display: 2 Chronicles 2:1

text: And Solomon determined to build an house for the Name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdome.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:2

2 Chronicles

testament: OT

text: And Solomon told out threescore and tenne thousand men to beare burdens, and fourescore thousand to hewe in the mountaine, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:3

text: ¶ And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedars to builde him an house to dwell therein, euen so deale with me.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:4

text: Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burne before him sweet incense, and for the continuall shew-bread, and for the burnt offrings morning and euening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new Moones, and on the solemne feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for euer to Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:5

text: And the house which I build, is great: for great is our God aboue all gods.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:6

text: But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot conteine him? who am I then that I should build him an house? saue onely to burne sacrifice before him?


display: 2 Chronicles 2:7

text: Send me now therefore a man, cunning to worke in gold and in siluer, and in brasse, and in yron, and in purple and crimson, and blew, and that can skil to graue, with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah, and in Ierusalem, whome Dauid my father did prouide.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:8

text: Send me also Cedar trees, firre trees, and Algume trees, out of Lebanon: (for I know that thy seruants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon) and behold, my seruants shalbe with thy seruants,


display: 2 Chronicles 2:9

text: Euen to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build, shalbe wonderfull great.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:10

text: And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:11

text: ¶ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which hee sent to Solomon: Because the LORD hath loued his people, hee hath made thee King ouer them.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:12

text: Huram said moreouer, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel that made heauen and earth, who hath giuen to Dauid the King a wise sonne, indued with prudence and vnderstanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdome.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:13

text: And now I haue sent a cunning man (indued with vnderstanding) of Huram my fathers:


display: 2 Chronicles 2:14

text: The sonne of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilfull to worke in golde and in siluer, in brasse, in yron, in stone and in timber, in purple, in blew, and in fine linen, and in crimson: also to graue any maner of grauing, and to find out euery deuice which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord Dauid thy father.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:15

text: Now therefore the wheate and the barley, the oyle and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send vnto his seruants:


display: 2 Chronicles 2:16

text: And wee will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need, and wee will bring it to thee in flotes by sea to Ioppa, and thou shalt carie it vp to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:17

text: ¶ And Solomon numbred all the strangers that were in the lande of Israel, after the numbring wherewith Dauid his father had numbred them: and they were found an hundred and fiftie thousand, and three thousand and sixe hundred.


display: 2 Chronicles 2:18

text: And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourescore thousand to be hewers in the mountaine, and three thousand and sixe hundred ouerseers to set the people a worke.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:1

text: Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Ierusalem in Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared vnto Dauid his father, in the place that Dauid had prepared in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:2

text: And he began to build in the second day of the second moneth, in the fourth yeere of his reigne.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:3

text: ¶ Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubites after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twentie cubites.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:4

text: And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was atcording to the breadth of the house, twentie cubites, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he ouerlaid it within, with pure gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:5

text: And the greater house hee sieled with firre tree, which he ouerlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palme trees and chaines.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:6

text: And he garnished the house with precious stones for beautie, and the gold was gold of Paruaim.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:7

text: Hee ouerlaid also the house, the beames, the postes and the wals thereof, and the doores thereof with gold, and graued Cherubims on the walles.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:8

text: And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was, according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twentie cubits: and he ouerlaid it with fine gold amounting to sixe hundred talents.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:9

text: And the weight of the nailes was fiftie shekels of gold: and he ouerlaide the vpper chambers with gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:10

text: And in the most holy place hee made two Cherubims of image work, and ouerlaid them with gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:11

text: ¶ And the wings of the Cherubims were twentie cubites long: one wing of the one Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise fiue cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub:


display: 2 Chronicles 3:12

text: And one wing of the other Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was fiue cubites also, ioyning to the wing of the other Cherub.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:13

text: The wings of these Cherubims spread themselues forth twentie cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:14

text: ¶ And he made the vaile of blue and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought Cherubims thereon.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:15

text: Also hee made before the house, two pillars of thirtie and fiue cubites high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them, was fiue cubites.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:16

text: And he made chaines, as in the Oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chaines.


display: 2 Chronicles 3:17

text: And he reared vp the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, and called the name of that on the right hand, Iachin, and the name of that on the left, Boaz.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:1

text: Moreouer he made an Altar of brasse, twentie cubites the length thereof, and twentie cubites the breadth thereof, and ten cubites the height therof.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:2

text: ¶ Also he made a molten Sea of ten cubites, from brim to brim, round in compasse, and fiue cubites the height thereof, and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it round about.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:3

text: And vnder it was the similitude of oxen, which did compasse it round about: tenne in a cubite compassing the Sea round about. Two rowes of oxen were cast, when it was cast.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:4

text: It stood vpon twelue oxen: three looking toward the North, and three looking toward the West, and three looking toward the South, and three looking toward the East: and the Sea was set aboue vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:5

text: And the thicknes of it was an hand breadth, & the brim of it like the worke of the brim of a cup, with flowers of Lillies: and it receiued and held three thousand baths.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:6

text: ¶ He made also ten Lauers, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offring, they washed in them, but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:7

text: And hee made ten candlesticks of gold according to their forme, and set them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:8

text: He made also ten tables, and placed them in the Temple, fiue on the right side, and fiue on the left: and hee made an hundred basens of gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:9

text: ¶ Furthermore, hee made the court of the Priests, and the great court, and doores for the court, and ouerlayd the doores of them with brasse.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:10

text: And he set the Sea on the rightside of the East end, ouer against the South.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:11

text: And Huram made the pots, and the shouels, and the basens, and Huram finished the worke that he was to make for King Solomon for the house of God:


display: 2 Chronicles 4:12

text: To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreathes to couer the two pommels of the chapiters, which were on the top of the pillars:


display: 2 Chronicles 4:13

text: And foure hundred Pomegranats on the two wreathes: two rowes of Pomegranats on each wreath, to couer the two pommels of the chapiters, which were vpon the pillars.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:14

text: He made also bases; and lauers made he vpon the bases.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:15

text: One Sea, & twelue oxen vnder it.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:16

text: The pots also, and the shouels, and the fleshhookes, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to King Solomon for the house of the LORD, of bright brasse.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:17

text: In the plaine of Iordan did the King cast them, in the clay-ground, betweene Succoth and Zeredathah.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:18

text: Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brasse could not be found out.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:19

text: ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels, that were for the house of God, the golden Altar also, and the tables whereon the Shew-bread was set.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:20

text: Moreouer the candlesticks with their lampes, that they should burne after the maner, before the Oracle, of pure gold:


display: 2 Chronicles 4:21

text: And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs made he of golde, and that perfect gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 4:22

text: And the snuffers, and the basens, and the spoones, and the censers, of pure gold. And the entry of the house, the inner doores thereof for the most Holy place, and the doores of the house of the Temple, were of gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:1

text: Thus al the worke that Solomon made for the house of the LORD, was finished: & Solomon brought in all the things that Dauid his father had dedicated; and the siluer, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:2

text: ¶ Then Solomon assembled the Elders of Israel, and all the heads of the Tribes, the chiefe of the fathers of the children of Israel vnto Ierusalem, to bring vp the Arke of the Couenant of the LORD, out of the citie of Dauid, which is Zion.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:3

text: Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselues vnto the king in the feast, which was in the seuenth moneth.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:4

text: And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:5

text: And they brought vp the Arke, and the tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the Priests and the Leuites bring vp.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:6

text: Also king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him before the Arke, sacrificed sheepe and oxen, which could not be told nor numbred for multitude.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:7

text: And the priests brought in the Arke of the Couenant of the LORD vnto his place, to the Oracle of the house, into the most holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims:


display: 2 Chronicles 5:8

text: For the Cherubims spread foorth their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the staues thereof, aboue.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:9

text: And they drew out the staues of the Arke, that the ends of the staues were seene from the Arke before the Oracle, but they were not seene without. And there it is vnto this day.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:10

text: There was nothing in the Arke saue the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a couenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:11

text: ¶ And it came to passe when the Priests were come out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:


display: 2 Chronicles 5:12

text: Also the Leuites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, with their sonnes and their brethren, being arayed in white linnen hauing cymbals, and psalteries, and harpes, stood at the East end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twentie Priests, sounding with trumpets:)


display: 2 Chronicles 5:13

text: It came euen to passe, as the trumpetters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD: and when they lift vp their voyce with the trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of musicke, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer: that then the house was filled with a cloude, euen the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 5:14

text: So that the Priests could not stand to minister, by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:1

text: Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thicke darkenesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:2

text: But I haue built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:3

text: And the King turned his face and blessed the whole Congregation of Israel, (and all the Congregation of Israel stood)


display: 2 Chronicles 6:4

text: And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his handes fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father Dauid, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 6:5

text: Since the day that I brought foorth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no citie among all the tribes of Israel to builde an house in, that my Name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:6

text: But I haue chosen Ierusalem, that my name might be there, and haue chosen Dauid to be ouer my people Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:7

text: Now it was in the heart of Dauid my father to build an house for the Name of the LORD God of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:8

text: But the LORD said to Dauid my father: Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to builde an house for my Name, thou diddest well in that it was in thine heart.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:9

text: Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come foorth out of thy loynes, he shall build the house for my Name.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:10

text: The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen vp in the roome of Dauid my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and haue built the house for the Name of the LORD God of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:11

text: And in it haue I put the Arke, wherein is the Couenant of the LORD, that hee made with the children of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:12

text: ¶ And he stood before the Altar of the LORD, in the presence of all the Congregation of Israel, and spread foorth his hands:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:13

text: (For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of fiue cubites long, and fiue cubites broad, and three cubites high, and had set it in the midst of the Court, and vpon it hee stood, and kneeled downe vpon his knees before all the Congregation of Israel, and spread foorth his hands towards heauen.)


display: 2 Chronicles 6:14

text: And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heauen, nor in the earth, which keepest couenant, and shewest mercy vnto thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their hearts,


display: 2 Chronicles 6:15

text: Thou which hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father, that which thou hast promised him: and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:16

text: Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not faile thee a man in my sight, to sit vpon the throne of Israel: yet so, that thy children take heede to their way, to walke in my Law, as thou hast walked before me.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:17

text: Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken vnto thy seruant Dauid.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:18

text: (But wil God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heauen, and the heauen of heauens cannot conteine thee: how much lesse this house which I haue built?)


display: 2 Chronicles 6:19

text: Haue respect therfore to the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken vnto the cry, and the prayer which thy seruant prayeth before thee:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:20

text: That thine eyes may bee open vpon this house day and night, vpon the place whereof thou hast saide, that thou wouldest put thy Name there, to hearken vnto the prayer, which thy seruant prayeth towards this place.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:21

text: Hearken therefore vnto the supplications of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make towards this place: heare thou from thy dwelling place, euen from heauen; and when thou hearest, forgiue.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:22

text: ¶ If a man sinne against his neighbour, and an oath be layd vpon him, to make him sweare, and the oath come before thine Altar in this house:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:23

text: Then heare thou from heauen, and doe, and iudge thy seruants by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way vpon his owne head, and by iustifying the righteous, by giuing him according to his righteousnesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:24

text: ¶ And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall returne and confesse thy Name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:25

text: Then heare thou from the heauens, and forgiue the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land which thou gauest to them, and to their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:26

text: ¶ When the heauen is shut vp, and there is no raine, because they haue sinned against thee: yet if they pray towards this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:27

text: Then heare thou from heauen, and forgiue the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel; when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walke, and send raine vpon the land, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:28

text: ¶ If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mil-dew, locusts or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land: whatsoeuer sore, or whatsoeuer sicknesse there be:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:29

text: Then what prayer, or what supplication soeuer shall bee made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when euery one shal know his owne sore and his owne griefe, and shall spread foorth his hands in this house:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:30

text: Then heare thou from heauen thy dwelling place, and forgiue, and render vnto euery man according vnto all his wayes, whose heart thou knowest (for thou onely knowest the hearts of the children of men:)


display: 2 Chronicles 6:31

text: That they may feare thee, to walke in thy waies so long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:32

text: ¶ Moreouer concerning the stranger which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a farre countrey for thy great Names sake, & thy mightie hand, and thy stretched out arme: if they come and pray in this house:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:33

text: Then heare thou from the heauens, euen from thy dwelling place, and doe according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy Name, and feare thee, as doeth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I haue built, is called by thy Name.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:34

text: If thy people goe out to warre against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray vnto thee toward this citie which thou hast chosen, and the house which I haue built for thy Name:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:35

text: Then heare thou from the heauens their prayer and their supplication, and maintaine their cause.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:36

text: If they sinne against thee (for there is no man which sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them ouer before their enemies, and they cary them away captiues vnto a land far off or neere:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:37

text: Yet if they bethinke themselues in the land whither they are caried captiue, and turne and pray vnto thee in the land of their captiuitie, saying, Wee haue sinned, we haue done amisse, and haue dealt wickedly:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:38

text: If they returne to thee with all their heart, and with all their soule, in the land of their captiuitie, whither they haue caried them captiues, and pray toward their land which thou gauest vnto their fathers, and toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name:


display: 2 Chronicles 6:39

text: Then heare thou from the heauens, euen from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintaine their cause, and forgiue thy people, which haue sinned against thee.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:40

text: Now, my God, let (I beseech thee) thine eyes bee open, and let thine eares be attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:41

text: Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the Arke of thy strength: Let thy Priests, O LORD God, be clothed with saluation, and let thy Saints reioyce in goodnesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 6:42

text: O LORD God, turne not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of Dauid thy seruant.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:1

text: Now when Solomon had made an ende of praying, the fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the burnt offering, and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:2

text: And the Priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORDs house.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:3

text: And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came downe, and the glory of the LORD vpon the house, they bowed themselues with their faces to the ground vpon the pauement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For hee is good, for his mercy endureth for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:4

text: ¶ Then the King and all the people, offered sacrifices before the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:5

text: And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twentie and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twentie thousand sheepe. So the King and all the people, dedicated the house of God.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:6

text: And the Priests waited on their offices: the Leuites also with instruments of musicke of the LORD, which Dauid the King had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for euer, when Dauid praised by their ministerie: and the Priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:7

text: Moreouer, Solomon hallowed the middle of the Court, that was before the house of the LORD: for there hee offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen Altar which Solomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:8

text: ¶ Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seuen dayes, and all Israel with him, a very great Congregation, from the entring in of Hamath, vnto the Riuer of Egypt.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:9

text: And in the eight day they made a solemne assembly: for they kept the dedication of the Altar seuen dayes, and the feast seuen dayes.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:10

text: And on the three and twentieth day of the seuenth moneth, he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodnesse that the LORD had shewed vnto Dauid, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:11

text: Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the Kings house: and all that came into Solomons heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his owne house, hee prosperously effected.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:12

text: ¶ And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said vnto him, I haue heard thy prayer, and haue chosen this place to my selfe for an house of sacrifice.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:13

text: If I shut vp heauen that there bee no raine, or if I command the locusts to deuoure the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:


display: 2 Chronicles 7:14

text: If my people which are called by my Name, shall humble themselues and pray, and seeke my face, and turne from their wicked wayes: then will I heare from heauen, and will forgiue their sinne, and will heale their land.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:15

text: Now mine eyes shalbe open, and mine eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:16

text: For now haue I chosen, & sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes and mine heart shalbe there perpetually.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:17

text: And as for thee, if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, and doe according to all that I haue commanded thee, and shalt obserue my Statutes, and my Iudgements:


display: 2 Chronicles 7:18

text: Then wil I stablish the throne of thy kingdome, according as I haue couenanted with Dauid thy father, saying, There shall not faile thee a man to be ruler in Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:19

text: But if yee turne away and forsake my Statutes and my Commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worship them:


display: 2 Chronicles 7:20

text: Then will I plucke them vp by the roots out of my land which I haue giuen them, and this house which I haue sanctified for my Name, wil I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a prouerbe, and a by-word among all nations.


display: 2 Chronicles 7:21

text: And this house which is high, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it; so that hee shall say; Why hath the LORD done thus vnto this land, and vnto this house?


display: 2 Chronicles 7:22

text: And it shalbe answered, Because they forsooke the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and layd hold on others gods, and worshipped them, aud serued them: Therefore hath hee brought all this euil vpon them.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:1

text: And it came to passe (at the end of twentie yeeres, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, & his own house)


display: 2 Chronicles 8:2

text: That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:3

text: And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and preuailed against it.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:4

text: And he built Tadmor in the wildernesse, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:5

text: Also he built Beth-horon the vpper, and Beth-horon the nether, fensed cities with walles, gates and barres:


display: 2 Chronicles 8:6

text: And Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the charet-cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:7

text: ¶ As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, which were not of Israel:


display: 2 Chronicles 8:8

text: But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not; them did Solomon make to pay tribute, vntill this day.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:9

text: But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no seruants for his worke: but they were men of warre, and chiefe of his captains, and captains of his charets and horsemen.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:10

text: And these were the chiefe of king Solomons officers, euen two hundred and fifty, that bare rule ouer the people.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:11

text: ¶ And Solomon brought vp the daughter of Pharaoh out of the citie of Dauid, vnto the house that he had built for her: for hee said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of Dauid king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the Arke of the LORD hath come.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:12

text: ¶ Then Solomon offered burnt offerings vnto the LORD on the Altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch:


display: 2 Chronicles 8:13

text: Euen after a certaine rate euery day, offering according to the commandement of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new Moones, and on the solemne Feasts three times in the yeere, euen in the feast of Unleauened bread, and in the feast of Weekes, and in the feast of Tabernacles.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:14

text: ¶ And he appointed, according to the order of Dauid his father, the courses of the Priests to their seruice, and the Leuites to their charges, to praise and minister before the Priests, as the duety of euery day required: the porters also by their courses, at euery gate: for so had Dauid the man of God commanded.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:15

text: And they departed not from the commandement of the King vnto the Priests and Leuites, concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:16

text: Now all the worke of Solomon was prepared vnto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and vntill it was finished: so the house of God was perfected.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:17

text: ¶ Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.


display: 2 Chronicles 8:18

text: And Huram sent him by the hands of his seruants, shippes, and seruants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the seruants of Solomon to Ophir, and tooke thence foure hundred and fiftie talents of golde, and brought them to king Solomon.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:1

text: And when the Queene of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, shee came to prooue Solomon with hard questions at Ierusalem, with a very great companie, and camels that bare spices, and golde in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, shee communed with him of all that was in her heart.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:2

text: And Solomon tolde her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon, which he told her not.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:3

text: And when the Queene of Sheba had seene the wisedome of Solomon, and the house that he had built,


display: 2 Chronicles 9:4

text: And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparell, his cup-bearers also, and their apparell, and his ascent, by which hee went vp into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:5

text: And she said to the King, It was a true report which I heard in mine owne land, of thine actes, and of thy wisedome:


display: 2 Chronicles 9:6

text: Howbeit, I beleeued not their wordes, vntill I came, and mine eyes had seene it: and behold, the one halfe of the greatnesse of thy wisedome was not tolde mee: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:7

text: Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruants, which stand continually before thee, and heare thy wisedome.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:8

text: Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be King for the LORD thy God: because thy God loued Israel, to establish them for euer, therefore made hee thee King ouer them, to doe iudgement and iustice.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:9

text: And she gaue the king an hundred and twentie talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, & precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the Queene of Sheba gaue King Solomon.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:10

text: And the seruants also of Huram, and the seruants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought Algume trees and, precious stones.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:11

text: And the king made of the Algume trees, terrises to the house of the LORD, and to the kings palace, and harpes and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seene before in the laud of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:12

text: And King Solomon gaue to the Queene of Sheba, all her desire, whatsoeuer she asked, besides that which she had brought vnto the king: So she turned, and went away to her owne land, she, and her seruants.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:13

text: ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one yeere, was sixe hundred and threescore and sixe talents of gold:


display: 2 Chronicles 9:14

text: Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia, and gouernours of the countrie, brought gold and siluer to Solomon.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:15

text: ¶ And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: sixe hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:16

text: And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forrest of Lebanon.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:17

text: Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaid it with pure gold.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:18

text: And there were sixe steps to the throne, with a footstoole of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stayes on each side of the sitting place, and two lyons standing by the stayes.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:19

text: And twelue lyons stood there on the one side and on the other, vpon the sixe steps. There was not the like made in any kingdome.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:20

text: ¶ And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of siluer; it was not any thing accounted of in the dayes of Solomon.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:21

text: For the kings ships went to Tarshish with the seruants of Huram: euerie three yeeres once came the ships of Tarshish bringing golde, and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacocks.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:22

text: And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:23

text: ¶ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to heare his wisedome, that God had put in his heart.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:24

text: And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harnesse, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate yeere by yeere.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:25

text: ¶ And Solomon had foure thousand stalles for horses, and charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, whom hee bestowed in the charet cities, and with the king at Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:26

text: ¶ And hee reigned ouer all the kings, from the riuer, euen vnto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:27

text: And the king made siluer in Ierusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the Sycomore trees, that are in the low plaines, in abundance.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:28

text: And they brought vnto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:29

text: ¶ Now the rest of the actes of Solomon first and last, are they not written in the booke of Nathan the Prophet, and in the prophesie of Ahiiah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the Seer, against Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat?


display: 2 Chronicles 9:30

text: And Solomon reigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel, fourtie yeeres.


display: 2 Chronicles 9:31

text: And Solomon slept with his fathers, and hee was buried in the citie of Dauid his father, and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:1

text: And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:2

text: And it came to passe when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat (who was in Egypt, whither hee had fled from the presence of Solomon the king) heard it, that Ieroboam returned out of Egypt.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:3

text: And they sent and called him. So Ieroboam and all Israel came, and spake to Rehoboam, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 10:4

text: Thy father made our yoke grieuous, nowe therefore ease thou somewhat the grieuous seruitude of thy father, and his heauy yoke that he put vpon vs, and we will serue thee.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:5

text: And hee said vnto them, Come againe vnto me after three dayes. And the people departed.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:6

text: ¶ And king Rehoboam tooke counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father, while hee yet liued, saying, What counsell giue ye me, to returne answere to this people?


display: 2 Chronicles 10:7

text: And they spake vnto him, saying, If thou bee kinde to this people, and please them, and speake good words to them, they will be thy seruants for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:8

text: But he forsooke the counsel which the old men gaue him, and tooke counsell with the yong men, that were brought vp with him, that stood before him.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:9

text: And he said vnto them, What aduice giue ye, that wee may returne answere to this people, which haue spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put vpon vs?


display: 2 Chronicles 10:10

text: And the yong men that were brought vp with him, spake vnto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answere the people that spake vnto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heauy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for vs: thus shalt thou say vnto them, My litle finger shall be thicker then my fathers loynes.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:11

text: For where as my father put a heauy yoke vpon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:12

text: So Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the King bade, saying, Come againe to me on the third day.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:13

text: And the king answered them roughly, and king Rehoboam forsooke the counsell of the old men,


display: 2 Chronicles 10:14

text: And answered them after the aduice of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke heauy, but I will adde thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:15

text: So the king hearkened not vnto the people, for the cause was of God, that the LORD might performe his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:16

text: ¶ And when all Israel sawe that the king would not hearken vnto them, the people answered the king saying, What portion haue wee in Dauid? and wee haue none inheritance in the sonne of Iesse: Euery man to your tents, O Israel: and now Dauid, see to thine owne house. So all Israel went to their tents.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:17

text: But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Iudah, Rehoboam reigned ouer them.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:18

text: Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was ouer the tribute, and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died: but king Rehoboam made speed to get him vp to his charet, to flee to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 10:19

text: And Israel rebelled against the house of Dauid vnto this day.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:1

text: And when Rehoboam was come to Ierusalem, he gathered of the house of Iudah and Beniamin, an hundred and fourescore thousand chosen men, which were warriers, to fight against Israel, that hee might bring the kingdome againe to Rehoboam.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:2

text: But the worde of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 11:3

text: Speake vnto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Iudah, and to all Israel in Iudah & Beniamin, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 11:4

text: Thus saith the LORD; Ye shall not goe vp, nor fight against your brethren: returne euery man to his house, for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Ieroboam.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:5

text: ¶ And Rehoboam dwelt in Ierusalem, and built cities for defence in Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:6

text: He built euen Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,


display: 2 Chronicles 11:7

text: And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,


display: 2 Chronicles 11:8

text: And Gath, and Maresha, and Ziph,


display: 2 Chronicles 11:9

text: And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,


display: 2 Chronicles 11:10

text: And Zorah, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Iudah and in Beniamin, fenced cities.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:11

text: And he fortified the strong holds, and put captaines in them, and store of vitaile, and of oyle and wine.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:12

text: And in euery seuerall citie he put shields and speares, and made them exceeding strong, hauing Iudah and Beniamin on his side.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:13

text: ¶ And the Priests and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coasts.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:14

text: For the Leuites left their suburbs, and their possession, and came to Iudah and Ierusalem: for Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them off from executing the Priests office vnto the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:15

text: And hee ordeined him priests for the high places, and for the deuils, and for the calues which he had made.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:16

text: And after them out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seeke the LORD God of Israel, came to Ierusalem, to sacrifice vnto the LORD God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:17

text: So they strengthened the kingdome of Iudah, and made Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon strong, three yeeres: for three yeeres they walked in the way of Dauid and Solomon.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:18

text: ¶ And Rehoboam tooke him Mahalath the daughter of Ierimoth the sonne of Dauid to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Iesse:


display: 2 Chronicles 11:19

text: Which bare him children, Ieush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:20

text: And after her, hee tooke Maacah the daughter of Absalom, which bare him Abiiah, and Atthai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:21

text: And Rehoboam loued Maacah the daughter of Absalom, aboue all his wiues and his concubines: for he tooke eighteene wiues, and threescore concubines, and begate twentie and eight sonnes, and threescore daughters.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:22

text: And Rehoboam made Abiiah the sonne of Maacah the chiefe, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.


display: 2 Chronicles 11:23

text: And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Iudah and Beniamin, vnto euery fenced citie: and he gaue them vitaile in abundance: and hee desired many wiues.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:1

text: And it came to passe when Rehoboam had established the kingdome, and had strengthened himselfe, hee forsooke the Law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:2

text: And it came to passe, that in the fifth yere of Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, ( because they had transgressed against the LORD )


display: 2 Chronicles 12:3

text: With twelue hundred charets, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubims, the Sukkiims, & the Ethiopians.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:4

text: And hee tooke the fenced cities which perteined to Iudah, and came to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:5

text: ¶ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the Princes of Iudah that were gathered together to Ierusalem because of Shishak, and said vnto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye haue forsaken me, and therfore haue I also left you in the hand of Shishak.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:6

text: Whereupon, the Princes of Israel, and the king humbled themselues and they saide, The LORD is righteous.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:7

text: And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselues, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They haue humbled themselues, therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliuerance, and my wrath shall not bee powred out vpon Ierusalem, by the hand of Shishak.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:8

text: Neuerthelesse they shalbe his seruants, that they may know my seruice, and the seruice of the kingdomes of the countreys.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:9

text: So Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, and tooke away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the kings house, hee tooke all: he caried away also the shields of gold, which Solomon had made.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:10

text: In stead of which, king Rehoboam made shields of brasse, and committed them to the hands of the chiefe of the guard, that kept the entrance of the Kings house.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:11

text: And when the king entred into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fet them, and brought them againe into the guard-chamber.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:12

text: And when he humbled himselfe, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that hee would not destroy him altogether: and also in Iudah things went well.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:13

text: ¶ So king Rehoboam strengthened himselfe in Ierusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and fourty yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned seuenteen yeeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:14

text: And hee did euill, because hee prepared not his heart to seeke the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:15

text: Now the acts of Rehoboam first and last, are they not written in the booke of Shemaiah the Prophet, and of Iddo the Seer, concerning genealogies? and there were warres betweene Rehoboam & Ieroboam continually.


display: 2 Chronicles 12:16

text: And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid, and Abiiah his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:1

text: Nowe in the eighteenth yeere of king Ieroboam, began Abiiah to reigne ouer Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:2

text: He reigned three yeres in Ierusalem: (his mothers name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibea:) and there was warre between Abiiah and Ieroboam.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:3

text: And Abiiah set the battel in aray with an army of valiant men of warre, euen foure hundred thousand chosen men: Ieroboam also set the battell in aray against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mightie men of valour.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:4

text: ¶ And Abiiah stood vp vpon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and sayde, Heare mee thou Ieroboam, and all Israel:


display: 2 Chronicles 13:5

text: Ought you not to know, that the LORD God of Israel gaue the kingdome ouer Israel to Dauid for euer, euen to him and to his sonnes by a couenant of salt?


display: 2 Chronicles 13:6

text: Yet Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, the seruant of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, is risen vp, and hath rebelled against his Lord.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:7

text: And there are gathered vnto him vaine men the children of Belial, and haue strengthened themselues against Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young, & tender hearted, and could not withstand them.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:8

text: And now ye thinke to withstand the kingdome of the LORD, in the hand of the sonnes of Dauid, and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calues, which Ieroboam made you for gods.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:9

text: Haue yee not cast out the Priests of the LORD the sonnes of Aaron, and the Leuites, and haue made you priests after the maner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoeuer commeth to consecrate himselfe with a young bullocke and seuen rammes, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:10

text: But as for vs, the LORD is our God, and wee haue not forsaken him, and the Priests which minister vnto the LORD, are the sonnes of Aaron, and the Leuites waite vpon their businesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:11

text: And they burne vnto the LORD euery morning, and euery euening, burnt sacrifices and sweete incense: the shew-bread also set they in order vpon the pure table, and the Candlesticke of golde with the lampes therof, to burne euery euening: for we keepe the charge of the LORD our God, but yee haue forsaken him.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:12

text: And behold, God himselfe is with vs for our captaine, and his Priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarme against you: O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:13

text: ¶ But Ieroboam caused an ambushment to come about behinde them: so they were before Iudah, and the ambushment was behind them.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:14

text: And when Iudah looked backe, behold, the battel was before and behind; and they cried vnto the LORD, and the Priests sounded with the trumpets.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:15

text: Then the men of Iudah gaue a shout: and as the men of Iudah shouted, it came to passe that God smote Ieroboam and all Israel, before Abiiah and Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:16

text: And the children of Israel fled before Iudah: and God deliuered them into their hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:17

text: And Abiiah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fel downe slaine of Israel, fiue hundred thousand chosen men.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:18

text: Thus the children of Israel were brought vnder at that time, and the children of Iudah preuailed, because they relied vpon the LORD God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:19

text: And Abiiah pursued after Ieroboam, & tooke cities from him, Beth-el with the townes thereof, and Ieshanah with the townes thereof, and Ephrain with the townes thereof.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:20

text: Neither did Ieroboam recouer strength againe in the dayes of Abiiah: and the LORD strooke him, & he died.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:21

text: ¶ But Abiiah waxed mighty, and married fourteene wiues, and begate twentie and two sonnes, and sixteene daughters.


display: 2 Chronicles 13:22

text: And the rest of the acts of Abiiah, and his waies, and his sayings, are written in the story of the Prophet Iddo.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:1

text: So Abiiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the citie of Dauid, and Asa his sonne reigned in his stead: in his dayes the land was quiet ten yeeres.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:2

text: And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:3

text: For hee tooke away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues:


display: 2 Chronicles 14:4

text: And commanded Iudah to seeke the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the Law, and the Commandement.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:5

text: Also he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah, the high places and the images: and the kingdome was quiet before him.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:6

text: ¶ And hee built fenced cities in Iudah; for the land had rest, and hee had no warre in those yeeres; because the LORD had giuen him rest.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:7

text: Therefore hee said vnto Iudah, Let vs build these cities, & make about them walles, and towers, gates and barres, while the land is yet before vs: because wee haue sought the LORD our God, wee haue sought him, and hee hath giuen vs rest on euery side: so they built, and prospered.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:8

text: And Asa had an armie of men that bare targets and speares, out of Iudah three hundred thousand, and out of Beniamin, that bare shields and drew bowes, two hundred and fourescore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:9

text: ¶ And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian, with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred charets, and came vnto Mareshah.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:10

text: Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battel in aray in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:11

text: And Asa cried vnto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to helpe, whether with many, or with them that haue no power. Helpe vs, O LORD our God, for we rest on thee, and in thy Name wee goe against this multitude: O LORD thou art our God, let not man preuaile against thee.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:12

text: So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians fled.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:13

text: And Asa and the people that were with him, pursued them vnto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were ouerthrown, that they could not recouer themselues, for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his hoste, and they caried away very much spoile.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:14

text: And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the feare of the LORD came vpon them: and they spoiled all the cities, for there was exceeding much spoile in them.


display: 2 Chronicles 14:15

text: They smote also the tents of cattell, and caried away sheepe and camels inabundance, and returned to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:1

text: And the Spirit of God came vpon Azariah the sonne of Oded.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:2

text: And he went out to meet Asa, and said vnto him, Heare ye me, Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, The LORD is with you, while yee be with him: and if yee seeke him, he will be found of you: but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:3

text: Now for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:4

text: But when they in their trouble did turne vnto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, hee was found of them.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:5

text: And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were vpon all the inhabitants of the countreys.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:6

text: And nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God did vexe them with all aduersitie.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:7

text: Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands bee weake: for your worke shall be rewarded.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:8

text: And when Asa heard these words, and the prophesie of Oded the prophet, he tooke courage, and put away the abominable idoles out of all the lande of Iudah and Beniamin, and out of the cities which hee had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the Altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:9

text: And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: (for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.)


display: 2 Chronicles 15:10

text: So they gathered themselues together at Ierusalem, in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Asa.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:11

text: And they offered vnto the LORD the same time, of the spoile which they had brought, seuen hundred oxen, and seuen thousand sheepe.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:12

text: And they entred into a couenant to seeke the LORD God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soule:


display: 2 Chronicles 15:13

text: That whosoeuer would not seeke the LORD God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:14

text: And they sware vnto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:15

text: And all Iudah reioyced at the oath: for they had sworne with all their heart, & sought him with their whole desire, and he was found of them: and the LORD gaue them rest round about.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:16

text: ¶ And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he remooued her from beeing Queene, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa cut downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:17

text: But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: neuerthelesse the heart of Asa was perfect all his dayes.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:18

text: ¶ And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himselfe had dedicated, siluer, and gold, and vessels.


display: 2 Chronicles 15:19

text: And there was no more warre vnto the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:1

text: In the sixe and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came vp against Iudah, and built Ramah, to the intent that hee might let none goe out or come in to Asa king of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:2

text: Then Asa brought out siluer and golde out of the treasures of the house of the LORD, and of the kings house, and sent to Benhadad King of Syria that dwelt at Damascus, saying;


display: 2 Chronicles 16:3

text: There is a league betweene me and thee, as there was betweene my father and thy father: beholde, I haue sent thee siluer and golde, goe, breake thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:4

text: And Benhadad hearkened vnto king Asa, and sent the captaines of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Iion, and Dan, and Abelmaim, & all the store-cities of Naphtali.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:5

text: And it came to passe, when Baasha heard it, that hee left off building of Ramah, and let his worke cease.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:6

text: Then Asa the king tooke all Iudah, and they caried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was a building, and hee built there with Geba and Mizpah.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:7

text: ¶ And at that time Hanani the Seer came to Asa king of Iudah, and said vnto him, Because thou hast relyed on the king of Syria, and not relyed on the LORD thy God, therefore is the hoste of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:8

text: Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge hoste, with very many charets and horsemen? Yet because thou diddest relie on the LORD, he deliuered them into thine hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:9

text: For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shewe himselfe strong in the behalfe of them, whose heart is perfite towards him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; therefore, from hencefoorth thou shalt haue warres.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:10

text: Then Asa was wroth with the Seer, and put him in a prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:11

text: ¶ And behold, the actes of Asa first and last, lo, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:12

text: And Asa in the thirtie and ninth yeere of his reigne, was diseased in his feete, vntill his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease hee sought not to the LORD, but to the Physicians.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:13

text: ¶ And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fourtieth yeere of his reigne.


display: 2 Chronicles 16:14

text: And they buried him in his owne sepulchres which he had made for himselfe in the citie of Dauid, and laide him in the bed, which was filled with sweet odours, and diuers kindes of spices prepared by the Apothecaries arte: & they made a very great burning for him.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:1

text: And Iehoshaphat his sonne reigned in his stead, and strengthened himselfe against Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:2

text: And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Iudah, and set garisons in the land of Iudah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:3

text: And the LORD was with Iehoshaphat, because hee walked in the first wayes of his father Dauid, and sought not vnto Baalim:


display: 2 Chronicles 17:4

text: But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandements, and not after the doings of Israel:


display: 2 Chronicles 17:5

text: Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdome in his hand, and all Iudah brought to Iehoshaphat presents, and he had riches and honour in abundance.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:6

text: And his heart was lift vp in the wayes of the LORD: moreouer hee tooke away the high places and groues out of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:7

text: ¶ Also in the third yeere of his reigne, hee sent to his princes, euen to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Iudah:


display: 2 Chronicles 17:8

text: And with them hee sent Leuites, euen Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehonathan, and Adoniiah, and Tobiiah, and Tob-adoniiah, Leuites: and with them, Elishama and Iehoram, Priests.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:9

text: And they taught in Iudah, and had the book of the Law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Iudah, and taught the people.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:10

text: ¶ And the feare of the LORD fell vpon all the kingdomes of the lands that were round about Iudah, so that they made no warre against Iehoshaphat.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:11

text: Also some of the Philistines brought Iehoshaphat presents, and tribute siluer, and the Arabians brought him flocks, seuen thousand and seuen hundred rammes, and seuen thousand and seuen hundred he goats.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:12

text: ¶ And Iehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly, and he built in Iudah castles, and cities of store.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:13

text: And he had much businesse in the cities of Iudah: and the men of warre, mightie men of valour, were in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:14

text: And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Iudah, the captaines of thousands, Adnah the chiefe, and with him mighty men of valour, three hundred thousand.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:15

text: And next to him was Iehohanan the captaine, and with him two hundred and fourescore thousand.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:16

text: And next him was Amasiah the sonne of Zichri, who willingly offered himselfe vnto the LORD, and with him two hundred thousand mightie men of valour.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:17

text: And of Beniamin, Eliada a mightie man of valour, and with him, armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:18

text: And next him was Iehoshabad, and with him an hundred and foure score thousand, ready prepared for the warre.


display: 2 Chronicles 17:19

text: These waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:1

text: Now Iehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and ioyned affinitie with Ahab.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:2

text: And after certaine yeeres, he went downe to Ahab to Samaria: and Ahab killed sheepe and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and perswaded him to goe vp with him to Ramoth Gilead.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:3

text: And Ahab king of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat king of Iudah, Wilt thou goe with me to Ramoth Gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the warre.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:4

text: ¶ And Iehoshaphat saide vnto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:5

text: Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets foure hundred men, and said vnto them, Shal we goe to Ramoth Gilead to battel, or shal I forbeare? And they said, Goe vp, for God will deliuer it into the kings hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:6

text: But Iehoshaphat saide, Is there not here a Prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?


display: 2 Chronicles 18:7

text: And the king of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him, for he neuer prophesied good vnto me, but alwayes euill: the same is Micaiah the sonne of Iimla. And Iehoshaphat saide, Let not the king say so.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:8

text: And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and saide, Fetch quickly Micaiah the sonne of Iimla.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:9

text: And the king of Israel and Iehoshaphat king of Iudah sate, either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sate in a voide place at the entring in of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:10

text: And Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah, had made him hornes of yron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria, vntil they be consumed.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:11

text: And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Goe vp to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliuer it into the hand of the king.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:12

text: And the messenger that went to call Micaiah, spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent: let thy word therefore, I pray thee be like one of theirs, and speake thou good.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:13

text: And Micaiah said, As the LORD liueth, euen what my God saith, that will I speake.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:14

text: And when hee was come to the king, the king sayd vnto him, Micaiah, shall we goe to Ramoth Gilead to battell, or shall I fobreare? and he sayd, Goe yee vp, and prosper, and they shall be deliuered into your hand.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:15

text: And the king sayd to him, Howe many times shall I adiure thee, that thou say nothing but the truth to me, in the name of the LORD?


display: 2 Chronicles 18:16

text: Then he sayd, I did see all Israel scattered vpon the mountaines, as sheepe that haue no shepheard: and the LORD sayd, These haue no master, let them returne therefore, euery man to his house in peace.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:17

text: (And the king of Israel sayd to Iehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee, that hee would not prophesie good vnto mee, but euill?)


display: 2 Chronicles 18:18

text: Againe he sayd; Therefore heare the word of the LORD: I sawe the LORD sitting vpon his throne, and all the hoste of heauen standing on his right hand, and on his left.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:19

text: And the LORD sayd, Who shall entise Ahab king of Israel, that hee may goe vp and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one spake, saying after this maner, and another saying after that maner.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:20

text: Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and sayd, I will entise him. And the LORD sayd vnto him, Wherewith?


display: 2 Chronicles 18:21

text: And hee sayd, I will goe out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD sayd, Thou shalt entise him, and thou shalt also preuaile: goe out, and doe euen so.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:22

text: Nowe therefore behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken euill against thee.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:23

text: Then Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah, came neere, and smote Micaiah vpon the cheeke, and sayd, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from mee, to speake vnto thee?


display: 2 Chronicles 18:24

text: And Micaiah sayd, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt goe into an inner chamber to hide thy selfe.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:25

text: Then the king of Israel sayd, Take yee Micaiah, and carie him backe to Amon the gouernour of the citie, and to Ioash the kings sonne:


display: 2 Chronicles 18:26

text: And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feede him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, vntill I returne in peace.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:27

text: And Micaiah sayd, If thou certainly returne in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by mee. And hee sayd, Hearken all yee people.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:28

text: So the king of Israel, and Iehoshaphat the king of Iudah, went vp to Ramoth Gilead.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:29

text: And the king of Israel sayd vnto Iehoshaphat, I will disguise my selfe, and will goe to the battell, but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himselfe, and they went to the battell.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:30

text: Now the king of Syria had commaunded the captaines of the charets that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, saue onely with the king of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:31

text: And it came to passe when the captaines of the charets saw Iehoshaphat, that they sayd, It is the king of Israel: therefore they compassed about him to fight. But Iehoshaphat cryed out, and the LORD helped him, and God moued them to depart from him.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:32

text: For it came to passe, that when the captaines of the charets perceiued that it was not the king of Israel, they turned backe againe from pursuing him.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:33

text: And a certaine man drew a bowe at a venture, and smote the king of Israel betweene the ioints of the harnesse: therefore hee sayd to his charetman, Turne thine hand, that thou mayest carie me out of the hoste, for I am wounded.


display: 2 Chronicles 18:34

text: And the battell increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himselfe vp in his charet against the Syrians, vntill the Euen: and about the time of the sunne going downe, hee dyed.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:1

text: And Iehoshaphat the king of Iudah returned to his house in peace to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:2

text: And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the seer, went out to meete him, and sayd to king Iehoshaphat, Shouldest thou helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the LORD ? Therefore is wrath vpon thee from before the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:3

text: Neuerthelesse, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:4

text: And Iehoshaphat dwelt at Ierusalem: and hee went out againe through the people, from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them backe vnto the LORD God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:5

text: ¶ And he set Iudges in the land, throughout all the fenced cities of Iudah, city by city,


display: 2 Chronicles 19:6

text: And said to the Iudges, Take heed what ye doe: for yee iudge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the iudgement.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:7

text: Wherefore now, let the feare of the LORD be vpon you, take heed and doe it: for there is no iniquitie with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:8

text: ¶ Moreouer in Ierusalem did Iehoshaphat set of the Leuites, and of the Priests, and of the chiefe of the fathers of Israel, for the iudgement of the LORD, and for controuersies, when they returned to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:9

text: And hee charged them, saying, Thus shall yee doe in the feare of the LORD faithfully, and with a perfect heart.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:10

text: And what cause soeuer shal come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, betweene blood and blood, betweene Law and Commandement, Statutes and Iudgements, yee shall euen warne them that they trespasse not against the LORD, and so wrath come vpon you, and vpon your brethren: this doe, & ye shall not trespasse.


display: 2 Chronicles 19:11

text: And behold, Amariah the chiefe Priest is ouer you in all matters of the LORD, and Zebadiah the sonne of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Iudah, for all the Kings matters: Also the Leuites shall be officers before you. Deale couragiously, and the LORD shalbe with the good.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:1

text: It came to passe after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them, other beside the Ammonites, came against Iehoshaphat to battell.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:2

text: Then there came some that tolde Iehoshaphat, saying, There commeth a great multitude against thee from beyond the Sea on this side Syria, and behold, they bee in Hazazon-Tamar, which is En-gedi.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:3

text: And Iehoshaphat feared, and set himselfe to seeke the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:4

text: And Iudah gathered themselues together, to aske helpe of the LORD: euen out of all the cities of Iudah they came to seeke the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:5

text: ¶ And Iehoshaphat stood in the Congregation of Iudah and Ierusalem, in the house of the LORD before the new Court,


display: 2 Chronicles 20:6

text: And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heauen? and rulest not thou ouer all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?


display: 2 Chronicles 20:7

text: Art not thou our God, who didst driue out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gauest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for euer?


display: 2 Chronicles 20:8

text: And they dwelt therein, and haue built thee a Sanctuarie therein for thy Name, saying,


display: 2 Chronicles 20:9

text: If, when euill commeth vpon vs, as the sword, iudgement, or pestilence, or famine, wee stand before this house, and in thy presence (for thy Name is in this house) and cry vnto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt heare & helpe.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:10

text: And now behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel inuade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not:


display: 2 Chronicles 20:11

text: Beholde, I say, how they reward vs, to come to cast vs out of thy possession, which thou hast giuen vs to inherit.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:12

text: O our God, wilt thou not iudge them? for wee haue no might against this great company that commeth against vs? neither know wee what to doe; but our eyes are vpon thee.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:13

text: And all Iudah stood before the LORD, with their litle ones, their wiues and their children.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:14

text: ¶ Then vpon Iahaziel the sonne of Zechariah, the sonne of Benaiah, the sonne of Iehiel, the sonne of Mattaniah, a Leuite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the Congregation:


display: 2 Chronicles 20:15

text: And he said, Hearken yee, all Iudah, and ye inhabitants of Ierusalem, and thou king Iehoshaphat, Thus sayth the LORD vnto you; Be not afraid, nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battell is not yours, but Gods.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:16

text: To morrow goe ye downe against them: behold, they come vp by the cliffe of Ziz, and ye shall finde them at the end of the brooke, before the wildernesse of Ieruel.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:17

text: Yee shall not neede to fight in this battell; set your selues, stand yee still, and see the saluation of the LORD with you, O Iudah and Ierusalem: feare not, nor be dismayed; to morow goe out against them, for the LORD will bee with you.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:18

text: And Iehoshaphat bowed his head, with his face to the ground: and all Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:19

text: And the Leuites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood vp to praise the LORD God of Israel, with a loude voice on high.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:20

text: ¶ And they rose early in the morning, and went foorth into the wildernesse of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Iehoshaphat stood and said, Heare me, O Iudah, and yee inhabitants of Ierusalem; Beleeue in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; beleeue his Prophets, so shall yee prosper.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:21

text: And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed Singers vnto the LORD, and that should praise the beautie of holinesse, as they went out before the armie; and to say, Praise the LORD, for his mercy endureth for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:22

text: ¶ And when they beganne to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Iudah, and they were smitten.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:23

text: For the children of Ammon and Moab, stood vp against the inhabitants of mount Seir, vtterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, euery one helped to destroy another.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:24

text: And when Iudah came toward the watch-tower in the wildernesse, they looked vnto the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:25

text: And when Iehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoile of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious iewels (which they stript off for themselues) more then they could cary away: and they were three dayes in gathering of the spoile, it was so much.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:26

text: ¶ And on the fourth day they assembled themselues in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therfore the name of the same place was called the valley of Berachah vnto this day.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:27

text: Then they returned, euery man of Iudah and Ierusalem, and Iehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go againe to Ierusalem with ioy: for the LORD had made them to reioyce ouer their enemies.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:28

text: And they came to Ierusalem with Psalteries, and harpes, and trumpets, vnto the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:29

text: And the feare of God was on all the kingdoms of those countreys, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:30

text: So the Realme of Iehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gaue him rest round about.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:31

text: ¶ And Iehoshaphat reigned ouer Iudah: Hee was thirtie and fiue yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and he reigned twentie and fiue yeeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:32

text: And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:33

text: Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts vnto the God of their fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:34

text: Now the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat first and last, behold, they are written in the booke of Iehu the sonne of Hanani; who is mentioned in the booke of the Kings of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:35

text: ¶ And after this did Iehoshaphat king of Iudah ioine himselfe with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:


display: 2 Chronicles 20:36

text: And he ioyned himselfe with him to make ships to goe to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-Geber.


display: 2 Chronicles 20:37

text: Then Eliezer the sonne of Dodanah of Mareshah, prophesied against Iehoshaphat, saying; Because thou hast ioyned thy selfe with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy workes: and the ships were broken, that they were not able to goe to Tarshish.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:1

text: Now Iehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his stead.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:2

text: And he had brethren the sonnes of Iehoshaphat, Azariah, and Iehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: All these were the sonnes of Iehoshaphat king of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:3

text: And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Iudah: but the kingdome gaue hee to Iehoram, because he was the first borne.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:4

text: Now when Iehoram was risen vp to the kingdome of his father, he strengthened himselfe, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and diuers also of the Princes of Israel.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:5

text: ¶ Iehoram was thirtie and two yeeres olde when hee began to reigne, and hee reigned eight yeeres in Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:6

text: And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for hee had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was euill in the eyes of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:7

text: Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenant that hee had made with Dauid, and as hee promised, to giue a light to him and to his sons for euer.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:8

text: ¶ In his dayes the Edomites reuolted from vnder the dominion of Iudah, and made themselues a king.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:9

text: Then Iehoram went forth with his Princes, and all his charets with him: and he rose vp by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captaines of the charets.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:10

text: So the Edomites reuolted from vnder the hand of Iudah vnto this day. The same time also did Libnah reuolt from vnder his hand, because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:11

text: Moreouer, he made high places in the mountaines of Iudah, and caused the inhabitants of Ierusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Iudah thereto.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:12

text: ¶ And there came a writing to him from Eliiah the Prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Dauid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehoshaphat thy father, nor in the wayes of Asa king of Iudah:


display: 2 Chronicles 21:13

text: But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to goe a whoring, like to the whoredomes of the house of Ahab, and also hast slaine thy brethren of thy fathers house, which were better then thy selfe:


display: 2 Chronicles 21:14

text: Behold, with a great plague wil the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy goods.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:15

text: And thou shalt haue great sicknesse by disease of thy bowels, vntil thy bowels fall out, by reason of the sickenesse day by day.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:16

text: ¶ Moreouer, the LORD stirred vp against Iehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were neere the Ethiopians.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:17

text: And they came vp into Iudah, and brake into it, and caried away all the substance that was found in the kings house, and his sonnes also and his wiues; so that there was neuer a sonne left him, saue Iehoahaz, the yongest of his sonnes.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:18

text: ¶ And after all this, the LORD smote him in his bowels, with an incurable disease.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:19

text: And it came to passe, that in processe of time, after the end of two yeres, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickenesse: so hee dyed of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.


display: 2 Chronicles 21:20

text: Thirtie and two yeeres old was he when he began to reigne, and he reigned in Ierusalem eight yeeres, and departed without being desired: howbeit, they buried him in the citie of Dauid, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:1

text: And the inhabitants of Ierusalem made Ahaziah his yongest sonne, king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the campe, had slaine all the eldest. So Ahaziah the sonne of Iehoram king of Iudah reigned.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:2

text: Fourtie and two yeeres old was Ahaziah, when he began to reigne, and he reigned one yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:3

text: Hee also walked in the wayes of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to doe wickedly.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:4

text: Wherefore he did euill in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father, to his destruction.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:5

text: ¶ He walked also after their counsell, and went with Iehoram the sonne of Ahab king of Israel, to warre against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians smote Ioram.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:6

text: And he returned to bee healed in Iezreel, because of the wounds which were giuen him at Ramah when hee fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the sonne of Iehoram king of Iudah, went downe to see Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Iezreel, because he was sicke.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:7

text: And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by comming to Ioram: For when he was come, hee went out with Iehoram against Iehu the sonne of Nimshi, whome the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:8

text: And it came to passe, that when Iehu was executing iudgement vpon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Iudah, and the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministred to Ahaziah, he slew them.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:9

text: And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him (for he was hid in Samaria) and brought him to Iehu: and when they had slaine him, they buried him: because, said they, hee is the sonne of Iehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keepe still the kingdome.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:10

text: ¶ But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, sawe that her sonne was dead, shee arose, and destroyed all the seed royall of the house of Iudah.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:11

text: But Iehoshabeath the daughter of the king, tooke Ioash the sonne of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the kings sonnes, that were slaine, and put him and his nurse in a bed chamber. So Iehoshabeath the daughter of king Iehoram, the wife of Iehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.


display: 2 Chronicles 22:12

text: And he was with them hid in the house of God sixe yeeres, and Athaliah reigned ouer the land.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:1

text: And in the seuenth yeere Iehoiada strengthened himselfe, and tooke the captaines of hundreds, Azariah the sonne of Ieroham, and Ishmael the sonne of Iehohanan, and Azariah the sonne of Obed, and Maasiah the sonne of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the sonne of Zichri, into couenant with him.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:2

text: And they went about in Iudah, and gathered the Leuites out of all the cities of Iudah, and the chiefe of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Ierusalem.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:3

text: And all the Congregation made a couenant with the king in the house of God: and he said vnto them, Beholde, the kings sonne shall reigne, as the LORD hath said of the sonnes of Dauid.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:4

text: This is the thing that yee shall doe, A third part of you entring on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Leuites, shalbe porters of the doores.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:5

text: And a thirde part shall bee at the kings house, and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the Courts of the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:6

text: But let none come into the house of the LORD, saue the Priests, & they that minister of the Leuites, they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keepe the watch of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:7

text: And the Leuites shall compasse the king round about, euery man with his weapons in his hand, and whosoeuer else commeth into the house, hee shalbe put to death: but be you with the King when he commeth in, and when he goeth out.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:8

text: So the Leuites and all Iudah did according to all things that Iehoiada the Priest had commanded: and tooke euery man his men that were to come in on the Sabbath, with them that were to goe out on the Sabbath: for Iehoiada the Priest dismissed not the courses.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:9

text: Moreouer, Iehoiada the Priest deliuered to the captaines of hundreds, speares and bucklers, and shields, that had bene King Dauids, which were in the house of God.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:10

text: And hee set all the people (euery man hauing his weapon in his hand) from the right side of the Temple, to the left side of the Temple, along by the Altar and the Temple, by the King, round about.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:11

text: Then they brought out the kings sonne, and put vpon him the Crowne, and gaue him the Testimony, and made him King: and Iehoiada and his sonnes anointed him, and said, God saue the King.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:12

text: ¶ Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the King; she came to the people into the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:13

text: And she looked, and behold, the king stood at his pillar, at the entring in, and the Princes, and the trumpets by the King: and all the people of the land reioyced, and sounded with trumpets; also the singers with instruments of musicke; and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, treason.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:14

text: Then Iehoiada the Priest brought out the captaines of hundreds, that were set ouer the host, and said vnto them, Haue her foorth of the ranges: and who so followeth her, let him bee slaine with the sword. For the Priest said; Slay her not in the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:15

text: So they layd handes on her, and when shee was come to the entring of the horse gate, by the kings house, they slew her there.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:16

text: ¶ And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene him, and betweene all the people, and betweene the king, that they should be the LORDs people.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:17

text: Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it downe, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:18

text: Also Iehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the Priests the Leuites, whom Dauid had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offrings of the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with reioycing and with singing, as it was ordeined by Dauid.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:19

text: And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was vncleane in any thing, should enter in.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:20

text: And hee tooke the captaines of hundreds, and the nobles, and the gouernours of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought downe the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the kings house, and set the king vpon the throne of the kingdome.


display: 2 Chronicles 23:21

text: And all the people of the land reioyced, and the city was quiet, after that they had slaine Athaliah the sword.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:1

text: Ioash was seuen yeeres old when he beganne to reigne; and he reigned fortie yeeres in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:2

text: And Ioash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, all the dayes of Iehoiada the Priest.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:3

text: And Iehoiada tooke for him two wiues, and he begat sonnes and daughters.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:4

text: ¶ And it came to passe after this that Ioash was minded to repaire the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:5

text: And hee gathered together the priests and the Leuites, and saide to them, Go out vnto the cities of Iudah, and gather of all Israel money to repaire the house of your God from yeere to yere, and see that ye haste the matter: howbeit the Leuites hastened it not.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:6

text: And the king called for Iehoiada the chiefe, and saide vnto him, Why hast thou not required of the Leuites to bring in out of Iudah and out of Ierusalem, the collection, according to the commandement of Moses the seruant of the LORD, and of the Congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of Witnesse?


display: 2 Chronicles 24:7

text: For the sonnes of Athaliah that wicked woman, had broken vp the house of God, and also all the dedicate things of the house of the LORD, did they bestow vpon Baalim.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:8

text: And at the kings commandement they made a chest, and set it without, at the gate of the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:9

text: And they made a proclamation through Iudah & Ierusalem, to bring in to the LORD, the collection that Moses the seruant of God laid vpon Israel in the wildernesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:10

text: And all the Princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, vntill they had made an ende.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:11

text: Now it came to passe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites: and when they sawe that there was much money: the kings Scribe, and the high priests officer, came and emptied the chest, and tooke it, and caried it to his place againe. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:12

text: And the king and Iehoiada gaue it to such as did the worke of the seruice of the house of the LORD, and hired Masons and carpenters to repaire the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought yron and brasse to mend the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:13

text: So the workemen wrought, and the worke was perfected by them: and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:14

text: And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Iehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, euen vessels to minister and to offer withall, and spoones, and vessels of golde and siluer: and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually, all the dayes of Iehoiada.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:15

text: ¶ But Iehoiada waxed old, and was full of dayes when hee died: an hundred and thirtie yeeres olde was hee when hee died.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:16

text: And they buried him in the citie of Dauid among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both towards God, and towards his house.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:17

text: Now after the death of Iehoiada, came the Princes of Iudah, and made obeysance to the king: then the king hearkened vnto them.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:18

text: And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and serued groues and idols: and wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem for this their trespasse.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:19

text: Yet hee sent prophets to them to bring them againe vnto the LORD, and they testified against them: but they would not giue eare.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:20

text: And the spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the priest, which stood aboue the people, and said vnto them: Thus saith God, Why transgresse yee the commandements of the LORD, that yee cannot prosper? Because yee haue forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:21

text: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandement of the king, in the court of the house of the LORD.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:22

text: Thus Ioash the king remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his sonne: and when he died, he said, The LORD looke vpon it, and require it.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:23

text: ¶ And it came to passe at the end of the yeere, that the hoste of Syria came vp against him: and they came to Iudah and Ierusalem, and destroyed all the Princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoile of them vnto the king of Damascus.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:24

text: For the armie of the Syrians came with a small companie of men, and the LORD deliuered a very great hoste into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers: so they executed iudgement against Ioash.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:25

text: And when they were departed from him (for they left him in great diseases) his owne seruants conspired against him, for the blood of the sonnes of Iehoiada the Priest, and slewe him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the citie of Dauid, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the Kings.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:26

text: And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the sonne of Shimeah an Ammonitesse, and Iehozabad the sonne of Shimrith a Moabitesse.


display: 2 Chronicles 24:27

text: ¶ Now concerning his sonnes, and the greatnesse of the burdens laide vpon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the booke of the Kings. And Amaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.