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,,the ,,holy ,,bible                    
,translated from the ,latin ,vulgate    
,diligently ,compared with the ,hebrew1 
,greek1  and ,other ,editions in ,divers
 ,languages      ,,the ,,old ,,testament
  ,first ,published by the ,english     
,college at ,douay  ,a4,d4 #afji  #afaj 
and    ,,the ,,new ,,testament  ,first  
,published by the ,english ,college at  
,rheims  ,a4,d4 #aehb      ,with        
,annotations      ,the ,whole ,revised  
and ,diligently ,compared with  the     
,latin ,vulgate by ,bishop ,richard     
,challoner  ,a4,d4 #agdi-ageb           
,,the ,,second ,,book ,,of              
,,paralipomenon    #b ,paralipomenon    
,chapter #a    ,solomon offereth        
sacrifices at ,gabaon4 ,his choice of   
wisdom which ,god  giveth him4    #a3a4 
,and ,solomon the son of ,david was     

strengthened in his kingdom1 and  the   
,lord his ,god was with him1 and        
magnified him to a high degree4    #a3b4
 ,and ,solomon gave orders to all       
,israel1 to the captains of  thousands1 
and of hundreds1 and to the rulers1 and 
to the judges of all  ,israel1 and the  
heads of the families3    #a3c4 ,and he 
went with all the multitude to the high 
place of ,gabaon1  where was the        
tabernacle of the covenant of the ,lord1
 which ,moses the  servant of ,god made1
 in the wilderness4    #a3d4 ,for ,david
 had brought the ark of ,god from       
,cariathiarim to the  place1 which he   
had prepared for it1 and where he had   
pitched a  tabernacle for it1 that is1  
in ,jerusalem4    #a3e4 ,and the altar  
of brass1 which ,beseleel the son of    
,uri the son of  ,hur had made1 was     
there before the tabernacle of the      
,lord3 and ,solomon  and all the        
assembly sought it3    #a3f4 ,and       
,solomon went up thither to the brazen  
altar1 before the  tabernacle of the    

covenant of the ,lord1 and offered up on
 it a thousand  victims4    #a3g4 ,and  
behold that night ,god appeared to him1 
saying3 ,ask what thou  wilt that ,i    
should give thee4    #a3h4 ,and ,solomon
 said to ,god3 ,thou hast shewn great   
kindness to my  father ,david3 and hast 
made me king in his stead4    #a3i4 ,now
 therefore1 ,o ,lord ,god1 let thy word 
be fulfilled1 which thou  hast promised 
to ,david my father3 for thou hast made 
me king over thy  great people1 which is
 as innumerable as the dust of the      
earth4    #a3aj4 ,give me wisdom and    
knowledge that ,i may come in and go out
 before  thy people3 for who can        
worthily judge this thy people1 which is
 so  great8    #a3aa4 ,and ,god said to 
,solomon3 ,because this choice hath     
pleased thy  heart1 and thou hast not   
asked riches1 and wealth1 and glory1 nor
 the  lives of them that hate thee1 nor 
many days of life3 but hast asked       
wisdom and knowledge1 to be able to     
judge my people1 over which ,i have     

made thee king1    #a3ab4 ,wisdom and   
knowledge are granted to thee3 and ,i   
will give thee  riches1 and wealth1 and 
glory1 so that none of the kings before 
thee1  nor after thee1 shall be like    
thee4    #a3ac4 ,then ,solomon came from
 the high place of ,gabaon to ,jerusalem
  before the tabernacle of the covenant1
 and reigned over ,israel4    #a3ad4    
,and he gathered to himself chariots and
 horsemen1 and he had a  thousand four  
hundred chariots1 and twelve thousand   
horsemen3 and he  placed them in the    
cities of the chariots1 and with the    
king in  ,jerusalem4    #a3ae4 ,and the 
king made silver and gold to be in      
,jerusalem as stones1  and cedar trees  
as sycamores1 which grow in the plains  
in great  multitude4    #a3af4 ,and     
there were horses brought him from      
,egypt1 and from ,coa by the  king's    
merchants1 who went1 and bought at a    
price1    #a3ag4 ,a chariot of four     
horses for six hundred pieces of silver1
 and a  horse for a hundred and fifty3  

in like manner market was made in all   
the  kingdoms of the ,hethites1 and of  
the kings of ,syria4    #b              
,paralipomenon ,chapter #b    ,solomon's
 embassy to ,hiram1 who sends him a     
skilful workman and timber4    #b3a4    
,and ,solomon determined to build a     
house to the name of the ,lord1  and a  
palace for himself4    #b3b4 ,and he    
numbered out seventy thousand men to    
bear burdens1 and  eighty thousand to   
hew stones in the mountains1 and three  
thousand six  hundred to oversee them4  
#b3c4 ,he sent also to ,hiram king of   
,tyre1 saying3 ,as thou didst with      
,david my father1 and didst send him    
cedars1 to build him a house1 in  which 
he dwelt3    #b3d4 ,so do with me that  
,i may build a house to the name of the 
,lord my  ,god1 to dedicate it to burn  
incense before him1 and to perfume with 
aromatical spices1 and for the continual
 setting forth of bread1 and for  the   
holocausts1 morning and evening1 and on 
the sabbaths1 and on the new  moons1 and

 the solemnities of the ,lord our ,god  
for ever1 which are  commanded for      
,israel4    #b3e4 ,for the house which  
,i desire to build1 is great3 for our   
,god is  great above all gods4    #b3f4 
,who then can be able to build him a    
worthy house8 if heaven1 and  the       
heavens of heavens cannot contain him3  
who am ,i that ,i should be  able to    
build him a house8 but to this end only1
 that incense may be  burnt before him4 
#b3g4 ,send me therefore a skilful man1 
that knoweth how to work in gold1  and  
in silver1 in brass1 and in iron1 in    
purple1 in scarlet and in blue1  and    
that hath skill in engraving1 with the  
artificers1 which ,i have with  me in   
,judea and ,jerusalem1 whom ,david my   
father provided4    #b3h4 ,send me also 
cedars1 and fir trees1 and pine trees   
from ,libanus3  for ,i know that thy    
servants are skilful in cutting timber  
in ,libanus1  and my servants shall be  
with thy servants1    #b3i4 ,to provide 
me timber in abundance4 ,for the house  

which ,i desire to  build1 is to be     
exceeding great1 and glorious4    #b3aj4
 ,and ,i will give thy servants the     
workmen that are to cut down the  trees1
 for their food twenty thousand cores of
 wheat1 and as many cores  of barley1   
and twenty thousand measures of wine1   
and twenty thousand  measures of oil4   
#b3aa4 ,and ,hiram king of ,tyre sent a 
letter to ,solomon1 saying3 ,because    
the ,lord hath loved his people1        
therefore he hath made thee king over   
them4    #b3ab4 ,and he added1 saying3  
,blessed be the ,lord the ,god of       
,israel1 who  made heaven and earth1 who
 hath given to king ,david a wise and   
knowing  son1 endued with understanding 
and prudence1 to build a house to the   
,lord1 and a palace for himself4        
#b3ac4 ,i therefore have sent thee my   
father ,hiram1 a wise and most  skilful 
man1    #b3ad4 ,the son of a woman of   
the daughters of ,dan1 whose father was 
a  ,tyrian1 who knoweth how to work in  
gold1 and in silver1 in brass1 and in   

iron1 and in marble1 and in timber1 in  
purple also1 and violet1 and silk  and  
scarlet3 and who knoweth to grave all   
sort of graving1 and to devise          
ingeniously all that there may be need  
of in the work with thy  artificers1 and
 with the artificers of my lord ,david  
thy father4    #b3ae4 ,the wheat        
therefore1 and the barley and the oil1  
and the wine1  which thou1 my lord1 hast
 promised1 send to thy servants4        
#b3af4 ,and we will cut down as many    
trees out of ,libanus1 as thou shalt    
want1 and will convey them in floats by 
sea to ,joppe3 and it will be thy  part 
to bring them thence to ,jerusalem4     
#b3ag4 ,and ,solomon numbered all the   
proselytes in the land of ,israel1      
after the numbering which ,david his    
father had made1 and they were found  a 
hundred and fifty-three thousand and six
 hundred4    #b3ah4 ,and he set seventy 
thousand of them to carry burdens on    
their  shoulders1 and eighty thousand to
 hew stones in the mountains3 and three 

thousand and six hundred to be overseers
 of the work of the people4    #b       
,paralipomenon ,chapter #c    ,the plan 
and ornaments of the temple3 the        
cherubims1 the veil1 and the  pillars4  
#c3a4 ,and ,solomon began to build the  
house of the ,lord in ,jerusalem1 in    
mount ,moria1 which had been shewn to   
,david his father1 in the place  which  
,david had prepared in the              
thrashingfloor of ,ornan the ,jebusite4 
#c3b4 ,and he began to build in the     
second month1 in the fourth year of  his
 reign4    #c3c4 ,now these are the     
foundations1 which ,solomon laid1 to    
build the  house of ,god1 the length by 
the first measure sixty cubits1 the     
breadth  twenty cubits4    #c3d4 ,and   
the porch in the front1 which was       
extended in length according  to the    
measure of the breadth of the house1    
twenty cubits3 and the  height was a    
hundred and twenty cubits3 and he       
overlaid it within with  pure gold4     
#c3e4 ,and the greater house he ceiled  

with deal boards1 and overlaid them     
with plates of fine gold throughout3 and
 he graved in them palm trees1  and like
 little chains interlaced with one      
another4    #c3f4 ,he paved also the    
floor of the temple with most precious  
marble1 of  great beauty4    #c3g4 ,and 
the gold of the plates with which he    
overlaid the house1 and  the beams      
thereof1 and the posts1 and the walls1  
and the doors was of  the finest3 and he
 graved cherubims on the walls4    #c3h4
 ,he made also the house of the holy of 
holies3 the length of it  according to  
the breadth of the temple1 twenty       
cubits1 and the breadth  of it in like  
manner twenty cubits3 and he overlaid it
 with plates of  gold1 amounting to     
about six hundred talents4    #c3i4 ,he 
made also nails of gold1 and the weight 
of every nail was fifty  sicles3 the    
upper chambers also he overlaid with    
gold4    #c3aj4 ,he made also in the    
house of the holy of holies two         
cherubims of  image work3 and he        

overlaid them with gold4    #c3aa4 ,the 
wings of the cherubims were extended    
twenty cubits1 so that  one wing was    
five cubits long1 and reached to the    
wall of the house3 and  the other was   
also five cubits long1 and reached to   
the wing of the  other cherub4    #c3ab4
 ,in like manner the wing of the other  
cherub1 was five cubits long1  and      
reached to the wall3 and his other wing 
was five cubits long1 and  touched the  
wing of the other cherub4    #c3ac4 ,so 
the wings of the two cherubims were     
spread forth1 and were  extended twenty 
cubits3 and they stood upright on their 
feet1 and their  faces were turned      
toward the house without4    #c3ad4 ,he 
made also a veil of violet1 purple1     
scarlet1 and silk3 and  wrought in it   
cherubims4    #c3ae4 ,he made also      
before the doors of the temple two      
pillars1 which  were five and thirty    
cubits high3 and their chapiters were   
five cubits4    #c3af4 ,he made also as 
it were little chains in the oracle1 and

 he put  them on the heads of the       
pillars3 and a hundred pomegranates1    
which he  put between the little chains4
    #c3ag4 ,these pillars he put at the 
entrance of the temple1 one on the      
right hand1 and the other on the left3  
that which was on the right hand1  he   
called ,jachin3 and that on the left    
hand1 ,booz4      #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #d    ,the altar of brass1 the 
molten sea upon twelve oxen1 the ten    
loaves1 the  candlesticks and other     
vessels and ornaments of the temple4    
#d3a4 ,he made also an altar of brass   
twenty cubits long1 and twenty  cubits  
broad1 and ten cubits high4    #d3b4    
,also a molten sea of ten cubits from   
brim to brim1 round in  compass3 it was 
five cubits high1 and a line of thirty  
cubits compassed  it round about4       
#d3c4 ,and under it there was the       
likeness of oxen1 and certain engravings
  on the outside of ten cubits compassed
 the belly of the sea1 as it were  with 
two rows4    #d3d4 ,and the oxen were   

cast3 and the sea itself was set upon   
the twelve  oxen1 three of which looked 
toward the north1 and other three toward
 the  west3 and other three toward the  
south1 and the other three that         
remained toward the east1 and the sea   
stood upon them3 and the hinder  parts  
of the oxen were inward under the sea4  
#d3e4 ,now the thickness of it was a    
handbreadth1 and the brim of it was     
like the brim of a cup1 or of a crisped 
lily3 and it held three thousand        
measures4    #d3f4 ,he made also ten    
lavers3 and he set five on the right    
hand1 and  five on the left1 to wash in 
them all such things as they were to    
offer  for holocausts3 but the sea was  
for the priests to wash in4    #d3g4    
,and he made ten golden candlesticks1   
according to the form which  they were  
commanded to be made by3 and he set them
 in the temple1 five  on the right hand1
 and five on the left4    #d3h4         
,moreover also ten tables3 and he set   
them in the temple1 five on  the right  

side1 and five on the left4 ,also a     
hundred bowls of gold4    #d3i4 ,he made
 also the court of the priests1 and a   
great hall1 and doors  in the hall1     
which he covered with brass4    #d3aj4  
,and he set the sea on the right side   
over against the east toward  the south4
    #d3aa4 ,and ,hiram made caldrons1   
and fleshhooks1 and bowls3 and finished 
all the king's work the house of ,god3  
#d3ab4 ,that is to say1 the two pillars1
 and the pommels1 and the  chapiters1   
and the network1 to cover the chapiters 
over the pommels4    #d3ac4 ,and four   
hundred pomegranates1 and two wreaths of
 network1 so that  two rows of          
pomegranates were joined to each wreath1
 to cover the  pommels1 and the         
chapiters of the pillars4    #d3ad4 ,he 
made also bases1 and lavers1 which he   
set upon the bases3    #d3ae4 ,one sea1 
and twelve oxen under the sea2    #d3af4
 ,and the caldrons1 and fleshhooks1 and 
bowls4 ,all the vessels did  ,hiram his 
father make for ,solomon in the house of

 the ,lord of the finest  brass4        
#d3ag4 ,in the country near the ,jordan 
did the king cast them1 in a clay       
ground between ,sochot and ,saredatha4  
#d3ah4 ,and the multitude of vessels was
 innumerable1 so that the weight  of the
 brass was not known4    #d3ai4 ,and    
,solomon made all the vessels for the   
house of ,god1 and the  golden altar1   
and the tables1 upon which were the     
loaves of proposition1    #d3bj4 ,the   
candlesticks also of most pure gold with
 their lamps to give  light before the  
oracle1 according to the manner4        
#d3ba4 ,and certain flowers1 and lamps1 
and golden tongs3 all were made of  the 
finest gold4    #d3bb4 ,the vessels also
 for the perfumes1 and the censers1 and 
the bowls1  and the mortars1 of pure    
gold4 ,and he graved the doors of the   
inner  temple1 that is1 for the holy of 
holies3 and the doors of the temple     
without were of gold4 ,and thus all the 
work was finished which ,solomon  made  
in the house of the ,lord4    #b        

,paralipomenon ,chapter #e    ,the ark  
is brought with great solemnity into the
 temple3 the temple is  filled with the 
glory of ,god4    #e3a4 ,then ,solomon  
brought in all those things that ,david 
his father had  vowed1 the silver1 and  
the gold1 and all the vessels he put    
among the  treasures of the house of    
,god4    #e3b4 ,and after this he       
gathered together the ancients of       
,israel and all  the princes of the     
tribes1 and the heads of the families1  
of the  children of ,israel to          
,jerusalem1 to bring the ark of the     
covenant of the  ,lord out of the city  
of ,david1 which is ,sion4    #e3c4 ,and
 all the men of ,israel came to the king
 in the solemn day of the  seventh      
month4    #e3d4 ,and when all the       
ancients of ,israel were come1 the      
,levites took up  the ark1    #e3e4 ,and
 brought it in1 together with all the   
furniture of the  tabernacle4 ,and the  
priests with the ,levites carried the   
vessels of the  sanctuary1 which were in

 the tabernacle4    #e3f4 ,and king     
,solomon and all the assembly of ,israel
 and all that were  gathered together   
before the ark1 sacrificed rams1 and    
oxen without  number3 so great was the  
multitude of the victims4    #e3g4 ,and 
the priests brought in the ark of the   
covenant of the ,lord into  its place1  
that is1 to the oracle of the temple1   
into the holy of holies  under the wings
 of the cherubims3    #e3h4 ,so that the
 cherubims spread their wings over the  
place1 in which  the ark was set1 and   
covered the ark itself and its staves4  
#e3i4 ,now the ends of the staves       
wherewith the ark was carried1 because  
they were some thing longer1 were seen  
before the oracle3 but if a man  were a 
little outward1 he could not see them4  
,so the ark has been there  unto this   
day4    #e3aj4 ,and there was nothing   
else in the ark but the two tables which
  ,moses put there at ,horeb when the   
,lord gave the law to the children of   
,israel1 at their coming out of ,egypt4 

#e3aa4 ,now when the priests were come  
out of the sanctuary1 for all the       
priests that could be found there1 were 
sanctified3 and as yet at that  time the
 courses and orders of the ministries   
were not divided among  them1    #e3ab4 
,both the ,levites and the singing men1 
that is1 both they that were  under     
,asaph1 and they that were under ,heman1
 and they that were under  ,idithun1    
with their sons1 and their brethren1    
clothed with fine linen1  sounded with  
cymbals1 and psalteries1 and harps1     
standing on the east  side of the altar1
 and with them a hundred and twenty     
priests1 sounding  with trumpets4       
#e3ac4 ,so when they all sounded        
together1 both with trumpets1 and voice1
  and cymbals1 and organs1 and with     
divers kind of musical instruments1  and
 lifted up their voice on high3 the     
sound was heard afar off1 so that  when 
they began to praise the ,lord1 and to  
say3 ,give glory to the ,lord  for he is
 good1 for his mercy endureth for ever3 

the house of ,god was  filled with a    
cloud4    #e3ad4 ,nor could the priests 
stand and minister by reason of the     
cloud4  ,for the glory of the ,lord had 
filled the house of ,god4    #b         
,paralipomenon ,chapter #f    ,solomon's
 blessings and prayer4    #f3a4 ,then   
,solomon said3 ,the ,lord promised that 
he would dwell in a  cloud4    #f3b4    
,but ,i have built a house to his name1 
that he might dwell there for  ever4    
#f3c4 ,and the king turned his face1 and
 blessed all the multitude of  ,israel  
for all the multitude stood attentive   
and he said3    #f3d4 ,blessed be the   
,lord the ,god of ,israel1 who hath     
accomplished in  deed that which he     
spoke to ,david my father1 saying3      
#f3e4 ,from the day that ,i brought my  
people out of the land of ,egypt1 ,i    
chose no city among all the tribes of   
,israel1 for a house to be built in  it 
to my name3 neither chose ,i any other  
man1 to be the ruler of my  people      
,israel4    #f3f4 ,but ,i chose         

,jerusalem1 that my name might be there3
 and ,i chose  ,david to set him over my
 people ,israel4    #f3g4 ,and whereas  
,david my father had a mind to build a  
house to the name  of the ,lord the ,god
 of ,israel1    #f3h4 ,the ,lord said to
 him3 ,forasmuch as it was thy will to  
build a house  to my name1 thou hast    
done well indeed in having such a will3 
#f3i4 ,but thou shalt not build the     
house1 but thy son1 who shall come out  
of thy loins1 he shall build a house to 
my name4    #f3aj4 ,the ,lord therefore 
hath accomplished his word which he     
spoke3 and  ,i am risen up in the place 
of ,david my father1 and sit upon the   
throne  of ,israel1 as the ,lord        
promised3 and have built a house to the 
name of  the ,lord ,god of ,israel4     
#f3aa4 ,and ,i have put in it the ark1  
wherein is the covenant of the ,lord1   
which he made with the children of      
,israel4    #f3ab4 ,and he stood before 
the altar of the ,lord1 in presence of  
all the  multitude of ,israel1 and      

stretched forth his hands4    #f3ac4    
,for ,solomon had made a brazen         
scaffold1 and had set it in the  midst  
of the temple1 which was five cubits    
long1 and five cubits broad1  and three 
cubits high3 and he stood upon it3 then 
kneeling down in the  presence of all   
the multitude of ,israel1 and lifting up
 his hands  towards heaven1    #f3ad4   
,he said3 ,o ,lord ,god of ,israel1     
there is no ,god like thee in heaven    
nor in earth3 who keepest covenant and  
mercy with thy servants1 that  walk     
before thee with all their hearts3      
#f3ae4 ,who hast performed to thy       
servant ,david my father all that thou  
hast promised him3 and hast accomplished
 in fact1 what thou hast spoken  with   
thy mouth1 as also the present time     
proveth4    #f3af4 ,now then1 ,o ,lord  
,god of ,israel1 fulfil to thy servant  
,david my  father1 whatsoever thou hast 
promised him1 saying3 ,there shall not  
fail  thee a man in my sight1 to sit    
upon the throne of ,israel3 yet so that 

thy children take heed to their ways1   
and walk in my law1 as thou hast  walked
 before me4    #f3ag4 ,and now1 ,lord   
,god of ,israel1 let thy word be        
established which  thou hast spoken to  
thy servant ,david4    #f3ah4 ,is it    
credible then that ,god should dwell    
with men on the earth8  ,if heaven and  
the heavens of heavens do not contain   
thee1 how much less  this house1 which  
,i have built8    #f3ai4 ,but to this   
end only it is made1 that thou mayest   
regard the  prayer of thy servant and   
his supplication1 ,o ,lord my ,god3 and 
mayest  hear the prayers which thy      
servant poureth out before thee4        
#f3bj4 ,that thou mayest open thy eyes  
upon this house day and night1 upon  the
 place wherein thou hast promised that  
thy name should be called  upon1        
#f3ba4 ,and that thou wouldst hear the  
prayer which thy servant prayeth in  it3
 hearken then to the prayers of thy     
servant1 and of thy people  ,israel4    
,whosoever shall pray in its place1 hear

 thou from thy dwelling  place1 that is1
 from heaven1 and shew mercy4    #f3bb4 
,if any man sin against his neighbour1  
and come to swear against  him1 and bind
 himself with a curse before the altar  
in this house3    #f3bc4 ,then hear thou
 from heaven1 and do justice to thy     
servants1 so to  requite the wicked by  
making his wickedness fall upon his own 
head1 and  to revenge the just1         
rewarding him according to his justice4 
#f3bd4 ,if thy people ,israel be        
overcome by their enemies1 7for they    
will  sin against thee17 and being      
converted shall do penance1 and call    
upon  thy name1 and pray to thee in this
 place1    #f3be4 ,then hear thou from  
heaven1 and forgive the sin of thy      
people  ,israel and bring them back into
 the land which thou gavest to them1 and
  their fathers4    #f3bf4 ,if the      
heavens be shut up1 and there fall no   
rain by reason of the  sin of the       
people1 and they shall pray to thee in  
this place1 and  confess to thy name1   

and be converted from their sins1 where 
thou dost  afflict them1    #f3bg4 ,then
 hear thou from heaven1 ,o ,lord1 and   
forgive the sins of thy  servants and of
 thy people ,israel and teach them the  
good way in which  they may walk3 and   
give rain to thy land which thou hast   
given to thy  people to possess4        
#f3bh4 ,if a famine arise in the land1  
or a pestilence or blasting1 or  mildew1
 or locusts1 or caterpillars3 or if     
their enemies waste the  country1 and   
besiege the cities1 whatsoever scourge  
or infirmity shall  be upon them3       
#f3bi4 ,then if any of thy people       
,israel1 knowing his own scourge and    
infirmity shall pray1 and shall spread  
forth his hands in this house1    #f3cj4
 ,hear thou from heaven1 from thy high  
dwelling place1 and forgive1  and render
 to every one according to his ways1    
which thou knowest him to  have in his  
heart3 for thou only knowest the hearts 
of the children of  men3    #f3ca4 ,that
 they may fear thee1 and walk in thy    

ways all the days that  they live upon  
the face of the land1 which thou hast   
given to our  fathers4    #f3cb4 ,if the
 stranger also1 who is not of thy people
 ,israel1 come from a  far country1 for 
the sake of thy great name1 and thy     
strong hand1 and  thy stretched out arm1
 and adore in this place3    #f3cc4     
,hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling
 place1 and do all that  which that     
stranger shall call upon thee for3 that 
all the people of the  earth may know   
thy name1 and may fear thee1 as thy     
people ,israel1 and  may know1 that thy 
name is invoked upon this house1 which  
,i have built4    #f3cd4 ,if thy people 
go out to war against their enemies1 by 
the way that  thou shalt send them1 and 
adore thee towards the way of this city1
 which  thou hast chosen1 and the house 
which ,i have built to thy name3        
#f3ce4 ,then hear thou from heaven their
 prayers1 and their supplications1  and 
revenge them4    #f3cf4 ,and if they sin
 against thee 7for there is no man that 

sinneth  not7 and thou be angry with    
them1 and deliver them up to their      
enemies1  and they lead them away       
captive to a land either afar off1 or   
near at  hand1    #f3cg4 ,and if they be
 converted in their heart in the land to
 which they  were led captive1 and do   
penance1 and pray to thee in the land of
 their  captivity saying3 ,we have      
sinned1 we have done wickedly1 we have  
dealt  unjustly3    #f3ch4 ,and return  
to thee with all their heart1 and with  
all their soul1  in the land of their   
captivity1 to which they were led away1 
and adore  thee towards the way of their
 own land which thou gavest their       
fathers1  and of the city1 which thou   
hast chosen1 and the house which ,i have
  built to thy name3    #f3ci4 ,then    
hear thou from heaven1 that is1 from thy
 firm dwelling place1  their prayers1   
and do judgment1 and forgive thy people1
 although they  have sinned3    #f3dj4  
,for thou art my ,god3 let thy eyes1 ,i 
beseech thee1 be open1 and  let thy ears

 be attentive to the prayer1 that is    
made in this place4    #f3da4 ,now      
therefore arise1 ,o ,lord ,god1 into thy
 resting place1 thou and  the ark of thy
 strength3 let thy priests1 ,o ,lord    
,god1 put on salvation1  and thy saints 
rejoice in good things4    #f3db4 ,o    
,lord ,god1 turn not away the face of   
thy anointed3 remember the  mercies of  
,david thy servant4    #b ,paralipomenon
 ,chapter #g    ,fire from heaven       
consumeth the sacrifices4 ,the solemnity
 of the  dedication of the temple4 ,god 
signifieth his having heard ,solomon's  
prayer3 yet so if he continue to serve  
him4    #g3a4 ,and when ,solomon had    
made an end of his prayer1 fire came    
down from  heaven1 and consumed the     
holocausts and the victims3 and the     
majesty of  the ,lord filled the house4 
#g3b4 ,neither could the priests enter  
into the temple of the ,lord1  because  
the majesty of the ,lord had filled the 
temple of the ,lord4    #g3c4 ,moreover 
all the children of ,israel saw the fire

 coming down1 and  the glory of the     
,lord upon the house3 and falling down  
with their faces  to the ground1 upon   
the stone pavement1 they adored and     
praised the  ,lord3 because he is good1 
because his mercy endureth for ever4    
#g3d4 ,and the king and all the people  
sacrificed victims before the ,lord4    
#g3e4 ,and king ,solomon offered a      
sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen1  
and one hundred and twenty thousand     
rams3 and the king and all the  people  
dedicated the house of ,god4    #g3f4   
,and the priests stood in their offices3
 and the ,levites with the  instruments 
of music of the ,lord1 which king ,david
 made to praise the  ,lord3 because his 
mercy endureth for ever1 singing the    
hymns of ,david by  their ministry3 and 
the priests sounded with trumpets before
 them1 and  all ,israel stood4    #g3g4 
,solomon also sanctified the middle of  
the court before the temple  of the     
,lord3 for he offered there the         
holocausts1 and the fat of the  peace   

offerings3 because the brazen altar1    
which he had made1 could not  hold the  
holocausts and the sacrifices and the   
fat3    #g3h4 ,and ,solomon kept the    
solemnity at that time seven days1 and  
all  ,israel with him1 a very great     
congregation1 from the entrance of      
,emath  to the torrent of ,egypt4       
#g3i4 ,and he made on the eighth day a  
solemn assembly1 because he had  kept   
the dedication of the altar seven days1 
and had celebrated the  solemnity seven 
days4    #g3aj4 ,so on the three and    
twentieth day of the seventh month he   
sent  away the people to their          
dwellings1 joyful and glad for the good 
that  the ,lord had done to ,david1 and 
to ,solomon1 and to all ,israel his     
people4    #g3aa4 ,and ,solomon finished
 the house of the ,lord1 and the king's 
house1  and all that he had designed in 
his heart to do1 in the house of the    
,lord1 and in his own house1 and he     
prospered4    #g3ab4 ,and the ,lord     
appeared to him by night1 and said3 ,i  

have heard thy  prayer1 and ,i have     
chosen this place to myself for a house 
of sacrifice4    #g3ac4 ,if ,i shut up  
heaven1 and there fall no rain1 or if ,i
 give orders1  and command the locust to
 devour the land1 or if ,i send         
pestilence among  my people3    #g3ad4  
,and my people1 upon whom my name is    
called1 being converted1 shall  make    
supplication to me1 and seek out my     
face1 and do penance for their  most    
wicked ways3 then will ,i hear from     
heaven1 and will forgive their  sins and
 will heal their land4    #g3ae4 ,my    
eyes also shall be open1 and my ears    
attentive to the prayer of  him that    
shall pray in this place4    #g3af4 ,for
 ,i have chosen1 and have sanctified    
this place1 that my name  may be there  
for ever1 and my eyes and my heart may  
remain there  perpetually4    #g3ag4    
,and as for thee1 if thou walk before   
me1 as ,david thy father  walked1 and do
 according to all that ,i have commanded
 thee1 and keep my  justices and my     

judgments3    #g3ah4 ,i will raise up   
the throne of thy kingdom1 as ,i        
promised to ,david  thy father1 saying3 
,there shall not fail thee a man of thy 
stock to be  ruler in ,israel4    #g3ai4
 ,but if you turn away1 and forsake my  
justices1 and my commandments  which ,i 
have set before you1 and shall go and   
serve strange gods1 and  adore them1    
#g3bj4 ,i will pluck you up by the root 
out of my land which ,i have given  you3
 and this house which ,i have sanctified
 to my name1 ,i will cast away  from    
before my face1 and will make it a      
byword1 and an example among all        
nations4    #g3ba4 ,and this house shall
 be for a proverb to all that pass by1  
and  they shall be astonished and say3  
,why hath the ,lord done thus to this   
land1 and to this house8    #g3bb4 ,and 
they shall answer3 ,because they forsook
 the ,lord the ,god of  their fathers1  
who brought them out of the land of     
,egypt1 and laid hold  on strange gods1 
and adored them1 and worshipped them3   

therefore all  these evils are come upon
 them4    #b ,paralipomenon ,chapter #h 
,solomon's buildings and other acts4    
#h3a4 ,and at the end of twenty years   
after ,solomon had built the house of   
the ,lord and his own house3    #h3b4   
,he built the cities which ,hiram had   
given to ,solomon1 and caused  the      
children of ,israel to dwell there4     
#h3c4 ,he went also into ,emath ,suba1  
and possessed it4    #h3d4 ,and he built
 ,palmira in the desert1 and he built   
other strong  cities in ,emath4    #h3e4
 ,and he built ,beth-horon the upper1   
and ,beth-horon the nether1  walled     
cities with gates and bars and locks4   
#h3f4 ,balaath also and all the strong  
cities that were ,solomon's1 and all    
the cities of the chariots1 and the     
cities of the horsemen4  ,all that      
,solomon had a mind1 and designed1 he   
built in ,jerusalem and in ,libanus1    
and in all the land of his dominion4    
#h3g4 ,all the people that were left of 
the ,hethites1 and the ,amorrhites1  and

 the ,pherezites1 and the ,hevites1 and 
the ,jebusites1 that were not of  the   
stock of ,israel3    #h3h4 ,of their    
children1 and of the posterity1 whom the
 children of  ,israel had not slain1    
,solomon made to be the tributaries1    
unto this day4    #h3i4 ,but of the     
children of ,israel he set none to serve
 in the king's  works3 for they were men
 of war1 and chief captains1 and rulers 
of his  chariots and horsemen4    #h3aj4
 ,and all the chief captains of king    
,solomon's army were two hundred  and   
fifty1 who taught the people4    #h3aa4 
,and he removed the daughter of ,pharao 
from the city of ,david1 to  the house  
which he had built for her4 ,for the    
king said3 ,my wife shall  not dwell in 
the house of ,david king of ,israel1 for
 it is sanctified3  because the ark of  
the ,lord came into it4    #h3ab4 ,then 
,solomon offered holocausts to the ,lord
 upon the altar of the  ,lord which he  
had built before the porch1    #h3ac4   
,that every day an offering might be    

made on it according to the  ordinance  
of ,moses1 in the sabbaths1 and on the  
new moons1 and on the  festival days    
three times a year1 that is to say1 in  
the feast of  unleavened bread1 and in  
the feast of weeks1 and in the feast of 
tabernacles4    #h3ad4 ,and he appointed
 according to the order of ,david his   
father the  offices of the priests in   
their ministries3 and the ,levites in   
their  order to give praise1 and        
minister before the priests according to
 the  duty of every day3 and the porters
 in their divisions by gate and gate3   
for so ,david the man of ,god had       
commanded4    #h3ae4 ,and the priests   
and ,levites departed not from the      
king's  commandments1 as to any thing   
that he had commanded1 and as to the    
keeping of the treasures4    #h3af4     
,solomon had all charges prepared1 from 
the day that he founded the  house of   
the ,lord1 until the day wherein he     
finished it4    #h3ag4 ,then ,solomon   
went to ,asiongaber1 and to ,ailath1 on 

the coast of  the ,red ,sea1 which is in
 the land of ,edom4    #h3ah4 ,and      
,hiram sent him ships by the hands of   
his servants1 and skilful  mariners1 and
 they went with ,solomon's servants to  
,ophir1 and they took  thence four      
hundred and fifty talents of gold1 and  
brought it to king  ,solomon4    #b     
,paralipomenon ,chapter #i    ,the queen
 of ,saba admireth the wisdom of        
,solomon4 ,his riches and glory4  ,his  
death4    #i3a4 ,and when the queen of  
,saba heard of the fame of ,solomon1 she
 came  to try him with hard questions at
 ,jerusalem1 with great riches1 and     
camels1 which carried spices1 and       
abundance of gold1 and precious  stones4
 ,and when she was come to ,solomon1 she
 proposed to him all that  was in her   
heart4    #i3b4 ,and ,solomon explained 
to her all that she proposed3 and there 
was  not any thing that he did not make 
clear unto her4    #i3c4 ,and when she  
had seen these things1 to wit1 the      
wisdom of ,solomon1  and the house which

 he had built1    #i3d4 ,and the meats  
of his table1 and the dwelling places of
 his  servants1 and the attendance of   
his officers1 and their apparel1 his    
cupbearers also1 and their garments1 and
 the victims which he offered in  the   
house of the ,lord3 there was no more   
spirit in her1 she was so  astonished4  
#i3e4 ,and she said to the king3 ,the   
word is true which ,i heard in my       
country of thy virtues and wisdom4      
#i3f4 ,i did not believe them that told 
it1 until ,i came1 and my eyes had      
seen1 and ,i had proved that scarce one 
half of thy wisdom had been told  me3   
thou hast exceeded the same with thy    
virtues4    #i3g4 ,happy are thy men1   
and happy are thy servants1 who stand   
always  before thee1 and hear thy       
wisdom4    #i3h4 ,blessed be the ,lord  
thy ,god1 who hath been pleased to set  
thee on  his throne1 king of the ,lord  
thy ,god4 ,because ,god loveth ,israel1 
and  will preserve them forever3        
therefore hath he made thee king over   

them1  to do judgment and justice4      
#i3i4 ,and she gave to the king a       
hundred and twenty talents of gold1 and 
spices in great abundance1 and most     
precious stones3 there were no such     
spices as these which the queen of ,saba
 gave to king ,solomon4    #i3aj4 ,and  
the servants also of ,hiram1 with the   
servants of ,solomon1  brought gold from
 ,ophir1 and thyine trees1 and most     
precious stones3    #i3aa4 ,and the king
 made of the thyine trees stairs in the 
house of the  ,lord1 and in the king's  
house1 and harps and psalteries for the 
singing  men3 never were there seen such
 trees in the land of ,juda4    #i3ab4  
,and king ,solomon gave to the queen of 
,saba all that she desired1  and that   
she asked1 and many more things than she
 brought to him3 so she  returned1 and  
went to her own country with her        
servants4    #i3ac4 ,and the weight of  
the gold1 that was brought to ,solomon  
every  year1 was six hundred and        
sixty-six talents of gold3    #i3ad4    

,beside the sum which the deputies of   
divers nations1 and the  merchants were 
accustomed to bring1 and all the kings  
of ,arabia1 and the  lords of the lands1
 who brought gold and silver to         
,solomon4    #i3ae4 ,and king ,solomon  
made two hundred golden spears1 of the  
sum of six  hundred pieces of gold1     
which went to every spear3    #i3af4    
,and three hundred golden shields of    
three hundred pieces of gold1  which    
went to the covering of every shield3   
and the king put them in the  armoury1  
which was compassed with a wood4        
#i3ag4 ,the king also made a great      
throne of ivory1 and overlaid it with   
pure gold4    #i3ah4 ,and six steps to  
go up to the throne1 and a footstool of 
gold1 and  two arms one on either side1 
and two lions standing by the arms3     
#i3ai4 ,moreover twelve other little    
lions standing upon the steps on both   
sides3 there was not such a throne in   
any kingdom4    #i3bj4 ,and all the     
vessels of the king's table were of     

gold1 and the  vessels of the house of  
the forest of ,libanus were of the      
purest gold4  ,for no account was made  
of silver in those days4    #i3ba4 ,for 
the king's ships went to ,tharsis with  
the servants of ,hiram1  once in three  
years3 and they brought thence gold and 
silver1 and ivory1  and apes1 and       
peacocks4    #i3bb4 ,and ,solomon was   
magnified above all the kings of the    
earth for  riches and glory4    #i3bc4  
,and all the kings of the earth desired 
to see the face of ,solomon1  that they 
might hear the wisdom which ,god had    
given in his heart4    #i3bd4 ,and every
 year they brought him presents1 vessels
 of silver and of  gold1 and garments1  
and armour1 and spices1 and horses1 and 
mules4    #i3be4 ,and ,solomon had forty
 thousand horses in the stables1 and    
twelve  thousand chariots1 and horsemen1
 and he placed them in the cities of the
  chariots and where the king was in    
,jerusalem4    #i3bf4 ,and he exercised 
authority over all the kings from the   

river  ,euphrates to the land of the    
,philistines1 and to the borders of     
,egypt4    #i3bg4 ,and he made silver as
 plentiful in ,jerusalem as stones3 and 
cedars  as common as the sycamores1     
which grow in the plains4    #i3bh4 ,and
 horses were brought to him out of      
,egypt1 and out of all  countries4      
#i3bi4 ,now the rest of the acts of     
,solomon first and last are written in  
the words of ,nathan the prophet1 and in
 the books of ,ahias the ,silonite1  and
 in the vision of ,addo the seer1       
against ,jeroboam the son of ,nabat4    
#i3cj4 ,and ,solomon reigned in         
,jerusalem over all ,israel forty years4
    #i3ca4 ,and he slept with his       
fathers3 and they buried him in the city
 of  ,david3 and ,roboam his son reigned
 in his stead4    #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #aj    ,roboam answereth the   
people roughly3 upon which ten tribes   
revolt4    #aj3a4 ,and ,roboam went to  
,sichem3 for thither all ,israel were   
assembled1  to make him king4    #aj3b4 

,and when ,jeroboam the son of ,nabat1  
who was in ,egypt1 7for he was  fled    
thither from ,solomon17 heard it1       
forthwith he returned4    #aj3c4 ,and   
they sent for him1 and he came with all 
,israel1 and they spoke  to ,roboam1    
saying3    #aj3d4 ,thy father oppressed 
with a most grievous yoke1 do thou      
govern us  with a lighter hand than thy 
father1 who laid upon us a heavy        
servitude1  and ease some thing of the  
burden1 that we may serve thee4         
#aj3e4 ,and he said to them3 ,come to me
 again after three days4  ,and when  the
 people were gone1    #aj3f4 ,he took   
counsel with the ancients1 who had stood
 before his father  ,solomon1 while he  
yet lived1 saying3 ,what counsel give   
you to me1 that ,i  may answer the      
people8    #aj3g4 ,and they said to him3
 ,if thou please this people1 and soothe
 them  with kind words1 they will be thy
 servants for ever4    #aj3h4 ,but he   
forsook the counsel of the ancients1 and
 began to treat  with the young men1    

that had been brought up with him1 and  
were in his  train4    #aj3i4 ,and he   
said to them3 ,what seemeth good to you8
 or what shall ,i  answer this people1  
who have said to me3 ,ease the yoke     
which thy father  laid upon us8         
#aj3aj4 ,but they answered as young men1
 and brought up with him in  pleasures1 
and said3 ,thus shalt thou speak to the 
people1 that said to  thee3 ,thy father 
made our yoke heavy1 do thou ease it3   
thus shalt thou  answer them3 ,my little
 finger is thicker than the loins of my 
father4    #aj3aa4 ,my father laid upon 
you a heavy yoke1 and ,i will add more  
weight  to it3 my father beat you with  
scourges1 but ,i will beat you with     
scorpions4    #aj3ab4 ,so ,jeroboam1 and
 all the people came to ,roboam the     
third day1 as  he commanded them4       
#aj3ac4 ,and the king answered roughly1 
leaving the counsel of the  ancients4   
#aj3ad4 ,and he spoke according to the  
advice of the young men3 ,my father     
laid upon you a heavy yoke1 which ,i    

will make heavier3 my father beat  you  
with scourges1 but ,i will beat you with
 scorpions4    #aj3ae4 ,and he          
condescended not to the people's        
requests3 for it was the  will of ,god1 
that his word might be fulfilled which  
he had spoken by the  hand of ,ahias the
 ,silonite to ,jeroboam the son of      
,nabat4    #aj3af4 ,and all the people  
upon the king's speaking roughly1 said  
thus  unto him3 ,we have no part in     
,david1 nor inheritance in the son of   
,isai4  ,return to thy dwellings1 ,o    
,israel1 and do thou1 ,o ,david feed thy
 own  house4 ,and ,israel went away to  
their dwellings4    #aj3ag4 ,but ,roboam
 reigned over the children of ,israel   
that dwelt in the  cities of ,juda4     
#aj3ah4 ,and king ,roboam sent ,aduram1 
who was over the tributes1 and the      
children of ,israel stoned him1 and he  
died3 and king ,roboam made haste  to   
get up into his chariot1 and fled into  
,jerusalem4    #aj3ai4 ,and ,israel     
revolted from the house of ,david unto  

this day4    #b ,paralipomenon ,chapter 
#aa    ,roboam's reign4 ,his kingdom is 
strengthened4    #aa3a4 ,and ,roboam    
came to ,jerusalem1 and called together 
all the house of  ,juda and of          
,benjamin1 a hundred and fourscore      
thousand chosen men and  warriors1 to   
fight against ,israel1 and to bring back
 his kingdom to him4    #aa3b4 ,and the 
word of the ,lord came to ,semeias the  
man of ,god1 saying3    #aa3c4 ,speak to
 ,roboam the son of ,solomon the king of
 ,juda1 and to all  ,israel1 in ,juda   
and ,benjamin3    #aa3d4 ,thus saith the
 ,lord3 ,you shall not go up1 nor fight 
against your  brethren3 let every man   
return to his own house1 for by my will 
this  thing has been done4 ,and when    
they heard the word of the ,lord1 they  
returned1 and did not go against        
,jeroboam1    #aa3e4 ,and ,roboam dwelt 
in ,jerusalem1 and built walled cities  
in ,juda4    #aa3f4 ,and he built       
,bethlehem1 and ,etam1 and ,thecue1     
#aa3g4 ,and ,bethsur1 and ,socho1 and   

,odollam1    #aa3h4 ,and ,geth1 and     
,maresa1 and ,ziph1    #aa3i4 ,and      
,aduram1 and ,lachis1 and ,azecha1      
#aa3aj4 ,saraa also1 and ,aialon1 and   
,hebron1 which are in ,juda and         
,benjamin1 well fenced cities4          
#aa3aa4 ,and when he had enclosed them  
with walls1 he put in them  governors   
and storehouses of provisions1 that is1 
of oil and of wine4    #aa3ab4 ,moreover
 in every city he made an armoury of    
shields and spears1  and he fortified   
them with great diligence1 and he       
reigned over ,juda1  and ,benjamin1     
#aa3ac4 ,and the priests and ,levites1  
that were in all ,israel1 came to him   
out of all their seats1    #aa3ad4      
,leaving their suburbs1 and their       
possessions1 and passing over to  ,juda1
 and ,jerusalem1 because ,jeroboam and  
his sons had cast them off1  from       
executing the priestly office to the    
,lord4    #aa3ae4 ,and he made to       
himself priests for the high places1 and
 for the  devils1 and for the calves    

which he had made4    #aa3af4 ,moreover 
out of all the tribes of ,israel1       
whosoever gave their  heart to seek the 
,lord the ,god of ,israel1 came into    
,jerusalem to  sacrifice their victims  
before the ,lord the ,god of their      
fathers4    #aa3ag4 ,and they           
strengthened the kingdom of ,juda1 and  
established ,roboam  the son of ,solomon
 for three years3 for they walked in the
 ways of ,david  and of ,solomon1 only  
three years4    #aa3ah4 ,and ,roboam    
took to wife ,mahalath1 the daughter of 
,jerimoth the  son of ,david3 and       
,abihail the daughter of ,eliab the son 
of ,isai4    #aa3ai4 ,and they bore him 
sons ,jehus1 and ,somorias1 and ,zoom4  
#aa3bj4 ,and after her he married       
,maacha the daughter of ,absalom1 who   
bore  him ,abia1 and ,ethai1 and ,ziza1 
and ,salomith4    #aa3ba4 ,and ,roboam  
loved ,maacha the daughter of ,absalom  
above all his  wives and concubines3 for
 he had married eighteen wives1 and     
threescore  concubines3 and he begot    

eight and twenty sons1 and threescore   
daughters4    #aa3bb4 ,but he put at the
 head of them ,abia the son of ,maacha  
to be the  chief ruler over all his     
brethren3 for he meant to make him king1
    #aa3bc4 ,because he was wiser and   
mightier than all his sons1 and in all  
the countries of ,juda1 and of          
,benjamin1 and in all the walled cities3
  and he gave them provisions in        
abundance1 and he sought many wives4    
#b ,paralipomenon ,chapter #ab          
,roboam for his sins is delivered up    
into the hands of the king of ,egypt3   
who carrieth away all the treasures of  
the temple4    #ab3a4 ,and when the     
kingdom of ,roboam was strengthened and 
fortified1 he  forsook the law of the   
,lord1 and all ,israel with him4        
#ab3b4 ,and in the fifth year of the    
reign of ,roboam1 ,sesac king of ,egypt 
came up against ,jerusalem 7because they
 had sinned against the ,lord7    #ab3c4
 ,with twelve hundred chariots and      
threescore thousand horsemen3 and  the  

people were without number that came    
with him out of ,egypt1 to wit1         
,libyans1 and ,troglodites1 and         
,ethiopians4    #ab3d4 ,and he took the 
strongest cities in ,juda1 and came to  
,jerusalem4    #ab3e4 ,and ,semeias the 
prophet came to ,roboam1 and to the     
princes of  ,juda1 that were gathered   
together in ,jerusalem1 fleeing from    
,sesac1 and  he said to them3 ,thus     
saith the ,lord3 ,you have left me1 and 
,i have left  you in the hand of ,sesac4
    #ab3f4 ,and the princes of ,israel1 
and the king1 being in a consternation1 
said3 ,the ,lord is just4    #ab3g4 ,and
 when the ,lord saw that they were      
humbled1 the word of the ,lord  came to 
,semeias1 saying3 ,because they are     
humbled1 ,i will not destroy  them1 and 
,i will give them a little help1 and my 
wrath shall not fall  upon ,jerusalem by
 the hand of ,sesac4    #ab3h4 ,but yet 
they shall serve him1 that they may know
 the difference  between my service1 and
 the service of a kingdom of the earth4 

#ab3i4 ,so ,sesac king of ,egypt        
departed from ,jerusalem1 taking away   
the  treasures of the king's house1 and 
he took all with him1 and the golden    
shields that ,solomon had made1         
#ab3aj4 ,instead of which the king made 
brazen ones1 and delivered them to  the 
captains of the shieldbearers1 who      
guarded the entrance of the  palace4    
#ab3aa4 ,and when the king entered into 
the house of the ,lord1 the             
shieldbearers came and took them1 and   
brought them back again to their        
armoury4    #ab3ab4 ,but yet because    
they were humbled1 the wrath of the     
,lord turned  away from them1 and they  
were not utterly destroyed3 for even in 
,juda  there were found good works4     
#ab3ac4 ,king ,roboam therefore was     
strengthened in ,jerusalem1 and reigned3
  he was one and forty years old when he
 began to reign1 and he reigned         
seventeen years in ,jerusalem1 the city 
which the ,lord chose out of all  the   
tribes of ,israel1 to establish his name

 there3 and the name of his  mother was 
,naama an ,ammonitess4    #ab3ad4 ,but  
he did evil1 and did not prepare his    
heart to seek the ,lord4    #ab3ae4 ,now
 the acts of ,roboam first and last are 
written in the books of  ,semeias the   
prophet1 and of ,addo the seer1 and     
diligently recorded3 and  there was war 
between ,roboam and ,jeroboam all their 
days4    #ab3af4 ,and ,roboam slept with
 his fathers1 and was buried in the city
 of  ,david4 ,and ,abia his son reigned 
in his stead4    #b ,paralipomenon      
,chapter #ac    ,abia's reign3 his      
victory over ,jeroboam4    #ac3a4 ,in   
the eighteenth year of king ,jeroboam1  
,abia reigned over ,juda4    #ac3b4     
,three years he reigned in ,jerusalem1  
and his mother's name was  ,michaia1 the
 daughter of ,uriel of ,gabaa3 and there
 was war between ,abia  and ,jeroboam4  
,michaia444 ,alias ,maacha4 ,her father 
had also two names1 viz41 ,absalom1  or 
,abessalom1 and ,uriel4    #ac3c4 ,and  
when ,abia had begun battle1 and had    

with him four hundred  thousand most    
valiant and chosen men1 ,jeroboam put   
his army in array  against him1 eight   
hundred thousand men1 who were also     
chosen and most  valiant for war4       
#ac3d4 ,and ,abia stood upon mount      
,semeron1 which was in ,ephraim1 and    
said3  ,hear me1 ,o ,jeroboam1 and all  
,israel3    #ac3e4 ,do you not know that
 the ,lord ,god of ,israel gave to      
,david the  kingdom over ,israel for    
ever1 to him and to his sons by a       
covenant of  salt8    ,a covenant of    
salt444 ,that is1 a firm and perpetual  
covenant4 ,see ,num4  #ah4ai4    #ac3f4 
,and ,jeroboam the son of ,nabat1 the   
servant of ,solomon the son of  ,david1 
rose up3 and rebelled against his lord4 
#ac3g4 ,and there were gathered to him  
vain men1 and children of ,belial3  and 
they prevailed against ,roboam the son  
of ,solomon3 for ,roboam was            
unexperienced1 and of a fearful heart1  
and could not resist them4    #ac3h4    
,and now you say that you are able to   

withstand the kingdom of the  ,lord1    
which he possesseth by the sons of      
,david1 and you have a great  multitude 
of people1 and golden calves1 which     
,jeroboam hath made you for  gods4      
#ac3i4 ,and you have cast out the       
priests of the ,lord1 the sons of       
,aaron1  and the ,levites3 and you have 
made you priests1 like all the nations  
of  the earth3 whosoever cometh and     
consecrateth his hand with a bullock of 
the herd1 and with seven rams1 is made a
 priest of those who are no  gods4      
#ac3aj4 ,but the ,lord is our ,god1 whom
 we forsake not1 and the priests who    
minister to the ,lord are the sons of   
,aaron1 and the ,levites are in their   
order4    #ac3aa4 ,and they offer       
holocausts to the ,lord1 every day1     
morning and  evening1 and incense made  
according to the ordinance of the law1  
and the  loaves are set forth on a most 
clean table1 and there is with us the   
golden candlestick1 and the lamps       
thereof1 to be lighted always in the    

evening3 for we keep the precepts of the
 ,lord our ,god1 whom you have          
forsaken4    #ac3ab4 ,therefore ,god is 
the leader in our army1 and his priests 
who  sound with trumpets1 and resound   
against you3 ,o children of ,israel1    
fight not against the ,lord the ,god of 
your fathers1 for it is not good  for   
you4    #ac3ac4 ,while he spoke these   
things1 ,jeroboam caused an ambushment  
to  come about behind him4 ,and while he
 stood facing the enemies1 he           
encompassed ,juda1 who perceived it not1
 with his army4    #ac3ad4 ,and when    
,juda looked back1 they saw the battle  
coming upon them  both before and       
behind1 and they cried to the ,lord3 and
 the priests  began to sound with the   
trumpets4    #ac3ae4 ,and all the men of
 ,juda shouted3 and behold when they    
shouted1  ,god terrified ,jeroboam1 and 
all ,israel that stood against ,abia and
 ,juda4    #ac3af4 ,and the children of 
,israel fled before ,juda1 and the ,lord
  delivered them into their hand4       

#ac3ag4 ,and ,abia and his people slew  
them with a great slaughter1 and  there 
fell wounded of ,israel five hundred    
thousand valiant men4    #ac3ah4 ,and   
the children of ,israel were brought    
down1 at that time1 and  the children of
 ,juda were exceedingly strengthened1   
because they had  trusted in the ,lord  
the ,god of their fathers4    #ac3ai4   
,and ,abia pursued after ,jeroboam1 and 
took cities from him1 ,bethel  and her  
daughters1 and ,jesana with her         
daughters1 ,ephron also and her         
daughters4    #ac3bj4 ,and ,jeroboam was
 not able to resist any more1 in the    
days of  ,abia3 and the ,lord struck    
him1 and he died4    #ac3ba4 ,but ,abia1
 being strengthened in his kingdom1 took
 fourteen wives3  and begot two and     
twenty sons1 and sixteen daughters4     
#ac3bb4 ,and the rest of the acts of    
,abia1 and of his ways and works1 are   
written diligently in the book of ,addo 
the prophet4    #b ,paralipomenon       
,chapter #ad    ,the reign of ,asa3 his 

victory over the ,ethiopians4    #ad3a4 
,and ,abia slept with his fathers1 and  
they buried him in the city  of ,david3 
an ,asa his son reigned in his stead3 in
 his days the land was  quiet ten years4
    #ad3b4 ,and ,asa did that which was 
good and pleasing in the sight of his   
,god1 and he destroyed the altars of    
foreign worship1 and the high  places4  
#ad3c4 ,and broke the statues1 and cut  
down the groves4    #ad3d4 ,and he      
commanded ,juda to seek the ,lord the   
,god of their fathers1  and to do the   
law1 and all the commandments4    #ad3e4
 ,and he took away out of all the cities
 of ,juda the altars1 and  temples1 and 
reigned in peace4    #ad3f4 ,he built   
also strong cities in ,juda1 for he was 
quiet1 and there  had no wars risen in  
his time1 the ,lord giving peace4       
#ad3g4 ,and he said to ,juda3 ,let us   
build these cities1 and compass them    
with walls1 and fortify them with       
towers1 and gates1 and bars1 while all  
is quiet from wars1 because we have     

sought the ,lord the ,god of our        
fathers1 and he hath given us peace     
round about4 ,so they built1 and  there 
was no hinderance in building4    #ad3h4
 ,and ,asa had in his army of men that  
bore shields and spears of  ,juda three 
hundred thousand1 and of ,benjamin that 
bore shields and drew  bows1 two hundred
 and eighty thousand1 all these were    
most valiant men4    #ad3i4 ,and ,zara  
the ,ethiopian came out against them    
with his army of ten  hundred thousand  
men1 and with three hundred chariots3   
and he came as  far as ,maresa4         
#ad3aj4 ,and ,asa went out to meet him1 
and set his army in array for  battle in
 the vale of ,sephata1 which is near    
,maresa3    #ad3aa4 ,and he called upon 
the ,lord ,god1 and said3 ,lord1 there  
is no  difference with thee1 whether    
thou help with few1 or with many3 help  
us1  ,o ,lord our ,god3 for with        
confidence in thee1 and in thy name we  
are come  against this multitude4 ,o    
,lord thou art our ,god1 let not man    

prevail  against thee4    #ad3ab4 ,and  
the ,lord terrified the ,ethiopians     
before ,asa and ,juda3 and  the         
,ethiopians fled4    #ad3ac4 ,and ,asa  
and the people that were with him       
pursued them to ,gerara3  and the       
,ethiopians fell even to utter          
destruction1 for the ,lord slew  them1  
and his army fought against them1 and   
they were destroyed4 ,and  they took    
abundance of spoils1    #ad3ad4 ,and    
they took all the cities round about    
,gerara3 for a great fear  was come upon
 all men3 and they pillaged the cities1 
and carried off  much booty4    #ad3ae4 
,and they destroyed the sheepcotes1 and 
took an infinite number of  cattle1 and 
of camels3 and returned to ,jerusalem4  
#b ,paralipomenon ,chapter #ae    ,the  
prophecy of ,azarias4 ,asa's covenant   
with ,god4 ,he deposeth his  mother4    
#ae3a4 ,and the spirit of ,god came upon
 ,azarias the son of ,oded1    #ae3b4   
,and he went out to meet ,asa1 and said 
to him3 ,hear ye me1 ,asa1 and  all     

,juda and ,benjamin3 ,the ,lord is with 
you1 because you have been with  him4   
,if you seek him1 you shall find3 but if
 you forsake him1 he will  forsake you4 
#ae3c4 ,and many days shall pass in     
,israel1 without the true ,god1 and     
without a priest a teacher1 and without 
the law4    #ae3d4 ,and when in their   
distress they shall return to the ,lord 
the ,god  of ,israel1 and shall seek    
him1 they shall find him4    #ae3e4 ,at 
that time there shall be no peace to him
 that goeth out and  cometh in1 but     
terrors on every side among all the     
inhabitants of the  earth4    #ae3f4    
,for nation shall fight against nation1 
and city against city1 for  the ,lord   
will trouble them with all distress4    
#ae3g4 ,do you therefore take courage1  
and let not your hands be weakened3  for
 there shall be a reward for your work4 
#ae3h4 ,and when ,asa had heard the     
words1 and the prophecy of ,azarias the 
son of ,oded the prophet1 he took       
courage1 and took away the idols out of 

all the land of ,juda1 and out of       
,benjamin1 and out of the cities of     
mount ,ephraim1 which he had taken1 and 
he dedicated the altar of the  ,lord1   
which was before the porch of the ,lord4
    #ae3i4 ,and he gathered together all
 ,juda and ,benjamin1 and the strangers 
with them of ,ephraim1 and ,manasses1   
and ,simeon3 for many were come over  to
 him out of ,israel1 seeing that the    
,lord his ,god was with him4    #ae3aj4 
,and when they were come to ,jerusalem  
in the third month1 in the  fifteenth   
year of the reign of ,asa1    #ae3aa4   
,they sacrificed to the ,lord in that   
day of the spoils1 and of the  prey1    
that they had brought1 seven hundred    
oxen1 and seven thousand  rams4         
#ae3ab4 ,and he went in to confirm as   
usual the covenant1 that they should    
seek the ,lord the ,god of their fathers
 with all their heart1 and with  all    
their soul4    #ae3ac4 ,and if any one1 
said he1 seek not the ,lord the ,god of 
,israel1 let  him die1 whether little or

 great1 man or woman4    #ae3ad4 ,and   
they swore to the ,lord with a loud     
voice with joyful  shouting1 and with   
sound of trumpet1 and sound of cornets1 
#ae3ae4 ,all that were in ,juda with a  
curse3 for with all their heart they    
swore1 and with all their will they     
sought him1 and they found him1 and  the
 ,lord gave them rest round about4      
#ae3af4 ,moreover ,maacha the mother of 
king ,asa he deposed from the royal     
authority1 because she had made in a    
grove an idol of ,priapus3 and he       
entirely destroyed it1 and breaking it  
into pieces1 burnt it at the  torrent   
,cedron4    #ae3ag4 ,but high places    
were left in ,israel3 nevertheless the  
heart of  ,asa was perfect all his days4
    #ae3ah4 ,and the things which his   
father had vowed1 and he himself had    
vowed1 he brought into the house of the 
,lord1 gold and silver1 and  vessels of 
divers uses4    #ae3ai4 ,and there was  
no war unto the five and thirtieth year 
of the  kingdom of ,asa4    #b          

,paralipomenon ,chapter #af    ,asa is  
reproved for seeking help from the      
,syrians3 his last acts and  death4     
#af3a4 ,and in the six and thirtieth    
year of his kingdom1 ,baasa the king  of
 ,israel came up against ,juda1 and     
built a wall about ,rama1 that no one   
might safely go out or come in of the   
kingdom of ,asa4    ,six and thirtieth  
year of his kingdom444 ,that is1 of the 
kingdom of  ,juda1 taking the date of it
 from the beginning of the reign of     
,reboam4    #af3b4 ,then ,asa brought   
out silver and gold out of the treasures
 of the  house of the ,lord1 and of the 
king's treasures1 and sent to ,benadad  
king  of ,syria1 who dwelt in ,damascus1
 saying3    #af3c4 ,there is a league   
between me and thee1 as there was       
between my  father and thy father1      
wherefore ,i have sent thee silver and  
gold1 that  thou mayst break thy league 
with ,baasa king of ,israel1 and make   
him  depart from me4    #af3d4 ,and when
 ,benadad heard this1 he sent the       

captains of his armies  against the     
cities of ,israel3 and they took ,ahion1
 and ,dan1 and  ,abelmaim1 and all the  
walled cities of ,nephtali4    #af3e4   
,and when ,baasa heard of it1 he left   
off the building of ,rama1 and          
interrupted his work4    #af3f4 ,then   
king ,asa took all ,juda1 and they      
carried away from ,rama the  stones1 and
 the timber that ,baasa had prepared for
 the building3 and he  built with them  
,gabaa1 and ,maspha4    #af3g4 ,at that 
time ,hanani the prophet came to ,asa   
king of ,juda1 and said  to him3        
,because thou hast had confidence in the
 king of ,syria1 and not  in the ,lord  
thy ,god1 therefore hath the army of the
 king of ,syria  escaped out of thy     
hand4    #af3h4 ,were not the           
,ethiopians1 and the ,libyans much more 
numerous in  chariots1 and horsemen1 and
 an exceeding great multitude3 yet      
because  thou trustedst in the ,lord1 he
 delivered them into thy hand8    #af3i4
 ,for the eyes of the ,lord behold all  

the earth1 and give strength  to those  
who with a perfect heart trust in him4  
,wherefore thou hast  done foolishly1   
and for this cause from this time wars  
shall arise  against thee4    #af3aj4   
,and ,asa was angry with the seer1 and  
commanded him to be put in  prison3 for 
he was greatly enraged because of this  
thing3 and he put to  death many of the 
people at that time4    #af3aa4 ,but the
 works of ,asa the first and last are   
written in the book  of the kings of    
,juda and ,israel4    #af3ab4 ,and ,asa 
fell sick in the nine and thirtieth year
 of his reign1 of  a most violent pain  
in his feet1 and yet in his illness he  
did not seek  the ,lord1 but rather     
trusted in the skill of physicians4     
#af3ac4 ,and he slept with his fathers3 
and he died in the one and  fortieth    
year of his reign4    #af3ad4 ,and they 
buried him in his own sepulchre1 which  
he had made for  himself in the city of 
,david3 and they laid him on his bed    
full of  spices and odoriferous         

ointments1 which were made by the art of
 the  perfumers1 and they burnt them    
over him with very great pomp4    #b    
,paralipomenon ,chapter #ag             
,josaphat's reign3 his care for the     
instruction of his people3 his  numerous
 forces4    #ag3a4 ,and ,josaphat his   
son reigned in his stead1 and grew      
strong against  ,israel4    #ag3b4 ,and 
he placed numbers of soldiers in all the
 fortified cities of  ,juda4 ,and he put
 garrisons in the land of ,juda1 and in 
the cities of  ,ephraim1 which ,asa his 
father had taken4    #ag3c4 ,and the    
,lord was with ,josaphat1 because he    
walked in the first  ways of ,david his 
father3 and trusted not in ,baalim1     
#ag3d4 ,but in the ,god of his father1  
and walked in his commandments1 and  not
 according to the sins of ,israel4      
#ag3e4 ,and the ,lord established the   
kingdom in his hand1 and all ,juda      
brought presents to ,josaphat3 and he   
acquired immense riches1 and much       
glory4    #ag3f4 ,and when his heart had

 taken courage for the ways of the      
,lord1 he  took away also the high      
places and the groves out of ,juda4     
#ag3g4 ,and in the third year of his    
reign1 he sent of his princes  ,benhail1
 and ,abdias1 and ,zacharias1 and       
,nathanael1 and ,micheas1 to teach  in  
the cites of ,juda3    #ag3h4 ,and with 
them the ,levites1 ,semeias1 and        
,nathanias1 and ,zabadias1  and ,asael1 
and ,semiramoth1 and ,jonathan1 and     
,adonias1 and ,tobias1 and  ,thobadonias
 ,levites1 and with them ,elisama1 and  
,joram priests4    #ag3i4 ,and they     
taught the people in ,juda1 having with 
them the book of  the law of the ,lord3 
and they went about all the cities of   
,juda1 and  instructed the people4      
#ag3aj4 ,and the fear of the ,lord came 
upon all the kingdoms of the lands  that
 were round about ,juda1 and they durst 
not make war against  ,josaphat4        
#ag3aa4 ,the ,philistines also brought  
presents to ,josaphat1 and tribute in   
silver1 and the ,arabians brought him   

cattle1 seven thousand seven  hundred   
rams1 and as many he goats4    #ag3ab4  
,and ,josaphat grew1 and became         
exceeding great3 and he built in  ,juda 
houses like towers1 and walled cities4  
#ag3ac4 ,and he prepared many works in  
the cities of ,juda3 and he had         
warriors1 and valiant men in ,jerusalem4
    #ag3ad4 ,of whom this is the number 
of the houses and families of every     
one3 in ,juda captains of the army1     
,ednas the chief1 and with him three    
hundred thousand most valiant men4      
#ag3ae4 ,after him ,johanan the captain1
 and with him two hundred and  eighty   
thousand4    #ag3af4 ,and after him was 
,amasias the son of ,zechri1 consecrated
 to the  ,lord1 and with him were two   
hundred thousand valiant men4    #ag3ag4
 ,after him was ,eliada valiant in      
battle1 and with him two hundred        
thousand armed with bow and shield4     
#ag3ah4 ,after him also was ,jozabad1   
and with him a hundred and eighty       
thousand ready for war4    #ag3ai4 ,all 

these were at the hand of the king1     
beside others1 whom he  had put in the  
walled cities1 in all ,juda4    #b      
,paralipomenon ,chapter #ah    ,josaphat
 accompanies ,achab in his expedition   
against ,ramoth2 where ,achab  is slain1
 as ,micheas had foretold4    #ah3a4    
,now ,josaphat was rich and very        
glorious1 and was joined by  affinity to
 ,achab4    #ah3b4 ,and he went down to 
him after some years to ,samaria3 and   
,achab at  his coming killed sheep and  
oxen in abundance for him and the people
  that came with him3 and he persuaded  
him to go up to ,ramoth ,galaad4        
#ah3c4 ,and ,achab king of ,israel said 
to ,josaphat king of ,juda3 ,come with  
me to ,ramoth ,galaad4 ,and he answered 
him3 ,thou art as ,i am1 and my  people 
as thy people1 and we will be with thee 
in the war4    #ah3d4 ,and ,josaphat    
said to the king of ,israel3 ,inquire1  
,i beseech thee1  at present the word of
 the ,lord4    #ah3e4 ,so the king of   
,israel gathered together of the        

prophets four  hundred men1 and he said 
to them3 ,shall we go to ,ramoth ,galaad
 to fight1  or shall we forbear8 ,but   
they said3 ,go up1 and ,god will deliver
 into the  king's hand4    #ah3f4 ,and  
,josaphat said3 ,is there not here a    
prophet of the ,lord1 that  we may      
inquire also of him8    #ah3g4 ,and the 
king of ,israel said to ,josaphat3      
,there is one man1 of whom  we may ask  
the will of the ,lord3 but ,i hate him1 
for he never  prophesieth good to me1   
but always evil3 and it is ,micheas the 
son of  ,jemla4 ,and ,josaphat said3    
,speak not thus1 ,o king4    #ah3h4 ,and
 the king of ,israel called one of the  
eunuchs1 and said to him3  ,call quickly
 ,micheas the son of ,jemla4    #ah3i4  
,now the king of ,israel1 and ,josaphat 
king of ,juda1 both sat on  their       
thrones1 clothed in royal robes1 and    
they sat in the open court by  the gate 
of ,samaria1 and all the prophets       
prophesied before them4    #ah3aj4 ,and 
,sedecias the son of ,chanaana made him 

horns of iron1 and  said3 ,thus saith   
the ,lord3 ,with these shalt thou push  
,syria1 till thou  destroy it4          
#ah3aa4 ,and all the prophets prophesied
 in like manner1 and said3 ,go up  to   
,ramoth ,galaad1 and thou shalt prosper1
 and the ,lord will deliver them  into  
the king's hand4    #ah3ab4 ,and the    
messenger that went to call ,micheas1   
said to him3 ,behold  the words of all  
the prophets with one mouth declare good
 to the king3 ,i  beseech thee therefore
 let not thy word disagree with them1   
and speak  thou also good success4      
#ah3ac4 ,and ,micheas answered him3 ,as 
the ,lord liveth1 whatsoever my ,god    
shall say to me1 that will ,i speak4    
#ah3ad4 ,so he came to the king3 and the
 king said to him3 ,micheas1 shall  we  
go to ,ramoth ,galaad to fight1 or      
forbear8 ,and he answered him3 ,go up1  
for all shall succeed prosperously1 and 
the enemies shall be delivered  into    
your hands4    #ah3ae4 ,and the king    
said3 ,i adjure thee again and again to 

say nothing  but the truth to me1 in the
 name of the ,lord4    #ah3af4 ,then he 
said3 ,i saw all ,israel scattered in   
the mountains1 like  sheep without a    
shepherd3 and the ,lord said3 ,these    
have no masters3 let  every man return  
to his own house in peace4    #ah3ag4   
,and the king of ,israel said to        
,josaphat3 ,did ,i not tell thee that   
this man would not prophesy me any good1
 but evil8    #ah3ah4 ,then he said3    
,hear ye therefore the word of the      
,lord3 ,i saw the  ,lord sitting on his 
throne1 and all the army of heaven      
standing by him  on the right hand and  
on the left1    #ah3ai4 ,and the ,lord  
said3 ,who shall deceive ,achab king of 
,israel1 that  he may go up and fall in 
,ramoth ,galaad8 ,and when one spoke in 
this  manner1 and another otherwise3    
,who shall deceive1 etc444 ,see the     
annotations1 #c ,kings #bb4    #ah3bj4  
,there came forth a spirit1 and stood   
before the ,lord1 and said3 ,i  will    
deceive him4 ,and the ,lord said to him3

 ,by what means wilt thou  deceive him8 
#ah3ba4 ,and he answered3 ,i will go    
out1 and be a lying spirit in the  mouth
 of all his prophets4 ,and the ,lord    
said3 ,thou shalt deceive1 and  shalt   
prevail3 go out1 and do so4    #ah3bb4  
,now therefore behold the ,lord hath put
 a spirit of lying in the  mouth of all 
thy prophets1 and the ,lord hath spoken 
evil against thee4    #ah3bc4 ,and      
,sedecias the son of ,chanaana came1 and
 struck ,micheas on the  cheek and said3
 ,which way went the spirit of the ,lord
 from me1 to speak  to thee8    #ah3bd4 
,and ,micheas said3 ,thou thyself shalt 
see in that day1 when thou  shalt go in 
from chamber to chamber1 to hide        
thyself4    #ah3be4 ,and the king of    
,israel commanded1 saying3 ,take        
,micheas1 and carry  him to ,amon the   
governor of the city1 and to ,joas the  
son of ,amelech1    #ah3bf4 ,and say3   
,thus saith the king3 ,put this fellow  
in prison1 and give  him bread and water
 in a small quantity till ,i return in  

peace4    #ah3bg4 ,and ,micheas said3   
,if thou return in peace1 the ,lord hath
 not  spoken by me4 ,and he said3 ,hear1
 all ye people4    #ah3bh4 ,so the king 
of ,israel and ,josaphat king of ,juda  
went up to ,ramoth  ,galaad4    #ah3bi4 
,and the king of ,israel said to        
,josaphat3 ,i will change my dress1  and
 so ,i will go to the battle1 but put   
thou on thy own garments4 ,and  the king
 of ,israel having changed his dress1   
went to the battle4    #ah3cj4 ,now the 
king of ,syria had commanded the        
captains of his cavalry1  saying3 ,fight
 ye not with small1 or great1 but with  
the king of ,israel  only4    #ah3ca4   
,so when the captains of the cavalry saw
 ,josaphat1 they said3 ,this  is the    
king of ,israel4 ,and they surrounded   
him to attack him3 but he  cried to the 
,lord1 and he helped him1 and turned    
them away from him4    #ah3cb4 ,for when
 the captains of the cavalry saw1 that  
he was not the  king of ,israel1 they   
left him4    #ah3cc4 ,and it happened   

that one of the people shot an arrow at 
a  venture1 and struck the king of      
,israel between the neck and the        
shoulders1 and he said to his chariot   
man3 ,turn thy hand1 and carry me  out  
of the battle1 for ,i am wounded4       
#ah3cd4 ,and the fight was ended that   
day3 but the king of ,israel stood in   
his chariot against the ,syrians until  
the evening1 and died at the  sunset4   
#b ,paralipomenon ,chapter #ai          
,josaphat's charge to the judges and to 
the ,levites4    #ai3a4 ,and ,josaphat  
king of ,juda returned to his house in  
peace to  ,jerusalem4    #ai3b4 ,and    
,jehu the son of ,hanani the seer met   
him1 and said to him3 ,thou  helpest the
 ungodly1 and thou art joined in        
friendship with them that  hate the     
,lord1 and therefore thou didst deserve 
indeed the wrath of the  ,lord3         
#ai3c4 ,but good works are found in     
thee1 because thou hast taken away the  
groves out of the land of ,juda1 and    
hast prepared thy heart to seek the     

,lord the ,god of thy fathers4    #ai3d4
 ,and ,josaphat dwelt at ,jerusalem3 and
 he went out again to the  people from  
,bersabee to mount ,ephraim1 and brought
 them back to the ,lord  the ,god of    
their fathers4    #ai3e4 ,and he set    
judges of the land in all the fenced    
cities of ,juda1 in  every place4       
#ai3f4 ,and charging the judges1 he     
said3 ,take heed what you do3 for you   
exercise not the judgment of man1 but of
 the ,lord3 and whatsoever you  judge1  
it shall redound to you4    #ai3g4 ,let 
the fear of the ,lord be with you1 and  
do all things with  diligence3 for there
 is no iniquity with the ,lord our ,god1
 nor respect  of persons1 nor desire of 
gifts4    #ai3h4 ,in ,jerusalem also    
,josaphat appointed ,levites1 and       
priests and  chiefs of the families of  
,israel1 to judge the judgment and the  
cause of  the ,lord for the inhabitants 
thereof4    #ai3i4 ,and he charged them1
 saying1 ,thus shall you do in the fear 
of the  ,lord faithfully1 and with a    

perfect heart4    #ai3aj4 ,every cause  
that shall come to you of your brethren1
 that dwell  in their cities1 between   
kindred and kindred1 wheresoever there  
is  question concerning the law1 the    
commandment1 the ceremonies1 the        
justifications3 shew it them1 that they 
may not sin against the ,lord1  and that
 wrath may not come upon you and your   
brethren3 and so doing you  shall not   
sin4    #ai3aa4 ,and ,amarias the priest
 your high priest shall be chief in the 
things which regard ,god3 and ,zabadias 
the son of ,ismahel1 who is ruler  in   
the house of ,juda1 shall be over those 
matters which belong to the  king's     
office3 and you have before you the     
,levites for masters1 take  courage and 
do diligently1 and the ,lord will be    
with you in good things4    #b          
,paralipomenon ,chapter #bj    ,the     
,ammonites1 ,moabites1 and ,syrians     
combine against ,josaphat3 he  seeketh  
,god's help by public prayer and        
fasting4 ,a prophet foretelleth  that   

,god will fight for his people3 the     
enemies destroy one another4  ,josaphat 
with his men gathereth the spoils4 ,he  
reigneth in peace1 but  his navy        
perisheth1 for his society with wicked  
,ochozias4    #bj3a4 ,after this the    
children of ,moab1 and the children of  
,ammon1 and  with them of the           
,ammonites1 were gathered together to   
fight against  ,josaphat4    #bj3b4 ,and
 there came messengers1 and told        
,josaphat1 saying3 ,there cometh  a     
great multitude against thee from beyond
 the sea1 and out of ,syria1  and behold
 they are in ,asasonthamar1 which is    
,engaddi4    #bj3c4 ,and ,josaphat being
 seized with fear betook himself wholly 
to pray  to the ,lord1 and he proclaimed
 a fast for all ,juda4    #bj3d4 ,and   
,juda gathered themselves together to   
pray to the ,lord3 and all  came out of 
their cities to make supplication to    
him4    #bj3e4 ,and ,josaphat stood in  
the midst of the assembly of ,juda1 and 
,jerusalem1 in the house of the ,lord   

before the new court1    #bj3f4 ,and    
said3 ,o ,lord ,god of our fathers1 thou
 art ,god in heaven1 and  rulest over   
all the kingdoms and nations1 in thy    
hand is strength and  power1 and no one 
can resist thee4    #bj3g4 ,didst not   
thou our ,god kill all the inhabitants  
of this land  before thy people ,israel1
 and gavest it to the seed of ,abraham  
thy  friend for ever8    #bj3h4 ,and    
they dwelt in it1 and built in it a     
sanctuary to thy name1  saying3         
#bj3i4 ,if evils fall upon us1 the sword
 of judgment1 or pestilence1 or  famine1
 we will stand in thy presence before   
this house1 in which thy  name is called
 upon3 and we will cry to thee in our   
afflictions1 and  thou wilt hear1 and   
save us4    #bj3aj4 ,now therefore      
behold the children of ,ammon1 and of   
,moab1 and  mount ,seir1 through whose  
lands thou didst not allow ,israel to   
pass1  when they came out of ,egypt1 but
 they turned aside from them1 and slew  
them not1    #bj3aa4 ,do the contrary1  

and endeavour to cast us out of the     
possession  which thou hast delivered to
 us4    #bj3ab4 ,o our ,god1 wilt thou  
not then judge them8 as for us we have  
not  strength enough1 to be able to     
resist this multitude1 which cometh     
violently upon us4 ,but as we know not  
what to do1 we can only turn our  eyes  
to thee4    #bj3ac4 ,and all ,juda stood
 before the ,lord with their little     
ones1 and  their wives1 and their       
children4    #bj3ad4 ,and ,jahaziel the 
son of ,zacharias1 the son of ,banaias1 
the son of  ,jehiel1 the son of         
,mathanias1 a ,levite of the sons of    
,asaph1 was there1  upon whom the spirit
 of the ,lord came in the midst of the  
multitude1    #bj3ae4 ,and he said3     
,attend ye1 all ,juda1 and you that     
dwell in  ,jerusalem1 and thou king     
,josaphat3 ,thus saith the ,lord to you3
 ,fear ye  not1 and be not dismayed at  
this multitude3 for the battle is not   
yours1  but ,god's4    #bj3af4 ,to      
morrow you shall go down against them3  

for they will come up  by the ascent    
named ,sis1 and you shall find them at  
the head of the  torrent1 which is over 
against the wilderness of ,jeruel4      
#bj3ag4 ,it shall not be you that shall 
fight1 but only stand with  confidence1 
and you shall see the help of the ,lord 
over you1 ,o ,juda1 and  ,jerusalem3    
fear ye not1 nor be you dismayed3 to    
morrow you shall go out  against them1  
and the ,lord will be with you4         
#bj3ah4 ,then ,josaphat1 and ,juda1 and 
all the inhabitants of ,jerusalem  fell 
flat on the ground before the ,lord1 and
 adored him4    #bj3ai4 ,and the        
,levites of the sons of ,caath1 and of  
the sons of ,core  praised the ,lord the
 ,god of ,israel with a loud voice1 on  
high4    #bj3bj4 ,and they rose early in
 the morning1 and went out through the  
desert of ,thecua3 and as they were     
marching1 ,josaphat standing in the     
midst of them1 said3 ,hear me1 ye men of
 ,juda1 and all the inhabitants of      
,jerusalem3 believe in the ,lord your   

,god1 and you shall be secure3  believe 
his prophets1 and all things shall      
succeed well4    #bj3ba4 ,and he gave   
counsel to the people1 and appointed the
 singing men  of the ,lord1 to praise   
him by their companies1 and to go before
 the  army1 and with one voice to say3  
,give glory to the ,lord1 for his mercy 
endureth for ever4    #bj3bb4 ,and when 
they began to sing praises1 the ,lord   
turned their  ambushments upon          
themselves1 that is to say1 of the      
children of ,ammon1  and of ,moab1 and  
of mount ,seir1 who were come out to    
fight against ,juda1  and they were     
slain4    #bj3bc4 ,for the children of  
,ammon1 and of ,moab1 rose up against   
the  inhabitants of mount ,seir1 to kill
 and destroy them3 and when they had    
made an end of them1 they turned also   
against one another1 and destroyed  one 
another4    #bj3bd4 ,and when ,juda came
 to the watch tower1 that looketh toward
 the  desert1 they saw afar off all the 
country1 for a great space1 full of     

dead bodies1 and that no one was left   
that could escape death4    #bj3be4     
,then ,josaphat came1 and all the people
 with him to take away the  spoils of   
the dead1 and they found among the dead 
bodies1 stuff of  various kinds1 and    
garments1 and most precious vessels3 and
 they took  them for themselves1        
insomuch that they could not carry all1 
nor in  three days take away the spoils1
 the booty was so great4    #bj3bf4 ,and
 on the fourth day they were assembled  
in the valley of  ,blessing3 for there  
they blessed the ,lord1 and therefore   
they called  that place the valley of   
,blessing until this day4    #bj3bg4    
,and every man of ,juda1 and the        
inhabitants of ,jerusalem returned1  and
 ,josaphat at their head1 into          
,jerusalem with great joy1 because the  
,lord had made them rejoice over their  
enemies4    #bj3bh4 ,and they came into 
,jerusalem with psalteries1 and harps1  
and  trumpets into the house of the     
,lord4    #bj3bi4 ,and the fear of the  

,lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the 
lands  when they heard that the ,lord   
had fought against the enemies of       
,israel4    #bj3cj4 ,and the kingdom of 
,josaphat was quiet1 and ,god gave him  
peace  round about4    #bj3ca4 ,and     
,josaphat reigned over ,juda1 and he was
 five and thirty years  old1 when he    
began to reign3 and he reigned five and 
twenty years in  ,jerusalem3 and the    
name of his mother was ,azuba the       
daughter of ,selahi4    #bj3cb4 ,and he 
walked in the way of his father ,asa and
 departed not from  it1 doing the things
 that were pleasing before the ,lord4   
#bj3cc4 ,but yet he took not away the   
high places1 and the people had not  yet
 turned their heart to the ,lord the    
,god of their fathers4    #bj3cd4 ,but  
the rest of the acts of ,josaphat1 first
 and last1 are written  in the words of 
,jehu the son of ,hanani1 which he      
digested into the books  of the kings of
 ,israel4    #bj3ce4 ,after these things
 ,josaphat king of ,juda made friendship

 with  ,ochozias king of ,israel1 whose 
works were very wicked4    #bj3cf4 ,and 
he was partner with him in making ships1
 to go to ,tharsis3  and they made the  
ships in ,asiongaber4    #bj3cg4 ,and   
,eliezer the son of ,dodau of ,maresa   
prophesied to ,josaphat1  saying3       
,because thou hast made a league with   
,ochozias1 the ,lord hath  destroyed thy
 works1 and the ships are broken1 and   
they could not go to  ,tharsis4    #b   
,paralipomenon ,chapter #ba    ,joram's 
wicked reign3 his punishment and death4 
#ba3a4 ,and ,josaphat slept with his    
fathers1 and was buried with them in    
the city of ,david3 and ,joram his son  
reigned in his stead4    #ba3b4 ,and he 
had brethren the sons of ,josaphat1     
,azarias1 and ,jahiel1 and  ,zacharias1 
and ,azaria1 and ,michael1 and          
,saphatias1 all these were the  sons of 
,josaphat king of ,juda4    #ba3c4 ,and 
their father gave them great gifts of   
silver1 and of gold1 and  pensions1 with
 strong cities in ,juda3 but the kingdom

 he gave to ,joram1  because he was the 
eldest4    #ba3d4 ,so ,joram rose up    
over the kingdom of his father3 and when
 he had  established himself1 he slew   
all his brethren with the sword1 and    
some  of the princes of ,israel4        
#ba3e4 ,joram was two and thirty years  
old when he began to reign3 and he      
reigned eight years in ,jerusalem4      
#ba3f4 ,and he walked in the ways of the
 kings of ,israel1 as the house of      
,achab had done3 for his wife was a     
daughter of ,achab1 and he did evil in  
the sight of the ,lord4    #ba3g4 ,but  
the ,lord would not destroy the house of
 ,david3 because of the  covenant which 
he had made with him3 and because he had
 promised to give  a lamp to him1 and to
 his sons for ever4    #ba3h4 ,in those 
days ,edom revolted1 from being subject 
to ,juda1 and made  themselves a king4  
#ba3i4 ,and ,joram went over with his   
princes1 and all his cavalry with  him1 
and rose in the night1 and defeated the 
,edomites who had surrounded  him1 and  

all the captains of his cavalry4        
#ba3aj4 ,however ,edom revolted1 from   
being under the dominion of ,juda unto  
this day3 at that time ,lobna also      
revolted1 from being under his hand4    
,for he had forsaken the ,lord the ,god 
of his fathers4    #ba3aa4 ,moreover he 
built also high places in the cities of 
,juda1 and he  made the inhabitants of  
,jerusalem to commit fornication1 and   
,juda to  transgress4    #ba3ab4 ,and   
there was a letter brought him from     
,eliseus the prophet1 in  which it was  
written3 ,thus saith the ,lord the ,god 
of ,david thy father3  ,because thou    
hast not walked in the ways of ,josaphat
 thy father nor in  the ways of ,asa    
king of ,juda1    #ba3ac4 ,but hast     
walked in the ways of the kings of      
,israel1 and hast made  ,juda and the   
inhabitants of ,jerusalem to commit     
fornication1 imitating  the fornication 
of the house of ,achab1 moreover also   
thou hast killed  thy brethren1 the     
house of thy father1 better men than    

thyself1    #ba3ad4 ,behold the ,lord   
will strike thee with a great plague1   
with all  thy people1 and thy children1 
and thy wives1 and all thy substance4   
#ba3ae4 ,and thou shalt be sick of a    
very grievous disease of thy bowels1    
till thy vital parts come out by little 
and little every day4    #ba3af4 ,and   
the ,lord stirred up against ,joram the 
spirit of the  ,philistines1 and of the 
,arabians1 who border on the            
,ethiopians4    #ba3ag4 ,and they came  
up into the land of ,juda1 and wasted   
it1 and they  carried away all the      
substance that was found in the king's  
house1 his  sons also1 and his wives3 so
 that there was no son left him but     
,joachaz1  who was the youngest4        
,joachaz444 ,alias ,ochozias4    #ba3ah4
 ,and besides all this the ,lord struck 
him with an incurable  disease in his   
bowels4    #ba3ai4 ,and as day came     
after day1 and time rolled on1 two whole
 years  passed3 then after being wasted 
with a long consumption1 so as to void  

his very bowels1 his disease ended with 
his life4  ,and he died of a most       
wretched illness1 and the people did not
 make a funeral for him  according to   
the manner of burning1 as they had done 
for his ancestors4    #ba3bj4 ,he was   
two and thirty years old when he began  
his reign1 and he  reigned eight years  
in ,jerusalem4 ,and he walked not       
rightly1 and they  buried him in the    
city of ,david3 but not in the          
sepulchres of the kings4    #b          
,paralipomenon ,chapter #bb    ,the     
reign and death of ,ochozias4 ,the      
tyranny of ,athalia4    #bb3a4 ,and the 
inhabitants of ,jerusalem made ,ochozias
 his youngest son  king in his place3   
for the rovers of the ,arabians1 who had
 broke in upon  the camp1 had killed all
 that were his elder brothers4 ,so      
,ochozias the  son of ,joram king of    
,juda reigned4    #bb3b4 ,ochozias was  
forty-two years old when he began to    
reign1 and he  reigned one year in      
,jerusalem1 and the name of his mother  

was ,athalia  the daughter of ,amri4    
,forty-two1 etc444 ,divers ,greek       
,bibles read thirty-two1 agreeably to #d
  ,kings #h4ag4    #bb3c4 ,he also      
walked in the ways of the house of      
,achab3 for his mother  pushed him on to
 do wickedly4    #bb3d4 ,so he did evil 
in the sight of the ,lord1 as the house 
of ,achab  did3 for they were his       
counsellors after the death of his      
father1 to his  destruction4    #bb3e4  
,and he walked after their counsels4    
,and he went with ,joram the son  of    
,achab king of ,israel1 to fight against
 ,hazael king of ,syria1 at  ,ramoth    
,galaad3 and the ,syrians wounded       
,joram4    #bb3f4 ,and he returned to be
 healed in ,jezrahel3 for he received   
many  wounds in the foresaid battle4    
,and ,ochozias the son of ,joram king of
  ,juda1 went down to visit ,joram the  
son of ,achab in ,jezrahel where he lay 
sick4    #bb3g4 ,for it was the will of 
,god against ,ochozias that he should   
come to  ,joram3 and when he was come   

should go out also against ,jehu the son
 of  ,namsi1 whom the ,lord had anointed
 to destroy the house of ,achab4        
#bb3h4 ,so when ,jehu was rooting out   
the house of ,achab1 he found the       
princes of ,juda1 and the sons of the   
brethren of ,ochozias1 who served  him1 
and he slew them4    #bb3i4 ,and he     
sought for ,ochozias himself1 and took  
him lying hid in  ,samaria3 and when he 
was brought to him1 he killed him1 and  
they buried  him3 because he was the son
 of ,josaphat1 who had sought the ,lord 
with  all his heart4 ,and there was no  
more hope that any one should reign of  
the race of ,ochozias4    #bb3aj4 ,for  
,athalia his mother1 seeing that her son
 was dead1 rose up1  and killed all the 
royal family of the house of ,joram4    
#bb3aa4 ,but ,josabeth the king's       
daughter took ,joas the son of          
,ochozias1  and stole him from among the
 king's sons that were slain4 ,and she  
hid  him with his nurse in a bedchamber3
 now ,josabeth that hid him1 was        

daughter of king ,joram1 wife of ,joiada
 the high priest1 and sister of         
,ochozias1 and therefore ,athalia did   
not kill him4    #bb3ab4 ,and he was    
with them hid in the house of ,god six  
years1 during  which ,athalia reigned   
over the land4    #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #bc    ,joiada the high priest 
causeth ,joas to be made king3 ,athalia 
to be  slain1 and idolatry to be        
destroyed4    #bc3a4 ,and in the seventh
 year ,joiada being encouraged1 took the
 captains  of hundreds1 to wit1 ,azarias
 the son of ,jeroham1 and ,ismahel the  
son of  ,johanan1 and ,azarias the son  
of ,obed1 and ,maasias the son of       
,adaias1 and  ,elisaphat the son of     
,zechri3 and made a covenant with them4 
#bc3b4 ,and they went about ,juda1 and  
gathered together the ,levites out of   
all the cities of ,juda1 and the chiefs 
of the families of ,israel1 and  they   
came to ,jerusalem4    #bc3c4 ,and all  
the multitude made a covenant with the  
king in the house  of ,god3 and ,joiada 

said to them3 ,behold the king's son    
shall reign1 as  the ,lord hath said of 
the sons of ,david4    #bc3d4 ,and this 
is the thing that you shall do3         
#bc3e4 ,a third part of you that come to
 the sabbath1 of the priests1 and  of   
the ,levites1 and of the porters shall  
be at the gates3 and a third  part at   
the king's house3 and a third at the    
gate that is called the  ,foundation3   
but let all the rest of the people be in
 the courts of the  house of the ,lord4 
,to the sabbath444 ,that is1 to perform 
in your weeks the functions of  your    
office1 or the weekly watches4    #bc3f4
 ,and let no one come into the house of 
the ,lord1 but the priests1  and they   
that minister of the ,levites3 let them 
only come in1 because  they are         
sanctified3 and let all the rest of the 
people keep the watches  of the ,lord4  
#bc3g4 ,and let the ,levites be round   
about the king1 every man with his      
arms2 and if any other come into the    
temple1 let him be slain2 and let  them 

be with the king1 both coming in1 and   
going out4    #bc3h4 ,so the ,levites1  
and all ,juda did according to all that 
,joiada the  high priest had commanded3 
and they took every one his men that    
were  under him1 and that came in by the
 course of the sabbath1 with those who  
had fulfilled the sabbath1 and were to  
go out4 ,for ,joiada the high  priest   
permitted not the companies to depart1  
which were accustomed to  succeed one   
another every week4    #bc3i4 ,and      
,joiada the priest gave to the captains 
the spears1 and the  shields1 and       
targets of king ,david1 which he had    
dedicated in the house  of the ,lord4   
#bc3aj4 ,and he set all the people with 
swords in their hands from the  right   
side of the temple1 to the left side of 
the temple1 before the  altar1 and the  
temple1 round about the king4    #bc3aa4
 ,and they brought out the king's son1  
and put the crown upon him1  and the    
testimony1 and gave him the law to hold 
in his hand1 and they  made him king3   

and ,joiada the high priest and his sons
 anointed him3 and  they prayed for him1
 and said3 ,god save the king4          
#bc3ab4 ,now when ,athalia heard the    
noise of the people running and         
praising the king1 she came in to the   
people1 into the temple of the  ,lord4  
#bc3ac4 ,and when she saw the king      
standing upon the step in the entrance1 
and the princes1 and the companies about
 him1 and all the people of the  land   
rejoicing1 and sounding with trumpets1  
and playing on instruments  of divers   
kinds1 and the voice of those that      
praised1 she rent her  garments1 and    
said3 ,treason1 treason4    #bc3ad4 ,and
 ,joiada the high priest going out to   
the captains1 and the  chiefs of the    
army1 said to them3 ,take her forth     
without the precinct of  the temple1 and
 when she is without let her be killed  
with the sword4  ,for the priest        
commanded that she should not be killed 
in the house of  the ,lord4    #bc3ae4  
,and they laid hold on her by the neck3 

and when she was come  within the horse 
gate of the palace1 they killed her     
there4    #bc3af4 ,and ,joiada made a   
covenant between himself and all the    
people1  and the king1 that they should 
be the people of the lord4    #bc3ag4   
,and all the people went into the house 
of ,baal1 and destroyed it3  and they   
broke down his altars and his idols3 and
 they slew ,mathan the  priest of ,baal 
before the altars4    #bc3ah4 ,and      
,joiada appointed overseers in the house
 of the ,lord1 under  the hands of the  
priests1 and the ,levites1 whom ,david  
had distributed in  the house of the    
,lord3 to offer holocausts to the ,lord1
 as it is written  in the law of ,moses1
 with joy and singing1 according to the 
disposition  of ,david4    #bc3ai4 ,he  
appointed also porters in the gates of  
the house of the ,lord1  that none who  
was unclean in any thing should enter   
in4    #bc3bj4 ,and he took the captains
 of hundreds1 and the most valiant men1 
and the chiefs of the people1 and all   

the people of the land1 and they        
brought down the king from the house of 
the ,lord1 and brought him  through the 
upper gate into the king's house1 and   
set him on the royal  throne4    #bc3ba4
 ,and all the people of the land        
rejoiced1 and the city was quiet3  but  
,athalia was slain with the sword4    #b
 ,paralipomenon ,chapter #bd    ,joas   
reigneth well all the days of ,joiada3  
afterwards falleth into  idolatry and   
causeth ,zacharias to be slain4 ,he is  
slain himself by his  servants4         
#bd3a4 ,joas was seven years old when he
 began to reign3 and he reigned  forty  
years in ,jerusalem3 the name of his    
mother was ,sebia of ,bersabee4         
#bd3b4 ,and he did that which is good   
before the ,lord all the days of        
,joiada the priest4    #bd3c4 ,and      
,joiada took for him two wives1 by whom 
he had sons and  daughters4    #bd3d4   
,after this ,joas had a mind to repair  
the house of the ,lord4    #bd3e4 ,and  
he assembled the priests1 and the       

,levites1 and said to them3  ,go out to 
the cities of ,juda1 and gather of all  
,israel money to repair  the temple of  
your ,god1 from year to year3 and do    
this with speed3 but  the ,levites were 
negligent4    #bd3f4 ,and the king      
called ,joiada the chief1 and said to   
him3 ,why hast  thou not taken care to  
oblige the ,levites to bring in out of  
,juda and  ,jerusalem the money that was
 appointed by ,moses the servant of the 
,lord  for all the multitude of ,israel 
to bring into the tabernacle of the     
testimony8    #bd3g4 ,for that wicked   
woman ,athalia1 and her children have   
destroyed the  house of ,god1 and       
adorned the temple of ,baal with all the
 things that  had been dedicated in the 
temple of the ,lord4    #bd3h4 ,and the 
king commanded1 and they made a chest3  
and set it by the  gate of the house of 
the ,lord on the outside4    #bd3i4 ,and
 they made a proclamation in ,juda and  
,jerusalem1 that every man  should bring
 to the ,lord the money which ,moses the

 servant of ,god  appointed for all     
,israel1 in the desert4    #bd3aj4 ,and 
all the princes1 and all the people     
rejoiced3 and going in  they contributed
 and cast so much into the chest of the 
,lord1 that it  was filled4    #bd3aa4  
,and when it was time to bring the chest
 before the king by the  hands of the   
,levites1 7for they saw there was much  
money17 the king's  scribe1 and he whom 
the high priest had appointed went in3  
and they  poured out the money that was 
in the chest3 and they carried back the 
chest to its place3 and thus they did   
from day to day1 and there was  gathered
 an immense sum of money4    #bd3ab4    
,and the king and ,joiada gave it to    
those who were over the works  of the   
house of the ,lord3 but they hired with 
it stonecutters1 and  artificers of     
every kind of work to repair the house  
of the ,lord3 and  such as wrought in   
iron and brass1 to uphold what began to 
be falling4    #bd3ac4 ,and the workmen 
were diligent1 and the breach of the    

walls was  closed up by their hands1 and
 they set up the house of the ,lord in  
its  former state1 and made it stand    
firm4    #bd3ad4 ,and when they had     
finished all the works1 they brought the
 rest  of the money before the king and 
,joiada3 and with it were made vessels  
for the temple for the ministry1 and for
 holocausts and bowls1 and other        
vessels of gold and silver3 and         
holocausts were offered in the house of 
the ,lord continually all the days of   
,joiada4    #bd3ae4 ,but ,joiada grew   
old and was full of days1 and died when 
he was a  hundred and thirty years old4 
#bd3af4 ,and they buried him in the city
 of ,david among the kings1 because  he 
had done good to ,israel1 and to his    
house4    #bd3ag4 ,and after the death  
of ,joiada1 the princes of ,juda went   
in1 and  worshipped the king3 and he was
 soothed by their services and hearkened
  to them4    #bd3ah4 ,and they forsook 
the temple of the ,lord the ,god of     
their fathers1  and served groves and   

idols1 and wrath came upon ,juda and    
,jerusalem for  this sin4    #bd3ai4    
,and he sent prophets to them to bring  
them back to the ,lord1 and  they would 
not give ear when they testified against
 them4    #bd3bj4 ,the spirit of ,god   
then came upon ,zacharias the son of    
,joiada the  priest1 and he stood in the
 sight of the people1 and said to them3 
,thus  saith the ,lord ,god3 ,why       
transgress you the commandment of the   
,lord which  will not be for your good1 
and have forsaken the ,lord1 to make him
  forsake you8    #bd3ba4 ,and they     
gathered themselves together against    
him1 and stoned him  at the king's      
commandment in the court of the house of
 the ,lord4    #bd3bb4 ,and king ,joas  
did not remember the kindness that      
,joiada his  father had done to him1 but
 killed his son4 ,and when he died1 he  
said3  ,the ,lord see1 and require it4  
#bd3bc4 ,and when a year was come about1
 the army of ,syria came up against     
him3 and they came to ,juda and         

,jerusalem1 and killed all the princes  
of  the people1 and they sent all the   
spoils to the king of ,damascus4        
#bd3bd4 ,and whereas there came a very  
small number of the ,syrians1 the  ,lord
 delivered into their hands an infinite 
multitude1 because they had  forsaken   
the ,lord the ,god of their fathers3 and
 on ,joas they executed  shameful       
judgments4    #bd3be4 ,and departing    
they left him in great diseases3 and his
 servants  rose up against him1 for     
revenge of the blood of the son of      
,joiada the  priest1 and they slew him  
in his bed1 and he died3 and they buried
 him  in the city of ,david1 but not in 
the sepulchres of the kings4    #bd3bf4 
,now the men that conspired against him 
were ,zabad the son of  ,semmaath an    
,ammonitess1 and ,jozabad the son of    
,semarith a ,moabitess4    #bd3bg4 ,and 
concerning his sons1 and the sum of     
money which was gathered  under him1 and
 the repairing the house of ,god1 they  
are written more  diligently in the book

 of kings3 and ,amasias his son reigned 
in his  stead4    #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #be    ,amasias' reign3 he     
beginneth well1 but endeth ill3 he is   
overthrown by  ,joas1 and slain by his  
people4    #be3a4 ,amasias was five and 
twenty years old when he began to reign1
 and  he reigned nine and twenty years  
in ,jerusalem1 the name of his mother   
was ,joadan of ,jerusalem4    #be3b4    
,and he did what was good in the sight  
of the ,lord3 but yet not  with a       
perfect heart4    #be3c4 ,and when he   
saw himself strengthened in his kingdom1
 he put to  death the servants that had 
slain the king his father4    #be3d4    
,but he slew not their children1 as it  
is written in the book of  the law of   
,moses1 where the ,lord commanded1      
saying3 ,the fathers shall  not be slain
 for the children1 nor the children for 
their fathers1 but  every man shall die 
for his own sin4    #be3e4 ,amasias     
therefore gathered ,juda together1 and  
appointed them by  families1 and        

captains of thousands and of hundreds in
 all ,juda1 and  ,benjamin3 and he      
numbered them from twenty years old and 
upwards1 and  found three hundred       
thousand young men that could go out to 
battle1 and  could hold the spear and   
shield4    #be3f4 ,he hired also of     
,israel a hundred thousand valiant men1 
for a  hundred talents of silver4       
#be3g4 ,but a man of ,god came to him1  
and said3 ,o king1 let not the army  of 
,israel go out with thee1 for the ,lord 
is not with ,israel1 and all the        
children of ,ephraim3    #be3h4 ,and if 
thou think that battles consist in the  
strength of the  army1 ,god will make   
thee to be overcome by the enemies3 for 
it belongeth  to ,god both to help1 and 
to put to flight4    #be3i4 ,and        
,amasias said to the man of ,god3 ,what 
will then become of the  hundred talents
 which ,i have given to the soldiers of 
,israel8 and the  man of ,god answered  
him3 ,the ,lord is rich enough to be    
able to give thee  much more than this4 

#be3aj4 ,then ,amasias separated the    
army1 that came to him out of ,ephraim1 
to go home again3 but they being much   
enraged against ,juda1 returned to      
their own country4    #be3aa4 ,and      
,amasias taking courage led forth his   
people1 and went to the  vale of        
saltpits1 and slew of the children of   
,seir ten thousand4    #be3ab4 ,and     
other ten thousand men the sons of ,juda
 took1 and brought to  the steep of a   
certain rock1 and cast them down        
headlong from the top1  and they all    
were broken to pieces4    #be3ac4 ,but  
that army which ,amasias had sent back1 
that they should not  go with him to    
battle1 spread themselves among the     
cities of ,juda1 from  ,samaria to      
,beth-horon1 and having killed three    
thousand took away much  spoil4         
#be3ad4 ,but ,amasias after he had slain
 the ,edomites1 set up the gods of  the 
children of ,seir1 which he had brought 
thence1 to be his gods1 and  adored     
them1 and burnt incense to them4        

#be3ae4 ,wherefore the ,lord being angry
 against ,amasias1 sent a prophet to    
him1 to say to him3 ,why hast thou      
adored gods that have not delivered     
their own people out of thy hand8       
#be3af4 ,and when he spoke these things1
 he answered him3 ,art thou the  king's 
counsellor8 be quiet1 lest ,i kill thee4
 ,and the prophet  departing1 said3 ,i  
know that ,god is minded to kill thee1  
because thou  hast done this evil1 and  
moreover hast not hearkened to my       
counsel4    #be3ag4 ,then ,amasias king 
of ,juda taking very bad counsel1 sent  
to ,joas  the son of ,joachaz the son of
 ,jehu1 king of ,israel1 saying3 ,come1 
let us  see one another4    #be3ah4 ,but
 he sent back the messengers1 saying3   
,the thistle that is in  ,libanus1 sent 
to the cedar in ,libanus1 saying3 ,give 
thy daughter to my  son to wife3 and    
behold the beasts that were in the wood 
of ,libanus  passed by and trod down the
 thistle4    #be3ai4 ,thou hast said3 ,i
 have overthrown ,edom1 and therefore   

thy heart  is lifted up with pride3 stay
 at home1 why dost thou provoke evil    
against thee1 that both thou shouldst   
fall and ,juda with thee4    #be3bj4    
,amasias would not hearken to him1      
because it was the ,lord's will  that he
 should be delivered into the hands of  
enemies1 because of the  gods of ,edom4 
#be3ba4 ,so ,joas king of ,israel went  
up1 and they presented themselves to  be
 seen by one another3 and ,amasias king 
of ,juda was in ,bethsames of  ,juda3   
#be3bb4 ,and ,juda fell before ,israel1 
and they fled to their dwellings4       
#be3bc4 ,and ,joas king of ,israel took 
,amasias king of ,juda1 the son of      
,joas1 the son of ,joachaz1 in          
,bethsames1 and brought him to          
,jerusalem3  and broke down the walls   
thereof from the gate of ,ephraim1 to   
the gate  of the corner1 four hundred   
cubits4    #be3bd4 ,and he took all the 
gold1 and silver1 and all the vessels1  
that  he found in the house of ,god1 and
 with ,obededom1 and in the treasures of

  the king's house1 moreover also the   
sons of the hostages1 he brought  back  
to ,samaria4    #be3be4 ,and ,amasias   
the son of ,joas king of ,juda lived1   
after the death  of ,joas the son of    
,joachaz king of ,israel1 fifteen years4
    #be3bf4 ,now the rest of the acts of
 ,amasias1 the first and last1 are      
written in the book of the kings of     
,juda and ,israel4    #be3bg4 ,and after
 he revolted from the ,lord1 they made a
 conspiracy  against him in ,jerusalem4 
,and he fled into ,lachis1 and they     
sent1 and  killed him there4    #be3bh4 
,and they brought him back upon horses1 
and buried him with his  fathers in the 
city of ,david4    #b ,paralipomenon    
,chapter #bf    ,ozias reigneth         
prosperously1 till he invadeth the      
priests' office1 upon  which he is      
struck with a leprosy4    #bf3a4 ,and   
all the people of ,juda took his son    
,ozias1 who was sixteen  years old1 and 
made him king in the room of ,amasias   
his father4    #bf3b4 ,he built ,ailath1

 and restored it to the dominion of     
,juda1 after  that the king slept with  
his fathers4    #bf3c4 ,ozias was       
sixteen years old when he began to      
reign1 and he reigned  two and fifty    
years in ,jerusalem3 the name of his    
mother was ,jechelia of  ,jerusalem4    
#bf3d4 ,and he did that which was right 
in the eyes of the ,lord1 according  to 
all that ,amasias his father had done4  
#bf3e4 ,and he sought the ,lord in the  
days of ,zacharias that understood  and 
saw ,god3 and as long as he sought the  
,lord1 he directed him in all  things4  
#bf3f4 ,moreover he went forth and      
fought against the ,philistines1 and    
broke down the wall of ,geth1 and the   
wall of ,jabnia1 and the wall of        
,azotus3 and he built towns in ,azotus1 
and among the ,philistines4    #bf3g4   
,and ,god helped him against the        
,philistines1 and against the           
,arabians1 that dwelt in ,gurbaal1 and  
against the ,ammonites4    #bf3h4 ,and  
the ,ammonites gave gifts to ,ozias3 and

 his name was spread  abroad even to the
 entrance of ,egypt for his frequent    
victories4    #bf3i4 ,and ,ozias built  
towers in ,jerusalem over the gate of   
the corner1  and over the gate of the   
valley1 and the rest1 in the same side  
of the  wall1 and fortified them4       
#bf3aj4 ,and he built towers in the     
wilderness1 and dug many cisterns1 for  
he had much cattle both in the plains1  
and in the waste of the desert3  he had 
also vineyards and dressers of vines in 
the mountains1 and in  ,carmel3 for he  
was a man that loved husbandry4         
#bf3aa4 ,and the army of his fighting   
men1 that went out to war1 was under    
the hand of ,jehiel the scribe1 and     
,maasias the doctor1 and under the  hand
 of ,henanias1 who was one of the king's
 captains4    #bf3ab4 ,and the whole    
number of the chiefs by the families of 
valiant men  were two thousand six      
hundred4    #bf3ac4 ,and the whole army 
under them three hundred and seven      
thousand  five hundred3 who were fit for

 war1 and fought for the king against   
the  enemy4    #bf3ad4 ,and ,ozias      
prepared for them1 that is1 for the     
whole army1  shields1 and spears1 and   
helmets1 and coats of mail1 and bows1   
and  slings to cast stones4    #bf3ae4  
,and he made in ,jerusalem engines of   
diverse kinds1 which he  placed in the  
towers1 and in the corners of the walls1
 to shoot arrows1  and great stones3 and
 his name went forth far abroad1 for the
 ,lord  helped him1 and had strengthened
 him4    #bf3af4 ,but when he was made  
strong1 his heart was lifted up to his  
destruction1 and he neglected the ,lord 
his ,god3 and going into the  temple of 
the ,lord1 he had a mind to burn incense
 upon the altar of  incense4    #bf3ag4 
,and immediately ,azarias the priest    
going in after him1 and with  him       
fourscore priests of the ,lord1 most    
valiant men1    #bf3ah4 ,withstood the  
king and said3 ,it doth not belong to   
thee1 ,ozias1  to burn incense to the   
,lord1 but to the priests1 that is1 to  

the sons of  ,aaron1 who are consecrated
 for this ministry3 go out of the       
sanctuary1  do not despise3 for this    
thing shall not be accounted to thy     
glory by  the ,lord ,god4    #bf3ai4    
,and ,ozias was angry1 and holding in   
his hand the censer to burn  incense1   
threatened the priests4 ,and presently  
there rose a leprosy in  his forehead   
before the priests1 in the house of the 
,lord at the altar  of incense4         
#bf3bj4 ,and ,azarias the high priest1  
and all the rest of the priests  looked 
upon him1 and saw the leprosy in his    
forehead1 and they made  haste to thrust
 him out4 ,yea himself also being       
frightened1 hasted to go  out1 because  
he had quickly felt the stroke of the   
,lord4    #bf3ba4 ,and ,ozias the king  
was a leper unto the day of his death1  
and he  dwelt in a house apart being    
full of the leprosy1 for which he had   
been  cast out of the house of the      
,lord4 ,and ,joatham his son governed   
the  king's house1 and judged the people

 of the land4    #bf3bb4 ,but the rest  
of the acts of ,ozias first and last    
were written by  ,isaias the son of     
,amos1 the prophet4    #bf3bc4 ,and     
,ozias slept with his fathers1 and they 
buried him in the  field of the royal   
sepulchres1 because he was a leper3 and 
,joatham his  son reigned in his stead4 
#b ,paralipomenon ,chapter #bg          
,joatham's good reign4    #bg3a4        
,joatham was five and twenty years old  
when he began to reign1 and  he reigned 
sixteen years in ,jerusalem3 the name of
 his mother was ,jerusa  the daughter of
 ,sadoc4    #bg3b4 ,and he did that     
which was right before the ,lord1       
according to all  that ,ozias his father
 had done1 only that he entered not into
 the temple  of the ,lord1 and the      
people still transgressed4    #bg3c4 ,he
 built the high gate of the house of the
 ,lord1 and on the wall  of ,ophel he   
built much4    #bg3d4 ,moreover he built
 cities in the mountains of ,juda1 and  
castles and  towers in the forests4     

#bg3e4 ,he fought against the king of   
the children of ,ammon1 and overcame    
them1 and the children of ,ammon gave   
him at that time a hundred talents  of  
silver1 and ten thousand measures of    
wheat1 and as many measures of  barley3 
so much did the children of ,ammon give 
him in the second and  third year4      
#bg3f4 ,and ,joatham was strengthened1  
because he had his way directed  before 
the ,lord his ,god4    #bg3g4 ,now the  
rest of the acts of ,joatham1 and all   
his wars1 and his  works1 are written in
 the book of the kings of ,israel and   
,juda4    #bg3h4 ,he was five and twenty
 years old when he began to reign1 and  
he  reigned sixteen years in ,jerusalem4
    #bg3i4 ,and ,joatham slept with his 
fathers1 and they buried him in the     
city of ,david3 and ,achaz his son      
reigned in his stead4    #b             
,paralipomenon ,chapter #bh    ,the     
wicked and unhappy reign of ,achaz4     
#bh3a4 ,achaz was twenty years old when 
he began to reign1 and he reigned       

sixteen years in ,jerusalem3 he did not 
that which was right in the sight  of   
the ,lord as ,david his father had done1
    #bh3b4 ,but walked in the ways of   
the kings of ,israel2 moreover also he  
cast statues for ,baalim4    #bh3c4 ,it 
was he that burnt incense in the valley 
of ,benennom1 and  consecrated his sons 
in the fire according to the manner of  
the nations1  which the ,lord slew at   
the coming of the children of ,israel4  
#bh3d4 ,he sacrificed also1 and burnt   
incense in the high places1 and on  the 
hills1 and under every green tree4      
#bh3e4 ,and the ,lord his ,god delivered
 him into the hands of the king of      
,syria1 who defeated him1 and took a    
great booty out of his kingdom1 and     
carried it to ,damascus3 he was also    
delivered into the hands of the king  of
 ,israel1 who overthrew him with a great
 slaughter4    #bh3f4 ,for ,phacee the  
son of ,romelia slew of ,juda a hundred 
and twenty  thousand in one day1 all    
valiant men1 because they had forsaken  

the ,lord  the ,god of their fathers4   
#bh3g4 ,at the same time ,zechri a      
powerful man of ,ephraim1 slew ,maasias 
the king's son1 and ,ezricam the        
governor of his house1 and ,elcana who  
was next to the king4    #bh3h4 ,and the
 children of ,israel carried away of    
their brethren two  hundred thousand    
women1 boys1 and girls1 and an immense  
booty3 and they  brought it to ,samaria4
    #bh3i4 ,at that time there was a    
prophet of the ,lord there1 whose name  
was  ,oded3 and he went out to meet the 
army that came to ,samaria1 and said to 
them3 ,behold the ,lord the ,god of your
 fathers being angry with ,juda1  hath  
delivered them into your hands1 and you 
have butchered them  cruelly1 so that   
your cruelty hath reached up to heaven4 
#bh3aj4 ,moreover you have a mind to    
keep under the children of ,juda and    
,jerusalem for your bondmen and         
bondwomen1 which ought not to be done3  
for you have sinned in this against the 
,lord your ,god4    #bh3aa4 ,but hear ye

 my counsel1 and release the captives   
that you have  brought of your brethren1
 because a great indignation of the     
,lord  hangeth over you4    #bh3ab4     
,then some of the chief men of the sons 
of ,ephraim1 ,azarias the  son of       
,johanan1 ,barachias the son of         
,mosollamoth1 ,ezechias the son of      
,sellum1 and ,amasa the son of ,adali1  
stood up against them that came from    
the war4    #bh3ac4 ,and they said to   
them3 ,you shall not bring in the       
captives  hither1 lest we sin against   
the ,lord4 ,why will you add to our     
sins1 and  heap up upon our former      
offences8 for the sin is great1 and the 
fierce  anger of the ,lord hangeth over 
,israel4    #bh3ad4 ,so the soldiers    
left the spoils1 and all that they had  
taken1  before the princes and all the  
multitude4    #bh3ae4 ,and the men1 whom
 we mentioned above1 rose up and took   
the  captives1 and with the spoils      
clothed all them that were naked3 and   
when  they had clothed and shod them1   

and refreshed them with meat and drink1 
and anointed them because of their      
labour1 and had taken care of them1     
they set such of them as could not walk1
 and were feeble1 upon beasts1  and     
brought them to ,jericho the city of    
palm trees to their brethren1  and they 
returned to ,samaria4    #bh3af4 ,at    
that time king ,achaz sent to the king  
of the ,assyrians asking  help4         
#bh3ag4 ,and the ,edomites came and slew
 many of ,juda1 and took a great  booty4
    #bh3ah4 ,the ,philistines also      
spread themselves among the cities of   
the  plains1 and to the south of ,juda3 
and they took ,bethsames1 and ,aialon1  
and ,gaderoth1 and ,socho1 and ,thamnan1
 and ,gamzo1 with their villages1  and  
they dwelt in them4    #bh3ai4 ,for the 
,lord had humbled ,juda because of      
,achaz the king of ,juda1  for he had   
stripped it of help1 and had contemned  
the ,lord4    ,for he had stripped it of
 help444 ,that is1 ,achaz stripped the  
kingdom of  ,juda of the divine         

assistance by his wickedness1 and by his
 introducing  idolatry4    #bh3bj4 ,and 
he brought against him                  
,thelgathphalnasar king of the          
,assyrians1 who also afflicted him1 and 
plundered him without any  resistance4  
#bh3ba4 ,and ,achaz stripped the house  
of the ,lord1 and the house of the      
kings1 and of the princes1 and gave     
gifts to the king of the ,assyrians1    
and yet it availed him nothing4         
#bh3bb4 ,moreover also in the time of   
his distress he increased contempt      
against the ,lord3 king ,achaz himself  
by himself1    #bh3bc4 ,sacrificed      
victims to the gods of ,damascus that   
struck him1 and  he said3 ,the gods of  
the kings of ,syria help them1 and ,i   
will appease  them with victims1 and    
they will help me2 whereas on the       
contrary they  were the ruin of him1 and
 of all ,israel4    #bh3bd4 ,then ,achaz
 having taken away all the vessels of   
the house of ,god1  and broken them1    
shut up the doors of the temple of ,god1

 and made  himself altars in all the    
corners of ,jerusalem4    #bh3be4 ,and  
in all the cities of ,juda he built     
altars to burn  frankincense1 and he    
provoked the ,lord the ,god of his      
fathers to wrath4    #bh3bf4 ,but the   
rest of his acts1 and all his works     
first and last are  written in the book 
of the kings of ,juda and ,israel4      
#bh3bg4 ,and ,achaz slept with his      
fathers1 and they buried him in the city
  of ,jerusalem3 for they received him  
not into the sepulchres of the kings  of
 ,israel4 ,and ,ezechias his son reigned
 in his stead4    #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #bi    ,ezechias purifieth the 
temple1 and restoreth religion4         
#bi3a4 ,now ,ezechias began to reign1   
when he was five and twenty years  old1 
and he reigned nine and twenty years in 
,jerusalem3 the name of his  mother was 
,abia1 the daughter of ,zacharias4      
#bi3b4 ,and he did that which was       
pleasing in the sight of the ,lord1     
according to all that ,david his father 

had done4    #bi3c4 ,in the first year  
and month of his reign he opened the    
doors of  the house of the ,lord1 and   
repaired them4    #bi3d4 ,and he brought
 the priests and the ,levites1 and      
assembled them in  the east street4     
#bi3e4 ,and he said to them3 ,hear me1  
ye ,levites1 and be sanctified1  purify 
the house of the ,lord the ,god of your 
fathers1 and take away all  filth out of
 the sanctuary4    #bi3f4 ,our fathers  
have sinned and done evil in the sight  
of the ,lord  ,god1 forsaking him3 they 
have turned away their faces from the   
tabernacle of the ,lord1 and turned     
their backs4    #bi3g4 ,they have shut  
up the doors that were in the porch1 and
 put out  the lamps1 and have not burnt 
incense1 nor offered holocausts in the  
sanctuary of the ,god of ,israel4       
#bi3h4 ,therefore the wrath of the ,lord
 hath been stirred up against ,juda  and
 ,jerusalem1 and he hath delivered them 
to trouble1 and to  destruction1 and to 
be hissed at1 as you see with your eyes4

    #bi3i4 ,behold1 our fathers are     
fallen by the sword1 our sons1 and our  
daughters1 and wives are led away       
captives for this wickedness4    #bi3aj4
 ,now therefore ,i have a mind that we  
make a covenant with the ,lord  the ,god
 of ,israel1 and he will turn away the  
wrath of his indignation  from us4      
#bi3aa4 ,my sons1 be not negligent3 the 
,lord hath chosen you to stand  before  
him1 and to minister to him1 and to     
worship him1 and to burn  incense to    
him4    #bi3ab4 ,then the ,levites      
arose1 ,mahath the son of ,amasai1 and  
,joel the  son of ,azarias1 of the sons 
of ,caath3 and of the sons of ,merari1  
,cis the  son of ,abdi1 and ,azarias the
 son of ,jalaleel4 ,and of the sons of  
,gerson1  ,joah the son of ,zemma1 and  
,eden the son of ,joah4    #bi3ac4 ,and 
of the sons of ,elisaphan1 ,samri1 and  
,jahiel4 ,also of the sons  of ,asaph1  
,zacharias1 and ,mathanias4    #bi3ad4  
,and of the sons of ,heman1 ,jahiel1 and
 ,semei3 and of the sons of  ,idithun1  

,semeias1 and ,oziel4    #bi3ae4 ,and   
they gathered together their brethren1  
and sanctified  themselves1 and went in 
according to the commandment of the     
king1 and  the precept of the ,lord1 to 
purify the house of ,god4    #bi3af4    
,and the priests went into the temple of
 the ,lord to sanctify it1  and brought 
out all the uncleanness that they found 
within to the  entrance of the house of 
the ,lord1 and the ,levites took it     
away1 and  carried it out abroad to the 
torrent ,cedron4    #bi3ag4 ,and they   
began to cleanse on the first day of the
 first month1  and on the eighth day of 
the same month they came into the porch 
of the  temple of the ,lord1 and they   
purified the temple in eight days1 and  
on  the sixteenth day of the same month 
they finished what they had begun4      
#bi3ah4 ,and they went in to king       
,ezechias1 and said to him3 ,we have    
sanctified all the house of the ,lord1  
and the altar of holocaust1 and  the    
vessels thereof1 and the table of       

proposition with all its vessels1       
#bi3ai4 ,and all the furniture of the   
temple1 which king ,achaz in his  reign 
had defiled1 after his transgression2   
and behold they are all set  forth      
before the altar of the ,lord4          
#bi3bj4 ,and king ,ezechias rising      
early1 assembled all the rulers of the  
city1 and went up into the house of the 
,lord3    #bi3ba4 ,and they offered     
together seven bullocks1 and seven rams1
 and  seven lambs1 and seven he goats   
for sin1 for the kingdom1 for the       
sanctuary1 for ,juda3 and he spoke to   
the priests the sons of ,aaron1 to      
offer them upon the altar of the ,lord4 
#bi3bb4 ,therefore they killed the      
bullocks1 and the priests took the      
blood1 and poured it upon the altar2    
they killed also the rams1 and  their   
blood they poured also upon the altar1  
and they killed the lambs1  and poured  
the blood upon the altar4    #bi3bc4    
,and they brought the he goats for sin  
before the king1 and the  whole         

multitude1 and they laid their hand upon
 them3    #bi3bd4 ,and the priests      
immolated them1 and sprinkled their     
blood before  the altar for an expiation
 of all ,israel3 for the king had       
commanded  that the holocaust and the   
sin offering should be made for all     
,israel4    #bi3be4 ,and he set the     
,levites in the house of the ,lord with 
cymbals1 and  psalteries1 and harps     
according to the regulation of ,david   
the king1 and  of ,gad the seer1 and of 
,nathan the prophet3 for it was the     
commandment  of the ,lord by the hand of
 his prophets4    #bi3bf4 ,and the      
,levites stood1 with the instruments of 
,david1 and the  priests with trumpets4 
#bi3bg4 ,and ,ezechias commanded that   
they should offer holocausts upon the   
altar3 and when the holocausts were     
offered1 they began to sing praises  to 
the ,lord1 and to sound with trumpets1  
and divers instruments which  ,david the
 king of ,israel had prepared4          
#bi3bh4 ,and all the multitude adored1  

and the singers1 and the  trumpeters1   
were in their office till the holocaust 
was finished4    #bi3bi4 ,and when the  
oblation was ended1 the king1 and all   
that were with  him bowed down and      
adored4    #bi3cj4 ,and ,ezechias and   
the princes commanded the ,levites to   
praise the  ,lord with the words of     
,david1 and ,asaph the seer3 and they   
praised him  with great joy1 and bowing 
the knee adored4    #bi3ca4 ,and        
,ezechias added1 and said3 ,you have    
filled your hands to the  ,lord1 come   
and offer victims1 and praises in the   
house of the ,lord4 ,and  all the       
multitude offered victims1 and praises1 
and holocausts with a  devout mind4     
#bi3cb4 ,and the number of the          
holocausts which the multitude offered1 
was  seventy bullocks1 a hundred rams1  
and two hundred lambs4    #bi3cc4 ,and  
they consecrated to the ,lord six       
hundred oxen1 and three  thousand sheep4
    #bi3cd4 ,but the priests were few1  
and were not enough to flay the         

holocausts3 wherefore the ,levites their
 brethren helped them1 till the  work   
was ended1 and priests were sanctified1 
for the ,levites are  sanctified with an
 easier rite than the priests4          
#bi3ce4 ,so there were many holocausts1 
and the fat of peace offerings1  and the
 libations of holocausts3 and the       
service of the house of the  ,lord was  
completed4    #bi3cf4 ,and ,ezechias1   
and all the people rejoiced because the 
ministry of  the ,lord was accomplished4
 ,for the resolution of doing this thing
 was  taken suddenly4    #b             
,paralipomenon ,chapter #cj    ,ezechias
 inviteth all ,israel to celebrate the  
pasch2 the solemnity is  kept fourteen  
days4    #cj3a4 ,and ,ezechias sent to  
all ,israel and ,juda3 and he wrote     
letters to  ,ephraim and ,manasses1 that
 they should come to the house of the   
,lord in  ,jerusalem1 and keep the phase
 to the ,lord the ,god of ,israel1      
#cj3b4 ,for the king1 taking counsel1   
and the princes1 and all the  assembly  

of ,jerusalem1 decreed to keep the phase
 the second month4    #cj3c4 ,for they  
could not keep it in its time2 because  
there were not  priests enough          
sanctified1 and the people was not as   
yet gathered  together to ,jerusalem4   
,the host of heaven444 ,the sun1 moon1  
and stars4    #cj3d4 ,and the thing     
pleased the king1 and all the people4   
#cj3e4 ,and they decreed to send        
messengers to all ,israel from ,bersabee
  even to ,dan1 that they should come1  
and keep the phase to the ,lord the     
,god of ,israel in ,jerusalem3 for many 
had not kept it as it is prescribed  by 
the law4    #cj3f4 ,and the posts went  
with letters by commandment of the king1
 and  his princes1 to all ,israel and   
,juda1 proclaiming according to the     
king's  orders3 ,ye children of ,israel1
 turn again to the ,lord the ,god of    
,abraham1 and of ,isaac1 and of ,israel3
 and he will return to the remnant  of  
you that have escaped the hand of the   
king of the ,assyrians4    #cj3g4 ,be   

not like your fathers1 and brethren1 who
 departed from the ,lord  the ,god of   
their fathers1 and he hath given them up
 to destruction1 as  you see4    #cj3h4 
,harden not your necks1 as your fathers 
did3 yield yourselves to  the ,lord1 and
 come to his sanctuary1 which he hath   
sanctified forever3  serve the ,lord the
 ,god of your fathers1 and the wrath of 
his indignation  shall be turned away   
from you4    #cj3i4 ,for if you turn    
again to the ,lord1 your brethren1 and  
children  shall find mercy before their 
masters1 that have led them away        
captive1  and they shall return into    
this land3 for the ,lord your ,god is   
merciful1  and will not turn away his   
face from you1 if you return to him4    
#cj3aj4 ,so the posts went speedily from
 city to city1 through the land of      
,ephraim1 and of ,manasses1 even to     
,zabulon1 whilst they laughed at them   
and mocked them4    #cj3aa4             
,nevertheless some men of ,aser1 and of 
,manasses1 and of ,zabulon1  yielding to

 the counsel1 came to ,jerusalem4       
#cj3ab4 ,but the hand of ,god was in    
,juda1 to give them one heart to do the 
word of the ,lord1 according to the     
commandment of the king1 and of the     
princes4    #cj3ac4 ,and much people    
were assembled to ,jerusalem to         
celebrate the  solemnity of the         
unleavened bread in the second month3   
#cj3ad4 ,and they arose and destroyed   
the altars that were in ,jerusalem1  and
 took away all things in which incense  
was burnt to idols and cast  them into  
the torrent ,cedron4    #cj3ae4 ,and    
they immolated the phase on the         
fourteenth day of the second  month4    
,and the priests and the ,levites being 
at length sanctified  offered holocausts
 in the house of the ,lord4    #cj3af4  
,and they stood in their order according
 to the disposition and  law of ,moses  
the man of ,god3 but the priests        
received the blood which  was to be     
poured out1 from the hands of the       
,levites1    #cj3ag4 ,because a great   

number was not sanctified3 and therefore
 the  ,levites immolated the phase for  
them that came not in time to be        
sanctified to the ,lord4    #cj3ah4 ,for
 a great part of the people from        
,ephraim1 and ,manasses1 and  ,issachar1
 and ,zabulon1 that had not been        
sanctified1 ate the phase  otherwise    
than it is written3 and ,ezechias prayed
 for them1 saying3 ,the  ,lord who is   
good will shew mercy1    #cj3ai4 ,to all
 them1 who with their whole heart1 seek 
the ,lord the ,god of  their fathers3   
and will not impute it to them that they
 are not  sanctified4    #cj3bj4 ,and   
the ,lord heard him1 and was merciful to
 the people4    #cj3ba4 ,and the        
children of ,israel1 that were found at 
,jerusalem1 kept  the feast of          
unleavened bread seven days with great  
joy1 praising the  ,lord every day1 the 
,levites also1 and the priests1 with    
instruments that  agreed to their       
office4    #cj3bb4 ,and ,ezechias spoke 
to the heart of all the ,levites1 that  

had good  understanding concerning the  
,lord3 and they ate during the seven    
days of  the solemnity1 immolating      
victims of peace offerings1 and praising
 the  ,lord the ,god of their fathers4  
#cj3bc4 ,and it pleased the whole       
multitude to keep other seven days3     
which they did with great joy4          
#cj3bd4 ,for ,ezechias the king of ,juda
 had given to the multitude a  thousand 
bullocks1 and seven thousand sheep3 and 
the princes had given  the people a     
thousand bullocks1 and ten thousand     
sheep3 and a great  number of priests   
was sanctified4    #cj3be4 ,and all the 
multitude of ,juda with the priests and 
,levites1 and  all the assembly1 that   
came out of ,israel2 and the proselytes 
of the  land of ,israel1 and that dwelt 
in ,juda were full of joy4    #cj3bf4   
,and there was a great solemnity in     
,jerusalem1 such as had not  been in    
that city since the time of ,solomon the
 son of ,david king of  ,israel4        
#cj3bg4 ,and the priests and the        

,levites rose up and blessed the people3
  and their voice was heard3 and their  
prayer came to the holy dwelling  place 
of heaven4    #b ,paralipomenon ,chapter
 #ca    ,idolatry is abolished2 and     
provisions made for the ministers4      
#ca3a4 ,and when these things had been  
duly celebrated1 all ,israel that  were 
found in the cities of ,juda1 went out1 
and they broke the idols1  and cut down 
the groves1 demolished the high places1 
and destroyed the  altars1 not only out 
of all ,juda and ,benjamin1 but out of  
,ephraim also  and ,manasses1 till they 
had utterly destroyed them3 then all the
  children of ,israel returned to their 
possessions and cities4    #ca3b4 ,and  
,ezechias appointed companies of the    
priests1 and the ,levites1  by their    
courses1 every man in his own office1 to
 wit1 both of the  priests1 and of the  
,levites1 for holocausts1 and for peace 
offerings1 to  minister1 and to praise1 
and to sing in the gates of the camp of 
the  ,lord4    #ca3c4 ,and the king's   

part was1 that of his proper substance  
the  holocaust should be offered always 
morning and evening1 and on the         
sabbaths1 and the new moons and the     
other solemnities1 as it is written  in 
the law of ,moses4    #ca3d4 ,he        
commanded also the people that dwelt in 
,jerusalem1 to give to  the priests1 and
 the ,levites their portion1 that they  
might attend to  the law of the ,lord4  
#ca3e4 ,which when it was noised abroad 
in the ears of the people1 the  children
 of ,israel offered in abundance the    
firstfruits of corn1 wine1  and oil1 and
 honey3 and brought the tithe of all    
things which the ground  bringeth forth4
    #ca3f4 ,moreover the children of    
,israel and ,juda1 that dwelt in the    
cities  of ,juda1 brought in the tithes 
of oxen1 and sheep1 and the tithes of   
holy things1 which they had vowed to the
 ,lord their ,god3 and carrying  them   
all1 made many heaps4    #ca3g4 ,in the 
third month they began to lay the       
foundations of the heaps1  and in the   

seventh month1 they finished them4      
#ca3h4 ,and when ,ezechias and his      
princes came in1 they saw the heaps1 and
  they blessed the ,lord and the people 
of ,israel4    #ca3i4 ,and ,ezechias    
asked the priests and the ,levites1 why 
the heaps lay  so4    #ca3aj4 ,azarias  
the chief priest of the race of ,sadoc  
answered him1  saying3 ,since the       
firstfruits began to be offered in the  
house of the  ,lord1 we have eaten1 and 
have been filled1 and abundance is left1
  because the ,lord hath blessed his    
people3 and of that which is left is    
this great store which thou seest4      
#ca3aa4 ,then ,ezechias commanded to    
prepare storehouses in the house of  the
 ,lord4 ,and when they had done so1     
#ca3ab4 ,they brought in faithfully both
 the firstfruits1 and the tithes1  and  
all they had vowed4 ,and the overseer of
 them was ,chonenias the  ,levite1 and  
,semei his brother was the second1      
#ca3ac4 ,and after him ,jehiel1 and     
,azarias1 and ,nahath1 and ,asael1 and  

,jerimoth1 and ,jozabad1 and ,eliel1 and
 ,jesmachias1 and ,mahath1 and          
,banaias1 overseers under the hand of   
,chonenias1 and ,semei his brother1  by 
the commandment of ,ezechias the king1  
and ,azarias the high priest of  the    
house of ,god1 to whom all things       
appertained4    #ca3ad4 ,but ,core the  
son of ,jemna the ,levite1 the porter of
 the east  gate1 was overseer of the    
things which were freely offered to the 
,lord1  and of the firstfruits and the  
things dedicated for the holy of holies4
    #ca3ae4 ,and under his charge were  
,eden1 and ,benjamin1 ,jesue1 and       
,semeias1  and ,amarias1 and ,sechenias1
 in the cities of the priests1 to       
distribute  faithfully portions to their
 brethren1 both little and great3       
#ca3af4 ,besides the males from three   
years old and upward1 to all that  went 
into the temple of the ,lord1 and       
whatsoever there was need of in  the    
ministry1 and their offices according to
 their courses1 day by day4    #ca3ag4  

,to the priests by their families1 and  
to the ,levites from the  twentieth year
 and upward1 by their classes and       
companies4    #ca3ah4 ,and to all the   
multitude1 both to their wives1 and to  
their  children of both sexes1 victuals 
were given faithfully out of the things 
that had been sanctified4    #ca3ai4    
,also of the sons of ,aaron who were in 
the fields and in the  suburbs of each  
city1 there were men appointed1 to      
distribute portions  to all the males1  
among the priests and the ,levites4     
#ca3bj4 ,so ,ezechias did all things    
which we have said in all ,juda1 and    
wrought that which was good1 and right1 
and truth1 before the ,lord his  ,god1  
#ca3ba4 ,in all the service of the house
 of the ,lord according to the law  and 
the ceremonies1 desiring to seek his    
,god with all his heart1 and he  did it 
and prospered4    #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #cb    ,idolatry is abolished2 
and provisions made for the ministers4  
#cb3a4 ,and when these things had been  

duly celebrated1 all ,israel that  were 
found in the cities of ,juda1 went out1 
and they broke the idols1  and cut down 
the groves1 demolished the high places1 
and destroyed the  altars1 not only out 
of all ,juda and ,benjamin1 but out of  
,ephraim also  and ,manasses1 till they 
had utterly destroyed them3 then all the
  children of ,israel returned to their 
possessions and cities4    #cb3b4 ,and  
,ezechias appointed companies of the    
priests1 and the ,levites1  by their    
courses1 every man in his own office1 to
 wit1 both of the  priests1 and of the  
,levites1 for holocausts1 and for peace 
offerings1 to  minister1 and to praise1 
and to sing in the gates of the camp of 
the  ,lord4    #cb3c4 ,and the king's   
part was1 that of his proper substance  
the  holocaust should be offered always 
morning and evening1 and on the         
sabbaths1 and the new moons and the     
other solemnities1 as it is written  in 
the law of ,moses4    #cb3d4 ,he        
commanded also the people that dwelt in 

,jerusalem1 to give to  the priests1 and
 the ,levites their portion1 that they  
might attend to  the law of the ,lord4  
#cb3e4 ,which when it was noised abroad 
in the ears of the people1 the  children
 of ,israel offered in abundance the    
firstfruits of corn1 wine1  and oil1 and
 honey3 and brought the tithe of all    
things which the ground  bringeth forth4
    #cb3f4 ,moreover the children of    
,israel and ,juda1 that dwelt in the    
cities  of ,juda1 brought in the tithes 
of oxen1 and sheep1 and the tithes of   
holy things1 which they had vowed to the
 ,lord their ,god3 and carrying  them   
all1 made many heaps4    #cb3g4 ,in the 
third month they began to lay the       
foundations of the heaps1  and in the   
seventh month1 they finished them4      
#cb3h4 ,and when ,ezechias and his      
princes came in1 they saw the heaps1 and
  they blessed the ,lord and the people 
of ,israel4    #cb3i4 ,and ,ezechias    
asked the priests and the ,levites1 why 
the heaps lay  so4    #cb3aj4 ,azarias  

the chief priest of the race of ,sadoc  
answered him1  saying3 ,since the       
firstfruits began to be offered in the  
house of the  ,lord1 we have eaten1 and 
have been filled1 and abundance is left1
  because the ,lord hath blessed his    
people3 and of that which is left is    
this great store which thou seest4      
#cb3aa4 ,then ,ezechias commanded to    
prepare storehouses in the house of  the
 ,lord4 ,and when they had done so1     
#cb3ab4 ,they brought in faithfully both
 the firstfruits1 and the tithes1  and  
all they had vowed4 ,and the overseer of
 them was ,chonenias the  ,levite1 and  
,semei his brother was the second1      
#cb3ac4 ,and after him ,jehiel1 and     
,azarias1 and ,nahath1 and ,asael1 and  
,jerimoth1 and ,jozabad1 and ,eliel1 and
 ,jesmachias1 and ,mahath1 and          
,banaias1 overseers under the hand of   
,chonenias1 and ,semei his brother1  by 
the commandment of ,ezechias the king1  
and ,azarias the high priest of  the    
house of ,god1 to whom all things       

appertained4    #cb3ad4 ,but ,core the  
son of ,jemna the ,levite1 the porter of
 the east  gate1 was overseer of the    
things which were freely offered to the 
,lord1  and of the firstfruits and the  
things dedicated for the holy of holies4
    #cb3ae4 ,and under his charge were  
,eden1 and ,benjamin1 ,jesue1 and       
,semeias1  and ,amarias1 and ,sechenias1
 in the cities of the priests1 to       
distribute  faithfully portions to their
 brethren1 both little and great3       
#cb3af4 ,besides the males from three   
years old and upward1 to all that  went 
into the temple of the ,lord1 and       
whatsoever there was need of in  the    
ministry1 and their offices according to
 their courses1 day by day4    #cb3ag4  
,to the priests by their families1 and  
to the ,levites from the  twentieth year
 and upward1 by their classes and       
companies4    #cb3ah4 ,and to all the   
multitude1 both to their wives1 and to  
their  children of both sexes1 victuals 
were given faithfully out of the things 

that had been sanctified4    #cb3ai4    
,also of the sons of ,aaron who were in 
the fields and in the  suburbs of each  
city1 there were men appointed1 to      
distribute portions  to all the males1  
among the priests and the ,levites4     
#cb3bj4 ,so ,ezechias did all things    
which we have said in all ,juda1 and    
wrought that which was good1 and right1 
and truth1 before the ,lord his  ,god1  
#cb3ba4 ,in all the service of the house
 of the ,lord according to the law  and 
the ceremonies1 desiring to seek his    
,god with all his heart1 and he  did it 
and prospered4    #b ,paralipomenon     
,chapter #cc    ,manasses for his       
manifold wickedness is led captive to   
,babylon3 he  repenteth1 and is restored
 to his kingdom1 and destroyeth         
idolatry3 his  successor ,amon is slain 
by his servants4    #cc3a4 ,manasses was
 twelve years old when he began to      
reign1 and he  reigned fifty-five years 
in ,jerusalem4    #cc3b4 ,and he did    
evil before the ,lord1 according to all 

the abominations  of the nations1 which 
the ,lord cast out before the children  
of ,israel3    #cc3c4 ,and he turned1   
and built again the high places which   
,ezechias his  father had destroyed3 and
 he built altars to ,baalim1 and made   
groves1  and he adored all the host of  
heaven1 and worshipped them4    ,the    
host of heaven444 ,the sun1 moon1 and   
stars4    #cc3d4 ,he built also altars  
in the house of the ,lord1 whereof the  
,lord  had said3 ,in ,jerusalem shall my
 name be for ever4    #cc3e4 ,and he    
built them for all the host of heaven in
 the two courts of  the house of the    
,lord4    #cc3f4 ,and he made his sons  
to pass through the fire in the valley  
of  ,benennom3 he observed dreams1      
followed divinations1 gave himself up to
  magic arts1 had with him magicians1   
and enchanters3 and he wrought many     
evils before the ,lord1 to provoke him  
to anger4    #cc3g4 ,he set also a      
graven1 and a molten statue in the house
 of ,god1 of  which ,god had said to    

,david1 and to ,solomon his son3 ,in    
this house1 and  in ,jerusalem1 which ,i
 have chosen out of all the tribes of   
,israel1 will  ,i put my name for ever4 
#cc3h4 ,and ,i will not make the foot of
 ,israel to be removed out of the  land 
which ,i have delivered to their        
fathers3 yet so if they will take  heed 
to do what ,i have commanded them1 and  
all the law1 and the  ceremonies1 and   
judgments by the hand of ,moses4        
#cc3i4 ,so ,manasses seduced ,juda1 and 
the inhabitants of ,jerusalem1 to do    
evil beyond all the nations1 which the  
,lord had destroyed before the  face of 
the children of ,israel4    #cc3aj4 ,and
 the ,lord spoke to his people1 and they
 would not hearken4    #cc3aa4          
,therefore he brought upon them the     
captains of he army of the  king of the 
,assyrians3 and they took ,manasses1 and
 carried him bound  with chains and     
fetters to ,babylon4    #cc3ab4 ,and    
after that he was in distress he prayed 
to the ,lord his ,god3  and did penance 

exceedingly before the ,god of his      
fathers4    #cc3ac4 ,and he entreated   
him1 and besought him earnestly3 and he 
heard  his prayer1 and brought him again
 to ,jerusalem into his kingdom1 and    
,manasses knew that the ,lord was ,god4 
#cc3ad4 ,after this he built a wall     
without the city of ,david1 on the west 
side of ,gihon in the valley1 from the  
entering in of the gate round  about to 
,ophel1 and raised it up to a great     
height3 and he appointed  captains of   
the army in all the fenced cities of    
,juda3    #cc3ae4 ,and he took away the 
strange gods1 and the idol out of the   
house  of the ,lord3 the altars also    
which he had made in the mount of the   
house  of the ,lord1 and in ,jerusalem1 
and he cast them all out of the city4   
#cc3af4 ,and he repaired the altar of   
the ,lord1 and sacrificed upon it       
victims1 and peace offerings1 and       
praise3 and he commanded ,juda to serve 
the ,lord the ,god of ,israel4          
#cc3ag4 ,nevertheless the people still  

sacrificed in the high places to  the   
,lord their ,god4    #cc3ah4 ,but the   
rest of the acts of ,manasses1 and his  
prayer to his ,god1  and the words of   
the seers that spoke to him in the name 
of the ,lord the  ,god of ,israel1 are  
contained in the words of the kings of  
,israel4    #cc3ai4  ,his prayer also1  
and his being heard and all his sins1   
and  contempt1 and places wherein he    
built high places1 and set up groves1   
and statues before he did penance1 are  
written in the words of ,hozai4         
#cc3bj4 ,and ,manasses slept with his   
fathers1 and they buried him in his     
house3 and his son ,amon reigned in his 
stead4    #cc3ba4 ,amon was two and     
twenty years old when he began to reign1
 and he  reigned two years in           
,jerusalem4    #cc3bb4 ,and he did evil 
in the sight of the ,lord1 as ,manasses 
his father  had done3 he sacrificed to  
all the idols which ,manasses his father
 had  made1 and served them4    #cc3bc4 
,and he did not humble himself before   

the lord1 as ,manasses his  father had  
humbled himself1 but committed far      
greater sin4    #cc3bd4 ,and his        
servants conspired against him1 and slew
 him in his own  house4    #cc3be4 ,but 
the rest of the multitude of the people 
slew them that had  killed ,amon1 and   
made ,josias his son king in his stead4 
#b ,paralipomenon ,chapter #cd          
,josias destroyeth idolatry1 repaireth  
the temple1 and reneweth the  covenant  
between ,god and the people4    #cd3a4  
,josias was eight years old when he     
began to reign1 and he reigned  one and 
thirty years in ,jerusalem4    #cd3b4   
,and he did that which was right in the 
sight of the ,lord1 and  walked in the  
ways of ,david his father3 he declined  
not1 neither to the  right hand1 nor to 
the left4    #cd3c4 ,and in the eighth  
year of his reign1 when he was yet a    
boy1 he  began to seek the ,god of his  
father ,david3 and in the twelfth year  
after  he began to reign1 he cleansed   
,juda and ,jerusalem from the high      

places1  and the groves1 and the idols1 
and the graven things4    #cd3d4 ,and   
they broke down before him the altars of
 ,baalim1 and  demolished the idols that
 had been set upon them3 and he cut down
 the  groves and the graven things1 and 
broke them in pieces3 and strewed the   
fragments upon the graves of them that  
had sacrificed to them4    #cd3e4 ,and  
he burnt the bones of the priests on the
 altars of the idols1  and he cleansed  
,juda and ,jerusalem4    #cd3f4 ,and in 
the cities of ,manasses1 and of         
,ephraim1 and of ,simeon1 even  to      
,nephtali he demolished all4    #cd3g4  
,and when he had destroyed the altars1  
and the groves1 and had  broken the     
idols in pieces1 and had demolished all 
profane temples  throughout all the land
 of ,israel1 he returned to ,jerusalem4 
#cd3h4 ,now in the eighteenth year of   
his reign1 when he had cleansed the     
land1 and the temple of the ,lord1 he   
sent ,saphan the son of ,elselias1  and 
,maasias the governor of the city1 ,joha

 the son of ,joachaz the  recorder1 to  
repair the house of the ,lord his ,god4 
#cd3i4 ,and they came to ,helcias the   
high priest3 and received of him the    
money which had been brought into the   
house of the ,lord1 and which the       
,levites and porters had gathered       
together from ,manasses1 and ,ephraim1  
and all the remnant of ,israel1 and from
 all ,juda1 and ,benjamin1 and the      
inhabitants of ,jerusalem1    #cd3aj4   
,which they delivered into the hands of 
them that were over the  workmen in the 
house of the ,lord1 to repair the       
temple1 and mend all  that was weak4    
#cd3aa4 ,but they gave it to the        
artificers1 and to the masons1 to buy   
stones out of the quarries1 and timber  
for the couplings of the  building1 and 
to rafter the houses1 which the kings of
 ,juda had  destroyed4    #cd3ab4 ,and  
they did all faithfully4 ,now the       
overseers of the workmen  were ,jahath  
and ,abdias of the sons of ,merari1     
,zacharias and ,mosollam of  the sons of

 ,caath1 who hastened the work3 all     
,levites skilful to play on             
instruments4    #cd3ac4 ,but over them  
that carried burdens for divers uses1   
were scribes1  and masters of the number
 of the ,levites1 and porters4          
#cd3ad4 ,now when they carried out the  
money that had been brought into  the   
temple of the ,lord1 ,helcias the priest
 found the book of the law of  the      
,lord1 by the hand of ,moses4    #cd3ae4
 ,and he said to ,saphan the scribe3 ,i 
have found the book of the  law in the  
house of the ,lord3 and he delivered it 
to him4    #cd3af4 ,but he carried the  
book to the king1 and told him1 saying3 
,lo1  all that thou hast committed to   
thy servants1 is accomplished4          
#cd3ag4 ,they have gathered together the
 silver that was found in the  house of 
the ,lord3 and it is given to the       
overseers of the artificers1  and of the
 workmen1 for divers works4    #cd3ah4  
,moreover ,helcias the priest gave me   
this book4 ,and he read it  before the  

king4    #cd3ai4 ,and when he had heard 
the words of the law1 he rent his       
garments3    #cd3bj4 ,and he commanded  
,helcias1 and ,ahicam the son of        
,saphan1 and ,abdon  the son of ,micha1 
and ,saphan the scribe1 and ,asaa the   
king's servant1  saying3    #cd3ba4 ,go1
 and pray to the ,lord for me1 and for  
the remnant of ,israel1  and ,juda1     
concerning all the words of this book1  
which is found3 for the  great wrath of 
the ,lord hath fallen upon us1 because  
our fathers have  not kept the words of 
the ,lord1 to do all things that are    
written in  this book4    #cd3bb4 ,and  
,helcias and they that were sent with   
him by the king1 went to  ,olda the     
prophetess1 the wife of ,sellum the son 
of ,thecuath1 the son of  ,hasra keeper 
of the wardrobe3 who dwelt in ,jerusalem
 in the ,second part3  and they spoke to
 her the words above mentioned4         
#cd3bc4 ,and she answered them3 ,thus   
saith the ,lord the ,god of ,israel3    
,tell the man that sent you to me3      

#cd3bd4 ,thus saith the ,lord3 ,behold  
,i will bring evils upon this place1    
and upon the inhabitants thereof1 and   
all the curses that are written in  this
 book which they read before the king of
 ,juda4    #cd3be4 ,because they have   
forsaken me1 and have sacrificed to     
strange  gods1 to provoke me to wrath   
with all the works of their hands1      
therefore my wrath shall fail upon this 
place1 and shall not be  quenched4      
#cd3bf4 ,but as to the king of ,juda    
that sent you to beseech the ,lord1     
thus shall you say to him3 ,thus saith  
the ,lord the ,god of ,israel3  ,because
 thou hast heard the words of this book1
    #cd3bg4 ,and thy heart was softened1
 and thou hast humbled thyself in the   
sight of ,god for the things that are   
spoken against this place1 and the      
inhabitants of ,jerusalem1 and          
reverencing my face1 hast rent thy      
garments1 and wept before me3 ,i also   
have heard thee1 saith the ,lord4       
#cd3bh4 ,for now ,i will gather thee to 

thy fathers1 and thou shalt be  brought 
to thy tomb in peace3 and thy eyes shall
 not see all the evil  that ,i will     
bring upon this place1 and the          
inhabitants thereof4  ,they  therefore  
reported to the king all that she had   
said4    #cd3bi4 ,and he called together
 all the ancients of ,juda and          
,jerusalem4    #cd3cj4 ,and went up to  
the house of the ,lord1 and all the men 
of ,juda1  and the inhabitants of       
,jerusalem1 the priests and the         
,levites1 and all  the people from the  
least to the greatest4 ,and the king    
read in their  hearing1 in the house of 
the ,lord1 all the words of the book4   
#cd3ca4 ,and standing up in his         
tribunal1 he made a covenant before the 
,lord to walk after him1 and keep his   
commandments1 and testimonies1 and      
justifications with all his heart1 and  
with all his soul1 and to do the  things
 that were written in that book which he
 had read4    #cd3cb4 ,and he adjured   
all that were found in ,jerusalem and   

,benjamin to  do the same3 and the      
inhabitants of ,jerusalem did according 
to the  covenant of the ,lord the ,god  
of their fathers4    #cd3cc4 ,and       
,josias took away all the abominations  
out of all the  countries of the        
children of ,israel and made all that   
were left in  ,israel1 to serve the     
,lord their ,god4 ,as long as he lived  
they departed  not from the ,lord the   
,god of their fathers4    #b            
,paralipomenon ,chapter #ce    ,josias  
celebrateth a most solemn pasch4 ,he is 
slain by the king of  ,egypt4    #ce3a4 
,and ,josias kept a phase to the ,lord  
in ,jerusalem1 and it was  sacrificed on
 the fourteenth day of the first month4 
#ce3b4 ,and he set the priests in their 
offices1 and exhorted them to  minister 
in the house of the ,lord4    #ce3c4    
,and he spoke to the ,levites1 by whose 
instruction all ,israel was  sanctified 
to the ,lord1 saying3 ,put the ark in   
the sanctuary of the  temple1 which     
,solomon the son of ,david king of      

,israel built3 for you  shall carry it  
no more3 but minister now to the ,lord  
your ,god1 and to  his people ,israel4  
#ce3d4 ,and prepare yourselves by your  
houses1 and families according to  your 
courses1 as ,david king of ,israel      
commanded1 and ,solomon his son  hath   
written4    #ce3e4 ,and serve ye in the 
sanctuary by the families and companies 
of  ,levi4    #ce3f4 ,and being         
sanctified kill the phase1 and prepare  
your brethren1  that they may do        
according to the words which the ,lord  
spoke by the hand  of ,moses4    #ce3g4 
,and ,josias gave to all the people that
 were found there in the  solemnity of  
the phase1 of lambs and of kids of the  
flocks1 and of other  small cattle      
thirty thousand1 and of oxen three      
thousand1 all these were  of the king's 
substance4    #ce3h4 ,and his princes   
willingly offered what they had vowed1  
both to the  people and to the priests  
and the ,levites4 ,moreover ,helcias1   
and  ,zacharias1 and ,jahiel rulers of  

the house of the ,lord1 gave to the     
priests to keep the phase two thousand  
six hundred small cattle1 and  three    
hundred oxen4    #ce3i4 ,and ,chonenias1
 and ,semeias and ,nathanael1 his       
brethren1 and  ,hasabias1 and ,jehiel1  
and ,jozabad princes of the ,levites1   
gave to the  rest of the ,levites to    
celebrate the phase five thousand small 
cattle1  and five hundred oxen4         
#ce3aj4 ,and the ministry was prepared1 
and the priests stood in their  office3 
the ,levites also in their companies1   
according to the king's  commandment4   
#ce3aa4 ,and the phase was immolated3   
and the priests sprinkled the blood     
with their hand1 and the ,levites flayed
 the holocausts3    #ce3ab4 ,and they   
separated them1 to give them by the     
houses and families  of every one1 and  
to be offered to the ,lord1 as it is    
written in the  book of ,moses1 and with
 the oxen they did in like manner4      
#ce3ac4 ,and they roasted the phase with
 fire1 according to that which is       

written in the law3 but the victims of  
peace offerings they boiled in          
caldrons1 and kettles1 and pots1 and    
they distributed them speedily  among   
all the people4    #ce3ad4 ,and         
afterwards they made ready for          
themselves1 and for the  priests3 for   
the priests were busied in offering of  
holocausts and the  fat until night1    
wherefore the ,levites prepared for     
themselves1 and for  the priests the    
sons of ,aaron last4    #ce3ae4 ,and the
 singers the sons of ,asaph stood in    
their order1 according  to the          
commandment of ,david1 and ,asaph1 and  
,heman1 and ,idithun1 the  prophets of  
the king3 and the porters kept guard at 
every gate1 so as  not to depart one    
moment from their service1 and therefore
 their  brethren the ,levites prepared  
meats for them4    #ce3af4 ,so all the  
service of the ,lord was duly           
accomplished that day1  both in keeping 
the phase and offering holocausts upon  
the altar of the  ,lord1 according to   

the commandment of king ,josias4        
#ce3ag4 ,and the children of ,israel    
that were found there1 kept the phase   
at that time1 and the feast of          
unleavened seven days4    #ce3ah4 ,there
 was no phase like to this in ,israel1  
from the days of  ,samuel the prophet3  
neither did any of all the kings of     
,israel keep such  a phase as ,josias   
kept1 with the priests1 and the         
,levites1 and all ,juda1  and ,israel   
that were found1 and the inhabitants of 
,jerusalem4    #ce3ai4  ,in the         
eighteenth year of the reign of ,josias 
was this phase  celebrated4    #ce3bj4  
,after that ,josias had repaired the    
temple1 ,nechao king of ,egypt  came up 
to fight in ,charcamis by the           
,euphrates3 and ,josias went out to     
meet him4    #ce3ba4 ,but he sent       
messengers to him1 saying3 ,what have ,i
 to do with  thee1 ,o king of ,juda8 ,i 
come not against thee this day1 but ,i  
fight  against another house1 to which  
,god hath commanded me to go in haste3  

forbear to do against ,god1 who is with 
me1 lest he kill thee4    #ce3bb4       
,josias would not return1 but prepared  
to fight against him1 and  hearkened not
 to the words of ,nechao from the mouth 
of ,god1 but went to  fight in the field
 of ,mageddo4    #ce3bc4 ,and there he  
was wounded by the archers1 and he said 
to his  servants3 ,carry me out of the  
battle1 for ,i am grievously wounded4   
#ce3bd4 ,and they removed him from the  
chariot into another1 that followed  him
 after the manner of kings1 and they    
carried him away to ,jerusalem1  and he 
died1 and was buried in the monument of 
his fathers1 and all ,juda  and         
,jerusalem mourned for him1    #ce3be4  
,particularly ,jeremias3 whose          
lamentations for ,josias all the        
singing men and singing women repeat    
unto this day1 and it became like a  law
 in ,israel3 ,behold it is found written
 in the ,lamentations4    #ce3bf4 ,now  
the rest of the acts of ,josias and of  
his mercies1 according  to what was     

commanded by the law of the ,lord3      
#ce3bg4 ,and his works first and last1  
are written in the book of the  kings of
 ,juda and ,israel4    #b ,paralipomenon
 ,chapter #cf    ,the reigns of         
,joachaz1 ,joakim1 ,joachin1 and        
,sedecias3 the captivity of  ,babylon   
released at length by ,cyrus4    #cf3a4 
,then the people of the land took       
,joachaz the son of ,josias1 and  made  
him king instead of his father in       
,jerusalem4    #cf3b4 ,joachaz was three
 and twenty years old when he began to  
reign1 and  he reigned three months in  
,jerusalem4    #cf3c4 ,and the king of  
,egypt came to ,jerusalem1 and deposed  
him1 and  condemned the land in a       
hundred talents of silver1 and a talent 
of gold4    #cf3d4 ,and he made ,eliakim
 his brother king in his stead1 over    
,juda and  ,jerusalem3 and he turned his
 name to ,joakim3 but he took ,joachaz  
with  him and carried him away into     
,egypt4    #cf3e4 ,joakim was five and  
twenty years old when he began to reign1

 and  he reigned eleven years in        
,jerusalem3 and he did evil before the  
,lord  his ,god4    #cf3f4 ,against him 
came up ,nabuchodonosor king of the     
,chaldeans1 and led  him bound in chains
 into ,babylon4    #cf3g4 ,and he       
carried also thither the vessels of the 
,lord1 and put them  in his temple4     
#cf3h4 ,but the rest of the acts of     
,joakim1 and his abominations1 which he 
wrought1 and the things that were found 
in him1 are contained in the  book of   
the kings of ,juda and ,israel4 ,and    
,joachin his son reigned in his  stead4 
#cf3i4 ,joachin was eight years old when
 he began to reign1 and he reigned      
three months and ten days in ,jerusalem1
 and he did evil in the sight of  the   
,lord4    ,eight years old444 ,he was   
associated by his father to the kingdom1
 when  he was but eight years old2 but  
after his father's death1 when he       
reigned alone1 he was eighteen years    
old4 #d ,kings #bd4h4    #cf3aj4 ,and at
 the return of the year1 king           

,nabuchodonosor sent1 and  brought him  
to ,babylon1 carrying away at the same  
time the most precious  vessels of the  
house of the ,lord3 and he made         
,sedecias his uncle king  over ,juda and
 ,jerusalem4    #cf3aa4 ,sedecias was   
one and twenty years old when he began  
to reign3 and  he reigned eleven years  
in ,jerusalem4    #cf3ab4 ,and he did   
evil in the eyes of the ,lord his ,god1 
and did not  reverence the face of      
,jeremias the prophet speaking to him   
from the  mouth of the ,lord4    #cf3ac4
 ,he also revolted from king            
,nabuchodonosor1 who had made him swear 
by ,god3 and he hardened his neck and   
his heart1 from returning to the  ,lord 
the ,god of ,israel4    #cf3ad4         
,moreover all the chief of the priests1 
and the people wickedly  transgressed   
according to all the abominations of the
 ,gentiles3 and they  defiled the house 
of the ,lord1 which he had sanctified to
 himself in  ,jerusalem4    #cf3ae4 ,and
 the ,lord the ,god of their fathers    

sent to them1 by the hand  of his       
messengers1 rising early1 and daily     
admonishing them3 because he  spared his
 people and his dwelling place4         
#cf3af4 ,but they mocked the messengers 
of ,god1 and despised his words1  and   
misused the prophets1 until the wrath of
 the ,lord arose against his  people1   
and there was no remedy4    #cf3ag4 ,for
 he brought upon them the king of the   
,chaldeans1 and he slew  their young men
 with the sword in the house of his     
sanctuary1 he had no  compassion on     
young man1 or maiden1 old man or even   
him that stooped for  age1 but he       
delivered them all into his hands4      
#cf3ah4 ,and all the vessels of the     
house of ,lord1 great and small1 and    
the treasures of the temple and of the  
king1 and of the princes he  carried    
away to ,babylon4    #cf3ai4 ,and the   
enemies set fire to the house of ,god1  
and broke down the  wall of ,jerusalem1 
burnt all the towers1 and what soever   
was precious  they destroyed4    #cf3bj4

 ,whosoever escaped the sword1 was led  
into ,babylon1 and there  served the    
king and his sons1 till the reign of the
 king of ,persia1    #cf3ba4 ,that the  
word of the ,lord by the mouth of       
,jeremias might be  fulfilled1 and the  
land might keep her sabbaths3 for all   
the days of the  desolation she kept a  
sabbath1 till the seventy years were    
expired4    #cf3bb4 ,but in the first   
year of ,cyrus king of the ,persians1 to
 fulfil  the word of the ,lord1 which he
 had spoken by the mouth of ,jeremias1  
the  ,lord stirred up the heart of      
,cyrus1 king of the ,persians3 who      
commanded  it to be proclaimed through  
all his kingdom1 and by writing also1   
saying3    #cf3bc4 ,thus saith ,cyrus   
king of the ,persians3 ,all the kingdoms
 of the  earth hath the ,lord the ,god  
of heaven given to me1 and he hath      
charged  me to build him a house in     
,jerusalem1 which is in ,judea3 who is  
there  among you of all his people8 ,the
 ,lord his ,god be with him1 and let him

  go up4