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<h1>2 Chronicles</h1>
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<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">2 Chronicles 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his
kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a
high degree.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of
thousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of
all Israel, and the heads of the families:</span></li>
<li><span>And he went with all the multitude to the high place of
Gabaon, where was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which
Moses the servant of God made, in the wilderness.</span></li>
<li><span>For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to
the place, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a
tabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the son of Uri the
son of Hur had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord:
and Solomon and all the assembly sought it:</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before
the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a
thousand victims.</span></li>
<li><span>And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask
what thou wilt that I should give thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness
to my father David: and hast made me king in his stead.</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled,
which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me
king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of
the earth.</span></li>
<li><span>Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go
out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people,
which is so great?</span></li>
<li><span>And God said to Solomon: Because this choice hath pleased
thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, and wealth, and glory,
nor the lives of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but
hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to be able to judge my people,
over which I have made thee king,</span></li>
<li><span>Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give
thee riches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings
before thee, nor after thee, shall be like thee.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Solomon came from the high place of Gabaon to
Jerusalem before the tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned over
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he
had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen:
and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king
in Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as
stones, and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in
great multitude.</span></li>
<li><span>And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from
Coa by the king's merchants, who went, and bought at a
price,</span></li>
<li><span>A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of
silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market
was made in all the kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of
Syria.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">2 Chronicles 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Solomon determined to build a house to the name of
the Lord, and a palace for himself.</span></li>
<li><span>And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens,
and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three
thousand six hundred to over- see them.</span></li>
<li><span>He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As thou didst
with David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him a
house, in which he dwelt:</span></li>
<li><span>So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the
Lord my God, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to
perfume with aromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth
of bread, and for the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the
sabbaths, and on the new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our
God for ever, which are commanded for Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our
God is great above all gods.</span></li>
<li><span>Who then can be able to build him a worthy house? if
heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him: who am I
that I should be able to build him a house? but to this end only,
that incense may be burnt before him.</span></li>
<li><span>Send me therefore a skilful man, that knoweth how to work
in gold, and in silver, in brass, and in iron, in purple, in
scarlet and in blue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the
artificers, which I have with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom David
my father provided.</span></li>
<li><span>Send me also cedars, and fir trees, and pine trees from
Libanus: for I know that thy servants are skilful in cutting timber
in Libanus, and my servants shall be with thy servants,</span></li>
<li><span>To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I
desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and
glorious.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will give thy servants the workmen that are to cut
down the trees, for their food twenty thousand cores of wheat, and
as many cores of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, and
twenty thousand measures of oil.</span></li>
<li><span>And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to Solomon, saying:
Because the Lord hath loved his people, therefore he hath made thee
king over them.</span></li>
<li><span>And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of
Israel, who made heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a
wise and knowing son, endued with understanding and prudence, to
build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself.</span></li>
<li><span>I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and
most skilful man,</span></li>
<li><span>The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father
was a Tyrian, who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in
brass, and in iron, and in marble, and in timber, in purple also,
and violet, and silk and scarlet: and who knoweth to grave all sort
of graving, and to devise ingeniously all that there may be need of
in the work with thy artificers, and with the artificers of my lord
David thy father.</span></li>
<li><span>The wheat therefore, and the barley and the oil, and the
wine, which thou, my lord, hast promised, send to thy
servants.</span></li>
<li><span>And we will cut down as many trees out of Libanus, as
thou shalt want, and will convey them in floats by sea to Joppe:
and it will be thy part to bring them thence to
Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of
Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and
they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six
hundred.</span></li>
<li><span>And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on
their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the
mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of
the work of the people.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">2 Chronicles 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in
Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his
father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor
of Ornan the Jebusite.</span></li>
<li><span>And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth
year of his reign.</span></li>
<li><span>Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to
build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty
cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.</span></li>
<li><span>And the porch in the front, which was extended in length
according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he
overlaid it within with pure gold.</span></li>
<li><span>And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and
overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in
them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one
another.</span></li>
<li><span>He paved also the floor of the temple with most precious
marble, of great beauty.</span></li>
<li><span>And the gold of the plates with which he overlaid the
house, and the beams thereof, and the posts, and the walls, and the
doors was of the finest: and he graved cherubims on the
walls.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length
of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and
the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it
with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred
talents.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also nails of gold, and the weight of every nail
was fifty sicles: the upper chambers also he overlaid with
gold.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also in the house of the holy of holies two
cherubims of image work: and he overlaid them with
gold.</span></li>
<li><span>The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits,
so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of
the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to
the wing of the other cherub.</span></li>
<li><span>In like manner the wing of the other cherub, was five
cubits long, and reached to the wall: and his other wing was five
cubits long, and touched the wing of the other cherub.</span></li>
<li><span>So the wings of the two cherubims were spread forth, and
were extended twenty cubits: and they stood upright on their feet,
and their faces were turned toward the house without.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also a veil of violet, purple, scarlet, and silk:
and wrought in it cherubims.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars,
which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were
five cubits.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and
he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred
pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.</span></li>
<li><span>These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one
on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the
right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand,
Boot.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">2 Chronicles 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and
twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.</span></li>
<li><span>1omon made in the house of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round
in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits
compassed it round about.</span></li>
<li><span>And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain
engravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the
sea, as it were with two rows.</span></li>
<li><span>And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon
the twelve oxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other
three toward the west: and other three toward the south, and the
other three that remained toward the east, and the sea stood upon
them: and the hinder parts of the oxen were in- ward under the
sea.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim
of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held
three thousand measures.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also ten lavers: and he see five on the right
hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they
mere to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to
wash in.</span></li>
<li><span>And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the
form which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in
the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the
left.</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple,
five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls
of gold.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall,
and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.</span></li>
<li><span>And he set the sea on the right side over against the
east toward the south.</span></li>
<li><span>And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and
finished all the king's work in the house of God:</span></li>
<li><span>That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the
pommels.</span></li>
<li><span>And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of
network, so that two rows of pomegranates were joined to each
wreath, to cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the
pillars.</span></li>
<li><span>He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the
bases:</span></li>
<li><span>One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;</span></li>
<li><span>And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the
vessels did Hiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the
Lord of the finest brass.</span></li>
<li><span>In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in
a clay ground between Sochot and Saredatha.</span></li>
<li><span>And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the
weight of the brass was not known.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God,
and the golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the leaves of
proposition,</span></li>
<li><span>The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps
to give light before the oracle, according to the
manner.</span></li>
<li><span>And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all
were made of the finest gold.</span></li>
<li><span>The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and
the bowls, and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors
of the inner temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors
of the temple without were of gold. And thus all the work was
finished which So</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">2 Chronicles 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Then Solomon brought in all the things that David his
father had vowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he
put among the treasures of the house of God.</span></li>
<li><span>And after this he gathered together the ancients of
Israel, and all the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the
families, of the children of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark
of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is
Sion.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn
day of the seventh month.</span></li>
<li><span>And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the
Levites took up the ark,</span></li>
<li><span>And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the
tabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of
the sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.</span></li>
<li><span>And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, and all
that were gathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and
oxen without number: so great was the multitude of the
victims.</span></li>
<li><span>And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the
Lord into its place, that is, to the oracle of the temple, into the
holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims:</span></li>
<li><span>So that the cherubims spread their wings over the place,
in which the ark was set, and covered the ark itself and its
staves.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried,
because they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle:
but if a man were a little outward, he could not see them. So the
ark has been there unto this day.</span></li>
<li><span>And there was nothing else in the ark but the two tables
which Moses put there at Horeb when the Lord gave the law to the
children of Israel, at their coming out of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, (for
all the priests that could be found there, mere sanctified: and as
yet at that time the courses and orders of the ministries were not
divided among them,)</span></li>
<li><span>Both the Levites and the singing men, that is, both they
that were under Asaph, and they that were under Heman, and they
that were under Idithun, with their sons, and their brethren,
clothed with fine linen, sounded with cymbals, and psalteries, and
harps, standing on the east side of the altar, and with them a
hundred and twenty priests, sounding with trumpets.</span></li>
<li><span>So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets,
and voice, and cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical
instruments, and lifted up their voice on high : the sound was
heard afar off, so that when they began to praise the Lord, and to
say: Give glory to the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth
for ever: the house of God was filled with a cloud.</span></li>
<li><span>Nor could the priests stand and minister by reason of the
cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of
God.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="6">2 Chronicles 6</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he would dwell
in a cloud.</span></li>
<li><span>But I have built a house to his name, that he might dwell
there for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king turned his face, and blessed all the
multitude of Israel (for all the multitude stood attentive) and he
said:</span></li>
<li><span>Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath
accomplished in deed that which he spoke to David my father,
saying:</span></li>
<li><span>From the day that I brought my people out of the land of
Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house
to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be
the ruler of my people Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I
chose David to set him over my people Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house
to the name of the Lord the God of Israel,</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to
build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such
a will:</span></li>
<li><span>But thou shalt not build the house, but thy son, who
shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my
name.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord therefore hath accomplished his word which he
spoke: and I am risen up in the place of David my father, and sit
upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised : and have built a
house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the covenant of
the Lord, which he made with the children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And he stood before the altar of the I Lord, in presence
of all the multitude of Israel, and stretched forth his
hands.</span></li>
<li><span>For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, and had set it in
the midst of the temple, which was five cubits long, and five
cubits broad, and three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then
kneeling down in the presence of all the multitude of Israel, and
lifting up his hands towards heaven,</span></li>
<li><span>He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee
in heaven nor in earth: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy
servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:</span></li>
<li><span>Who hast performed to thy servant David my father all
that thou hast promised him: and hast accomplished in fact, what
thou hast spoken with thy mouth, as also the present time
proveth.</span></li>
<li><span>Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfil to thy servant
David my father, whatsoever thou hast promised him, saying: There
shall not fail thee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of
Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their ways, and walk
in my law, as thou hast walked before me.</span></li>
<li><span>And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word be established
which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.</span></li>
<li><span>Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the
earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee,
how much less this house, which I have built?</span></li>
<li><span>But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard
the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and
mayest hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and
night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name
should be called upon,</span></li>
<li><span>And that thou wouldst hear the prayer which thy servant
prayeth in it: hearken then to the prayers of thy servant, and of
thy people Israel. Whosoever shall pray in this place, hear thou
from thy dwelling place, that is, from heaven, and shew
mercy.</span></li>
<li><span>If any man sin against his neighbour, and come to swear
against him, and bind himself with a curse before the altar in this
house:</span></li>
<li><span>Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy
servants, so as to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall
upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according
to his justice.</span></li>
<li><span>If thy people Israel be overcome by their enemies, (for
they will sin against thee,) and being converted shall do penance,
and call upon thy name, and pray to thee in this place,</span></li>
<li><span>Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
people Israel, and bring them back into the land, which thou gavest
to them, and their fathers.</span></li>
<li><span>If the heavens be shut up, and there fall no rain by
reason of the sine of the people, and they shall pray to thee in
this place, and confess to thy name, and be converted from their
sins, when thou dost afflict them,</span></li>
<li><span>Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sine
of thy servants and of thy people Israel, and teach them the good
way, in which they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou
hast given to thy people to possess.</span></li>
<li><span>If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence or
blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars: or if their
enemies waste the country, and besiege the cities, whatsoever
scourge or infirmity shall be upon them:</span></li>
<li><span>Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing his own scourge
and infirmity shall pray, and shall spread forth his hands in this
house,</span></li>
<li><span>Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and
forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou
knowest him to have in his heart: (for thou only knowest the hearts
of the children of men:)</span></li>
<li><span>That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the
days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast
given to our fathers.</span></li>
<li><span>If the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel,
come from a far country, for the sake of thy great name, and thy
strong hand, and thy stretched out arm, and adore in this
place:</span></li>
<li><span>Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all
that which that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the
people of the earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy
people Israel, and may know, that thy name is invoked upon this
house, which I have built.</span></li>
<li><span>If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by the
way that thou shalt send them, and adore thee towards the way of
this city, which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built
to thy name:</span></li>
<li><span>Then hear thou from heaven their prayers, and their
supplications, and revenge them.</span></li>
<li><span>And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that
sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to
their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either
afar off, or near at hand,</span></li>
<li><span>And if they be converted in their heart in the land to
which they were led / captive, and do penance, and pray to thee in
the land of their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done
wickedly, we have dealt unjustly:</span></li>
<li><span>And return to thee with all their heart, and with all
their soul, in the land of their captivity, to which they were led
away, and adore thee towards the way of their own land which thou
gavest their fathers, and of the city, which thou hast chosen, and
the house which I have built to thy name:</span></li>
<li><span>Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from thy firm
dwelling place, their prayers, and do judgment, and forgive thy
people, although they have sinned:</span></li>
<li><span>For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be
open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in
this place.</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place,
thou and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put
on salvation, and thy saints rejoice in good things.</span></li>
<li><span>O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="7">2 Chronicles 7</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And when Solomon had made an end of his prayer, Are came
down from heaven, and consumed the holocausts and the victims: and
the majesty of the Lord tilled the house.</span></li>
<li><span>Neither could the priests enter into the temple of the
Lord, because the majesty of the Lord had filled the temple of the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming
down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down
with their faces to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they
adored and praised the Lord: because he is good, because his mercy
endureth for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king and all the people sacrificed victims before
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two
thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God.</span></li>
<li><span>And the priests stood in their offices: and the Levites
with the instruments of music of the Lord, which king David made to
praise the Lord: because his mercy endureth for ever, singing the
hymns of David by their ministry: and the priests sounded with
trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.</span></li>
<li><span>Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before
the temple of the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and
the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he
had made, could not hold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the
fat:</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon kept the solemnity at that time seven days,
and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the
entrance of Emath to the torrent of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And he made on the eighth day a solemn assembly, because
he had kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and had
celebrated the solemnity seven days.</span></li>
<li><span>So on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
sent away the people to their dwellings, joyful and glad for the
good that the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to all
Israel his people.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the
king's house, and all that he had designed in his heart to do, in
the house of the Lord, and in his own house, and he
prospered.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said : I have
heard thy prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a
house of sacrifice.</span></li>
<li><span>If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give
orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people:</span></li>
<li><span>And my people, upon whom my name is called, being
converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and
do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sine and will heal their
land.</span></li>
<li><span>My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the
prayer of him that shall pray in this place.</span></li>
<li><span>For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that
my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain
there perpetually.</span></li>
<li><span>And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy
father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee,
and keep my justices and my judgments :</span></li>
<li><span>I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, as I promised
to David thy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man of thy
stock to be ruler in Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my
commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve
strange gods, and adore them,</span></li>
<li><span>I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I
have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name,
I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword,
and an example among all nations.</span></li>
<li><span>And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass
by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done
thus to this land, and to this house?</span></li>
<li><span>And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the
God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt,
and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped
them: therefore all these evils are come upon them.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="8">2 Chronicles 8</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built
the house of the Lord and his own house:</span></li>
<li><span>He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and
caused the children of Israel to dwell there.</span></li>
<li><span>He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed
it.</span></li>
<li><span>And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other
strong cities in Emath.</span></li>
<li><span>And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the
nether, walled cities with Rates and bars and locks.</span></li>
<li><span>Balaath also and all the strong cities that were
Solomon's, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of
the horsemen. All that Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built
in Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of his
dominion.</span></li>
<li><span>All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the
Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites,
that were not of the stock of Israel:</span></li>
<li><span>Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the
children of Israel had not slain, Solomon made to be the
tributaries, unto this day.</span></li>
<li><span>But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the
king's works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and
rulers of his chariots and horsemen.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were
two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.</span></li>
<li><span>And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of
David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said:
My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for
it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into
it.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the
altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,</span></li>
<li><span>That every day an offering might be made on it according
to the ordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
and on the festival days three times a year, that is to say, in the
feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
feast of tabernacles.</span></li>
<li><span>And he appointed according to the order of David his
father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the
Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the
priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in
their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had
commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>And the priests and Levites departed not from the king's
commandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the
keeping of the treasures.</span></li>
<li><span>Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he
founded the house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished
it.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the
coast of the Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.</span></li>
<li><span>And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants,
and skilful mariners, and they went with Solomon's servants to
Ophir, and they took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold,
and brought it to king Solomon.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="9">2 Chronicles 9</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon,
she came to try him with hard questions at Jerusalem, with great
riches, and camels, which carried spices, and abundance of gold,
and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she proposed
to him all that was in her heart.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon explained to her all that she proposed: and
there was not any thing that he did not make clear unto
her.</span></li>
<li><span>And when she had seen these things, to wit, the wisdom of
Solomon, and the house which he had built,</span></li>
<li><span>And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of
his servants, and the attendance of his officers, and their
apparel, his cupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims
which he offered in the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit
in her, she was so astonished.</span></li>
<li><span>And she add to the king: The word is true which I heard
in my country of thy virtues and wisdom.</span></li>
<li><span>I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my
eyes had seen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom
had been told me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy
virtues.</span></li>
<li><span>Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand
always before thee, and hear thy wisdom.</span></li>
<li><span>Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set
thee on his throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth
Israel, and will preserve them for ever: therefore hath he made
thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.</span></li>
<li><span>And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of
gold, and spices in great abundance, and most precious stones:
there were no such spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to
king Solomon.</span></li>
<li><span>And the servants also of Hiram, with the servants of
Solomon, brought gold from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most
precious stones:</span></li>
<li><span>And the king made of the thyine trees stairs in the house
of the Lord, and in the king's house, and harps and psalteries for
the singing men: never were there seen such trees in the land of
Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she
desired, and that she asked, and many more things than she brought
to him: so she returned, and went to her own country with her
servants.</span></li>
<li><span>And the weight of the gold, that was brought to Solomon
every year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of
gold:</span></li>
<li><span>Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and
the merchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of
Arabia, and the lords of the lands, who I brought gold and silver
to Solomon.</span></li>
<li><span>And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the
sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every
spear:</span></li>
<li><span>And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces
of gold, which went to the covering of every shield: and the king
put them in the armoury, which was compassed with a
wood.</span></li>
<li><span>The king also made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with pure gold.</span></li>
<li><span>And six steps to go up to the throne, and a footstool of
gold, and two arms one on either side, and two lions standing by
the arms:</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover twelve other little lions standing upon the
steps on both sides: there was not such a throne in any
kingdom.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and
the vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the
purest gold. For no account was made of silver in those
days.</span></li>
<li><span>For the king's ships went to Tharsis with the servants of
Hiram, once in three years: and they brought thence gold and
silver, and ivory, and apes, and peacocks.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the
earth for riches and glory.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of
Solomon, that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his
heart.</span></li>
<li><span>And every year they brought him presents, vessels of
silver and of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and
horses, and mules.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and
twelve thousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the
cities of the chariots, and where the king was in
Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And he exercised authority over all the kings from the
river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders
of Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones:
and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the
plains.</span></li>
<li><span>And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of
all countries.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are
written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the boobs of
Ahias the Silonite, and in the vision of Addo the seer, against
Jeroboam the son of Nabat.</span></li>
<li><span>And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
years.</span></li>
<li><span>And he slept d with his fathers: and they buried him in
the city of David: and Roboam his son reigned in his
stead</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="10">2 Chronicles 10</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Israel were
assembled, to make him king.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was in Egypt,
(for he was fled thither from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he
returned.</span></li>
<li><span>And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and
they spoke to Roboam, saying:</span></li>
<li><span>Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do
thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon
us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we
may serve thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: Come to me again after three days.
And when the people were gone,</span></li>
<li><span>He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before
his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give
you to me, that I may answer the people?</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to him: If thou please this people, and
soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for
ever.</span></li>
<li><span>But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, end began to
treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and
were in his train.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what
shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke
which thy father laid upon us?</span></li>
<li><span>But they answered as young men, and brought up with him
in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that
said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus
shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins
of my father.</span></li>
<li><span>My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add more
weight to it: my father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you
with scorpions.</span></li>
<li><span>So Jeroboam, and all the people came to Roboam the third
day, as he commanded them.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king answered roughly, leaving the counsel of the
ancients.</span></li>
<li><span>And he spoke according to the advice of the young men :
My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, which I will make heavier: my
father beat you with scourges, but I will beat you with
scorpions.</span></li>
<li><span>And he condescended not to the people's requests: for it
was the will of God, that his word might be fulfilled which he had
spoken by the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the son of
Nabat.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the people upon the king's speaking roughly, said
thus unto him: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son
of Isai. Return to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David,
feed thy own house. And Israel went away to their
dwellings.</span></li>
<li><span>But Roboam reigned over the children of Israel that dwelt
in the cities of Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tributes,
and the children of Israel stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam
made haste to gee up into his chariot, and fled into
Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And Israel revolted from the house of David unto this
day.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="11">2 Chronicles 11</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called together all the
house of Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand
chosen men and warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back
his kingdom to him.</span></li>
<li><span>And the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God,
saying:</span></li>
<li><span>Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the king of Juda, and
to all Israel, in Juda and Benjamin:</span></li>
<li><span>Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight
against your brethren: let every man return to his own house, for
by my will this thing has been done. And when they heard the word
of the Lord, they returned, and did not go against
Jeroboam,</span></li>
<li><span>And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built walled cities in
Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Thecue,</span></li>
<li><span>And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,</span></li>
<li><span>And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,</span></li>
<li><span>And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,</span></li>
<li><span>Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which are in Juda and
Benjamin, well fenced cities.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he had enclosed them with walls, he put in them
governors and storehouses of provisions, that is, of oil and of
wine.</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover in every city he made an armoury of shields and
spears, and he fortified them with great diligence, and he reigned
over Juda, and Benjamin,</span></li>
<li><span>And the priests and Levites, that were in all Israel,
came to him out of all their seats,</span></li>
<li><span>Leaving their suburbs, and their possessions, and passing
over to Juda, and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had cast
them off, from executing the priestly office to the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And he made to himself priests for the high places, and
for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel, whosoever gave
their heart to seek the Lord the God of Israel, came into Jerusalem
to sacrifice their victims be- fore the Lord the God of their
fathers.</span></li>
<li><span>And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda, and
established Roboam the son of Solomon for three years: for they
walked in the ways of David and of Solomon, only three
years.</span></li>
<li><span>And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of
Jerimoth the son of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the
son of Isai.</span></li>
<li><span>And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somorias, and
Zoom.</span></li>
<li><span>And after her he married Maacha the daughter of Absalom,
who bore him Abia and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.</span></li>
<li><span>And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all
his wives, and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and
threescore concubines: and he beget eight and twenty sons, and
threescore daughters.</span></li>
<li><span>But he put at the head of them Abia the son of Maacha to
be the chief ruler over all his brethren: for he meant to make him
king,</span></li>
<li><span>Because he was wiser and mightier than all his sons, and
in all the countries of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the
walled cities: and he gave them provisions in abundance, and he
sought many wives.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="12">2 Chronicles 12</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and
fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with
him.</span></li>
<li><span>And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king
of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had sinned against
the Lord)</span></li>
<li><span>With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand
horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out
of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and
Ethiopians.</span></li>
<li><span>And he took the strongest cities in Juda, and came to
Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the
princes of Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing
from Sesac, and he said to them : Thus saith the Lord: You have
left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.</span></li>
<li><span>And the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a
consternation, said: The Lord is just.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the word of
the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are humbled, I will
not destroy them, and I will give them a little help, and my wrath
shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.</span></li>
<li><span>But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the
difference between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the
earth.</span></li>
<li><span>So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking
away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king's
house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that
Solomon had made,</span></li>
<li><span>Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered
them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance
of the palace.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the king entered into the house of the Lord, the
shieldbearers came and took them, and brought them back again to
their armoury.</span></li>
<li><span>But yet because they were humbled, the wrath of the Lord
turned away from them, and they were not utterly destroyed: for
even in Juda there were found good works.</span></li>
<li><span>King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and
reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord
chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there:
and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.</span></li>
<li><span>But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the acts of Roboam first and last are written in the
books of Semeias the prophet, and of Addo the seer, and diligently
recorded: and there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all their
days.</span></li>
<li><span>And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
city of David. And Abia his son reigned in his stead.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="13">2 Chronicles 13</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia reigned
over Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's
name was Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war
between Abia and Jeroboam.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Abia had begun battle, and had with him four
hundred thou- sand most valiant and chosen men, Jeroboam put his
army in array against him, eight hundred thousand men, who were
also chosen and most valiant for war.</span></li>
<li><span>And Abia stood upon mount Semeron, which was in Ephraim,
and said: Hear me, O Jeroboam, and all Israel:</span></li>
<li><span>Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David
the kingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a
covenant of salt?</span></li>
<li><span>And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the servant of Solomon the
son of David, rose up: m and rebelled against his lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of
Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for
Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not
resist them.</span></li>
<li><span>And now you say that you are able to withstand the
kingdom of the Lord, which he possesseth by the sons of David, and
you have a great multitude of people, and golden calves, which
Jeroboam hath made you for gods.</span></li>
<li><span>And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons
of Aaron, and the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all
the nations of the earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his
hand with a bullock of the herd, and with seven rams, is made a
priest of those who are no gods.</span></li>
<li><span>But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake not, and the
priests who minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the
Levites are in their order.</span></li>
<li><span>And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning
and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the
law, and the leaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there
is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be
lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord
our God, whom you have forsaken.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests
who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of
Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it
is not good for you.</span></li>
<li><span>While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an
ambushment to come about behind him. And while he stood facing the
enemies, he encompassed Juda. who perceived it not, with his
army.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Juda looked back, they saw the battle coming
upon them both before and behind, and they cried to the Lord: and
the priests began to sound with the trumpets.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the men of Juda shouted: and behold when they
shouted, God terrified Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood against
Abia and Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Israel fled before Juda, and the Lord
delivered them into their hand.</span></li>
<li><span>And Abia and his people slew them with a great slaughter,
and there fell wounded of Israel five hundred thousand valiant
men.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Israel were brought down, at that
time, and the children of Juda were exceedingly strengthened,