# Bible

BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 8
VText:
These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 2
VText:
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 3
VText:
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 4
VText:
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 5
VText:
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 8
VText:
And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 10
VText:
Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]: choose thee one of them, that I may do [it] unto thee.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 12
VText:
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh [thee]; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 13
VText:
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great [are] his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 15
VText:
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 16
VText:
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of Israel, who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 17
VText:
And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 18
VText:
Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 20
VText:
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 21
VText:
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 22
VText:
Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 23
VText:
And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to thee, and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 24
VText:
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 26
VText:
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 28
VText:
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 29
VText:
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 30
VText:
But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 1
VText:
Then David said, This [is] the house of the LORD God, and this [is] the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 2
VText:
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 3
VText:
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 5
VText:
And David said, Solomon my son [is] young and tender, and the house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be] exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will [therefore] now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 7
VText:
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 8
VText:
But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 9
VText:
Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 10
VText:
He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I [will be] his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 11
VText:
Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 12
VText:
Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 13
VText:
Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 14
VText:
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 15
VText:
Moreover [there are] workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 16
VText:
Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, [there is] no number. Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 18
VText:
[Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not] given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 19
VText:
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 3
VText:
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 4
VText:
Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 5
VText:
Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 9
VText:
The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 10
VText:
And the sons of Shimei [were], Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four [were] the sons of Shimei.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 11
VText:
And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to [their] father's house.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 13
VText:
The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 17
VText:
And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 19
VText:
Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 24
VText:
These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 25
VText:
For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 26
VText:
And also unto the Levites; they shall no [more] carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 28
VText:
Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 29
VText:
Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is baked in] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 31
VText:
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 32
VText:
And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy [place], and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 1
VText:
Now [these are] the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 2
VText:
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 3
VText:
And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 4
VText:
And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar [there were] sixteen chief men of the house of [their] fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 5
VText:
Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors [of the house] of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 6
VText:
And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, [one] of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and [before] the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and [one] taken for Ithamar.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 19
VText:
These [were] the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 20
VText:
And the rest of the sons of Levi [were these]: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 23
VText:
And the sons [of Hebron]; Jeriah [the first], Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 30
VText:
The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 31
VText:
These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 1
VText:
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 2
VText:
Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 3
VText:
Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 4
VText:
Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, [and] Mahazioth:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 5
VText:
All these [were] the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 6
VText:
All these [were] under the hands of their father for song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 7
VText:
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, [even] all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 8
VText:
And they cast lots, ward against [ward], as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 9
VText:
Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons [were] twelve:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 1
VText:
Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 2
VText:
And the sons of Meshelemiah [were], Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 4
VText:
Moreover the sons of Obededom [were], Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 6
VText:
Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valour.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 7
VText:
The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren [were] strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 8
VText:
All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, [were] threescore and two of Obededom.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 10
VText:
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for [though] he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 11
VText:
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah [were] thirteen.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 12
VText:
Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, [having] wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 13
VText:
And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 14
VText:
And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counseller, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 16
VText:
To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 17
VText:
Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two [and] two.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 20
VText:
And of the Levites, Ahijah [was] over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 21
VText:
[As concerning] the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, [even] of Laadan the Gershonite, [were] Jehieli.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 22
VText:
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, [which were] over the treasures of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 25
VText:
And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 26
VText:
Which Shelomith and his brethren [were] over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 28
VText:
And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; [and] whosoever had dedicated [any thing, it was] under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 29
VText:
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 30
VText:
[And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 31
VText:
Among the Hebronites [was] Jerijah the chief, [even] among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 32
VText:
And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 1
VText:
Now the children of Israel after their number, [to wit], the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 2
VText:
Over the first course for the first month [was] Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 4
VText:
And over the course of the second month [was] Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course [was] Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 5
VText:
The third captain of the host for the third month [was] Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 6
VText:
This [is that] Benaiah, [who was] mighty [among] the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course [was] Ammizabad his son.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 7
VText:
The fourth [captain] for the fourth month [was] Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 8
VText:
The fifth captain for the fifth month [was] Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 9
VText:
The sixth [captain] for the sixth month [was] Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 10
VText:
The seventh [captain] for the seventh month [was] Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 11
VText:
The eighth [captain] for the eighth month [was] Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 12
VText:
The ninth [captain] for the ninth month [was] Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 13
VText:
The tenth [captain] for the tenth month [was] Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 14
VText:
The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month [was] Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 15
VText:
The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month [was] Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 16
VText:
Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 20
VText:
Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 21
VText:
Of the half [tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 23
VText:
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 24
VText:
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 25
VText:
And over the king's treasures [was] Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, [was] Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 26
VText:
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 27
VText:
And over the vineyards [was] Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 28
VText:
And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that [were] in the low plains [was] Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil [was] Joash:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 29
VText:
And over the herds that fed in Sharon [was] Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds [that were] in the valleys [was] Shaphat the son of Adlai:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 31
VText:
And over the flocks [was] Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers of the substance which [was] king David's.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 32
VText:
Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counseller, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni [was] with the king's sons:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 34
VText:
And after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 1
VText:
And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 2
VText:
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 3
VText:
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou [hast been] a man of war, and hast shed blood.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 4
VText:
Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah [to be] the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make [me] king over all Israel:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 5
VText:
And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 6
VText:
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him [to be] my son, and I will be his father.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 7
VText:
Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 8
VText:
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 9
VText:
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 10
VText:
Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do [it].


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 11
VText:
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 12
VText:
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 13
VText:
Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 14
VText:
[He gave] of gold by weight for [things] of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; [silver also] for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 15
VText:
Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick, and [also] for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 16
VText:
And by weight [he gave] gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and [likewise] silver for the tables of silver:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 17
VText:
Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons [he gave gold] by weight for every bason; and [likewise silver] by weight for every bason of silver:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 18
VText:
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 19
VText:
All [this, said David], the LORD made me understand in writing by [his] hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 20
VText:
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do [it]: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, [even] my God, [will be] with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 21
VText:
And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy commandment.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 1
VText:
Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, [is yet] young and tender, and the work [is] great: for the palace [is] not for man, but for the LORD God.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 2
VText:
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for [things to be made] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and the brass for [things] of brass, the iron for [things] of iron, and wood for [things] of wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 3
VText:
Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 4
VText:
[Even] three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses [withal]:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 5
VText:
The gold for [things] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 6
VText:
Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 7
VText:
And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 8
VText:
And they with whom [precious] stones were found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 9
VText:
Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 10
VText:
Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 11
VText:
Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is] in the heaven and in the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 12
VText:
Both riches and honour [come] of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand [is] power and might; and in thine hand [it is] to make great, and to give strength unto all.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 14
VText:
But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 15
VText:
For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 16
VText:
O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name [cometh] of thine hand, and [is] all thine own.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 17
VText:
I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 18
VText:
O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 19
VText:
And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things], and to build the palace, [for] the which I have made provision.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 20
VText:
And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 21
VText:
And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 22
VText:
And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed [him] unto the LORD [to be] the chief governor, and Zadok [to be] priest.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 23
VText:
Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 24
VText:
And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 25
VText:
And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him [such] royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 27
VText:
And the time that he reigned over Israel [was] forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three [years] reigned he in Jerusalem.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 28
VText:
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 29
VText:
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,


BookID: 13
BookAbr: 1Ch
BookName: 1 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 30
VText:
With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to [the place which] David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 10
VText:
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, [that is so] great?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 12
VText:
Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that [have been] before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place that [was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 14
VText:
And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 1
Verse: 17
VText:
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out [horses] for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 4
VText:
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for ever to Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 6
VText:
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 7
VText:
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 8
VText:
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 9
VText:
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 11
VText:
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 12
VText:
Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 14
VText:
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 15
VText:
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 16
VText:
And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 17
VText:
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 2
Verse: 18
VText:
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 4
VText:
And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 5
VText:
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 7
VText:
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 9
VText:
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 11
VText:
And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 12
VText:
And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 14
VText:
And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 15
VText:
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 16
VText:
And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 3
Verse: 17
VText:
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 3
VText:
And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held three thousand baths.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 6
VText:
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 8
VText:
He made also ten tables, and placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 9
VText:
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 11
VText:
And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 12
VText:
[To wit], the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters [which were] on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were] on the top of the pillars;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 13
VText:
And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were] upon the pillars.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 16
VText:
The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 18
VText:
Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 19
VText:
And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread [was set];


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 20
VText:
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 4
Verse: 22
VText:
And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were of] gold.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 1
VText:
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in [all] the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 2
VText:
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 3
VText:
Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the seventh month.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, these did the priests [and] the Levites bring up.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 6
VText:
Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 7
VText:
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy [place, even] under the wings of the cherubims:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 8
VText:
For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 9
VText:
And they drew out the staves [of the ark], that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 10
VText:
[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 11
VText:
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 12
VText:
Also the Levites [which were] the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, [being] arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 13
VText:
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 5
Verse: 14
VText:
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 3
VText:
And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 4
VText:
And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 5
VText:
Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 6
VText:
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 7
VText:
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 8
VText:
But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 9
VText:
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 11
VText:
And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 12
VText:
And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 13
VText:
For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 14
VText:
And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and [shewest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 15
VText:
Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 16
VText:
Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 17
VText:
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 18
VText:
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 19
VText:
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 20
VText:
That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 21
VText:
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, [even] from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 22
VText:
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 23
VText:
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 24
VText:
And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 25
VText:
Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 26
VText:
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; [yet] if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 27
VText:
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 28
VText:
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 29
VText:
[Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 30
VText:
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 31
VText:
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 32
VText:
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 33
VText:
Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as [doth] thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 34
VText:
If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 36
VText:
If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 37
VText:
Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 38
VText:
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and [toward] the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 39
VText:
Then hear thou from the heavens, [even] from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 40
VText:
Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and [let] thine ears [be] attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this place.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 6
Verse: 41
VText:
Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 1
VText:
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 2
VText:
And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 3
VText:
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, [saying], For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 5
VText:
And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 6
VText:
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 7
VText:
Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that [was] before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 8
VText:
Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 9
VText:
And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 10
VText:
And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 11
VText:
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 12
VText:
And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 13
VText:
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 14
VText:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 16
VText:
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 17
VText:
And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 18
VText:
Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man [to be] ruler in Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 19
VText:
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 20
VText:
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 21
VText:
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 7
Verse: 22
VText:
And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 2
VText:
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 5
VText:
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 6
VText:
And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 7
VText:
[As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 8
VText:
[But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 9
VText:
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 10
VText:
And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 11
VText:
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 12
VText:
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 13
VText:
Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 14
VText:
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 15
VText:
And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 16
VText:
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 8
Verse: 18
VText:
And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 1
VText:
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 2
VText:
And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 5
VText:
And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 6
VText:
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that I heard.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 7
VText:
Happy [are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 8
VText:
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 9
VText:
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 10
VText:
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 11
VText:
And the king made [of] the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 12
VText:
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 13
VText:
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 14
VText:
Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 15
VText:
And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 16
VText:
And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 18
VText:
And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 19
VText:
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 20
VText:
And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold: none [were of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 21
VText:
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 23
VText:
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 24
VText:
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 25
VText:
And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 26
VText:
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 27
VText:
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 29
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 9
Verse: 31
VText:
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 2
VText:
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who [was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard [it], that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 4
VText:
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 6
VText:
And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye [me] to return answer to this people?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 7
VText:
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 8
VText:
But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 9
VText:
And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 10
VText:
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 11
VText:
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 12
VText:
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 14
VText:
And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 15
VText:
So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 16
VText:
And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 10
Verse: 18
VText:
Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to [his] chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 1
VText:
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 3
VText:
Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 4
VText:
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 11
VText:
And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 12
VText:
And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 14
VText:
For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 15
VText:
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 16
VText:
And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 17
VText:
So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 18
VText:
And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, [and] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 20
VText:
And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 21
VText:
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 22
VText:
And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, [to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 11
Verse: 23
VText:
And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 2
VText:
And it came to pass, [that] in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 3
VText:
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people [were] without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 5
VText:
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 6
VText:
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD [is] righteous.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 7
VText:
And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 8
VText:
Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 9
VText:
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 10
VText:
Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 11
VText:
And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 12
VText:
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah things went well.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 13
VText:
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 15
VText:
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 12
Verse: 16
VText:
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 2
VText:
He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 3
VText:
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, [even] four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, [being] mighty men of valour.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 4
VText:
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 5
VText:
Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 6
VText:
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 7
VText:
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 8
VText:
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and [there are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 9
VText:
Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 10
VText:
But as for us, the LORD [is] our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, [are] the sons of Aaron, and the Levites [wait] upon [their] business:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 11
VText:
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 12
VText:
And, behold, God himself [is] with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 13
VText:
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 14
VText:
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle [was] before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 15
VText:
Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 17
VText:
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 18
VText:
Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 19
VText:
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 20
VText:
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 21
VText:
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 13
Verse: 22
VText:
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in the story of the prophet Iddo.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 1
VText:
So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 3
VText:
For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 5
VText:
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 6
VText:
And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 7
VText:
Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 8
VText:
And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 9
VText:
And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 10
VText:
Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 11
VText:
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 13
VText:
And Asa and the people that [were] with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 14
VText:
And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 14
Verse: 15
VText:
They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 2
VText:
And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 3
VText:
Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 4
VText:
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 5
VText:
And in those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 8
VText:
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 9
VText:
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God [was] with him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 10
VText:
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 11
VText:
And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 12
VText:
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 13
VText:
That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 14
VText:
And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 15
VText:
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 16
VText:
And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 17
VText:
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 15
Verse: 18
VText:
And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 1
VText:
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 2
VText:
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 3
VText:
[There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 4
VText:
And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 5
VText:
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 6
VText:
Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 7
VText:
And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 8
VText:
Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 9
VText:
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 10
VText:
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 11
VText:
And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 12
VText:
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 16
Verse: 14
VText:
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 2
VText:
And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 3
VText:
And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 4
VText:
But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 5
VText:
Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 6
VText:
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 7
VText:
Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 8
VText:
And with them [he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 9
VText:
And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 10
VText:
And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 11
VText:
Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 13
VText:
And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, [were] in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 14
VText:
And these [are] the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 16
VText:
And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 17
VText:
And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 18
VText:
And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 17
Verse: 19
VText:
These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 2
VText:
And after [certain] years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to go up [with him] to Ramothgilead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 3
VText:
And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I [am] as thou [art], and my people as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 5
VText:
Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 6
VText:
But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 7
VText:
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 8
VText:
And the king of Israel called for one [of his] officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 9
VText:
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 10
VText:
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 11
VText:
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 12
VText:
And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 14
VText:
And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 15
VText:
And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 16
VText:
Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 17
VText:
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee [that] he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 18
VText:
Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 19
VText:
And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 20
VText:
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 21
VText:
And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 22
VText:
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 23
VText:
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 24
VText:
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 25
VText:
Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 26
VText:
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 27
VText:
And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, [then] hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 29
VText:
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 30
VText:
Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that [were] with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 31
VText:
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 32
VText:
For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 33
VText:
And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 18
Verse: 34
VText:
And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 2
VText:
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 3
VText:
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 4
VText:
And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 6
VText:
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] with you in the judgment.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 7
VText:
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 8
VText:
Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 9
VText:
And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 10
VText:
And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 19
Verse: 11
VText:
And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 1
VText:
It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 2
VText:
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar, which [is] Engedi.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 3
VText:
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 4
VText:
And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 5
VText:
And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 6
VText:
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in heaven? and rulest [not] thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand [is there not] power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 7
VText:
[Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 9
VText:
If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 10
VText:
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 11
VText:
Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 12
VText:
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 14
VText:
Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 15
VText:
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle [is] not yours, but God's.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 16
VText:
To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 17
VText:
Ye shall not [need] to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand ye [still], and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD [will be] with you.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 18
VText:
And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 19
VText:
And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 20
VText:
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 21
VText:
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 22
VText:
And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 23
VText:
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 24
VText:
And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they [were] dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 25
VText:
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 26
VText:
And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 27
VText:
Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 29
VText:
And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 31
VText:
And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 32
VText:
And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 33
VText:
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 34
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who [is] mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 35
VText:
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 36
VText:
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 20
Verse: 37
VText:
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 1
VText:
Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 2
VText:
And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 3
VText:
And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he [was] the firstborn.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 4
VText:
Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 5
VText:
Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 6
VText:
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 7
VText:
Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 9
VText:
Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 10
VText:
So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time [also] did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 11
VText:
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 12
VText:
And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 13
VText:
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were] better than thyself:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 14
VText:
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 15
VText:
And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 16
VText:
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the Ethiopians:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 17
VText:
And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 19
VText:
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 21
Verse: 20
VText:
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 1
VText:
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 2
VText:
Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 4
VText:
Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 5
VText:
He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 6
VText:
And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 7
VText:
And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 8
VText:
And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 9
VText:
And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 10
VText:
But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 22
Verse: 11
VText:
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 1
VText:
And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 2
VText:
And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 3
VText:
And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 4
VText:
This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, [shall be] porters of the doors;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 5
VText:
And a third part [shall be] at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people [shall be] in the courts of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 6
VText:
But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they [are] holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 7
VText:
And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever [else] cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 8
VText:
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go [out] on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 9
VText:
Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that [had been] king David's, which [were] in the house of God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 10
VText:
And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 11
VText:
Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 12
VText:
Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 13
VText:
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 14
VText:
Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 15
VText:
So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 16
VText:
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 17
VText:
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 18
VText:
Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as [it is] written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, [as it was ordained] by David.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 19
VText:
And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none [which was] unclean in any thing should enter in.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 20
VText:
And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 23
Verse: 21
VText:
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 1
VText:
Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 5
VText:
And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened [it] not.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 6
VText:
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, [according to the commandment] of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 7
VText:
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 8
VText:
And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 9
VText:
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God [laid] upon Israel in the wilderness.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 10
VText:
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 11
VText:
Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that [there was] much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 12
VText:
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 13
VText:
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 14
VText:
And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 15
VText:
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 16
VText:
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 17
VText:
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 18
VText:
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 19
VText:
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 20
VText:
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 21
VText:
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 22
VText:
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 23
VText:
And it came to pass at the end of the year, [that] the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 24
VText:
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 25
VText:
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 26
VText:
And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 24
Verse: 27
VText:
Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they [are] written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 1
VText:
Amaziah [was] twenty and five years old [when] he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 3
VText:
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 4
VText:
But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 5
VText:
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 6
VText:
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 7
VText:
But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to wit, with] all the children of Ephraim.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 8
VText:
But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 9
VText:
And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 10
VText:
Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 11
VText:
And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 12
VText:
And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 13
VText:
But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 14
VText:
Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 15
VText:
Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 17
VText:
Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 18
VText:
And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 19
VText:
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to [thine] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 20
VText:
But Amaziah would not hear; for it [came] of God, that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 21
VText:
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 23
VText:
And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 24
VText:
And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 25
VText:
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 26
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, [are] they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 25
Verse: 27
VText:
Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 1
VText:
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 3
VText:
Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jecoliah of Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 4
VText:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 5
VText:
And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 6
VText:
And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 7
VText:
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 8
VText:
And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened [himself] exceedingly.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 9
VText:
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 10
VText:
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 11
VText:
Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the king's captains.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 12
VText:
The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 13
VText:
And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 14
VText:
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 15
VText:
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 16
VText:
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 17
VText:
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 18
VText:
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It appertaineth] not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither [shall it be] for thine honour from the LORD God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 19
VText:
Then Uzziah was wroth, and [had] a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 20
VText:
And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 21
VText:
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, [being] a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son [was] over the king's house, judging the people of the land.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 26
Verse: 23
VText:
So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 1
VText:
Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 2
VText:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 5
VText:
He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 7
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 27
Verse: 9
VText:
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 1
VText:
Ahaz [was] twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 3
VText:
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 4
VText:
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 5
VText:
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 6
VText:
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 7
VText:
And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah [that was] next to the king.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 8
VText:
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 9
VText:
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name [was] Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage [that] reacheth up unto heaven.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 10
VText:
And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but are there] not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 11
VText:
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD [is] upon you.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 12
VText:
Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 13
VText:
And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD [already], ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath against Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 15
VText:
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 18
VText:
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 19
VText:
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 21
VText:
For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD, and [out] of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave [it] unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 22
VText:
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 23
VText:
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 24
VText:
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 25
VText:
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 26
VText:
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 28
Verse: 27
VText:
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 1
VText:
Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 2
VText:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 3
VText:
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 5
VText:
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 6
VText:
For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned [their] backs.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 7
VText:
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy [place] unto the God of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 8
VText:
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 9
VText:
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives [are] in captivity for this.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 10
VText:
Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 11
VText:
My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 12
VText:
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 13
VText:
And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 15
VText:
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 16
VText:
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to carry [it] out abroad into the brook Kidron.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 17
VText:
Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 18
VText:
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 19
VText:
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they [are] before the altar of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 20
VText:
Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 21
VText:
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer [them] on the altar of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 22
VText:
So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 23
VText:
And they brought forth the he goats [for] the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 24
VText:
And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded [that] the burnt offering and the sin offering [should be made] for all Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 25
VText:
And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 27
VText:
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began [also] with the trumpets, and with the instruments [ordained] by David king of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 28
VText:
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt offering was finished.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 29
VText:
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 30
VText:
Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 31
VText:
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 32
VText:
And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, [and] two hundred lambs: all these [were] for a burnt offering to the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 34
VText:
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the [other] priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites [were] more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 35
VText:
And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for [every] burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 29
Verse: 36
VText:
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was [done] suddenly.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 1
VText:
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 2
VText:
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 3
VText:
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 5
VText:
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 6
VText:
So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 7
VText:
And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who] therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 8
VText:
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 9
VText:
For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 10
VText:
So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 12
VText:
Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 13
VText:
And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 14
VText:
And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 15
VText:
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 16
VText:
And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 17
VText:
For [there were] many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one [that was] not clean, to sanctify [them] unto the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 18
VText:
For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 19
VText:
[That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 21
VText:
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, [singing] with loud instruments unto the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 22
VText:
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 23
VText:
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 24
VText:
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 25
VText:
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 26
VText:
So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel [there was] not the like in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 30
Verse: 27
VText:
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to his holy dwelling place, [even] unto heaven.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 1
VText:
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 2
VText:
And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 3
VText:
[He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as [it is] written in the law of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 4
VText:
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 5
VText:
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all [things] brought they in abundantly.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 6
VText:
And [concerning] the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] by heaps.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 7
VText:
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 8
VText:
And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 10
VText:
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left [is] this great store.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 12
VText:
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated [things] faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite [was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the next.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 13
VText:
And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, [were] overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 14
VText:
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, [was] over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 15
VText:
And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 16
VText:
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, [even] unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 17
VText:
Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 18
VText:
And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 19
VText:
Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, [which were] in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 20
VText:
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought [that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 31
Verse: 21
VText:
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 1
VText:
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 2
VText:
And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 3
VText:
He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 4
VText:
So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 5
VText:
Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 6
VText:
And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 7
VText:
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is] with him: for [there be] more with us than with him:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 8
VText:
With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 9
VText:
After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he [himself laid siege] against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that [were] at Jerusalem, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 10
VText:
Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 11
VText:
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 12
VText:
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 13
VText:
Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 14
VText:
Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 15
VText:
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 17
VText:
He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 18
VText:
Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 19
VText:
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of man.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 20
VText:
And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 21
VText:
And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 22
VText:
Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 23
VText:
And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 24
VText:
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 25
VText:
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 26
VText:
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 27
VText:
And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 28
VText:
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 29
VText:
Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 30
VText:
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 31
VText:
Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 32
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they [are] written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, [and] in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 32
Verse: 33
VText:
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 1
VText:
Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 2
VText:
But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 3
VText:
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 4
VText:
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 6
VText:
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 7
VText:
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 8
VText:
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 9
VText:
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 11
VText:
Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 12
VText:
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 13
VText:
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 14
VText:
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 15
VText:
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of the city.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 16
VText:
And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 18
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 19
VText:
His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 20
VText:
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 22
VText:
But he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 23
VText:
And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 33
Verse: 25
VText:
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 1
VText:
Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 2
VText:
And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the left.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 3
VText:
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 4
VText:
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that [were] on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust [of them], and strowed [it] upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 6
VText:
And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 7
VText:
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 8
VText:
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 9
VText:
And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 10
VText:
And they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 11
VText:
Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 12
VText:
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 13
VText:
Also [they were] over the bearers of burdens, and [were] overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites [there were] scribes, and officers, and porters.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 14
VText:
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD [given] by Moses.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 15
VText:
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 16
VText:
And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do [it].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 17
VText:
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 18
VText:
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 20
VText:
And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 21
VText:
Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 22
VText:
And Hilkiah, and [they] that the king [had appointed], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that [effect].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 24
VText:
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 25
VText:
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 26
VText:
And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel [concerning] the words which thou hast heard;


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 27
VText:
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 28
VText:
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 30
VText:
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 31
VText:
And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 32
VText:
And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 34
Verse: 33
VText:
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 1
VText:
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 2
VText:
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 3
VText:
And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; [it shall] not [be] a burden upon [your] shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 4
VText:
And prepare [yourselves] by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 5
VText:
And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and [after] the division of the families of the Levites.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 6
VText:
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 7
VText:
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the king's substance.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 8
VText:
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 9
VText:
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 10
VText:
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 11
VText:
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 12
VText:
And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as [it is] written in the book of Moses. And so [did they] with the oxen.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 13
VText:
And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among all the people.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 14
VText:
And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 15
VText:
And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 16
VText:
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 17
VText:
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 18
VText:
And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 20
VText:
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 21
VText:
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? [I come] not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from [meddling with] God, who [is] with me, that he destroy thee not.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 22
VText:
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 23
VText:
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 24
VText:
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in [one of] the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 25
VText:
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 26
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that which was] written in the law of the LORD,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 35
Verse: 27
VText:
And his deeds, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 1
VText:
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 2
VText:
Jehoahaz [was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 3
VText:
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 4
VText:
And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 5
VText:
Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 6
VText:
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 7
VText:
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 8
VText:
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 9
VText:
Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 10
VText:
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 11
VText:
Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 12
VText:
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God, [and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the LORD.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 13
VText:
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 14
VText:
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 15
VText:
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 16
VText:
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 17
VText:
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 18
VText:
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he brought to Babylon.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 19
VText:
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 20
VText:
And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 21
VText:
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 22
VText:
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,


BookID: 14
BookAbr: 2Ch
BookName: 2 Chronicles
Chapter: 36
Verse: 23
VText:
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his God [be] with him, and let him go up.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
Who [is there] among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he [is] the God,) which [is] in Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all [them] whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
And all they that [were] about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all [that] was willingly offered.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
And this [is] the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 10
VText:
Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second [sort] four hundred and ten, [and] other vessels a thousand.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
All the vessels of gold and of silver [were] five thousand and four hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar bring up with [them of] the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
Now these [are] the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 6
VText:
The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 42
VText:
The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, [in] all an hundred thirty and nine.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 55
VText:
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 57
VText:
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 59
VText:
And these [were] they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they [were] of Israel:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 61
VText:
And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 62
VText:
These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 63
VText:
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 65
VText:
Beside their servants and their maids, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and [there were] among them two hundred singing men and singing women.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 68
VText:
And [some] of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which [is] at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 69
VText:
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 2
Verse: 70
VText:
So the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 2
VText:
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as [it is] written in the law of Moses the man of God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear [was] upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, [even] burnt offerings morning and evening.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 4
VText:
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as [it is] written, and [offered] the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 5
VText:
And afterward [offered] the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 6
VText:
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not [yet] laid.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 7
VText:
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 9
VText:
Then stood Jeshua [with] his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, [with] their sons and their brethren the Levites.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 10
VText:
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 11
VText:
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because [he is] good, for his mercy [endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 12
VText:
But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, [who were] ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 3
VText:
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 4
VText:
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 6
VText:
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they [unto him] an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter [was] written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 8
VText:
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 9
VText:
Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] the Elamites,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 10
VText:
And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest [that are] on this side the river, and at such a time.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 11
VText:
This [is] the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, [even] unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 12
VText:
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls [thereof], and joined the foundations.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 13
VText:
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up [again, then] will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and [so] thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 14
VText:
Now because we have maintenance from [the king's] palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 15
VText:
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city [is] a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 16
VText:
We certify the king that, if this city be builded [again], and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 17
VText:
[Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and [to] Shimshai the scribe, and [to] the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and [unto] the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 19
VText:
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and [that] rebellion and sedition have been made therein.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 20
VText:
There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all [countries] beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 21
VText:
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until [another] commandment shall be given from me.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 23
VText:
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter [was] read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 4
Verse: 24
VText:
Then ceased the work of the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 1
VText:
Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that [were] in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, [even] unto them.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 2
VText:
Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them [were] the prophets of God helping them.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 3
VText:
At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this [matter].


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 6
VText:
The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which [were] on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 8
VText:
Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 9
VText:
Then asked we those elders, [and] said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 10
VText:
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that [were] the chief of them.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 11
VText:
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 12
VText:
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 13
VText:
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon [the same] king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 14
VText:
And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that [was] in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto [one], whose name [was] Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 15
VText:
And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that [is] in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 16
VText:
Then came the same Sheshbazzar, [and] laid the foundation of the house of God which [is] in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and [yet] it is not finished.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 5
Verse: 17
VText:
Now therefore, if [it seem] good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which [is] there at Babylon, whether it be [so], that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 1
VText:
Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 2
VText:
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that [is] in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein [was] a record thus written:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 3
VText:
In the first year of Cyrus the king [the same] Cyrus the king made a decree [concerning] the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof threescore cubits;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 4
VText:
[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king's house:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 5
VText:
And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, [every one] to his place, and place [them] in the house of God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 6
VText:
Now [therefore], Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which [are] beyond the river, be ye far from thence:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 7
VText:
Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 8
VText:
Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, [even] of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expences be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 9
VText:
And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which [are] at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 11
VText:
Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 12
VText:
And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter [and] to destroy this house of God which [is] at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 13
VText:
Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 14
VText:
And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished [it], according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 15
VText:
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 16
VText:
And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 17
VText:
And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 18
VText:
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which [is] at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 20
VText:
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them [were] pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 21
VText:
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 6
Verse: 22
VText:
And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 1
VText:
Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 6
VText:
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he [was] a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 7
VText:
And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 9
VText:
For upon the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 10
VText:
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 11
VText:
Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even] a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 12
VText:
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect [peace], and at such a time.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 13
VText:
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 14
VText:
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellers, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which [is] in thine hand;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 15
VText:
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellers have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 16
VText:
And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 17
VText:
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which [is] in Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 18
VText:
And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 19
VText:
The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, [those] deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 20
VText:
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow [it] out of the king's treasure house.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 21
VText:
And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which [are] beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 22
VText:
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much].


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 23
VText:
Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 24
VText:
Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 25
VText:
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that [is] in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that [are] beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know [them] not.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 26
VText:
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether [it be] unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 27
VText:
Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put [such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 7
Verse: 28
VText:
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God [was] upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 1
VText:
These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and [this is] the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 3
VText:
Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 13
VText:
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names [are] these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 15
VText:
And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 16
VText:
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 17
VText:
And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, [and] to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 18
VText:
And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 20
VText:
Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 21
VText:
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 22
VText:
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 24
VText:
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 25
VText:
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered:


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 26
VText:
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, [and] of gold an hundred talents;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 28
VText:
And I said unto them, Ye [are] holy unto the LORD; the vessels [are] holy also; and the silver and the gold [are] a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 29
VText:
Watch ye, and keep [them], until ye weigh [them] before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 30
VText:
So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring [them] to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 31
VText:
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 33
VText:
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him [was] Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them [was] Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 35
VText:
[Also] the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats [for] a sin offering: all [this was] a burnt offering unto the LORD.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 8
Verse: 36
VText:
And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 1
VText:
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 2
VText:
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 3
VText:
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 5
VText:
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 6
VText:
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 7
VText:
Since the days of our fathers [have] we [been] in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, [and] our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as [it is] this day.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 8
VText:
And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 9
VText:
For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 11
VText:
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 12
VText:
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave [it] for an inheritance to your children for ever.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 13
VText:
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as this;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 14
VText:
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 9
Verse: 15
VText:
O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 1
VText:
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 2
VText:
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 3
VText:
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 4
VText:
Arise; for [this] matter [belongeth] unto thee: we also [will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it].


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 5
VText:
Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 6
VText:
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 7
VText:
And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 8
VText:
And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 9
VText:
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of [this] matter, and for the great rain.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 10
VText:
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 11
VText:
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 13
VText:
But the people [are] many, and [it is] a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither [is this] a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 14
VText:
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 15
VText:
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 16
VText:
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 17
VText:
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 18
VText:
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 19
VText:
And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their trespass.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 23
VText:
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same [is] Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 25
VText:
Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.


BookID: 15
BookAbr: Ezr
BookName: Ezra
Chapter: 10
Verse: 30
VText:
And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and [certain] men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province [are] in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned [certain] days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
But [if] ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 10
VText:
Now these [are] thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 5
VText:
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 6
VText:
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 7
VText:
Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 8
VText:
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which [appertained] to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 9
VText:
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 12
VText:
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 13
VText:
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 14
VText:
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 15
VText:
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and [so] returned.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 16
VText:
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told [it] to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 17
VText:
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 18
VText:
Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for [this] good [work].


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 19
VText:
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 2
Verse: 20
VText:
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who [also] laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 4
VText:
And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 5
VText:
And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 6
VText:
Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 7
VText:
And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of [one of] the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 10
VText:
And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 11
VText:
Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 12
VText:
And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 14
VText:
But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 15
VText:
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 16
VText:
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto [the place] over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 17
VText:
After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 19
VText:
And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning [of the wall].


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 20
VText:
After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning [of the wall] unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 21
VText:
After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 23
VText:
After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 24
VText:
After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning [of the wall], even unto the corner.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 25
VText:
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning [of the wall], and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that [was] by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 26
VText:
Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto [the place] over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 27
VText:
After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 29
VText:
After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 30
VText:
After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 31
VText:
After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 3
Verse: 32
VText:
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 3
VText:
Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 4
VText:
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 6
VText:
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 9
VText:
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 10
VText:
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 11
VText:
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 12
VText:
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us [they will be upon you].


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 13
VText:
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, [and] on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 14
VText:
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, [which is] great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 15
VText:
And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass from that time forth, [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of Judah.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 17
VText:
They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, [every one] with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a weapon.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 18
VText:
For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and [so] builded. And he that sounded the trumpet [was] by me.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 19
VText:
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work [is] great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 20
VText:
In what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 21
VText:
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 22
VText:
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 4
Verse: 23
VText:
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that] every one put them off for washing.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 2
VText:
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 3
VText:
[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 4
VText:
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 7
VText:
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 8
VText:
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer].


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 9
VText:
Also I said, It [is] not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 10
VText:
I likewise, [and] my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 11
VText:
Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 12
VText:
Then said they, We will restore [them], and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 13
VText:
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 14
VText:
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 15
VText:
But the former governors that [had been] before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 16
VText:
Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants [were] gathered thither unto the work.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 17
VText:
Moreover [there were] at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that [are] about us.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 5
Verse: 18
VText:
Now [that] which was prepared [for me] daily [was] one ox [and] six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and [that] there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 2
VText:
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in [some one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 3
VText:
And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 5
VText:
Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 6
VText:
Wherein [was] written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith [it, that] thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 7
VText:
And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, [There is] a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 8
VText:
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 9
VText:
For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, [O God], strengthen my hands.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who [was] shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 11
VText:
And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who [is there], that, [being] as I [am], would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 12
VText:
And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 13
VText:
Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and [that] they might have [matter] for an evil report, that they might reproach me.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 14
VText:
My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard [thereof], and all the heathen that [were] about us saw [these things], they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 17
VText:
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came unto them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 18
VText:
For [there were] many in Judah sworn unto him, because he [was] the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 6
Verse: 19
VText:
Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. [And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 2
VText:
That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he [was] a faithful man, and feared God above many.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 3
VText:
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar [them]: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one [to be] over against his house.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 4
VText:
Now the city [was] large and great: but the people [were] few therein, and the houses [were] not builded.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 5
VText:
And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 6
VText:
These [are] the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 7
VText:
Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, [I say], of the men of the people of Israel [was this];


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 11
VText:
The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred [and] eighteen.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 43
VText:
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, [and] of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 45
VText:
The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 57
VText:
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 59
VText:
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 61
VText:
And these [were] they which went up [also] from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they [were] of Israel.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 63
VText:
And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took [one] of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 64
VText:
These sought their register [among] those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 65
VText:
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood [up] a priest with Urim and Thummim.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 67
VText:
Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 70
VText:
And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 71
VText:
And [some] of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 72
VText:
And [that] which the rest of the people gave [was] twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 7
Verse: 73
VText:
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel [were] in their cities.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 1
VText:
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 2
VText:
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 3
VText:
And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people [were attentive] unto the book of the law.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 4
VText:
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 5
VText:
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 6
VText:
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with [their] faces to the ground.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 7
VText:
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 8
VText:
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 9
VText:
And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day [is] holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 10
VText:
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 11
VText:
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 12
VText:
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 13
VText:
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 14
VText:
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 15
VText:
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as [it is] written.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 16
VText:
So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 17
VText:
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 8
Verse: 18
VText:
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day [was] a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 1
VText:
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 2
VText:
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 3
VText:
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God [one] fourth part of the day; and [another] fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 5
VText:
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up [and] bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 6
VText:
Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all [things] that [are] therein, the seas, and all that [is] therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 7
VText:
Thou [art] the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 8
VText:
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give [it, I say], to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou [art] righteous:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 10
VText:
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as [it is] this day.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 11
VText:
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 12
VText:
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 13
VText:
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 14
VText:
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 15
VText:
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 16
VText:
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 17
VText:
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou [art] a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 18
VText:
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This [is] thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 19
VText:
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 20
VText:
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 21
VText:
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 22
VText:
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 23
VText:
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess [it].


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 24
VText:
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 25
VText:
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 26
VText:
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 27
VText:
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest [them] from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 28
VText:
But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest [them] from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 29
VText:
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 30
VText:
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 31
VText:
Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou [art] a gracious and merciful God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 32
VText:
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 33
VText:
Howbeit thou [art] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 34
VText:
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 35
VText:
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 36
VText:
Behold, we [are] servants this day, and [for] the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we [are] servants in it:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 37
VText:
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we [are] in great distress.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 9
Verse: 38
VText:
And because of all this we make a sure [covenant], and write [it]; and our princes, Levites, [and] priests, seal [unto it].


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 28
VText:
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 29
VText:
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 30
VText:
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 31
VText:
And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 32
VText:
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 33
VText:
For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 34
VText:
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 35
VText:
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 36
VText:
Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as [it is] written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 37
VText:
And [that] we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 38
VText:
And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 10
Verse: 39
VText:
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where [are] the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 1
VText:
And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts [to dwell] in [other] cities.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 3
VText:
Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 4
VText:
And at Jerusalem dwelt [certain] of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 5
VText:
And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 7
VText:
And these [are] the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 9
VText:
And Joel the son of Zichri [was] their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah [was] second over the city.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 11
VText:
Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, [was] the ruler of the house of God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 12
VText:
And their brethren that did the work of the house [were] eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 13
VText:
And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 14
VText:
And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer [was] Zabdiel, the son of [one of] the great men.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 15
VText:
Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 16
VText:
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, [had] the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 17
VText:
And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, [was] the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 19
VText:
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 20
VText:
And the residue of Israel, of the priests, [and] the Levites, [were] in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 22
VText:
The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem [was] Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers [were] over the business of the house of God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 23
VText:
For [it was] the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 24
VText:
And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, [was] at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 25
VText:
And for the villages, with their fields, [some] of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and [in] the villages thereof,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 30
VText:
Zanoah, Adullam, and [in] their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and [in] the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 11
Verse: 31
VText:
The children also of Benjamin from Geba [dwelt] at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and [in] their villages,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 1
VText:
Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 7
VText:
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These [were] the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 8
VText:
Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, [which was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 12
VText:
And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 22
VText:
The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, [were] recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 23
VText:
The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, [were] written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 24
VText:
And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise [and] to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 25
VText:
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, [were] porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 26
VText:
These [were] in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 27
VText:
And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, [with] cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 28
VText:
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 29
VText:
Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 30
VText:
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 31
VText:
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great [companies of them that gave] thanks, [whereof one] went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 35
VText:
And [certain] of the priests' sons with trumpets; [namely], Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 36
VText:
And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 37
VText:
And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 38
VText:
And the other [company of them that gave] thanks went over against [them], and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 39
VText:
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 40
VText:
So stood the two [companies of them that gave] thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 41
VText:
And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, [and] Hananiah, with trumpets;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 42
VText:
And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah [their] overseer.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 43
VText:
Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 44
VText:
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 45
VText:
And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, [and] of Solomon his son.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 46
VText:
For in the days of David and Asaph of old [there were] chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 12
Verse: 47
VText:
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified [holy things] unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified [them] unto the children of Aaron.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 1
VText:
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 2
VText:
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 3
VText:
Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 4
VText:
And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, [was] allied unto Tobiah:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 5
VText:
And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded [to be given] to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 6
VText:
But in all this [time] was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 7
VText:
And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 8
VText:
And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 9
VText:
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 10
VText:
And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given [them]: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 11
VText:
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 13
VText:
And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them [was] Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office [was] to distribute unto their brethren.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 14
VText:
Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 15
VText:
In those days saw I in Judah [some] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day wherein they sold victuals.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 16
VText:
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 17
VText:
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing [is] this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 18
VText:
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 19
VText:
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and [some] of my servants set I at the gates, [that] there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 21
VText:
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no [more] on the sabbath.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 22
VText:
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and [that] they should come [and] keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, [concerning] this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 24
VText:
And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 25
VText:
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 26
VText:
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 27
VText:
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 28
VText:
And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, [was] son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 29
VText:
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 30
VText:
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;


BookID: 16
BookAbr: Ne
BookName: Nehemiah
Chapter: 13
Verse: 31
VText:
And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this [is] Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
[That] in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which [was] in Shushan the palace,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, [even] an hundred and fourscore days.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
[Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings], fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
And they gave [them] drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
And the drinking [was] according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 10
VText:
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she [was] fair to look on.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 12
VText:
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by [his] chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so [was] the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 14
VText:
And the next unto him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, [and] which sat the first in the kingdom;)


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 16
VText:
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 17
VText:
For [this] deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 18
VText:
[Likewise] shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus [shall there arise] too much contempt and wrath.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 19
VText:
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 20
VText:
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 1
Verse: 22
VText:
For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that [it] should be published according to the language of every people.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given [them]:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 4
VText:
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 5
VText:
[Now] in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name [was] Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 6
VText:
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 7
VText:
And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 8
VText:
So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 9
VText:
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, [which were] meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best [place] of the house of the women.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew [it].


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 11
VText:
And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 12
VText:
Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with [other] things for the purifying of the women;)


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 13
VText:
Then thus came [every] maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 14
VText:
In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 15
VText:
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 16
VText:
So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 17
VText:
And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 18
VText:
Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, [even] Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 20
VText:
Esther had not [yet] shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 21
VText:
In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 22
VText:
And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told [it] unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king [thereof] in Mordecai's name.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 2
Verse: 23
VText:
And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that [were] with him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 2
VText:
And all the king's servants, that [were] in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did [him] reverence.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
Then the king's servants, which [were] in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 4
VText:
Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he [was] a Jew.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 6
VText:
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, [even] the people of Mordecai.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 7
VText:
In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 9
VText:
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 10
VText:
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 11
VText:
And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 12
VText:
Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that [were] over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and [to] every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, [even] upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 14
VText:
The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 3
Verse: 15
VText:
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
And came even before the king's gate: for none [might] enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 3
VText:
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 4
VText:
So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told [it] her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received [it] not.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
Then called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was], and why it [was].


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 8
VText:
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it] unto Esther, and to declare [it] unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 11
VText:
All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, [there is] one law of his to put [him] to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 13
VText:
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 14
VText:
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, [then] shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for [such] a time as this?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 4
Verse: 16
VText:
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on [her] royal [apparel], and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 2
VText:
And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, [that] she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that [was] in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 3
VText:
Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 4
VText:
And Esther answered, If [it seem] good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 6
VText:
And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 8
VText:
If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 9
VText:
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 10
VText:
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 11
VText:
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 12
VText:
Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 5
Verse: 14
VText:
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 1
VText:
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 2
VText:
And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 3
VText:
And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 4
VText:
And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 5
VText:
And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 6
VText:
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 8
VText:
Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth] to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 9
VText:
And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man [withal] whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, [and] take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 11
VText:
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 12
VText:
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 13
VText:
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 6
Verse: 14
VText:
And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 2
VText:
And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? and it shall be performed, [even] to the half of the kingdom.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 3
VText:
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 4
VText:
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 5
VText:
Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 6
VText:
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 7
VText:
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath [went] into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 8
VText:
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther [was]. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 9
VText:
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 7
Verse: 10
VText:
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 1
VText:
On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he [was] unto her.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 2
VText:
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 3
VText:
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 4
VText:
Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 5
VText:
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing [seem] right before the king, and I [be] pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which [are] in all the king's provinces:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 6
VText:
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 7
VText:
Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 8
VText:
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal [it] with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 9
VText:
Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that [is], the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which [are] from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 10
VText:
And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed [it] with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, [and] riders on mules, camels, [and] young dromedaries:


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 11
VText:
Wherein the king granted the Jews which [were] in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [both] little ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 12
VText:
Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 13
VText:
The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province [was] published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 14
VText:
[So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 15
VText:
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 8
Verse: 17
VText:
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 1
VText:
Now in the twelfth month, that [is], the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 2
VText:
The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 3
VText:
And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
For Mordecai [was] great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 5
VText:
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 10
VText:
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 12
VText:
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what [is] thy request further? and it shall be done.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 13
VText:
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which [are] in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 14
VText:
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 15
VText:
For the Jews that [were] in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 16
VText:
But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 17
VText:
On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 18
VText:
But the Jews that [were] at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth [day] thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth [day] of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 19
VText:
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 20
VText:
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that [were] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, [both] nigh and far,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 21
VText:
To stablish [this] among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 22
VText:
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 24
VText:
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that [is], the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 25
VText:
But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 26
VText:
Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and [of that] which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 27
VText:
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their [appointed] time every year;


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 28
VText:
And [that] these days [should be] remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and [that] these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 29
VText:
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 30
VText:
And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth,


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 9
Verse: 31
VText:
To confirm these days of Purim in their times [appointed], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 10
Verse: 2
VText:
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?


BookID: 17
BookAbr: Es
BookName: Esther
Chapter: 10
Verse: 3
VText:
For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 10
VText:
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 12
VText:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 14
VText:
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
And the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 16
VText:
While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 17
VText:
While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 18
VText:
While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 19
VText:
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 20
VText:
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 1
Verse: 21
VText:
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 4
VText:
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 7
VText:
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 11
VText:
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 12
VText:
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 2
Verse: 13
VText:
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 3
Verse: 5
VText:
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 3
Verse: 6
VText:
[As for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 3
Verse: 9
VText:
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 3
Verse: 25
VText:
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
[If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 4
Verse: 10
VText:
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 4
Verse: 16
VText:
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 4
Verse: 19
VText:
How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 4
VText:
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 17
VText:
Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 21
VText:
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 22
VText:
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 23
VText:
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 5
Verse: 24
VText:
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 6
Verse: 4
VText:
For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 6
Verse: 14
VText:
To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 1
VText:
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 2
VText:
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 4
VText:
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 9
VText:
[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 11
VText:
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 20
VText:
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 7
Verse: 21
VText:
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 8
Verse: 2
VText:
How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 8
Verse: 6
VText:
If thou [wert] pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 8
Verse: 15
VText:
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 8
Verse: 22
VText:
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 15
VText:
Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 16
VText:
If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 19
VText:
If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 20
VText:
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 24
VText:
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 9
Verse: 32
VText:
For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 1
VText:
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 3
VText:
[Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 9
VText:
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 15
VText:
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 16
VText:
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 17
VText:
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 18
VText:
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 10
Verse: 22
VText:
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 11
Verse: 6
VText:
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth].


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 11
Verse: 17
VText:
And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 11
Verse: 18
VText:
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety.


BookID: 18
BookAbr: Job
BookName: Job
Chapter: 11
Verse: 20
VText:
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.


