Yahuwah Bible

¹ Moab rebelled against Yisra’el after the death of Ahab.
² Ahaziyah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Shomron, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the elohim of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
³ But Melech Yahuwah (King Yahuwah) (transl.: the Angel of the Lord) said to Eliyahu the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Shomron, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no Elohim in Yisra’el, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the elohim of Ekron?
⁴ Now therefore thus says Yahuwah, “You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.”’” Eliyahu departed.
⁵ The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
⁶ They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Thus says Yahuwah, ‘Is it because there is no Elohim in Yisra’el, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the elohim of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”’”
⁷ He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”
⁸ They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It is Eliyahu the Tishbite.”
⁹ Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of Elohim, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”
¹⁰ Eliyahu answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of Elohim, 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.
¹¹ Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, “Man of Elohim, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”
¹² Eliyahu answered them, “If I am a man of Elohim, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” The fire of Elohim came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
¹³ Again 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 Eliyahu, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of Elohim, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
¹⁴ Behold, 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.”
¹⁵ Melech Yahuwah (King Yahuwah) said to Eliyahu, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” He arose, and went down with him to the king.
¹⁶ He said to him, “Thus says Yahuwah, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the elohim of Ekron, is it because there is no Elohim in Yisra’el to inquire of his word? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”
¹⁷ So he died according to the word of Yahuwah which Eliyahu had spoken. Yahuram began to reign in his place in the second year of Yahuram the son of Yahushafat king of Yehudah; because he had no son.
¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziyah which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?

¹ It happened, when Yahuwah would take up Eliyahu by a whirlwind into heaven, that Eliyahu went with Elisha from Gilgal.
² Eliyahu said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahuwah has sent me as far as Beit-El .” Elisha said, “As Yahuwah lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Beit-El .
³ The sons of the prophets who were at Beit-El came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahuwah will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”
⁴ Eliyahu said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahuwah has sent me to Yericho.” He said, “As Yahuwah lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Yericho.
⁵ The sons of the prophets who were at Yericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahuwah will take away your master from your head today?” He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
⁶ Eliyahu said to him, “Please wait here, for Yahuwah has sent me to the Yarden.” He said, “As Yahuwah lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” They both went on.
⁷ Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Yarden.
⁸ Eliyahu 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.
⁹ It happened, when they had gone over, that Eliyahu 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.”
¹⁰ He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”
¹¹ It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Eliyahu went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
¹² Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra’el and its horsemen!” He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.
¹³ He took up also the mantle of Eliyahu that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Yarden.
¹⁴ He took the mantle of Eliyahu that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahuwah, the Elohim of Eliyahu?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.
¹⁵ When the sons of the prophets who were at Yericho over against him saw him, they said, “the Spirit of Eliyahu rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
¹⁶ They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahuwah has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, “You shall not send them.”
¹⁷ When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.
¹⁸ They came back to him, while he stayed at Yericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’”
¹⁹ The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.”
²⁰ He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” They brought it to him.
²¹ He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Thus says Yahuwah, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.’”
²² So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
²³ He went up from there to Beit-El . As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!”
²⁴ He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahuwah. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
²⁵ He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Shomron.

¹ Now Yahuram the son of Ahab began to reign over Yisra’el in Shomron in the eighteenth year of Yahushafat king of Yehudah, and reigned twelve years.
² He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
³ Nevertheless he held to the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin; he didn’t depart from it.
⁴ Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Yisra’el the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
⁵ But it happened, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Yisra’el.
⁶ King Yahuram went out of Shomron at that time, and mustered all Yisra’el.
⁷ He went and sent to Yahushafat the king of Yehudah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab to battle?” He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
⁸ He said, “Which way shall we go up?” He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”
⁹ So 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. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.
¹⁰ The king of Yisra’el said, “Alas! For Yahuwah has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
¹¹ But Yahushafat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahuwah, that we may inquire of Yahuwah 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 Eliyahu.”
¹² Yahushafat said, “The word of Yahuwah is with him.” So the king of Yisra’el and Yahushafat and the king of Edom went down to him.
¹³ Elisha said to the king of Yisra’el, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Yisra’el said to him, “No; for Yahuwah has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
¹⁴ Elisha said, “As Yahuwah Tzebaot (of Armies) lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Yahushafat the king of Yehudah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
¹⁵ But now bring me a minstrel.” It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahuwah came on him.
¹⁶ He said, “Thus says Yahuwah, ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
¹⁷ For thus says Yahuwah, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals.
¹⁸ This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahuwah. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
¹⁹ You 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.’”
²⁰ It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
²¹ Now when all the Moabites 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.
²² They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood.
²³ They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!”
²⁴ When they came to the camp of Yisra’el, the Yisra’elites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.
²⁵ They 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 its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.
²⁶ When the king of Moab 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.
²⁷ Then 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.

¹ Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahuwah. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
² Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
³ Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don’t borrow just a few.
⁴ You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full.”
⁵ So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.
⁶ It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” The oil stopped flowing.
⁷ Then she came and told the man of Elohim. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
⁸ It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
⁹ She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of Elohim, that passes by us continually.
¹⁰ Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.”
¹¹ One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there.
¹² He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunamite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
¹³ He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
¹⁴ He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
¹⁵ He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
¹⁶ He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of Elohim, do not lie to your handmaid.”
¹⁷ The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
¹⁸ When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
¹⁹ He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
²⁰ When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
²¹ She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of Elohim, and shut the door on him, and went out.
²² She 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 Elohim, and come again.”
²³ He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Shabat.” She said, “It’s alright.”
²⁴ Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
²⁵ So she went, and came to the man of Elohim to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of Elohim saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunamite.
²⁶ Please 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.”
²⁷ When she came to the man of Elohim to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of Elohim said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahuwah has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
²⁸ Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn’t I say, Do not deceive me?”
²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, 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. Then lay my staff on the face of the child.”
³⁰ The mother of the child said, “As Yahuwah lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” He arose, and followed her.
³¹ Gehazi 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.”
³² When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
³³ He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahuwah.
³⁴ He 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. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
³⁵ Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
³⁶ He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunamite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”
³⁷ Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
³⁸ Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine 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.”
³⁹ One 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.
⁴⁰ So 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 Elohim, there is death in the pot!” They could not eat of it.
⁴¹ But 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.
⁴² A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of Elohim 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.”
⁴³ His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahuwah, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
⁴⁴ So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the word of Yahuwah.

¹ Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahuwah had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
² The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Yisra’el a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
³ She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Shomron! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
⁴ Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden who is from the land of Yisra’el said this.”
⁵ The king of Syria 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.
⁶ He brought the letter to the king of Yisra’el, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”
⁷ It happened, when the king of Yisra’el had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I Elohim, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
⁸ It was so, when Elisha the man of Elohim 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.”
⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
¹⁰ Elisha 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.”
¹¹ But Naaman 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 Yahuwah his Elohim, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
¹² Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Yisra’el? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
¹³ His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”
¹⁴ Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Yarden, according to the saying of the man of Elohim; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
¹⁵ He returned to the man of Elohim, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no Elohim in all the earth, but in Yisra’el. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
¹⁶ But he said, “As Yahuwah lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.
¹⁷ Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other elohim, but to Yahuwah.
¹⁸ In this thing may Yahuwah pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of rimon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimon, may Yahuwah pardon your servant in this thing.”
¹⁹ He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a little way.
²⁰ But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of Elohim, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahuwah lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
²² He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Efrayim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”
²³ Naaman 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 carried them before him.
²⁴ When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
²⁶ He 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 cattle, and male servants and female servants?
²⁷ Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your seed forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

¹ The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us.
² Please let us go to the Yarden, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.” He answered, “Go!”
³ One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”
⁴ So he went with them. When they came to the Yarden, they cut down wood.
⁵ But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
⁶ The man of Elohim asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
⁷ He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it.
⁸ Now the king of Syria was warring against Yisra’el; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
⁹ The man of Elohim sent to the king of Yisra’el, saying, “Beware that you not pass such a place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”
¹⁰ The king of Yisra’el sent to the place which the man of Elohim told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
¹¹ The heart of the king of Syria was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Yisra’el?”
¹² One 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 bedroom.”
¹³ He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” It was told him, saying, “Behold, he is in Dotan.”
¹⁴ Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.
¹⁵ When the servant of the man of Elohim had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
¹⁶ He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
¹⁷ Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahuwah, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahuwah opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
¹⁸ When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahuwah, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
¹⁹ Elisha 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.
²⁰ It happened, when they had come into Shomron, that Elisha said, “Yahuwah, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” Yahuwah opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Shomron.
²¹ The king of Yisra’el said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”
²² He 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.”
²³ He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Yisra’el.
²⁴ It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Shomron.
²⁵ There was a great famine in Shomron. 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.
²⁶ As the king of Yisra’el was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
²⁷ He said, “If Yahuwah doesn’t help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”
²⁸ The 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.’
²⁹ So 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 hidden her son.”
³⁰ It 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 underneath on his flesh.
³¹ Then he said, “Elohim do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shafat shall stay on him this day.”
³² But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see 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 shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
³³ While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahuwah. Why should I wait for Yahuwah any longer?”

¹ Elisha said, “Hear the word of Yahuwah. Thus says Yahuwah, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Shomron.’”
² Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of Elohim, and said, “Behold, if Yahuwah made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”
³ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
⁴ If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”
⁵ They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
⁶ For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Yisra’el has hired against us the kings of the Hitites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.
⁷ Therefore 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.
⁸ When 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. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.
⁹ Then they said one to another, “We aren’t doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
¹⁰ So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, 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.”
¹¹ He called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.
¹² The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians 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.’”
¹³ One of his servants answered, “Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Yisra’el who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Yisra’el who are consumed. Let us send and see.”
¹⁴ They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”
¹⁵ They went after them to the Yarden; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
¹⁶ The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahuwah.
¹⁷ The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of Elohim had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
¹⁸ It happened, as the man of Elohim 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;”
¹⁹ and that captain answered the man of Elohim, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahuwah 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.”
²⁰ It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

¹ Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahuwah has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years.”
² The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of Elohim. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
³ It happened at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
⁴ Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of Elohim, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
⁵ It 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. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
⁶ When 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.”
⁷ Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, “The man of Elohim has come here.”
⁸ The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of Elohim, and inquire of Yahuwah by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
⁹ So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
¹⁰ Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You shall surely recover;’ however Yahuwah has shown me that he shall surely die.”
¹¹ He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of Elohim wept.
¹² Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Yisra’el. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”
¹³ Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahuwah has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”
¹⁴ Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” He answered, “He told me that you would surely recover.”
¹⁵ It happened on the next day, that he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Hazael reigned in his place.
¹⁶ In the fifth year of Yoram the son of Ahab king of Yisra’el, Yahushafat being king of Yehudah then, Yahuram the son of Yahushafat king of Yehudah began to reign.
¹⁷ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Yerushalayim.
¹⁸ He walked in the way of the kings of Yisra’el, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah.
¹⁹ However Yahuwah would not destroy Yehudah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yehudah, and made a king over themselves.
²¹ Then Yoram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
²² So Edom revolted from under the hand of Yehudah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
²³ The 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?
²⁴ Yoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziyah his son reigned in his place.
²⁵ In the twelfth year of Yoram the son of Ahab king of Yisra’el, Ahaziyah the son of Yahuram king of Yehudah began to reign.
²⁶ Twenty-two years old was Ahaziyah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim. His mother’s name was Ataliyah the daughter of Omri king of Yisra’el.
²⁷ He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
²⁸ He went with Yoram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramot Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Yoram.
²⁹ King Yoram returned to be healed in Yezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziyah the son of Yahuram king of Yehudah went down to see Yoram the son of Ahab in Yezreel, because he was sick.

¹ Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramot Gilead.
² When you come there, find Yehu the son of Yahushafat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner room.
³ Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says Yahuwah, “I have anointed you king over Yisra’el.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”
⁴ So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramot Gilead.
⁵ When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.” Yehu said, “To which of us all?” He said, “To you, O captain.”
⁶ He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Thus says Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of Yahuwah, even over Yisra’el.
⁷ You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahuwah, at the hand of Yezebel.
⁸ For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Yisra’el.
⁹ I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahiyah.
¹⁰ The dogs will eat Yezebel on the plot of ground of Yezreel, and there shall be none to bury her.’” He opened the door, and fled.
¹¹ Then Yehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and what his talk was.”
¹² They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘Thus says Yahuwah, I have anointed you king over Yisra’el.’”
¹³ Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Yehu is king.”
¹⁴ So Yehu the son of Yahushafat the son of Nimshi conspired against Yoram. (Now Yoram was keeping Ramot Gilead, he and all Yisra’el, because of Hazael king of Syria;
¹⁵ but king Yoram was returned to be healed in Yezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Yehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Yezreel.”
¹⁶ So Yehu rode in a chariot, and went to Yezreel; for Yoram lay there. Ahaziyah king of Yehudah had come down to see Yoram.
¹⁷ Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Yezreel, 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 peace?’”
¹⁸ So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Yehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”
¹⁹ Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Yehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”
²⁰ The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Yehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.”
²¹ Yoram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. Yoram king of Yisra’el and Ahaziyah king of Yehudah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Yehu, and found him in the portion of Nabot the Yezreelite.
²² It happened, when Yoram saw Yehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Yehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Yezebel and her witchcraft abound?”
²³ Yoram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziyah. “There is treason, Ahaziyah!”
²⁴ Yehu 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.
²⁵ Then Yehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Nabot the Yezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahuwah laid this burden on him:
²⁶ ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Nabot, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahuwah; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahuwah. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of Yahuwah.”
²⁷ But when Ahaziyah the king of Yehudah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Yehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megido, and died there.
²⁸ His servants carried him in a chariot to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
²⁹ In the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ahab began Ahaziyah to reign over Yehudah.
³⁰ When Yehu had come to Yezreel, Yezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
³¹ As Yehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
³² He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
³³ He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
³⁴ When he had 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.”
³⁵ They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
³⁶ Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is the word of Yahuwah, which he spoke by his servant Eliyahu the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Yezebel on the plot of Yezreel,
³⁷ and the body of Yezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Yezreel, so that they shall not say, “This is Yezebel.”’”

¹ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Shomron. Yehu wrote letters, and sent to Shomron, to the rulers of Yezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying,
² “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor.
³ Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
⁴ But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”
⁵ He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Yehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes.”
⁶ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are 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 Yezreel by tomorrow this time.” Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
⁷ It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Yezreel.
⁸ A messenger came, and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”
⁹ It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?
¹⁰ Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of Yahuwah, which Yahuwah spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For Yahuwah has done that which he spoke by his servant Eliyahu.”
¹¹ So Yehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Yezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
¹² He arose and departed, and went to Shomron. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,
¹³ Yehu met with the brothers of Ahaziyah king of Yehudah, and said, “Who are you?” They answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziyah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.”
¹⁴ He said, “Take them alive!” They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them.
¹⁵ When he had departed from there, he met Yahunadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Yahunadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
¹⁶ He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahuwah.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
¹⁷ When he came to Shomron, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Shomron, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahuwah, which he spoke to Eliyahu.
¹⁸ Yehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Yehu will serve him much.
¹⁹ Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Yehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
²⁰ Yehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” They proclaimed it.
²¹ Yehu sent through all Yisra’el; and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
²² He said to him who was over the vestry, “Bring out robes for all the worshippers of Baal!” He brought robes out to them.
²³ Yehu went with Yahunadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshippers of Baal, “Search, and look that there are here with you none of the servants of Yahuwah, but the worshippers of Baal only.”
²⁴ They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Yehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”
²⁵ It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Yehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in, and kill them! Let none escape.” 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 Baal.
²⁶ They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
²⁷ They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
²⁸ Thus Yehu destroyed Baal out of Yisra’el.
²⁹ However from the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin, Yehu didn’t depart from after them, the golden calves that were in Beit-El , and that were in Dan.
³⁰ Yahuwah said to Yehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Yisra’el.”
³¹ But Yehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Yerov’am, with which he made Yisra’el to sin.
³² In those days Yahuwah began to cut off from Yisra’el; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Yisra’el;
³³ from the Yarden eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Re’ubenites, and the Manashs, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
³⁴ Now the rest of the acts of Yehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?
³⁵ Yehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomron. Yahuahaz his son reigned in his place.
³⁶ The time that Yehu reigned over Yisra’el in Shomron was twenty-eight years.

¹ Now when Ataliyah the mother of Ahaziyah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
² But Yahusheba, the daughter of king Yoram, sister of Ahaziyah. took Yoash the son of Ahaziyah. and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Ataliyah. so that he was not slain;
³ He was with her hidden in the house of Yahuwah six years. Ataliyah reigned over the land.
⁴ In the seventh year Yahuiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahuwah; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahuwah, and showed them the king’s son.
⁵ He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on Shabat, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;
⁶ A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
⁷ The two companies of you, even all who go out on Shabat, shall keep the watch of the house of Yahuwah around the king.
⁸ You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”
⁹ The captains over hundreds did according to all that Yahuiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on Shabat, with those who were to go out on Shabat, and came to Yahuiada the priest.
¹⁰ The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David‘s, which were in the house of Yahuwah.
¹¹ The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.
¹² Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
¹³ When Ataliyah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the house of Yahuwah:
¹⁴ and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Ataliyah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
¹⁵ Yahuiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in the house of Yahuwah.”
¹⁶ So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house. She was slain there.
¹⁷ Yahuiada made a covenant between Yahuwah and the king and the people, that they should be Yahuwah‘s people; between the king also and the people.
¹⁸ All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Matan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahuwah.
¹⁹ He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahuwah, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
²⁰ So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Ataliyah they had slain with the sword at the king’s house.
²¹ Yahuash was seven years old when he began to reign.

¹ In the seventh year of Yehu began Yahuash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Zibiyah of Beersheba.
² Yahuash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah all his days in which Yahuiada the priest instructed him.
³ However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
⁴ Yahuash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahuwah, 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 Yahuwah,
⁵ let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.”
⁶ But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Yahuash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
⁷ Then king Yahuash called for Yahuiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.”
⁸ The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
⁹ But Yahuiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahuwah: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahuwah.
¹⁰ It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Yahuwah.
¹¹ They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahuwah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahuwah,
¹² and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahuwah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
¹³ But there were not made for the house of Yahuwah cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahuwah;
¹⁴ for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Yahuwah.
¹⁵ Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
¹⁶ The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahuwah: it was the priests’.
¹⁷ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gat, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Yerushalayim.
¹⁸ Yahuash king of Yehudah took all the holy things that Yahushafat and Yahuram and Ahaziyah. 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 Yahuwah, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Yerushalayim.
¹⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Yoash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
²⁰ His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Yoash at the house of Milo, on the way that goes down to Sila.
²¹ For Yozacar the son of Shimeath, and Yahuzabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziyah his son reigned in his place.

¹ In the three and twentieth year of Yoash the son of Ahaziyah. king of Yehudah, Yahuahaz the son of Yehu began to reign over Yisra’el in Shomron for seventeen years.
² He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, and followed the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin; he didn’t depart from it.
³ The anger of Yahuwah was kindled against Yisra’el, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
⁴ Yahuahaz begged Yahuwah, and Yahuwah listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Yisra’el, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
⁵ (Yahuwah gave Yisra’el a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Yisra’el lived in their tents as before.
⁶ Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Yerov’am, with which he made Yisra’el to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Shomron.)
⁷ For he didn’t leave to Yahuahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Yahuahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?
⁹ Yahuahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomron: and Yoash his son reigned in his place.
¹⁰ In the thirty-seventh year of Yoash king of Yehudah, Yahuash the son of Yahuahaz began to reign over Yisra’el in Shomron for sixteen years.
¹¹ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah; he didn’t depart from all the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin; but he walked therein.
¹² Now the rest of the acts of Yoash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziyah king of Yehudah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?
¹³ Yoash slept with his fathers; and Yerov’am sat on his throne: and Yoash was buried in Shomron with the kings of Yisra’el.
¹⁴ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Yoash the king of Yisra’el came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra’el and its horsemen!”
¹⁵ Elisha said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took to him bow and arrows.
¹⁶ He said to the king of Yisra’el, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he put his hand on it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.
¹⁷ He said, “Open the window eastward;” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “Yahuwah‘s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Afek, until you have consumed them.”
¹⁸ He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them. He said to the king of Yisra’el, “Strike the ground;” and he struck three times, and stopped.
¹⁹ The man of Elohim was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria just three times.”
²⁰ Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
²¹ It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
²² Hazael king of Syria oppressed Yisra’el all the days of Yahuahaz.
²³ But Yahuwah was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya’akov, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
²⁴ Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place.
²⁵ Yahuash the son of Yahuahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Yahuahaz his father by war. Yoash struck him three times, and recovered the cities of Yisra’el.

¹ In the second year of Yoash son of Yoahaz king of Yisra’el began Amaziyah the son of Yoash king of Yehudah to reign.
² He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Yahuadin of Yerushalayim.
³ He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Yoash his father had done.
⁴ However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
⁵ It happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father:
⁶ but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moshe, as Yahuwah commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
⁷ He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Yoktheel, to this day.
⁸ Then Amaziyah sent messengers to Yahuash, the son of Yahuahaz son of Yehu, king of Yisra’el, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”
⁹ Yahuash the king of Yisra’el sent to Amaziyah king of Yehudah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
¹⁰ You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Yehudah with you?’”
¹¹ But Amaziyah would not listen. So Yahuash king of Yisra’el went up; and he and Amaziyah king of Yehudah looked one another in the face at Beit Shemes, which belongs to Yehudah.
¹² Yehudah was defeated by Yisra’el; and they fled every man to his tent.
¹³ Yahuash king of Yisra’el took Amaziyah king of Yehudah, the son of Yahuash the son of Ahaziyah. at Beit Shemes, and came to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the gate of Efrayim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
¹⁴ He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahuwah, and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Shomron.
¹⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Yahuash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziyah king of Yehudah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?
¹⁶ Yahuash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomron with the kings of Yisra’el; and Yerov’am his son reigned in his place.
¹⁷ Amaziyah the son of Yoash king of Yehudah lived after the death of Yahuash son of Yahuahaz king of Yisra’el fifteen years.
¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Amaziyah. aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
¹⁹ They made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
²⁰ They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Yerushalayim with his fathers in the city of David.
²¹ All the people of Yehudah took Azariyah. who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziyah.
²² He built Elath, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
²³ In the fifteenth year of Amaziyah the son of Yoash king of Yehudah, Yerov’am the son of Yoash king of Yisra’el began to reign in Shomron for forty-one years.
²⁴ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah: he didn’t depart from all the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin.
²⁵ He restored the border of Yisra’el from the entrance of Hamat to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, which he spoke by his servant Yonah the son of AmItai, the prophet, who was of Gat Hefer.
²⁶ For Yahuwah saw the affliction of Yisra’el, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Yisra’el.
²⁷ Yahuwah didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Yisra’el from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Yerov’am the son of Yoash.
²⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Yerov’am, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamat, which had belonged to Yehudah, for Yisra’el, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?
²⁹ Yerov’am slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Yisra’el; and Zechariyah his son reigned in his place.

¹ In the twenty-seventh year of Yerov’am king of Yisra’el began Azariyah son of Amaziyah king of Yehudah to reign.
² Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Yecoliyah of Yerushalayim.
³ He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, according to all that his father Amaziyah had done.
⁴ However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
⁵ Yahuwah struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Yotam the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
⁶ Now the rest of the acts of Azariyah. and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
⁷ Azariyah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Yotam his son reigned in his place.
⁸ In the thirty-eighth year of Azariyah king of Yehudah, Zechariyah the son of Yerov’am reigned over Yisra’el in Shomron six months.
⁹ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, as his fathers had done: he didn’t depart from the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin.
¹⁰ Shalum the son of Yabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
¹¹ Now the rest of the acts of Zechariyah. behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el.
¹² This was the word of Yahuwah which he spoke to Yehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Yisra’el.” So it came to pass.
¹³ Shalum the son of Yabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uziyahu king of Yehudah; and he reigned for a month in Shomron.
¹⁴ Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Shomron, and struck Shalum the son of Yabesh in Shomron, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
¹⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Shalum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el.
¹⁶ Then Menahem struck Tifsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn’t open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.
¹⁷ In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariyah king of Yehudah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Yisra’el for ten years in Shomron.
¹⁸ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah: he didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin.
¹⁹ There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
²⁰ Menahem exacted the money of Yisra’el, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.
²¹ Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el?
²² Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiyah his son reigned in his place.
²³ In the fiftieth year of Azariyah king of Yehudah Pekahiyah the son of Menahem began to reign over Yisra’el in Shomron for two years.
²⁴ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah: he didn’t depart from the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin.
²⁵ Pekah the son of Remaliyah. his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Shomron, in the castle of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
²⁶ Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiyah. and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el.
²⁷ In the two and fiftieth year of Azariyah king of Yehudah Pekah the son of Remaliyah began to reign over Yisra’el in Shomron for twenty years.
²⁸ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah: he didn’t depart from the sins of Yerov’am the son of Nebat, with which he made Yisra’el to sin.
²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Yisra’el came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Iyon, and Abel Beit Maacah, and Yanoach, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and HaGalil, all the land of Naftali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
³⁰ Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliyah. and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Yotam the son of Uziyahu.
³¹ Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra’el.
³² In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliyah king of Yisra’el began Yotam the son of Uziyahu king of Yehudah to reign.
³³ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Yerusha the daughter of Tzadok.
³⁴ He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah; he did according to all that his father Uziyahu had done.
³⁵ However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahuwah.
³⁶ Now the rest of the acts of Yotam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
³⁷ In those days Yahuwah began to send against Yehudah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliyah.
³⁸ Yotam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

¹ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliyah Ahaz the son of Yotam king of Yehudah began to reign.
² Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim: and he didn’t do that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah his Elohim, like David his father.
³ But he walked in the way of the kings of Yisra’el, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahuwah cast out from before the children of Yisra’el.
⁴ He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
⁵ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliyah king of Yisra’el came up to Yerushalayim to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
⁶ At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Eilat to Syria, and drove the Jews from Eilat; and the Syrians came to Eilat, and lived there, to this day.
⁷ So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglat Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Yisra’el, who rise up against me.”
⁸ Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahuwah, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
⁹ The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
¹⁰ King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Uriyah the priest the fashion of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.
¹¹ Uriyah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriyah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
¹² When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered on it.
¹³ He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar.
¹⁴ The bronze altar, which was before Yahuwah, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahuwah, and put it on the north side of his altar.
¹⁵ King Ahaz commanded Uriyah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king’s burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”
¹⁶ Uriyah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
¹⁷ King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
¹⁸ The covered way for Shabat that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahuwah, because of the king of Assyria.
¹⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
²⁰ Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiyah his son reigned in his place.

¹ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Yehudah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Shomron over Yisra’el for nine years.
² He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, yet not as the kings of Yisra’el who were before him.
³ Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
⁴ The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
⁵ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it three years.
⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Shomron, and carried Yisra’el away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
⁷ It was so, because the children of Yisra’el had sinned against Yahuwah their Elohim, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other elohim,
⁸ and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahuwah cast out from before the children of Yisra’el, and of the kings of Yisra’el, which they made.
⁹ The children of Yisra’el did secretly things that were not right against Yahuwah their Elohim: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
¹⁰ and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
¹¹ and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahuwah carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahuwah to anger;
¹² and they served idols, of which Yahuwah had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
¹³ Yet Yahuwah testified to Yisra’el, and to Yehudah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahuwah their Elohim.
¹⁵ They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahuwah had commanded them that they should not do like them.
¹⁶ They forsook all the commandments of Yahuwah their Elohim, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
¹⁷ They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁸ Therefore Yahuwah was very angry with Yisra’el, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Yehudah only.
¹⁹ Also Yehudah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahuwah their Elohim, but walked in the statutes of Yisra’el which they made.
²⁰ Yahuwah rejected all the seed of Yisra’el, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
²¹ For he tore Yisra’el from the house of David; and they made Yerov’am the son of Nebat king: and Yerov’am drove Yisra’el from following Yahuwah, and made them sin a great sin.
²² The children of Yisra’el walked in all the sins of Yerov’am which he did; they didn’t depart from them;
²³ until Yahuwah removed Yisra’el out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Yisra’el was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
²⁴ The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cutah, and from Ava, and from Hamat and Sefarvaim, and placed them in the cities of Shomron instead of the children of Yisra’el; and they possessed Shomron, and lived in the cities of it.
²⁵ So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahuwah: therefore Yahuwah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
²⁶ Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Shomron, don’t know the law of the Elohim of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the Elohim of the land.”
²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the Elohim of the land.”
²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Shomron came and lived in Beit-El , and taught them how they should fear Yahuwah.
²⁹ However every nation made elohim of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
³⁰ The men of Babylon made Sukot Benot, and the men of Cut made Nergal, and the men of Hamat made Ashima,
³¹ and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sefarvites burnt their children in the fire to AdrAmelech and AnAmelech, the elohim of Sefarvaim.
³² So they feared Yahuwah, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
³³ They feared Yahuwah, and served their own elohim, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
³⁴ To this day they do what they did before: they don’t fear Yahuwah, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahuwah commanded the children of Ya’akov, whom he named Yisra’el;
³⁵ with whom Yahuwah had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other elohim, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;
³⁶ but you shall fear Yahuwah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.
³⁷ The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore. You shall not fear other elohim.
³⁸ You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you; neither shall you fear other elohim.
³⁹ But you shall fear Yahuwah your Elohim; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
⁴⁰ However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.
⁴¹ So these nations feared Yahuwah, and served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children’s children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

¹ Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Yisra’el, that Hezekiyah the son of Ahaz king of Yehudah began to reign.
² He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariyah.
³ He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, according to all that David his father had done.
⁴ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moshe had made; for in those days the children of Yisra’el burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
⁵ He trusted in Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Yehudah, nor among them that were before him.
⁶ For he joined with Yahuwah; he didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahuwah commanded Moshe.
⁷ Yahuwah was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
⁸ He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
⁹ It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiyah. which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Yisra’el, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Shomron, and besieged it.
¹⁰ At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiyah. which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Yisra’el, Shomron was taken.
¹¹ The king of Assyria carried Yisra’el away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
¹² because they didn’t obey the voice of Yahuwah their Elohim, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moshe the servant of Yahuwah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
¹³ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiyah. Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and took them.
¹⁴ Hezekiyah king of Yehudah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiyah king of Yehudah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
¹⁵ Hezekiyah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Yahuwah, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
¹⁶ At that time, Hezekiyah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yahuwah, and from the pillars which Hezekiyah king of Yehudah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
¹⁷ The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiyah with a great army to Yerushalayim. They went up and came to Yerushalayim. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
¹⁸ When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Chilkiyahu, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Yoah the son of Asaph the recorder.
¹⁹ Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiyah. ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
²⁰ You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
²¹ Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
²² But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahuwah our Elohim;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiyah has taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to Yerushalayim, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Yerushalayim?’
²³ Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
²⁴ How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
²⁵ Have I now come up without Yahuwah against this place to destroy it? Yahuwah said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”
²⁶ Then Eliakim the son of Chilkiyahu, and Shebnah, and Yoah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
²⁷ But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?”
²⁸ Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
²⁹ Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiyah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
³⁰ Neither let Hezekiyah make you trust in Yahuwah, saying, “Yahuwah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
³¹ Don’t listen to Hezekiyah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
³² until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiyah. when he persuades you, saying, “Yahuwah will deliver us.”
³³ Has any of the elohim of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
³⁴ Where are the elohim of Hamat, and of Arpad? Where are the elohim of Sefarvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? Have they delivered Shomron out of my hand?
³⁵ Who are they among all the elohim of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahuwah should deliver Yerushalayim out of my hand?’”
³⁶ But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Chilkiyahu, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Yoah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiyah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

¹ It happened, when king Hezekiyah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahuwah.
² He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the prophet the son of Amoz.
³ They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiyah. ‘This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
⁴ It may be Yahuwah your Elohim will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living Elohim, and will rebuke the words which Yahuwah your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
⁵ So the servants of king Hezekiyah came to Yeshayahu.
⁶ Yeshayahu said to them, “Thus you shall tell your master, ‘Thus says Yahuwah, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
⁷ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
⁸ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
⁹ When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiyah. saying,
¹⁰ ‘Thus you shall speak to Hezekiyah king of Yehudah, saying, “Don’t let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Yerushalayim will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
¹¹ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
¹² Have the elohim of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezef, and the children of Eden that were in Telasar?
¹³ Where is the king of Hamat, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefarvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’”
¹⁴ Hezekiyah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiyah went up to the house of Yahuwah, and spread it before Yahuwah.
¹⁵ Hezekiyah prayed before Yahuwah, and said, “Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, who sit above the cherubim, you are the Elohim, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
¹⁶ Incline your ear, Yahuwah, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahuwah, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living Elohim.
¹⁷ Truly, Yahuwah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
¹⁸ and have cast their elohim into the fire; for they were no elohim, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.
¹⁹ Now therefore, Yahuwah our Elohim, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahuwah, are Elohim alone.”
²⁰ Then Yeshayahu the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiyah. saying, “Thus says Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, ‘Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.
²¹ This is the word that Yahuwah has spoken concerning him: “The virgin daughter of Tzion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head at you.
²² Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Yisra’el.
²³ By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.’
²⁵ Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
²⁷ But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.
²⁸ Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.”
²⁹ “‘This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.
³⁰ The remnant that has escaped of the house of Yehudah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
³¹ For out of Yerushalayim a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Tzion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahuwah will perform this.’
³² “Therefore thus says Yahuwah concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
³³ By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahuwah.
³⁴ ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David‘s sake.’”
³⁵ It happened that night, that Melech Yahuwah (King Yahuwah) (transl.: the Angel of the Lord) went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
³⁶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
³⁷ It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his Elohim, that AdrAmelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

¹ In those days was Hezekiyah sick to death. Yeshayahu the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says Yahuwah, ‘Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.’”
² Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahuwah, saying,
³ “Remember now, Yahuwah, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiyah wept bitterly.
⁴ It happened, before Yeshayahu had gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahuwah came to him, saying,
⁵ “Turn back, and tell Hezekiyah the prince of my people, ‘Thus says Yahuwah, the Elohim of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of Yahuwah.
⁶ I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David‘s sake.”’”
⁷ Yeshayahu said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
⁸ Hezekiyah said to Yeshayahu, “What shall be the sign that Yahuwah will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahuwah the third day?”
⁹ Yeshayahu said, “This shall be the sign to you from Yahuwah, that Yahuwah will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”
¹⁰ Hezekiyah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
¹¹ Yeshayahu the prophet cried to Yahuwah; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
¹² At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiyah; for he had heard that Hezekiyah had been sick.
¹³ Hezekiyah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiyah didn’t show them.
¹⁴ Then Yeshayahu the prophet came to king Hezekiyah. and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiyah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
¹⁵ He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiyah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
¹⁶ Yeshayahu said to Hezekiyah. “Hear the word of Yahuwah.
¹⁷ ‘Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,’ says Yahuwah.
¹⁸ ‘Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
¹⁹ Then Hezekiyah said to Yeshayahu, “The word of Yahuwah which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?”
²⁰ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiyah. and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
²¹ Hezekiyah slept with his fathers; and Menasheh his son reigned in his place.

¹ Menasheh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Heftzibah.
² He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahuwah cast out before the children of Yisra’el.
³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiyah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Yisra’el, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
⁴ He built altars in the house of Yahuwah, of which Yahuwah said, “I will put my name in Yerushalayim.”
⁵ He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahuwah.
⁶ He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahuwah, to provoke him to anger.
⁷ He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahuwah said to David and to Shlomo his son, “In this house, and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’el, will I put my name forever;
⁸ neither will I cause the feet of Yisra’el to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moshe commanded them.”
⁹ But they didn’t listen: and Menasheh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahuwah destroyed before the children of Yisra’el.
¹⁰ Yahuwah spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
¹¹ “Because Menasheh king of Yehudah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Yehudah also to sin with his idols;
¹² therefore thus says Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Yerushalayim and Yehudah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
¹³ I will stretch over Yerushalayim the line of Shomron, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Yerushalayim as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
¹⁴ I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
¹⁵ because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even to this day.’”
¹⁶ Moreover Menasheh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Yehudah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah.
¹⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Menasheh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
¹⁸ Menasheh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uza: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Yotbah.
²⁰ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, as Menasheh his father did.
²¹ He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:
²² and he forsook Yahuwah, the Elohim of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahuwah.
²³ The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
²⁴ But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Yoshiayah his son king in his place.
²⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
²⁶ He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uza: and Yoshiayah his son reigned in his place.

¹ Yoshiayah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Yedidah the daughter of Adaiyah of Bozkat.
² He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
³ It happened in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiayah. that the king sent Shafan, the son of Azaliyah the son of Meshulam, the scribe, to the house of Yahuwah, saying,
⁴ “Go up to Chilkiyahu the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahuwah, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.
⁵ Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahuwah; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahuwah, to repair the breaches of the house,
⁶ to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.
⁷ However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”
⁸ Chilkiyahu the high priest said to Shafan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahuwah.” Chilkiyahu delivered the book to Shafan, and he read it.
⁹ Shafan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahuwah.”
¹⁰ Shafan the scribe told the king, saying, “Chilkiyahu the priest has delivered a book to me.” Shafan read it before the king.
¹¹ It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.
¹² The king commanded Chilkiyahu the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shafan, and Achbor the son of Micaiyah. and Shafan the scribe, and Asaiyah the king’s servant, saying,
¹³ “Go inquire of Yahuwah for me, and for the people, and for all Yehudah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahuwah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”
¹⁴ So Chilkiyahu the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shafan, and Asaiyah. went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shalum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
¹⁵ She said to them, “Thus says Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
¹⁶ “Thus says Yahuwah, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Yehudah has read.
¹⁷ Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other elohim, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.’”
¹⁸ But to the king of Yehudah, who sent you to inquire of Yahuwah, thus you shall tell him, “Thus says Yahuwah, the Elohim of Yisra’el: ‘Concerning the words which you have heard,
¹⁹ because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahuwah, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahuwah.
²⁰ ‘Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” They brought back this message to the king.

¹ The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Yehudah and of Yerushalayim.
² The king went up to the house of Yahuwah, and all the men of Yehudah and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahuwah.
³ The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahuwah, to walk after Yahuwah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
⁴ The king commanded Chilkiyahu the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahuwah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Yerushalayim in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Beit-El .
⁵ He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Yehudah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yehudah, and in the places around Yerushalayim; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
⁶ He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahuwah, outside of Yerushalayim, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
⁷ He broke down the houses of the Sodomites, that were in the house of Yahuwah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
⁸ He brought all the priests out of the cities of Yehudah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Yahushua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
⁹ Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the altar of Yahuwah in Yerushalayim, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
¹⁰ He defiled Tophet, which is in the valley of the children of Hinom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Moloch.
¹¹ He took away the horses that the kings of Yehudah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahuwah, by the room of Natan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
¹² The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Yehudah had made, and the altars which Menasheh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahuwah, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
¹³ The the king defiled the high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Shlomo the king of Yisra’el had built for Ashtoret the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Amon.
¹⁴ He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
¹⁵ Moreover the altar that was at Beit-El , and the high place which Yerov’am the son of Nebat, who made Yisra’el to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
¹⁶ As Yoshiayah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahuwah which the man of Elohim proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
¹⁷ Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of Elohim, who came from Yehudah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Beit-El .”
¹⁸ He said, “Let him be! Let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Shomron.
¹⁹ All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Shomron, which the kings of Yisra’el had made to provoke Yahuwah to anger, Yoshiayah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beit-El .
²⁰ He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Yerushalayim.
²¹ The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep Pesach to Yahuwah your Elohim, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
²² Surely there was not kept such a Pesach from the days of the judges who judged Yisra’el, nor in all the days of the kings of Yisra’el, nor of the kings of Yehudah;
²³ but in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiayah was this Pesach kept to Yahuwah in Yerushalayim.
²⁴ Moreover Yoshiayah removed those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the terafim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Chilkiyahu the priest found in the house of Yahuwah.
²⁵ Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahuwah with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moshe; neither after him arose there any like him.
²⁶ Notwithstanding, Yahuwah didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Yehudah, because of all the provocation with which Menasheh had provoked him.
²⁷ Yahuwah said, “I will remove Yehudah also out of my sight, as I have removed Yisra’el, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Yerushalayim, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
²⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiayah. and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
²⁹ In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Perat (Euphrates): and king Yoshiayah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megido, when he had seen him.
³⁰ His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megido, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Yahuahaz the son of Yoshiayah. and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.
³¹ Yahuahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Libnah.
³² He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, according to all that his fathers had done.
³³ Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamat, that he might not reign in Yerushalayim; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
³⁴ Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Yoshiayah king in the place of Yoshiayah his father, and changed his name to Yahuiakim: but he took Yahuahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
³⁵ Yahuiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
³⁶ Yahuiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiyah of Rumah.
³⁷ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, according to all that his fathers had done.

¹ In his days Nebuchadnetzar king of Babylon came up, and Yahuiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
² Yahuwah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Amon, and sent them against Yehudah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahuwah, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
³ Surely at the commandment of Yahuwah came this on Yehudah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Menasheh, according to all that he did,
⁴ and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood: and Yahuwah would not pardon.
⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Yahuiakim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?
⁶ So Yahuiakim slept with his fathers; and Yahuiachin his son reigned in his place.
⁷ The king of Egypt didn’t come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Perat (Euphrates), all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
⁸ Yahuiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Yerushalayim three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnatan of Yerushalayim.
⁹ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, according to all that his father had done.
¹⁰ At that time the servants of Nebuchadnetzar king of Babylon came up to Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged.
¹¹ Nebuchadnetzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;
¹² and Yahuiachin the king of Yehudah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
¹³ He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahuwah, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Shlomo king of Yisra’el had made in the temple of Yahuwah, as Yahuwah had said.
¹⁴ He carried away all Yerushalayim, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest sort of the people of the land.
¹⁵ He carried away Yahuiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Yerushalayim to Babylon.
¹⁶ All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
¹⁷ The king of Babylon made Mataniyah, Yahuiachin’s father’s brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Tzedekiyah.
¹⁸ Tzedekiyah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Libnah.
¹⁹ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahuwah, according to all that Yahuiakim had done.
²⁰ For through the anger of Yahuwah, it happened in Yerushalayim and Yehudah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Tzedekiyah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

¹ It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnetzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Yerushalayim, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
² So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Tzedekiyah.
³ On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
⁴ Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Yericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
⁶ Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
⁷ They killed the sons of Tzedekiyah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Tzedekiyah. and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
⁸ Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnetzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Yerushalayim.
⁹ He burnt the house of Yahuwah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Yerushalayim, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
¹⁰ All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Yerushalayim.
¹¹ Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
¹² But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
¹³ The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahuwah and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahuwah, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon.
¹⁴ They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
¹⁵ The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
¹⁶ The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Shlomo had made for the house of Yahuwah, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
¹⁷ The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
¹⁸ The captain of the guard took Seraiyah the chief priest, and Tzefaniyah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
¹⁹ and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
²⁰ Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
²¹ The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamat. So Yehudah was carried away captive out of his land.
²² As for the people who were left in the land of Yehudah, whom Nebuchadnetzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliyah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shafan, governor.
²³ Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliyah governor, they came to Gedaliyah to Mitzpah, even Ishmael the son of Netaniyah, and Yochanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiyah the son of Tanhumeth the Netofathite, and Yaazaniyah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
²⁴ Gedaliyah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”
²⁵ But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Netaniyah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliyah. so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mitzpah.
²⁶ All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
²⁷ It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Yahuiachin king of Yehudah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Yahuiachin king of Yehudah out of prison;
²⁸ and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
²⁹ and changed his prison garments. Yahuiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
³⁰ and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.