 chapters 15 to 19 of Second Kings from the World English Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. This recording by Anna Roberts. Second Kings from the World English Bible, chapters 15 through 19. Chapter 15. In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, began Azariah, son of Amaziah, king of Judah, to reign. Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Jekaliah of Jerusalem. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. However, the high places were not taken away, the people still sacrificed, and burned incense on the high places. He struck the king so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king's son, was over the household, judging the people of the land. Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham, his son, reigned in his place. In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Zekariah, the son of Jeroboam, died over Israel in Samaria six months. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done. He didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. Shalom, the son of Jebesh, conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Zekariah, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, For sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. So it came to pass. Shalom, the son of Jebesh, began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria. Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and struck Shalom, the son of Jebesh, in Samaria, and killed him, and reigned in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Shalom, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. Then Menahem struck Tifsa, and all who were therein, and its borders from Tirzah, because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it, and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up. In the nine-and-thirtieth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria. He did that which was evil in the side of Yahweh. He didn't depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. There came against the land, Pol, the king of Assyria, and Menahem gave Pol one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land. Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place. In the fiftieth year of Assyria, king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem, began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years. He did that which was evil in the side of Yahweh. He didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. Pekah the son of Remeliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Ariae. And with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and reigned in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. In the two and fiftieth year of Assyria, king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remeliah, began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years. He did that which was evil in the side of Yahweh. He didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, came Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, and took Aijan, and Abel-Beth Maka, and Jenoa, and Kadesh and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naftali, and he carried them captive to Assyria. Hosea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remeliah, and struck him and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Aziah. Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. In the second year of Pekah the son of Remeliah, king of Israel, began Jotham the son of Aziah, king of Judah, to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh. He did according to all that his father Aziah had done. However, the high places were not taken away, the people still sacrificed, and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh. Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah, resin, the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remeliah. Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. CHAPTER XVI. In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remeliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and he didn't do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his god, like David his father. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel. He sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places, and on the hills and under every green tree. Then resin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remeliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war, and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. At that time resin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath, and the Syrians came to Elath and lived there to this day. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Puleser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son, come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel who rise up against me. Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. The king of Assyria listened to him, and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kyr, and killed resin. King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Puleser, king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus, and king Ahaz sent to Uriah, the priest, the fashion of the altar in its pattern, according to all its workmanship. Uriah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar, and the king drew near to the altar, and offered on it. He burnt his burnt offering, and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings, and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. Uriah the priest did so according to all that king Ahaz commanded. King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on the pavement of stone. The covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, turned he to the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria. Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. CHAPTER XVII. In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hosea the son of Elah, began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hosea became his servant, and brought him tribute. The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hosea, for he had sent messengers to sow king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hosea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and on the Hebor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Meads. It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their god, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel which they made. The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their god, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the Watchmen to the fortified city, and they set them up pillars and ashram on every high hill, and under every green tree, and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them, and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger, and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing. Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments in my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their god. They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them, and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them. They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their god, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an ashrah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal. They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination, and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their god, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. Where he tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat King, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin. The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did. They didn't depart from them, until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Kutah, and from Avah, and from Hamath, and Sefar Vain, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel, and they possessed Samaria and lived in the cities of it. So it was at the beginning of their dwelling there that they didn't fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them which killed some of them. Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria saying, The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don't know the law of the god of the land. Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there, and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land. So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh. However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. So the king of Assyria commanded, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there, and let them go and live in their cities in which they lived. The men of Babylon made Sakhoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergol, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, and the Avites made Nibaz and Tartac, and the Sefervites burnt their children in the fire to Adramalek and Anamalek, the gods of Sefervame. So they feared Yahweh and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. They feared Yahweh and served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried. To this day they do what they did before. They don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob whom he named Israel, with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them, but you shall fear Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him. The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore. You shall not fear other gods. You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you, neither shall you fear other gods, but you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. However they did not listen, but they did what they did before. So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children's children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day. CHAPTER XVIII. Now it happened in the third year of Hosea, son of Eila, king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Abbey, the daughter of Zechariah. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and he called it Nehushten. He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. For he joined with Yahweh. He didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses. Yahweh was with him, wherever he went forth he prospered, and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him. He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the Watchmen to the fortified city. It happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hosea, son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shamanazer, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, and besieged it. At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hosea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Hela, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses, the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it nor do it. Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to the king of Assyria to Lake Kish, saying, I have offended, return from me, that which you put on me I will bear. The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talons of silver, and thirty talons of gold. Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house. At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. The king of Assyria sent Tartan, and Rebsaris, and Rebsheka from Lake Kish to King Hezekiah, with the great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the Fullers field. When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliachim, the son of Hezekiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joa, the son of Asaph the recorder. Rebsheka said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust? You say, but they are but vain words, there is counsel and strength for war. Now on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me? Now behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust on him. But if you tell me we trust in Yahweh our God, isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, you shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? Now therefore, please give pledges to my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able, on your part, to set riders on them. How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. Then Alayakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joa, said to Rabbi Shekah, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews language, in the hearing of all the people who are on the wall. But Rabbi Shekah said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you? Then Rabbi Shekah stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Don't listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me, and every one of you, eat of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and every one drink the waters of his own cistern, until I come and take you away to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey that you may live and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sefar Vame, of Hena, and Iva? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Who are they among all the gods of the countries that have delivered their country out of my hand that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? But the people held their peace and answered him not a word, for the king's commandment was, don't answer him. Then Eliachim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shabna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabbi Shekka. CHAPTER 19 It happened when King Hezekiah heard it that he tore his clothes and covered himself with sat-cloth, and went into the house of Yahweh. He sent Eliachim, who was over the household, and Shabna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sat-cloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amaz. They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection, for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabbi Shekka, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. Isaiah said to them, Thus you shall tell your master. Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. So Rabbi Shekka returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libna, for he had heard that he had departed from Lekish. When he heard it said of Tirhaka, King of Ethiopia, Behold, he has come out to fight against you. He sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah, King of Judah, saying, Don't let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Heron, and Rezef, and the children of Eden that were in Tel-Asar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefar Vame, of Hena, and Iva? Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh. Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sits above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God. Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood, and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them. Now therefore Yahweh, our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone. Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, I have heard you. This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the holy one of Israel. By your messengers you have defied the Lord and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees, and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field. I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the soul of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up. But I know you're sitting down and you're going out and you're coming in, and you're raging against me. Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came. This shall be the sign to you. You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat its fruit. The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh will perform this. Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, he shall not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield nor cast up a mound against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh. For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. It happened that night that the angel of Yahweh went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand to the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria departed, and went and returned and lived at Nineveh. It happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisraq, his God, that a Dramolec and Shirezer struck him with a sword, and they escaped into the land of Erorat. Asar had on, his son reigned in his place. End of chapters fifteen through nineteen of Second Kings. CHAPTERS TWENTY TO TWENTY-FIVE OF SECOND KINGS FROM THE WORLD INGLISH BIBLE. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. This recording by Anna Roberts. Second Kings from the World English Bible. CHAPTERS TWENTY TO TWENTY-FIVE. CHAPTER TWENTY. In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. Isaiah the Prophet, the son of Amos, came to him and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live. Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept bitterly. It happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, Turn back and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people. Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh. I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake. Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day? Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken. While the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps. Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps, nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh, and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. At that time Barodak Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters in a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them. Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah and said to him, What do these men say, from where did they come to you? Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country, even from Babylon. He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them. Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh, Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says Yahweh. Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good. He said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days? Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place. CHAPTER XXI. Hezekiah was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Hepsiva. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he reared up altars for bale, and made an asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky and served them. He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, I will put my name in Jerusalem. He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. He made his son to pass through the fire and practice sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh to provoke him to anger. He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever, neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. But they didn't listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did, whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel. Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these abominations, and is done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah to sin with his idols, therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle. I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day. Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren't they written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzzah, and Amon, his son, reigned in his place. Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Michelemeth, the daughter of Heros, of Jotba. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father did. He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them, and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh. The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house, but the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? He was buried in his tomb, in the garden of Uzzah, and Josiah his son reigned in his place. CHAPTER XXII Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Jeddida, the daughter of Adiah, of Boschath. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left. It happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shefan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Michelem, to the house of Yahweh, saying, Go up to Hilkiah the priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people. Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh, and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breeches of the house, to the carpenters and to the builders and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house. However, there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, for they dealt faithfully. Hilkiah the high priest said to Shefan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh. Hilkiah delivered the book to Shefan, and he read it. Shefan the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again, and said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh. Shefan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me. Shefan read it before the king. It happened when the king had heard the words of the book of the law that he tore his clothes. The king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahaychem the son of Shefan, and Akbor the son of Makaiah, and Shefan the scribe, and Asiah the king's servant, saying, Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found. For great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us. So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahaychem, and Akbor, and Shefan, and Asiah, went to Hulda, the prophetess, the wife of Shalom, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. Now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter. And they talked with her. She said to them, Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel. Tell the man who sent you to me, Thus says Yahweh. Behold, I will bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read, because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands. Therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched. But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him. Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel. Concerning the words which you have heard, because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes and wet before me, I also have heard you, says Yahweh. Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought back this message to the king. CHAPTER XXIII The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great, and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of Yahweh. The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book, and all the people stood to the covenant. The king commanded Hilkiah the High Priest, and the priests of the Second Order, and the keepers of the Threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem, those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky. He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the Brook Kidron, and burned it at the Brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people. He broke down the houses of the Sodomites that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Gibe to Bershiba, and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. Nevertheless, the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Malik. He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the son, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the room of Nathan Malik, the officer, who was in the court, and he burned the chariots of the son with fire. The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. Then the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built for Ashtareth the Abomination of the Sidonians, and for Kamosh the Abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the Abomination of the children of Ammon. He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar, and the high place he broke down, and he burned the high place and beat it to dust and burned the Asherah. As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain, and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel. He said, Let him be. Let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. He killed all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burned men's bones on them, and he returned to Jerusalem. The king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to Yahweh, your God, as it is written in this book of the Covenant. Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem. Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the tariffim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that he'll cia the priests found in the house of Yahweh. Like him there was no king before him who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses. Neither after him arose there any like him. Notwithstanding Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. The boy said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off the city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, my name shall be there. Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his days Pharaoh Nekko, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, and King Josiah went against him, and Pharaoh Nekko killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libna. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done. Pharaoh Nekko put him in bonds at Ribla, in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Pharaoh Nekko made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoahakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there. Jehoahakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Nekko. Jehoahakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Zabida, the daughter of Padaia of Ruma. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done. CHAPTER XXIV In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoahakim became his servant three years, when he turned and rebelled against him. Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the prophets. Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah to remove them out of his sight for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did, and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahakim, and all that he did, aren't they written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? So Jehoahakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoahakim, his son, reigned in his place. The King of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more, for the King of Babylon had taken, from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates, all that pertain to the King of Egypt. Jehoahakim was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months, and his mother's name was Nehushcha, the daughter of El-Nathan, of Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done. At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came to the city, while his servants were besieging it, and Jehoahakim, the King of Judah, went out to the King of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants, and his princes and his officers, and the King of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. He carried out there all the treasures of the House of Yahweh, and the treasures of the King's House, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon, King of Israel, had made in the Temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said. He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of Valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest sort of the people of the land. He carried away Jehoahakim to Babylon, and the King's mother and the King's wives and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the King of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. The King of Babylon made Mataniah, Jehoahakim's father's brother, King in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Hemutol, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libna. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all the Jehoahakim had done. For through the anger of Yahweh it happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the King of Babylon. CHAPTER XXV It happened in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it, and they built forts against it around it. So the city was besieged to the eleventh month of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the King's garden, now the Chaldeans were against the city around it, and the King went by the way of the araba. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the King, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. Then they took the King, and carried him up to the King of Babylon to Riblah, and they gave judgment on him. They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, a servant of the King of Babylon, to Jerusalem. He burnt the house of Yahweh in the King's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire. All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the King of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields. The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases, and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon. They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered. The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold and gold, and that which was of silver and silver, the two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it, and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass, and like to these had the second pillar with network. The captain of the guard took Sarayah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold, and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war, and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city, and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. Nebusaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon, to Riblah. The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so Judah was carried away captive out of his land. As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gettelaiah the son of Ahaychem, the son of Shefan, governor. Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gettelaiah governor, they came to Gettelaiah to Mizpah, even Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johan and the son of Kareah, and Sariah, the son of Tehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jazaniah, the son of the Makathite, they and their men. Gettelaiah swore to them and to their men, and said, Don't be afraid, because of the servants of the Chaldeans, dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elashamah, of the royal seed, came, and ten men with him, and struck Gettelaiah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. It happened in the seventh and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seventh and twentieth day of the month, that Avalmerodak, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison, and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually, all the days of his life, and for his allowance there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life. End of chapters twenty to twenty-five and end of the book of Second Kings. Adam, Seth, Enosh, Canaan, Mahalleliel, Jared, Enok, Methuselah, Lamec, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Medai, and Javen, and Tubal, and Meshach, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Diphoth, and Togromah. The sons of Javen, Elisha, and Tarshish, Kiddim, and Rodanim. The sons of Ham, Kush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Kush, Siba, and Havala, and Sabta, and Rama. The sons of Rama, Shiba, and Dedan. Kush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. Mizraim became the father of Ludim, and Annamim, and Lahabim, and Naftuim, and Pathrusim, and Kallushim, where the Philistines came from, and Kaftorim. Canaan became the father of Sidon, his first-born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Gurgashite, and the Hivite, and the Archaite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemorite, and the Hamathite. The sons of Shem, Elam, and Asher, and Arpakshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gaither, and Meshik. Arpakshad became the father of Sheela, and Sheela became the father of Iber. To Iber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan. Joktan became the father of Almodad, and Sheleth, and Hazarmaveth, and Jera, and Hadaram, and Uzal, and Diklah, and Ibal, and Abameil, and Sheba, and Ophir, and Havala, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. Arpakshad, Sheela, Iber, Peleg, Riyu, Sirug, Nahor, Tera, Abram the same as Abraham. The sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael. These are their generations. The firstborn of Ishmael, Nabayoth, then Qadar, and Adabil, and Mibsam, Mishma, and Numa, Masa, Hadad, and Tema, Jatur, Nafish, and Kadema. These are the sons of Ishmael. Ketura, Abraham's concubine, Shibor, Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midyan, and Ishbeck, and Shua. The sons of Jokshan, Sheba, and Dedan, the sons of Midyan, Ifa, and Ifir, and Hanok, and Abaida, and Eldah. All these were the sons of Ketura. Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac, Esau, and Israel. The sons of Esau, Eliphaz, Ruhl, and Jehush, and Jelam, and Korah. The sons of Eliphaz, Taman, and Omar, Zephy, and Gatam, Canaz, and Timna, and Amalek. The sons of Ruhl, Nahath, Zera, Shama, and Miza. The sons of Seir, Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibyan, and Ana, and Dishan, and Azir, and Dishan. The sons of Lotan, Hori, and Homam, and Timnan, was Lotan's sister. The sons of Shobal, Aliyan, and Minahath, and Abal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibyan, Aiyah, and Ana. The sons of Ana, Dishon, the sons of Dishon, Hamran, and Ishban, and Ithran, and Charon. The sons of Azir, Bilhan, and Zavon, and Jakon. The sons of Dishon, Uz, and Iran. Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. Bela, the son of Beor, and the name of his city, was Dinabah. Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zera, of Bosra, reigned in his place. Jobab died, and Husham, of the land of the Timanites, reigned in his place. Husham died, and Hedad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith. Hedad died, and Samlah, of Masriqa, reigned in his place. Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth, by the river, reigned in his place. Shaul died, and Baal-Hannon, the son of Akbor, reigned in his place. Baal-Hanan died, and Hedad reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Pai. And his wife's name was Mahetabel, the daughter of Matrid, the daughter of Mezahab. Hedad died. The chiefs of Edom were Chief Timna, Chief Aliyah, Chief Jetheth, Chief Aholibama, Chief Ila, Chief Pimna, Chief Kenaz, Chief Tehman, Chief Mibzar, Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom. Chapter 2 These are the sons of Israel. Rubin, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naftali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah, Ur, and Onan, and Shila. Which three were born to him of Shua's daughter, the Canaanites? Ur, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him. Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zera. All the sons of Judah were five. The sons of Perez, Hezran, and Hamul. The sons of Zera, Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara, five of them in all. The sons of Karmie, Akar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. The sons of Ethan, Azariah. The sons also of Hezran, who were born to him. Jerachmil, and Ram, and Chalubai. Ram became the father of Amenadab, and Amenadab became the father of Nashon, prince of the children of Judah. And Nashon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, Amenadab the second, and Shemaah the third, Nethanol the fourth, Radai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, David the seventh, and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah, Abishai and Joab and Asahel three, Abigail bore Amassa, and the father of Amassa was Jether the Ishmaelite, Caleb the son of Hezran became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth, and these were her sons, Jesher and Shobab and Arden. Zedah died, and Caleb took to him Ephroth, who bore him Her. Her became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. Afterward Hezran went into the daughter of Makar, the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Seghub. Seghub became the father of Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land of Gilead. Zer and Aram took the towns of Jair from him, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All of these were the sons of Makar, the father of Gilead. After that Hezran was dead, in Caleb Ephrothah, then Abijah Hezran's wife bore him Ashur, the father of Techoa. The sons of Jeriomail, the firstborn of Hezran, were Ram the firstborn Ambunah, and Oren, and Ozam, Ahijah. Jeriomail had another wife, whose name was Attara, she was the mother of Onam. The sons of Ram, the firstborns of Jeromail, were Mahaz, and Jameen, and Ekker. The sons of Onam were Shamai and Jeda. The sons of Jamai, Nadab and Abijah. The name of the wife of Abijah was Abahail, and she bore him Aban and Molid. The sons of Nadab, Selid and Apeyim, but Selid died without children. The sons of Apeyim, Ishi, the sons of Ishi, Shishan, the sons of Shishan, Ali, the sons of Jeda, the brother of Shamai, Jether, and Jonathan, and Jether died without children. The sons of Jonathan, Peleth and Zaza, these were the sons of Jeromail. Now Shishan had no sons, but daughters. Shishan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jara. Shishan gave his daughter to Jara, his servant as wife, and she bore him Attaei. Attaei became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, and Zabad became the father of Efflal, and Efflal became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Heliz, and Heliz became the father of Ilyasa, and Ilyasa became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shalom, and Shalom became the father of Jechemiah, and Jechemiah became the father of Ilishama. The sons of Caleb, the brother of Jorahmeel, were Mesha, his first-born, who was the father of Zif, and the sons of Marasha, the father of Hebron. The sons of Hebron, Korah and Tapua, and Rechem and Shema. Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorchaem, and Rechem became the father of Shema. The sons of Shema were Ma'un, and Ma'un was the father of Bethzur. Ifa, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Mosa, and Ghaziz. And Haran became the father of Ghaziz. The sons of Jadai, Regem and Jothan, and Geshan and Pellet, and Ifa and Shaaf. Ma'aka, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhana. She bore also Shaaf, the father of Madmana, Sheva, the father of Makbena, and the father of Gibiya. And the daughter of Caleb was Aksa. These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Her, the first-born of Ephrata. Shobal, the father of Kiryath, Jereem. Salma, the father of Bethlehem. Haaref, the father of Bethgater. Shobal, the father of Kiryath, Jereem had sons. Horoa, half of the Manuhoth, the families of Kiryath, Jereem. The Itharites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishreites. Of them came the Zorathites and the Estoalites, the sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and the Natophathites, Atroth, Bethjoab, and half the Manahathites, the Zorathites. The families of Scribes, who lived at Jabez, the Tirathites, the Shemaathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hamath, the father of the house of Rhaecob. End of Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron, the first-born Amnon, of Ahinom, the Jesrealites, the second Daniel, of Abigail, the Carmelites, the third Absalom, the son of Meachah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Gesher, the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggath, the fifth Shafathataya of Abitol, the sixth Ithriam by Igla, his wife. Six were born to him in Hebron, and there he ranged seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years, and these were born to him in Jerusalem. Shemaah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua, the daughter of Amiel, and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliephelit, and Noga, and Nephig, and Japhaya, and Elishama, and Eliyadah, and Eliephelit, nine. All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines. And Tamar was their sister. Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, Amon his son, Josiah his son, the sons of Josiah, the firstborn, Johanan, the second, Jehoiakim, the third, Zedekiah, the fourth, Shalom, the sons of Jehoiakim, Jekoniah his son, Zedekiah his son, the sons of Jekoniah, the captive, Shialtiel his son, and Malkiram, and Petaiah, and Shanazar, Jekomiah, Hoshama, and Netabiah, the sons of Petaiah, Zarubabel, and Shamei, the sons of Zarubabel, Meshalam and Hananiah, and Shalomath was their sister, and Hashubah and Ohel, and Barakiah, and Hasadiah, Jehshubhesed, five, the sons of Hananiah, Peletiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Raphiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shekiniah, the sons of Shekiniah, Shamei, the sons of Shamei, Hattush, and Iqal, and Bariah, and Niriah, and Shaphat, six, the sons of Niriah, Eleonai, Hiskayah, and Azrakham, three, the sons of Eleonai, Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Peliah, and Akubah, and Jehonon, and Deliah, and Annih, seven. CHAPTER 4 The sons of Judah, Perez, Hezron, and Karmie, and Her, and Shobal. Riah, the son of Shobal, became the father of Jehath, and Jehath became the father of Ahomai and Lehad. These are the families of the Zorothites. These were the sons of the father of Itam, Jezreel, and Ishmael, and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Ahazelpony, and Panuel, the father of Gheidor, and Iser, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Her, the firstborn of Ephrata, the father of Bethlehem. After the father of Techoa had two wives, Hila and Nara, Nara, Borya Mahuzam, and Heifer, and Tomeini and Haashtari. These were the sons of Nara. The sons of Hila were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethanon. Haqaz became the father of Anub, and Zobidah, and the families of Aharheil, the son of Harum. Jebez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jebez, saying, because I bore him with sorrow. Jebez called on the God of Israel, saying, O, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow. God granted him that which he requested. Chehlub, the brother of Shuha, became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshtan. Eshtan became the father of Bethrafa, and Pasea, and Tahaina, the father of Ir Nahash. These were the men of Rekha. The sons of Kinaz, Othniel, and Sarayah. The sons of Othniel, Hathoth. Mayonathi became the father of Ofrah, and Sarayah became the father of Joab, the father of Geharashim, for they were craftsmen. The sons of Chehlub, the son of Jefunet, Iru, Ila, and Naham. And the sons of Ila, and Kinaz. The sons of Jehalelel, Zif, and Zifah, Tiriya, and Azrael. The sons of Ezra, Jethar, and Merid, and Ifer, and Jalon. And she bore Miriam, and Shamai, and Ishba, the father of Eshtamoa. His wife, the Jewess, bore Jared, the father of Gheidor, and Heber, the father of Soko, and Jekethyle, the father of Zenoa. These are the sons of Bethaya, the daughter of Pharaoh, who Merid took. The sons of the wife of Hodaia, the sister of Naham, were the father of Kialaia, the Garmite, and Eshtamoa, the Maokafite. The sons of Shimon, Amnon, and Rana, Benhanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi, Zoheth, and Benzoheth. The sons of Shila, the son of Judah, Ur, the father of Lekha, and Laada, the father of Marisha, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen of the house of Ashbaia, and Jochum, and the men of Koseba, and Joash, and Seraph, who had Dominion in Moab, and Jesubalahim. The records are ancient. These were the potters and the inhabitants of Natayam and Gheidorah. There they lived with the king for his work. The sons of Simeon, Namuel, and Jamin, Jareb, Zera, and Shaul, Shalom, his son, Mibsam, his son, Mishmah, his son. The sons of Mishmah, Hamuel his son, Zakkur his son, Shemay his son. Shemay had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers didn't have many children. Neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah. They lived at Bersheba, and Malada, and Hazaroshual, and Bilhah, and at Ism, and at Tolad, and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, and at Beth Markoboth, and at Hazar Susem, and at Bethbeeri, and at Shaariam. These were their cities to the reign of David. Their villages were Itam and Aon, Rimon and Token, and Ashan, five cities, and all their villages that were around the same cities to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. Mishobab, and Jamlek, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah, and Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshabaya, the son of Saraya, the son of Asiel, and Eleonai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohiah, and Asiah, and Adiel, and Jessamiel, and Beninaya, and Zizah, the son of Shifi, the son of Alon, the son of Jedaya, the son of Shemri, the son of Shamiah. These mentioned by name were princes in their families, and their father's houses increased greatly. They went to the entrance of Gador, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable. For those who lived there before were of Ham. These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Mayunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Niraiah, and Rafaiah, and Uziel, the sons of Ishi. They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day. End of Chapter 4 Chapter 5 The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. For he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the Prince, but the birthright was Joseph's. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. Hanok, and Palu, Hezron, and Karmie, the sons of Joel, Shamiah his son, Gogh his son, Shamiah his son, Micah his son, Reiah his son, Baal his son, Birah his son, whom Tilgoth Pilnasir, king of Assyria, carried away captive. He was Prince of the Reubenites. His brothers, by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned. The chief, Jail, and Zechariah, Embella, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aror, even to Nibol, and Baal-Meon, and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. In the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand, and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead. The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan, to Selikah, Joel the chief, and Shafam the second, and Jani, and Shafat in Bashan. Their brothers of their father's houses, Michael, and Mashulam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jakhan, and Ziya, and Iber, seven. These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Hury, the son of Joroa, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jesheshi, the son of Jado, the son of Bouz, Ahai, the son of Abdel, the son of Gooni, chief of their father's houses. They lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel. The sons of Rubin, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war. They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur and Nafish and Nodab. They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. They took away their livestock, of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand, for there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They increased from Bashan to Baal-Hermann, and Seneer, and Mount Hermann. These were the heads of their father's houses. Even Ephra, and Ishii, and Eliel, and Azrael, and Jeremiah, and Hodevaya, and Jediel, mighty men of Valar, famous men, heads of their father's houses. They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Poole, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgoth Pildesir, king of Assyria, and he carried them away. Then the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Hala, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day. The sons of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eliezar, and Ithamar, Eliezar became the father of Phineas, Phineas became the father of Abishua, and Abishua became the father of Bukai, and Bukai became the father of Uzai, and Uzai became the father of Zarahiah, and Zarahiah became the father of Maryoth, Maryoth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahaitub, and Ahaitub became the father of Zedok, and Zedok became the father of Ahimaaz, and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan, and Johanan became the father of Azariah, he it is, who executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem, and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of a high-tube, and a high-tube became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Shalom, and Shalom became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Saraiah, and Saraiah became the father of Jehoshadok. Jehoshadok went into captivity when Yahweh carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The sons of Levi, Gershom, Kohath, and Morari, these are the names of the sons of Gershom, Libny, and Shamai. The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Ishar, and Hebron, and Uziel. The sons of Morari, Mali, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their father's households. Of Gershom, Libny his son, Jehath his son, Zima his son, Joah his son, Edo his son, Zera his son, Jetharari his son. The sons of Kohath, Aminadab his son, Korah his son, Asir his son, Elkhana his son, Ebyasaf his son, and Asir his son, Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzayah his son, and Shaul his son. The sons of Elkhana, Amasai and Ahaymath. As for Elkhana, the sons of Elkhana. Sofai his son, and Nehath his son, Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkhana his son. The sons of Samuel, the first born Joel, and the second Abidah. The sons of Morari, Mali, Libny his son, Shamai his son, Uzayah his son, Shamayah his son, Hagiah his son, Asayah his son. These are they whom David set over the service of Song in the house of Yahweh after that the ark had rested. They ministered with Song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, and they waited on their office according to their order. These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohaphites, Heymam the Singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, the son of Elkhana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliye, the son of Toa, the son of Zhouaf, the son of Elkhana, the son of Nehath, the son of Ahmasai, the son of Elkhana, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, the son of Tehath, the son of Asir, the son of Abiyasath, the son of Korah, the son of Ishar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph, the son of Barakiyab, the son of Shemayah, the son of Michael, the son of Baaseah, the son of Malkijah, the son of Ethni, the son of Zera, the son of Adiyah, the son of Ethan, the son of Zima, the son of Shemai, the son of Jehath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. On the left hand there are brothers, the sons of Marari, Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Maluk, the son of Hashabaiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkayah, the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamur, the son of Mali, the son of Mushi, the son of Marari, the son of Levi. Their brothers, the Levites, were appointed for all the service of the Tabernacle of the house of God, but Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. These are the sons of Aaron, Eleazar his son, Phineas his son, Abashua his son, Bukai his son, Uzai his son, Zarahiah his son, Mariah his son, Amariah his son, Ahaitub his son, Zadok his son, Ahaymaaz his son. Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders. To the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Coethites, for theirs was the first lot. To them they gave Hebron, in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it. But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb, the son of Jeffuna. To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Refuge, Hebron, Libna also with its suburbs, and Jatir, and Eshtimoa with its suburbs, and Hylin with its suburbs, Dabir with its suburbs, Ashon with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs. And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gaba with its suburbs, and Alamedh with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. To the rest of the sons of Coeth were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. To the sons of Gersham, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naftali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. To the sons of Marari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. They gave by lot, out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name. Some of the families of the sons of Coeth had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its suburbs, Ghazer also with its suburbs, and Jokmium with its suburbs, and Beth Huron with its suburbs, and Aijalan with its suburbs, and Ghath-Raman with its suburbs, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Anur with its suburbs, and Balaim with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the tribes of Coeth. To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Ghulon in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ash-Toroth with its suburbs, and out of the tribe of Issachar, Qadish with its suburbs, Dabbarath with its suburbs, and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anum with its suburbs, and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs, and Huqaq with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs, and out of the tribe of Nath-Tali, Qadish in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiryothium with its suburbs. To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Marari were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Ramono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs, and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan were given them, out of the tribe of Rubin, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jazah with its suburbs, and Ketimoth with its suburbs, and Mefaoth with its suburbs, and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, and Heshbhan with its suburbs, and Jazah with its suburbs. End of Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Of the Sons of Issachar, Tola and Pua, Jasub and Shemron IV The Sons of Tola, Uzzi and Rafaia and Jeriel, and Jamai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses of Tola, mighty men of Valar in their generations, their number in the days of David were 22,600. The Sons of Uzzi, Izrahaia, the Sons of Izrahaia, Michael and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishaia, five, all of them chief men, with them by their generations after their fathers' houses were bands of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons. Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of Valar, reckoned in all by genealogy, were 87,000. The Sons of Benjamin, Bela and Baker and Jadiel III The Sons of Bela, Esband and Uzzi and Uziel and Jeremoth and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of Valar, and they were reckoned by genealogy, 22,034. The Sons of Baker, Xemera and Joash and Eleazar and Eleonai, and Omri and Jeremoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alameth. All these were the Sons of Baker. They were reckoned by genealogy after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of Valar, 20,200. The Sons of Jadiel, Bilhan, the Sons of Bilhan, Jehush and Benjamin, and Ehud and Janana, and Jathan and Tarshish and Ahishahar. All these were Sons of Jadiel, according to the heads of their fathers' household, mighty men of Valar, 17,200, who were able to go forth in the army for war. Shupam also and Hupam, the Sons of Ir, Husham, the Sons of Ahar, the Sons of Naftali, Jaziel and Goonie and Jayzer, and Shalom, the Sons of Bilha, the Sons of Manasseh, Asreal, whom is concubine the Amoridus Boer. She bore Makar, the father of Gilead, and Makir took a wife of Hupam and Shupam, whose sister's name was Makar, and the name of the second was Zalofahad, and Zalofahad had daughters. Makar, the wife of Makir, bore a son, and she named him Peresh, and the name of his brother was Cheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekam. The Sons of Ulam, Bedan. These were the Sons of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh. His sister, Hamolaketh, bore Isshad, and Abyezer, and Mala. The Sons of Shemaida were Ahayan, and Shechem, and Lichai, and Anayam. The Sons of Ephraim, Shutheila and Bered, his son, and Tahath, his son, and Eliadah, his son, and Tahath, his son, and Zabad, his son, and Shutheila, his son, and Azar, and Eliad, whom the men of Gath, who were born in the land, killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. Ephraim, their father, mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. He went into his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Bariah, because it went evil with his house. His daughter was Shira, who built Bethhoran, the lower, and the upper, and Uz and Shira. Rifa was his son, and Rechef, and Tehla, his son, and Tahann, his son, Ladin, his son, Ahmahud, his son, Alishama, his son, Nun, his son, Joshua, his son. Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, to Azar and its towns, and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshian, and its towns, Tahannak, and its towns, Megiddo, and its towns, Dor, and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph, the son of Israel, the sons of Asher, Imnah, and Ishfa, and Ishvi, and Bariah, and Sarah, their sister. The sons of Bariah, Heber, and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzeith. Heber became the father of Jaflet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua, their sister. The sons of Jaflet, Pasak, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Jaflet. The sons of Shemer, Ahay, and Rogah, Jehuba, and Aram. The sons of Halam, his brother, Zofa, and Imnah, and Shaleth, and Amal. The sons of Zofa, Shua, and Harnafer, and Shual, and Bari, and Imrah, Bezer, and Hod, Shama, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Birah. The sons of Jethar, Jafuna, and Pispah, and Ara. The sons of Ula, Ara, and Haniel, and Razia. All these were the children of Asher, heads of the father's houses, choice and mighty men of Valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men. Chapter 8 Benjamin became the father of Bela, his first-born, Ashbel, the second, and Ahara, the third, Noha, the fourth, and Rafa, the fifth. Bela had sons, Adar, and Gerah, and Abahud, and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahua, and Gerah, and Shafufan, and Huram. These are the sons of Ehud. These are the heads of father's households of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Menahath, and Nama, and Ahaja, and Gerah. He carried them captive, and he became the father of Uza, and Ahayud. Shara Haram became the father of children in the field of Moab after he had sent them away. Husham and Bahara were his wives. He became the father of Hodesh, his wife, Jobab, and Zabiyah, and Meisha, and Malkam, and Jeyuz, and Shakaya, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of father's households. Of Husham he became the father of Abitub, and Elpaal. The sons of Elpaal, Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns, and Barayah, and Shema, who were heads of father's households of the inhabitants of Aijalan, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath, and Ahiyo, Shashak, and Jeremath, and Zabadayah, and Arad, and Adur, and Michael, and Ishpa, and Johah, the sons of Barayah, and Zabadayah, and Mesulam, and Hiski, and Heber, and Ishmari, and Isliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal, and Jakim, and Zikri, and Zabdi, and Eleonai, and Zilithai, and Eliel, and Adayah, and Barayah, and Shemrath, the sons of Shema, and Ishpan, and Eber, and Elial, and Abdon, and Zikri, and Hanan, and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothaija, and Ifdiya, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak, and Shamsherai, and Sheharaya, and Athalaya, and Jarashaya, and Elijah, and Zikri, the sons of Jeroham. These were the heads of father's households throughout their generations, chiefmen. These lived in Jerusalem. In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, whose wife's name was Maaka, and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Bael, and Nadab, and Gheidor, and Ahio, and Zechur. Mikloth became the father of Shemaah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers. Ner became the father of Kish, and Kish became the father of Saul, and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Malkeshua, and Abinadab, and Eshbal. The son of Jonathan was Miriam Baal, and Miriam Baal became the father of Maika, the sons of Maika, Pethon, and Melek, and Horeya, and Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Jehoada, and Jehoada became the father of Alamef, and Azmaveth, and Zemri, and Zemri became the father of Moza. Moza became the father of B'nayah. Rafa was his son, Eliasah his son, Azel his son. Azel had six sons whose names are these, Azrakam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sherariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel, the sons of Eshek his brother, Ulam his first-born, Jehosh the second, and Alephelet the third. The sons of Ulam were mighty men of Valor, archers, and had many sons, and son's sons one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin. CHAPTER 9 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies, and behold they are written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience. Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethanim. In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh, Uthai the son of Ammahud, the son of Amri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez, the son of Judah, of the Shilonites, Asiah the first-born and his sons, of the sons of Zarah, Jehul and their brothers 690, of the sons of Benjamin, Salu the sons of Mashulam, the son of Hodevayah, the son of Hassanua, and Ibnayah the son of Jeroham, and Ella the son of Uzzi, the son of Micri, and Mashulah the son of Sheffatayah, the son of Raoul, the son of Ibnidjah, and their brothers according to their generations 956. All these men were heads of fathers' households by their fathers' houses. Of the priests, Jadaia and Jehoirib, Jakeen and Azariah, the son of Hilkayah, the son of Mashulam, the son of Zadok, the son of Maryoth, the son of Ahaitub, the ruler of the house of God, and Adiyah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malkayah, and Masai, the son of Adiyel, the son of Jazera, the son of Mashulam, the son of Mashilimith, the son of Imr, and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses 1,760, very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. Of the Levites, Shamiah, the son of Hashub, the son of Azraqam, the son of Hashabayah, of the sons of Marari, and Bakhpakar, Haresh, and Galal, and Matanayah, the son of Micah, the son of Zikri, the son of Asaph, and Obadiah, the son of Shamiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthan, and Barakayah, the son of Asah, the son of Al-Khanna, who lived in the villages of the Natophithites. The porters, Shalom, Anakub, and Talman, and Ahayman, and their brothers, Shalom was the chief, who previously served in the king's gate eastward. They were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi. Shalom, the son of Koray, the son of Abiyahsath, the son of Korah, and his brothers of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry. Finahas, the son of Eleazar, was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was with him. Zechariah, the son of Meshalamiah, was porter of the door of the tent of meeting. All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the Seer ordained in their office of trust. So they and their children had oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards. On the four sides were the porters toward the east, west, north, and south. Their brothers in their villages were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them. For the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in the house of God. They lodged around the house of God, because that duty was on them, and to them pertained its opening morning by morning. Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service, for by count were these brought in, and by count were these taken out. Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. Some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices. Matathiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shalom, the Chorahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans. Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Chorahites, were over the showbread to prepare it every Sabbath. These are the singers, heads of father's households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service, for they were employed in their work day and night. These were heads of father's households of the Levites throughout their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem. In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, jail whose wife's name was Makka, and his firstborn son, Abdon, and Zure, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, and Gador, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. Mikloth became the father of Shemam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem over against their brothers. Ner became the father of Kish, and Kish became the father of Saul, and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Mal-Kashua, and Abdenadab, and Eshbal. The son of Jonathan was Mirib Baal, and Mirib Baal became the father of Micah. The sons of Micah, Pethon, and Melek, and Terea, and Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Jara, and Jara became the father of Alameth, and Asmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri became the father of Moza, and Moza became the father of Binea, and Rafaah his son, Eliasah his son, Azel his son. Azel had six sons whose names are these, Azraqam, Bokehru, and Ishmael, and Shariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. These are the sons of Azel.