2 Chronicles 14 Cross References - Thomson

¹ And when Abia died they buried him with his fathers, in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In the days of Asa the land of Juda was quiet ten years. ² And he did that which was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God. ³ He removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the bowers, ⁴ and ordered Juda to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and the commandments ⁵ And having removed out of all the cities of Juda the altars and the idols, he gave peace ⁶ to the fortified cities in the land of Juda: because the country enjoyed peace, and he had no war during those years, for the Lord gave him rest; ⁷ therefore he said to Juda, let us rebuild the cities, and make walls and towers, and gates and bars, and secure dominion over the country before them. For as we have sought the Lord our God, he hath sought us, and given us rest all around, and prospered us. ⁸ Now Asa had in the land of Juda an army of three hundred thousand men bearing shields and spears, and in the land of Benjamin shield bearers and bowmen, two hundred and eighty six thousand. All these were fighting men. ⁹ And Zare the Ethiopean came out against them with an army of a million, with three hundred chariots. And when he had advanced as far as Maresa, ¹⁰ Asa went out to meet him, and drew up for battle, in the vale north of Maresa, ¹¹ and Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to save with many or with few. Strengthen us, O Lord our God; for on thee is our reliance; and in thy name we are come against this great multitude. Lord our God, let not man prevail against thee. ¹² So the Lord smote the Ethiopeans before Juda. And the Ethiopeans fled, ¹³ and Asa and his people pursued them as far as Gedor. And the Ethiopeans fell so that they could not recover themselves; for they were trampled down before the Lord, and before his army. And when they had taken immense spoils, ¹⁴ and smitten the towns about Gedor [for the terror of the Lord was upon them] and had rifled all their cities [for there was much plunder in them] ¹⁵ and plundered their tents, and smitten the Alimazonians and taken many sheep and camels, and were returning to Jerusalem;

¹⁰ Then David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

³¹ And when Roboam went to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, Abiou his son reigned in his stead.

⁸ And Abiou went to rest with his fathers in the twentieth year of the reign of Jeroboam, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead. ⁹ In the twenty fourth year of the reign of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Juda, ¹⁰ and he reigned forty one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Ana, a descendant of Abessalom. ¹¹ And Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like his father David. ¹² He removed the prostitutes out of the land, and abolished all the devices which his father had instituted, ¹³ and degraded his mother Ana from the rank of queen, as she had kept an assembly in her arbour. And Asa cut down her bowers and burned them with fire by the brook Kedron. ¹⁴ But he did not remove the high places. Nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect before the Lord all his days. ¹⁵ And he brought in the pillars of his father. He brought in also his own pillars which were of gold or silver, together with vessels into the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ Now there was a war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all their days. ¹⁷ And when Baasa, king of Israel came up, and was building Rama, that none might go out or come in to Asa king of Juda, ¹⁸ Asa took all the silver and gold which was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and delivered it into the hands of his servants; and Asa despatched them to Son Ader, son of Taberema the son of Azin king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying, ¹⁹ Renew with me the league which was between my father and thy father. Behold I have sent thee presents of gold and silver, come break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may go up from me. ²⁰ Accordingly Son Ader hearkened to king Asa, and sent the generals of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they smote Ain and Dan and Abel, of the house of Macha, and all Chennereth, even to the land of Nephthaleim. ²¹ And when Baasa heard this, he left off building Rama and went back to Thersa. ²² Whereupon king Asa sounded to all Juda the alarm Against the Enakims. And they carried away the stones, and the timber, with which Baasa was building Rama, And with them king Asa built mount Benjamin and the watch tower. ²³ Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and all the power he exercised, and the cities which he built, behold are they not written in the book of the journal of the kings of Juda? In his old age he was afflicted with the gout. ²⁴ And when Asa went to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, Josaphat his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁰ The sons of Solomon Roboam; Abia his son, Asa his son, Josaphat his son,

³¹ he slept and was buried in the city of David his father, and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.

⁷ and Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam begat Abia, and Abia begat Asa, ⁸ and Asa begat Josaphat, and Josaphat begat Joram, and Joram begat Ozias,

¹¹ And Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like his father David.

¹⁴ But he did not remove the high places. Nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect before the Lord all his days.

²⁰ Thus did Ezekias through all Juda, and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord his God.

⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

¹³ Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces; and their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire.

³⁰ and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

⁵ But in this manner thou shalt deal with them" their altars you shall destroy; their pillars you shall break to pieces; their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire.

²⁵ The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Thou shalt not covet the silver nor the gold thereof. Thou shalt not take any of it for thyself, lest thou be ensnared by it. Because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God,

²⁵ And on that same night the Lord said to him, Take the young bull; the bull belonging to thy father, the second bull of seven years old, and having demolished the altar of Baal which is for thy father, and destroyed the arbour near it, ²⁶ thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God, on the top of Maozi, in the parade; and thou shalt take the second bull, and offer whole burnt offerings on the wood of the arbour which thou hast demolished. ²⁷ So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had spoken to him. But as he was afraid of doing it by day, because of his father's house, and the men of the city, he did it by night. ²⁸ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, and lo! the altar of Baal was pulled down, and the arbour near it destroyed, and they saw the second bull which he had offered on the altar which he had built,

⁷ then Solomon built high places for Chamos the idol of Moab, and for their king the idol of the Ammonites, and for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians: ⁸ and thus he did for all his strange wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their idols.

²² Roboam did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him with all those things which their fathers had done, with all the sins which they had committed. ²³ They built for themselves high places, and pillars, and arbours, on every high hill and under every shady tree, ²⁴ and sodomy was committed in the land. And they practised all the abominable acts of the nations which the Lord had removed from before the children of Israel.

¹² He removed the prostitutes out of the land, and abolished all the devices which his father had instituted, ¹³ and degraded his mother Ana from the rank of queen, as she had kept an assembly in her arbour. And Asa cut down her bowers and burned them with fire by the brook Kedron. ¹⁴ But he did not remove the high places. Nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect before the Lord all his days.

⁴ He removed the high places and broke in pieces the pillars and destroyed the bowers and the brasen serpent which Moses made. Because in those days the Israelites were burning incense to it, therefore he called it Neesthan.

⁶ And lie brought out the bower out of the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the brook Kedron, and having burned it by the brook Kedron, he ground it to powder, and strewed the powder over the graves of the children of the people.

¹⁴ And when he had broken in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the bowers, and filled their places with human bones,

¹⁷ But the high places were not removed. They still remained in Israel. But Asa's heart was perfect all his days.

⁴ And having caused to be torn down in his presence, the altars of the Baalims, and the high things which were on them, he cut down the bowers, and broke in pieces the graven and the molten images. And having beaten them to dust, he strewed it over the graves of them who had sacrificed to them,

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children and his household after him, who are to keep the ways of the Lord, to execute judgment and justice, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he hath spoken to him.

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

¹³ I have indeed told him that I will take vengeance on his house for ever, for the iniquities of his sons. Because his sons spoke evil of God, and be did not chastise them,

¹⁶ He expelled also from among the tribes of Israel them who set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers,

²¹ and offered up seven young bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, seven kids of the goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the holies, and for Israel. And he ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord.

²⁷ And when Ezekias gave orders to carry up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and they began to carry it up, the musicians began the song of praise to the Lord, and the trumpets sounded in concert with the musical instruments of David king of Israel,

³⁰ Ezekias the king, and the chiefs, ordered the Levites to praise the Lord, in the words of David, and of Asaph the prophet. And when they had sung praises with gladness, they fell on their faces and worshipped.

¹² Now to these the hand of the Lord had given one heart to come and do what the king and the chiefs had commanded by a word of the Lord.

¹⁹ which hath directed its course to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary.

¹⁶ And having repaired the altar of the Lord he offered thereon a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise, and ordered Juda to serve the Lord God of Israel.

³² and he caused all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And when the inhabitants of Jerusalem, had made a covenant in the house of the Lord God of their fathers, ³³ Josias removed all the abominations out of all the land, which belonged to the children of Israel, and caused all who were in Jerusalem, and in Israel, to serve the Lord their God. During all his days he turned not aside from following the Lord God of his fathers.

⁷ And they issued a proclamation through Juda and Jerusalem, to all the children of the captivity to assemble at Jerusalem, ⁸ and that whoever did not come within three days, according to the order of the chiefs and the elders, all his substance should be anathematised, and he himself should be excommunicated from the congregation of the captivity. ⁹ Accordingly all the men of Juda and Benjamin, assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was now the ninth month. On the twentieth of this month all the people sat in the street of the house of God, because of their consternation at the decree, and because of the weather. ¹⁰ And Esdras the priest arose, and said to them, You have broken covenant and taken strange wives to add to the transgression of Israel; ¹¹ now therefore, give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do what is well-pleasing in his sight, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives. ¹² In reply to which, all the congregation said, We take upon us the performance of this great thing which thou hast spoken;

²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes; ³⁰ and that we will not give our daughters to the people of the land; nor will we take their daughters for our sons, ³¹ and that with regard to the people of the country who bring wares or any thing to sell on the sabbath day, we will not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day: and that every seventh year we will remit every demand of what kind soever: ³² and that we will confirm the commands upon us to give every year a third of a didrachm for the service of the house of our God, ³³ for the presence loaves and the sacrifice of the daily oblation and for the whole burnt offering of every day, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the festivals and for the holy things, namely, the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for the works of the house of our God: ³⁴ and that we the priests and the Levites and the people who have cast lots touching the bringing of wood, will bring it for the house of our God, for the house of our families, at the set times and seasons yearly, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law: ³⁵ and that we will bring the first fruits of our land, and the first fruits of every fruit tree yearly to the house of the Lord, and do, ³⁶ with regard to the first born of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the law; that we will bring the firstlings of our herds and our flocks to the house of our God for the priests, who minister in the house of our God: ³⁷ and that we will bring the dedications of our corn including the fruit of trees, and of wine and oil to the stores of the house of God for the priests; and the tythe of our land for the Levites. But the Levites themselves shall receive the tythes in all the cities of our bondage; ³⁸ and the priest, the son of Aaron, shall share with the Levite in the Levite's tythe; and the Levites shall carry the tythe of their tythe to the house of our God; to the store houses for the house of our God; ³⁹ because the children of Israel including the children of Levi are to carry the dedications of their corn, their wine and their oil to these treasuries, and the holy vessels and the priests and the ministering servants and the keepers of the gates and the musicians are to be there, therefore we will not forsake the house of our God."

⁹ And when by my orders they had purified the rooms, I caused to be brought there again the utensils of the house of God, and the sacrifice and the incense.

¹⁹ And when the gates of Jerusalem were set up, I ordered them to be shut before the sabbath, and gave a charge that they should not be opened till after the sabbath; and I stationed some of my servants at the gates that no burdens might be brought in on the sabbath day. ²⁰ Upon this they all lodged and carried on their traffick without Jerusalem once or twice. ²¹ Then I testified against them and. said to them, Why do you lodge before the walls? If you do so any more I will lay hands on you. From that time they did not come on the sabbath. ²² Then I ordered the Levites who were sanctified and come to guard the gates, to keep holy the sabbath day. For these things remember me, my God, and have compassion on me according to thy abundant mercy.

² I will conduct myself wisely in a perfect way; when wilt thou come to me? I have walked in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my household. ³ I have not set any wicked thing before mine eyes: them who commit transgressions I detested. ⁴ A perverse heart hath not cleaved to me. When the wicked withdrew from me; I no more acknowledged him. ⁵ Him, who privily slandered his neighbour, I expelled. With one of a haughty eye and unsatiable heart I would not eat. ⁶ Mine eyes have been on the faithful of the land; that they might dwell with me. He who walked in a perfect way, hath been employed in my service. ⁷ He who practised haughtiness found no abode in my family. He who spoke unjustly was not right in mine eyes. ⁸ I took the earliest occasion to destroy all the sinners of the land; to root out of the city of the Lord all the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ I have sought thee with my whole heart; let me not be driven from thy commandments.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you; ⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

⁴ Wherefore, thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek me and you shall live.

⁷ and tore down the altars, and the bowers, and chopped to pieces the idols. And having demolished all the high places in all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

¹ Now after many years, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies round about, Joshua being far advanced in years,

¹¹ and the land had rest Forty years.

³⁰ So Moab was humbled that day, under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years. Now Aod judged them till he died.

³¹ So perish all thine enemies, Lord, But let them who love thee be like The going forth of the Sun in his might. So the land had rest forty years.

⁴ But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about. I have no adversary, nor any evil occurrence.

⁹ Behold a son shall be born to thee. He shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies round about. For his name shall be Solomon; and I will give Israel peace and rest in his days.

² he rebuilt those cities which Chiram returned to him, and caused the Israelites to dwell there. ³ Then he went to Baisoba and strengthened it. ⁴ And he built Thoedmor in the wilderness, and all those fortified cities which he built in Emath. ⁵ He rebuilt also the upper and the lower Baithoron, cities fortified with walls, gates and bars; ⁶ and Balath and all the strong cities which belonged to Solomon; and all the chariot cities, and the cities for the cavalry, and whatever he had an inclination to build at Jerusalem, or on Libanus, or in all his kingdom.

⁵ And Roboam dwelt at Jerusalem and built walled cities in Judea. ⁶ He built Bethlehem and Aitan and Thekoe ⁷ and Bathsura and Sokchoth and Odollam ⁸ and Geth and Marisa and Ziph ⁹ and Adorai and Lachis and Azeka ¹⁰ and Saraa and Ailom and Chebron, walled cities of Juda and Benjamin. ¹¹ And when he had strengthened them with walls, he appointed governors in them, with stores of provisions, oil and wine. ¹² And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them very strong. Now there were with him Juda and Benjamin.

¹⁵ and all Juda rejoiced at the oath; for they sword with their whole heart, and sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them. And the Lord gave them rest round about.

²⁹ But when he giveth rest, who shall call him to account? When he hideth his face, who can see him? Both against a nation, and against a man at the same time,

⁹ he is making wars to cease to the ends of the earth. He will break the bow and shiver the lance, and shields he will utterly consume with fire.

⁹ And now, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts and knoweth every thought. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will at last forsake thee.

⁵ He rebuilt also the upper and the lower Baithoron, cities fortified with walls, gates and bars;

⁴ and ordered Juda to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and the commandments

⁶ to the fortified cities in the land of Juda: because the country enjoyed peace, and he had no war during those years, for the Lord gave him rest;

⁵ Ezekias also took courage and rebuilt all the wall which had been demolished, and the towers, and another outwork, and strengthened the fortifications, of the city of David, and provided many arms,

³ Sing praises to his holy name. Let the heart of them, who seek the Lord, be glad. ⁴ Seek the Lord and be confirmed in strength; seek his face continually.

¹³ then pray to me and I will hearken to you: ¹⁴ then seek me diligently and you shall find me.

²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

⁴ I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light that the darkness may not overtake you; for he who walketh in darkness knoweth not where he is going. ³⁶ while you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be children of light. Having said this, Jesus withdrew, and was concealed from them.

³¹ Now then the congregations throughout all Judea and Galilee, and Samaria, were enjoying peace. Being built up and walking in the fear of the Lord, and the consolation of the holy spirit, they were multiplied.

¹³ but while this today is proclaimed, that none of you may be rendered obstinate by the deceitfulness of sin ¹⁴ [for we are made associates of the Christ if we retain the beginning of this confidence firm to the end] ¹⁵ exhort one another daily by its being said, "Today since you have heard his voice let not your hearts be refractory as at Bitterness."

¹² Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their prayers: But the face of the Lord is against them who do evil."

¹ Now when Roboam came to Jerusalem and had assembled of Juda and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of the young men who were warriors, and was going to war with Israel, to restore the kingdom to Roboam;

³ And when Abia had drawn up in array his army consisting of forty thousand fighting men, and Jeroboam had drawn up in array for battle against him with eighty thousand fighting men;

¹⁴ this was the number of them according to the houses of their patriarchal families. The chiliarchs for Juda were Edna the chief, and with him sons, mighties of the army, three hundred chiliads; ¹⁵ and after him Joanan the leader and with him two hundred and eighty chiliads; ¹⁶ and after him Amasias the Zarite, who devoted himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred chiliads, mighties of the army; ¹⁷ and from Benjamin a mighty of the army, namely Eliada, and with him bow men, and those armed with shields, two hundred chiliads; ¹⁸ and after him Jozabad, and with him eighty chiliads, mighties of battle. ¹⁹ All these waited on the king, excepting them whom the king placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judea.

⁵ Then Amasias assembled the house of Juda and appointed them according to the houses of their patriarchal families, to be captains of thousands and captains of hundreds throughout all Juda and Jerusalem. And having numbered them from twenty years old and upwards, he found them to be three hundred thousand, able to go forth to war armed with spears and shields.

⁴⁴ and Keilam, and Akiezi, and Kezib, and Bathesar, and Ailom, ten cities with their villages:

⁹ But when he heard it reported of Tharaka king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold he is come to fight thee, he retreated and sent messengers to Ezekias saying,

⁸ and Geth and Marisa and Ziph

² And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sousakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had sinned in the sight of the Lord, ³ with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen, but of the multitude who came with him out of Egypt, Lybians, Trogodytes and Ethiopeans there was no numbering them.

⁸ Were not the Ethiopeans and the Lybians to be dreaded for their huge army? For their prowess, for their horsemen, for their immense multitude? Yet because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand.

⁹ Know this, nations, and be struck with consternation. Hearken ye who are in the remotest parts of the earth; be struck with consternation ye who have made yourselves strong; for though you should again become strong; with consternation you shall again be stricken, ¹⁰ and what counsel soever you may take, the Lord will defeat it; and what word soever you may speak shall not take effect among you; because God is with us:

⁵ Persians and Cretans and Lydians and Libyans and all the mixed people, and some of the children of my covenant shall fall in it by the sword.

¹⁵ inhabitant of Lachis! until the true heirs shall be brought in; O! Odollam! until an inheritance, the glory of the daughter of Israel shall come,

¹⁴ For these are spirits of demons making signs which go forth to the kings of the earth and the whole world, to gather them together to the battle of the great day of God the Almighty.

⁴ and Erthula, and Bula, and Erma,

¹⁷ Then Juda went with his brother Symeon, and smote the Chananites who dwelt in Sepheth, and utterly destroyed them, and called the name of that city Anathema.

¹⁰ And as Pharao approached; the children of Israel raising their eyes saw the Egyptians encamping in their rear and were greatly terrified. And the Israelites cried to the Lord,

⁸ Even five of you shall pursue an hundred; and a hundred of you shall pursue myriads, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

²⁷ Had it not been for the temper of enemies; That the adversaries might not out live them; That they might not fall upon them at once; Lest they should say, Our own high hand, And not the Lord, hath done all this.

³⁰ How could one man chase a thousand, And two put myriads to flight, Had not God cast them off; Had not the Lord delivered them up?

³⁶ Because the Lord will judge his people; When he shall be appeased for his servants, [For he saw that they were enfeebled, Made faint by hostile invasions and dejected]

⁸ What can I say, seeing Israel hath turned back from before his enemy? ⁹ When the Chananite, and all the inhabitants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name?

⁷ Then the Lord said to Gideon, By these three hundred men who have lapped I will save you, and deliver Madiam into thy hands. Let all those people therefore go, every man to his home.

⁹ He granteth the petitioner his prayer, And hath blessed the years of the righteous; Because a man is not mighty in strength,

⁶ And when Jonathan said to his servant who carried his arms, Come let us go over to Messab of these uncircumcised Philistines, it may be, the Lord may do something for us, for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few;

³⁵ And if he rose up against me, I seized him by the throat, and smote, and killed him. ³⁶ Thy servant hath slain a lion and a bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them. Shall I not 2:0 and smite him, and remove, this day, a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised, that he should defy the army of the living God?

⁴⁵ David said to the Philistine, Thou comest against me with a sword, and a spear, and a shield, but I am coming to thee with the name of the Lord God of Sabbaoth, of the army of Israel, which thou hast, this day, defied. ⁴⁶ And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel;

²⁷ And the Israelites were mustered and went out to meet them. And when Israel had encamped over against them like two little flocks of kids, while Syria filled the country, ²⁸ the man of God came and said to the king of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Because Syria hath said, The Lord God of Israel is a god of the mountains, but he is not a god of the vallies, therefore I will deliver this great army into thy hand, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. ²⁹ So having encamped against each other seven days, they came to an engagement on the seventh day; and Israel smote of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day, ³⁰ and the residue fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty seven thousand of the men who were left. And Son Ader fled, and when he got to the house of his abode into the inner chamber,

²⁰ they prevailed over them. And the Agarenians with all their tents, were delivered into their hands. For in the battle they cried to God and he hearkened to them, because they trusted in him.

¹² Now behold with us, at our head, is the Lord and his priests, and the trumpets of alarm to sound a charge against you. sons of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers, for it will not prosper with you.

¹⁴ And when Juda looked back behold the battle was both in front and in the rear. Thereupon they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded the trumpets,

¹⁸ And the Israelites were humbled that day, and the sons of Juda prevailed because they trusted in the Lord God of their fathers.

³¹ So when the commanders of the chariots saw Josaphat, they said, This is the king of Israel, and wheeled about in order to attack him, whereupon Josaphat cried aloud, and the Lord saved him, and God caused them to turn back from him.

¹² Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? Because we have not power to withstand this great multitude which is coming against us, and do not know what to do with them, we can only have our eyes on thee.

⁸ With him are arms of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to save, and to fight our battle. So the people were encouraged by the words of Ezekias king of Juda.

²⁰ But when Ezekias the king, and Esaias son of Amos the prophet addressed a prayer concerning these things, and cried to heaven,

¹⁹ Arise, Lord, let not man prevail; let nations be judged in thy presence.

⁶ In my distress I called on the Lord, and to my God I raised my cry. From his holy temple he heard my voice; and my cry before him reached his ears.

⁵ We will rejoice in thy salvation, and triumph in the name of our God. May the Lord fulfil all thy petitions!

⁷ Some boast of chariots and some of horses; but by the name of the Lord our God we shall be magnified.

⁵ in thee they trusted and were not put to shame.

⁶ This afflicted man cried; and the Lord heard him; and saved him out of all his afflictions.

⁵ Lay open thy way before the Lord, and trust in him; and he will accomplish;

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

⁹ help us, God, our saviour: for thy glory of thy name deliver us; and pardon our sins for thy name's sake. ¹⁰ Perhaps they may say among the nations, Where is their God? Let therefore the avengement of the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed; be known among the nations in our sight.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: I am with him in affliction: I will deliver him and honour him.

¹ A Song of the steps. In my distress I cried to the Lord; and he hearkened to me.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is of majestic power; and the righteous having recourse to it shall be exalted.

³ who support truth and keep peace; because their confidence is placed in thee, Lord! ⁴ who art to everlasting, the Mighty, the Eternal God,

¹³ Lord, our God, take possession of us! Besides thee, Lord, we know none other. We celebrate thy name.

²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. ³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; ³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand. ¹¹ Behold all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as nothing and all thine opponents shall be destroyed. ¹² Thou mayst seek but thou shalt not find the men, who through drunkenness will dare to insult thee. For they shall be as mere nothing: and they who war against thee shall be no more. ¹³ For I am thy God, who have hold of thy right hand, and who say to thee, ¹⁴ Fear not, Jacob, diminutive Israel! I have helped thee, saith thy God, who redeemeth thee, Israel.

¹⁹ Though they fight against thee they cannot prevail over thee; for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord.

⁹ He setteth destruction against strength and bringeth misery on bulwarks.

⁸ for thus saith the Lord Almighty. He behind glory hath sent me against the nations which plundered you: for he who toucheth you, is like one touching the apple of his eye.

¹⁸ Now I say to thee, Thou art named Peter, [a rock,] and upon this very rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

¹ Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust also in me.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you. This peace of mine I give you. It is not as the world giveth that I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled nor dismayed.

²¹ And it shall come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

¹⁶ Now for the belief in his name, his name hath strengthened this man whom you see and know. Yes, the belief which is by him hath given this man this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

⁴ And having fallen on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, Why persecutes! thou me?"

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me. ¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

²⁵ and entangled their chariot wheels and caused them to drag on heavily; whereupon the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

⁷ May the Lord thy God deliver up thine enemies, who rise up against thee, to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

³⁹ See! See! that I am the Self existent, And that there is no Clod besides me; I kill, and I can cause to live, I can smite and I can heal, And none can rescue out of my hand:

¹⁰ the Lord struck them with a panic, on account of the children of Israel, and the Lord routed them, with a great slaughter, at Gabaon. And they pursued them by the way of the ascent of Oronin, and smote them even to Azeka, and to Makeda.

¹⁵ and the men of Juda shouted. And when the men of Juda shouted, the Lord smote Jeroboam and Israel before Abia and Juda.

²² And when they began the song of thanksgiving and praise, the Lord set a fighting the Ammonites against Moab and Mount Seir, who were going out against Juda; And when they were repelled,

¹² Through God we can exert power, he can bring to nothing them who afflict us.

¹⁷ to him who smote great kings; for his mercy endureth forever: ¹⁸ and slew kings of mighty power: for his mercy endureth forever;

²⁶ For my part, therefore, I run in this manner, not as if I were running unseen: I fight, not as if I were beating the air;

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory Through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, to whom sons were born after the flood.

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

¹ Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned among the Gerarites.

¹ Now there had been a famine in the land besides the former famine which happened in the time of Abraham. And Isaak went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

¹⁴ And he said to him, I am the captain general of the host of the Lord, just arrived. At this Joshua prostrated himself, with his face to the ground, and said to him, My lord, what dost thou command thy servant?

²⁸ Forgive, I beseech thee, what is amiss in thy servant. Because the Lord will assuredly make for my lord a faithful house; because the Lord will fight the battle of my lord, therefore there must never be iniquity found in thee.

²² For there came men daily to David to form a great army like the host of God.

¹⁴ and smitten the towns about Gedor [for the terror of the Lord was upon them] and had rifled all their cities [for there was much plunder in them]

⁹ Let the Lord, having begun, wound me, but not utterly destroy me.

⁴ For he is wise in heart and strong and great. Who is hardy enough to stand up against him

¹¹ Wilt not thou, O God, who didst cast us off; Wilt not thou, God, go out with our armies?

⁹ These shall suffer punishment, an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty,

⁵ Then Israel removed from the country of the Sekimites; and a terror of God was on all the cities around them, so that they did not pursue the children of Israel.

²⁵ Begin to impress the fear of thee, and the dread of thee, on the face of all the nations under heaven. They who hear of thy name shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us: ¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed: ¹¹ and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there was no spirit in any of us because of you. Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath,

²⁴ And they said to him, Because the Lord hath delivered up all that land into our hands, therefore all the inhabitants of the land are in the utmost consternation because of us.

¹ Now when the kings of the Amorites, who were on the border of the Jordan, and the kings of Phoenicia, who were on the sea coast, heard that the Lord God had dried up the river Jordan before the Israelites, when they crossed, their hearts were melted, and they were struck with consternation, and there was no spirit in them because of the Israelites.

¹⁹ Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon, and slew of them thirty men, and took their garments, and gave the suits to them who had expounded the riddle. And Sampson was filled with wrath, and went up to his father's house,

¹⁵ And there was a consternation in the camp, and in the field; and all the people who were in Messab, and they who were spoiling, were struck with horror, and would not do any thing; for the earth trembled, and the consternation was from the Lord.

⁶ For the Lord had caused the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army to be heard in the Syrian camp: whereupon they said one to another, Now hath the king of Israel hired against us the kings of the Chettites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us. ⁷ Therefore they arose and fled while it was dark. They left their tents and their horses and their asses in the camp as it was, and fled for their lives. ⁸ So when the lepers came to a part of the camp they went into a tent and ate and drank, and carried thence silver and gold and raiment, and went away. And returning again they went into another tent and took things out of it and hid them.

¹⁶ the people went out and plundered the camp of Syria. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁰ And there was a dread of the Lord on all the kingdoms of the land around Juda, so that they did not make war on Josaphat.

²⁵ And when Josaphat and his people went to gather the spoil, they found cattle in abundance, and furniture and spoils and precious utensils. And when they had gathered the spoils [now they were three days collecting them, for they were many]

²⁹ And there was a dread of the Lord on all the kingdoms of the land, when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel.

²¹ yet the sound of terror is in his ears. When he seemeth to be at peace his destruction shall come.

⁵ Having taken a view they were so astonished; they were frightened, they were shaken: ⁶ a trembling seized them: pangs were there as of a woman in travail.

¹² the king of the armies of the Beloved [to the army] of the Beloved, to divide spoils for beautifying the house.

⁹ For with a rock they shall be enclosed as with a rampart, and shall be subdued; and he who fleeth shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord; Happy he who hath a seed in Sion and a family in Jerusalem!

²³ [p] Thy tackling broke, for they had no strength, thy mast gave way. It will not support the sails, nor rear a standard until it be delivered up for a spoil; therefore many who are lame will seize the prey:

³⁷ We indeed in all these things are more than conquerors by means of him who hath loved us.

⁹ And having taken for a prey the women of the Madianites, and their furniture, and their cattle, and all their goods, and spoiled their army,

³⁰ And from the children of Israel's half thou shalt take one in fifty of the captives, and of the cattle, and the sheep, and the asses; of all these beasts. And these thou shalt give to the Levites, who keep the watch at the tabernacle of the Lord. ³¹ So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. ³² And the whole amount of the booty which the warriors had taken, was, of sheep six hundred and seventy five thousand; ³³ of cattle seventy two thousand, ³⁴ and sixty one thousand asses; ³⁵ and of the human species, namely, of the women who had not known man, all the souls were thirty two thousand. ³⁶ So that the half which was the share of those who went to war, was, from the number of sheep, three hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred; ³⁷ of which the tribute for the Lord was six hundred and seventy five; ³⁸ and of cattle, thirty six thousand, of which the tribute for the Lord was seventy two; ³⁹ and of asses, thirty thousand five hundred, of which the tribute for the Lord was sixty one; ⁴⁰ and the human beings were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for the Lord was thirty two. ⁴¹ And this tribute for the Lord, this dedication made to God by setting it apart, Moses gave to Eleazar the priest as the Lord commanded Moses. ⁴² And from the half belonging to the children of Israel, between whom and the warriors Moses had made the division; ⁴³ now the congregation's half was three hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred sheep, ⁴⁴ thirty six thousand cattle, ⁴⁵ thirty thousand five hundred asses, ⁴⁶ and of human beings, sixteen thousand; ⁴⁷ from this half, belonging to the children of Israel, Moses took one in fifty, of man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the watch at the tabernacle of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁰ He took also all their flocks, and herds, and drove them before the spoils. And of this prey it was said, These are David's prey.

⁴¹ therefore those above mentioned came in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and smote their families, even the Minaians whom they found there, and utterly destroyed them even to this day, and dwelt in their stead, because there were pastures there for their cattle.

²¹ So they took all their substance, five thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand prisoners,