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Elisha prophesies of plenty
CHAP. VII, VIII.
whence shall I help thee? out of the barn-floor,
or out of the wine-press ?

The unbeliever trode to death. 11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.

28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? 12 ¶ And the king arose in the night, and said And she answered, This woman said unto me, unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and Syrians have done to us. They know that we we will eat my son to-morrow. be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and camp, to hide themselves in the field, saying, I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, When they come out of the city, we shall catch that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. them alive, and get into the city.

30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the 13 And one of his servants answered and said, words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they and behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in 31 Then he said, God do so and more also to it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multime, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphatshall tude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and stand on him this day. let us send and see.

14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer 15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and hath sent to take away my head? look, when the lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him ?,

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A sudden plenty in Samaria. THEN Elisha the LORD, Tomorrow THEN Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents
of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was
sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for
a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
17 And the king appointed the lord on whose
hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate:
and the people trode upon him in the gate, and
when the king came down to him.
he died, as the man of God had said, who spake

18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the gate of Samaria:

the LORD would make windows in heaven, might 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou sbalt see said. Now, behold, if the LORD should make it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. windows in heaven, might such a thing be?

3 And there were four leprous men at the en-And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine tering in of the gate: and they said one to ano- eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. ther, Why sit we here until we die?

20 And so it feli out unto him: for the people
trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
CHAP. VIII.

4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now there-i The Shunammite's land restored. fore come, and let us fall unto the host of the THE HEN spake Elisha unto the woman, whose Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and, son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, if they kill us, we shall but die. and go thou and thy household, and sojourn

5 And they rose up in the twilight to go unto wheresoever thou canst sojourn for the LORD the camp of the Syrians: and when they were hath called for a famine; and it shall also come come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, upon the land seven years. behold, there was no man there.

2 And the woman arose, and did after the say

6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians ing of the man of God: and she went with her to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, household, and sojourned in the land of the Phieven the noise of a great host: and they said one listenes seven years. to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against 3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end. us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the that the woman returned out of the land of the Egyptians, to come upon us. Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house, and for her land.

7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their as- 4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant ses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, 8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost all the great things that Elisha hath done. part of the camp, they went into one tent, and 5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and how he had restored a dead body to life, that be gold, and raiment, and went and hid it and hold, the woman, whose son he had restored to came again, and entered into another tent, and life, cried to the king for her house and for her carried thence also, and went and hid it. land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is

9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our restored to life.

peace: if we tarry till the morning-light, some 6 And when the king asked the woman, she mischief will come upon us: now therefore told him. So the king appointed unto her a cercome, that we may go and tell the king's house-tain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, hold. and all the fruits of the field since the day that

10 So they came and called unto the porter of she left the land, even until now. the city and they told them, saying, We came 77 And Elisha came to Damascus: and Bento the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told no man there, neither voice of man but horses him, saying, The man of God is come hither. tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were. 8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a pre

Jehoram's wicked reign.

II. KINGS.

The soldiers make Jchu king sent in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shali Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram 1 recover of this disease? the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. CHAP. IX.

9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-badad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

Jehu anointed king over Israel. AND Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:

to And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, 2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit, the Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, LORD hath shewed me, that he shall surely die. and go in, and make him arise up from among his 11 And he settled his countenance steadfastly, brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber; until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. 3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his 12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have And he answered, Because I know the evil that anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their door, and flee, and tarry not.

strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young 4 So the young man, even the young man the men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

their children, and rip up their women with child. 5 And when he came, behold, the captains of 13 And Hazael said, But what! is thy servant the host were sitting; and he said, I have an era dog, that he should do this great thing? And rand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain. that thou shalt be king over Syria.

14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.

15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even lover Israel.

7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel: 9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like began to reign; and he reigned eight years in the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: Jerusalem. 10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daugh- And he opened the door, and fled.

16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jelioshaphat being then king I of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

ter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in 11 ¶ Then Jelu came forth to the servants of the sight of the LORD. his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well?

19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And David his servant's sake, as he promised him to he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his give him always a light, and to his children. communication.

20 11 In his days Edom revolted from under the 12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. he said. Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, 21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the cha-Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king riots with him: and he rose by night, and smote over Israel.

the Edomites which compassed him about, and 13Then they hasted, and took every man his garthe captains of the chariots: and the people fled ment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, into their tents. and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king. 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram the same time. had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, be23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all cause of Hazael king of Syria. that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

15 But king Joran was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had 24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was given him, when he fought with Hazael king of buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king 26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah of Judah was come down to see Joram. when he began to reign; and he reigned one year 17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Atha- in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as liah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. he came, and said, I see a company. And Jo27 And he walked in the way of the house of ram said, Take a horseman and send to meet Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as them, and let him say, Is it peace?

did the house of Ahab: for he was the son-in- 18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, law of the house of Ahab. and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And

28 T. And he went with Joram the son of Ahab Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ra- turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, moth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. saying, The messenger came to them, but he 29 And king Joram went back to be healed in cometh not again.

Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, given him at Ramah, when he fought against which came to them, and said, Thus saith the

Febel eaten by dogs

CHAP. X.

Ahaziah s brethren slavn king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. and fight for your master's house.

20 And the watchman told, saying, He came 4 B they were exceedingly afraid, and said, even unto them, and cometh not again: and the Behold, two kings stood not before him: how driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of then shall we stand ?

Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

5 And he that was over the house, and he that 21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his cha-was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers riot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are and Abaziah king of Judah went out, each in thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and us; we will not make any king: do thou that met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. which is good in thine eyes.

22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answer-them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will heared, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy ken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel 23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and by to-morrow this time. (Now the king's sons said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah. being seventy persons, were with the great mea 24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, of the city, which brought them up.) and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the 7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to arrow went out at his heart, and he suuk down them, that they took the king's sons, and slew in his chariot. seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, 25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take and sent him them to Jezreel. up, and cast him in the portion of the field of 8 And there came a messenger, and told him, Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's when I and thou rode together after Ahab his sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at father, the LORD laid this burden upon him; the entering in of the gate until the morning. 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Na- 9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he both, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; went out, and stood, and said to all the people, and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of master, and slew him: but who slew all these? ground, according to the word of the LORD. 10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth 27 But when Ähaziah the king of Judah saw nothing of the word of the LORD, which the this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite the LORD hath done that which he spake by his him also in the chariot. And they did so at the servant Elijah. going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. 30 1 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. 31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? 32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-house in the way,

13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziab; and we go down to salute the children of me king and the children of the queen.

14 And he said, 'Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty nen; neither 33 And he said, Throw her down. So they left he any of them. threw her down: and some of her blood was 15 And when he was depared thence, he sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming he trode her under foot.

34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her for she is a king's daughter. 35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tish bite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs

eat the flesh of Jezebel:

37 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel. CHAP. X.

Sons of Ahab slain in Samaria.

to meet him: and he saluted fim, and said to
him, Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy
heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be,
give me thy hand. And he gave him his hand;
and he took him up to hip into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal
for the LORD. So the made him ride in his
chariot.

17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto hab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, acording to the saying of the LORD, which he sake to Elijah.

18 T And Jehu athered all the people together, and said unto them, Alab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.

19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let

AND Aabhad seventy sons in Samaria. And none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto do to Baa: whosoever shall be wanting, he shall the rulers of Jezreei, to the elders, and to them not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that brought up Ahab's children, saying.

that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Paal. And they proclaimed it. 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was 3 Look even out the best and meetest of your not a man left that came not. And they came

2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;

Tehu followeth Jeroboam's sins.

II. KINGS.

Jehoash anointed king. into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of was full from one end to another. the watch of the king's house;

22 And he said unto him that was over the ves- 6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; try, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers and a third part at the gate behind the guard: of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments. so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it 23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of be not broken down.

Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the 7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the be here with you none of the servants of the house of the LORD about the king. LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.

8 And ye shall compass the king round about,

24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and every man with his weapons in his hand: and burnt-offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men he that cometh within the ranges, let him be without, and said, If any of the men whom I slain. And be ye with the king as he goeth out have brought into your hands escape, he that let-and as he cometh in. teth him go, his life shall be for the life of him. 9 And the captains over the hundreds did ac25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made cording to all things that Jehoiada the priest an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu commanded. and they took every man his men said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and that were to come in on the sabbath, with them slay them; let none come forth. And they smote that should go out on the sabbath, and came to them with the edge of the sword; and the guard Jehoiada the priest. and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

28 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.

27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house unto this day.

10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.

11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple. 12 And he brought forth the king's son, the crown upon him, and gave him the testimoand put ny; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.

28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. 291 Howbeit, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan. 30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy 14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood children of the fourth generation shall sit on the by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the peo31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of ple of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumthe LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for pets. And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, Treason, treason! which made Israel to sin.

13 T And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.

throne of Israel.

15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the cap

32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel tains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, short and Hazael smote them in all the coasts and said unto them, Have her forth without the of Israel; ranges: and him that followeth her kill with 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the sword. For-the priest had said, Let her not the Gadkes, and the Reubenites, and the Manas-be slain in the house of the LORD. sites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilcat and Bashan.

34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and at his might, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel ? 35 And Jehu ept with his fathers: and they buried him in Simaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his sted.

36 And the time hat Jehu reigned over Israel
in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
CHAP. XI.

Athaliah userps the throne.
ND when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah
A saw that her son was dead, she arose and

destroyed all the seed royal.

16 And they laid hands on her; and she went
by the way by the which the horses came into
the king's house: and there was she slain.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between
the LORD and the king and the people, that they
should be the LORD's people; between the king
also and the people.

house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and
18 And all the people of the land went into the
his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and
slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
of the LORD.
And the priest appointed officers over the house

19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and

2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, of the land; and they brought down the king the captains, and the guard, and all the people sister of Ahaziah, took Joah the son of Aha- from the house of the LORD, and came by the ziah, and stole him from among the king's sons way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. which were slain; and they hid him, even him And he sat on the throne of the kings. and his nurse, in the bed-chamber, from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

3 And he was with her bid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah die reign over the land.

20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and with the sword beside the king's house. the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah 21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

CHAP. XII.

Jehoash's good reign.

4 T And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the capains and the guard, and brought them to him into the seventh year of Jehu, Jehosh began to the house of the LORD, and made a covenan with them, and took an oath of them in the house of And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. the LORD, and shewed them the king's son. 2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the 5 And he comnianded them, saying, This is the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada thing that ye shall du: A third part of you that the priest instructed him.

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