2 Chronicles 24 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Seven years old, was Joash when he began to reign, and, forty years, reigned he, in Jerusalem,––and, the name of his mother, was Zibiah, of Beersheba. ² And Joash did that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh,–all the days of Jehoiada the priest. ³ And Jehoiada took for him two wives,––and he begat sons and daughters. ⁴ And it came to pass, after this, that it was near the heart of Joash to renew the house of Yahweh. ⁵ So he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said unto them––Go ye out unto the cities of Judah, and gather out of all Israel silver to repair the house of your God, year by year, and, ye, shall hasten the matter,––but the Levites hastened it not. ⁶ Then the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Wherefore hast thou not required of the Levites, to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tribute of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the convocation of Israel,––for the tent of testimony? ⁷ For, as for Athaliah the Lawless, her sons, brake up the House of God,––moreover, all the hallowed things of the house of Yahweh, offered they unto the Baalim. ⁸ So the king bade [them], and they made a certain chest,––and set it in the gate of the house of Yahweh, outside. ⁹ And they made a proclamation, throughout Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in unto Yahweh the tribute of Moses the servant of God, laid upon Israel in the desert. ¹⁰ And all the rulers and all the people rejoiced,––and brought in and cast into the chest, until they had finished. ¹¹ And it came to pass, what time the chest was brought into the office of the king by the hand of the Levites, and when they had seen that abundant was the silver, that the scribe of the king came in, and the officer of the chief priest, and they emptied the chest, and bare it, and put it back in its place,––thus, they did, day by day, and collected silver, in abundance; ¹² and the king and Jehoiada gave it unto such as were doing the work of labouring upon the house of Yahweh, and they were hiring masons and carpenters, to renew the house of Yahweh,––moreover also, such as were fashioners of iron and bronze, to repair the house of Yahweh. ¹³ So the doers of the work wrought, and the work of restoration went forward, in their hand,––and they caused the house of God to stand forth according to its due proportions, and made it strong. ¹⁴ And, when they had finished, they brought in before the king and Jehoiada the rest of the silver, and he made it into utensils for the house of Yahweh, utensils of attendance, and bowls and spoons, even utensils of gold and silver. Then were they offering ascending–sacrifices in the house of Yahweh, continually, all the days of Jehoiada.
¹⁵ But Jehoiada waxed old and became satisfied with days, and died,––a hundred and thirty years old, when he died. ¹⁶ And they buried him in the city of David, with the kings,––because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and his house. ¹⁷ Now, after the death of Jehoiada, came the rulers of Judah, and bowed themselves down unto the king,––then, hearkened the king unto them. ¹⁸ And they forsook the house of Yahweh, God of their fathers, and served the Sacred Stems, and the images,––so there was wrath against Judah and Jerusalem, for this their guilt. ¹⁹ And he sent among them prophets, to bring them back unto Yahweh,––and they testified against them, but they would not give ear. ²⁰ And, the spirit of God, clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he took his stand above the people,––and said unto them, Thus, saith God, Wherefore are, ye, transgressing the commandments of Yahweh, so that ye cannot prosper, because ye have forsaken Yahweh, therefore hath he forsaken you. ²¹ So they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones, by the commandment of the king,––in the court of the house of Yahweh. ²² Thus Joash the king, remembered not, the lovingkindness which Jehoiada his father had done for him, but slew his son,––and, as he died, he said, Yahweh see and require! ²³ And it came to pass, when the year had gone round, that the force of Syria came up against him, and they entered Judah, and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the rulers of the people, from among the people,––and, all the spoil of them, sent they unto the king of Damascus. ²⁴ Although, with a comparatively few men, came the force of Syria, yet, Yahweh, delivered into their hand an exceeding large force,––because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers,––and, upon Joash, executed they judgments. ²⁵ And, when they had departed from him, for they left him with sore diseases, his own servants conspired against him, for the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him upon his bed, and he died,––and, though they buried him in the city of David, yet did they not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings. ²⁶ Now, these, are they that conspired against him,––Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess. ²⁷ But, as for his sons, and the greatness of the oracle on him, and the foundation of the house of God, lo! there they are written, in the commentary of the Book of Kings,––and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁹ And Lamech took to himself two wives,––the name of the one, was Adah, and, the name of the second, Zillah.

⁵ And surely, your blood, of your lives, will I require, From the hand of every living creature, will I require it,––and from the hand of man, From the hand of each one’s brother, will I require the life of man:

¹⁵ But, thou, shalt go in unto thy fathers, in peace,––thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

²¹ And he dwelt in the desert of Paran,––and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

⁴ but, unto my own land and unto my own kindred, wilt go,––So shalt thou take a wife, for my son––for Isaac.

⁸ So Abraham breathed his last, and died, in a fine old age, old and satisfied,––and was gathered unto his people.

⁹ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years,––Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.

³⁸ This, moreover, is what thou shalt offer upon the altar, two lambs of a year old, day by day, continually: ³⁹ The one, lamb, shalt thou offer in the morning,––and, the second, lamb, shalt thou offer between the evenings; ⁴⁰ and a tenth part of fine meal mingled with a fourth part of the hin of beaten oil, and, as a drink–offering, a fourth part of the hin of wine,––with the one, lamb. ⁴¹ And, the second lamb, shalt thou offer between the evenings,––according to the meal–offering of the morning, and according to the drink–offering thereof, shalt thou offer with it, for a satisfying odour, an altar–flame, to Yahweh: ⁴² a continual ascending–sacrifice, to your generations, at the opening of the tent of meeting, before Yahweh,––where will meet with you, to speak unto thee, there.

¹² When thou takest the sum of the sons of Israel, by their numberings, then shall they give, every man a propitiatory–covering for his soul to Yahweh, when they are numbered,––that there may be among them no plague, when they are numbered. ¹³ This, shall they give––every one that passeth over to them that have been numbered––a half–shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary,––the shekel is, twenty gerahs––the half–shekel, shall be a heave–offering to Yahweh. ¹⁴ All who pass over to the numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, shall give the heave–offering of Yahweh. ¹⁵ The rich, shall not give more, and, the poor, shall not give less, than the half–shekel,––when they give the heave–offering of Yahweh, to put a propitiatory–covering over your souls. ¹⁶ So then thou shalt take the silver for the propitiatory–coverings, from the sons of Israel, and shalt expend it upon the service of the tent of meeting,––thus shall it be for the sons of Israel, as a memorial before Yahweh, to put a propitiatory–covering over your souls.

¹³ For, their altars, shall ye smash, And, their pillars, shall ye shiver,––And, their sacred–stems, shall ye fell.

⁸ And, five, of you shall chase, a hundred, And, a hundred, of you shall put ten thousand to flight,––So shall your foes fall before you, by the sword.

²⁵ And will bring in upon you a sword, that shall inflict the covenanted avenging: So shall ye be gathered into your cities,––Then will I send a pestilence into your midst, And ye shall be delivered into the hand of an enemy.

³⁷ And they shall stumble one upon another, as from before a sword, when, pursuer, there is none; And ye shall not have wherewith to stand before your foes;

⁵⁰ But do, thou thyself, put the Levites in charge over the habitation of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that pertaineth thereto, they, shall bear the habitation, and all the furniture thereof, and they, shall attend thereupon; and, round about the habitation, shall they encamp.

⁴¹ But Moses said, Wherefore is it that, ye, are going beyond the bidding of Yahweh,––since, that, cannot prosper?

⁷ So Moses laid up the staves before Yahweh,––in the tent of the testimony.
⁸ And it came to pass, on the morrow, that Moses entered into the tent of the testimony; and lo! the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi, had budded,––yea it had brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and borne ripe almonds.

² Therefore also, thy brethren of the tribe of Levi, the stem of thy father, bring thou near with thee, and let them be joined unto thee, and let them wait upon thee,––both on thee and on thy sons with thee, before the tent of the testimony.

² Command the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them,––My offering, my food, for my altar–flames, my satisfying odour, shall ye take heed to offer unto me, in its season. ³ Therefore shalt thou say to them, This, is the altar–flame, which ye shall offer unto Yahweh,––he–lambs a year old, without defect, two daily, as a continual ascending–sacrifice. ⁴ The one lamb, shalt thou offer in the morning,––and, the other lamb, shalt thou offer between the two evenings; ⁵ also the tenth of an ephah of fine meal, for a meal–offering,––overflowed with beaten oil, the fourth of a hin: ⁶ a continual ascending–sacrifice,––which was offered in Mount Sinai, as a satisfying odour, an altar–flame, unto Yahweh. ⁷ Also the drink–offering thereof, the fourth of a hin for each lamb,––in a holy place, shall it be poured out, as a libation of strong drink unto Yahweh. ⁸ And, the other lamb, shalt thou offer, between the two evenings; like the meal–offering of the morning, and like the drink–offering thereof, shalt thou offer, an altar flame, a satisfying odour, unto Yahweh.
⁹ But, on the sabbath day, two he–lambs a year old, without defect, and two–tenths of fine meal as a meal–offering, overflowed with oil, and the drink–offering thereof: ¹⁰ the ascending–sacrifice of a sabbath, on its own sabbath,––besides the continual ascending–sacrifice, and the drink–offering thereof. ¹¹ And, in the beginnings of your months, shall ye bring near an ascending–sacrifice unto Yahweh, two choice bullocks, and one ram, seven he–lambs a year old, without defect; ¹² and three–tenths of fine meal, as a meal–offering, overflowed with oil, to each bullock,––and two–tenths of fine–meal, as a meal–offering, overflowed with oil, to each ram; ¹³ and a tenth, severally, of fine meal, as a meal–offering, overflowed with oil, to each lamb,––an ascending–sacrifice, a satisfying odour, an altar–flame unto Yahweh. ¹⁴ And, as their drink–offerings, half a hin, shall be to a bullock, and the third of a hin to a ram, and the fourth of a hin to a lamb, of wine,––This, is the ascending–sacrifice of a month, in its month, for the months of the year. ¹⁵ Also one he–goat, as a sin–bearer unto Yahweh,––besides the continual ascending–sacrifice, shall it be offered, with the drink–offering thereof.
¹⁶ And, on the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be a passover unto Yahweh; ¹⁷ and, on the fifteenth day of this month, a festival,––seven days, unleavened cakes, shall be eaten. ¹⁸ On the first day, a holy convocation,––no laborious work, shall ye do; ¹⁹ but ye shall bring near––as an altar–flame––an ascending–sacrifice unto Yahweh,––two choice bullocks, and one ram,––and seven he–lambs a year old, without defect, must they be for you; ²⁰ and, for their meal–offering, fine meal, overflowed with oil,––three–tenths for a bullock, and two–tenths for a ram, shall ye offer; ²¹ a tenth, severally, shalt thou offer, for each lamb,––for the seven lambs; ²² also one he–goat for bearing sin, to put a propitiatory–covering over you: ²³ in addition to, the ascending–sacrifice of the morning, which is for the continual ascending–sacrifice, shall ye offer these. ²⁴ Like these, shall ye offer, daily, for seven days, as the food of the altar–flame of a satisfying odour, unto Yahweh,––besides the continual ascending–sacrifice, shall it be offered, with the drink–offering thereof. ²⁵ And, on the seventh day, shall ye have, a holy convocation,––no laborious work, shall ye do. ²⁶ And, on the day of firstfruits, when ye bring near a new meal–offering unto Yahweh, in your weeks, a holy convocation, shall there be unto you, no laborious work, shall ye do; ²⁷ but ye shall bring near as an ascending–sacrifice, for a satisfying odour unto Yahweh, two choice bullocks, one ram,––seven he–lambs a year old; ²⁸ also their meal–offering, fine meal, overflowed with oil,––three–tenths for each bullock, two–tenths for the one ram; ²⁹ a tenth, severally, for each lamb,––of the seven lambs;

²⁵ Yahweh, will give thee up to be routed before thine enemies, one way, shalt thou go out against them, and, seven ways, shalt thou flee before them,––and thou shalt become a terror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁴⁸ therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, whom Yahweh will send against thee, with hunger, and with thirst, and with nakedness, and with want of all things,––and he, will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he hath destroyed thee.

²⁵ Then will men say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,––which he solemnised with them, when he brought them forth, out of the land of Egypt; ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and bowed down to them,––gods which they had not known, and in which he had given them no share:

²⁷ For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck,––lo! while I am yet alive with you today, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death?

¹⁵ Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged,––So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation. ¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with foreign [gods], ––With abominations, angered they him: ¹⁷ They sacrificed to mischievous demons, to a No–GOD, Gods whom they knew not,––New ones lately come in, Your fathers never shuddered at them!

³⁰ Oh! how would, one, have chased, a thousand! And, two, put, ten thousand, to flight,––Were it not that, their Rock, had sold them, And, Yahweh, had abandoned them;

³⁵ Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.

²⁰ Did not, Achan son of Zerah, commit an act of treachery, with a devoted thing, and, upon all the assembly of Israel, came wrath,––so that not, he––one man alone, died in his iniquity.

⁸ They chose gods that were new, Then,––war at the gates! Was there, a shield, to be seen? or a spear? among forty thousand in Israel?

³⁴ But, the spirit of Yahweh, clothed Gideon,––so he blew with a horn, and Abiezer was gathered after him.

³⁰ Hence, the oracle of Yahweh God of Israel, I, said, that, thy house, and the house of thy father, should go to and fro in my presence, unto times age–abiding: But, now, (is the oracle of Yahweh)––Be it far from me! For, them who honour me, will I honour, but, they who despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.

¹³ And Samuel said unto Saul––Thou hast shewn thyself foolish,––thou hast not kept the commandment of Yahweh thy God, which he commanded thee, for, now, would Yahweh have established thy kingdom unto Israel until times age–abiding; ¹⁴ Whereas, now, shall thy kingdom not be established,––Yahweh hath sought out for him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh hath commanded him to be leader over his people, because thou hast not kept that which Yahweh commanded thee.

⁹ Wherefore, hast thou despised the word of Yahweh, by doing that which is wicked in mine eyes? Uriah the Hittite, hast thou smitten with the sword, and, his wife, hast thou taken to thyself to wife, yea, him, hast thou slain with the sword of the sons of Ammon! ¹⁰ Now, therefore, the sword shall not depart from thy house, unto age–abiding times,––because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

¹ And again was the anger of Yahweh kindled against Israel,––so that he suffered David to be moved against them, saying, Go, count Israel and Judah.

³ Then said Joab unto the king––Yea, Yahweh thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold, and [suffer] the eyes of my lord the king, to see it,––but, my lord the king, wherefore doth he find pleasure in this thing?

¹⁰ So then David slept with his fathers,––and was buried in the city of David.

¹⁵ And it came to pass that, Solomon, had seventy thousand bearers of burdens,––and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain;

⁵⁰ and the bowls, and the snuffers, and the tossing bowls, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold,––and the hinge–holes, for the doors of the inner house, the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house itself, the temple, of, gold.

⁴ Yea it came to pass, in the old age of Solomon, that, his wives, turned aside his heart after other gods,––his heart therefore was not sound with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father. ⁵ And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

⁹ but hast made wicked thy doings beyond any who were before thee,––and hast gone and made thee ether gods, even molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast, me, behind thy back,

²³ And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems,––upon every high hill, and under every green tree.

²² Then drew near the prophet, unto the king of Israel, and said unto him––Go strengthen thyself, and mark and see, what thou wilt do,––for, at the return of the year, is, the king of Syria, coming up against thee.

²⁶ And so it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben–hadad numbered the Syrians,––and came up to Aphek, to fight with Israel;

²¹ Seven years old, was Jehoash, when he began to reign.

² And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days,––whereunto, Jehoiada the priest, instructed him:

⁴ And Jehoash said unto the priests,––All the silver of the hallowed things, that is brought into the house of Yahweh––the silver of one who transgresseth, the silver of [their] persons by the estimate of, each one,––all the silver which it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,

⁴ And Jehoash said unto the priests,––All the silver of the hallowed things, that is brought into the house of Yahweh––the silver of one who transgresseth, the silver of [their] persons by the estimate of, each one,––all the silver which it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Yahweh, ⁵ let the priests take to them, every one from his acquaintance,––and let, them, repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever there may be found a breach. ⁶ But it came to pass, that, in the twenty–third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. ⁷ So King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them––Why are ye not repairing the breaches of the house? Now, therefore, do not take silver from your acquaintances, for, to [repair] the breaches of the house, ought ye to have given it? ⁸ The priests therefore consented, not to take silver from the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house. ⁹ Then took Jehoiada a certain chest, and bored a hole in the door thereof,––and set it beside the altar, on the right as one entereth into the house of Yahweh, and the priests that kept the entrance–hall, used to put therein––all the silver that was brought into the house of Yahweh. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when they saw that there was much silver in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and brought together and counted the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh; ¹¹ then used they to give the silver that had been weighed out, into the hands of the doers of the work, who had oversight of the house of Yahweh,––and they brought it forth, to the carpenters, and to the builders, who were working upon the house of Yahweh; ¹² and to the masons, and to the hewers of stone, and to buy timber, and hewn stone, for repairing the breaches of the house of Yahweh,––and to every one that went out upon the house, to repair it. ¹³ Howbeit there were not made for the house of Yahweh, bowls of silver, snuffers, dashing basins, trumpets, any vessel of gold, or any vessel of silver,––out of the silver that was brought into the house of Yahweh; ¹⁴ for, to the doers of the work, used they to give it; and so they repaired, therewith, the house of Yahweh.

¹⁷ Then, came up Hazael, king of Syria, and fought against Gath, and captured it,––so Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem. ¹⁸ Therefore did Jehoash, king of Judah, take all the hallowed things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had hallowed, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,––and sent to Hazael king of Syria, so he went up from against Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Therefore did Jehoash, king of Judah, take all the hallowed things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had hallowed, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,––and sent to Hazael king of Syria, so he went up from against Jerusalem.

²⁰ And his servants arose and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash, in the house of Millo which teeth down to Silla. ²¹ Yea, Jozabar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, that he died, and he was buried with his fathers, in the city of David,––and, Amaziah his son, reigned in his stead.

²¹ Yea, Jozabar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, that he died, and he was buried with his fathers, in the city of David,––and, Amaziah his son, reigned in his stead.

¹⁹ And, when they made against him a conspiracy in Jerusalem, he fled to Lachish,––but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him, there. ²⁰ And they bare him on horses,––and he was buried in Jerusalem, with his fathers, in the city of David.

¹³ And Yahweh testified against Israel and against Judah, through all his prophets––every one who had a vision, saying––Turn ye from your wicked ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers; and which I sent unto you through my servants the prophets. ¹⁴ Howbeit they hearkened not,––but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who trusted not in Yahweh their God; ¹⁵ but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them,––and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.

¹¹ Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son; ¹² Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son;

¹⁸ Then, the spirit, clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, Thine, O David, Yea, with, thee, O son of Jesse! Prosperity, prosperity to thee, And prosperity to thy helpers, For thy God, hath helped thee: So David accepted them, and set them among the chiefs of the band.

⁵ And David said, Solomon my son, is young and tender, and, the house to be built, must be great and lofty and famous and beautiful, for all lands,––oh let me then prepare for it. So David prepared abundantly, before his death.

¹ Now, David, was old, and satisfied with days,––so he made Solomon his son king, over Israel;

⁹ Thou, therefore, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for, all hearts, doth Yahweh search, and, every devised purpose, doth he understand,––If thou seek him, He will be found of thee, but, if thou forsake him, He will cast thee off for ever.

⁹ So the people rejoiced because they willingly offered, for, with a perfect heart, offered they willingly unto Yahweh,––moreover also, David the king, rejoiced with great joy.

²⁹ Now, the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

⁸ But he declined the counsel of the old men, which they gave him,––and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who were standing before him. ⁹ And he said unto them, What do, ye, counsel that we should return as answer, unto this people,––who have spoken unto me saying, Lighten thou somewhat the yoke, which thy father put upon us? ¹⁰ Then spake with him the young men who had grown up with him, saying, Thus, shalt thou speak unto the people who have spoken unto thee saying, Thy father, made our yoke heavy, Thou, therefore, lighten somewhat our yoke,––Thus, shalt thou say unto them, My little finger, is thicker than my father’s loins;

²² And, the rest of the story of Abijah, both his ways and his words,––are written, in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

¹ Now, as for Azariah son of Oded, there came upon him, the spirit of God. ² So he went forth to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin,––Yahweh, is with you, so long as ye are with him, and, if ye seek him, he will be found of you, but, if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

⁸ Were not, the Ethiopians and the Lybians, a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst lean upon Yahweh, he delivered them into thy hand. ⁹ For, as touching Yahweh, [seeing that], his eyes, are ever running to and fro throughout all the earth, to shew himself strong with them who are perfect toward himself, thou hast made thyself foolish over this,––for, from henceforth, there shall be with thee––wars.

¹¹ But lo! the story of Asa, first and last, there it is, written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

² And there came out to meet him, Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, who said unto King Jehoshaphat, Unto the lawless, was it [right] to give help? and, on them who hate Yahweh, to bestow thy love? For this cause, therefore, is there wrath against thee, from before Yahweh;

¹¹ yea lo! they, are requiting us,––by coming to drive us out, from thy possession, which thou didst cause us to possess. ¹² O our God, wilt thou not bring judgment upon them, seeing that there is, in us, no strength, before this great multitude, that is coming against us,––we, therefore, know not what we shall do, but, unto thee, are our eyes.

¹⁴ Now, as for Jahaziel son of Zechariah son of Benaiah son of Jeiel son of Mattaniah a Levite, of the sons of Asaph, there came upon him the spirit of Yahweh, in the midst of the convocation:

³⁴ But, the rest of the story of Jehoshaphat, first and last, lo! there it is written in the story of Jehu son of Hanani, which hath been added to the book of the Kings of Israel.

² Now, he, had brethren, sons of Jehoshaphat––Azariah and Jehiel and Zechariah and Azariah, and Michael and Shephatiah,––all these, were sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel,

¹³ but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unchaste, after the unchastities of the house of Ahab,––moreover also, thine own brethren of the house of thy father who were better than thou, hast thou slain,

¹⁶ And Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and the Arabians, who were under the direction of the Ethiopians; ¹⁷ and they came up against Judah, and forced their way into it, and carried off all the possessions that were found belonging to the house of the king, moreover also his sons and his wives,––so that there was left him never a son, save only Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons. ¹⁸ And, after all this, Yahweh plagued him in his bowels with an incurable disease. ¹⁹ And it came to pass, in a year beyond a year, even when the end of the days of two years had passed, that his bowels fell out by reason of his disease, so that he died, of, malignant disease,––and his people made him no burning, like the burning of his fathers. ²⁰ Thirty–two years old, was he when he began to reign, and, eight years, reigned he in Jerusalem,––and went his way––unregretted, and, though they buried him in the city of David, yet, not in the sepulchres of the kings.

³ He too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab,––for, his mother, became his counselor, to work lawlessness. ⁴ Wherefore he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, like the house of Ahab,––for, they, became his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.

⁶ And he returned to be healed in Jezreel, because of the wounds wherewith they smote him in Ramah, when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria,––and, Azariah son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because, sick, was he!

⁸ And so it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab,––and found the rulers of Judah and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah ministering to Ahaziah, that he slew them.

¹ And, in the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the rulers of hundreds––even Azariah son of Jeroham, and Ishmael son of Jehohanan, and Azariah son of Obed, and Maaseiah son of Adaiah and Elishaphat son of Zichri––unto himself, in covenant. ² And they went round throughout Judah, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the ancestral chiefs of Israel,––and they came into Jerusalem. ³ And all the convocation solemnised a covenant in the house of God, with the king,––and he said to them, Lo! the king’s son must reign, as spake Yahweh concerning the sons of David. ⁴ This, is the thing that ye shall do,––A third of you entering on the sabbath, both of the priests and of the Levites, as doorkeepers of the porch; ⁵ and a third, being in the house of the king, and a third, at the foundation gate,––and all the people, being in the courts of the house of Yahweh, ⁶ then let no one enter the house of Yahweh, save only the priests, and they who are in attendance of the Levites, they, may enter, for, holy, they are,–but, all the people, shall keep the watch of Yahweh. ⁷ So shall the Levites encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand, and, he that entereth into the house, shall be put to death. Thus be ye with the king, when he cometh in and when he goeth out. ⁸ So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they took every man his men, who were coming in on the sabbath, with them who were going out on the sabbath,––for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses. ⁹ And Jehoiada the priest gave unto the captains of hundreds, the spears and the bucklers and the shields, which belonged to King David,––which were in the house of God. ¹⁰ And be caused all the people to stand, even every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right corner of the house as far as the left corner of the house, by the altar and the house,––near the king round about. ¹¹ Then brought they forth the king’s son, and set upon him the crown and the testimony, and made him king,––and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, May the king live!

¹¹ Then brought they forth the king’s son, and set upon him the crown and the testimony, and made him king,––and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, May the king live!
¹² Now, when Athaliah heard the noise of the people who were running, and those who were praising the king,––then came she unto the people in the house of Yahweh; ¹³ and looked, and lo! the king, standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets, and the singers, with instruments of song, and such as led the offering of praise, then Athaliah rent her garments, and said, Conspiracy! conspiracy! ¹⁴ Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds, officers of the force, and said unto them, Take her forth within the ranks, and he that cometh in after her let him be slain with the sword,––for, said the priest, Ye must not slay her in the house of Yahweh! ¹⁵ So they made way for her, and she came into the entrance of the horse–gate of the house of the king,––and they slew her there. ¹⁶ And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant, between himself and all the people, and the king,––that they should become a people unto Yahweh. ¹⁷ Then all the people entered into the house of Baal and brake it down, and, his altars and his images, brake they in pieces,––and, Mattan the priest of Baal, they slew, before the altars. ¹⁸ And Jehoiada put the oversight of the house of Yahweh into the hand of the priests and the Levites, whom David set by courses over the house of Yahweh, that they might offer up the ascending–sacrifices of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with song,––under the direction of David. ¹⁹ And he caused gatekeepers to stand, at the gates of the house of Yahweh,––that no one who was unclean should, on any account, enter. ²⁰ Then took he the captains of hundreds––and the nobles––and the rulers over the people––and all the people of the land, and brought down the king out of the house of Yahweh, and they entered, through the midst of the upper gate, into the house of the king,––and they seated the king, upon the throne of the kingdom. ²¹ And all the people of the land rejoiced, and, the city, was quiet,––when, Athaliah, they had slain with the sword.

⁴ And it came to pass, after this, that it was near the heart of Joash to renew the house of Yahweh.

⁶ Then the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Wherefore hast thou not required of the Levites, to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tribute of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the convocation of Israel,––for the tent of testimony?

¹² and the king and Jehoiada gave it unto such as were doing the work of labouring upon the house of Yahweh, and they were hiring masons and carpenters, to renew the house of Yahweh,––moreover also, such as were fashioners of iron and bronze, to repair the house of Yahweh.

¹⁵ But Jehoiada waxed old and became satisfied with days, and died,––a hundred and thirty years old, when he died. ¹⁶ And they buried him in the city of David, with the kings,––because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and his house. ¹⁷ Now, after the death of Jehoiada, came the rulers of Judah, and bowed themselves down unto the king,––then, hearkened the king unto them.

¹⁷ Now, after the death of Jehoiada, came the rulers of Judah, and bowed themselves down unto the king,––then, hearkened the king unto them. ¹⁸ And they forsook the house of Yahweh, God of their fathers, and served the Sacred Stems, and the images,––so there was wrath against Judah and Jerusalem, for this their guilt.

¹⁸ And they forsook the house of Yahweh, God of their fathers, and served the Sacred Stems, and the images,––so there was wrath against Judah and Jerusalem, for this their guilt. ¹⁹ And he sent among them prophets, to bring them back unto Yahweh,––and they testified against them, but they would not give ear. ²⁰ And, the spirit of God, clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he took his stand above the people,––and said unto them, Thus, saith God, Wherefore are, ye, transgressing the commandments of Yahweh, so that ye cannot prosper, because ye have forsaken Yahweh, therefore hath he forsaken you.

²⁰ And, the spirit of God, clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he took his stand above the people,––and said unto them, Thus, saith God, Wherefore are, ye, transgressing the commandments of Yahweh, so that ye cannot prosper, because ye have forsaken Yahweh, therefore hath he forsaken you. ²¹ So they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones, by the commandment of the king,––in the court of the house of Yahweh. ²² Thus Joash the king, remembered not, the lovingkindness which Jehoiada his father had done for him, but slew his son,––and, as he died, he said, Yahweh see and require!

¹ Twenty–five years old, was Amaziah, when he began to reign, and, twenty–nine years, reigned he in Jerusalem,––and, the name of his mother, was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem. ² And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,––only not with a whole heart.

⁴ And he did that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh,––according to all that Amaziah his father had done. ⁵ And it came to pass that he set himself to seek God, in the days of Zechariah, who gave understanding in the seeing of God,––and, throughout the days of his seeking Yahweh, God, prospered him.

¹³ and said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither, for, with guilt against Yahweh already upon us, ye, are thinking to add unto our sins, and unto our guilt,––for great is the guilt we have, and fierce is the anger over Israel.

²² And, in the time of his distress, he yet further acted unfaithfully with Yahweh,––he, King Ahaz! ²³ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus who had smitten him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria are helping them, unto them, will I sacrifice, that they may help me. But, they, served to seduce him and all Israel. ²⁴ And Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God, and brake away the fittings of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh,––and made for himself altars at every corner in Jerusalem;

²⁷ And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel,––and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

³ He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them.

⁸ Thus hath it come to pass, that, the wrath of Yahweh, hath been upon Judah and Jerusalem,––and he hath delivered them up as a terror and as an astonishment and as hissing, even as, ye, can see with your own eyes.

²⁰ And Hezekiah did thus, throughout all Judah,––and he did that which was good and right and faithful, before Yahweh his God.

²⁵ But, not according to the benefit done unto him, did Hezekiah make return, for uplifted was his heart,––and so there came upon him, wrath, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

³ And he again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had thrown down,––and set up altars to the Baalim, and made Sacred Stems, and bowed in prostration unto all the army of the heavens, and served them; ⁴ and built altars in the house of Yahweh,––as to which Yahweh had said, In Jerusalem, shall be my Name, unto times age–abiding. ⁵ Yea he built altars unto all the army of the heavens,––in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. ⁶ And, he, caused his sons to pass through the fire, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practised hidden arts and used divination, and practised sorcery, and appointed a necromancer, and a wizard,––he exceeded in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger; ⁷ and he set a resemblance–image which he had made,––in the house of God, as to which God had said unto David, and unto 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, unto times age–abiding.

⁸ And, in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purified the land and the house, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city and Joah son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God. ⁹ So they went in unto Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the silver that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the entrance–hall had collected from the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin,––and returned to Jerusalem.

⁹ So they went in unto Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the silver that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the entrance–hall had collected from the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin,––and returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁰ And the overseers in the house of Yahweh, delivered it into the hand of the doer of the work,––yea they delivered it to the doers of the work, because they were working in the house of Yahweh, in searching and repairing the house: ¹¹ yea they delivered it to the artificers and to the builders, to buy carved stones and timbers for the joinings,––and to build up the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

¹⁴ Also, all the rulers of the priests and of the people, abounded in committing treachery, according to all the abominable ways of the nations,––and polluted the house of Yahweh, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And, though Yahweh God of their fathers sent unto them through his messengers, zealously sending them,––because he had compassion upon his people and upon his habitation, ¹⁶ yet became they mockers of the messengers of God, and despisers of his words, and mimics of his prophets,––until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people, until there was no healing.

⁷ But it came to pass, when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem had gone up, that the breaches began to be stopped, that it angered them exceedingly;

²⁶ But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee,––and they wrought great insults.

¹⁴ Remember me, O my God, concerning this,––and do not wipe out my lovingkindnesses, which I have done for the house of my God, and for those keeping charge thereof.

⁶ And Esther said, A man who is an adversary and enemy, this wicked Haman. And, Haman, was terrified, before the king and the queen.

²⁶ Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.

¹⁰ Now, therefore, ye kings, show your prudence, Be admonished, ye judges of earth: ¹¹ Serve Yahweh with reverence, and exult with trembling:

¹⁴ Thou hast seen! For, thou, mischief and misery, dost discern, to requite with thine own hand, Unto thee, doth, the unfortunate one, give himself up, To the fatherless, thou thyself, hast become a helper.

¹⁰ The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one:–– ¹¹ So that a son of earth may say––Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!

³⁶ So they spake him fair with their mouth, And, with their tongue, did promise him falsely; ³⁷ But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant:

⁶ I, said, Gods, ye are, Yea, sons of the Highest, are ye all; ⁷ But indeed, like the earth–born, shall ye die! And, like one of the princes, shall ye fall!

¹⁰ The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

¹⁶ With length of days, will I satisfy him, And will show him my salvation.

⁷ For, he, is our God, And, we, are the people of his pasture, and the flock of his hand. Today, if, to his voice, ye will hearken, ⁸ Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, As on the day of Massah, in the desert;

¹² They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise.
¹³ Soon forgat they his works,––They waited not for his counsel;

⁴ For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:

²¹ She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness,––with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him: ²² Going after her instantly, as an ox, to the slaughter, he entereth, and, as in fetters, unto the correction of a fool. ²³ Until an arrow cleaveth his liver, as a bird hasteth into a snare, and knoweth not, that, for his life, it is!

⁷ The memory of the righteous, yieldeth blessing, but, the name of the lawless, dieth out.

¹³ He that returneth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

¹⁹ A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship.

⁸ Like tying a stone to a sling, so, is he that giveth honour, to a dullard.

²⁸ A false tongue, hateth them who are crushed by it, and, a flattering mouth, worketh occasion of stumbling.

²² Though thou pound a fool in a mortar, amidst grain, with a pestle, his folly, will not depart from him.

⁵ A man who flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth, a net, over his steps.

¹² When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.

⁵ Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger,––Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure: ⁶ Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea, against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,––To capture spoil, And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.

⁵ They are coming in, From a land far away, From the utmost bound of the heavens,––Yahweh––with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land.

²³ Give ear, and hear ye my voice,––Hearken, and hear ye my speech:––

¹³ Wherefore My Lord hath said,––Because this people, hath drawn near, with their mouth, And, with their lips, have honoured me, But, their heart, have they moved far from me, And so their reverence of me hath become A commandment of men, in which they have been schooled,

¹⁷ One, thousand, before the war–cry of one––before the war–cry of five, shall ye flee,––Until ye have been left, As a pole on the top of a mountain, And as an ensign upon a hill.

²³ Who, among you, will give ear to this,––Let him hearken and hear, for an aftertime?

⁴ Attend unto me, O my people, And, O my nation, unto me, give ear,––For, instruction, from me, shall go forth, And, my justice––for a light of peoples, will I establish:

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live,––That I may solemnise for you a covenant age–abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well–assured.

⁵ Yet didst thou meet, Him who was rejoicing, and working righteousness, Even them who, in thy ways, remembered thee,––Lo! thou, hast been vexed, And truly we had sinned, Among them, was [the prospect of] an age [to come], That we might be saved.

¹⁹ Let thy wickedness correct, thee, And, thine apostasies, rebuke thee, Know therefore and see, That it is a wicked thing and a bitter, that thou shouldest have forsaken Yahweh thy God,––And that the dread of me, should not have pertained to thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁸ Thine own way, And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee,––This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.

¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, For what cause, hath Yahweh our God done, to us all these things? Then shalt thou say unto them,––As ye forsook me, and served the gods of the foreigner, in your own land, So, shall ye serve aliens, in a land, not your own.

²⁵ Your iniquities, have thrust away these things, Yea, your sins, have withholden that which is good from you.

²⁵ Ever since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, until this day, Have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, Daily, betimes, sending them; ²⁶ Yet they hearkened not unto me, Neither inclined their ear,––But stiffened their neck, They did more wickedly than their fathers.

¹⁹ But, I, was as a gentle lamb that is to be led to the slaughter,––and I knew not that, against me, they had devised devices, [saying]––Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, Yea let us cut him off out of the land of the living, And, his name, shall be remembered no more! ²⁰ But, O Yahweh of hosts, Who judgest righteously, Who triest affections and intellect,––Let me see thine avenging upon them, For, unto thee, have I revealed my cause.

¹⁸ Then said they,––Come ye, and let us devise against Jeremiah devices, For, the law, shall not perish, from the priest, Nor, counsel, from, the wise, Nor, the word, from, the prophet: Come and let as smite him with the tongue, And let us not give ear to any of his words!

⁴ And Yahweh sent, unto you, all his servants the prophets, betimes, sending, though ye hearkened not, neither inclined ye your ear, to hear: ⁵ saying,––Return, I pray you, every one from his wicked, way and from the wickedness of your doings, So shall ye remain on the soil which Yahweh hath given, to you and to your fathers,––even from age to age;

⁵ To hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom I, am sending unto you, even, betimes, sending, though ye have not hearkened,

¹⁴ But, I, behold me! in your hand,––do with me as may be good and right in your eyes; ¹⁵ Only, ye must, know, that, If, ye, do put, me, to death, verily, innocent blood, are ye, laying upon yourselves, and against this city, and against her inhabitants,––for, of a truth, did Yahweh send, me unto you, to speak in your ears, all these words.

¹⁰ For, though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there had remained of them only desperately wounded, men, yet, every man in his tent, should have arisen and burnt this city, with fire.

⁴ Then said the princes unto the king,––Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, for, in this way, is he, weakening the hands of the men of war who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them, such words as these; for, this man, is not, seeking, prosperity, for this people, but, misfortune. ⁵ Then said King Zedekiah,––Lo! he, is in your hand; for, the king, is not, one who is able to do anything, against, you. ⁶ Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard–court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes,––now, in the dungeon, was no, water, only mire, so Jeremiah sank, in the mire.

⁴ yet I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, betimes, sending them, saying, Do not, I pray you, commit this abominable thing, which I hate! ⁵ but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, by turning from their wickedness,––so as not to burn incense to other, gods.

⁵⁶ For there hath come upon her––upon Babylon––a spoiler, And captured, are their heroes, And broken, are their bows,––For, a GOD of recompenses, is Yahweh, He will, surely repay.

¹⁷ But thou didst take thine adorning, jewels, Of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, And didst make thee, images of the male,––And didst act unchastely with them; ¹⁸ And thou didst take thine embroidered raiment, and cover them,––And, mine oil and mine incense, didst thou set before them; ¹⁹ And my food, which I had given thee, Fine flour and oil and honey wherewith I fed thee, And didst set it before them for a satisfying, odour, Yea so it was,––Saith My Lord, Yahweh. ²⁰ And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, Whom thou hadst borne unto me, And didst sacrifice them unto them, to be devoured,––Is this, of thine unchastity, a light thing? ²¹ Yea thou didst slay my children,––And didst deliver them up, that they should be caused to pass through [the fire] unto them.

² Belshazzar, gave word, at the flavour of the wine, to bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nebuchadnezzar his father, had brought forth, out of the temple which was in Jerusalem,––that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein. ³ Then brought they the vessels of gold which had been taken out of the temple of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,––and the king and his nobles, his wives and, his concubines, drank therein: ⁴ they drank wine,––and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

²³ but, against the Lord of the heavens, hast uplifted thyself, and, the vessels of his house, have they brought before thee, and, thou, and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have been drinking, wine, therein, and, gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which see not nor hear nor know, hast thou praised,––whereas, God, in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways, him, hast thou not glorified.

³² And, them who are ready to deal lawlessly with a covenant, will he make impious by flatteries,––but, the people who know their God, will be strong and act with effect.

⁸ But, she, owneth not, that, I, gave her––the corn, and the new wine and the oil,––silver, also increased I unto her, and gold––[which] they offered to Baal! ⁹ Therefore, will I again take away my corn, in the time thereof, and my new wine, in the season thereof,––and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to hide her shame.

¹³ So will I visit upon her the days of the Baals, unto whom she used to burn incense, and decked herself with her nose–ring and her jewelry, and went her way after her lovers,––whereas, me, she forgat, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁰ The rulers of Judah have become as they who remove a land–mark. Upon them, will I pour out, like water, my wrath. ¹¹ Oppressed, is Ephraim, crushed in judgment,––because he hath, wilfully, walked after falsehood.

¹⁴ For, I, will be as a lion unto Ephraim, and as a young lion to the house of Judah,––I, I, will tear in pieces, and depart, I will carry off, and none be able to rescue.

¹² Art not, thou, from of old, O Yahweh, my God, my Holy One? Thou diest not! O Yahweh, to judgment, hast thou appointed him, and, O Rock, to correction, hast thou devoted him:

⁴ And I will stretch out my hand––over Judah, and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,––and will cut off out of this place, the name of Baal, the name of the priestlings, with the priests; ⁵ And them who bow down upon the housetops to the host of the heavens,––and them who bow down––who swear to Yahweh, and swear by Milcom; ⁶ And them who turn away from following Yahweh,––and have neither sought Yahweh, nor enquired for him.

³ Who is there among you that is left, that saw this house, in its former glory? And how do ye see it now? Is it not, in comparison with that, as nothing, in your eyes?

¹¹ Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder,––and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear; ¹² and, their heart, turned they into adamant, that they might not hear the law, nor the words which Yahweh of hosts sent by his spirit, through the former prophets,––and so there came great wrath from Yahweh of hosts. ¹³ Therefore came it to pass that––just as he cried out and they hearkened not, so, used they to cry out, and I used not to hearken, saith Yahweh of hosts; ¹⁴ But I whirled them over all the nations whom they had not known, and, the land, was made desolate after them, that none passed through and returned,––Yea they made of a delightful land––a desolation.

⁹ He that hath ears, let him hear.

¹⁵ For the heart of this people hath become dense, and, with their ears, heavily have they heard, and, their eyes, have they closed,––lest, once they should see with their eyes, and, with their ears, should hear, and, with their hearts, should understand, and return; when I would certainly heal them. ¹⁶ But happy are, your, eyes, that they see, and your ears, that they hear;

²⁴ And, when they came into Capernaum, they who, the half shekel, were receiving, came near unto Peter, and said, Your teacher, doth he not pay the half shekel? ²⁵ He saith––Yea. And, coming into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, How, to thee, doth it seem, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom receive they dues or tax? from their sons, or from the aliens? ²⁶ And, when he said, From the aliens, Jesus said unto him, Well then, free, are the sons! ²⁷ But, that we may not cause them to stumble, go unto the sea, and cast in a hook, and, the first fish that cometh up, take, and, opening its mouth, thou shalt find a shekel,––that, take, and give to them for me and thee.

⁴ And, he, answering, said––Did ye never read––He who created at the beginning, Male and female, made them,–– ⁵ and said––For this cause, will a man leave his father and his mother, and be united to his wife,––and, the two, will become, one flesh; ⁶ So that, the longer, are they, two, but, one flesh, What, therefore, God, hath yoked together, Let not, a man, put asunder. ⁷ They say unto him––Why then did, Moses, command, to give a writing of repudiation and to divorce? ⁸ He saith unto them––Moses, in view of your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives; From the beginning however, hath it not been done, thus.

³⁵ And the husbandmen, taking his servants, one, indeed, they beat, and, another, slew,––and, another, stoned.

³⁴ For this cause, lo! I, send unto you, prophets and wise men and scribes,––some from among them, ye will slay and crucify, And some from among them ye will––scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city: ³⁵ That there may come upon you––all righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the Temple and the altar.

³⁵ That there may come upon you––all righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the Temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily, I say unto you––All these things, will have come, upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that slayeth the prophets, and stoneth them that have been sent unto her,––how often, would I have gathered thy children, like as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,––and ye would not!

¹⁶ And these are likewise they upon the rocky places sown,––who, as soon as they hear the word, straightway, with joy receive it, ¹⁷ and have no root in themselves, but, only for a season are,––afterwards, when there ariseth tribulation or persecution by reason of the word, straightway, they find cause of stumbling;

⁴¹ And, taking his seat over against the treasury, he was observing how, the multitude, was casting in copper into the treasury, and, man rich, were casting in, much.

¹ And, as he was going forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him––Teacher! see what manner of stones, and what manner of buildings! ² And, Jesus, said unto him––Art thou beholding these great buildings? In nowise, shall there be left here, stone upon stone, which shall, in any wise, not be thrown down.

⁴⁷ Alas for you! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers slew them! ⁴⁸ Hence, witnesses, are ye, and find consenting pleasure in the works of your fathers: because, they, indeed, slew them, and, ye, are building, [their tombs]. ⁴⁹ For this cause, the Wisdom of God hath said––I will send forth, unto them, prophets and apostles,––and, some from among them, will they slay, and, [some] persecute: ⁵⁰ That the blood of all the prophets which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be sought out, from this generation,–– ⁵¹ From the blood of Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah who was destroyed betwixt the altar and the house; Yea! I say unto you––It shall be sought out from this generation.

⁵¹ From the blood of Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah who was destroyed betwixt the altar and the house; Yea! I say unto you––It shall be sought out from this generation.

³¹ But he said unto him––If, unto Moses and the Prophets, they do not hearken, neither, if one, from among the dead, should arise, would they be persuaded.

¹⁵ But, one from among them, beholding that he was healed, returned, with a loud voice, glorifying God,–– ¹⁶ and fell prostrate at his feet, giving him thanks; and, he, was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And Jesus, answering, said––Were not, the ten, cleansed? [but,] where, are, the nine? ¹⁸ Have none been found returning to give glory to God, save this one of another race?

⁹ And he began, unto the people, to be speaking this parable:––A man, planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went from home for a long time. ¹⁰ And, in due season, he sent unto the husbandmen, a servant, that, of the fruit of the vineyard, they might give him; but, the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent him away empty. ¹¹ And he, further, sent another servant; but, they, beating, that one also, and dishonouring him, sent him away, empty. ¹² And he, further, sent, a third; but, they, bruising, this one also, thrust him out. ¹³ And the lord of the vineyard said––What shall I do? I will send my son, the beloved,––It may be, that, him, they will respect. ¹⁴ But he husbandmen, seeing him, began to deliberate one with another, saying––This, is, the heir: Let us slay him, that, ours, may be, the inheritance. ¹⁵ And, thrusting him forth outside the vineyard, they slew him. What, then, will the lord of the vineyard do unto them?

³² Jesus answered them––Many works, have I showed you, noble ones, from my Father: For which of those works are ye stoning me?

²⁹ Brethren! it is, allowable, to say with freedom of speech unto you, concerning the patriarch David,––that he both died and was buried, and, his tomb, is among us until this day.

⁴⁵ and, their possessions and goods, were they selling and distributing them unto all, in so far as anyone had need. ⁴⁶ And, daily giving attendance with one intent in the temple and, at home, breaking bread, they were partaking of food with exultation and singleness of heart; ⁴⁷ Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And, the Lord, was adding them who were being saved, daily, together.

⁴⁴ The tent of witness, was with our fathers in the desert, according as he who was speaking unto Moses, gave instructions, to make it, according to the model which he had seen.

⁵⁸ And, thrusting him forth outside the city, proceeded to stone him. And, the witnesses, laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, as he was invoking and saying––Lord Jesus! give welcome unto my spirit.

²⁹ I, know, that there will enter, after my departure, grievous wolves into your midst, not sparing the little flock; ³⁰ and, from among your own selves, will arise men speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

² Upon the first of the week, let, each one of you, put, by itself, in store, as he may be prospering,––lest, as soon as I come, then, collections, should be in progress.

² That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded unto the riches of their liberality;

⁷ Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity,––for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth.

⁶ Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:

⁸ And, then, shall be revealed the lawless one,––whom, the Lord [Jesus], will slay with the Spirit of his mouth, and paralyse with the forthshining of his Presence:––

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith, of much baseness towards me, hath given proof,––the Lord will render unto him according to his works.––

¹⁶ In my first defence, no man, came in to help me, but, all, forsook me,––unto them, may it not be reckoned!––

¹⁰ For, not unrighteous, is God, to be forgetful of your work and of the love which ye have shewn forth for his name, in that ye have ministered unto the saints, and are ministering,

¹⁵ Yea, I will give diligence also, that, at every time, ye may be able, after my own departure, to be keeping up the remembrance of, these very things.

²⁰ Nevertheless, I have against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, she who calleth herself a prophetess, and is teaching and leading astray my own servants to commit lewdness and to eat idol–sacrifices;

⁹ And, when he opened the fifth seal, I saw, beneath the altar, the souls of them who had been slain because of the word of God and because of the witness which they held. ¹⁰ And they cried out with a loud voice, saying––How long, O Sovereign, the Holy and True, dost thou not vindicate and avenge our blood from them that dwell upon the earth? ¹¹ And there was given to them, each one, a white robe, and it was bidden them, that they should rest yet a little while––until the number should be made full of their fellow–servants also, and their brethren, who were about to be slain as even, they.

⁶ Because, blood of saints and prophets, poured they out, and, blood, unto them, hast thou given to drink: Worthy, they are!

²⁰ Be glad over her, thou heaven! And ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets! For that God hath exacted your vindication from her.

² Because, true and righteous, are his judgments; because he hath judged the great harlot, who, indeed, corrupted the earth with her lewdness,––and hath avenged the blood of his servants, at her hand.