`al. They proclaimed it.
10:21Yehu sent through all Yisra'el: and all the worshippers of Ba`al
came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into
the house of Ba`al; and the house of Ba`al was filled from one end to
another.
10:22He said to him who was over the
vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Ba`al. He brought
them forth vestments. 10:23Yehu went, and
Yehonadav the son of Rechav, into the house of Ba`al; and he said to the
worshippers of Ba`al, Search, and look that there be here with you none of
the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Ba`al only.
10:24They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Yehu
had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I
bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be
for the life of him. 10:25It happened, as
soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Yehu said
to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come
forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the
captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Ba`al.
10:26They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Ba`al,
and burned them.
10:27They broke down the pillar of
Ba`al, and broke down the house of Ba`al, and made it a latrine, to this
day. 10:28Thus Yehu destroyed Ba`al out of Yisra'el.
10:29However from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he
made Yisra'el to sin, Yehu didn't depart from after them, to wit,
the golden calves that were in Beit-El, and that were in Dan.
10:30The LORD said to Yehu, Because you have done well in executing
that which is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of
Ach'av according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Yisra'el.
10:31But
Yehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el,
with all his heart: he didn't depart from the sins of Yarov`am, with which
he made Yisra'el to sin. 10:32In those days
the LORD began to cut off from Yisra'el: and Chaza'el struck them in all
the borders of Yisra'el; 10:33from the Yarden
eastward, all the land of Gil`ad, the Gadi, and the Re'uveni, and the
Manashshi, from `Aro`er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gil`ad
and Bashan.
10:34Now the rest of the acts of Yehu, and
all that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el?
10:35Yehu
slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomron. Yeho'achaz his son
reigned in his place. 10:36The time that
Yehu reigned over Yisra'el in Shomron was twenty-eight years.
11:1Now when `Atalyah the mother of Achazyah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
11:2But
Yehosheva, the daughter of king Yoram, sister of Achazyah, took Yo'ash the
son of Achazyah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were
slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedchamber; and
they hid him from `Atalyah, so that he was not slain;
11:3He was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. `Atalyah
reigned over the land. 11:4In the seventh
year Yehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Kari and
of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD; and he
made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the
LORD, and shown them the king's son.
11:5He
commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part
of you, who come in on the Shabbat, shall be keepers of the watch of the
king's house;
11:6A third part shall be at the gate Sur;
and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall you keep the watch
of the house, and be a barrier. 11:7The two companies
of you, even all who go forth on the Shabbat, shall keep the watch of the
house of the LORD about the king. 11:8You shall compass
the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who
comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he
goes out, and when he comes in. 11:9The captains over
hundreds did according to all that Yehoiada the kohen
commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on
the Shabbat, with those who were to go out on the Shabbat, and came to
Yehoiada the kohen.
11:10The
kohen delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears
and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of the
LORD. 11:11The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the
right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar
and the house, by the king round about.
11:12Then
he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and gave him
the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped
their hands, and said, Long live the king.
11:13When
`Atalyah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came
to the people into the house of the LORD:
11:14and
she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was,
and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the
land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then `Atalyah tore her clothes, and
cried, Treason! treason! 11:15Yehoiada the
kohen commanded the captains of hundreds who were set
over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him
who follows her kill with the sword. For the kohen said,
Don't let her be slain in the house of the LORD.
11:16So
they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the
king's house: and there was she slain.
11:17Yehoiada
made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they
should be the LORD's people; between the king also and the people.
11:18All the people of the land went to the house of Ba`al, and broke
it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and
killed Mattan the kohen of Ba`al before the altars. The
kohen appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
11:19He took the captains over hundreds, and the Kari, and the guard,
and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the
house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the
king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
11:20So
all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. `Atalyah they
had slain with the sword at the king's house.
11:21Yeho'ash
was seven years old when he began to reign.
12:1In the seventh year of Yehu began Yeho'ash to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Tzivyah of
Be'er-Sheva.
12:2Yeho'ash did that which was right in
the eyes of the LORD all his days in which Yehoiada the
kohen instructed him. 12:3However the high
places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense
in the high places. 12:4Yeho'ash said to
the kohanim, All the money of the holy things that is
brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the
persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into
any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
12:5let the kohanim take it to them, every man
from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house,
wherever any breach shall be found.
12:6But
it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Yeho'ash the
kohanim had not repaired the breaches of the house.
12:7Then king Yeho'ash called for Yehoiada the kohen,
and for the other kohanim, and said to them, Why
don't you repair the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more
money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the
house. 12:8The kohanim consented that they should take no
more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the
house. 12:9But Yehoiada the kohen took a chest, and bored
a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as
one comes into the house of the LORD: and the kohanim
who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the
house of the LORD. 12:10It was so, when
they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe
and the kohen gadol came up, and they put up in bags
and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
12:11They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those
who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they
paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of
the LORD,
12:12and to the masons and the stone
cutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of
the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to
repair it.
12:13But there were not made for the house
of the LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of
gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house
of the LORD;
12:14for they gave that to those who did
the work, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
12:15Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose
hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they
dealt faithfully.
12:16The money for the
trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought
into the house of the LORD: it was the kohanim'.
12:17Then Chaza'el king of Aram went up, and fought against Gat, and
took it; and Chaza'el set his face to go up to Yerushalayim.
12:18Yeho'ash king of Yehudah took all the holy things that Yehoshafat
and Yehoram and Achazyah, his fathers, kings of Yehudah, had dedicated,
and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures
of the house of the LORD, and of the king's house, and sent it to Chaza'el
king of Aram: and he went away from Yerushalayim.
12:19Now
the rest of the acts of Yo'ash, and all that he did, aren't they written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
12:20His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Yo'ash at
the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
12:21For Yozakhar the son of Shim`at, and Yehozavad the son of Shomer,
his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Amatzyah his son reigned in his place.
13:1In the three and twentieth year of Yo'ash the son of Achazyah,
king of Yehudah, Yeho'achaz the son of Yehu began to reign over Yisra'el
in Shomron, and reigned seventeen years.
13:2He
did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of
Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin; he didn't
depart from it.
13:3The anger of the LORD was kindled
against Yisra'el, and he delivered them into the hand of Chaza'el king of
Aram, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Chaza'el, continually.
13:4Yeho'achaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he
saw the oppression of Yisra'el, how that the king of Aram oppressed them.
13:5(the LORD gave Yisra'el a savior, so that they went out from
under the hand of the Aram; and the children of Yisra'el lived in their
tents as before.
13:6Nevertheless they didn't depart
from the sins of the house of Yarov`am, with which he made Yisra'el to
sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Shomron.)
13:7For he didn't leave to Yeho'achaz of the people save fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Aram
destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
13:8Now the rest of the acts of Yeho'achaz, and all that he did, and
his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Yisra'el?
13:9Yeho'achaz slept with his fathers; and
they buried him in Shomron: and Yo'ash his son reigned in his place.
13:10In the thirty-seventh year of Yo'ash king of Yehudah began
Yeho'ash the son of Yeho'achaz to reign over Yisra'el in Shomron, and
reigned sixteen years. 13:11He did that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he didn't depart from all the
sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin; but
he walked therein. 13:12Now the rest of
the acts of Yo'ash, and all that he did, and his might with which he
fought against Amatzyah king of Yehudah, aren't they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el?
13:13Yo'ash
slept with his fathers; and Yarov`am sat on his throne: and Yo'ash was
buried in Shomron with the kings of Yisra'el.
13:14Now
Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which h
