2 Chronicles 15 Cross References - Thomson

¹ the Spirit of the Lord came upon Azarias son of Oded, ² and he went out to meet Asa and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while you are with him. And if you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake him, he will forsake you. ³ And though for a long time Israel may be without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, ⁴ yet when they shall turn to the Lord God of Israel, he will be found by them. ⁵ And though at that time there be no peace to him who goeth out, or to him who cometh in, because the terror of the Lord is on all the inhabitants of these countries; ⁶ though nation may fight against nation, and city against city, because God hath confounded them with all kinds of affliction; ⁷ yet strengthen ye yourselves, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded. ⁸ Upon hearing these words and this prophecy of the prophet Adad, Asa took courage, and removed the abominations out of all the land of Juda and Benjamin, and from all the cities he held from Jeroboam, on mount Ephraim. And having dedicated anew the altar of the Lord, which is before the temple of the Lord, ⁹ he assembled Juda and the strangers who worshipped with him from Ephraim, and from Manasses, and from Symeon, for many of the Israelites had joined him when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. ¹⁰ And when they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa, ¹¹ he offered as a sacrifice to the Lord on that day, of the prey which they had brought, seven hundred beeves and seven thousand sheep, ¹² and entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; ¹³ and that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether young or old, whether man or woman. ¹⁴ And when they had sworn to the Lord with a loud voice, the trumpets and the cornets sounded, 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. ¹⁶ Moreover he restrained Maacha his mother from performing religious service to Astarte. And he cut to pieces the idol, and burned it by the brook Kedron. ¹⁷ But the high places were not removed. They still remained in Israel. But Asa's heart was perfect all his days. ¹⁸ And he brought in the dedications of his father David, the holy things appertaining to the house of God, silver and gold and vessels. ¹⁹ Now Asa was engaged in no war, till the thirty fifth year of his reign.

² And when Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped by tribes, a spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his parable, and said,

¹⁰ The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war against Cousarsathaim, and the Lord delivered Cousarsathaim, king of Syrian Mesopotamia, into his hands; and his hand prevailed against Cousarsathaim,

² The Spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me, And his word was upon my tongue.

¹⁴ upon Oziel the son of Zacharias of the Banaites; the sons of Eliel, the son of Matthanias the Levite, one of the sons of Asaph; upon him came the spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation,

²⁰ then the Spirit of God came upon Azarias the priest, the son of Jodae, and he stood above the people and said, Thus saith the Lord, Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord? You cannot prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, therefore he will forsake you.

²¹ for prophecy was not uttered in former days at the will of man; but the holy men of God spoke by an impulse of the holy spirit.

¹ When thou shalt go out to battle against thine enemies, and see horsemen, and charioteers, and a people more numerous than thou art; be not afraid of them; for the Lord thy God is with thee; he who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

⁷ When the news of this was told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizin, and raising his voice, he wept, and said to them, Hear me, ye Sychemites, that God may hear you.

¹⁴ And I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall be for a spoil, and for a prey to all their enemies,

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.

¹ But when the kingdom of Roboam was established, and when he was become strong, he forsook the commandments of the Lord, and all Israel with him. 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.

⁴ Abia rose up from mount Somoron which is on mount Ephraim and said, Hearken Jeroboam and all Israel!

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.

⁴ yet when they shall turn to the Lord God of Israel, he will be found by them.

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.

¹⁵ and he said, Hear all ye chiefs of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat! Thus saith the Lord to you, Be not terrified nor dismayed because of this vast multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's only.

¹⁷ You have not to fight. Consider these things, and see the salvation of the Lord with you. Juda and Jerusalem, be not terrified nor afraid to go out to-morrow to meet them; for the Lord is with you.

²⁰ And they arose early in the morning, and went out to the wilderness of Thekoe. And as they were marching out, Josaphat stood and cried with a loud voice, and said, Hear me, Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Trust in the Lord our God, and you shall be confirmed in your confidence. Confide in his prophet, and you shall prosper.

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.

¹² And when he was afflicted he sought the favour of the Lord his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm for the sons of Kore. Hear these things, all ye nations; listen attentively, all ye inhabitants of the World! ² both ye of lowest rank, and heads of families; both rich and poor together.

¹³ Thereupon he said, "Hear now, house of David, Is it a small matter for you to contend with men? How is it then that you contend with the Lord?

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.

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

⁷ Ask, and ye shall obtain; seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For every one who asketh, obtaineth; and he who seeketh, findeth; and to him who knocketh the door will be opened.

⁹ Whoever hath ears to hear, let him hear.

¹ I say then, Hath God utterly rejected his people? No, by no means. For even I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God hath not utterly rejected his people whom he heretofore acknowledged. Do you not know by Elias what the scripture saith? When he is pleading with God against Israel, saying,

³⁸ now the just shall live because of faith; but if he, through fear, draw back; my soul hath no pleasure in him."

²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven,

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

⁷ Whosoever hath an ear to hear let him hear what the spirit saith to the congregations. To him who overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God."

¹¹ Let him who hath an ear hear what the spirit saith to the congregations. "He who overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death."

¹⁷ Let him who hath an ear hear what the spirit saith to the congregations. To him who overcometh I will grant to eat of the manna which was laid up; and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he who receiveth it.

²⁹ Let him who hath an ear, hear what the spirit saith to the congregations.

⁶ Let him who hath an ear hem what the spirit saith to the congregations."

¹³ Let him who hath an ear hear what the spirit saith to the congregations.

²² Let him who hath an ear hear what the spirit saith to the congregations."

¹¹ and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath delivered them by the ministration of Moses.

¹⁰ Let them explain thy rules of rectitude for Jacob And thy law for Israel: Let them lay incense continually, When thou art angry, on thine altar.

²⁸ Therefore the king took counsel and went and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, Rest satisfied in respect to your going up to Jerusalem. Behold these are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ²⁹ And he placed one of them in Baithel and the other he sent to Dan. ³⁰ And this became an occasion of sinning. For the people went before the one even to Dan, and they forsook the house of the Lord, ³¹ and he built houses on high places, and made priests of any part of the people who were not of the children of Levi. ³² And Jeroboam instituted a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth clay of the month, answering to the festival in the land of Juda, and he went up to the altar which he made at Baithel to burn incense to the calves which he had made, and presented at Baithel the priests of the high places whom he had made. ³³ But when he ascended the altar, which he had made, on the fifteenth day of the eight month, at the festival which he had devised out of his own heart and made a festival for the children of Israel; when he ascended the altar to offer incense,

⁸ and with them were these Levites, namely Samaias and Nathanias and Zabdias and Asiel and Semiramoth and Jonathan and Adonias and Tobias and Tobadonias who were Levites; and with them Elisama and Joram who were priests, ⁹ and they taught in Juda. Having with them the book of the law of the Lord, they went through the cities of Juda, and taught the people.

⁹ Then spake Nehemias; when Esdras the priest and scribe and the Levites and they who instructed the people, had said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord our God, mourn not nor weep [for all the people wept when they heard the words of the law]

¹⁰ They must be taken up and carried; for they cannot walk. Fear them not for they can do you no harm, and there is no good in them.

²¹ And none of the priests shall drink wine when they go into the inner court. ²² Moreover they shall not take to wife a widow, nor one who hath been divorced; but only a virgin of the race of Israel. However, if there be a widow of a priest, they may take her. ²³ And they shall teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, and cause them to distinguish between clean and unclean.

⁴ for the children of Israel shall continue many days without a king and without a chief, and without a sacrifice and without an altar and without a priesthood, and without manifestations;

¹¹ [J] Her rulers have judged for rewards; and her priests have given answers for hire; and her prophets have prophesied for silver, without waiting for the Lord, saying, "Is not the Lord among us? No evils shall come upon us:"

⁷ Because the lips of a priest were to keep knowledge therefore law was to be sought from his mouth; since he is a messenger of the Lord Almighty:

⁴ And having assembled all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them, where the Christ should be born. ⁵ And they told him. At Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written by the prophet,

³ Now this is the life everlasting that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law, shall without law perish, and as many as have sinned, being under law shall be judged by law, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.

⁸ But sin having got an advantage by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of desire. For without law sin is dead. ⁹ Now as for me, I for a while was alive without law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

²¹ to them without law, as if I were without law [not as without law to God, but under a law to Christ] that I might gain those with out law:

⁹ For they themselves relate concerning us what an entrance we had among you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the living and true God,

² The overseer therefore ought to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, well behaved, hospitable, qualified to teach,

²⁰ and we know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, and in his son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the life eternal.

²⁹ Yet there, on seeking the Lord your God you will find him, when you seek him with your whole heart and with your whole soul; ³⁰ In thy affliction, when all these things have come upon thee in the latter days, when thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice;

⁹ But when the Israelites cried to the Lord, he raised up a saviour for them, and delivered them, namely Gothoniel the youngest son of Kenez, Chaleb's brother. ¹⁰ The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war against Cousarsathaim, and the Lord delivered Cousarsathaim, king of Syrian Mesopotamia, into his hands; and his hand prevailed against Cousarsathaim,

¹⁰ And when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken God, and served Baals, ¹¹ the Lord said to the Israelites, Did I not deliver you out of Egypt, and from the Amorites and the Ammonites, and the Philistines, ¹² and the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Madiam, who afflicted you? When you cried to me, I saved you out of their hands. ¹³ But you have forsaken me, and served other gods, therefore I will deliver you no more. ¹⁴ Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen for yourselves, and let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. ¹⁵ And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned. Do thou thyself to us, whatever seemeth good in thine eyes, but deliver us this time. ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord alone. Whereupon his heart relented at the distress of Israel.

⁴⁴ the Lord beheld when they were afflicted. When he heard their supplication,

⁶ Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. And when he draweth near to you;

¹ [M] I became manifest to them who inquired not for me; I was found by them who sought me not. I said, "Behold here I am" to the nation which did not invoke my name. ² I stretched out my hands all the day long to a disobedient and gainsaying people, who were walking not in a good way, but following their own sins.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, "Come, let us return to the Lord our God, for it is he who hath torn and he can heal us. He can smite, and into our wounds he can pour balm;

¹ [p] Israel, return to the Lord thy God. Seeing they have been weakened for thine iniquities, ² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips. ³ Assur cannot save us. We will no more mount horses; we will no more say to the works of our hand, "You are our gods." He who is in thee will compassionate the fatherless.

²⁰ But Esaias is more explicit, and saith, "I was found by them who sought me not, I became manifest to them who inquired not for me."

⁶ In the days of Samegar son of Anath; in the days of Jael; They forsook the high, ways and travelled in bye paths; They travelled in crooked winding roads.

⁶ And when Israel saw that they were strictly enjoined not to offer sacrifices, the people hid themselves in caves, and in dens, and among rocks, and in pits, and wells,

⁸ The Lord will guard thy coming in and going out henceforth and forever.

⁶ As you will soon hear of wars and rumours of wars, see that you be not troubled. For all these things must happen, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places.

²⁵ There will indeed be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth, anguish of desponding nations, while the sea is roaring and the billows thereof;

¹⁴ the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers, who spoiled them, and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

¹⁵ Now the acts of Roboam, first and last, behold are they not written in the book of Samaias the prophet and of Addo the seer? Also his exploits,

¹⁷ so that Abia and his people smote them with a great slaughter, and there fell of Israel, slain, fifty thousand warriors.

¹¹ the Lord brought against them the chiefs of the army of the king of Asur, and they took Manasses, and having bound him with chains and fetters they carried him to Babylon.

¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands;

⁴¹ And he delivered them into the hands of enemies; and they who hated them ruled over them.

⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

⁶ Shall a trumpet sound in a city and the people not be alarmed? Can there be in a city a calamity which the Lord hath not inflicted?

⁷ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places.

⁸ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in divers places. And there will be famines and commotions. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

⁹ And when you hear of wars and insurrections, be not terrified; for these things must first happen; but the end will not follow immediately. ¹⁰ Then he said to them, nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

²² Because these are days of vengeance that all which are written may be accomplished; ²³ alas therefore for the women with child and for them who give suck in those days; for there will be great distress in this land and wrath on this people. ²⁴ They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captives to all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by nations until the times of nations shall be fulfilled.

¹ After these things a word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I protect thee. Thy reward shall be exceedingly great.

⁷ Therefore be strong, and courageous, to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do:

⁹ Behold I have commanded thee; be strong and courageous: fear not, nor be dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.

¹² The Lord recompense thy work, and may a full reward be given thee by the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou art come, to put thy trust under his wings.

²⁰ Then David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of good courage and do the work. Fear not nor be dismayed; for the Lord my God is with thee. He will not leave thee nor forsake thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. And behold this is the model of the temple, and of his house and his treasury, and the upper rooms and the inner depositories, and the house of the propitiation; even the model of the house of the Lord.

¹¹ These indeed thy servant keepeth; for keeping them there is a great reward.

¹⁴ Wait for the Lord and be of good courage; let thy heart be strengthened and wait for the Lord.

¹¹ And man will say, Since there is indeed a reward for the righteous, there is a God who judgeth those on the earth.

³ Be strong ye hands which are feeble, and ye knees which are without strength. ⁴ Take comfort ye who are faint hearted; take courage, be not terrified; behold our God retributeth judgment; he will indeed make retribution; he himself will come and save us.

¹⁹ and said to me, Man much beloved, fear not: peace be to thee. Take courage and be strong. And when he had spoken to me I recovered strength and said, Let my lord speak, for thou hast strengthened me.

¹² Rejoice and exult triumphantly; for great will be your reward in heaven: for thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

⁴⁶ For if you love them who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the publicans the same?

¹ Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

⁴ that thine act of charity may be in secret; and thy father who seeth in secret will himself reward thee openly.

⁶ But as for thee, when thou wouldst pray, retire to thy closet, and having shut the door pray to thy father who is in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly.

¹⁸ that thy fasting may not appear to men, but to thy father who is in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly.

⁴¹ He who receiveth a prophet on the account of his being a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receiveth a righteous man on the account of his being a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward. ⁴² And whoever shall give any one of these little ones, were it only a cup of cold water to drink, on the account of his being a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

³⁵ But love your enemies; and do good; and lend without any mistrust, and your reward will be great. And you will be the children of the Most High Because he is kind, even to the ungrateful and malignant;

⁴ Now to him who worketh the reward is not reckoned a favour, but a debt. ⁵ But to him who doth not work, but believeth in him who acquitteth the ungodly, his belief is placed to account for righteousness.

⁸ Now he who planteth and he who watereth are all one; and each shall receive his peculiar reward according to his peculiar labour.

¹⁴ If any one's work which he hath built upon it, shall stand the test, he will receive a reward.

¹⁷ for if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will I have been intrusted with an office, what then is the reward for me? ¹⁸ In this case, when proclaiming the glad tiding I will make the glad tidings of the Christ so far unexpensive, not to use to the utmost the privilege which I have by the glad tidings.

⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, immoveable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.

¹³ Watch; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong;

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

²⁴ knowing that you will receive from the Lord the reward of the inheritance; for you are serving the Lord Christ,

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work, and the labour of that love which you have shewn for his name, by the assistance which you have given and continue to give to the saints.

³⁵ Therefore cast not away that confidence of yours which hath a great recompense of reward.

⁸ Look to yourselves, that we may not lose our labour, but that we may receive ample wages.

³⁰ Therefore you shall keep my ordinances that you may not practise any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you. You shall not pollute yourselves with them; for I the Lord am your God.

¹⁵ Cursed the man who shall make a graven, or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of artists; though he set it up in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

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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:

¹⁴ As for the brasen altar which was before the Lord he brought it forward towards the front of the house of the Lord, from between this altar and the house of the Lord and put it upon the north side of this altar.

²² Such is Pharao king of Egypt to all who trust in him. As to thy telling me, We have relied on the Lord God; Is not this he, whose high places and whose altars Ezekias hath pulled down, saying to Juda and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

¹³ The king defiled also the house which was in front of Jerusalem; that which was on the right of mount Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Astarte, the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chamos, the abomination of Moab, and for Moloch the abomination of the Ammonites.

¹ And he made an altar of brass, the length of it was twenty cubits and the breadth twenty cubits and the height ten cubits.

¹² Then Solomon offered whole burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar which he had built to the Lord over against the temple

¹⁹ And Abia continued the pursuit after Jeroboam and took from him the following cities, Baithel with the villages thereof, and Jesuna with the villages thereof, and Ephron with the villages thereof.

¹¹ And behold Amarias the priest, is ruler over you for every word of the Lord, and Zabdias son of Ismael, the ruler over the house of Juda, for every matter touching the king; and the scribes and the Levites are to attend you. Be firm and do your duty, and the Lord will be with the good.

¹⁸ they went to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all that are in the house of the Lord, the altar of whole burnt offerings, with the utensils thereof, and the table for the presence loaves, with its utensils, and have prepared and hallowed

¹⁴ He cut wood from the forest which the Lord planted; a pine tree, which the rain had nourished,

⁴ They sleep in tombs and in caverns for the purpose of dreaming: they eat swine's flesh, and the broth of sacrifices; all their vessels are polluted;

¹⁸ therefore I will doubly requite them for their wickedness and their sins-for their having defiled My land with the carcasses of their abominations, and for their acts of iniquity with which they have caused My heritage to transgress.

¹⁰ So I went in and beheld, and lo! vain abominations and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon them round about

¹⁵ from which place the brethren, having heard of us, came, some to Appii-forum and some to Tres-tabernae to meet us. And when Paul saw them he gave thanks to God and took courage.

³ For the past time of this life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revels, carouses, and abominable idolatries;

⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication; ⁵ and on her forehead there was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth.

³ And his master perceived that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord prospered in his hands what ever he did.

²⁸ But when Saul saw that the Lord was with David, and that all Israel loved him,

²⁸ And when all Israel heard the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king, for they saw that there was in him the wisdom of God to execute judgment.

¹⁹ So Israel renounced all allegiance to the house of David to this day.

¹⁹ There withdrew also to David some from Manasses, when the Philistines came against Saul to battle. He indeed did not assist them, for in a council of war held by the generals of the Philistines, they said, With the heads of these men he will return to his master Saul.

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,

¹ Then Ezekias sent to all Israel and Juda, and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to celebrate the passover to the Lord God of Israel. ² Now the king, and the chiefs, and all the congregation at Jerusalem, had come to a determination to keep the passover in the second month; ³ for they could not keep it at that time, because a sufficient number of priests was not purified, nor were the people assembled at Jerusalem. ⁴ And as this was agreed on by the king and the whole congregation, ⁵ therefore they determined to make proclamation, throughout all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they might come and keep the passover, to the Lord God of Israel, at Jerusalem, because a multitude had not done it according to the scripture. ⁶ So the expresses went with letters from the king, and the chiefs, to all Israel and Juda, according to the decree of the king, saying, Children of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham and Isaak and Israel, and bring back the remnant who have escaped from the hand of the king of Assur. ⁷ And be not like your fathers and your brethren, who apostatised from the Lord God of their fathers, and whom he delivered up to desolation, as you yourselves see. ⁸ Now therefore be not stubborn as your fathers were. Give glory to the Lord God, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath hallowed forever, and serve the Lord your God, and he will turn away his fierce indignation from you. ⁹ For by your turning to the Lord, your brethren and your children will find compassion in the sight of all those who have captivated them; and he will bring them back to this land. For the Lord our God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from us, if we return to him. ¹⁰ But while the expresses were passing from city to city, through mount Ephraim, and Manasses, till they came to Zabulon, they were treated as deriders and mockers. ¹¹ But the men of Aser, and some of Manasses and Zabulon were humbled, and came to Jerusalem, and to Juda.

²⁵ So the whole congregation, the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation of Juda, and all who were in Jerusalem, and the proselytes who came from Israel, and the inhabitants of Judea were filled with joy.

²¹ even the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to pray before the Lord and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty. ²² I am going. So many peoples and many nations will come to seek the face of the Lord Almighty at Jerusalem, and to conciliate the favour of the Lord. ²³ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If in those days ten men of all the tongues of the nations take hold, they must take hold of the skirt of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee, for we have heard that God is with you.

⁹ And the patriarchs, being moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him, ¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt, and all his household.

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.

⁹ So the secretaries were convened in the first month which is Nisan, on the three and twentieth day thereof in the same year, and a letter was written to the Jews reciting all that had been given in charge to the lieutenants and to the chief governors of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty seven provinces, to every province as they could read it,

²⁸ And you shall set apart as a tribute to the Lord, from the warriors who went out to battle, one in five hundred from the captives, and from the beasts, namely, the cattle, and the sheep, and the asses. ²⁹ These you shall take from their half, and give to Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the Lord.

⁵⁰ We have therefore brought, as every man chanced to find a jewel of gold, either a necklace, or a bracelet, or a ring, or an ornament for the right arm, or a chain, to make atonement for us before the Lord.

¹⁵ And Saul said, I have brought out of Amelek such as the people spared, the best of the flocks, and the herds, that they may be sacrificed to the Lord thy God; but the rest I have utterly destroyed.

²¹ and the people have taken of the spoils, flocks and herds, as first fruits of the destruction, to sacrifice them before the Lord our God, at Galgal.

²⁶ This Salomoth and his brethren were over the treasures of the dedicated things, which were dedicated by David the king and by the chiefs of families, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and generals of the army, ²⁷ which they had taken from the cities and from the spoils won in battle, and of which they had dedicated a part, that the building of the house of God might not be delayed.

⁶ And he made an offering there on the brasen altar before the Lord, on that at the tabernacle. And when he had offered upon it a thousand victims

⁵ Then king Solomon offered as a thank offering twenty two thousand beeves and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Now when the king and all the people dedicated the house,

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;

²⁹ Yet there, on seeking the Lord your God you will find him, when you seek him with your whole heart and with your whole soul;

¹² Now therefore, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul;

¹ These were the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to state to the children of Israel, in the land of Moab, over and above the covenant which he had made with them at Choreb.

¹² to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, and into the curses which the Lord thy God this day stateth to thee,

⁴⁸ and turn to thee with their whole heart, and with their whole soul, in the land of their enemies, to which thou hast transported them; and direct their prayers to thee, toward this land which thou gavest to their fathers, and this city which thou hast chosen, and this house which I have built for thy name;

³ the king stood before the pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord; to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul; to conform to the terms of the covenant, the things written in the book. And all the people joined in the covenant.

¹⁶ Then Jodae made a covenant between the Lord, and the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

¹⁰ In this situation of affairs, I have it now at heart to enter into a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce anger from us.

³¹ Then the king stood on the pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord to walk before the Lord and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with his whole heart, and his whole soul, so as to perform all the terms of the covenant, written in that book; 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,

³⁸ In a due sense, therefore, of all these things we pledge our faith, we by writing, and our chiefs, our Levites, and our priests by sealing;

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;

¹³ then pray to me and I will hearken to you:

⁵ They will ask the way to Zion; for thitherward they will set their face; and they will come and flee to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

¹⁴ But this I confess to thee, that after the way which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing all the institutes of the law and the writings of the prophets;

⁵ not indeed as if we had expected this; but they gave themselves first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God,

¹¹ and smote with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were tired seeking the door.

²⁹ And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle.

²⁰ He who sacrificeth to any god save to the Lord alone shall be destroyed by death.

⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken to lead thee astray from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage; to put thee out of the way in which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk. So thou shalt remove evil from among you. ⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. ¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you. ¹² And if thou shalt hear it said, that in one of the cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to dwell in, ¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not; ¹⁴ thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you; ¹⁵ thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaughter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to destruction, it and all that are in it.

² If there be found in any of thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a man, or a woman, who shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant, ³ and they have gone, and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the whole host of heaven, which he hath not commanded thee, ⁴ and information be given thee, and thou hast made strict inquiry, and behold the thing hath been actually done, and such an abomination hath been committed in Israel, ⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die.

¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness?

⁴⁰ Then Elias said to the people, Seize the prophets of Baal. Let none of them escape. So they seized them and brought them to Elias, down to the brook Kison and slew them there.

¹⁹ Small and great are there on a level; the servant, with his dreaded lord.

¹⁹ Who hath no respect for the person of an honourable man; nor knoweth how to honour nobles by respecting their persons."

¹³ he hath blessed them, who fear the Lord, both small and great.

²² Having therefore obtained help from God, I have continued to this day, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets have said were to come to pass; particularly Moses,

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth and the nobles and the rich and the chief commanders and the under officers and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. And books were opened; and another book was opened namely that of Life. And the dead were judged by the writings in those books according to their works.

¹³ I shook my lap and said, So may God shake every man who will not perform this promise, out of his house and from his labour, and let them be shaken out and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen; and praised the Lord, and the people executed the decree.

¹ For the conclusion. On the wine presses. A Psalm by Asaph. Exult with joy for God our helper! Shout triumphantly for the God of Jacob! ² Take a psalm and bring a tympanum; the sweet sounding psaltery with a kithara. ³ Sound the trumpet at the new moon; at the set day of your festival. ⁴ For it is a statute for Israel; a rite established by the God of Jacob;

¹¹ thou shalt regale thyself with all the good things which the Lord thy God hath given thee, thou, and thy family, and the Levite, and the proselyte who is with thee.

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

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.

² and he went out to meet Asa and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while you are with him. And if you seek him, he will be found by you. But if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

⁶ though nation may fight against nation, and city against city, because God hath confounded them with all kinds of affliction;

¹² and entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹⁶ Then Jodae made a covenant between the Lord, and the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people. ¹⁷ And all the people of the land, went to the house of Baal and demolished it, and his altars, and broke to pieces his idols, and slew Matthan the priest of Baal before his altars. ¹⁸ And Jodae the priest committed the works of the house of the Lord to the priests and the Levites, and re-established the courses of the priests, and the Levites, into which David had distributed them. And they offered whole burnt offerings to the Lord, as it was written in the law of Moses, with gladness and with hymns, composed by David. ¹⁹ And the keepers of the gates attended at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none might enter who was in any respect unclean. ²⁰ Then he took the patriarchs and the mighties, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought up the king to the house of the Lord, thence he passed through the inner gate to the house of the king, and they seated him on the throne of the kingdom; ²¹ and all the people of the land rejoiced; for the city was quiet, after they had slain Gotholia.

³⁶ and Ezekias and all the people rejoiced, because God had made provision for the people. For the thing was done suddenly.

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,

¹¹ Rejoice in the Lord and exult ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye who are upright in heart.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn and determined to keep thy righteous judgments.

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies for an everlasting inheritance: for they are the joy of my heart.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

⁸ for the way of the Lord is justice. We have trusted in thy name and in that remembrance

¹⁹ am the Lord and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret nor in an obscure part of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye a vain thing. I am THE I AM, the Lord, who speak righteousness and proclaim truth.

¹² For this is the matter of our boasting; the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more especially towards you.

²³ For I am strained between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is by far the best;

²⁰ And taking the bull which they had made he burned it with fire and grinded it fine and strewed it in the water and made the Israelites drink it.

²⁷ Then Moses said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Gird ye every man his sword on his thigh and pass through and wheel about from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his neighbour and every one him who is nearest of kin to him. ²⁸ And the children of Levi did as Moses spoke to them and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

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, ²⁶ therefore thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house; for thou wilt be an Anathema as well as it. Thou shalt utterly detest it, and hold it in utter abomination; for it is an Anathema, [a devoted thing.]

²¹ Now I had taken your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire; and having stamped, and ground it, till it was very fine, and like dust, I threw the dust into the torrent which ran down out of the mount.

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him.

⁹ With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant.

² and reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, a grand daughter of Abessalom.

¹⁰ and he reigned forty one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Ana, a descendant of Abessalom.

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.

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.

¹² and the altars which were on the roof of Achaz's chamber, which the king's of Juda had erected? and he pulled down the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, and having dragged them out thence piece meal, he threw the rubbish of them into the brook Kedron.

¹⁵ he then tore down also the altar which was at Baithel, that high altar which was erected by Jeroboam, son of Nabat, who had caused Israel to sin. Even that high altar he tore down and broke the stones thereof to pieces and pounded them to dust, and burned the bower.

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

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.

³ And it shall come to pass that if any man shall still prophesy, even his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, Thou shalt not live, because thou hast spoken lies in the name of the Lord. And his father and his mother who begot him will bind him when he prophesieth.

²¹ And when they who were just from it, heard, and were going out to restrain it, [for some said, He is distracted,

³¹ therefore his brethren, and his mother come, and having stood without, sent for him, ³² as the multitude sat around him. And when they said to him, Behold thy mother and thy brethren are Who had just come in from the crowd at the gate, without, inquiring for thee, ³³ he answered them, saying, Who is my mother? And who are my brethren? ³⁴ Then looking round on them who sat about him, he saith, Behold my mother and my brethren! ³⁵ For whosoever will do the will of God, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no one after the flesh. Nay though we indeed knew Christ after the flesh, yet we now know him so no more.

¹³ Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy whole burnt offerings in every place which thou mayst see; ¹⁴ but only in the place which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of thy tribes. There you shall offer your whole burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I this day command you.

² but the people were in the practice of burning incense on the high places, because till this time there was not a house built to the Lord. ³ And Solomon loved the Lord, to walk in the statutes of his father David; but he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ⁴ So he arose and went to Gabaon because it was the highest and greatest to sacrifice there. And when Solomon had offered there a whole burnt offering of a thousand victims upon the altar of Gabaon,

⁴ so that when he grew old his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

⁴³ And he walked in all the way of his father Asa, and deviated not from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. But he did not remove the high places. Still the people sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

³ But none of the high places were removed. There the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

⁴ But he did not remove the high places. Still the people sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

⁷ At that time Anani the prophet, came to Asa king of Juda and said to him, Seeing thou hast put thy trust in the king of Syria, and hast not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore the army of the king of Syria hath escaped out of thy hand. 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 For the eyes of the Lord look throughout the whole earth, to strengthen them whose heart is perfect towards him. In this matter thou hast acted foolishly. Henceforward thou shalt have war. ¹⁰ Upon this Asa was enraged at the prophet, and committed him to prison. Because this gave offence, Asa proceeded to outrage against the people at the same time. ¹¹ Now behold the acts of Asa first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. ¹² In the thirty ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet, till he became very sick; but in his sickness he did not apply to the Lord, but to physicians.

⁵¹ And when all the work was finished which Solomon made for the house of the Lord, then Solomon brought the dedications of his father David, and his own dedications, the silver and the gold, and the utensils, and deposited them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

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.

²⁰ And with regard to the Levites their brethren, who were over the treasures of the house of the Lord and over the treasures of dedicated things, ²¹ these were Ladanites, the sons of Ladan the Gersonite; the heads of families belonging to Ladan. To Ladan the Gersonite belonged Jeiel, ²² the sons of Jeiel; Zethom .and Joel. These brethren were over the treasures of the house of the Lord. ²³ With respect to the Ambramites and Isaarites. Chebronites and Ozielites; ²⁴ Subael son of Gersam, son of Moses, was over the treasures. ²⁵ And to his brother Eliezer belonged Rabias a son, and Josias and Joram, and Zechri and Salomoth. ²⁶ This Salomoth and his brethren were over the treasures of the dedicated things, which were dedicated by David the king and by the chiefs of families, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and generals of the army,

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,

³¹ Now the rest of the acts of Nabat and all that he did, behold are they not written in the book of the journal of the kings of Israel?

³³ In the third year of Asa king of Juda, Baasa son of Achia began his reign of twenty four years over Israel, at Thersa.

¹ But in the thirty eighth year of the reign of Asa, the king of Israel came up against Juda, and began building Rama, in order to stop all outlet and inlet to Asa king of Juda;