The Second Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} In the three and twentieth year of Yo'ash the son of
Achazyah, king of Yehudah, Yeho'achaz the son of Yehu began to reign
over Yisra'el in Shomron, [and reigned] seventeen years. {13:2} He did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of
Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin; he
didn't depart from it. {13:3} The anger of the LORD was kindled
against Yisra'el, and he delivered them into the hand of Chaza'el king
of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Chaza'el,
continually. {13:4} Yeho'achaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened
to him; for he saw the oppression of Yisra'el, how that the king of
Syria oppressed them. {13:5} (the LORD gave Yisra'el a savior, so that
they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of
Yisra'el lived in their tents as before. {13:6} Nevertheless they
didn't depart from the sins of the house of Yarov`am, with which he
made Yisra'el to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the
Asherah also in Shomron.) {13:7} For he didn't leave to Yeho'achaz of
the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand
footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the
dust in threshing. {13:8} Now the rest of the acts of Yeho'achaz, and
all that he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el? {13:9} Yeho'achaz slept with his
fathers; and they buried him in Shomron: and Yo'ash his son reigned in
his place. {13:10} In the thirty-seventh year of Yo'ash king of
Yehudah began Yeho'ash the son of Yeho'achaz to reign over Yisra'el in
Shomron, [and reigned] sixteen years. {13:11} He did that which was
evil in the sight of the LORD; he didn't depart from all the sins of
Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin; but he
walked therein. {13:12} Now the rest of the acts of Yo'ash, and all
that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amatzyah king
of Yehudah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Yisra'el? {13:13} Yo'ash slept with his fathers; and Yarov`am
sat on his throne: and Yo'ash was buried in Shomron with the kings of
Yisra'el. {13:14} Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which
he died: and Yo'ash the king of Yisra'el came down to him, and wept
over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Yisra'el and
the horsemen of it! {13:15} Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows;
and he took to him bow and arrows. {13:16} He said to the king of
Yisra'el, Put your hand on the bow; and he put his hand [on it].
Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. {13:17} He said, Open the
window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he
shot. He said, the LORD's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory
over Syria; for you shall strike the Syrians in Afek, until you have
consumed them. {13:18} He said, Take the arrows; and he took them. He
said to the king of Yisra'el, Smite on the ground; and he struck
thrice, and stayed. {13:19} The man of God was angry with him, and
said, You should have struck five or six times: then had you struck
Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria
but thrice. {13:20} Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of
the Mo`avim invaded the land at the coming in of the year. {13:21} It
happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band;
and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man
touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
{13:22} Chaza'el king of Syria oppressed Yisra'el all the days of
Yeho'achaz. {13:23} But the LORD was gracious to them, and had
compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant
with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov, and would not destroy them,
neither cast he them from his presence as yet. {13:24} Chaza'el king
of Syria died; and Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his place. {13:25}
Yeho'ash the son of Yeho'achaz took again out of the hand of Ben-Hadad
the son of Chaza'el the cities which he had taken out of the hand of
Yeho'achaz his father by war. Three times did Yo'ash strike him, and
recovered the cities of Yisra'el.
{14:1} In the second year of Yo'ash son of Yo'achaz king of Yisra'el
began Amatzyah the son of Yo'ash king of Yehudah to reign. {14:2} He
was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was
Yeho`addan of Yerushalayim. {14:3} He did that which was right in the
eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to
all that Yo'ash his father had done. {14:4} However the high places
were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in
the high places. {14:5} It happened, as soon as the kingdom was
established in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the
king his father: {14:6} but the children of the murderers he didn't
put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the
Torah of Moshe, as the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not
be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for
the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin. {14:7} He killed
of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and
called the name of it Yokte'el, to this day. {14:8} Then Amatzyah sent
messengers to Yeho'ash, the son of Yeho'achaz son of Yehu, king of
Yisra'el, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. {14:9}
Yeho'ash the king of Yisra'el sent to Amatzyah king of Yehudah,
saying, The thistle that was in Levanon sent to the cedar that was in
Levanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there
passed by a wild animal that was in Levanon, and trod down the
thistle. {14:10} You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has
lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you
meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Yehudah
with you? {14:11} But Amatzyah would not hear. So Yeho'ash king of
Yisra'el went up; and he and Amatzyah king of Yehudah looked one
another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Yehudah. {14:12}
Yehudah was put to the worse before Yisra'el; and they fled every man
to his tent. {14:13} Yeho'ash king of Yisra'el took Amatzyah king of
Yehudah, the son of Yeho'ash the son of Achazyah, at Beth-shemesh, and
came to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the
gate of Efrayim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. {14:14} He
took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in
the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, the
hostages also, and returned to Shomron. {14:15} Now the rest of the
acts of Yeho'ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with
Amatzyah king of Yehudah, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el? {14:16} Yeho'ash slept with his
fathers, and was buried in Shomron with the kings of Yisra'el; and
Yarov`am his son reigned in his place. {14:17} Amatzyah the son of
Yo'ash king of Yehudah lived after the death of Yeho'ash son of
Yeho'achaz king of Yisra'el fifteen years. {14:18} Now the rest of the
acts of Amatzyah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Yehudah? {14:19} They made a conspiracy against him in
Yerushalayim; and he fled to Lakhish: but they sent after him to
Lakhish, and killed him there. {14:20} They brought him on horses; and
he was buried at Yerushalayim with his fathers in the city of David.
{14:21} All the people of Yehudah took `Azaryah, who was sixteen years
old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah. {14:22} He
built Elat, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with
his fathers. {14:23} In the fifteenth year of Amatzyah the son of
Yo'ash king of Yehudah Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash king of Yisra'el
began to reign in Shomron, [and reigned] forty-one years. {14:24} He
did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart
from all the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made
Yisra'el to sin. {14:25} He restored the border of Yisra'el from the
entrance of Chamat to the sea of the `Aravah, according to the word of
the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, which he spoke by his servant Yonah the
son of Ammittai, the prophet, who was of Gat-Chefer. {14:26} For the
LORD saw the affliction of Yisra'el, that it was very bitter; for
there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper
for Yisra'el. {14:27} The LORD didn't say that he would blot out the
name of Yisra'el from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of
Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash. {14:28} Now the rest of the acts of
Yarov`am, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how
he recovered Dammesek, and Chamat, [which had belonged] to Yehudah,
for Yisra'el, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Yisra'el? {14:29} Yarov`am slept with his fathers, even with
the kings of Yisra'el; and Zekharyah his son reigned in his place.
{15:1} In the twenty-seventh year of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el began
`Azaryah son of Amatzyah king of Yehudah to reign. {15:2} Sixteen
years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two
years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Yekholyahu of
Yerushalayim. {15:3} He did that which was right in the eyes of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amatzyah had done. {15:4}
However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. {15:5} The LORD
struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and
lived in a separate house. Yotam the king's son was over the
household, judging the people of the land. {15:6} Now the rest of the
acts of `Azaryah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? {15:7} `Azaryah slept with
his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of
David: and Yotam his son reigned in his place. {15:8} In the
thirty-eighth year of `Azaryah king of Yehudah did Zekharyah the son
of Yarov`am reign over Yisra'el in Shomron six months. {15:9} He did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done:
he didn't depart from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with
which he made Yisra'el to sin. {15:10} Shallum the son of Yavesh
conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed
him, and reigned in his place. {15:11} Now the rest of the acts of
Zekharyah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Yisra'el. {15:12} This was the word of the LORD which he
spoke to Yehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on
the throne of Yisra'el. So it came to pass. {15:13} Shallum the son of
Yavesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of `Uzziyah king
of Yehudah; and he reigned the space of a month in Shomron. {15:14}
Menachem the son of Gadi went up from Tirtzah, and came to Shomron,
and struck Shallum the son of Yavesh in Shomron, and killed him, and
reigned in his place. {15:15} Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and
his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el. {15:16} Then Menachem struck
Tifsach, and all who were therein, and the borders of it, from
Tirtzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and
all the women therein who were with child he ripped up. {15:17} In the
nine and thirtieth year of `Azaryah king of Yehudah began Menachem the
son of Gadi to reign over Yisra'el, [and reigned] ten years in
Shomron. {15:18} He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:
he didn't depart all his days from the sins of Yarov`am the son of
Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin. {15:19} There came against
the land Pul the king of Ashur; and Menachem gave Pul one thousand
talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the
kingdom in his hand. {15:20} Menachem exacted the money of Yisra'el,
even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of
silver, to give to the king of Ashur. So the king of Ashur turned
back, and didn't stay there in the land. {15:21} Now the rest of the
acts of Menachem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el? {15:22} Menachem slept
with his fathers; and Pekachyah his son reigned in his place. {15:23}
In the fiftieth year of `Azaryah king of Yehudah Pekachyah the son of
Menachem began to reign over Yisra'el in Shomron, [and reigned] two
years. {15:24} He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he
didn't depart from the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which
he made Yisra'el to sin. {15:25} Pekach the son of Remalyahu, his
captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Shomron, in the
castle of the king's house, with Argov and Arye; and with him were
fifty men of the Gil`adi: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
{15:26} Now the rest of the acts of Pekachyah, and all that he did,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Yisra'el. {15:27} In the two and fiftieth year of `Azaryah king of
Yehudah Pekach the son of Remalyahu began to reign over Yisra'el in
Shomron, [and reigned] twenty years. {15:28} He did that which was
evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart from the sins of
Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin. {15:29}
In the days of Pekach king of Yisra'el came Tiglat-Pil'eser king of
Ashur, and took `Iyon, and Avel-Beit-Ma`akhah, and Yano`ach, and
Kedesh, and Chatzor, and Gil`ad, and the Galil, all the land of
Naftali; and he carried them captive to Ashur. {15:30} Hoshea the son
of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekach the son of Remalyahu, and
struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth
year of Yotam the son of `Uzziyah. {15:31} Now the rest of the acts of
Pekach, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el. {15:32} In the second year of
Pekach the son of Remalyahu king of Yisra'el began Yotam the son of
`Uzziyah king of Yehudah to reign. {15:33} He was twenty-five years
old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in
Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Yerusha the daughter of
Tzadok. {15:34} He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD;
he did according to all that his father `Uzziyah had done. {15:35}
However the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper
gate of the house of the LORD. {15:36} Now the rest of the acts of
Yotam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? {15:37} In those days the LORD
began to send against Yehudah Retzin the king of Syria, and Pekach the
son of Remalyahu. {15:38} Yotam slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Achaz his son
reigned in his place.
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