Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet10
2 Kings · Chapter 10
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s
children, saying,
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons
are with you, and
there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;
Look even out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set
him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
And he that
was over the house, and he that
was
over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up
of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou
that which is
good in thine eyes.
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye
be
mine, and
if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king’s sons,
being seventy persons,
were
with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him
them to Jezreel.
And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye
be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake concerning the house of Ahab: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath done
that which he spake by his servant Eliyahu.
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his kohanim, until he left him none remaining.
And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria.
And as he
was at the shearing house in the way,
Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who
are ye? And they answered, We
are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house,
even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab
coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart
is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give
me thine hand. And he gave
him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH). So they made him ride in his chariot.
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), which he spake to Eliyahu.
And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little;
but Jehu shall serve him much.
Now therefore call unto me all the nevi'im of Baal, all his servants, and all his kohanim; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice
to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did
it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed
it.
And Jehu sent through all Yisra'el: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
And he said unto him that
was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), but the worshippers of Baal only.
And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said,
If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape,
he that letteth him go, his life
shall be for the life of him.
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in,
and
slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast
them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Yisra'el.
Howbeit
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Yisra'el to sin, Jehu departed not from after them,
to wit, the golden calves that
were in Bethel, and that
were in Dan.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing
that which is right in mine eyes,
and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that
was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth
generation shall sit on the throne of Yisra'el.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the torah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) Elohim of Yisra'el with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Yisra'el to sin.
In those days 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) began to cut Yisra'el short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Yisra'el;
From Yarden eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el?
And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
And the time that Jehu reigned over Yisra'el in Samaria
was
twenty and eight years.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet11
2 Kings · Chapter 11
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons
which were
slain; and they hid him,
even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
And he was with her hid in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and made a b'rit with them, and took an oath of them in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and shewed them the king’s son.
And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the shabbat shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;
And a third part
shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
And two parts of all you that go forth on the shabbat, even they shall keep the watch of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) about the king.
And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
things
that Jehoiada the kohen commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the shabbat, with them that should go out on the shabbat, and came to Jehoiada the kohen.
And to the captains over hundreds did the kohen give king Dawid’s spears and shields, that
were in the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the heikhal to the left corner of the heikhal,
along by the altar and the heikhal.
And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and
gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, Elohim save the king.
And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard
and of the people, she came to the people into the heikhal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner
was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
But Jehoiada the kohen commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the kohen had said, Let her not be slain in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.
And Jehoiada made a b'rit between 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) and the king and the people that they should be 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)’S people; between the king also and the people.
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the kohen of Baal before the altars. And the kohen appointed officers over the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword
beside the king’s house.
Seven years old
was Jehoash when he began to reign.
Nevi'im
Melakhim Bet12
2 Kings · Chapter 12
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name
was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
And Jehoash did
that which was right in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) all his days wherein Jehoiada the kohen instructed him.
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
And Jehoash said to the kohanim, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
even the money of every one that passeth
the account, the money that every man is set at,
and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
Let the kohanim take
it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
But it was
so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the kohanim had not repaired the breaches of the house.
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the kohen, and the
other
kohanim, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no
more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
And the kohanim consented to receive no
more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
But Jehoiada the kohen took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and the kohanim that kept the door put therein all the money
that was brought into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And it was
so, when they saw that
there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high kohen came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH),
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and for all that was laid out for the house to repair
it.
Howbeit there were not made for the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money
that was brought into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH):
But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): it was the kohanim’.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Yerushalayim.
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold
that was found in the treasures of the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and in the king’s house, and sent
it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Yerushalayim.
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of Dawid: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.