The Tetragrammaton  =  hwhy = YaHuWaH

The Second Book of Melakim

1:1 Mow'ab rebelled against Ysra'al after the death of Ach'ab. 1:2 AhazYahuw fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Shomeron, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Ba'al-Zebub, the mighty one of Eqrown, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

1:3 But the Messenger of YaHuWaH said to AliYahuw the Tishbiy, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the sovereign of Shomeron, and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no Al in Ysra'al, that you go to inquire of Ba'al-Zebub, the mighty one of Eqrown? 1:4 Now therefore thus says YaHuWaH, “You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.”’” AliYahuw departed.

1:5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”

1:6 They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the sovereign who sent you, and tell him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Is it because there is no Al in Ysra'al, that you send to inquire of Ba'al-Zebub, the mighty one of Eqrown? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”’”

1:7 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?”

1:8 They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.”

He said, “It is AliYahuw the Tishbiy.”

1:9 Then the sovereign sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of Al, the sovereign has said, ‘Come down!’”

1:10 AliYahuw answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of Al, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

1:11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, “Man of Al, the sovereign has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”

1:12 AliYahuw answered them, “If I am a man of Al, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” The fire of Al came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

1:13 Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before AliYahuw, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of Al, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight. 1:14 Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”

1:15 The Messenger of YaHuWaH said to AliYahuw, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.”

He arose, and went down with him to the sovereign. 1:16 He said to him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba'al-Zebub, the mighty one of Eqrown, is it because there is no Al in Ysra'al to inquire of His Word? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”

1:17 So he died according to the Word of YaHuWaH which AliYahuw had spoken. Yahuwram began to reign in his place in the second year of Yahuwram the son of Yahuwshapahat sovereign of Yahuwdah; because he had no son. 1:18 Now the rest of the acts of AchazYahuw which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al?

2:1 It happened, when YaHuWaH would take up AliYahuw by a whirlwind into the sky, that AliYahuw went with Alishuwa (#474 אֱלִישׁ֫וּעַ - Al is deliverance -which is the full name. The name Elisha (#477) is a contraction of this full name) from Gilgal. 2:2 AliYahuw said to Alishuwa, “Please wait here, for YaHuWaH has sent me as far as Bayith Al.”

Alishuwa said, “As YaHuWaH lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bayith Al.

2:3 The sons of the prophets who were at Bayith Al came out to Alishuwa, and said to him, “Do you know that YaHuWaH will take away your master from your head today?”

He said, “Yes, I know it; hold your peace.”

2:4 AliYahuw said to him, “Alishuwa, please wait here, for YaHuWaH has sent me to Yeriychow.”

He said, “As YaHuWaH lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Yeriychow.

2:5 The sons of the prophets who were at Yeriychow came near to Alishuwa, and said to him, “Do you know that YaHuWaH will take away your master from your head today?”

He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

2:6 AliYahuw said to him, “Please wait here, for YaHuWaH has sent me to the Yarden.”

He said, “As YaHuWaH lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” They both went on. 2:7 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Yarden. 2:8 AliYahuw took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground. 2:9 It happened, when they had gone over, that AliYahuw said to Alishuwa, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.”

Alishuwa said, “Please let a double portion of your ruwach be on me.”

2:10 He said, “You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”

2:11 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and AliYahuw went up by a whirlwind into the sky.  2:12 Alishuwa saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Ysra'al and its horsemen!”  [seven years after this AliYahuw sent a letter to King Yehoram as seen in 2 Chronicles 21:12-15]

He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces. 2:13 He took up also the mantle of AliYahuw that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Yarden. 2:14 He took the mantle of AliYahuw that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is YaHuWaH, the Al of AliYahuw?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Alishuwa went over. 2:15 When the sons of the prophets who were at Yeriychow over against him saw him, they said, “The Ruwach of AliYahuw rests on Alishuwa.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. 2:16 They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Let them go, please, and seek your master. Perhaps the Ruwach of YaHuWaH has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley.

He said, “You shall not send them.”

2:17 When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.”

They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him. 2:18 They came back to him, while he stayed at Yeriychow; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go?’”

2:19 The men of the city said to Alishuwa, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my master sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries.”

2:20 He said, “Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it.” They brought it to him. 2:21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.’” 2:22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Alishuwa which he spoke.

2:23 He went up from there to Bayith Al. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!” 2:24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the Name of YaHuWaH. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.  2:25 He went from there to Mount Karmel, and from there he returned to Shomeron.

3:1 Now Yahuwram the son of Ach'ab began to reign over Ysra'al in Shomeron in the eighteenth year of Yahuwshapahat sovereign of Yahuwdah, and reigned twelve years. 3:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Ba'al that his father had made. 3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Yarob'am the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin; he didn’t depart from it. 3:4 Now Mesha sovereign of Mow'ab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the sovereign of Ysra'al the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams. 3:5 But it happened, when Ach'ab was dead, that the sovereign of Mow'ab rebelled against the sovereign of Ysra'al.  3:6 King Yahuwram went out of Shomeron at that time, and mustered all Ysra'al. 3:7 He went and sent to Yahuwshapahat the sovereign of Yahuwdah, saying, “The sovereign of Mow'ab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Mow'ab to battle?”

He said, “I will go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.” 3:8 He said, “Which way shall we go up?”

He answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.” 3:9 So the sovereign of Ysra'al went, and the sovereign of Yahuwdah, and the sovereign of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them. 3:10 The sovereign of Ysra'al said, “Alas! For YaHuWaH has called these three sovereigns together to deliver them into the hand of Mow'ab.”

3:11 But Yahuwshapahat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of YaHuWaH, that we may inquire of YaHuWaH by him?”

One of the sovereign of Ysra'al’s servants answered, “Alishuwa the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of AliYahuw.”

3:12 Yahuwshapahat said, “The Word of YaHuWaH is with him.” So the sovereign of Ysra'al and Yahuwshapahat and the sovereign of Edom went down to him.

3:13 Alishuwa said to the sovereign of Ysra'al, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.”

The sovereign of Ysra'al said to him, “No; for YaHuWaH has called these three sovereigns together to deliver them into the hand of Mow'ab.” 3:14 Alishuwa said, “As YaHuWaH Master of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Yahuwshapahat the sovereign of Yahuwdah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. 3:15 But now bring me a harpist.” It happened, when the harpist played, that the Hand of YaHuWaH came on him. 3:16 He said, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Make this wadi full of ditches - ditches.’ 3:17 For thus says YaHuWaH, ‘You will not see wind, neither will you see rain; yet that wadi shall be filled with water, and you will drink, both you and your livestock and your animals. 3:18 This is but a light thing in the sight of YaHuWaH. He will also deliver the Mow'abites into your hand. 3:19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

3:20 It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

3:21 Now when all the Mow'abites heard that the sovereigns had come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all who were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border. 3:22 They rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Mow'abites saw the water over against them as red as blood. 3:23 They said, “This is blood. The sovereigns are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Mow'ab, to the spoil!”

3:24 When they came to the camp of Ysra'al, the Ysra'alites rose up and struck the Mow'abites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Mow'abites. 3:25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth only they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it. 3:26 When the sovereign of Mow'ab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the sovereign of Edom; but they could not.  3:27 Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Ysra'al: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Alishuwa, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared YaHuWaH. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

4:2 Alishuwa said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?”

She said, “Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

4:3 Then he said, “Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don’t borrow just a few. 4:4 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full.”

4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out. 4:6 It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”

He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” The oil stopped flowing.

4:7 Then she came and told the man of Al. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

4:8 It fell on a day, that Alishuwa passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. 4:9 She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a set-apart man of Al, that passes by us continually. 4:10 Let us make, please, a small upper room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.”

4:11 One day he came there, and he turned into the upper room and lay there. 4:12 He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.  4:13 He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the sovereign, or to the captain of the army?’”

She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

4:14 He said, “What then is to be done for her?”

Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

4:15 He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door. 4:16 He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.”

She said, “No, my master, you man of Al, do not lie to your handmaid.”

4:17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Alishuwa had said to her. 4:18 When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers. 4:19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!”

He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

4:20 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. 4:21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of Al, and shut the door on him, and went out. 4:22 She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of Al, and come again.”

4:23 He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.”  

She said, “It’s alright.”

4:24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”

4:25 So she went, and came to the man of Al to Mount Karmel. It happened, when the man of Al saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite. 4:26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’”

She answered, “It is well.”

4:27 When she came to the man of Al to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of Al said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and YaHuWaH has hid it from me, and has not told me.”

4:28 Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my master? Didn’t I say, Do not deceive me?”

4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the child.”

4:30 The mother of the child said, “As YaHuWaH lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.”

He arose, and followed her.

4:31 Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, “The child has not awakened.”

4:32 When Alishuwa had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed. 4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to YaHuWaH. 4:34 He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm. 4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 4:36 He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her.

When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”

4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

4:38 Alishuwa came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

4:39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them. 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, “Man of Al, there is death in the pot!” They could not eat of it.

4:41 But he said, “Then bring meal.” He cast it into the pot; and he said, “Pour out for the people, that they may eat.” There was no harm in the pot.

4:42 A man from Ba'al Shalishah [of the three] came, and brought the man of Al bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

4:43 His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?”

But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says YaHuWaH, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”

4:44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the Word of YaHuWaH.

5:1 Now Na'aman, captain of the army of the sovereign of Aram, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him YaHuWaH had given victory to Aram: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 5:2 The Aramiy had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of Eretz-Ysra'al a little maiden; and she waited on Na'aman’s wife. 5:3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my master were with the prophet who is in Shomeron! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”

5:4 Someone went in, and told his master, saying, “The maiden who is from Eretz-Ysra'al said this.”

5:5 The sovereign of Aram said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the sovereign of Ysra'al.”

He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 5:6 He brought the letter to the sovereign of Ysra'al, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Na'aman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

5:7 It happened, when the sovereign of Ysra'al had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I Al, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But consider, please, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

5:8 It was so, when Alishuwa the man of Al heard that the sovereign of Ysra'al had torn his clothes, that he sent to the sovereign, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Ysra'al.”

5:9 So Na'aman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Alishuwa. 5:10 Alishuwa sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Yarden seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

5:11 But Na'aman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the Name of YaHuWaH his Al, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’ 5:12 Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Ysra'al? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

5:13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Yarden, according to the saying of the man of Al; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 5:15 He returned to the man of Al, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no Al in all the earth, but in Ysra'al. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

5:16 But he said, “As YaHuWaH lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.”

He urged him to take it; but he refused. 5:17 Na'aman said, “If not, then, please let there be given to your servant two mules’ burden of earth; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor slaughterings to other mighty ones, but to YaHuWaH. 5:18 In this thing may YaHuWaH pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may YaHuWaH pardon your servant in this thing.”

5:19 He said to him, “Go in peace.”

So he departed from him a little way. 5:20 But Gehazi the servant of Alishuwa the man of Al, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Na'aman the Aramn, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As YaHuWaH lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

5:21 So Gehazi followed after Na'aman. When Na'aman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

5:22 He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”

5:23 Na'aman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him. 5:24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed. 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Alishuwa said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?”

He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”

5:26 He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants? 5:27 Therefore the leprosy of Na'aman will cling to you and to your seed forever.”

He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

6:1 The sons of the prophets said to Alishuwa, “See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us. 6:2 Let us go, please, to the Yarden, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.”

He answered, “Go!”

6:3 One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.”

He answered, “I will go.” 6:4 So he went with them. When they came to the Yarden, they cut down wood. 6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”

6:6 The man of Al asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float. 6:7 He said, “Take it.” So he put out his hand and took it.

6:8 Now the sovereign of Aram was warring against Ysra'al; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

6:9 The man of Al sent to the sovereign of Ysra'al, saying, “Beware that you not pass such a place; for the Aramiy are coming down there.” 6:10 The sovereign of Ysra'al sent to the place which the man of Al told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice. 6:11 The heart of the sovereign of Aram was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the sovereign of Ysra'al?”

6:12 One of his servants said, “No, my master, O sovereign; but Alishuwa, the prophet who is in Ysra'al, tells the sovereign of Ysra'al the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

6:13 He said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.”

It was told him, saying, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”

6:14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city. 6:15 When the servant of the man of Al had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

6:16 He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 6:17 Alishuwa prayed, and said, “YaHuWaH, please open his eyes, that he may see.”YaHuWaH opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Alishuwa. 6:18 When they came down to him, Alishuwa prayed to YaHuWaH, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.”

He struck them with blindness according to the word of Alishuwa. 6:19 Alishuwa said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Shomeron. 6:20 It happened, when they were come into Shomeron, that Alishuwa said, “YaHuWaH, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.”

 YaHuWaH  opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Shomeron. 6:21 The sovereign of Ysra'al said to Alishuwa, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

6:22 He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

6:23 He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Aram stopped raiding Eretz-Ysra'al.

6:24 It happened after this, that Benhadad sovereign of Aram gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Shomeron. 6:25 There was a great famine in Shomeron. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. 6:26 As the sovereign of Ysra'al was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my master, O sovereign!”

6:27 He said, “If YaHuWaH doesn’t help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 6:28 The sovereign said to her, “What ails you?”

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 6:29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

6:30 It happened, when the sovereign heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh. 6:31 Then he said, “Al do so to me, and more also, if the head of Alishuwa the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.”

6:32 But Alishuwa was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the sovereign sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

6:33 While he was still talking the speaking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from YaHuWaH. Why should I wait for YaHuWaH any longer?”

7:1 Alishuwa said, “Hear the Word of YaHuWaH. Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Shomeron.’”

7:2 Then the captain on whose hand the sovereign leaned answered the man of Al, and said, “Behold, if YaHuWaH made windows in heaven, could this thing be?”

He said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

7:3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit here until we die? 7:4 If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Aramiy. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

7:5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Aramiy. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Aramiy, behold, there was no man there.  7:6 For the Master had made the army of the Aramiy to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the sovereign of Ysra'al has hired against us the sovereigns of the Hittites, and the sovereigns of the Mitsrites, to come on us.  7:7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 7:8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it. 7:9 Then they said one to another, “We aren’t doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the sovereign’s household.”

7:10 So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Aramiy, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

7:11 He called the porters; and they told it to the sovereign’s household within. 7:12 The sovereign arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Aramiy have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”

7:13 One of his servants answered, “Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Ysra'al who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Ysra'al who are consumed. Let us send and see.”

7:14 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the sovereign sent after the army of the Aramiy, saying, “Go and see.”

7:15 They went after them to the Yarden; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Aramiy had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the sovereign. 7:16 The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Aramiy. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the Word of YaHuWaH. 7:17 The sovereign appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of Al had said, who spoke when the sovereign came down to him. 7:18 It happened, as the man of Al had spoken to the sovereign, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Shomeron;” 7:19 and that captain answered the man of Al, and said, “Now, behold, if  YaHuWaH should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.” 7:20 It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

8:1 Now Alishuwa had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for YaHuWaH has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years.”

8:2 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of Al. She went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. 8:3 It happened at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the sovereign for her house and for her land. 8:4 Now the sovereign was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of Al, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Alishuwa has done.” 8:5 It happened, as he was telling the sovereign how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the sovereign for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My master, O sovereign, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Alishuwa restored to life.”

8:6 When the sovereign asked the woman, she told him. So the sovereign appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

8:7 Alishuwa came to Damascus; and Benhadad the sovereign of Aram was sick. It was told him, saying, “The man of Al has come here.”

8:8 The sovereign said to Haza'el, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of Al, and inquire of YaHuWaH by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

8:9 So Haza'el went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad sovereign of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

8:10 Alishuwa said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You shall surely recover;’ however YaHuWaH has shown me that he shall surely die.” 8:11 He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of Al wept.

8:12 Haza'el said, “Why do you weep, my master?”

He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Ysra'al. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”

8:13 Haza'el said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?”

Alishuwa answered, “ YaHuWaH has shown me that you will be sovereign over Aram.”

8:14 Then he departed from Alishuwa, and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Alishuwa say to you?”

He answered, “He told me that you would surely recover.”

8:15 It happened on the next day, that he took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died. Then Haza'el reigned in his place.

8:16 In the fifth year of Yahuwram the son of Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al, Yahuwshapahat being sovereign of Yahuwdah then, Yahuwram the son of Yahuwshapahat sovereign of Yahuwdah began to reign. 8:17 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign. He reigned eight years in Yahrushalom. 8:18 He walked in the way of the sovereigns of Ysra'al, as did the house of Ach'ab; for he had the daughter of Ach'ab as wife. He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH.  8:19 However YaHuWaH would not destroy Yahuwdah, for Dawiyd His servant’s sake, as He promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yahuwdah, and made a sovereign over themselves.  8:21 Then Yoram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents. 8:22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Yahuwdah to this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.  8:23 The rest of the acts of Yoram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 8:24 Yoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd; and Ahazyahuw his son reigned in his place. 8:25 In the twelfth year of Yoram the son of Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al did AhazYahuw the son of Yahuwram sovereign of Yahuwdah begin to reign. 8:26 Twenty-two years old was AhazYahuw when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Yahrushalom. His mother’s name was AthalYahuw the daughter of Omri sovereign of Ysra'al. 8:27 He walked in the way of the house of Ach'ab, and did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, as did the house of Ach'ab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ach'ab. 8:28 He went with Yoram the son of Ach'ab to war against Haza'el sovereign of Aram at Ramoth Gilead: and the Aramiy wounded Yoram. 8:29 King Yoram returned to be healed in Yizra'al of the wounds which the Aramiy had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Haza'el sovereign of Aram. AhazYahuw the son of Yahuwram sovereign of Yahuwdah went down to see Yoram the son of Ach'ab in Yizra'al, because he was sick.

9:1 Alishuwa the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Gird up your waist, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.  9:2 When you come there, find Yehu the son of Yahuwshapahat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room. 9:3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “I have anointed you sovereign over Ysra'al.”’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”

9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. 9:5 When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, “I have a message for you, captain.”

Yehu said, “To which one of us?”

He said, “To you, O captain.” 9:6 He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al, ‘I have anointed you sovereign over the people of YaHuWaH, even over Ysra'al. 9:7 You shall strike the house of Ach'ab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of YaHuWaH, at the hand of Iyzebel. 9:8 For the whole house of Ach'ab shall perish. I will cut off from Ach'ab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Ysra'al. 9:9 I will make the house of Ach'ab like the house of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahiyah. 9:10 The dogs will eat Iyzebel on the plot of ground of Yizra'al, and there shall be none to bury her.’” He opened the door, and fled.

9:11 Then Yehu came forth to the servants of his master: and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?”

He said to them, “You know the man and what his talk was.” 9:12 They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.”

He said, “He said to me, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, I have anointed you sovereign over Ysra'al.’”

9:13 Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the shofar, saying, “Yehu is sovereign.”

9:14 So Yehu the son of Yahuwshapahat the son of Nimshi conspired against Yoram. (Now Yoram had been guarding Ramoth Gilead, he and all Ysra'al, because of Haza'el sovereign of Aram;  9:15 but sovereign Yoram was returned to be healed in Yizra'al of the wounds which the Aramiy had given him, when he fought with Haza'el sovereign of Aram.) Yehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Yizra'al.” 9:16 So Yehu rode in a chariot, and went to Yizra'al; for Yoram lay there. Ahazyahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah had come down to see Yoram. 9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Yizra'al, and he spied the company of Yehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.”

Yoram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, “Thus says the sovereign, ‘Is it peace?’”

Yehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”

The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”

9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “Thus says the sovereign, ‘Is it peace?’”

Yehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”

9:20 The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Yehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.”

9:21 Yoram said, “Get ready!”

They got his chariot ready. Yoram sovereign of Ysra'al and Ahazyahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Yehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Yizre'elite. 9:22 It happened, when Yoram saw Yehu, that he said, “Is it peace, Yehu?”

He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Iyzebel and her witchcraft abound?”

9:23 Yoram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahazyahuw, “There is treason, Ahazyahuw!”

9:24 Yehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Yoram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. 9:25 Then Yehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Yizre'elite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ach'ab his father, YaHuWaH laid this burden on him: 9:26 ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says YaHuWaH; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says YaHuWaH. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the Word of YaHuWaH.”

9:27 But when Ahazyahuw the sovereign of Yahuwdah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Yehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there. 9:28 His servants carried him in a chariot to Yahrushalom, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd. 9:29 In the eleventh year of Yoram the son of Ach'ab began AhazYahuw to reign over Yahuwdah. 9:30 When Yehu was come to Yizra'al, Iyzebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window. 9:31 As Yehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”

9:32 He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?”

Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

9:33 He said, “Throw her down!”

So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot. 9:34 When he was come in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a sovereign’s daughter.”

9:35 They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 9:36 Therefore they came back, and told him.

He said, “This is the Word of YaHuWaH, which he spoke by his servant AliYahuw the Tishbiy, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Iyzebel on the plot of Yizra'al, 9:37 and the body of Iyzebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Yizra'al, so that they shall not say, “This is Iyzebel.”’”

10:1 Now Ach'ab had seventy sons in Shomeron. Yehu wrote letters, and sent to Shomeron, to the rulers of Yizra'al, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ach'ab, saying, 10:2 “Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor. 10:3 Select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two sovereigns didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?” 10:5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Yehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man sovereign. You do that which is good in your eyes.”

10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Yizra'al by tomorrow this time.”

Now the sovereign’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. 10:7 It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the sovereign’s sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Yizra'al.  10:8 A messenger came, and told him, “They have brought the heads of the sovereign’s sons.”

He said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.” 10:9 It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, “You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these? 10:10 Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the Word of YaHuWaH, which YaHuWaH spoke concerning the house of Ach'ab. For YaHuWaH has done that which he spoke by his servant AliYahuw.”

10:11 So Yehu struck all that remained of the house of Ach'ab in Yizra'al, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

10:12 He arose and departed, and went to Shomeron. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way, 10:13 Yehu met with the brothers of AhazYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, and said, “Who are you?”

They answered, “We are the brothers of AhazYahuw. We are going down to greet the children of the sovereign and the children of the queen.”

10:14 He said, “Take them alive!”

They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn’t leave any of them. 10:15 When he had departed from there, he met Yehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?”

Yehonadab answered, “It is.”

“If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 10:16 He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for YaHuWaH.” So they made him ride in his chariot. 10:17 When he came to Shomeron, he struck all who remained to Ach'ab in Shomeron, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of YaHuWaH, which he spoke to AliYahuw. 10:18 Yehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ach'ab served Ba'al a little; but Yehu will serve him much. 10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Ba'al, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent; for I have a great offering to Ba'al. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Yehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the worshippers of Ba'al.

10:20 Yehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Ba'al!”

They proclaimed it. 10:21 Yehu sent through all Ysra'al; and all the worshippers of Ba'al came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Ba'al; and the house of Ba'al was filled from one end to another. 10:22 He said to him who was over the vestry, “Bring out robes for all the worshippers of Ba'al!”

He brought robes out to them. 10:23 Yehu went with Yehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Ba'al. Then he said to the worshippers of Ba'al, “Search, and look that there are here with you none of the servants of YaHuWaH, but the worshippers of Ba'al only.”

10:24 They went in to offer slaughterings and burnt offerings. Now Yehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

10:25 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Yehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in, and kill them! Let none escape.” They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Ba'al.  10:26 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Ba'al, and burned them. 10:27 They broke down the pillar of Ba'al, and broke down the house of Ba'al, and made it a latrine, to this day. 10:28 Thus Yehu destroyed Ba'al out of Ysra'al.

10:29 However from the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin, Yehu didn’t depart from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bayith Al, and that were in Dan. 10:30 YaHuWaH said to Yehu, “Because you have done well in executing that which is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ach'ab according to all that was in My heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Ysra'al.”

10:31 But Yehu took no heed to walk in the Torah of YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Yeroboam, with which he made Ysra'al to sin. 10:32 In those days YaHuWaH began to cut off from Ysra'al; and Haza'el struck them in all the borders of Ysra'al;  10:33 from the Yarden eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. 10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Yehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 10:35 Yehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomeron. Yahuw'ahaz his son reigned in his place. 10:36 The time that Yehu reigned over Ysra'al in Shomeron was twenty-eight years.

11:1 Now when AthalYahuw the mother of AhazYahuw saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed. 11:2 But Yehosheba, the daughter of sovereign Yoram, sister of AhazYahuw, took Yahuw'ash the son of AhazYahuw, and stole him away from among the sovereign’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedchamber; and they hid him from AthalYahuw, so that he was not slain; 11:3 He was with her hid in the House of YaHuWaH six years. AthalYahuw reigned over the land. 11:4 In the seventh year Yehoyada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Karites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the House of YaHuWaH; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the House of YaHuWaH, and showed them the sovereign’s son. 11:5 He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Shabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the sovereign’s house; 11:6 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the House, and be a barrier.  11:7 The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Shabbath, shall keep the watch of the House of YaHuWaH around the sovereign. 11:8 You shall surround the sovereign, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. be with the sovereign when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

11:9 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Yehoyada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Shabbath, with those who were to go out on the Shabbath, and came to Yehoyada the priest.  11:10 The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been sovereign Dawiyd’s, which were in the House of YaHuWaH. 11:11 The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the House to the left side of the House, along by the altar and the House, around the sovereign. 11:12 Then he brought out the sovereign’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the Testimony; and they made him sovereign, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the sovereign!”

11:13 When AthalYahuw heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the House of YaHuWaH: 11:14 and she looked, and behold, the sovereign stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the shofars by the sovereign; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew shofars. Then AthalYahuw tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

11:15 Yehoyada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill him who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in the House of YaHuWaH.” 11:16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the sovereign’s house. She was slain there. 11:17 Yehoyada made a covenant between YaHuWaH and the sovereign and the people, that they should be YaHuWaH’s people; between the sovereign also and the people. 11:18 All the people of the land went to the house of Ba'al, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Ba'al before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of YaHuWaH. 11:19 He took the captains over hundreds, and the Karites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the sovereign from the House of YaHuWaH, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the sovereign’s house. He sat on the throne of the sovereigns. 11:20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athalyahuw they had slain with the sword at the sovereign’s house. 11:21 Yahuw'ash was seven years old when he began to reign.

12:1 In the seventh year of Yehu began Yahuw'ash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Zibyah of Beersheba. 12:2 Yahuw'ash did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH all his days in which Yehoyada the priest instructed him. 12:3 However the high places were not taken away; the people still slaughtered and burnt incense in the high places. 12:4 Yahuw'ash said to the priests, “All the money of the set-apart things that is brought into the House of YaHuWaH, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the House of YaHuWaH, 12:5 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the House, wherever any breach shall be found.”

12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of sovereign Yahuw'ash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the House. 12:7 Then sovereign Yahuw'ash called for Yehoyada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why don’t you repair the breaches of the House? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the House.”

12:8 The priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the House. 12:9 But Yehoyada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the House of YaHuWaH: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the House of YaHuWaH. 12:10 It was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the sovereign’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of YaHuWaH. 12:11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of YaHuWaH: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the House of YaHuWaH, 12:12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the House of YaHuWaH, and for all that was laid out for the House to repair it. 12:13 But there were not made for the House of YaHuWaH cups of silver, snuffers, basins, shofars, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the House of YaHuWaH; 12:14 for they gave that to those who did the work, and repaired therewith the House of YaHuWaH. 12:15 Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully. 12:16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the House of YaHuWaH: it was the priests'.

 12:17 Then Haza'el sovereign of Aram went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Haza'el set his face to go up to Yahrushalom. 12:18 Yahuw'ash sovereign of Yahuwdah took all the set-apart things that Yahuwshapahat and Yahuwram and AhazYahuw, his fathers, sovereigns of Yahuwdah, had dedicated, and his own set-apart things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the House of YaHuWaH, and of the sovereign’s house, and sent it to Haza'el sovereign of Aram: and he went away from Yahrushalom. 12:19 Now the rest of the acts of Yahuw'ash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 12:20 His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Yahuw'ash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 12:21 For Yahuwzabad the son of Shimeath, and Yahuwzabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd: and AmatsYahuw his son reigned in his place.

13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Yahuw'ash the son of AhazYahuw, sovereign of Yahuwdah, Yahuw'ahaz the son of Yehu began to reign over Ysra'al in Shomeron, and reigned seventeen years. 13:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, and followed the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin; he didn’t depart from it. 13:3 The anger of YaHuWaH was kindled against Ysra'al, and he delivered them into the hand of Haza'el sovereign of Aram, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Haza'el, continually. 13:4 Yahuw'ahaz begged YaHuWaH, and YaHuWaH listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Ysra'al, how that the sovereign of Aram oppressed them. 13:5 (YaHuWaH  gave Ysra'al a savior (Mowshiyach), so that they went out from under the hand of the Aramiy; and the children of Ysra'al lived in their tents as before. 13:6 Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Yeroboam, with which he made Ysra'al to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Shomeron.)  13:7 For he didn’t leave to Yahuw'ahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the sovereign of Aram destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing. 13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Yahuw'ahaz, and all that he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 13:9 Yahuw'ahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Shomeron: and Yahuw'ash his son reigned in his place.  13:10 In the thirty-seventh year of Yahuw'ash sovereign of Yahuwdah began Yahuw'ash the son of Yahuw'ahaz to reign over Ysra'al in Shomeron, and reigned sixteen years. 13:11 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH; he didn’t depart from all the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin; but he walked therein.  13:12 Now the rest of the acts of Yo'ash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against AmatsYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 13:13 Yahuw'ash slept with his fathers; and Yeroboam sat on his throne: and Yahuw'ash was buried in Shomeron with the sovereigns of Ysra'al. 13:14 Now Alishuwa was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Yahuw'ash the sovereign of Ysra'al came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Ysra'al and its horsemen!”

13:15 Alishuwa said to him, “Take bow and arrows;” and he took to him bow and arrows. 13:16 He said to the sovereign of Ysra'al, “Put your hand on the bow;” and he put his hand on it. Alishuwa laid his hands on the sovereign’s hands. 13:17 He said, “Open the window eastward;” and he opened it. Then Alishuwa said, “Shoot!” and he shot. He said, “ YaHuWaH’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you shall strike the Aramiy in Aphek, until you have consumed them.”

13:18 He said, “Take the arrows;” and he took them. He said to the sovereign of Ysra'al, “Strike the ground;” and he struck three times, and stopped.  13:19 The man of Al was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Aram until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Aram just three times.”

13:20 Alishuwa died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Mow'abites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.[spring equinox] 13:21 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Alishuwa: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Alishuwa, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 13:22 Haza'el sovereign of Aram oppressed Ysra'al all the days of Yahuw'ahaz. 13:23 But YaHuWaH was favorable to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Yitshaq, and Ya'aqob, and would not destroy them, neither cast He them from His presence as yet. 13:24 Haza'el sovereign of Aram died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his place.  13:25 Yahuw'ash the son of Yahuw'ahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Haza'el the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Yahuw'ahaz his father by war. Three times did Yahuw'ash strike him, and recovered the cities of Ysra'al.

14:1 In the second year of Yahuw'ash son of Yahuw'ahaz sovereign of Ysra'al began AmatsYahuw the son of Yahuw'ash sovereign of Yahuwdah to reign. 14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Yehoaddin of Yahrushalom.  14:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH, yet not like Dawiyd his father: he did according to all that Yahuw'ash his father had done. 14:4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still slaughtered and burnt incense in the high places. 14:5 It happened, as soon as the sovereigndom was established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the sovereign his father: 14:6 but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moshah, as YaHuWaH commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.” 14:7 He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called its name Yoktheel, to this day. 14:8 Then AmatsYahuw sent messengers to Yeho'ash, the son of Yahuw'ahaz son of Yehu, sovereign of Ysra'al, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

14:9 Yahuw'ash the sovereign of Ysra'al sent to AmatsYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle. 14:10 You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the honor of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Yahuwdah with you?’” 14:11 But AmatsYahuw would not listen. So Yahuw'ash sovereign of Ysra'al went up; and he and AmatsYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah looked one another in the face [had a battle] at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Yahuwdah. 14:12 Yahuwdah was defeated by Ysra'al; and they fled every man to his tent. 14:13 Yahuw'ash sovereign of Ysra'al took AmatsYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, the son of Yahuw'ash the son of Ahazyahuw, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Yahrushalom, and broke down the wall of Yahrushalom from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. 14:14 He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the House of YaHuWaH, and in the treasures of the sovereign’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Shomeron. 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Yahuw'ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with AmatsYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 14:16 Yahuw'ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron with the sovereigns of Ysra'al; and Yeroboam his son reigned in his place. 14:17 AmatsYahuw the son of Yahuw'ash sovereign of Yahuwdah lived after the death of Yahuw'ash son of Yahuw'ahaz sovereign of Ysra'al fifteen years. 14:18 Now the rest of the acts of AmatsYahuw, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 14:19 They made a conspiracy against him in Yahrushalom; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there. 14:20 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Yahrushalom with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd. 14:21 All the people of Yahuwdah took Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and made him sovereign in the room of his father AmatsYahuw. 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Yahuwdah, after that the sovereign slept with his fathers. 14:23 In the fifteenth year of AmatsYahuw, the son of Yahuw'ash sovereign of Yahuwdah, Yeroboam the son of Yahuw'ash sovereign of Ysra'al began to reign in Shomeron, and reigned forty-one years. 14:24 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH: he didn’t depart from all the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin.  14:25 He restored the border of Ysra'al from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the Word of YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al, which He spoke by His servant Yonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher. 14:26 For YaHuWaH saw the affliction of Ysra'al, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Ysra'al. 14:27 YaHuWaH didn’t say that He would blot out the name of Ysra'al from under the sky; but He saved them by the hand of Yeroboam the son of Yo'ash. 14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Yeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Yahuwdah, for Ysra'al, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 14:29 Yeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the sovereigns of Ysra'al; and Zecharyah his son reigned in his place.

15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of Yeroboam sovereign of Ysra'al began Azaryah son of AmatsYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah to reign. 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Yecoliah of Yahrushalom. 15:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH, according to all that his father AmatsYahuw had done.  15:4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still slaughtered and burnt incense in the high places. 15:5 YaHuWaH struck the sovereign, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Yotham the sovereign’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land. 15:6 Now the rest of the acts of Azaryah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 15:7 Azaryah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd: and Yotham his son reigned in his place. 15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azaryah sovereign of Yahuwdah did Zecharyah the son of Yeroboam reign over Ysra'al in Shomeron six months. 15:9 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, as his fathers had done: he didn’t depart from the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin. 15:10 Shallum the son of Yabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place. 15:11 Now the rest of the acts of Zecharyah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al. 15:12 This was the Word of YaHuWaH which He spoke to Yehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Ysra'al.” So it came to pass.

15:13 Shallum the son of Yabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of UzziYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah; and he reigned for a month in Shomeron. 15:14 Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Shomeron, and struck Shallum the son of Yabesh in Shomeron, and killed him, and reigned in his place. 15:15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al. 15:16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn’t open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up. 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of AzarYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Ysra'al, and reigned ten years in Shomeron. 15:18 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH: he didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin. 15:19 There came against the land Pul the sovereign of Ashuwr; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the sovereigndom in his hand.  15:20 Menahem exacted the money of Ysra'al, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the sovereign of Ashuwr. So the sovereign of Ashuwr turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land. 15:21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 15:22 Menahem slept with his fathers; and PeqahYahuw his son reigned in his place. 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azaryah sovereign of Yahuwdah PeqahYahuw the son of Menahem began to reign over Ysra'al in Shomeron, and reigned two years. 15:24 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH: he didn’t depart from the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin. 15:25 Peqah the son of RemalYahuw, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Shomeron, in the castle of the sovereign’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place. 15:26 Now the rest of the acts of PeqahYahuw, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al. 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azaryah sovereign of Yahuwdah Peqah the son of RemalYahuw began to reign over Ysra'al in Shomeron, and reigned twenty years. 15:28 He did that which was evil in the sight of  YaHuWaH: he didn’t depart from the sins of Yeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Ysra'al to sin. 15:29 In the days of Peqah sovereign of Ysra'al came Tiglath Pileser sovereign of Ashuwr, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Yanoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Ashuwr. 15:30 Hushua the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Peqah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Yotham the son of UzziYahuw. 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Peqah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al. 15:32 In the second year of Peqah the son of RemalYahuw sovereign of Ysra'al began Yotham the son of UzziYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah to reign. 15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Yerusha the daughter of Zadok.  15:34 He did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH; he did according to all that his father UzziYahuw had done. 15:35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still slaughtered and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the House of YaHuWaH. 15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Yotham, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 15:37 In those days YaHuWaH began to send against Yahuwdah, Rezin the sovereign of Aram, and Peqah the son of RemalYahuw.  15:38 Yotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

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

17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz sovereign of Yahuwdah began Hushua the son of Elah to reign in Shomeron over Ysra'al, and reigned nine years. 17:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, yet not as the sovereigns of Ysra'al who were before him.  17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashuwr; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 17:4 The sovereign of Ashuwr found conspiracy in Hushua; for he had sent messengers to So sovereign of Mitsrayim, and offered no tribute to the sovereign of Ashuwr, as he had done year by year: therefore the sovereign of Ashuwr shut him up, and bound him in prison. 17:5 Then the sovereign of Ashuwr came up throughout all the land, and went up to Shomeron, and besieged it three years. 17:6 In the ninth year of Hushua the sovereign of Ashuwr took Shomeron, and carried Ysra'al away to Ashuwr, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 17:7 It was so, because the children of Ysra'al had sinned against YaHuWaH their Al, who brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim from under the hand of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and had feared other mighty ones, 17:8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom YaHuWaH cast out from before the children of Ysra'al, and of the sovereigns of Ysra'al, which they made. 17:9 The children of Ysra'al did secretly things that were not right against YaHuWaH their Al: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; 17:10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree; 17:11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom YaHuWaH carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke YaHuWaH to anger; 17:12 and they served idols, of which YaHuWaH had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.” 17:13 Yet YaHuWaH testified to Ysra'al, and to Yahuwdah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My Commandments and My statutes, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” 17:14 Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in YaHuWaH their Al. 17:15 They rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were around them, concerning whom YaHuWaH had commanded them that they should not do like them. 17:16 They forsook all the Commandments of YaHuWaH their Al, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Ba'al. 17:17 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, to provoke Him to anger. 17:18 Therefore YaHuWaH was very angry with Ysra'al, and removed them out of His sight: there was none left but the tribe of Yahuwdah only. 17:19 Also Yahuwdah didn’t keep the Commandments of YaHuWaH their Al, but walked in the statutes of Ysra'al which they made.  17:20 YaHuWaH rejected all the seed of Ysra'al, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of his sight.  17:21 For He tore Ysra'al from the house of Dawiyd; and they made Yeroboam the son of Nebat sovereign: and Yeroboam drove Ysra'al from following YaHuWaH, and made them sin a great sin. 17:22 The children of Ysra'al walked in all the sins of Yeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them; 17:23 until YaHuWaH removed Ysra'al out of His sight, as He spoke by all His servants the prophets. So Ysra'al was carried away out of their own land to Ashuwr to this day. 17:24 The sovereign of Ashuwr brought men from Babel, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Shomeron instead of the children of Ysra'al; and they possessed Shomeron, and lived in the cities of it. 17:25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear YaHuWaH: therefore YaHuWaH sent lions among them, which killed some of them.  17:26 Therefore they spoke to the sovereign of Ashuwr, saying, “The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Shomeron, don’t know the right-ruling of the Mighty One of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the right-ruling of the Mighty One of the Land.”

17:27 Then the sovereign of Ashuwr commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the right-ruling of the Mighty One of the Land.”

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Shomeron came and lived in Bayith Al, and taught them how they should fear YaHuWaH. 17:29 However every nation made mighty ones of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.  17:30 The men of Babel made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Kuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the mighty ones of Sepharvaim. 17:32 So they feared YaHuWaH, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who slaughtered for them in the houses of the high places. 17:33 They feared YaHuWaH, and served their own mighty ones, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. 17:34 The Samaritans do according to their statutes and their judgements: but they do not do according to the Torah, which YaHuWaH commanded the children of Ya'aqob, whom He named Ysra'al; 17:35 with whom YaHuWaH had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other mighty ones, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor slaughter to them; 17:36 but you shall fear YaHuWaH, who brought you up out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to Him, and you shall slaughter to Him. 17:37 The statutes and the ordinances, and the Torah and the Commandment, which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore. You shall not fear other mighty ones. 17:38 You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you; neither shall you fear other mighty ones.  17:39 But you shall fear YaHuWaH your Al; and He will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.” 17:40 However they did not listen, but they did what they did before. 17:41 So these nations feared YaHuWaH, and served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children’s children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

18:1 Now it happened in the third year of Hushua son of Elah sovereign of Ysra'al, that HizquiYahuw the son of Ahaz sovereign of Yahuwdah began to reign. 18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of ZecharYahuw. 18:3 He did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH, according to all that Dawiyd his father had done.  18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moshah had made; for until those days the children of Ysra'al did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.  18:5 He trusted in YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al; so that after him was none like him among all the sovereigns of Yahuwdah, nor among them that were before him. 18:6 For he joined with YaHuWaH; he didn’t depart from following Him, but kept His Commandments, which YaHuWaH commanded Moshah. 18:7 YaHuWaH was with Him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the sovereign of Ashuwr, and didn’t serve him. 18:8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.  18:9 It happened in the fourth year of sovereign HizquiYahuw, which was the seventh year of Hushua son of Elah sovereign of Ysra'al, that Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashuwr came up against Shomeron, and besieged it. 18:10 At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of HizquiYahuw, which was the ninth year of Hushua sovereign of Ysra'al, Shomeron was taken. 18:11 The sovereign of Ashuwr carried Ysra'al away to Ashuwr, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 18:12 because they didn’t obey the voice of YaHuWaH their Al, but transgressed His Covenant, even all that Moshah the servant of YaHuWaH commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.  18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of sovereign HizquiYahuw did Sennacherib sovereign of Ashuwr come up against all the fortified cities of Yahuwdah, and took them. 18:14 HizquiYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah sent to the sovereign of Ashuwr to Lachish, saying, “I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The sovereign of Ashuwr appointed to HizquiYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 18:15 HizquiYahuw gave him all the silver that was found in the house of YaHuWaH, and in the treasures of the sovereign’s house. 18:16 At that time did HizquiYahuw cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of YaHuWaH, and from the pillars which HizquiYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah had overlaid, and gave it to the sovereign of Ashuwr. 18:17 The sovereign of Ashuwr sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to sovereign HizquiYahuw with a great army to Yahrushalom. They went up and came to Yahrushalom. When they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. 18:18 When they had called to the sovereign, there came out to them Eliakim the son of HilkiYahuw, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Yoah the son of Asaph the recorder.  18:19 Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to HizquiYahuw, ‘Thus says the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashuwr, “What confidence is this in which you trust? 18:20 You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 18:21 Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Mitsrayim. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust on him. 18:22 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in YaHuWaH our Al;’ isn’t that He whose high places and whose altars HizquiYahuw has taken away, and has said to Yahuwdah and to Yahrushalom, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Yahrushalom?’  18:23 Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the sovereign of Ashuwr, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.  18:24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Mitsrayim for chariots and for horsemen?  18:25 Have I now come up without YaHuWaH against this place to destroy it? YaHuWaH said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”

18:26 Then Eliakim the son of HilkiYahuw, and Shebnah, and Yoah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramn language; for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Yahuwdite language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

18:27 But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?” 18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Yahuwdite language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashuwr. 18:29 Thus says the sovereign, ‘Don’t let HizquiYahuw deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. 18:30 Neither let HizquiYahuw make you trust in YaHuWaH, saying, “ YaHuWaH will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashuwr.” 18:31 Don’t listen to HizquiYahuw.’ For thus says the sovereign of Ashuwr, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; 18:32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to HizquiYahuw, when he persuades you, saying, “ YaHuWaH will deliver us.” 18:33 Has any of the mighty ones of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the sovereign of Ashuwr?  18:34 Where are the mighty ones of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Shomeron out of my hand? 18:35 Who are they among all the mighty ones of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that YaHuWaH should deliver Yahrushalom out of my hand?’”

18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the sovereign’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.” 18:37 Then Eliakim the son of HilkiYahuw, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Yoah the son of Asaph the recorder, to HizquiYahuw with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

19:1 It happened, when sovereign HizquiYahuw heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of YaHuWaH. 19:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to YashaYahuw the prophet the son of Amoz. 19:3 They said to him, “Thus says HizquiYahuw, ‘This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. 19:4 It may be YaHuWaH your Al will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the sovereign of Ashuwr his master has sent to defy the living Al, and will rebuke the words which YaHuWaH your Al has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

19:5 So the servants of sovereign HizquiYahuw came to YashaYahuw. 19:6 YashaYahuw said to them, “Thus you shall tell your master, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashuwr have blasphemed Me. 19:7 Behold, I will put a ruwach in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the sovereign of Ashuwr warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. 19:9 When he heard it said of Tirhakah sovereign of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to HizquiYahuw, saying, 19:10 ‘Thus you shall speak to HizquiYahuw sovereign of Yahuwdah, saying, “Don’t let your Al in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Yahrushalom will not be given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashuwr. 19:11 Behold, you have heard what the sovereigns of Ashuwr have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? 19:12 Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? 19:13 Where is the sovereign of Hamath, and the sovereign of Arpad, and the sovereign of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”’”

19:14 HizquiYahuw received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then HizquiYahuw went up to the House of  YaHuWaH, and spread it beforeYaHuWaH. 19:15 HizquiYahuw prayed before YaHuWaH, and said, “O YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al, Who sit above the cherubim, You are the Al, even You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 19:16 Incline Your ear, YaHuWaH, and hear. Open Your eyes, YaHuWaH, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living Al. 19:17 Truly, YaHuWaH, the sovereigns of Ashuwr have laid waste the nations and their lands, 19:18 and have cast their mighty ones into the fire; for they were no mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. 19:19 Now therefore, YaHuWaH our Al, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the sovereigndoms of the earth may know that you, YaHuWaH, are Al alone.”

19:20 Then YashaYahuw the son of Amoz sent to HizquiYahuw, saying, “Thus says YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al, ‘Whereas you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib sovereign of Ashuwr, I have heard you. 19:21 This is the Word that YaHuWaH has spoken concerning him: “The virgin daughter of Tsiyown has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Yahrushalom has shaken her head at you.  19:22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Qadosh-One of Ysra'al. 19:23 By your messengers you have defied YaHuWaH, and have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.  19:24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Mitsrayim.’ 19:25 Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up. 19:27 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against Me.  19:28 Because of your raging against Me, and because your arrogance has come up into My ears, therefore will I put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.”

19:29 “‘This shall be the sign to you:[HizquiYahuw] You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. 19:30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Yahuwdah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.  19:31 For out of Yahrushalom a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Tsiyon those who shall escape. The zeal of YaHuWaH will perform this.’ (This portrays a Jubilee year?)

19:32 “Therefore thus says YaHuWaH concerning the sovereign of Ashuwr, ‘He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says YaHuWaH. 19:34 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for My Own sake, and for My servant Dawiyd’s sake.’”

19:35 It happened that night, that the messenger of YaHuWaH went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Ashuwr. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 19:36 So Sennacherib sovereign of Ashuwr departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. 19:37 It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his mighty one, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

20:1 In those days was HizquiYahuw sick to death. YashaYahuw the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.’”

20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to YaHuWaH, saying, 20:3 “Remember now, YaHuWaH, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.” HizquiYahuw wept bitterly.

20:4 It happened, before YashaYahuw had gone out into the middle part of the city, that the Word of YaHuWaH came to him, saying, 20:5 “Turn back, and tell HizquiYahuw the prince of My people, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, the Al of Dawiyd your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the House of YaHuWaH.  20:6 I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the sovereign of Ashuwr. I will defend this city for My own sake, and for My servant Dawiyd’s sake.”’”

20:7 YashaYahuw said, “Take a cake of figs.”

They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. 20:8 HizquiYahuw said to YashaYahuw, “What shall be the sign thatYaHuWaH will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of YaHuWaH the third day?”

20:9 YashaYahuw said, “This shall be the sign to you from YaHuWaH, that YaHuWaH will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

20:10 HizquiYahuw answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

20:11 YashaYahuw the prophet cried to YaHuWaH; and He brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

20:12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, sovereign of Babel, sent letters and a present to HizquiYahuw; for he had heard that HizquiYahuw had been sick. 20:13 HizquiYahuw listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that HizquiYahuw didn’t show them. 20:14 Then YashaYahuw the prophet came to sovereign HizquiYahuw, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?”

HizquiYahuw said, “They are come from a far country, even from Babel.”

20:15 He said, “What have they seen in your house?”

HizquiYahuw answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

20:16 YashaYahuw said to HizquiYahuw, “Hear the Word of YaHuWaH. 20:17 ‘Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babel. Nothing shall be left,’ says YaHuWaH. 20:18 ‘Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the sovereign of Babel.’” Dani'el 1:3-7

20:19 Then HizquiYahuw said to YashaYahuw, “The Word of YaHuWaH which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?”

20:20 Now the rest of the acts of HizquiYahuw, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 20:21 HizquiYahuw slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. 21:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, after the abominations of the nations whom YaHuWaH cast out before the children of Ysra'al. 21:3 For he built again the high places which HizquiYahuw his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Ba'al, and made an Asherah, as did Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. 21:4 He built altars in the House of YaHuWaH, of which YaHuWaH said, “I will put My Name in Yahrushalom.”  21:5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the House of YaHuWaH. 21:6 He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, to provoke Him to anger. 21:7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the House of which YaHuWaH said to Dawiyd and to Solomon his son, “In this House, and in Yahrushalom, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Ysra'al, will I put My Name forever;  21:8 neither will I cause the feet of Ysra'al to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Torah that My servant Moshah commanded them.” 21:9 But they didn’t listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom YaHuWaH destroyed before the children of Ysra'al. 21:10 YaHuWaH spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, 21:11 “Because Manasseh sovereign of Yahuwdah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Yahuwdah also to sin with his idols; 21:12 therefore thus says YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Yahrushalom and Yahuwdah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.  21:13 I will stretch over Yahrushalom the line of Shomeron, and the plummet of the House of Ach'ab; and I will wipe Yahrushalom as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 21:14 I will cast off the remnant of My inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 21:15 because they have done that which is evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Mitsrayim, even to this day.’”

21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Yahrushalom from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Yahuwdah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH. 21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 21:18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his place. 21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Yotbah.  21:20 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, as did Manasseh his father. 21:21 He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them: 21:22 and he forsook YaHuWaH, the Al of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of YaHuWaH. 21:23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the sovereign to death in his own house.  21:24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against sovereign Amon; and the people of the land made YoshiYahuw his son sovereign in his place. 21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 21:26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and YoshiYahuw his son reigned in his place.

22:1 YoshiYahuw was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Yedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.  22:2 He did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH, and walked in all the way of Dawiyd his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 22:3 It happened in the eighteenth year of sovereign YoshiYahuw, that the sovereign sent Shaphan, the son of AzalYah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the House of YaHuWaH, saying, 22:4 “Go up to HilkiYahuw the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the House of YaHuWaH, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.  22:5 Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the House of YaHuWaH; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the House of YaHuWaH, to repair the breaches of the House, 22:6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the House. 22:7 However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

22:8 HilkiYahuw the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the scroll of the Torah in the House of YaHuWaH.” HilkiYahuw delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it. 22:9 Shaphan the scribe came to the sovereign, and brought the sovereign word again, and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the House, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the House of YaHuWaH.” 22:10 Shaphan the scribe told the sovereign, saying, “HilkiYahuw the priest has delivered a book to me.” Shaphan read it before the sovereign.  22:11 It happened, when the sovereign had heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, that he tore his clothes.  22:12 The sovereign commanded HilkiYahuw the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the sovereign’s servant, saying,  22:13 “Go inquire of YaHuWaH for me, and for the people, and for all Yahuwdah, concerning the Words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of YaHuWaH that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the Words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”

22:14 So HilkiYahuw the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Yahrushalom in the second quarter); and they talked with her. 22:15 She said to them, “Thus says YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, 22:16 “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the Words of the book which the sovereign of Yahuwdah has read. 22:17 Because they have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other mighty ones, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.’” 22:18 But to the sovereign of Yahuwdah, who sent you to inquire of YaHuWaH, thus you shall tell him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, the Al of Ysra'al: ‘Concerning the Words which you have heard,  22:19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before YaHuWaH, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard you,’ says YaHuWaH. 22:20 ‘Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” They brought back this message to the sovereign.

23:1 The sovereign sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Yahuwdah and of Yahrushalom. 23:2 The sovereign went up to the House of YaHuWaH, and all the men of Yahuwdah and all the inhabitants of Yahrushalom with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the Words of the book of the covenant which was found in the House of YaHuWaH. 23:3 The sovereign stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before YaHuWaH, to walk after YaHuWaH, and to keep His Commandments, and His Testimonies, and His Statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the Words of this Covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the Covenant.  23:4 The sovereign commanded HilkiYahuw the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of YaHuWaH all the vessels that were made for Ba'al, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Yahrushalom in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bayith Al. 23:5 He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the sovereigns of Yahuwdah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yahuwdah, and in the places around Yahrushalom; those also who burned incense to Ba'al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. 23:6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of YaHuWaH, outside of Yahrushalom, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. 23:7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of YaHuWaH, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 23:8 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Yahuwdah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Yoshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.  23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the altar of YaHuWaH in Yahrushalom, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. 23:10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 23:11 He took away the horses that the sovereigns of Yahuwdah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the House of YaHuWaH, by the chamber of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 23:12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the sovereigns of Yahuwdah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the House of YaHuWaH, did the sovereign break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 23:13 The high places that were before Yahrushalom, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the sovereign of Ysra'al had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Mow'ab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the sovereign defile. 23:14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.  23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bayith Al, and the high place which Yeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Ysra'al to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah. 23:16 As YoshiYahuw turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the Word of YaHuWaH which the man of Al proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. 23:17 Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?”

The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of Al, who came from Yahuwdah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bayith Al.”

23:18 He said, “Let him be! Let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Shomeron.  23:19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Shomeron, which the sovereigns of Ysra'al had made to provoke YaHuWaH to anger, YoshiYahuw took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bayith Al. 23:20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Yahrushalom. 23:21 The sovereign commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to YaHuWaH your Al, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” 23:22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Ysra'al, nor in all the days of the sovereigns of Ysra'al, nor of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah; 23:23 but in the eighteenth year of sovereign YoshiYahuw was this Passover kept to YaHuWaH in Yahrushalom. 23:24 Moreover those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Yahuwdah and in Yahrushalom, did YoshiYahuw put away, that he might confirm the Words of the Torah which were written in the book that HilkiYahuw the priest found in the House of YaHuWaH. 23:25 Like him was there no sovereign before him, who turned to YaHuWaH with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Torah of Moshah; neither after him arose there any like him. 23:26 Notwithstanding,YaHuWaH didn’t turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was kindled against Yahuwdah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked Him. 23:27 YaHuWaH said, “I will remove Yahuwdah also out of My sight, as I have removed Ysra'al, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Yahrushalom, and the House of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

23:28 Now the rest of the acts of YoshiYahuw, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 23:29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh sovereign of Mitsrayim went up against the sovereign of Ashuwr to the river Euphrates: and sovereign YoshiYahuw went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 23:30 His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Yahrushalom, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Yahuw'ahaz the son of YoshiYahuw, and anointed him, and made him sovereign in his father’s place. 23:31 Yahuw'ahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Yeremiyah of Libnah.  23:32 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, according to all that his fathers had done.  23:33 Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Yahrushalom; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. 23:34 Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of YoshiYahuw sovereign in the room of YoshiYahuw his father, and changed his name to Yehoyaqim: but he took Yahuw'ahaz away; and he came to Mitsrayim, and died there. 23:35 Yehoyaqim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh. 23:36 Yehoyaqim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 23:37 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, according to all that his fathers had done.

24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar sovereign of Babel came up, and Yehoyaqim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 24:2 YaHuWaH sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Aramiy, and bands of the Mow'abites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Yahuwdah to destroy it, according to the Word of YaHuWaH, which He spoke by His servants the prophets. 24:3 Surely at the commandment of YaHuWaH came this on Yahuwdah, to remove them out of His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, 24:4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Yahrushalom with innocent blood: and YaHuWaH would not pardon. 24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 24:6 So Yehoyaqim slept with his fathers; and Yehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 24:7 The sovereign of Mitsrayim didn’t come again out of his land any more; for the sovereign of Babel had taken, from the brook of Mitsrayim to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the sovereign of Mitsrayim. 24:8 Yehoyakim was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Yahrushalom three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Yahrushalom. 24:9 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, according to all that his father had done. 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar sovereign of Babel came up to Yahrushalom, and the city was besieged. 24:11 Nebuchadnezzar sovereign of Babel came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; 24:12 and Yehoyakim the sovereign of Yahuwdah went out to the sovereign of Babel, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the sovereign of Babel took him in the eighth year of his reign. 24:13 He carried out there all the treasures of the House of YaHuWaH, and the treasures of the sovereign’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon sovereign of Ysra'al had made in the temple of YaHuWaH, as YaHuWaH had said. 24:14 He carried away all Yahrushalom, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.  24:15 He carried away Yehoyakim to Babel; and the sovereign’s mother, and the sovereign’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Yahrushalom to Babel. 24:16 All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the sovereign of Babel brought captive to Babel. 24:17 The sovereign of Babel made MattaniYahuw, Yehoyakim’s father’s brother, sovereign is his place, and changed his name to TsidqiYahuw. 24:18 TsidqiYahuw was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yahrushalom: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of YeremiYahuw of Libnah.  24:19 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, according to all that Yehoyaqim had done.  24:20 For through the anger of  YaHuWaH did it happen in Yahrushalom and Yahuwdah, until He had cast them out from His presence. Tsidqiyahuw rebelled against the sovereign of Babel.

25:1 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar sovereign of Babel came, he and all his army, against Yahrushalom, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. 25:2 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of sovereign TsidqiYahuw. 25:3 On the ninth day of the fourth month [Abib or Tammuz? - 586 BCE] the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 25:4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the sovereign’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the sovereign went by the way of the Arabah. 25:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the sovereign, and overtook him in the plains of Yeriychow; and all his army was scattered from him. 25:6 Then they took the sovereign, and carried him up to the sovereign of Babel to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him. 25:7 They killed the sons of TsidqiYahuw before his eyes, and put out the eyes of TsidqiYahuw, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babel. 25:8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of sovereign Nebuchadnezzar, sovereign of Babel, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the sovereign of Babel, to Yahrushalom. 25:9 He burnt the House of YaHuWaH, and the sovereign’s house; and all the houses of Yahrushalom, even every great house, burnt he with fire. 25:10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Yahrushalom. 25:11 The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the sovereign of Babel, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive. 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. 25:13 The pillars of brass that were in the House of YaHuWaH, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the House of YaHuWaH, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babel. 25:14 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away. 25:15 The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the House of YaHuWaH, the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network. 25:18 The captain of the guard took Seraiyah the chief priest, and TsephanYahuw the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 25:19 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the sovereign’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. 25:20 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the sovereign of Babel to Riblah.  25:21 The sovereign of Babel struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Yahuwdah was carried away captive out of his Land. 25:22 As for the people who were left in the Land of Yahuwdah, whom Nebuchadnezzar sovereign of Babel had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. 25:23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the sovereign of Babel had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Yochanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Ya'azanYah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 25:24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the sovereign of Babel, and it shall be well with you.”

25:25 But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Eliyshuama, of the royal seed came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Yahuwdim and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. 25:26 All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Mitsrayim; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. 25:27 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Yehoyakim sovereign of Yahuwdah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach sovereign of Babel, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Yehoyakim sovereign of Yahuwdah out of prison; 25:28 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the sovereigns who were with him in Babel,  25:29 and changed his prison garments. Yehoyakim ate bread before him continually all the days of his life: 25:30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the sovereign, every day a portion, all the days of his life.