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10 Ahab now had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab’s children, to this effect:
2 “Now when this letter comes to you (for you have with you your master’s sons, you have with you both chariots and horses, and a defensed city, and armor),
3 consider which of your master’s sons is best and most fitting, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, two kings could not stand before him. How then shall we stand?”
5 And he who was governor of Ahab’s house, and he who ruled the city, and the elders, and the guardians of the children sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and will do all that you shall ask us. We will make no king. Do what seems good to you.”
6 Then he wrote another letter to them, saying, “If you are mine, and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men who are your master’s sons. And come to me, to Jezreel, by tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy people, were with the great men of the city, who raised them.
7 And when the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed all seventy people and laid their heads in baskets and sent them to him, to Jezreel.
8 Then, a messenger came and told him, saying, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” And he said, “Let them lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”
9 And when it was day, he went out and stood and said to all the people, “You are righteous! Behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him. But who killed all these?
10 “Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the Word of the LORD which the LORD spoke concerning the House of Ahab! For the LORD has brought to pass the things that He spoke by his servant Elijah!”
11 So Jehu killed all who remained of the House of Ahab in Jezreel, and all who were great with him, and his friends, and his priests, so that he let no one remain.
12 And he arose and departed and came to Samaria. And as Jehu was on the road, by a house where the shepherds sheared,
13 he met with the brethren of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the brethren of Ahaziah, and go down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.”
14 And he said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive and killed them at the well beside the house where the sheep are shorn, forty-two men. And he did not leave one of them.
15 And when he had departed from there, he met with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, coming to meet him. And he blessed him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is toward yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “Yes, doubtless.” “Give me your hand.” And when he had given him his hand, he took him up to himself, into the chariot.
16 And he said, “Come with me, and see the zeal that I have for the LORD!” So, they made him ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah.
18 Then Jehu assembled all the people, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little! Jehu shall serve him much more!
19 “Now, therefore, call to me all the prophets of Baal — all his servants and all his priests — and do not let a man be missing! For I have a great sacrifice for Baal! Whoever is missing, he shall not live!” But Jehu did so with subtlety, to destroy the servants of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, “Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal!” And they proclaimed it.
21 So Jehu sent to all Israel; and all the servants of Baal came. And there was not a man left who did not come. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full, from end to end.
22 Then he said to him who had the charge of the vestry, “Bring forth vestments for all the servants of Baal.” And he brought out vestments for them.
23 And when Jehu and Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal, he said to the servants of Baal, “Search diligently and look, lest there be here with you any of the servants of the LORD, and not just the servants of Baal.”
24 And when they went in to make sacrifice and burnt offering, Jehu appointed eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, his soul shall be for his soul.”
25 And when he finished the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard, and to the captains, “Go in. Kill them. Do not let a man come out.” And they struck them with the edge of the sword. And the guard and the captains cast them out and went to the city, to the temple of Baal.
26 And they brought out the images of the temple of Baal and burnt them.
27 And they destroyed the image of Baal, and threw down the house of Baal, and made a latrine of it to this day.
28 So Jehu destroyed Baal from out of Israel.
29 But from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, Jehu did not depart (the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan).
30 And the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have diligently executed that which was right in My Eyes and have done to the House of Ahab according to all things that were in My Heart, your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
31 But Jehu was not careful to walk in the Law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin.
32 In those days, the LORD began to loathe Israel. And Hazael struck them in all the territories of Israel,
33 from Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and those who were of Manasseh, from Aroer (which is by the river Arnon) and Gilead and Bashan.
34 Concerning the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his valiant deeds, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz, his son, reigned in his place.
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
11 Then Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the king’s seed.
2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister to Ahaziah, took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons who were to be killed, he and his nurse, from the bedchamber. And they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.
3 And he was hidden in the House of the LORD with her for six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
4 And the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and took the captains over hundreds, with captains and those of the guard, and had them come to him, into the House of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath from them in the House of the LORD and showed them the king’s son.
5 And he commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: One third of you, who comes on the Sabbath, shall keep watch over the king’s house,
6 “and one third on the gate of Sur, and one third on the gate behind those of the guard. And you shall keep watch on the House of Massah.
7 “And two parts of you, all who go out on the Sabbath Day, shall keep the watch of the House of the LORD for the king.
8 “And you shall surround the king, all around, each man with his weapon in his hand. And whoever comes within range, let him be killed. You be with the king, as he goes out and in.”
9 And the captains of the hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the Priest commanded. And they took every man from his men who entered on the Sabbath, with those who went out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the Priest.
10 And the Priest gave the spears and the shields that were King David’s, and were in the House of the LORD, to the captains of hundreds.
11 And the guards stood, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the House to the left side, around the Altar and around the House, all around the king.
12 Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the Testimony. And they made him king. They also anointed him, and clapped their hands, and said, “God save the king!”
13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the running of the people, she came in to the people in the House of the LORD.
14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar (as the manner was). And the princes and the trumpeters were by the king. And all the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”
15 But Jehoiada the Priest commanded the captains of the hundreds who had the rule of the army, and said to them, “Take her forth between the ranks, and he who follows her, let him die by the sword.” For the Priest had said, “Do not let her be killed in the House of the LORD.”
16 Then they laid hands on her. And she went by the way which the horses take to the house of the king. And she was killed there.
17 And Jehoiada made a Covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, so that they would be the LORD’s people, and also between the king and the people.
18 Then all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it with its altars, and they courageously broke down its images, and killed Mattan, the Priest of Baal, before the altars. And the Priest set a guard over the House of the LORD.
19 Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the other captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the House of the LORD and came by way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat down on the throne of the kings.
20 And all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city was quiet. For they had killed Athaliah with the sword, beside the king’s house.
21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
12 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign and reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2 And Jehoash did that which was good in the sight of the LORD all his time that Jehoiada the Priest taught him.
3 But the high places were not taken away; for the people still offered and burnt incense in the high places.
4 And Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver of dedicated things that is brought to the House of the LORD — the money of those counted, the money that each man is assessed, all the money that one offers willingly and brings into the House of the LORD —
5 “let the priests take it themselves, every man from his acquaintances. And they shall repair the broken places of the House, wherever any decay is found.”
6 Yet, by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had still not mended that which had decayed in the Temple.
7 Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the Priest and the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the ruins of the Temple? Now, therefore, receive no more money from your acquaintances unless you deliver it to repair the ruins of the Temple.”
8 So the priests consented to neither receive any more money from the people nor to repair the decayed places of the Temple.
9 Then, Jehoiada the Priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the Altar, on the right side, as every man comes into the Temple of the LORD. And the priests who kept the door put in all the money that was brought into the House of the LORD.
10 And when they saw there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the High Priest came up and put it in bags, after they had counted all the money that had been found in the House of the LORD.
11 And they gave the money, having been measured, into the hands of those who undertook the work, and who had oversight of the House of the LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked upon the House of the LORD,
12 and to the masons and stonecutters, and to buy timber and hewn stone, to repair what had decayed in the House of the LORD, and for all that which had been laid out for the reparation of the Temple.
13 However, no bowls of silver were made for the House of the LORD — or instruments of music, basins, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver — from the money that was brought into the House of the LORD.
14 But they gave it to the workmen, who repaired the House of the LORD with it.
15 Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hands they delivered that money, to be bestowed on workmen. For they dealt faithfully.
16 The money of the Trespass Offering, and the money of the Sin Offerings, was not brought into the House of the LORD. It was the priests’.
17 Then Hazael, king of Aram, came up and fought against Gath, and took it. And Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18 And Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the House of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram. And he departed from Jerusalem.
19 Concerning 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?
20 And his servants arose and worked treason, and killed Joash in the house of Millo, when he came down to Silla.
21 Jozachar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. And Amaziah, his son, reigned in his place.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world!
30 “This is He of Whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man Who is in front of me. For He was before me.
31 And I knew Him not. But that He may be declared to Israel, I have come, baptizing with water.”
32 So John bore witness, saying, “I have seen the Spirit come down from Heaven like a dove, and it stayed upon Him.
33 “And I knew Him not. But He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, ‘Upon Whom you shall see the Spirit coming down and staying, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Ghost.’
34 “And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
35 The next day, John stood again, along with two of his disciples.
36 And he saw Jesus walking by, and said, “Behold the Lamb of God!”
37 And the two disciples heard him speak and followed Jesus.
38 Then Jesus turned around, and saw them follow, and said to them, “What do you seek?” And they said to Him, “Rabbi, (which is to say by interpretation, ‘Master’) where are You staying?”
39 He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where He dwelt and stayed with Him that day. For it was about the tenth hour.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who had heard John and followed him.
41 He found his brother Simon first, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (Who is by interpretation, the Christ)
42 And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon, the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas.” (which is by interpretation, Rock)
43 The following day, Jesus wished to go into Galilee. And He found Philip, and said to him, “Follow me.”
44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law and the Prophets – Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph!”
46 Then Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold, indeed an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
48 Nathanael said to Him, “From where do You know me? Jesus answered, and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 Nathanael answered, and said to Him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
50 Jesus answered, and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree’, you believe? You shall see greater things than these.”
51 And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see Heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
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