Chronicles

1Ch 1
Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Qeynan, Maleleel, Yered, Chanok, Methushelach, Lemek, Noach, Shem, Cham, and Yepheth.
The house-continuers of Yepheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Maday, and Yavan, and Tubal, and Meshek, and Tiyras. The house-continuers of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah. The house-continuers of Yavan: Eliyshah, and Tarshiysh, Kittiy, and Rodanim.
The house-continuers of Cham: Kush, and Mitsrayim, Put, and Kenaan. The house-continuers of Kush: Seba, and Chaviylah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteka. The house-continuers of Ramah: Sheba, and Dedan. Kush became the family-strengthener of Nimrod; he began to be a Mighty-One in the land. Mitsrayim became the family-strengthener of Ludiy, and Anamiym, and Lehabiym, and Naphtuchiym, and Pathrusiy, and Kasluchiym (where the Pelishtiy came from), and Kaphtoriy. Kenaan became the family-strengthener of Tsiydon his firstborn, and Cheth, and the Yebusiy, and the Emoriy, and the Girgashiy, and the Chivviy, and the Arqiy, and the Siyniy, and the Arvakiy, and the Tsemariy, and the Chamathiy.
The house-continuers of Shem: Eylam, and Ashshur, and Arpakshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uts, and Chul, and Gether, and Meshek. Arpakshad became the family-strengthener of Shelach, and Shelach became the family-strengthener of Eber. To Eber were born two house-continuers: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the land was divided; and his male-house-protector’s name was Yoqtan. Yoqtan became the family-strengthener of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Chatsarmaveth, and Yerach, and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diqlah, and Eybal, and Abiymael, and Sheba, and Ophir, and Chaviylah, and Yobab. All these were the house-continuers of Yoqtan.
Shem, Arpakshad, Shelach, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nachor, Terach, Abram (the same is Abraham).
The house-continuers of Abraham: Yitschaq, and Yishmael.
These are their generations: the firstborn of Yishmael, Nebayoth; then Qedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Chadad, and Teyma, Yetur, Naphiysh, and Qedemah. These are the house-continuers of Yishmael.
The house-continuers of Qeturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, and Yoqshan, and Medan, and Midyan, and Yishbaq, and Shuach. The house-continuers of Yoqshan: Sheba, and Dedan. The house-continuers of Midyan: Eyphah, and Epher, and Chanok, and Abiyda, and Eldaah. All these were the house-continuers of Qeturah.
Abraham became the family-strengthener of Yitschaq. The house-continuers of Yitschaq: Esav, and Yisrael. The house-continuers of Esav: Eliyphaz, Reuel, and Yeush, and Yalam, and Qorach. The house-continuers of Eliyphaz: Teyman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Qenaz, and Timna, and Amaleq. The house-continuers of Reuel: Nachath, Zerach, Shammah, and Mizzah.
The house-continuers of Seiyr: Lotan, and Shobal, and Tsibon, and Anah, and Diyshon, and Etser, and Diyshan. The house-continuers of Lotan: Choriy, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s female-house-protector. The house-continuers of Shobal: Alyan, and Manachath, and Eybal, Shephiy, and Onam. The house-continuers of Tsibon: Ayah, and Anah. The house-continuers of Anah: Diyshon. The house-continuers of Diyshon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Yithran, and Keran. The house-continuers of Etser: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Yaaqan. The house-continuers of Diyshan: Uts, and Aran.
Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the house-builders of Yisrael: Bela the house-continuer of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. Bela died, and Yobab the house-continuer of Zerach of Botsrah reigned in his place. Yobab died, and Chusham of the land of the Teymaniy reigned in his place. Chusham died, and Hadad the house-continuer of Bedad, who struck Midyan in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Aviyth. Hadad died, and Samlah of Masreqah reigned in his place. Samlah died, and Shaul of Rechoboth by the River reigned in his place. Shaul died, and Baal Chanan the house-continuer of Akbor reigned in his place. Baal Chanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Paiy: and his woman’s name was Meheytabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Meyzahab. Hadad died.
The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Alyah, chief Yetheth, chief Oholiybamah, chief Elah, chief Piynon, chief Qenaz, chief Teyman, chief Mibtsar, chief Magdiyel, chief Iyram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
1Ch 2
These are the house-continuers of Yisrael: Reuben, Shimon, Leviy, and Yahudah, Yissaskar, and Zebulun, Dan, Yehoseph, and Binyamiyn, Naphtaliy, Gad, and Asher.
The house-continuers of Yahudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelach; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Kenaaniy. Er, Yahudah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahuwah; and he killed him. Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerach. All the house-continuers of Yahudah amounted to five.
The house-continuers of Perez: Chetsron, and Chamul. The house-continuers of Zerach: Zimri, and Eythan, and Heyman, and Kalkol, and Dara; five of them in all. The house-continuers of Karmiy: Achar, the troubler of Yisrael, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. The house-continuers of Eythan: Azaryahu. The house-continuers also of Chetsron, who were born to him: Yerachmeel, and Ram, and Kelubay.
Ram became the family-strengthener of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the family-strengthener of Nachshon, prince of the house-builders of Yahudah; and Nachshon became the family-strengthener of Salma, and Salma became the family-strengthener of Boaz, and Boaz became the family-strengthener of Obed, and Obed became the family-strengthener of Yishay; and Yishay became the family-strengthener of his firstborn Eliyab, and Abiynadab the second, and Shima the third, Nethanel the fourth, Radday the fifth, Otsem the sixth, Daviyd the seventh; and their female-house-protectors were Tseruyah and Abiygayil. The house-continuers of Tseruyah: Abiyshay, and Yoab, and Asahel, three. Abiygayil bore Amasa; and the family-strengthener of Amasa was Yether the Yishmael.
Kaleb the house-continuer of Chetsron became the family-strengthener of house-builders of Azubah his woman, and of Yeriyoth; and these were her house-continuers: Yesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. Azubah died, and Kaleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Chur. Chur became the family-strengthener of Uriy, and Uriy became the family-strengthener of Betsalel. Afterward Chetsron went in to the daughter of Makiyr the family-strengthener of Gilad, whom he took as woman when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. Segub became the family-strengthener of Yaiyr, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilad. Geshur and Aram took the towns of Yaiyr from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the house-continuers of Makiyr the family-strengthener of Gilad. After that Chetsron was dead in Kaleb Ephrathah, then Abiyahu Chetsron’s woman bore him Ashchur the family-strengthener of Teqoa.
The house-continuers of Yerachmeel the firstborn of Chetsron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Otsem, Achiyah. Yerachmeel had another woman, whose name was Atarah; she was the family-binder of Onam. The house-continuers of Ram the firstborn of Yerachmeel were Maats, and Yamiyn, and Eqer. The house-continuers of Onam were Shammay, and Yada. The house-continuers of Shammay: Nadab, and Abiyshur. The name of the woman of Abiyshur was Abiyhayil; and she bore him Ahban, and Moliyd. The house-continuers of Nadab: Seled, and Appayim; but Seled died without house-builders. The house-continuers of Appayim: Yishiy. The house-continuers of Yishiy: Sheshan. The house-continuers of Sheshan: Achlab. The house-continuers of Yada the male-house-protector of Shammay: Yether, and Yehonathan; and Yether died without house-builders. The house-continuers of Yehonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the house-continuers of Yerachmeel. Now Sheshan had no house-continuers, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Mitsriy, whose name was Yarcha. Sheshan gave his daughter to Yarcha his servant as woman; and she bore him Attay.
Attay became the family-strengthener of Nathan, and Nathan became the family-strengthener of Zabad, and Zabad became the family-strengthener of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the family-strengthener of Obed, and Obed became the family-strengthener of Yehu, and Yehu became the family-strengthener of Azaryahu, and Azaryahu became the family-strengthener of Chelets, and Chelets became the family-strengthener of Eleasah, and Eleasah became the family-strengthener of Sismay, and Sismay became the family-strengthener of Shallum, and Shallum became the family-strengthener of Yeqamyah, and Yeqamyah became the family-strengthener of Eliyshama.
The house-continuers of Kaleb the male-house-protector of Yerachmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the family-strengthener of Ziyph; and the house-continuers of Mareshah the family-strengthener of Chebron. The house-continuers of Chebron: Qorach, and Tappuach, and Reqem, and Shema. Shema became the family-strengthener of Racham, the family-strengthener of Yorqeam; and Reqem became the family-strengthener of Shammay. The house-continuer of Shammay was Maon; and Maon was the family-strengthener of Beyth Tsur. Eyphah, Kaleb’s concubine, bore Charan, and Moza, and Gazez; and Charan became the family-strengthener of Gazez. The house-continuers of Yehday: Regem, and Yotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Eyphah, and Shaaph. Maakah, Kaleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. She bore also Shaaph the family-strengthener of Madmannah, Sheva the family-strengthener of Makbena, and the family-strengthener of Gibea; and the daughter of Kaleb was Aksah. These were the house-continuers of Kaleb: the house-continuers of Chur, the firstborn of Ephrathah were Shobal the family-strengthener of Qiryath Yeariym, Salma the family-strengthener of Beyth Lechem, and Chareph the family-strengthener of Beyth Gader.
Shobal the family-strengthener of Qiryath Yeariym had house-continuers: Haroeh, half of the Manachath. The families of Qiryath Yeariym: The Yithriy, and the Puthiy, and the Shumathiy, and the Mishraiy; of them came the Tsariy and the Eshtauliy.
The house-continuers of Salma: Beyth Lechem, and the Netophathiy, Atroth Beth Yoab, and half of the Manachath, the Tsariy. The families of scribes who lived at Yabets: the Tirathiy, the Shimathiy, the Sukathiy. These are the Qeyniy who came of Hammath, the family-strengthener of the house of Rekab.
1Ch 3
Now these were the house-continuers of Daviyd, who were born to him in Chebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Achiynoam the Yizreeliyth; the second, Daniyel, of Abiygayil the Karmeliy; the third, Abshalom the house-continuer of Maakah the daughter of Talmay king of Geshur; the fourth, Adoniyah the house-continuer of Chaggiyth; the fifth, Shephatyahu of Abiytal; the sixth, Yithream by Eglah his woman: six were born to him in Chebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months. In Yerusalem he reigned thirty-three years; and these were born to him in Yerusalem: Shima, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Sh'lomoh, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiyel; and Yibchar, and Eliyshama, and Eliyphelet, and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Yaphia, and Eliyshama, and Elyada, and Eliyphelet, nine. All these were the house-continuers of Daviyd, besides the house-continuers of the concubines; and Tamar was their female-house-protector.
Sh'lomoh’s house-continuer was Rechabam, Abiyahu his house-continuer, Asa his house-continuer, Yehoshaphat his house-continuer, Yoram his house-continuer, Achazyah his house-continuer, Yoash his house-continuer, Amatsyahu his house-continuer, Azaryahu his house-continuer, Yotham his house-continuer, Achaz his house-continuer, Chizqiyah his house-continuer, Menashsheh his house-continuer, Amon his house-continuer, Yoshiyah his house-continuer. The house-continuers of Yoshiyah: the firstborn Yahuchanan, the second Yehoyaqiym, the third Tsidqiyahu, the fourth Shallum. The house-continuers of Yehoyaqiym: Yekonyah his house-continuer, Tsidqiyahu his house-continuer.
The house-continuers of Yekonyah, the captive: Shealtiyel his house-continuer, and Malchiram, and Pedayahu, and Shenatstsar, Yeqamyah, Hoshama, and Nedabyah. The house-continuers of Pedayahu: Zerubbabel, and Shimiy.
The house-continuers of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Chananyahu; and Shelomith was their female-house-protector; and Chashubah, and Ohel, and Berekyahu, and Chasadyah, Yushab Chesed, five. The house-continuers of Chananyahu: Pelatyahu, and Yeshayahu; the house-continuers of Rephayah, the house-continuers of Arnan, the house-continuers of Obadyahu, the house-continuers of Shekanyahu. The house-continuers of Shekanyahu: Shemayahu. The house-continuers of Shemayahu: Chattush, and Yigal, and Bariyach, and Nearyah, and Shaphat, six. The house-continuers of Nearyah: Elyehoeynay, and Chizqiyah, and Azriyqam, three. The house-continuers of Elyehoeynay: Hodayvahu, and Elyashiyb, and Pelayah, and Aqqub, and Yahuchanan, and Delayahu, and Ananiy, seven.
1Ch 4
The house-continuers of Yahudah: Perez, Chetsron, and Karmiy, and Chur, and Shobal. Reayah the house-continuer of Shobal became the family-strengthener of Yachath; and Yachath became the family-strengthener of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Tsariy. These were the house-continuers of the family-strengthener of Eytam: Yizreel, and Yishma, and Yidbash; and the name of their female-house-protector was Tselelponiy; and Penuel the family-strengthener of Gedor, and Etser the family-strengthener of Chushah. These are the house-continuers of Chur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the family-strengthener of Beyth Lechem. Ashchur the family-strengthener of Teqoa had two women, Helah and Naarah. Naarah bore him Achuzzam, and Chepher, and Temeni, and Achashtariy. These were the house-continuers of Naarah. The house-continuers of Helah were Tsereth, Yitshar, and Ethnan. Qots became the family-strengthener of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Acharchel the house-continuer of Harum.
Yabets was more honorable than his male-house-protectors: and his family-binder named him Yabets, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
Yabets called on the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, saying, Oh that you would bend-the-knee-to-give-to me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from what is dysfunctional, that it not be to my sorrow! The Mightiest-Yoked-One granted him that which he requested.
Kelub the male-house-protector of Shuhah became the family-strengthener of Mechiyr, who was the family-strengthener of Eshton. Eshton became the family-strengthener of Beyth Rapha, and Paseach, and Techinnah the family-strengthener of Iyr Nachash. These are the men of Recah. The house-continuers of Qenaz: Othniyel, and Serayahu.
The house-continuers of Othniyel: Chathath. Meonothai became the family-strengthener of Ophrah: and Serayahu became the family-strengthener of Yoab the family-strengthener of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. The house-continuers of Kaleb the house-continuer of Yephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the house-continuers of Elah; and Qenaz. The house-continuers of Yehallelel: Ziyph, and Ziphah, Tiyreya, and Asarel. The house-continuers of Ezrah: Yether, and Mered, and Epher, and Yalon; and she bore Miryam, and Shammay, and Yishbach the family-strengthener of Eshtemoa. His woman the Yehudiy bore Yered the family-strengthener of Gedor, and Cheber the family-strengthener of Soco, and Yequthiyel the family-strengthener of Zanoach. These are the house-continuers of Bithyah the daughter of Paroh, whom Mered took. The house-continuers of the woman of Hodiyah, the female-house-protector of Nacham, were the family-strengthener of Keilah the Garmiy, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. The house-continuers of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tulon. The house-continuers of Yishiy: Zocheth, and Benzocheth.
The house-continuers of Shelach the house-continuer of Yahudah: Er the family-strengthener of Lecah, and Ladah the family-strengthener of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; and Yoqiym, and the men of Kozeba, and Yoash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Yashubiylechem. The records are ancient. These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
The house-continuers of Shimon: Nemuel, and Yamiyn, Yariyb, Zerach, Shaul; Shallum his house-continuer, Mibsam his house-continuer, Mishma his house-continuer. The house-continuers of Mishma: Hammuel his house-continuer, Zakkur his house-continuer, Shimiy his house-continuer.
Shimiy had sixteen house-continuers and six daughters; but his male-house-protectors didn’t have many house-builders, neither did all their family multiply like the house-builders of Yahudah. They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, and at Bilhah, and at Etsem, and at Tolad, and at Bethuel, and at Chormah, and at Tsiqlag, and at Beyth Markaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beyth Beriy, and at Shaarayim. These were their cities to the reign of Daviyd. Their villages were Eytam, and Ayin, Rimmon, and Token, and Ashan, five cities; and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
Meshobab, and Yamlek, and Yoshah the house-continuer of Amatsyahu, and Yoel, and Yehu the house-continuer of Yoshibyah, the house-continuer of Serayahu, the house-continuer of Asiyel, and Elyehoeynay, and Yaaqobah, and Yeshochayah, and Asayah, and Adiiyel, and Yesiymiel, and Benayahu, and Ziyza the house-continuer of Shiphiy, the house-continuer of Eylon, the house-continuer of Yedayah, the house-continuer of Shimriy, the house-continuer of Shemayahu—these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their family-strengtheners’ houses increased greatly. They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. They found fat pasture and functional things, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Cham.
These written by name came in the days of Chizqiyah king of Yahudah, and struck their tents, and the Meuniy who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks. Some of them, even of the house-continuers of Shimon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seiyr, having for their captains Pelatyahu, and Nearyah, and Rephayah, and Uzziel, the house-continuers of Yishiy. They struck the remnant of the Amaleqiy who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
1Ch 5
The house-continuers of Reuben the firstborn of Yisrael, because he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his family-strengthener’s couch, his birthright was given to the house-continuers of Yehoseph the house-continuer of Yisrael; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. For Yahudah prevailed above his male-house-protectors, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Yehoseph’s.
The house-continuers of Reuben the firstborn of Yisrael: Chanok, and Pallu, Chetsron, and Karmiy. The house-continuers of Yoel: Shemayahu his house-continuer, Gog his house-continuer, Shimiy his house-continuer, Miykayehu his house-continuer, Reayah his house-continuer, Baal his house-continuer, Beerah his house-continuer, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Ashshur carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubeniy.
His male-house-protectors by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Yeiyel, and Zekaryahu, and Bela the house-continuer of Azaz, the house-continuer of Shema, the house-continuer of Yoel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon: and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Perath, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilad. In the days of Shaul, they made war with the Hagriy, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilad.
The house-continuers of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salkah: Yoel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Yaanay, and Shaphat in Bashan. Their male-house-protectors of their family-strengtheners’ houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Yoray, and Yakan, and Ziya, and Eber, seven. These were the house-continuers of Abiyhayil, the house-continuer of Churiy, the house-continuer of Yaroach, the house-continuer of Gilad, the house-continuer of Michael, the house-continuer of Yeshiyshay, the house-continuer of Yachdo, the house-continuer of Buz; Achiy the house-continuer of Abdiel, the house-continuer of Guniy, chief of their family-strengtheners’ houses. They lived in Gilad in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotham king of Yahudah, and in the days of Yarobam king of Yisrael.
The house-continuers of Reuben, and the Gadiy, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war. They made war with the Hagriy, with Yetur, and Naphiysh, and Nodab. They were helped against them, and the Hagriy were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to the Mightiest-Yoked-One in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him. They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men throat-breathers one hundred thousand. For there fell many slain, because the war was of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. They lived in their place until the captivity.
The house-builders of the half-tribe of Menashsheh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Chermon and Seniyr and Mount Chermon. These were the heads of their family-strengtheners’ houses: even Epher, and Yishiy, and Eliyel, and Azriyel, and Yirmeyahu, and Hodavyah, and Yachdiyel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their family-strengtheners’ houses. They trespassed against the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, and played the prostitute after the mighty-ones of the peoples of the land, whom the Mightiest-Yoked-One destroyed before them. The Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael stirred up the wind of Pul king of Ashshur, and the wind of Tilgath Pilneser king of Ashshur, and he carried them away, even the Reubeniy, and the Gadiy, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, and brought them to Chalach, and Chabor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
1Ch 6
The house-continuers of Leviy: Gershon, Qehath, and Merariy. The house-continuers of Qehath: Amram, Yitshar, and Chebron, and Uzziel. The house-builders of Amram: Aharon, and Mosheh, and Miryam. The house-continuers of Aharon: Nadab, and Abiyhu, Eleazar, and Iythamar. Eleazar became the family-strengthener of Piynechas, Piynechas became the family-strengthener of Abiyshua, and Abiyshua became the family-strengthener of Buqqiy, and Buqqiy became the family-strengthener of Uzziy, and Uzziy became the family-strengthener of Zerachyah, and Zerachyah became the family-strengthener of Merayoth, Merayoth became the family-strengthener of Amaryahu, and Amaryahu became the family-strengthener of Achiytub, and Achiytub became the family-strengthener of Tsadoq, and Tsadoq became the family-strengthener of Achiymaats, and Achiymaats became the family-strengthener of Azaryahu, and Azaryahu became the family-strengthener of Yahuchanan, and Yahuchanan became the family-strengthener of Azaryahu, (he it is who executed the priest’s office in the house that Sh'lomoh built in Yerusalem), and Azaryahu became the family-strengthener of Amaryahu, and Amaryahu became the family-strengthener of Achiytub, and Achiytub became the family-strengthener of Tsadoq, and Tsadoq became the family-strengthener of Shallum, and Shallum became the family-strengthener of Chilqiyahu, and Chilqiyahu became the family-strengthener of Azaryahu, and Azaryahu became the family-strengthener of Serayahu, and Serayahu became the family-strengthener of Yehotsadaq; Yehotsadaq went into captivity, when Yahuwah carried away Yahudah and Yerusalem by the hand of Nebukadnetstar.
The house-continuers of Leviy: Gershom, Qehath, and Merariy. These are the names of the house-continuers of Gershom: Libniy and Shimiy. The house-continuers of Qehath were Amram, and Yitshar, and Chebron, and Uzziel. The house-continuers of Merariy: Machliy and Mushiy. These are the families of the Leviy according to their family-strengtheners’ households. Of Gershom: Libniy his house-continuer, Yachath his house-continuer, Zimmah his house-continuer, Yoach his house-continuer, Yiddo his house-continuer, Zerach his house-continuer, Yeatheray his house-continuer. The house-continuers of Qehath: Amminadab his house-continuer, Qorach his house-continuer, Assiyr his house-continuer, Elqanah his house-continuer, and Ebyasaph his house-continuer, and Assiyr his house-continuer, Tachath his house-continuer, Uriyel his house-continuer, Uzziyahu his house-continuer, and Shaul his house-continuer. The house-continuers of Elqanah: Amasay, and Achiymoth. As for Elqanah, the house-continuers of Elqanah: Zophai his house-continuer, and Nachath his house-continuer, Eliyab his house-continuer, Yerocham his house-continuer, Elqanah his house-continuer. The house-continuers of Shemuel: the firstborn Vashniy, and the second Abiyahu. The house-continuers of Merariy: Machliy, Libniy his house-continuer, Shimiy his house-continuer, Uzzah his house-continuer, Shima his house-continuer, Chaggiyah his house-continuer, Asayah his house-continuer. These are they whom Daviyd set over the service of song in the house of Yahuwah, after that the ark had rest. They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Sh'lomoh had built the house of Yahuwah in Yerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order. These are those who waited, and their house-continuers.
Of the house-continuers of the Qohathiy: Heyman the singer, the house-continuer of Yoel, the house-continuer of Shemuel, the house-continuer of Elqanah, the house-continuer of Yerocham, the house-continuer of Eliyel, the house-continuer of Toach, the house-continuer of Tsuph, the house-continuer of Elqanah, the house-continuer of Machath, the house-continuer of Amasay, the house-continuer of Elqanah, the house-continuer of Yoel, the house-continuer of Azaryahu, the house-continuer of Tsephanyahu, the house-continuer of Tachath, the house-continuer of Assiyr, the house-continuer of Ebyasaph, the house-continuer of Qorach, the house-continuer of Yitshar, the house-continuer of Qehath, the house-continuer of Leviy, the house-continuer of Yisrael.
His male-house-protector Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the house-continuer of Berekyahu, the house-continuer of Shima, the house-continuer of Michael, the house-continuer of Baaseyah, the house-continuer of Malkiyahu, the house-continuer of Ethniy, the house-continuer of Zerach, the house-continuer of Adayah, the house-continuer of Eythan, the house-continuer of Zimmah, the house-continuer of Shimiy, the house-continuer of Yachath, the house-continuer of Gershom, the house-continuer of Leviy.
On the left hand their male-house-protectors the house-continuers of Merariy: Eythan the house-continuer of Qiyshiy, the house-continuer of Abdiy, the house-continuer of Malluk, the house-continuer of Chashabyahu, the house-continuer of Amatsyahu, the house-continuer of Chilqiyahu, the house-continuer of Amtsiy, the house-continuer of Bani, the house-continuer of Shemer, the house-continuer of Machliy, the house-continuer of Mushiy, the house-continuer of Merariy, the house-continuer of Leviy.
Their male-house-protectors the Leviy were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. But Aharon and his house-continuers offered on the altar of ascent offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most-separated place, and to make atonement for Yisrael, according to all that Mosheh the servant of the Mightiest-Yoked-One had directed.
These are the house-continuers of Aharon: Eleazar his house-continuer, Piynechas his house-continuer, Abiyshua his house-continuer, Buqqiy his house-continuer, Uzziy his house-continuer, Zerachyah his house-continuer, Merayoth his house-continuer, Amaryahu his house-continuer, Achiytub his house-continuer, Tsadoq his house-continuer, Achiymaats his house-continuer.
Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the house-continuers of Aharon, of the families of the Qohathiy (for theirs was the first lot), to them they gave Chebron in the land of Yahudah, and its suburbs around it; but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Kaleb the house-continuer of Yephunneh.
To the house-continuers of Aharon they gave the cities of refuge, Chebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Yattiyr, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, and Chiylen with its suburbs, Debiyr with its suburbs, and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beyth Shemesh with its suburbs; and out of the tribe of Binyamiyn, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
To the rest of the house-continuers of Qehath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Menashsheh, ten cities.
To the house-continuers of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Yissaskar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtaliy, and out of the tribe of Menashsheh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
To the house-continuers of Merariy were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. The house-builders of Yisrael gave to the Leviy the cities with their suburbs. They gave by lot out of the tribe of the house-builders of Yahudah, and out of the tribe of the house-builders of Shimon, and out of the tribe of the house-builders of Binyamiyn, these cities which are mentioned by name.
Some of the families of the house-continuers of Qehath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephrayim. They gave to them the cities of refuge,
Shekem in the hill country of Ephrayim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, and Yoqmeam with its suburbs, and Beyth Choron with its suburbs, and Ayalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; and out of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bilam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the house-continuers of Qehath.
To the house-continuers of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs; and out of the tribe of Yissaskar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs, and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rechob with its suburbs; and out of the tribe of Naphtaliy, Kedesh in Galiylah with its suburbs, and Chammon with its suburbs, and Qiryathayim with its suburbs.
To the rest of the Leviy, the house-continuers of Merariy, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs; and beyond the Yarden at Yeriycho, on the east side of the Yarden, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Betser in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Yahats with its suburbs, and Qedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilad with its suburbs, and Machanayim with its suburbs, and Cheshbon with its suburbs, and Yazer with its suburbs.
1Ch 7
Of the house-continuers of Yissaskar: Tola, and Puah, Yashub, and Shimron, four. The house-continuers of Tola: Uzziy, and Rephayah, and Yeriyel, and Yachmay, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their family-strengtheners’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of Daviyd was twenty-two thousand six hundred. The house-continuers of Uzziy: Yizrachyah. The house-continuers of Yizrachyah: Michael, and Obadyahu, and Yoel, Yishshiyahu, five; all of them chief men. With them, by their generations, after their family-strengtheners’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many women and house-continuers. Their male-house-protectors among all the families of Yissaskar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
The house-continuers of Binyamiyn: Bela, and Beker, and Yediyael, three. The house-continuers of Bela: Etsbon, and Uzziy, and Uzziel, and Yeriymoth, and Iyriy, five; heads of family-strengtheners’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four. The house-continuers of Beker: Zemiyrah, and Yoash, and Eliyezer, and Elyehoeynay, and Omriy, and Yeriymoth, and Abiyahu, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the house-continuers of Beker. They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their family-strengtheners’ houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred. The house-continuers of Yediyael: Bilhan. The house-continuers of Bilhan: Yeush, and Binyamiyn, and Echud, and Kenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshiysh, and Ahishahar. All these were house-continuers of Yediyael, according to the heads of their family-strengtheners’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war. Shuppim also, and Chuppiym, the house-continuers of Iyr, Hushim, the house-continuers of Aher.
The house-continuers of Naphtaliy: Yachtsiyel, and Guniy, and Yetser, and Shallum, the house-continuers of Bilhah.
The house-continuers of Menashsheh: Asriyel, whom his concubine the Arammiy bore: she bore Makiyr the family-strengthener of Gilad: and Makiyr took a woman of Chuppiym and Shuppim, whose female-house-protector’s name was Maakah; and the name of the second was Tselophchad: and Tselophchad had daughters. Maakah the woman of Makiyr bore a house-continuer, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his male-house-protector was Sheresh; and his house-continuers were Ulam and Rakem. The house-continuers of Ulam: Bedan. These were the house-continuers of Gilad the house-continuer of Makiyr, the house-continuer of Menashsheh. His female-house-protector Hammolecheth bore Iyshhod, and Abiyezer, and Machlah. The house-continuers of Shemiyda were Achiyan, and Shekem, and Likhi, and Aniyam.
The house-continuers of Ephrayim: Shethulach, and Bered his house-continuer, and Tachath his house-continuer, and Eleadah his house-continuer, and Tachath his house-continuer, and Zabad his house-continuer, and Shethulach his house-continuer, and Etser, and Elad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. Ephrayim their family-strengthener mourned many days, and his male-house-protectors came to comfort him. He went in to his woman, and she conceived, and bore a house-continuer, and he named him Beriyah, because it went dysfunctional with his house. His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beyth Choron the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. Rephah was his house-continuer, and Resheph, and Telach his house-continuer, and Tachan his house-continuer, Ladan his house-continuer, Ammiyhud his house-continuer, Eliyshama his house-continuer, Nun his house-continuer, Yehoshua his house-continuer.
Their possessions and habitations were Beythel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shekem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; and by the borders of the house-builders of Menashsheh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanak and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the house-builders of Yehoseph the house-continuer of Yisrael.
The house-continuers of Asher: Yimnah, and Yishvah, and Yishviy, and Beriyah, and Serach their female-house-protector. The house-continuers of Beriyah: Cheber, and Malkiyel, who was the family-strengthener of Birzaith. Cheber became the family-strengthener of Yaphlet, and Shomer, and Chotham, and Shua their female-house-protector. The house-continuers of Yaphlet: Pasak, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the house-builders of Yaphlet. The house-continuers of Shemer: Achiy, and Rohagah, Yechubbah, and Aram. The house-continuers of Helem his male-house-protector: Tsophach, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. The house-continuers of Tsophach: Suach, and Charnepher, and Shual, and Beriy, and Yimrah, Betser, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Yithran, and Beera. The house-continuers of Yether: Yephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara. The house-continuers of Ulla: Arach, and Channiyel, and Rizia. All these were the house-builders of Asher, heads of the family-strengtheners’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
1Ch 8
Binyamiyn became the family-strengthener of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Achrach the third, Nochah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. Bela had house-continuers: Addar, and Gera, and Abiyhud, and Abiyshua, and Naaman, and Achoach, and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Churam.
These are the house-continuers of Echud: these are the heads of family-strengtheners’ households of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manachath: and Naaman, and Achiyah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the family-strengthener of Uzza and Achiyhud. Shaharaim became the family-strengthener of house-builders in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his women. He became the family-strengthener of Chodesh his woman, Yobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malkam, and Yeuts, and Shobyah, and Mirmah. These were his house-continuers, heads of family-strengtheners’ households. Of Hushim he became the family-strengthener of Abiytub and Elpaal.
The house-continuers of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns; and Beriyah, and Shema, who were heads of family-strengtheners’ households of the inhabitants of Ayalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath; and Ahio, Shashaq, and Yeriymoth, and Zebadyahu, and Arad, and Migdal-Migdal-Eder, and Michael, and Yishpah, and Yocha, the house-continuers of Beriyah, and Zebadyahu, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Cheber, and Yishmeray, and Yizliyah, and Yobab, the house-continuers of Elpaal, and Yaqiym, and Zikriy, and Zabdiy, and Eliyeynay, and Tsillethay, and Eliyel, and Adayah, and Berayah, and Shimrath, the house-continuers of Shimiy, and Yishpan, and Eber, and Eliyel, and Abdon, and Zikriy, and Hanan, and Chananyahu, and Eylam, and Anthothiyah, and Yiphdeyah, and Penuel, the house-continuers of Shashaq, and Shamsheray, and Shecharyah, and Athalyahu, and Yaareshyah, and Eliyahu, and Zikriy, the house-continuers of Yerocham. These were heads of family-strengtheners’ households throughout their generations, chief men: these lived in Yerusalem.
In Gibon there lived the family-strengthener of Gibon, whose woman’s name was Maakah; and his firstborn house-continuer Abdon, and Tsur, and Qiysh, and Baal, and Nadab, and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher. Miqloth became the family-strengthener of Shimah. They also lived with their male-house-protectors in Yerusalem, over against their male-house-protectors.
Ner became the family-strengthener of Qiysh; and Qiysh became the family-strengthener of Shaul; and Shaul became the family-strengthener of Yehonathan, and Malkiyshua, and Abiynadab, and Eshbaal. The house-continuer of Yehonathan was Meriyb Baal; and Meriyb Baal became the family-strengthener of Miykayehu.
The house-continuers of Miykayehu: Piython, and Melek, and Taarea, and Achaz. Achaz became the family-strengthener of Yehoaddah; and Yehoaddah became the family-strengthener of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the family-strengthener of Moza. Moza became the family-strengthener of Binah; Raphah was his house-continuer, Eleasah his house-continuer, Azel his house-continuer. Azel had six house-continuers, whose names are these: Azriyqam, Bokeru, and Yishmael, and Shearyah, and Obadyahu, and Hanan. All these were the house-continuers of Azel. The house-continuers of Esheq his male-house-protector: Ulam his firstborn, Yeush the second, and Eliyphelet the third. The house-continuers of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many house-continuers, and house-continuers’ house-continuers, one hundred fifty. All these were of the house-continuers of Binyamiyn.
1Ch 9
So all Yisrael were reckoned by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael: and Yahudah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience. Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Yisrael, the priests, the Leviy, and the temple servants.
In Yerusalem lived of the house-builders of Yahudah, and of the house-builders of Binyamiyn, and of the house-builders of Ephrayim and Menashsheh: Uthay the house-continuer of Ammiyhud, the house-continuer of Omriy, the house-continuer of Imriy, the house-continuer of Bani, of the house-builders of Perez the house-continuer of Yahudah. Of the Shiyloniy: Asayah the firstborn, and his house-continuers. Of the house-continuers of Zerach: Yeuel, and their male-house-protectors, six hundred ninety.
Of the house-continuers of Binyamiyn: Sallu the house-continuer of Meshullam, the house-continuer of Hodavyah, the house-continuer of Hassenuah, and Yibneyah the house-continuer of Yerocham, and Elah the house-continuer of Uzziy, the house-continuer of Mikriy, and Meshullam the house-continuer of Shephatyahu, the house-continuer of Reuel, the house-continuer of Yibneyah; and their male-house-protectors, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of family-strengtheners’ households by their family-strengtheners’ houses.
Of the priests: Yedayah, and Yehoyariyb, Yakiyn, and Azaryahu the house-continuer of Chilqiyahu, the house-continuer of Meshullam, the house-continuer of Tsadoq, the house-continuer of Merayoth, the house-continuer of Achiytub, the ruler of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; and Adayah the house-continuer of Yerocham, the house-continuer of Pashchur, the house-continuer of Malkiyahu, and Maasay the house-continuer of Adiiyel, the house-continuer of Yachzerah, the house-continuer of Meshullam, the house-continuer of Meshillemith, the house-continuer of Immer; and their male-house-protectors, heads of their family-strengtheners’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Of the Leviy: Shemayahu the house-continuer of Chashshub, the house-continuer of Azriyqam, the house-continuer of Chashabyahu, of the house-continuers of Merariy; and Bakbakkar, Cheresh, and Galal, and Mattanyahu the house-continuer of Mica, the house-continuer of Zikriy, the house-continuer of Asaph, and Obadyahu the house-continuer of Shemayahu, the house-continuer of Galal, the house-continuer of Yeduthun, and Berekyahu the house-continuer of Asa, the house-continuer of Elqanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathiy.
The gatekeepers: Shallum, and Aqqub, and Talmon, and Achiyman, and their male-house-protectors (Shallum was the chief), who previously served in the king’s gate eastward: they were the gatekeepers for the camp of the house-builders of Leviy.
Shallum the house-continuer of Kore, the house-continuer of Ebyasaph, the house-continuer of Qorach, and his male-house-protectors, of his family-strengthener’s house, the Qorchiy, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their family-strengtheners had been over the camp of Yahuwah, keepers of the entry. Piynechas the house-continuer of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahuwah was with him. Zekaryahu the house-continuer of Meshelemyahu was porter of the door of the Tent of Meeting.
All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom Daviyd and Shemuel the seer ordained in their office of trust. So they and their house-builders had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahuwah, even the house of the tent, by wards. On the four sides were the gatekeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south. Their male-house-protectors, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them: for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Leviy, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. They lodged around the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, because that duty was on them; and to them pertained its opening morning by morning.
Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out. Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. Some of the house-continuers of the priests prepared the confection of the spices. Mattithyahu, one of the Leviy, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Qorchiy, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans. Some of their male-house-protectors, of the house-continuers of the Qohathiy, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
These are the singers, heads of family-strengtheners’ households of the Leviy, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night. These were heads of family-strengtheners’ households of the Leviy, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Yerusalem.
In Gibon there lived the family-strengthener of Gibon, Yeiyel, whose woman’s name was Maakah: and his firstborn house-continuer Abdon, and Tsur, and Qiysh, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zekaryahu, and Miqloth. Miqloth became the family-strengthener of Shimeam. They also lived with their male-house-protectors in Yerusalem, over against their male-house-protectors. Ner became the family-strengthener of Qiysh; and Qiysh became the family-strengthener of Shaul; and Shaul became the family-strengthener of Yehonathan, and Malkiyshua, and Abiynadab, and Eshbaal. The house-continuer of Yehonathan was Meriyb Baal; and Meriyb Baal became the family-strengthener of Miykayehu. The house-continuers of Miykayehu: Piython, and Melek, and Tachrea, and Achaz. Achaz became the family-strengthener of Yarah; and Yarah became the family-strengthener of Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri became the family-strengthener of Moza; and Moza became the family-strengthener of Binah; and Rephayah his house-continuer, Eleasah his house-continuer, Azel his house-continuer. Azel had six house-continuers, whose names are these: Azriyqam, Bokeru, and Yishmael, and Shearyah, and Obadyahu, and Hanan: these were the house-continuers of Azel.
1Ch 10
Now the Pelishtiy fought against Yisrael: and the men of Yisrael fled from before the Pelishtiy, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. The Pelishtiy followed hard after Shaul and after his house-continuers; and the Pelishtiy killed Yehonathan, and Abiynadab, and Malkiyshua, the house-continuers of Shaul. The battle went hard against Shaul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers. Then Shaul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.
But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Shaul took his sword, and fell on it. When his armor bearer saw that Shaul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died. So Shaul died, and his three house-continuers; and all his house died together.
When all the men of Yisrael who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Shaul and his house-continuers were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Pelishtiy came and lived in them.
It happened on the next day, when the Pelishtiy came to strip the slain, that they found Shaul and his house-continuers fallen on Mount Gilboa. They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Pelishtiy all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. They put his armor in the house of their mighty-ones, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
When all Yabesh Gilad heard all that the Pelishtiy had done to Shaul, all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Shaul, and the bodies of his house-continuers, and brought them to Yabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Yabesh, and fasted seven days.
So Shaul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahuwah, because of the word of Yahuwah, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar wind, to inquire, and didn’t inquire of Yahuwah: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to Daviyd the house-continuer of Yishay.
1Ch 11
Then all Yisrael gathered themselves to Daviyd to Chebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. In times past, even when Shaul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Yisrael. Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Yisrael, and you shall be prince over my people Yisrael.
So all the elders of Yisrael came to the king to Chebron; and Daviyd made a passing-through-the-pieces with them in Chebron before Yahuwah; and they anointed Daviyd king over Yisrael, according to the word of Yahuwah by Shemuel.
Daviyd and all Yisrael went to Yerusalem (the same is Yebus); and the Yebusiy, the inhabitants of the land, were there. The inhabitants of Yebus said to Daviyd, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless Daviyd took the stronghold of Tsiyon. The same is the city of Daviyd.
Daviyd said, Whoever strikes the Yebusiy first shall be chief and captain. Yoab the house-continuer of Tseruyah went up first, and was made chief. Daviyd lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of Daviyd. He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Yoab repaired the rest of the city. Daviyd grew greater and greater; for Yahuwah of Armies was with him.
Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom Daviyd had, who showed themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Yisrael, to make him king, according to the word of Yahuwah concerning Yisrael.
This is the number of the mighty men whom Daviyd had: Yashobam, the house-continuer of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
After him was Eleazar the house-continuer of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men. He was with Daviyd at Pasdammim, and there the Pelishtiy were gathered together to battle, where there was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Pelishtiy. They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Pelishtiy; and Yahuwah delivered them by a great victory.
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to Daviyd, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Pelishtiy were encamped in the valley of Raphah. Daviyd was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Pelishtiy was then in Beyth Lechem. Daviyd longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beyth Lechem, which is by the gate!
The three broke through the army of the Pelishtiy, and drew water out of the well of Beyth Lechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to Daviyd: but Daviyd would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahuwah, and said, my Mightiest-Yoked-One forbid it me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their breathing-throats in jeopardy? For they risked their breathing-throats to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.
Abiyshay, the male-house-protector of Yoab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three. Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: however he didn’t attain to the three.
Benayahu the house-continuer of Yehoyada, the house-continuer of a valiant man of Qabtseel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two house-continuers of Ariyel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. He killed an Mitsriy, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Mitsriy’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Mitsriy’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. Benayahu the house-continuer of Yehoyada did these things, and had a name among the three mighty men. Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three: and Daviyd set him over his guard.
Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the male-house-protector of Yoab, Elchanan the house-continuer of Dodo of Beyth Lechem, Shammoth the Harorite, Chelets the Peloniy, Iyra the house-continuer of Iqqesh the Tekoite, Abiyezer the Anathothite, Sibbekay the Chushathiy, Ilai the Ahohite, Maharay the Netophathite, Heled the house-continuer of Baanah the Netophathite, Iythay the house-continuer of Riybay of Gibah of the house-builders of Binyamiyn, Benayahu the Pirathonite, Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiyel the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Baharumite, Elyachba the Shaalboniy, the house-continuers of Hashem the Gizonite, Yehonathan the house-continuer of Shagee the Hararite, Achiyam the house-continuer of Sakar the Hararite, Eliyphal the house-continuer of Ur, Chepher the Mecherathite, Achiyah the Peloniy, Chetsro the Karmeliy, Naarai the house-continuer of Ezbai, Yoel the male-house-protector of Nathan, Mibchar the house-continuer of Hagri, Tseleq the Ammoniy, Nacharay the Berothite, the armor bearer of Yoab the house-continuer of Tseruyah, Iyra the Yithriy, Gareb the Yithriy, Uriyahu the Chittiy, Zabad the house-continuer of Achlab, Adina the house-continuer of Shiyza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubeniy, and thirty with him, Hanan the house-continuer of Maakah, and Yoshaphat the Mithniy, Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Yeiyel the house-continuers of Chotham the Aroerite, Yediyael the house-continuer of Shimriy, and Yocha his male-house-protector, the Tizite, Eliyel the Mahavite, and Yeriybay, and Yoshavyah, the house-continuers of Elnaam, and Yithmah the Moabite, Eliyel, and Obed, and Yaasiyel the Metsobaya.
1Ch 12
Now these are those who came to Daviyd to Tsiqlag, while he yet kept himself close because of Shaul the house-continuer of Qiysh; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war. They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Shaul’s male-house-protectors of Binyamiyn.
The chief was Achiyezer; then Yoash, the house-continuers of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Yezavel, and Pelet, the house-continuers of Azmaveth, and Berakah, and Yehu the Anathothite, and Yishmayahu the Giboniy, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Yirmeyahu, and Yachaziyel, and Yahuchanan, and Yozabad the Gederathite, Eluzay, and Yeriymoth, and Bealyah, and Shemaryahu, and Shephatyahu the Charuphiy, Elqanah, and Yishshiyahu, and Azarel, and Yoezer, and Yashobam, the Qorchiy, and Yoelah, and Zebadyahu, the house-continuers of Yerocham of Gedor.
Of the Gadiy there separated themselves to Daviyd to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains; Etser the chief, Obadyahu the second, Eliyab the third, Mishmannah the fourth, Yirmeyahu the fifth, Attay the sixth, Eliyel the seventh, Yahuchanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, Yirmeyahu the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
These of the house-continuers of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand. These are those who went over the Yarden in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
There came of the house-builders of Binyamiyn and Yahudah to the stronghold to Daviyd. Daviyd went out to meet them, and answered them, If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my inner-guide shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the Mightiest-Yoked-One of our family-strengtheners look thereon, and rebuke it.
Then the wind came on Amasay, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, We are yours, Daviyd, and on your side, you house-continuer of Yishay: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your Mightiest-Yoked-One helps you. Then Daviyd received them, and made them captains of the band.
Of Menashsheh also there fell away some to Daviyd, when he came with the Pelishtiy against Shaul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the masters of the Pelishtiy sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Shaul to the jeopardy of our heads. As he went to Tsiqlag, there fell to him of Menashsheh, Adnah, and Yozabad, and Yediyael, and Michael, and Yozabad, and Eliyhu, and Tsillethay, captains of thousands who were of Menashsheh. They helped Daviyd against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army. For from day to day men came to Daviyd to help him, until there was a great army, like the army of the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to Daviyd to Chebron, to turn the kingdom of Shaul to him, according to the word of Yahuwah. The house-builders of Yahudah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
Of the house-builders of Shimon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. Of the house-builders of Leviy four thousand and six hundred. Yehoyada was the leader of the household of Aharon; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred, and Tsadoq, a young man mighty of valor, and of his family-strengthener’s house twenty-two captains.
Of the house-builders of Binyamiyn, the male-house-protectors of Shaul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Shaul. Of the house-builders of Ephrayim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their family-strengtheners’ houses. Of the half-tribe of Menashsheh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make Daviyd king. Of the house-builders of Yissaskar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Yisrael ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their male-house-protectors were at their directive.
Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could direct and were not of double inner-guide. Of Naphtaliy one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand. Of the Daniy who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred. Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand. On the other side of the Yarden, of the Reubeniy, and the Gadiy, and of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect inner-guide to Chebron, to make Daviyd king over all Yisrael: and all the rest also of Yisrael were of one inner-guide to make Daviyd king. They were there with Daviyd three days, eating and drinking; for their male-house-protectors had made preparation for them. Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Yissaskar and Zebulun and Naphtaliy, brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and cattle, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Yisrael.
1Ch 13
Daviyd consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. Daviyd said to all the assembly of Yisrael, If it seems functional to you, and if it is of Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One, let us send abroad everywhere to our male-house-protectors who are left in all the land of Yisrael, with whom the priests and Leviy are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us; and let us bring again the ark of our Mightiest-Yoked-One to us. For we didn’t seek it in the days of Shaul. All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
So Daviyd assembled all Yisrael together, from the Shiychor the brook of Mitsrayim even to the entrance of Chamath, to bring the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One from Qiryath Yeariym. Daviyd went up, and all Yisrael, to Baalah, that is, to Qiryath Yeariym, which belonged to Yahudah, to bring up from there the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One Yahuwah that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name. They carried the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abiynadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
Daviyd and all Yisrael played before the Mightiest-Yoked-One with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. When they came to the threshing floor of Kiydon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. The nose-flaring of Yahuwah was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before the Mightiest-Yoked-One. Daviyd was displeased, because Yahuwah had broken forth on Uzza; and he called that place Perets Uzza, to this day.
Daviyd was afraid of the Mightiest-Yoked-One that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One home to me? So Daviyd didn’t move the ark to him into the city of Daviyd, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittiy. The ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months: and Yahuwah bent-the-knee-to-give-to the house of Obed-Edom, and all that he had.
1Ch 14
Chiyram king of Tsor sent messengers to Daviyd, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. Daviyd perceived that Yahuwah had established him king over Yisrael; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Yisrael’s sake. Daviyd took more women at Yerusalem; and Daviyd became the family-strengthener of more house-continuers and daughters. These are the names of the house-builders whom he had in Yerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Sh'lomoh, and Yibchar, and Eliyshua, and Elpelet, and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Yaphia, and Eliyshama, and Beelyada, and Eliyphelet. When the Pelishtiy heard that Daviyd was anointed king over all Yisrael, all the Pelishtiy went up to seek Daviyd: and Daviyd heard of it, and went out against them. Now the Pelishtiy had come and made a raid in the valley of Raphah. Daviyd inquired of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, saying, Shall I go up against the Pelishtiy? Will you deliver them into my hand?
Yahuwah said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.
So they came up to Baal Peratsiym, and Daviyd struck them there; and Daviyd said, The Mightiest-Yoked-One has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Peratsiym. They left their mighty-ones there; and Daviyd gave directive, and they were burned with fire. The Pelishtiy yet again made a raid in the valley. Daviyd inquired again of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; and the Mightiest-Yoked-One said to him, You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees. It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One has gone out before you to strike the army of the Pelishtiy.
Daviyd did as the Mightiest-Yoked-One directed him: and they struck the army of the Pelishtiy from Gibon even to Gezer. The fame of Daviyd went out into all lands; and Yahuwah brought the inward-flowing-before him on all nations.
1Ch 15
Daviyd made him houses in the city of Daviyd; and he prepared a place for the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and pitched for it a tent. Then Daviyd said, No one ought to carry the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One but the Leviy. For Yahuwah has chosen them to carry the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and to minister to him to the horizon.
Daviyd assembled all Yisrael at Yerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahuwah to its place, which he had prepared for it. Daviyd gathered together the house-continuers of Aharon, and the Leviy: of the house-continuers of Qehath, Uriyel the chief, and his male-house-protectors one hundred twenty; of the house-continuers of Merariy, Asayah the chief, and his male-house-protectors two hundred twenty; of the house-continuers of Gershom, Yoel the chief, and his male-house-protectors one hundred thirty; of the house-continuers of Elizaphan, Shemayahu the chief, and his male-house-protectors two hundred; of the house-continuers of Chebron, Eliyel the chief, and his male-house-protectors eighty; of the house-continuers of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his male-house-protectors one hundred twelve.
Daviyd called for Tsadoq and Ebyathar the priests, and for the Leviy, for Uriyel, Asayah, and Yoel, Shemayahu, and Eliyel, and Amminadab, and said to them, You are the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households of the Leviy. Set apart yourselves, both you and your male-house-protectors, that you may bring up the ark of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, to the place that I have prepared for it. For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One made broke out against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.
So the priests and the Leviy set apart themselves to bring up the ark of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. The house-builders of the Leviy bore the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Mosheh directed according to the word of Yahuwah.
Daviyd spoke to the chief of the Leviy to appoint their male-house-protectors the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy. So the Leviy appointed Heyman the house-continuer of Yoel; and of his male-house-protectors, Asaph the house-continuer of Berekyahu; and of the house-continuers of Merariy their male-house-protectors, Eythan the house-continuer of Qushayahu; and with them their male-house-protectors of the second degree, Zekaryahu, Ben, and Yaaziyel, and Shemiyramoth, and Yeiyel, and Unniy, Eliyab, and Benayahu, and Maaseyahu, and Mattithyahu, and Eliphelehu, and Miqneyahu, and Obed-Edom, and Yeiyel, the doorkeepers. So the singers, Heyman, Asaph, and Eythan, were given cymbals of brass to sound aloud; and Zekaryahu, and Aziel, and Shemiyramoth, and Yeiyel, and Unniy, and Eliyab, and Maaseyahu, and Benayahu, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth; and Mattithyahu, and Eliphelehu, and Miqneyahu, and Obed-Edom, and Yeiyel, and Azazyah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead. Kenanyahu, chief of the Leviy, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skillful. Berekyahu and Elqanah were doorkeepers for the ark. Shebanyahu, and Yoshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasay, and Zekaryahu, and Benayahu, and Eliyezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One: and Obed-Edom and Yechiyah were doorkeepers for the ark.
So Daviyd, and the elders of Yisrael, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. It happened, when the Mightiest-Yoked-One helped the Leviy who bore the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah, that they slaughtered seven bulls and seven rams.
Daviyd was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Leviy who bore the ark, and the singers, and Kenanyahu the master of the song with the singers: and Daviyd had on him an ephod of linen. Thus all Yisrael brought up the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps. It happened, as the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah came to the city of Daviyd, that Miykal the daughter of Shaul looked out at the window, and saw king Daviyd dancing and playing; and she despised him in her inner-guide.
1Ch 16
They brought in the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and set it in the midst of the tent that Daviyd had pitched for it: and they offered ascent offerings and peace offerings before the Mightiest-Yoked-One. When Daviyd had made an end of offering the ascent offering and the peace offerings, he bent-the-knee-to-give-to the people in the name of Yahuwah. He dealt to everyone of Yisrael, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
He appointed certain of the Leviy to minister before the ark of Yahuwah, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael: Asaph the chief, and second to him Zekaryahu, Yeiyel, and Shemiyramoth, and Yeiyel, and Mattithyahu, and Eliyab, and Benayahu, and Obed-Edom, and Yeiyel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; and Benayahu and Yachaziyel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Then on that day Daviyd first ordained to give thanks to Yahuwah, by the hand of Asaph and his male-house-protectors. Oh give thanks to Yahuwah. Call on his name. Make his doings known among the peoples. Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works. Hold his separated name in esteem. Let the inner-guide of those who seek Yahuwah rejoice. Seek Yahuwah and his strength. Seek his face always. Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, you seed of Yisrael his servant, you house-builders of Yaaqob, his chosen ones.
He is Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One. His judgments are in all the land. Remember his passing-through-the-pieces to the horizon, the word which he directed to a thousand generations, the passing-through-the-pieces which he made with Abraham, his oath to Yitschaq. He confirmed the same to Yaaqob for a statute, and to Yisrael for a horizonal passing-through-the-pieces, saying, I will give you the land of Kenaan, the lot of your inheritance.
When you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it, they went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!
Sing to Yahuwah, all the land! Display his deliverance from day to day. Declare his esteem among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
For great is Yahuwah, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be inwardly-flowed above all mighty-ones. For all the mighty-ones of the peoples are idols, but Yahuwah made the skies. Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. Ascribe to Yahuwah, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to Yahuwah esteem and strength! Ascribe to Yahuwah the esteem due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Pay homage to Yahuwah in separated array. Tremble before him, all the land.
The world also is established that it can’t be moved. Let the skies be glad, and let the land rejoice! Let them say among the nations, Yahuwah reigns! Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is therein! Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahuwah, for he comes to judge the land.
Oh give thanks to Yahuwah, for he is functional, for his mercy endures to the horizon. Say, Deliver us, Mightiest-Yoked-One of our deliverance! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your separated name, to triumph in your praise. Given-to-with-bended-knee be Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, from horizon to horizon.
All the people said, I-secure-it, and praised Yahuwah.
So he left there, before the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah, Asaph and his male-house-protectors, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required; and Obed-Edom with their male-house-protectors, sixty-eight; Obed-Edom also the house-continuer of Yeduthun and Chosah to be doorkeepers; and Tsadoq the priest, and his male-house-protectors the priests, before the tabernacle of Yahuwah in the high place that was at Gibon, to offer ascent offerings to Yahuwah on the altar of ascent offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahuwah, which he directed to Yisrael; and with them Heyman and Yeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahuwah, because his mercy endures to the horizon; and with them Heyman and Yeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; and the house-continuers of Yeduthun to be at the gate.
All the people departed every man to his house: and Daviyd returned to bend-the-knee-to-give-to his house.
1Ch 17
It happened, when Daviyd lived in his house, that Daviyd said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah is under curtains.
Nathan said to Daviyd, Do all that is in your inner-guide; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One is with you.
It happened the same night, that the word of the Mightiest-Yoked-One came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell Daviyd my servant, This is what Yahuwah says, You shall not build me a house to dwell in; for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Yisrael, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. In all places in which I have walked with all Yisrael, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Yisrael, whom I directed to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
Now therefore, you shall tell my servant Daviyd, This is what Yahuwah of Armies says: I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Yisrael. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the land. I will appoint a place for my people Yisrael, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the house-builders of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first, and from the day that I directed judges to be over my people Yisrael; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahuwah will build you a house. It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your family-strengtheners, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your house-continuers; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne to the horizon. I will be his family-strengthener, and he shall be my house-continuer. I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom to the horizon. His throne shall be established to the horizon. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to Daviyd.
Then Daviyd the king went in, and sat before Yahuwah; and he said, Who am I, Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? This was a small thing in your eyes, Mightiest-Yoked-One; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the estate of a man of high degree, Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One. What can Daviyd say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant. Yahuwah, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own inner-guide, you have worked all this greatness, to make known all these great things. Yahuwah, there is none like you, neither is there any Mightiest-Yoked-One besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. What one nation in the land is like your people Yisrael, whom the Mightiest-Yoked-One went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Mitsrayim? For your people Yisrael you made your own people to the horizon; and you, Yahuwah, became their Mightiest-Yoked-One. Now, Yahuwah, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established to the horizon, and do as you have spoken. Let your name be established and magnified to the horizon, saying, Yahuwah of Armies is the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, even a Mightiest-Yoked-One to Yisrael. The house of Daviyd your servant is established before you. For you, my Mightiest-Yoked-One, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. Now, Yahuwah, you are the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and have promised this functional thing to your servant. Now it has pleased you to bend-the-knee-to-give-to the house of your servant, that it may continue to the horizon before you; for you, Yahuwah, have given-to-with-bended-knee, and it is given-to-with-bended-knee, to the horizon.
1Ch 18
After this it happened, that Daviyd struck the Pelishtiy, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Pelishtiy. He struck Moab; and the Moabiy became servants to Daviyd, and brought tribute.
Daviyd struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Chamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Perath. Daviyd took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and Daviyd hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
When the Syrians of Dammeseq came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, Daviyd struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men. Then Daviyd put garrisons in Syria of Dammeseq; and the Syrians became servants to Daviyd, and brought tribute. Yahuwah gave victory to Daviyd wherever he went.
Daviyd took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Yerusalem. From Tibhath and from Kun, cities of Hadadezer, Daviyd took very much brass, with which Sh'lomoh made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
When Tou king of Chamath heard that Daviyd had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, he sent Hadoram his house-continuer to king Daviyd, to Greet him, and to bend-the-knee-to-give-to him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him; (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou;) and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and brass. King Daviyd also dedicated these to Yahuwah, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the house-builders of Ammon, and from the Pelishtiy, and from Amaleq.
Moreover Abiyshay the house-continuer of Tseruyah struck the Edom in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edom became servants to Daviyd. Yahuwah gave victory to Daviyd wherever he went.
Daviyd reigned over all Yisrael; and he executed justice and straight-pathedness to all his people.
Yoab the house-continuer of Tseruyah was over the army; and Yehoshaphat the house-continuer of Achiylud was recorder; and Tsadoq the house-continuer of Achiytub, and Abiymelek the house-continuer of Ebyathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe; and Benayahu the house-continuer of Yehoyada was over the Kerethiy and the Pelethiy; and the house-continuers of Daviyd were chief about the king.
1Ch 19
It happened after this, that Nachash the king of the house-builders of Ammon died, and his house-continuer reigned in his place. Daviyd said, I will show kindness to Chanun the house-continuer of Nachash, because his family-strengthener showed kindness to me.
So Daviyd sent messengers to comfort him concerning his family-strengthener. Daviyd’s servants came into the land of the house-builders of Ammon to Chanun, to comfort him. But the princes of the house-builders of Ammon said to Chanun, Do you think that Daviyd honors your family-strengthener, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land? So Chanun took Daviyd’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. Then there went certain persons, and told Daviyd how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Yeriycho until your beards have grown, and then return.
When the house-builders of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to Daviyd, Chanun and the house-builders of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Aram Naharayim, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah. So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maakah and his people, who came and encamped before Meydeba. The house-builders of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. When Daviyd heard of it, he sent Yoab, and all the army of the mighty men. The house-builders of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field. Now when Yoab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Yisrael, and put them in array against the Syrians. The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abiyshay his male-house-protector; and they put themselves in array against the house-builders of Ammon. He said, If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the house-builders of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our Mightiest-Yoked-One. May Yahuwah do that which seems functional to him.
So Yoab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. When the house-builders of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abiyshay his male-house-protector, and entered into the city. Then Yoab came to Yerusalem. When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Yisrael, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians who were beyond the River, with Shophak the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head. It was told Daviyd; and he gathered all Yisrael together, and passed over the Yarden, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when Daviyd had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. The Syrians fled before Yisrael; and Daviyd killed of the Syrians the men of seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophak the captain of the army. When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Yisrael, they made peace with Daviyd, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the house-builders of Ammon any more.
1Ch 20
It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, that Yoab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the house-builders of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But Daviyd stayed at Yerusalem. Yoab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it. Daviyd took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on Daviyd’s head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much. He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut them with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. Daviyd did so to all the cities of the house-builders of Ammon. Daviyd and all the people returned to Yerusalem.
It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Pelishtiy: then Sibbekay the Chushathiy killed Sippay, of the house-continuers of the giant; and they were subdued.
There was again war with the Pelishtiy; and Elchanan the house-continuer of Yaiyr killed Lachmiy the male-house-protector of Golyath the Gittiy, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant. When he defied Yisrael, Yehonathan the house-continuer of Shima Daviyd’s male-house-protector killed him. These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of Daviyd, and by the hand of his servants.
1Ch 21
Satan stood up against Yisrael, and moved Daviyd to number Yisrael. Daviyd said to Yoab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Yisrael from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.
Yoab said, May Yahuwah make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my master the king, aren’t they all my master’s servants? Why does my master require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Yisrael?
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Yoab. Therefore Yoab departed, and went throughout all Yisrael, and came to Yerusalem. Yoab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to Daviyd. All those of Yisrael were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Yahudah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword. But he didn’t count Leviy and Binyamiyn among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Yoab. The Mightiest-Yoked-One was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Yisrael. Daviyd said to the Mightiest-Yoked-One, I have missed-the-target greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Yahuwah spoke to Gad, Daviyd’s seer, saying, Go and speak to Daviyd, saying, This is what Yahuwah says, I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.
So Gad came to Daviyd, and said to him, This is what Yahuwah says, Take your choice: either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahuwah, even pestilence in the land, and the messenger of Yahuwah destroying throughout all the borders of Yisrael. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
Daviyd said to Gad, I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahuwah; for his mercies are very great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.
So Yahuwah sent a pestilence on Yisrael; and seventy thousand men of Yisrael fell. The Mightiest-Yoked-One sent a messenger to Yerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahuwah saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying messenger, It is enough; now stay your hand. The messenger of Yahuwah was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Yebusiy. Daviyd lifted up his eyes, and saw the messenger of Yahuwah standing between the land and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Yerusalem.
Then Daviyd and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. Daviyd said to the Mightiest-Yoked-One, Isn’t it I who directed the people to be numbered? It is even I who have missed-the-target and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahuwah my Mightiest-Yoked-One, be against me, and against my family-strengthener’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.
Then the messenger of Yahuwah directed Gad to tell Daviyd that Daviyd should go up, and raise an altar to Yahuwah in the threshing floor of Ornan the Yebusiy. Daviyd went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahuwah. Ornan turned back, and saw the messenger; and his four house-continuers who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. As Daviyd came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw Daviyd, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to Daviyd with his face to the ground. Then Daviyd said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahuwah. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
Ornan said to Daviyd, Take it for yourself, and let my master the king do that which is functional in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for ascent offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.
King Daviyd said to Ornan, No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahuwah, nor offer a ascent offering without cost.
So Daviyd gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. Daviyd built an altar to Yahuwah there, and offered ascent offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahuwah; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of ascent offering. Yahuwah directed the messenger; and he put up his sword again into its sheath. At that time, when Daviyd saw that Yahuwah had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Yebusiy, then he slaughtered there. For the tabernacle of Yahuwah, which Mosheh made in the wilderness, and the altar of ascent offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibon. But Daviyd couldn’t go before it to inquire of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; for he was afraid because of the sword of the messenger of Yahuwah.
1Ch 22
Then Daviyd said, This is the house of Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and this is the altar of ascent offering for Yisrael.
Daviyd gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Yisrael; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. Daviyd prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tsor brought cedar trees in abundance to Daviyd. Daviyd said, Sh'lomoh my house-continuer is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahuwah must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of esteem throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it. So Daviyd prepared abundantly before his death.
Then he called for Sh'lomoh his house-continuer, and directed him to build a house for Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. Daviyd said to Sh'lomoh his house-continuer, As for me, it was in my inner-guide to build a house to the name of Yahuwah my Mightiest-Yoked-One. But the word of Yahuwah came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the land in my sight. Behold, a house-continuer shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Sh'lomoh, and I will give peace and quietness to Yisrael in his days. He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my house-continuer, and I will be his family-strengthener; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Yisrael to the horizon.
Now, my house-continuer, may Yahuwah be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One, as he has spoken concerning you. May Yahuwah give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Yisrael; that so you may keep the law of Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One. Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahuwah gave Mosheh concerning Yisrael. Be strong, and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.
Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahuwah one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them. There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahuwah be with you.
Daviyd also directed all the princes of Yisrael to help Sh'lomoh his house-continuer, saying, Isn’t Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahuwah, and before his people. Now set your inner-guide and your breathing-throat to seek after Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, to bring the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah, and the separated vessels of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahuwah.
1Ch 23
Now Daviyd was old and full of days; and he made Sh'lomoh his house-continuer king over Yisrael. He gathered together all the princes of Yisrael, with the priests and the Leviy. The Leviy were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. Daviyd said, Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahuwah; six thousand were officers and judges; four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahuwah with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.
Daviyd divided them into divisions according to the house-continuers of Leviy: Gershon, Qehath, and Merariy. Of the Gereshunniy: Ladan and Shimiy. The house-continuers of Ladan: Yeiyel the chief, and Zetham, and Yoel, three. The house-continuers of Shimiy: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Charan, three. These were the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households of Ladan. The house-continuers of Shimiy: Yachath, Ziyna, and Yeush, and Beriyah. These four were the house-continuers of Shimiy. Yachath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Yeush and Beriyah didn’t have many house-continuers; therefore they became a family-strengtheners’ house in one reckoning. The house-continuers of Qehath: Amram, Yitshar, Chebron, and Uzziel, four. The house-continuers of Amram: Aharon and Mosheh.
Aharon was separated, that he should set apart the most separated things, he and his house-continuers, to the horizon, to burn incense before Yahuwah, to minister to him, and to bend-the-knee-to-give in his name, to the horizon. But as for Mosheh the man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, his house-continuers were named among the tribe of Leviy.
The house-continuers of Mosheh: Gershom and Eliyezer. The house-continuers of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. The house-continuers of Eliyezer were: Rechabyahu the chief; and Eliyezer had no other house-continuers; but the house-continuers of Rechabyahu were very many. The house-continuers of Yitshar: Shelomith the chief. The house-continuers of Chebron: Yeriyah the chief, Amaryahu the second, Yachaziyel the third, and Yeqamam the fourth. The house-continuers of Uzziel: Miykayehu the chief, and Yishshiyahu the second. The house-continuers of Merariy: Machliy and Mushiy. The house-continuers of Machliy: Eleazar and Qiysh. Eleazar died, and had no house-continuers, but daughters only: and their male-house-protectors the house-continuers of Qiysh took them as women. The house-continuers of Mushiy: Machliy, and Migdal-Migdal-Eder, and Yeriymoth, three.
These were the house-continuers of Leviy after their family-strengtheners’ houses, even the heads of the family-strengtheners’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahuwah, from twenty years old and upward. For Daviyd said, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Yerusalem to the horizon. Also the Leviy will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service. For by the last words of Daviyd the house-continuers of Leviy were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. For their office was to wait on the house-continuers of Aharon for the service of the house of Yahuwah, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all separated things, even the work of the service of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all kinds of measure and size; and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahuwah, and likewise in the evening; and to offer all ascent offerings to Yahuwah, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahuwah; and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the separated place, and the duty of the house-continuers of Aharon their male-house-protectors, for the service of the house of Yahuwah.
1Ch 24
These were the divisions of the house-continuers of Aharon. The house-continuers of Aharon: Nadab and Abiyhu, Eleazar and Iythamar. But Nadab and Abiyhu died before their family-strengthener, and had no house-builders: therefore Eleazar and Iythamar executed the priest’s office. Daviyd with Tsadoq of the house-continuers of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the house-continuers of Iythamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service. There were more chief men found of the house-continuers of Eleazar than of the house-continuers of Iythamar; and they were divided like this: of the house-continuers of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of family-strengtheners’ houses; and of the house-continuers of Iythamar, according to their family-strengtheners’ houses, eight. Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, both of the house-continuers of Eleazar, and of the house-continuers of Iythamar.
Shemayahu the house-continuer of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Leviy, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Tsadoq the priest, and Ahimelech the house-continuer of Ebyathar, and the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households of the priests and of the Leviy; one family-strengtheners’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Iythamar.
Now the first lot came forth to Yehoyariyb, the second to Yedayah, the third to Charim, the fourth to Seoriym, the fifth to Malkiyahu, the sixth to Miyamin, the seventh to Qots, the eighth to Abiyahu, the ninth to Yeshua, the tenth to Shekanyahu, the eleventh to Elyashiyb, the twelfth to Yaqiym, the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Yeshebab, the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, the nineteenth to Pethachyah, the twentieth to Yeqezqel, the twenty-first to Yakiyn, the twenty-second to Gamul, the twenty-third to Delayahu, the twenty-fourth to Maazyah.
This was their ordering in their service, to come into the house of Yahuwah according to the ordinance given to them by Aharon their family-strengthener, as Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, had directed him.
Of the rest of the house-continuers of Leviy: of the house-continuers of Amram, Shubael; of the house-continuers of Shubael, Yechdiyahu. Of Rechabyahu: of the house-continuers of Rechabyahu, Yishshiyahu the chief. Of the Yitshariy, Shelomoth; of the house-continuers of Shelomoth, Yachath. The house-continuers of Chebron: Yeriyah, Amaryahu the second, Yachaziyel the third, Yeqamam the fourth. The house-continuers of Uzziel, Miykayehu; of the house-continuers of Miykayehu, Shamiyr. The male-house-protector of Miykayehu, Yishshiyahu; of the house-continuers of Yishshiyahu, Zekaryahu. The house-continuers of Merariy: Machliy and Mushiy; the house-continuers of Yaaziyahu: Beno. The house-continuers of Merariy: of Yaaziyahu, Beno, and Shoham, and Zakkur, and Ibriy. Of Machliy: Eleazar, who had no house-continuers. Of Qiysh; the house-continuers of Qiysh: Yerachmeel. The house-continuers of Mushiy: Machliy, and Migdal-Migdal-Eder, and Yeriymoth.
These were the house-continuers of the Leviy after their family-strengtheners’ houses. These likewise cast lots even as their male-house-protectors the house-continuers of Aharon in the presence of Daviyd the king, and Tsadoq, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households of the priests and of the Leviy; the family-strengtheners’ households of the chief even as those of his younger male-house-protector.
1Ch 25
Moreover, Daviyd and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the house-continuers of Asaph, and of Heyman, and of Yeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals.
The number of those who did the work according to their service was: of the house-continuers of Asaph: Zakkur, and Yehoseph, and Nethanyahu, and Asharelah, the house-continuers of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king. Of Yeduthun; the house-continuers of Yeduthun: Gedalyahu, and Zeri, and Yeshayahu, Chashabyahu, and Mattithyahu, six, under the hands of their family-strengthener Yeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahuwah. Of Heyman; the house-continuers of Heyman: Buqqiyah, Mattanyahu, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Yeriymoth, Chananyahu, Chananiy, Eliyathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiy Ezer, Yoshbeqashah, Mallothiy, Hothiyr, Machaziyoth. All these were the house-continuers of Heyman the king’s seer in the words of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, to lift up the horn. The Mightiest-Yoked-One gave to Heyman fourteen house-continuers and three daughters.
All these were under the hands of their family-strengthener for song in the house of Yahuwah, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; Asaph, Yeduthun, and Heyman being under the order of the king. The number of them, with their male-house-protectors who were instructed in singing to Yahuwah, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight. They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Yehoseph: the second to Gedalyahu; he and his male-house-protectors and house-continuers were twelve: the third to Zakkur, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the fourth to Yitsriy, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the fifth to Nethanyahu, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the sixth to Buqqiyah, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the seventh to Yesarelah, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the eighth to Yeshayahu, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the ninth to Mattanyahu, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the tenth to Shimiy, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the eleventh to Azarel, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: the twelfth to Chashabyahu, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the thirteenth, Shubael, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the fourteenth, Mattithyahu, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the fifteenth to Yeriymoth, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the sixteenth to Chananyahu, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the seventeenth to Yoshbeqashah, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the eighteenth to Chananiy, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the nineteenth to Mallothiy, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the twentieth to Eliyathah, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the one and twentieth to Hothiyr, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the three and twentieth to Machaziyoth, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve: for the four and twentieth to Romamti-Etser, his house-continuers and his male-house-protectors, twelve.
1Ch 26
For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Qorchiy, Meshelemyahu the house-continuer of Kore, of the house-continuers of Asaph. Meshelemyahu had house-continuers: Zekaryahu the firstborn, Yediyael the second, Zebadyahu the third, Yathniyel the fourth, Eylam the fifth, Yehochanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. Obed-Edom had house-continuers: Shemayahu the firstborn, Yehozabad the second, Yoach the third, and Sakar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, Ammiyel the sixth, Yissaskar the seventh, Peullethay the eighth; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One bent-the-knee-to-give-to him.
Also to Shemayahu his house-continuer were house-continuers born, who ruled over the house of their family-strengthener; for they were mighty men of valor. The house-continuers of Shemayahu: Othniy, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose male-house-protectors were valiant men, Eliyhu, and Semakyahu. All these were of the house-continuers of Obed-Edom: they and their house-continuers and their male-house-protectors, able men in strength for the service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom. Meshelemyahu had house-continuers and male-house-protectors, valiant men, eighteen. Also Chosah, of the house-builders of Merariy, had house-continuers: Shimriy the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his family-strengthener made him chief), Chilqiyahu the second, Tebalyahu the third, Zekaryahu the fourth: all the house-continuers and male-house-protectors of Chosah were thirteen.
Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their male-house-protectors, to minister in the house of Yahuwah. They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their family-strengtheners’ houses, for every gate.
The lot eastward fell to Shelemyahu. Then for Zekaryahu his house-continuer, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. To Obed-Edom southward; and to his house-continuers the storehouse. To Shuppim and Chosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watch against watch.
Eastward were six Leviy, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two. For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the house-continuers of the Qorchiy, and of the house-continuers of Merariy.
Of the Leviy, Achiyah was over the treasures of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. The house-continuers of Ladan, the house-continuers of the Gereshunniy belonging to Ladan, the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Yechiyeliy. The house-continuers of Yechiyeliy: Zetham, and Yoel his male-house-protector, over the treasures of the house of Yahuwah.
Of the Amramiy, of the Yitshariy, of the Chebroniy, of the Ozziyeliy: and Shebuel the house-continuer of Gershom, the house-continuer of Mosheh, was ruler over the treasures. His male-house-protectors: of Eliyezer, Rechabyahu his house-continuer, and Yeshayahu his house-continuer, and Yoram his house-continuer, and Zikriy his house-continuer, and Shelomoth his house-continuer. This Shelomoth and his male-house-protectors were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which Daviyd the king, and the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated. They dedicated some of the spoil won in battles to repair the house of Yahuwah. All that Shemuel the seer, and Shaul the house-continuer of Qiysh, and Abner the house-continuer of Ner, and Yoab the house-continuer of Tseruyah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his male-house-protectors.
Of the Yitshariy, Kenanyahu and his house-continuers were for the outward business over Yisrael, for officers and judges. Of the Chebroniy, Chashabyahu and his male-house-protectors, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Yisrael beyond the Yarden westward, for all the business of Yahuwah, and for the service of the king. Of the Chebroniy was Yeriyah the chief, even of the Chebroniy, according to their generations by family-strengtheners’ households. In the fortieth year of the reign of Daviyd they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Yazer of Gilad. His male-house-protectors, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of family-strengtheners’ households, whom king Daviyd made overseers over the Reubeniy, and the Gadiy, and the half-tribe of the Manashshiy, for every matter pertaining to the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and for the affairs of the king.
1Ch 27
Now the house-builders of Yisrael after their number, the heads of family-strengtheners’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
Over the first division for the first month was Yashobam the house-continuer of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. He was of the house-builders of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.
Over the division of the second month was Doday the Ahohite, and his division; and Miqloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The third captain of the army for the third month was Benayahu, the house-continuer of Yehoyada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand. This is that Benayahu, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his division was Ammiyzabad his house-continuer.
The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the male-house-protector of Yoab, and Zebadyahu his house-continuer after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Yizrach: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The sixth captain for the sixth month was Iyra the house-continuer of Iqqesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The seventh captain for the seventh month was Chelets the Peloniy, of the house-builders of Ephrayim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbekay the Chushathiy, of the Zarchiy: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiyezer the Anathothite, of the Benyemiyniy: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharay the Netophathite, of the Zarchiy: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand.
The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benayahu the Pirathonite, of the house-builders of Ephrayim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Chelday the Netophathite, of Othniyel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
Furthermore over the tribes of Yisrael: of the Reubeniy was Eliyezer the house-continuer of Zikriy the ruler: of the Shimoniy, Shephatyahu the house-continuer of Maakah: of Leviy, Chashabyahu the house-continuer of Qemuel: of Aharon, Tsadoq: of Yahudah, Eliyhu, one of the male-house-protectors of Daviyd: of Yissaskar, Omriy the house-continuer of Michael: of Zebulun, Yishmayahu the house-continuer of Obadyahu: of Naphtaliy, Yeriymoth the house-continuer of Azriyel: of the house-builders of Ephrayim, Hoshea the house-continuer of Azazyah: of the half-tribe of Menashsheh, Yoel the house-continuer of Pedayahu: of the half-tribe of Menashsheh in Gilad, Yiddo the house-continuer of Zekaryahu: of Binyamiyn, Yaasiyel the house-continuer of Abner: of Dan, Azarel the house-continuer of Yerocham. These were the captains of the tribes of Yisrael.
But Daviyd didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahuwah had said he would increase Yisrael like the stars of the sky. Yoab the house-continuer of Tseruyah began to number, but didn’t finish; and there came wrath for this on Yisrael; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king Daviyd.
Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the house-continuer of Adiiyel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Yehonathan the house-continuer of Uzziyahu: Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezriy the house-continuer of Kelub: and over the vineyards was Shimiy the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the winecellars was Zabdiy the Shiphmite: and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Chanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Yoash: and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitray the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the house-continuer of Adlay: and over the camels was Obiyl the Yishmael: and over the donkeys was Yechdiyahu the Meronothiy: and over the flocks was Yaziyz the Hagriy. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king Daviyd’s.
Also Yehonathan, Daviyd’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Yeiyel the house-continuer of Chakmoniy was with the king’s house-continuers: Achiythophel was the king’s counselor: and Chushay the Arkiy was the king’s friend: and after Achiythophel was Yehoyada the house-continuer of Benayahu, and Ebyathar: and the captain of the king’s army was Yoab.
1Ch 28
Daviyd assembled all the princes of Yisrael, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his house-continuers, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Yerusalem. Then Daviyd the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my male-house-protectors, and my people! As for me, it was in my inner-guide to build a house of rest for the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah, and for the footstool of our Mightiest-Yoked-One; and I had prepared for the building. But the Mightiest-Yoked-One said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.
However Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, chose me out of all the house of my family-strengthener to be king over Yisrael to the horizon. For he has chosen Yahudah to be prince; and in the house of Yahudah, the house of my family-strengthener; and among the house-continuers of my family-strengthener he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Yisrael. Of all my house-continuers (for Yahuwah has given me many house-continuers), he has chosen Sh'lomoh my house-continuer to sit on the throne of Yahuwah’s kingdom over Yisrael. He said to me, Sh'lomoh, your house-continuer, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my house-continuer, and I will be his family-strengthener. I will establish his kingdom to the horizon, if he continues to do my directives and my ordinances, as at this day. Now therefore, in the sight of all Yisrael, the assembly of Yahuwah, and in the audience of our Mightiest-Yoked-One, observe and seek out all the directives of Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One; that you may possess this functional land, and leave it for an inheritance to your house-builders after you to the horizon.
You, Sh'lomoh my house-continuer, know the Mightiest-Yoked-One of your family-strengthener, and serve him with a perfect inner-guide and with a willing breathing-throat; for Yahuwah searches all inner-guides, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off to the end. Take heed now; for Yahuwah has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.
Then Daviyd gave to Sh'lomoh his house-continuer the pattern of the porch of the temple, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner rooms of it, and of the place of the atonement seat; and the pattern of all that he had by the wind, for the courts of the house of Yahuwah, and for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things; also for the divisions of the priests and the Leviy, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahuwah, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahuwah; of gold by weight for the gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service; by weight also for the lampstands of gold, and for its lamps, of gold, by weight for every lampstand and for its lamps; and for the lampstands of silver, by weight for every lampstand and for its lamps, according to the use of every lampstand; and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver; and the forks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, the cherubim, that spread out, and covered the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah.
Daviyd said, All this I have been made to understand in writing from the hand of Yahuwah, even all the works of this pattern.
Daviyd said to Sh'lomoh his house-continuer, Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, even my Mightiest-Yoked-One, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahuwah is finished. Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Leviy, for all the service of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. There shall be with you in all kinds of work every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.
1Ch 29
Daviyd the king said to all the assembly, Sh'lomoh my house-continuer, whom alone the Mightiest-Yoked-One has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One. Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my Mightiest-Yoked-One the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of brass, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my Mightiest-Yoked-One, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my Mightiest-Yoked-One, over and above all that I have prepared for the separated house, even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses; of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to Yahuwah?
Then the princes of the family-strengtheners’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Yisrael, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly; and they gave for the service of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents. They with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Yahuwah, under the hand of Yeiyel the Gershonite. Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect inner-guide they offered willingly to Yahuwah: and Daviyd the king also rejoiced with great joy.
Therefore Daviyd bent-the-knee-to-give-to Yahuwah before all the assembly; and Daviyd said, You are given-to-with-bended-knee, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael our family-strengthener, from horizon to horizon. Yours, Yahuwah, is the greatness, the power, the esteem, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the skies and in the land is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahuwah, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all. Now therefore, our Mightiest-Yoked-One, we thank you, and praise your esteemed name.
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our family-strengtheners were. Our days on the land are as a shadow, and there is no remaining. Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your separated name comes from your hand, and is all your own. I know also, my Mightiest-Yoked-One, that you try the inner-guide, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my inner-guide I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you. Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Abraham, of Yitschaq, and of Yisrael, our family-strengtheners, keep this to the horizon in the imagination of the thoughts of the inner-guide of your people, and prepare their inner-guide for you; and give to Sh'lomoh my house-continuer a perfect inner-guide, to keep your directives, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.
Daviyd said to all the assembly, Now bend-the-knee-to-give-to Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One! All the assembly bent-the-knee-to-give-to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahuwah and the king.
They slaughtered slaughters to Yahuwah, and offered ascent offerings to Yahuwah, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and slaughters in abundance for all Yisrael, and ate and drink before Yahuwah on that day with great gladness.
They made Sh'lomoh the house-continuer of Daviyd king the second time, and anointed him to Yahuwah to be prince, and Tsadoq to be priest. Then Sh'lomoh sat on the throne of Yahuwah as king instead of Daviyd his family-strengthener, and prospered; and all Yisrael listened to him. All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the house-continuers of king Daviyd submitted themselves to Sh'lomoh the king. Yahuwah magnified Sh'lomoh exceedingly in the sight of all Yisrael, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Yisrael.
Now Daviyd the house-continuer of Yishay reigned over all Yisrael. The time that he reigned over Yisrael was forty years; he reigned seven years in Chebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Yerusalem. He died in a functional old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Sh'lomoh his house-continuer reigned in his place. Now the acts of Daviyd the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Shemuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer, with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Yisrael, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

2Ch 1
Sh'lomoh the house-continuer of Daviyd was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. Sh'lomoh spoke to all Yisrael, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Yisrael, the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households. So Sh'lomoh, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibon; for there was the Tent of Meeting of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, which Mosheh the servant of Yahuwah had made in the wilderness. But Daviyd had brought the ark of the Mightiest-Yoked-One up from Qiryath Yeariym to the place that Daviyd had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Yerusalem. Moreover the bronze altar, that Betsalel the house-continuer of Uriy, the house-continuer of Chur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahuwah: and Sh'lomoh and the assembly were seeking counsel there. Sh'lomoh went up there to the bronze altar before Yahuwah, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand ascent offerings on it.
In that night the Mightiest-Yoked-One appeared to Sh'lomoh, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
Sh'lomoh said to the Mightiest-Yoked-One, You have shown great mercy to Daviyd my family-strengthener, and have made me king in his place. Now, Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, let your promise to Daviyd my family-strengthener be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the land in multitude. Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
The Mightiest-Yoked-One said to Sh'lomoh, Because this was in your inner-guide, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the breathing-throat of those who hate you, neither yet have asked for many days; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like. So Sh'lomoh came from the high place that was at Gibon, from before the Tent of Meeting, to Yerusalem; and he reigned over Yisrael.
Sh'lomoh gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerusalem. The king made silver and gold to be in Yerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. The horses which Sh'lomoh had were brought out of Mitsrayim and from Kue; the king’s merchants purchased them from Kue. They brought up and brought out of Mitsrayim a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Chittiy, and the kings of Syria, they brought them out by their means.
2Ch 2
Now Sh'lomoh purposed to build a house for the name of Yahuwah, and a house for his kingdom. Sh'lomoh counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
Sh'lomoh sent to Churam the king of Tsor, saying, As you dealt with Daviyd my family-strengthener, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, so deal with me. Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahuwah my Mightiest-Yoked-One, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the ascent offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One. This is an ordinance to the horizon to Yisrael.
The house which I build is great; for our Mightiest-Yoked-One is great above all mighty-ones. But who is able to build him a house, since the sky and the sky of skies can’t contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Yahudah and in Yerusalem, whom Daviyd my family-strengthener provided.
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Then Churam the king of Tsor answered in writing, which he sent to Sh'lomoh, Because Yahuwah loves his people, he has made you king over them. Churam continued, Given-to-with-bended-knee be Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, that made the sky and the land, who has given to Daviyd the king a wise house-continuer, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahuwah, and a house for his kingdom. Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Churam my family-strengthener’s, the house-continuer of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his family-strengthener was a man of Tsor, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my master Daviyd your family-strengthener.
Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my master has spoken of, let him send to his servants: and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Yapho; and you shall carry it up to Yerusalem.
Sh'lomoh numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Yisrael, after the numbering with which Daviyd his family-strengthener had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred. He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
2Ch 3
Then Sh'lomoh began to build the house of Yahuwah at Yerusalem on Mount Moriyah, where Yahuwah appeared to Daviyd his family-strengthener, which he prepared in the place that Daviyd had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Yebusiy. He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. Now these are the foundations which Sh'lomoh laid for the building of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. The porch that was in front, its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
He made the most separated house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
In the most separated house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold. The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub. The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. He set up 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 Yakiyn, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
2Ch 4
Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.
Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast. It stood on twelve 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 on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the ascent offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with brass. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. Churam made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins.
So Churam made an end of doing the work that he did for king Sh'lomoh in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One: the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases; one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. Churam his family-strengthener also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Sh'lomoh for the house of Yahuwah of bright brass. The king cast them in the plain of the Yarden, in the clay ground between Sukkoth and Zeredah. In this way Sh'lomoh made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
Sh'lomoh made all the vessels that were in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them; and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold; and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most-separated place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.
2Ch 5
Thus all the work that Sh'lomoh did for the house of Yahuwah was finished. Sh'lomoh brought in the things that Daviyd his family-strengthener had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Then Sh'lomoh assembled the elders of Yisrael, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the family-strengtheners’ households of the house-builders of Yisrael, to Yerusalem, to bring up the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah out of the city of Daviyd, which is Tsiyon. And all the men of Yisrael assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
All the elders of Yisrael came: and the Leviy took up the ark; and they brought up the ark, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the separated vessels that were in the Tent; these the priests the Leviy brought up. King Sh'lomoh and all the congregation of Yisrael, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, slaughtering sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. The priests brought in the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most-separated place, even under the wings of the cherubim. For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day. There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Mosheh put at Choreb, when Yahuwah made a passing-through-the-pieces with the house-builders of Yisrael, when they came out of Mitsrayim.
It happened, when the priests had come out of the separated place, (for all the priests who were present had set apart themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions; also the Leviy who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heyman, Yeduthun, and their house-continuers and their male-house-protectors, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;) it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahuwah; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahuwah, saying, For he is functional; for his mercy endures to the horizon! that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahuwah, so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the esteem of Yahuwah filled the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
2Ch 6
Then Sh'lomoh said, Yahuwah has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in to the horizon.
The king turned his face, and bent-the-knee-to-give-to all the assembly of Yisrael: and all the assembly of Yisrael stood. He said, Given-to-with-bended-knee be Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, who spoke with his mouth to Daviyd my family-strengthener, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Mitsrayim, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Yisrael to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Yisrael: but I have chosen Yerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen Daviyd to be over my people Yisrael.
Now it was in the inner-guide of Daviyd my family-strengthener to build a house for the name of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. But Yahuwah said to Daviyd my family-strengthener, Whereas it was in your inner-guide to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your inner-guide: nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your house-continuer who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name. Yahuwah has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of Daviyd my family-strengthener, and sit on the throne of Yisrael, as Yahuwah promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. There I have set the ark, in which is the passing-through-the-pieces of Yahuwah, which he made with the house-builders of Yisrael.
He stood before the altar of Yahuwah in the presence of all the assembly of Yisrael, and spread forth his hands (for Sh'lomoh had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Yisrael, and spread forth his hands toward the sky;) and he said, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, there is no Mightiest-Yoked-One like you, in the sky, or on land; you who keep passing-through-the-pieces and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their inner-guide; who have kept with your servant Daviyd my family-strengthener that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
Now therefore, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, keep with your servant Daviyd my family-strengthener that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Yisrael, if only your house-builders take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me. Now therefore, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant Daviyd.
But will the Mightiest-Yoked-One indeed dwell with men on the land? Behold, the sky and the sky of skies can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built! Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahuwah my Mightiest-Yoked-One, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Yisrael, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from the sky; and when you hear, forgive.
If a man misses-the-target against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house; then hear from the sky, and do, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the straight-pathed, to give him according to his straight-pathedness.
If your people Yisrael be struck down before the enemy, because they have missed-the-target against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; then hear from the sky, and forgive the missed-targets of your people Yisrael, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their family-strengtheners.
When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have missed-the-target against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their missed-targets, when you afflict them: then hear in the sky, and forgive the missed-targets of your servants, and of your people Yisrael, when you teach them the functional way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Yisrael, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear from the sky, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose inner-guide you know; (for you, even you only, know the inner-guides of the house-builders of men;) that they may inwardly-flow-before you, to walk in your ways, so long as they have-a-filled-stomach in the land which you gave to our family-strengtheners.
Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Yisrael, when he shall come from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house: then hear from the sky, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the land may know your name, and inwardly-flow-before you, as does your people Yisrael, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; then hear from the sky their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
If they miss-the-target against you (for there is no man who doesn’t miss-the-target), and you are nose-flared with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have missed-the-target, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly; if they return to you with all their inner-guide and with all their breathing-throat in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their family-strengtheners, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: then hear from the sky, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have missed-the-target against you.
Now, my Mightiest-Yoked-One, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
Now therefore arise, Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, be clothed with deliverance, and let your separated-ones rejoice in functionality.
Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to Daviyd your servant.
2Ch 7
Now when Sh'lomoh had made an end of praying, the fire came down from the sky, and consumed the ascent offering and the slaughters; and the esteem of Yahuwah filled the house. The priests could not enter into the house of Yahuwah, because the esteem of Yahuwah filled Yahuwah’s house. All the house-builders of Yisrael looked on, when the fire came down, and the esteem of Yahuwah was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahuwah, saying, For he is functional; for his mercy endures to the horizon.
Then the king and all the people offered slaughter before Yahuwah. King Sh'lomoh offered a slaughter of twenty-two thousand head of cattle, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. The priests stood, according to their positions; the Leviy also with instruments of music of Yahuwah, which Daviyd the king had made to give thanks to Yahuwah, when Daviyd praised by their ministry, saying For his mercy endures to the horizon. The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Yisrael stood.
Moreover Sh'lomoh made the middle of the court separated that was before the house of Yahuwah; for there he offered the ascent offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Sh'lomoh had made was not able to receive the ascent offering, and the meal offering, and the fat. So Sh'lomoh held the feast at that time seven days, and all Yisrael with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Chamath to the brook of Mitsrayim. On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of inner-guide for the functionality that Yahuwah had shown to Daviyd, and to Sh'lomoh, and to Yisrael his people. Thus Sh'lomoh finished the house of Yahuwah, and the king’s house: and he successfully completed all that came into Sh'lomoh’s inner-guide to make in the house of Yahuwah, and in his own house.
Yahuwah appeared to Sh'lomoh by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of slaughter.
If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I direct the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the sky, and will forgive their missed-targets, and will heal their land. Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and made this house separated, that my name may be there to the horizon; and my eyes and my inner-guide shall be there perpetually.
As for you, if you will walk before me as Daviyd your family-strengthener walked, and do according to all that I have directed you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I passed through the pieces with Daviyd your family-strengthener, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Yisrael. But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my directives which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other mighty-ones, and pay homage to them; then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made separated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahuwah done thus to this land, and to this house? They shall answer, Because they abandoned Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, who brought them forth out of the land of Mitsrayim, and took other mighty-ones, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all these dysfunctional things on them.
2Ch 8
It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Sh'lomoh had built the house of Yahuwah, and his own house, that the cities which Churam had given to Sh'lomoh, Sh'lomoh built them, and caused the house-builders of Yisrael to dwell there. Sh'lomoh went to Chamath Tsobah, and prevailed against it. He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Chamath. Also he built Beyth Choron the upper, and Beyth Choron the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Sh'lomoh had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Sh'lomoh desired to build for his pleasure in Yerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. As for all the people who were left of the Chittiy, and the Emoriy, and the Perizziy, and the Chivviy, and the Yebusiy, who were not of Yisrael; of their house-builders who were left after them in the land, whom the house-builders of Yisrael didn’t consume, of them Sh'lomoh conscripted forced labor to this day. But of the house-builders of Yisrael, Sh'lomoh made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. These were the chief officers of king Sh'lomoh, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
Sh'lomoh brought up the daughter of Paroh out of the city of Daviyd to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My woman shall not dwell in the house of Daviyd king of Yisrael, because the places where the ark of Yahuwah has come are separated.
Then Sh'lomoh offered ascent offerings to Yahuwah on the altar of Yahuwah, which he had built before the porch, even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the directive of Mosheh, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. He appointed, according to the ordinance of Daviyd his family-strengthener, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Leviy to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had Daviyd the man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One directed. They didn’t depart from the directive of the king to the priests and Leviy concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. Now all the work of Sh'lomoh was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahuwah, and until it was finished. So the house of Yahuwah was completed. Then went Sh'lomoh to Etsyon Bengeber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. Churam sent him boats and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Sh'lomoh to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Sh'lomoh.
2Ch 9
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Sh'lomoh, she came to prove Sh'lomoh with hard questions at Yerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she had come to Sh'lomoh, she talked with him of all that was in her inner-guide. Sh'lomoh told her all her questions; and there was not anything hidden from Sh'lomoh which he didn’t tell her. When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Sh'lomoh, and the house that he had built, and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahuwah; there was no more wind in her.
She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. However I didn’t believe their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard. Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom. Given-to-with-bended-knee be Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One: because your Mightiest-Yoked-One loved Yisrael, to establish them to the horizon, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and straight-pathedness.
She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Sh'lomoh. The servants also of Churam, and the servants of Sh'lomoh, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahuwah, and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers: and there were none like these seen before in the land of Yahudah.
King Sh'lomoh gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants. Now the weight of gold that came to Sh'lomoh in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Ereb and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Sh'lomoh.
King Sh'lomoh made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one buckler. He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
All king Sh'lomoh’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Sh'lomoh. For the king had ships that went to Tarshiysh with the servants of Churam; once every three years came the boats of Tarshiysh, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
So king Sh'lomoh exceeded all the kings of the land in riches and wisdom. All the kings of the land sought the presence of Sh'lomoh, to hear his wisdom, which the Mightiest-Yoked-One had put in his inner-guide. They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Sh'lomoh had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerusalem. He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Pelishtiy, and to the border of Mitsrayim. The king made silver to be in Yerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. They brought horses for Sh'lomoh out of Mitsrayim, and out of all lands.
Now the rest of the acts of Sh'lomoh, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Achiyah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Yiddo the seer concerning Yarobam the house-continuer of Nebat? Sh'lomoh reigned in Yerusalem over all Yisrael forty years. Sh'lomoh slept with his family-strengtheners, and he was buried in the city of Daviyd his family-strengthener: and Rechabam his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 10
Rechabam went to Shekem; for all Yisrael had come to Shekem to make him king. It happened, when Yarobam the house-continuer of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Mitsrayim, where he had fled from the presence of king Sh'lomoh), that Yarobam returned out of Mitsrayim. They sent and called him; and Yarobam and all Yisrael came, and they spoke to Rechabam, saying, Your family-strengthener made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your family-strengthener, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
He said to them, Come again to me after three days.
The people departed. King Rechabam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Sh'lomoh his family-strengthener while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?
They spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak functional words to them, then they will be your servants all the days.
But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your family-strengthener put on us lighter?
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your family-strengthener made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us; thus you shall say to them, My little finger is thicker than my family-strengthener’s waist. Now whereas my family-strengthener burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My family-strengthener chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
So Yarobam and all the people came to Rechabam the third day, as the king asked, saying, Come to me again the third day. The king answered them roughly; and king Rechabam forsook the counsel of the old men, and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My family-strengthener made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My family-strengthener chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, that Yahuwah might establish his word, which he spoke by Achiyah the Shilonite to Yarobam the house-continuer of Nebat. When all Yisrael saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in Daviyd? Neither have we inheritance in the house-continuer of Yishay! Every man to your tents, Yisrael! Now see to your own house, Daviyd. So all Yisrael departed to their tents.
But as for the house-builders of Yisrael who lived in the cities of Yahudah, Rechabam reigned over them. Then king Rechabam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the house-builders of Yisrael stoned him to death with stones. King Rechabam made speed to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Yerusalem. So Yisrael rebelled against the house of Daviyd to this day.
2Ch 11
When Rechabam had come to Yerusalem, he assembled the house of Yahudah and Binyamiyn, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Yisrael, to bring the kingdom again to Rechabam. But the word of Yahuwah came to Shemayahu the man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, saying, Speak to Rechabam the house-continuer of Sh'lomoh, king of Yahudah, and to all Yisrael in Yahudah and Binyamiyn, saying, This is what Yahuwah says, You shall not go up, nor fight against your male-house-protectors! Return every man to his house; for this thing is of me.
So they listened to the words of Yahuwah, and returned from going against Yarobam.
Rechabam lived in Yerusalem, and built cities for defense in Yahudah. He built Beyth Lechem, and Eytam, and Teqoa, Beyth Tsur, and Soco, and Adullam, and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziyph, and Adorayim, and Lakiysh, and Azeqah, and Tsorah, and Ayalon, and Chebron, which are in Yahudah and in Binyamiyn, fortified cities. He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine. He put shields and spears in every city, and made them exceeding strong. Yahudah and Binyamiyn belonged to him.
The priests and the Leviy who were in all Yisrael took their stand with him out of all their border. For the Leviy left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Yahudah and Yerusalem: for Yarobam and his house-continuers cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to Yahuwah; and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made. After them, out of all the tribes of Yisrael, such as set their inner-guides to seek Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, came to Yerusalem to slaughter to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners. So they strengthened the kingdom of Yahudah, and made Rechabam the house-continuer of Sh'lomoh strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of Daviyd and Sh'lomoh.
Rechabam took for himself a woman, Mahalath the daughter of Yeriymoth the house-continuer of Daviyd, and of Abiyhayil the daughter of Eliyab the house-continuer of Yishay; and she bore him house-continuers: Yeush, and Shemaryahu, and Zaham. After her he took Maakah the daughter of Abshalom; and she bore him Abiyahu, and Attay, and Ziyza, and Shelomith. Rechabam loved Maakah the daughter of Abshalom above all his women and his concubines: (for he took eighteen women, and sixty concubines, and became the family-strengthener of twenty-eight house-continuers and sixty daughters.)
Rechabam appointed Abiyahu the house-continuer of Maakah to be chief, the prince among his male-house-protectors; for he intended to make him king. He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his house-continuers throughout all the lands of Yahudah and Binyamiyn, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought for them many women.
2Ch 12
It happened, when the kingdom of Rechabam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahuwah, and all Yisrael with him. It happened in the fifth year of king Rechabam, that Shiyshaq king of Mitsrayim came up against Yerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahuwah, with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Mitsrayim: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. He took the fortified cities which pertained to Yahudah, and came to Yerusalem. Now Shemayahu the prophet came to Rechabam, and to the princes of Yahudah, who were gathered together to Yerusalem because of Shiyshaq, and said to them, This is what Yahuwah says, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shiyshaq.
Then the princes of Yisrael and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahuwah is straight-pathed.
When Yahuwah saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahuwah came to Shemayahu, saying, They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Yerusalem by the hand of Shiyshaq. Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
So Shiyshaq king of Mitsrayim came up against Yerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahuwah, and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Sh'lomoh had made. King Rechabam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahuwah, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard room. When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahuwah turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Yahudah there were functional things found.
So king Rechabam strengthened himself in Yerusalem, and reigned: for Rechabam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerusalem, the city which Yahuwah had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, to put his name there: and his family-binder’s name was Naamah the Ammoniy. He did that which was dysfunctional, because he didn’t set his inner-guide to seek Yahuwah.
Now the acts of Rechabam, first and last, aren’t they written in the histories of Shemayahu the prophet and of Yiddo the seer, after the way of genealogies? There were wars between Rechabam and Yarobam continually. Rechabam slept with his family-strengtheners, and was buried in the city of Daviyd: and Abiyahu his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 13
In the eighteenth year of king Yarobam began Abiyahu to reign over Yahudah. He reigned three years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Miykayehu the daughter of Uriyel of Gibah.
There was war between Abiyahu and Yarobam. Abiyahu joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Yarobam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor. Abiyahu stood up on Mount Tsemarayim, which is in the hill country of Ephrayim, and said, Hear me, Yarobam and all Yisrael: Ought you not to know that Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, gave the kingdom over Yisrael to Daviyd to the horizon, even to him and to his house-continuers by a passing-through-the-pieces of salt? Yet Yarobam the house-continuer of Nebat, the servant of Sh'lomoh the house-continuer of Daviyd, rose up, and rebelled against his master. There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rechabam the house-continuer of Sh'lomoh, when Rechabam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahuwah in the hand of the house-continuers of Daviyd; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Yarobam made you for mighty-ones. Haven’t you driven out the priests of Yahuwah, the house-continuers of Aharon, and the Leviy, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of other lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no mighty-ones.
But as for us, Yahuwah is our Mightiest-Yoked-One, and we have not forsaken him; and we have priests ministering to Yahuwah, the house-continuers of Aharon, and the Leviy in their work: and they burn to Yahuwah every morning and every evening ascent offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One; but you have forsaken him. Behold, the Mightiest-Yoked-One is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. House-builders of Yisrael, don’t fight against Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of your family-strengtheners; for you shall not prosper.
But Yarobam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Yahudah, and the ambush was behind them. When Yahudah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahuwah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. Then the men of Yahudah gave a shout: and as the men of Yahudah shouted, it happened, that the Mightiest-Yoked-One struck Yarobam and all Yisrael before Abiyahu and Yahudah. The house-builders of Yisrael fled before Yahudah; and the Mightiest-Yoked-One delivered them into their hand. Abiyahu and his people killed them with a great massacre: so there fell down slain of Yisrael five hundred thousand chosen men. Thus the house-builders of Yisrael were brought under at that time, and the house-builders of Yahudah prevailed, because they relied on Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners.
Abiyahu pursued after Yarobam, and took cities from him, Beythel with its towns, and Yeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with its towns. Yarobam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abiyahu. Yahuwah struck him, and he died.
But Abiyahu grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen women, and became the family-strengthener of twenty-two house-continuers, and sixteen daughters. The rest of the acts of Abiyahu, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Yiddo.
2Ch 14
So Abiyahu slept with his family-strengtheners, and they buried him in the city of Daviyd; and Asa his house-continuer reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
Asa did that which was functional and right in the eyes of Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One: for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and directed Yahudah to seek Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, and to do the law and the directive. Also he took away out of all the cities of Yahudah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
He built fortified cities in Yahudah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahuwah had given him rest. For he said to Yahudah, Let us build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Yahudah three hundred thousand; and out of Binyamiyn, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor. There came out against them Zerach the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah. Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
Asa cried to Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One, and said, Yahuwah, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahuwah, you are our Mightiest-Yoked-One. Don’t let man prevail against you.
So Yahuwah struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Yahudah; and the Ethiopians fled. Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahuwah, and before his army; and they carried away very much booty. They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the inward-flowing-before Yahuwah came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them. They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Yerusalem.
2Ch 15
The wind of the Mightiest-Yoked-One came on Azaryahu the house-continuer of Oded: and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Yahudah and Binyamiyn! Yahuwah is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. Now for a long time Yisrael was without the true Mightiest-Yoked-One, and without a teaching priest, and without law. But when in their distress they turned to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, and sought him, he was found by them. In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One troubled them with all adversity. But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.
When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Yahudah and Binyamiyn, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephrayim; and he renewed the altar of Yahuwah, that was before the porch of Yahuwah. He gathered all Yahudah and Binyamiyn, and those who lived with them out of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, and out of Shimon: for they fell to him out of Yisrael in abundance, when they saw that Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One was with him.
So they gathered themselves together at Yerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. They slaughtered to Yahuwah in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep. They entered into the passing-through-the-pieces to seek Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, with all their inner-guide and with all their breathing-throat; and that whoever would not seek Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. They swore to Yahuwah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. All Yahudah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their inner-guide, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahuwah gave them rest all around.
Also Maakah, the family-binder of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Qidron. But the high places were not taken away out of Yisrael: nevertheless the inner-guide of Asa was perfect all his days. He brought into the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One the things that his family-strengthener had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
2Ch 16
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Basha king of Yisrael went up against Yahudah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Yahudah. Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahuwah and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Dammeseq, saying, Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my family-strengthener and your family-strengthener. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Basha king of Yisrael, that he may depart from me.
Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Yisrael; and they struck Iyon, and Dan, and Hebel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtaliy. It happened, when Basha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease. Then Asa the king took all Yahudah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Basha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mitspah. At that time Chananiy the seer came to Asa king of Yahudah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One, therefore is the army of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand. Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahuwah, he delivered them into your hand. For the eyes of Yahuwah run back and forth throughout the whole land, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose inner-guide is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.
Then Asa was nose-flared with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yahudah and Yisrael. In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahuwah, but to the physicians. Asa slept with his family-strengtheners, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of Daviyd, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2Ch 17
Yehoshaphat his house-continuer reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Yisrael. He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Yahudah, and set garrisons in the land of Yahudah, and in the cities of Ephrayim, which Asa his family-strengthener had taken.
Yahuwah was with Yehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his family-strengthener Daviyd, and didn’t seek the Baals, but sought to the Mightiest-Yoked-One of his family-strengthener, and walked in his directives, and not after the doings of Yisrael. Therefore Yahuwah established the kingdom in his hand; and all Yahudah brought to Yehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance. His inner-guide was lifted up in the ways of Yahuwah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Yahudah.
Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Benchayil, and Obadyahu, and Zekaryahu, and Nethanel, and Miykayehu, to teach in the cities of Yahudah; and with them the Leviy, even Shemayahu, and Nethanyahu, and Zebadyahu, and Asahel, and Shemiyramoth, and Yehonathan, and Adoniyah, and Tobijah, and Tob Adoniyahu, the Leviy; and with them Eliyshama and Yehoram, the priests. They taught in Yahudah, having the book of the law of Yahuwah with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Yahudah, and taught among the people.
The inward-flowing-before Yahuwah fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Yahudah, so that they made no war against Yehoshaphat. Some of the Pelishtiy brought Yehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
Yehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Yahudah castles and cities of store. He had many works in the cities of Yahudah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Yerusalem. This was the numbering of them according to their family-strengtheners’ houses: Of Yahudah, the captains of thousands:
Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand; and next to him Yehochanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand; and next to him Amasyah the house-continuer of Zikriy, who willingly offered himself to Yahuwah; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. Of Binyamiyn: Elyada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; and next to him Yehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.
These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Yahudah.
2Ch 18
Now Yehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with Achab. After certain years he went down to Achab to Shomeron. Achab killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilad. Achab king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat king of Yahudah, Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilad?
He answered him, I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war. Yehoshaphat said to the king of Yisrael, Please inquire first for the word of Yahuwah.
Then the king of Yisrael gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth Gilad to battle, or shall I forbear?
They said, Go up; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One will deliver it into the hand of the king.
But Yehoshaphat said, Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahuwah besides, that we may inquire of him?
The king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahuwah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies what is functional concerning me, but always what is dysfunctional. He is Miykayehu the house-continuer of Imla.
Yehoshaphat said, Don’t let the king say so.
Then the king of Yisrael called an officer, and said, Get Miykayehu the house-continuer of Imla quickly.
Now the king of Yisrael and Yehoshaphat the king of Yahudah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Shomeron; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. Tsidqiyahu the house-continuer of Kenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, This is what Yahuwah says, With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.
All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilad, and prosper; for Yahuwah will deliver it into the hand of the king.
The messenger who went to call Miykayehu spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare what is functional to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak what is functional.
Miykayehu said, As Yahuwah lives, what my Mightiest-Yoked-One says, that will I speak.
When he had come to the king, the king said to him, Miykayehu, shall we go to Ramoth Gilad to battle, or shall I forbear?
He said, Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand.
The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahuwah?
He said, I saw all Yisrael scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahuwah said, These have no master. Let them return every man to his house in peace.
The king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat, Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy what is functional concerning me, but what is dysfunctional?
Miykayehu said, Therefore hear the word of Yahuwah: I saw Yahuwah sitting on his throne, and all the army of the sky standing on his right hand and on his left. Yahuwah said, Who shall entice Achab king of Yisrael, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilad? One spoke saying in this way, and another saying in that way. A wind came out, stood before Yahuwah, and said, I will entice him.
Yahuwah said to him, How?
He said, I will go forth, and will be a lying wind in the mouth of all his prophets.
He said, You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go forth, and do so.
Now therefore, behold, Yahuwah has put a lying wind in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahuwah has spoken what is dysfunctional concerning you.
Then Tsidqiyahu the house-continuer of Kenaanah came near, and struck Miykayehu on the cheek, and said, Which way did the wind of Yahuwah go from me to speak to you?
Miykayehu said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner room to hide yourself.
The king of Yisrael said, Take Miykayehu, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Yoash the king’s house-continuer; and say, The king said, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
Miykayehu said, If you return at all in peace, Yahuwah has not spoken by me. He said, Listen, you peoples, all of you! So the king of Yisrael and Yehoshaphat the king of Yahudah went up to Ramoth Gilad. The king of Yisrael said to Yehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes. So the king of Yisrael disguised himself; and they went into the battle. Now the king of Syria had directed the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, except only with the king of Yisrael.
It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Yehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Yisrael! Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Yehoshaphat cried out, and Yahuwah helped him; and the Mightiest-Yoked-One moved them to depart from him. It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Yisrael, that they turned back from pursuing him. A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Yisrael between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded. The battle increased that day. However the king of Yisrael propped himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the evening; and about the time of the going down of the sun, he died.
2Ch 19
Yehoshaphat the king of Yahudah returned to his house in peace to Yerusalem. Yehu the house-continuer of Chananiy the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Yehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahuwah? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahuwah. Nevertheless there are functional things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your inner-guide to seek the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Yehoshaphat lived at Yerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephrayim, and brought them back to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners. He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Yahudah, city by city, and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahuwah; and he is with you in the judgment. Now therefore let the inward-flowing-before Yahuwah be on you. Take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
Moreover in Yerusalem Yehoshaphat appointed Leviy and priests, and of the heads of the family-strengtheners’ households of Yisrael, for the judgment of Yahuwah, and for controversies. They returned to Yerusalem. He directed them, saying, Thus you shall do in the inward-flowing-before Yahuwah, faithfully, and with a perfect inner-guide. Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your male-house-protectors who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and directive, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahuwah, and so wrath come on you and on your male-house-protectors. Do this, and you shall not be guilty. Behold, Amaryahu the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahuwah; and Zebadyahu the house-continuer of Yishmael, the ruler of the house of Yahudah, in all the king’s matters: also the Leviy shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahuwah be with that which is functional.
2Ch 20
It happened after this, that the house-builders of Moab, and the house-builders of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammoniy, came against Yehoshaphat to battle. Then some came who told Yehoshaphat, saying, A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Chatstson Tamar (that is, Eyn Gediy). Yehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahuwah. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Yahudah. Yahudah gathered themselves together, to seek help from Yahuwah. They came out of all the cities of Yahudah to seek Yahuwah.
Yehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Yahudah and Yerusalem, in the house of Yahuwah, before the new court; and he said, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of our family-strengtheners, aren’t you the Mightiest-Yoked-One in the sky? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you. Didn’t you, our Mightiest-Yoked-One, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Yisrael, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend to the horizon? They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying, If what is dysfunctional comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and deliver.
Now, behold, the house-builders of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seiyr, whom you would not let Yisrael invade, when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim, but they turned aside from them, and didn’t destroy them; behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. our Mightiest-Yoked-One, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you.
All Yahudah stood before Yahuwah, with their little ones, their women, and their house-builders. Then the wind of Yahuwah came on Yachaziyel the house-continuer of Zekaryahu, the house-continuer of Benayahu, the house-continuer of Yeiyel, the house-continuer of Mattanyahu, the Leviy, of the house-continuers of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly; and he said, Listen, all Yahudah, and you inhabitants of Yerusalem, and you king Yehoshaphat. This is what Yahuwah says to you, Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but the Mightiest-Yoked-One’s. Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Tsiyts. You shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Yeruel. You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the deliverance of Yahuwah with you, O Yahudah and Yerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahuwah is with you.
Yehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yerusalem fell down before Yahuwah, worshipping Yahuwah. The Leviy, of the house-builders of the Qohathiy and of the house-builders of the Qorchiy, stood up to praise Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, with an exceeding loud voice.
They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Teqoa: and as they went forth, Yehoshaphat stood and said, Listen to me, Yahudah, and you inhabitants of Yerusalem! Believe in Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One, so you shall be established! Believe his prophets, so you shall prosper. When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who should sing to Yahuwah, and give praise in separated array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to Yahuwah; for his mercy endures to the horizon.
When they began to sing and to praise, Yahuwah set ambushers against the house-builders of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seiyr, who had come against Yahudah; and they were struck. For the house-builders of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seiyr, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seiyr, everyone helped to destroy another.
When Yahudah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the land, and there were none who escaped. When Yehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much. On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berakah; for there they bent-the-knee-to-give-to Yahuwah: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Berakah to this day.
Then they returned, every man of Yahudah and Yerusalem, and Yehoshaphat in their forefront, to go again to Yerusalem with joy; for Yahuwah had made them to rejoice over their enemies. They came to Yerusalem with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets to the house of Yahuwah.
The inward-flowing-before the Mightiest-Yoked-One was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahuwah fought against the enemies of Yisrael. So the realm of Yehoshaphat was quiet; for his Mightiest-Yoked-One gave him rest all around.
Yehoshaphat reigned over Yahudah: he was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilchiy. He walked in the way of Asa his family-strengthener, and didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah. However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their inner-guides to the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners.
Now the rest of the acts of Yehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Yehu the house-continuer of Chananiy, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Yisrael.
After this Yehoshaphat king of Yahudah joined himself with Achazyah king of Yisrael. The same did very wickedly: and he joined himself with him to make boats to go to Tarshiysh; and they made the boats in Etsyon Bengeber. Then Eliyezer the house-continuer of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Yehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Achazyah, Yahuwah has destroyed your works. The boats were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshiysh.
2Ch 21
Yehoshaphat slept with his family-strengtheners, and was buried with his family-strengtheners in the city of Daviyd: and Yehoram his house-continuer reigned in his place. He had male-house-protectors, the house-continuers of Yehoshaphat: Azaryahu, and Yeiyel, and Zekaryahu, and Azaryahu, and Michael, and Shephatyahu; all these were the house-continuers of Yehoshaphat king of Yisrael. Their family-strengthener gave them great bent-knee-presents, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Yahudah: but the kingdom gave he to Yehoram, because he was the firstborn. Now when Yehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his family-strengthener, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his male-house-protectors with the sword, and various also of the princes of Yisrael.
Yehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Yerusalem. He walked in the way of the kings of Yisrael, as did the house of Achab; for he had the daughter of Achab as woman: and he did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah. However Yahuwah would not destroy the house of Daviyd, because of the passing-through-the-pieces that he had made with Daviyd, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his house-builders always.
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Yahudah, and made a king over themselves. Then Yehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edom who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots. So Edom revolted from under the hand of Yahudah to this day: then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of his family-strengtheners. Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Yahudah, and made the inhabitants of Yerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Yahudah astray.
A letter came to him from Eliyahu the prophet, saying, This is what Yahuwah says, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Daviyd your family-strengthener, Because you have not walked in the ways of Yehoshaphat your family-strengthener, nor in the ways of Asa king of Yahudah, but have walked in the way of the kings of Yisrael, and have made Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Achab did, and also have slain your male-house-protectors of your family-strengthener’s house, who were better than yourself: behold, Yahuwah will strike with a great plague your people, and your house-builders, and your women, and all your substance; and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
Yahuwah stirred up against Yehoram the wind of the Pelishtiy, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians: and they came up against Yahudah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his house-continuers also, and his women; so that there was never a house-continuer left him, except Yehoachaz, the youngest of his house-continuers.
After all this Yahuwah struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his family-strengtheners.
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of Daviyd, but not in the tombs of the kings.
2Ch 22
The inhabitants of Yerusalem made Achazyah his youngest house-continuer king in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Achazyah the house-continuer of Yehoram king of Yahudah reigned. Forty-two years old was Achazyah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Athalyahu the daughter of Omriy.
He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab; for his family-binder was his counselor to do wickedly. He did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah, as did the house of Achab; for they were his counselors after the death of his family-strengthener, to his destruction. He walked also after their counsel, and went with Yehoram the house-continuer of Achab king of Yisrael to war against Chazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilad: and the Syrians wounded Yoram. He returned to be healed in Yizreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Chazael king of Syria. Azaryahu the house-continuer of Yehoram king of Yahudah went down to see Yehoram the house-continuer of Achab in Yizreel, because he was sick.
Now the destruction of Achazyah was of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, in that he went to Yoram: for when he had come, he went out with Yehoram against Yehu the house-continuer of Nimshiy, whom Yahuwah had anointed to cut off the house of Achab. It happened, when Yehu was executing judgment on the house of Achab, that he found the princes of Yahudah, and the house-continuers of the male-house-protectors of Achazyah, ministering to Achazyah, and killed them. He sought Achazyah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Shomeron), and they brought him to Yehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the house-continuer of Yehoshaphat, who sought Yahuwah with all his inner-guide. The house of Achazyah had no power to hold the kingdom.
Now when Athalyahu the family-binder of Achazyah saw that her house-continuer was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Yahudah. But Yehoshabath, the daughter of the king, took Yoash the house-continuer of Achazyah, and stole him away from among the king’s house-continuers who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Yehoshabath, the daughter of king Yehoram, the woman of Yehoyada the priest (for she was the female-house-protector of Achazyah), hid him from Athalyahu, so that she didn’t kill him. He was with them hidden in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One six years: and Athalyahu reigned over the land.
2Ch 23
In the seventh year Yehoyada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azaryahu the house-continuer of Yerocham, and Yishmael the house-continuer of Yehochanan, and Azaryahu the house-continuer of Obed, and Maaseyahu the house-continuer of Adayah, and Eliyshaphat the house-continuer of Zikriy, into passing-through-the-pieces with him. They went about in Yahudah, and gathered the Leviy out of all the cities of Yahudah, and the heads of family-strengtheners’ households of Yisrael, and they came to Yerusalem.
All the assembly made a passing-through-the-pieces with the king in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. He said to them, Behold, the king’s house-continuer shall reign, as Yahuwah has spoken concerning the house-continuers of Daviyd. This is the thing that you shall do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Leviy, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds. A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people shall be in the courts of Yahuwah’s house. But let no one come into the house of Yahuwah, except the priests, and those who minister of the Leviy. They shall come in, for they are separated, but all the people shall follow Yahuwah’s instructions. The Leviy shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
So the Leviy and all Yahudah did according to all that Yehoyada the priest directed: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Yehoyada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift. Yehoyada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king Daviyd’s, which were in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One. He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king. Then they brought out the king’s house-continuer, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Yehoyada and his house-continuers anointed him; and they said, Long have-a-filled-stomach the king!
When Athalyahu heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahuwah: and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athalyahu tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
Yehoyada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Don’t kill her in the Yahuwah’s house. So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.
Yehoyada made a passing-through-the-pieces between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahuwah’s people. All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Yehoyada appointed the officers of the house of Yahuwah under the hand of the priests the Leviy, whom Daviyd had distributed in the house of Yahuwah, to offer the ascent offerings of Yahuwah, as it is written in the law of Mosheh, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of Daviyd. He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahuwah, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in. He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahuwah: and they came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athalyahu they had slain with the sword.
2Ch 24
Yoash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Tsibyah, of Beersheba. Yoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah all the days of Yehoyada the priest. Yehoyada took for him two women; and he became the family-strengthener of house-continuers and daughters.
It happened after this, that Yoash intended to restore the house of Yahuwah. He gathered together the priests and the Leviy, and said to them, Go out to the cities of Yahudah, and gather money to repair the house of your Mightiest-Yoked-One from all Yisrael from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.
However the Leviy didn’t do it right away. The king called for Yehoyada the chief, and said to him, Why haven’t you required of the Leviy to bring in the tax of Mosheh the servant of Yahuwah, and of the assembly of Yisrael, out of Yahudah and out of Yerusalem, for the tent of the testimony? For the house-continuers of Athalyahu, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One; and they also gave all the dedicated things of the house of Yahuwah to the Baals.
So the king directed, and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the house of Yahuwah. They made a proclamation through Yahudah and Yerusalem, to bring in for Yahuwah the tax that Mosheh the servant of the Mightiest-Yoked-One laid on Yisrael in the wilderness. All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the hand of the Leviy, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. The king and Yehoyada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Yahuwah; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahuwah, and also such as worked iron and brass to repair the house of Yahuwah.
So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One in its state, and strengthened it. When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Yehoyada, of which were made vessels for the house of Yahuwah, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered ascent offerings in the house of Yahuwah continually all the days of Yehoyada.
But Yehoyada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one hundred thirty years old was he when he died. They buried him in the city of Daviyd among the kings, because he had done what is functional in Yisrael, and toward the Mightiest-Yoked-One and his house.
Now after the death of Yehoyada came the princes of Yahudah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them. They forsook the house of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Yahudah and Yerusalem for this their guiltiness. Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahuwah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
The wind of the Mightiest-Yoked-One came on Zekaryahu the house-continuer of Yehoyada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, This is what the Mightiest-Yoked-One says, Why do you fail to listen to the directives of Yahuwah, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahuwah, he has also forsaken you. They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the directive of the king in the court of the house of Yahuwah. Thus Yoash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Yehoyada his family-strengthener had done to him, but killed his house-continuer. When he died, he said, May Yahuwah look at it, and repay it.
It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Yahudah and Yerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Dammeseq. For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahuwah delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners. So they executed judgment on Yoash.
When they were departed from him (for they left him with many wounds), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the house-continuers of Yehoyada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of Daviyd, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the house-continuer of Shimeath the Ammoniy, and Yehozabad the house-continuer of Shimriyth the Moabiy. Now concerning his house-continuers, and the greatness of the burdens laid on him, and the rebuilding of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amatsyahu his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 25
Amatsyahu was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Yehoaddiyn, of Yerusalem. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, but not with a perfect inner-guide.
Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his family-strengthener. But he didn’t put their house-builders to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Mosheh, as Yahuwah directed, saying, The family-strengtheners shall not die for the house-builders, neither shall the house-builders die for the family-strengtheners; but every man shall die for his own missed-target.
Moreover Amatsyahu gathered Yahudah together, and ordered them according to their family-strengtheners’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Yahudah and Binyamiyn: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield. He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Yisrael for one hundred talents of silver.
A man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One came to him, saying, O king, don’t let the army of Yisrael go with you; for Yahuwah is not with Yisrael, with all the house-builders of Ephrayim. But if you will go, take action, be strong for the battle. The Mightiest-Yoked-One will overthrow you before the enemy; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One has power to help, and to overthrow.
Amatsyahu said to the man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Yisrael?
The man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One answered, Yahuwah is able to give you much more than this.
Then Amatsyahu separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephrayim, to go home again: therefore their nose-flaring was greatly kindled against Yahudah, and they returned home in fierce nose-flaring.
Amatsyahu took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the house-builders of Seiyr. The house-builders of Yahudah carry away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
But the men of the army whom Amatsyahu sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Yahudah, from Shomeron even to Beyth Choron, and struck of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
Now it happened, after that Amatsyahu had come from the massacre of the Edomiy, that he brought the mighty-ones of the house-builders of Seiyr, and set them up to be his mighty-ones, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them. Therefore the nose-flaring of Yahuwah was kindled against Amatsyahu, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after the mighty-ones of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?
It happened, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?
Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that the Mightiest-Yoked-One has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
Then Amatsyahu king of Yahudah consulted his advisers, and sent to Yoash, the house-continuer of Yehoachaz the house-continuer of Yehu, king of Yisrael, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
Yoash king of Yisrael sent to Amatsyahu king of Yahudah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my house-continuer as his woman; then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle. You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your inner-guide lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Yahudah with you?
But Amatsyahu would not listen; for it was of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the mighty-ones of Edom. So Yoash king of Yisrael went up; and he and Amatsyahu king of Yahudah looked one another in the face at Beyth Shemesh, which belongs to Yahudah. Yahudah was defeated by Yisrael; and they fled every man to his tent. Yoash king of Yisrael took Amatsyahu king of Yahudah, the house-continuer of Yoash the house-continuer of Yehoachaz, at Beyth Shemesh, and brought him to Yerusalem, and broke down the wall of Yerusalem from the gate of Ephrayim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Shomeron.
Amatsyahu the house-continuer of Yoash king of Yahudah lived after the death of Yoash house-continuer of Yehoachaz king of Yisrael fifteen years. Now the rest of the acts of Amatsyahu, first and last, behold, aren’t they written in the book of the kings of Yahudah and Yisrael?
Now from the time that Amatsyahu turned away from following Yahuwah, they made a conspiracy against him in Yerusalem. He fled to Lakiysh; but they sent after him to Lakiysh, and killed him there. They brought him on horses, and buried him with his family-strengtheners in the city of Yahudah.
2Ch 26
All the people of Yahudah took Uzziyahu, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his family-strengthener Amatsyahu. He built Eloth, and restored it to Yahudah, after that the king slept with his family-strengtheners. Sixteen years old was Uzziyahu when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Yekolyah, of Yerusalem. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, according to all that his family-strengthener Amatsyahu had done. He set himself to seek the Mightiest-Yoked-One in the days of Zekaryahu, who had understanding in the vision of the Mightiest-Yoked-One: and as long as he sought Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One made him to prosper.
He went forth and warred against the Pelishtiy, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Yabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Pelishtiy. The Mightiest-Yoked-One helped him against the Pelishtiy, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meuniy. The Ammoniy gave tribute to Uzziyahu: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Mitsrayim; for he grew exceeding strong. Moreover Uzziyahu built towers in Yerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
Moreover Uzziyahu had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Yeiyel the scribe and Maaseyahu the officer, under the hand of Chananyahu, one of the king’s captains. The whole number of the heads of family-strengtheners’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred. Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. Uzziyahu prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging. He made in Yerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
But when he was strong, his inner-guide was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One; for he went into the temple of Yahuwah to burn incense on the altar of incense. Azaryahu the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahuwah, who were valiant men: and they resisted Uzziyahu the king, and said to him, It isn’t for you, Uzziyahu, to burn incense to Yahuwah, but for the priests the house-continuers of Aharon, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Then Uzziyahu was nose-flared; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was nose-flared with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahuwah, beside the altar of incense. Azaryahu the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because Yahuwah had struck him. Uzziyahu the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahuwah: and Yotham his house-continuer was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land. Now the rest of the acts of Uzziyahu, first and last, Yeshayahu the prophet, the house-continuer of Amots, wrote. So Uzziyahu slept with his family-strengtheners; and they buried him with his family-strengtheners in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper. Yotham his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 27
Yotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Yerushah the daughter of Tsadoq. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, according to all that his family-strengthener Uzziyahu had done: however he didn’t enter into the temple of Yahuwah. The people still did corruptly.
He built the upper gate of the house of Yahuwah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Yahudah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. He fought also with the king of the house-builders of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The house-builders of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. The house-builders of Ammon gave that much to him in the second year also, and in the third. So Yotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Now the rest of the acts of Yotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael and Yahudah. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Yerusalem. Yotham slept with his family-strengtheners, and they buried him in the city of Daviyd: and Achaz his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 28
Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Yerusalem: and he didn’t do that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, like Daviyd his family-strengthener; but he walked in the ways of the kings of Yisrael, and made also molten images for the Baals. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the house-continuer of Hinnom, and burnt his house-builders in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahuwah cast out before the house-builders of Yisrael. He slaughtered and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Therefore Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Dammeseq.
He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Yisrael, who struck him with a great massacre. For Peqach the house-continuer of Remalyahu killed in Yahudah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners. Zikriy, a mighty man of Ephrayim, killed Maaseyahu the king’s house-continuer, and Azriyqam the ruler of the house, and Elqanah who was next to the king. The house-builders of Yisrael carried away captive of their male-house-protectors two hundred thousand, women, house-continuers, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Shomeron.
But a prophet of Yahuwah was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Shomeron, and said to them, Behold, because Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of your family-strengtheners, was nose-flared with Yahudah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to the sky. Now you purpose to keep under the house-builders of Yahudah and Yerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One? Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive from your male-house-protectors; for the fierce wrath of Yahuwah is on you.
Then some of the heads of the house-builders of Ephrayim, Azaryahu the house-continuer of Yahuchanan, Berekyahu the house-continuer of Meshillemoth, and Yechizqiyah the house-continuer of Shallum, and Amasa the house-continuer of Chadlay, stood up against those who came from the war, and said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for you purpose that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahuwah, to add to our missed-target and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Yisrael.
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Yeriycho, the city of palm trees, to their male-house-protectors. Then they returned to Shomeron.
At that time king Achaz sent to the kings of Ashshur to help him. For again the Edomiy had come and struck Yahudah, and carried away captives. The Pelishtiy also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Yahudah, and had taken Beyth Shemesh, and Ayalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, and Timna with its towns, Gimzo also and its towns: and they lived there. For Yahuwah brought Yahudah low because of Achaz king of Yisrael; for he had dealt wantonly in Yahudah, and trespassed severely against Yahuwah. Tilgath Pilneser king of Ashshur came to him, and distressed him, but didn’t strengthen him. For Achaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahuwah, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Ashshur: but it didn’t help him.
In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahuwah, this same king Achaz. For he slaughtered to the mighty-ones of Dammeseq, which struck him; and he said, Because the mighty-ones of the kings of Syria helped them, so I will slaughter to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Yisrael.
Achaz gathered together the vessels of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahuwah; and he made him altars in every corner of Yerusalem. In every city of Yahudah he made high places to burn incense to other mighty-ones, and provoked to nose-flaring Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of his family-strengtheners.
Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yahudah and Yisrael. Achaz slept with his family-strengtheners, and they buried him in the city, even in Yerusalem; for they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Yisrael: and Chizqiyah his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 29
Chizqiyah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerusalem: and his family-binder’s name was Abiyahu, the daughter of Zekaryahu. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, according to all that Daviyd his family-strengthener had done.
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahuwah, and repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Leviy, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, and said to them, Listen to me, you Leviy! Now set apart yourselves, and set apart the house of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of your family-strengtheners, and carry out the filthiness out of the separated place. For our family-strengtheners have trespassed, and done that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahuwah, and turned their backs. Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered ascent offerings in the separated place to the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. Therefore the wrath of Yahuwah was on Yahudah and Yerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. For, behold, our family-strengtheners have fallen by the sword, and our house-continuers and our daughters and our women are in captivity for this. Now it is in my inner-guide to make a passing-through-the-pieces with Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, that his fierce nose-flaring may turn away from us. My house-continuers, don’t be negligent now; for Yahuwah has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.
Then the Leviy arose, Machath, the house-continuer of Amasay, and Yoel the house-continuer of Azaryahu, of the house-continuers of the Qohathiy; and of the house-continuers of Merariy, Qiysh the house-continuer of Abdiy, and Azaryahu the house-continuer of Yehallelel; and of the Gereshunniy, Yoach the house-continuer of Zimmah, and Eden the house-continuer of Yoach; and of the house-continuers of Elizaphan, Shimriy and Yeuel; and of the house-continuers of Asaph, Zekaryahu and Mattanyahu; and of the house-continuers of Heyman, Yechiyel and Shimiy; and of the house-continuers of Yeduthun, Shemayahu and Uzziel.
They gathered their male-house-protectors, and set apart themselves, and went in, according to the directive of the king by the words of Yahuwah, to cleanse the house of Yahuwah.
The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahuwah, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahuwah into the court of the house of Yahuwah. The Leviy took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Qidron. Now they began on the first day of the first month to set apart, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahuwah; and they set apart the house of Yahuwah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Then they went in to Chizqiyah the king within the palace, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahuwah, and the altar of ascent offering, with all its vessels, and the table of show bread, with all its vessels. Moreover all the vessels, which king Achaz in his reign threw away when he trespassed, have we prepared and set apart; and behold, they are before the altar of Yahuwah.
Then Chizqiyah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahuwah. They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a missed-target offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Yahudah. He directed the priests the house-continuers of Aharon to offer them on the altar of Yahuwah. So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood on the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They brought near the male goats for the missed-target offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them: and the priests killed them, and they made a missed-target offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Yisrael; for the king directed that the ascent offering and the missed-target offering should be made for all Yisrael.
He set the Leviy in the house of Yahuwah with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the directive of Daviyd, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the directive was of Yahuwah by his prophets. The Leviy stood with the instruments of Daviyd, and the priests with the trumpets.
Chizqiyah directed them to offer the ascent offering on the altar. When the ascent offering began, the song of Yahuwah began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of Daviyd king of Yisrael. All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the ascent offering was finished. When they had made an end of offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. Moreover Chizqiyah the king and the princes directed the Leviy to sing praises to Yahuwah with the words of Daviyd, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Then Chizqiyah answered, Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahuwah; come near and bring slaughters and thank offerings into the house of Yahuwah. The assembly brought in slaughters and thank offerings; and as many as were of a willing inner-guide brought ascent offerings. The number of the ascent offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a ascent offering to Yahuwah. The consecrated things were six hundred head of cattle and three thousand sheep.
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the ascent offerings: therefore their male-house-protectors the Leviy helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had set apart themselves; for the Leviy were more upright in inner-guide to set apart themselves than the priests. Also the ascent offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every ascent offering.So the service of the house of Yahuwah was set in order. Chizqiyah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which the Mightiest-Yoked-One had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
2Ch 30
Chizqiyah sent to all Yisrael and Yahudah, and wrote letters also to Ephrayim and Menashsheh, that they should come to the house of Yahuwah at Yerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Yerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month. For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not set apart themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Yerusalem. The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly. So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Yisrael, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, at Yerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Yisrael and Yahudah, and according to the directive of the king, saying, You house-builders of Yisrael, turn again to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Abraham, Yitschaq, and Yisrael, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Ashshur. Don’t be like your family-strengtheners, and like your male-house-protectors, who trespassed against Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see. Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your family-strengtheners were; but yield yourselves to Yahuwah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has set apart to the horizon, and serve Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One, that his fierce nose-flaring may turn away from you. For if you turn again to Yahuwah, your male-house-protectors and your house-builders shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them. Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Menashsheh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Yerusalem. Also on Yahudah came the hand of the Mightiest-Yoked-One to give them one inner-guide, to do the directive of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahuwah.
Many people assembled at Yerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. They arose and took away the altars that were in Yerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Qidron. Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Leviy were ashamed, and set apart themselves, and brought ascent offerings into the house of Yahuwah. They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Mosheh the man of the Mightiest-Yoked-One: the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Leviy. For there were many in the assembly who had not set apart themselves: therefore the Leviy were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to set apart them to Yahuwah. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, Yissaskar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Chizqiyah had prayed for them, saying, May the functional Yahuwah pardon everyone who sets his inner-guide to seek the Mightiest-Yoked-One, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of his family-strengtheners, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.
Yahuwah listened to Chizqiyah, and healed the people. The house-builders of Yisrael who were present at Yerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Leviy and the priests praised Yahuwah day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahuwah. Chizqiyah spoke comfortably to all the Leviy who had functional understanding in the service of Yahuwah. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering slaughters of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners.
The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days; and they kept another seven days with gladness. For Chizqiyah king of Yahudah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests set apart themselves. All the assembly of Yahudah, with the priests and the Leviy, and all the assembly who came out of Yisrael, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Yisrael, and who lived in Yahudah, rejoiced. So there was great joy in Yerusalem; for since the time of Sh'lomoh the house-continuer of Daviyd king of Yisrael there was not the like in Yerusalem.
Then the priests the Leviy arose and bent-the-knee-to-give-to the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his separated habitation, even to the sky.
2Ch 31
Now when all this was finished, all Yisrael who were present went out to the cities of Yahudah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Yahudah and Binyamiyn, in Ephrayim also and Menashsheh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the house-builders of Yisrael returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
Chizqiyah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Leviy after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Leviy, for ascent offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahuwah. He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the ascent offerings, for the morning and evening ascent offerings, and the ascent offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahuwah. Moreover he directed the people who lived in Yerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Leviy, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahuwah. As soon as the directive came abroad, the house-builders of Yisrael gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. The house-builders of Yisrael and Yahudah, who lived in the cities of Yahudah, they also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahuwah their Mightiest-Yoked-One, and laid them by heaps. In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. When Chizqiyah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they bent-the-knee-to-give-to Yahuwah, and his people Yisrael.
Then Chizqiyah questioned the priests and the Leviy concerning the heaps. Azaryahu the chief priest, of the house of Tsadoq, answered him and said, Since people began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahuwah, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahuwah has bent-the-knee-to-give-to his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Then Chizqiyah directed them to prepare rooms in the house of Yahuwah; and they prepared them. They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Konanyahu the Leviy was ruler, and Shimiy his male-house-protector was second. Yeiyel, and Azazyah, and Nachath, and Asahel, and Yeriymoth, and Yozabad, and Eliyel, and Yismakyahu, and Machath, and Benayahu, were overseers under the hand of Konanyahu and Shimiy his male-house-protector, by the appointment of Chizqiyah the king, and Azaryahu the ruler of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Kore the house-continuer of Yimnah the Leviy, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, to distribute the offerings of Yahuwah, and the most separated things. Under him were Eden, and Minyamiyn, and Yeshua, and Shemayahu, Amaryahu, and Shekanyahu, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their male-house-protectors by divisions, as well to the great as to the small: besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into the house of Yahuwah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions; and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their family-strengtheners’ houses, and the Leviy from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions; and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their women, and their house-continuers, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they set apart themselves in separateness. Also for the house-continuers of Aharon the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Leviy.
Chizqiyah did this throughout all Yahudah; and he worked what was functional and right and faithful before Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One. In every work that he began in the service of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and in the law, and in the directives, to seek his Mightiest-Yoked-One, he did it with all his inner-guide, and prospered.
2Ch 32
After these things, and this faithfulness, Sancheriyb king of Ashshur came, and entered into Yahudah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. When Chizqiyah saw that Sancheriyb had come, and that he was purposed to fight against Yerusalem, he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him. So many people gathered together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Ashshur come, and find much water? He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in the city of Daviyd, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying, Be strong and courageous, don’t be afraid nor dismayed for the king of Ashshur, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him. With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One to help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on the words of Chizqiyah king of Yahudah.
After this, Sancheriyb king of Ashshur sent his servants to Yerusalem, (now he was before Lakiysh, and all his power with him), to Chizqiyah king of Yahudah, and to all Yahudah who were at Yerusalem, saying, Sancheriyb king of Ashshur said, In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Yerusalem? Doesn’t Chizqiyah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Yahuwah our Mightiest-Yoked-One will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Ashshur? Hasn’t the same Chizqiyah taken away his high places and his altars, and directed Yahudah and Yerusalem, saying, You shall pay homage before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?
Don’t you know what I and my family-strengtheners have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the mighty-ones of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? Who was there among all the mighty-ones of those nations which my family-strengtheners utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your Mightiest-Yoked-One should be able to deliver you out of my hand? Now therefore don’t let Chizqiyah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, neither believe him; for no mighty-ones of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my family-strengtheners. How much less will your Mighty-Yoked-One deliver you out of my hand?
His servants spoke yet more against Yahuwah the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and against his servant Chizqiyah. He also wrote letters insulting Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, and to speak against him, saying, As the mighty-ones of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Chizqiyah not deliver his people out of my hand.
They cried with a loud voice in the Yehudiy’ language to the people of Yerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. They spoke of the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yerusalem, as of the mighty-ones of the peoples of the land, which are the work of men’s hands.
Chizqiyah the king, and Yeshayahu the prophet the house-continuer of Amots, prayed because of this, and cried to the sky. Yahuwah sent a messenger, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Ashshur. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his Mightiest-Yoked-One, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.
So Yahuwah delivered Chizqiyah and the inhabitants of Yerusalem from the hand of Sancheriyb the king of Ashshur, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. Many brought bent-knee-presents to Yahuwah to Yerusalem, and precious things to Chizqiyah king of Yahudah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
In those days Chizqiyah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahuwah; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. But Chizqiyah didn’t render again according to the benefit done to him; for his inner-guide was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Yahudah and Yerusalem. Notwithstanding Chizqiyah humbled himself for the pride of his inner-guide, both he and the inhabitants of Yerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahuwah didn’t come on them in the days of Chizqiyah.
Chizqiyah had abundant riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all kinds of goodly vessels; storehouses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds. Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for the Mightiest-Yoked-One had given him very much substance.
This same Chizqiyah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Giychon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of Daviyd. Chizqiyah prospered in all his works. However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, the Mightiest-Yoked-One left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his inner-guide.
Now the rest of the acts of Chizqiyah, and his functional deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Yeshayahu the prophet the house-continuer of Amots, in the book of the kings of Yahudah and Yisrael. Chizqiyah slept with his family-strengtheners, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the house-continuers of Daviyd: and all Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yerusalem did him honor at his death. Menashsheh his house-continuer reigned in his place.
2Ch 33
Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerusalem. He did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahuwah cast out before the house-builders of Yisrael. For he built again the high places which Chizqiyah his family-strengthener had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. He built altars in the house of Yahuwah, of which Yahuwah said, My name shall be in Yerusalem to the horizon. He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahuwah. He also made his house-builders to pass through the fire in the valley of the house-continuer of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar winds, and with wizards: he worked much dysfunction in the sight of Yahuwah, to provoke him to nose-flaring.
He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, of which the Mightiest-Yoked-One said to Daviyd and to Sh'lomoh his house-continuer, In this house, and in Yerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisrael, will I put my name to the horizon: neither will I any more remove the foot of Yisrael from off the land which I have appointed for your family-strengtheners, if only they will observe to do all that I have directed them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Mosheh. Menashsheh seduced Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yerusalem, so that they did more of what is dysfunctional than the nations whom Yahuwah destroyed before the house-builders of Yisrael did.
Yahuwah spoke to Menashsheh, and to his people; but they gave no heed. Therefore Yahuwah brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Ashshur, who took Menashsheh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. When he was in distress, he begged Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One, and humbled himself greatly before the Mightiest-Yoked-One of his family-strengtheners. He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Yerusalem into his kingdom. Then Menashsheh knew that Yahuwah was the Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of Daviyd, on the west side of Giychon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Yahudah.
He took away the foreign mighty-ones, and the idol out of the house of Yahuwah, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahuwah, and in Yerusalem, and cast them out of the city. He built up the altar of Yahuwah, and offered thereon slaughters of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and directed Yahudah to serve Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. Nevertheless the people slaughtered still in the high places, but only to Yahuwah their Mightiest-Yoked-One.
Now the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, and his prayer to his Mightiest-Yoked-One, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Yisrael. His prayer also, and how the Mightiest-Yoked-One was entreated of him, and all his missed-targets and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. So Menashsheh slept with his family-strengtheners, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his house-continuer reigned in his place.
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Yerusalem. He did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah, as did Menashsheh his family-strengthener; and Amon slaughtered to all the engraved images which Menashsheh his family-strengthener had made, and served them. He didn’t humble himself before Yahuwah, as Menashsheh his family-strengthener had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Yoshiyah his house-continuer king in his place.
2Ch 34
Yoshiyah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerusalem. He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahuwah, and walked in the ways of Daviyd his family-strengthener, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Daviyd his family-strengthener; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Yahudah and Yerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images. They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had slaughtered to them. He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Yahudah and Yerusalem. He did this in the cities of Menashsheh and Ephrayim and Shimon, even to Naphtaliy, around in their ruins. He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Yisrael, and returned to Yerusalem.
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the house-continuer of Atsalyahu, and Maaseyahu the governor of the city, and Yoach the house-continuer of Yoachaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One.
They came to Chilqiyahu the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, which the Leviy, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Menashsheh and Ephrayim, and of all the remnant of Yisrael, and of all Yahudah and Binyamiyn, and of the inhabitants of Yerusalem. They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahuwah; and the workmen who labored in the house of Yahuwah gave it to mend and repair the house; even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Yahudah had destroyed.
The men did the work faithfully: and their overseers were Yachath and Obadyahu, the Leviy, of the house-continuers of Merariy; and Zekaryahu and Meshullam, of the house-continuers of the Qohathiy, to set it forward; and others of the Leviy, all who were skillful with instruments of music. Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all who did the work in every kind of service: and of the Leviy there were scribes, and officers, and gatekeepers.
When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahuwah, Chilqiyahu the priest found the book of the law of Yahuwah given by Mosheh. Chilqiyahu answered Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahuwah. Chilqiyahu delivered the book to Shaphan.
Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they are doing. They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Yahuwah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen. Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Chilqiyahu the priest has delivered me a book. Shaphan read therein before the king.
It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes. The king directed Chilqiyahu, and Achiyqam the house-continuer of Shaphan, and Abdon the house-continuer of Miykayehu, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asayah the king’s servant, saying, Go inquire of Yahuwah for me, and for those who are left in Yisrael and in Yahudah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahuwah that is poured out on us, because our family-strengtheners have not kept the word of Yahuwah, to do according to all that is written in this book.
So Chilqiyahu, and they whom the king had directed, went to Chuldah the prophetess, the woman of Shallum the house-continuer of Tokhath, the house-continuer of Chasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Yerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.
She said to them, This is what Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, This is what Yahuwah says, Behold, I will bring what is dysfunctional on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Yahudah. Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other mighty-ones, that they might provoke me to nose-flaring with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched. But to the king of Yahudah, who sent you to inquire of Yahuwah, thus you shall tell him, This is what Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael, says: As touching the words which you have heard, because your inner-guide was tender, and you humbled yourself before the Mightiest-Yoked-One, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahuwah. Behold, I will gather you to your family-strengtheners, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the dysfunctional things that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants.
They brought back word to the king, and the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Yahudah and Yerusalem. The king went up to the house of Yahuwah, and all the men of Yahudah and the inhabitants of Yerusalem, and the priests, and the Leviy, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the passing-through-the-pieces that was found in the house of Yahuwah. The king stood in his place, and made a passing-through-the-pieces before Yahuwah, to walk after Yahuwah, and to keep his directives, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his inner-guide, and with all his breathing-throat, to perform the words of the passing-through-the-pieces that were written in this book.
He caused all who were found in Yerusalem and Binyamiyn to stand. The inhabitants of Yerusalem did according to the passing-through-the-pieces of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners.
Yoshiyah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the house-builders of Yisrael, and made all who were found in Yisrael to serve, even to serve Yahuwah their Mightiest-Yoked-One. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners.
2Ch 35
Yoshiyah kept a Passover to Yahuwah in Yerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Yahuwah. He said to the Leviy who taught all Yisrael, who were separated to Yahuwah, Put the separated ark in the house which Sh'lomoh the house-continuer of Daviyd king of Yisrael built. There shall no more be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahuwah your Mightiest-Yoked-One, and his people Yisrael.
Prepare yourselves after your family-strengtheners’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of Daviyd king of Yisrael, and according to the writing of Sh'lomoh his house-continuer. Stand in the separated place according to the divisions of the family-strengtheners’ houses of your male-house-protectors the house-builders of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a family-strengtheners’ house of the Leviy. Kill the Passover, and set apart yourselves, and prepare for your male-house-protectors, to do according to the word of Yahuwah by Mosheh.
Yoshiyah gave to the house-builders of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls: these were of the king’s substance.
His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Leviy. Chilqiyahu and Zekaryahu and Yeiyel, the rulers of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle. Konanyahu also, and Shemayahu and Nethanel, his male-house-protectors, and Chashabyahu and Yeiyel and Yozabad, the chiefs of the Leviy, gave to the Leviy for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock, and five hundred head of cattle.
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Leviy by their divisions, according to the king’s directive. They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Leviy flayed them. They removed the ascent offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the family-strengtheners’ houses of the house-builders of the people, to offer to Yahuwah, as it is written in the book of Mosheh. So they did with the cattle. They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the separated offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the house-builders of the people. Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the house-continuers of Aharon were busy with offering the ascent offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Leviy prepared for themselves, and for the priests the house-continuers of Aharon.
The singers, the house-continuers of Asaph, were in their place, according to the directive of Daviyd, and Asaph, and Heyman, and Yeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate: they didn’t need to depart from their service; for their male-house-protectors the Leviy prepared for them.
So all the service of Yahuwah was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer ascent offerings on the altar of Yahuwah, according to the directive of king Yoshiyah. The house-builders of Yisrael who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. There was no Passover like that kept in Yisrael from the days of Shemuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Yisrael keep such a Passover as Yoshiyah kept, and the priests, and the Leviy, and all Yahudah and Yisrael who were present, and the inhabitants of Yerusalem. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yoshiyah was this Passover kept.
After all this, when Yoshiyah had prepared the temple, Neko king of Mitsrayim went up to fight against Karkemiysh by the Perath: and Yoshiyah went out against him. But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Yahudah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war. The Mightiest-Yoked-One has directed me to make haste. Beware that it is the Mightiest-Yoked-One who is with me, that he not destroy you.
Nevertheless Yoshiyah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neko from the mouth of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. The archers shot at king Yoshiyah; and the king said to his servants, Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!
So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Yerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his family-strengtheners. All Yahudah and Yerusalem mourned for Yoshiyah. Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Yoshiyah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Yisrael: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Now the rest of the acts of Yoshiyah, and his functional deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Yahuwah, and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael and Yahudah.
2Ch 36
Then the people of the land took Yehoachaz the house-continuer of Yoshiyah, and made him king in his family-strengthener’s place in Yerusalem.
Yoachaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Yerusalem. The king of Mitsrayim deposed him at Yerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
The king of Mitsrayim made Elyaqiym his male-house-protector king over Yahudah and Yerusalem, and changed his name to Yehoyaqiym. Neko took Yoachaz his male-house-protector, and carried him to Mitsrayim.
Yehoyaqiym was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerusalem: and he did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One. Against him came up Nebukadnetstar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. Nebukadnetstar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahuwah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Now the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqiym, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisrael and Yahudah: and Yehoyakiyn his house-continuer reigned in his place.
Yehoyakiyn was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Yerusalem: and he did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah. At the return of the year king Nebukadnetstar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahuwah, and made Tsidqiyahu his male-house-protector king over Yahudah and Yerusalem.
Tsidqiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Yerusalem: and he did that which was dysfunctional in the sight of Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One; he didn’t humble himself before Yirmeyahu the prophet speaking from the mouth of Yahuwah. He also rebelled against king Nebukadnetstar, who had made him swear by the Mightiest-Yoked-One: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his inner-guide against turning to Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of Yisrael. Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahuwah which he had made separated in Yerusalem.
Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of their family-strengtheners, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahuwah arose against his people, until there was no remedy. Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand. All the vessels of the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahuwah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. They burnt the house of the Mightiest-Yoked-One, and broke down the wall of Yerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.
He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his house-continuers until the reign of the kingdom of Paras: to fulfill the word of Yahuwah by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Now in the first year of Koresh king of Paras, that the word of Yahuwah by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, Yahuwah stirred up the wind of Koresh king of Paras, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Koresh king of Paras said, Yahuwah, the Mightiest-Yoked-One of the sky, has given all the kingdoms of the land to me; and he has directed me to build him a house in Yerusalem, which is in Yahudah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahuwah his Mightiest-Yoked-One be with him, and let him go up.