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<h1>2 Kings</h1>
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<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">2 Kings 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of
Achab.</span></li>
<li><span>And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper
chamber which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent
messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of
Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness.</span></li>
<li><span>And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias the Thesbite,
saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go
to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron?</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which
thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely
die. And Elias went away.</span></li>
<li><span>And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said
to them: Why are you come back?</span></li>
<li><span>But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go,
and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him:
Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel that
thou sendest to Beelzebub the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt
not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but then
shalt surely die.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met
you, and spoke these words?</span></li>
<li><span>But they said: A hairy man with a girdle of leather about
his loins. And he said: It is Elias the Thesbite.</span></li>
<li><span>And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men
that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting
on the top of a hill, said to him: Man of God, the king hath
commanded that thou come down.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I
be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee,
and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed
him, and the fifty that were with him.</span></li>
<li><span>And again he sent to him another captain of fifty men,
and his fifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God, thus saith
the king: Make haste and come down.</span></li>
<li><span>Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire
come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And fire
came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.</span></li>
<li><span>Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty
that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees,
before Elias, and besought him and said: Man of God, despise not my
life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two
first captains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them:
but now I beseech thee to spare my life.</span></li>
<li><span>And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down
with him, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to
the king,</span></li>
<li><span>And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast
sent messengers to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron, as though
there were not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the
word; therefore from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt
not come down, but thou shalt surely die.</span></li>
<li><span>So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elias
spoke, and Joram his brother reigned in his stead, in the second
year of Joram the son of Josaphat king of Juda: because he had no
son.</span></li>
<li><span>But the rest of the acts of Ochozias which he did, are
they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings
of Israel?</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">2 Kings 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias
into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from
Galgal.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the
Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the
Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And
when they were come down to Bethel,</span></li>
<li><span>The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth
to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that this day the Lord
will take away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know
it: hold your peace.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here because the Lord
hath sent me to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come to
Jericho,</span></li>
<li><span>The sons of the prophets that were at Jericho, came to
Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that this day the Lord
will take away thy master from thee? And he said: I also know it:
hold your peace.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath
sent me as far as the Jordan. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee; and they two went on
together,</span></li>
<li><span>And fifty men of the sons of the prophets followed them,
and stood in sight at a distance: but they two stood by the
Jordan.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elias took his mantle and folded it together, and
struck the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and
they both passed over on dry ground.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask
what thou wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from
thee. And Eliseus said: I beseech thee that in me may be thy double
spirit.</span></li>
<li><span>And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing:
nevertheless if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt
have what thou hast asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not
have it.</span></li>
<li><span>And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold
a fiery chariot, and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and
Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the
chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more:
and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two
pieces.</span></li>
<li><span>And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him:
and going back, he stood upon the bank of the Jordan,</span></li>
<li><span>And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that
had fallen from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where
is now the God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were
divided, hither and thither, and Eliseus passed over.</span></li>
<li><span>And the sons of the prophets at Jericho, who were over
against him, seeing it said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon
Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to
the ground,</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants
fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest perhaps
the spirit of the Lord hath taken him up and cast him upon some
mountain or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.</span></li>
<li><span>But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send.
And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days but found him
not.</span></li>
<li><span>And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and
he said to them: Did I not say to you: Do not send?</span></li>
<li><span>And the men of the city said to Eliseus: Behold the
situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but
the waters are very bad, and the ground barren.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it.
And when they had brought it,</span></li>
<li><span>He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the
salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these
waters, and there shall be no more in them death or
barrenness.</span></li>
<li><span>And the waters were healed unto this day, according to
the word of Eliseus, which he spoke.</span></li>
<li><span>And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going
up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him,
saying: Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.</span></li>
<li><span>And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the
name of the Lord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest,
and tore of them two and forty boys.</span></li>
<li><span>And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence
he returned to Samaria.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">2 Kings 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Joram the son of Achab reigned over Israel in Samaria
in the eighteenth year of m Josaphat king of Juda. And he reigned
twelve years.</span></li>
<li><span>And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father
and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his
father had made.</span></li>
<li><span>Nevertheless he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from
them.</span></li>
<li><span>Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid
to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred
thousand rams with their fleeces.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had
made with the king of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and
mustered all Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And he sent to Josaphat king of Juda, saying: The king of
Moab is revolted from me, come with me against him to battle. And
he answered: I will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people,
thy people: and my horses, thy horses.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered:
By the desert of Edom.</span></li>
<li><span>So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king
of Edom went, and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey,
and there was no water for the army, and for the beasts, that
followed them.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord
hath gathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands
of Moab!</span></li>
<li><span>And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the
Lord, that we may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants
of the king of Israel answered: Here is Eliseus the son of Saphat,
who poured water on the hands of Elias.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And
the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, and the king of Edom
went down to him.</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do
with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And
the king of Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together
these three kings, to deliver them into the hands of
Moab?</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in
whose sight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat
king of Juda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel
played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he
said:</span></li>
<li><span>Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent
full of ditches.</span></li>
<li><span>For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor
rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you
shall drink, you and your families, and your beasts.</span></li>
<li><span>And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord:
moreover he will deliver also Moab into your hands.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice
city, and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all
the springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with
stones.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass in the morning, when the sacrifices
used to be offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and
the country was filled with water.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up
to fight against them, gathered together all that were girded with
a belt upon them, and stood in the borders.</span></li>
<li><span>And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now
up, and shining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over
against them red, like blood,</span></li>
<li><span>And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings
have fought among themselves, and they have killed one another: go
now, Moab, to the spoils.</span></li>
<li><span>And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising
up defeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors,
went and smote Moab.</span></li>
<li><span>And they destroyed the cities: and they filled every
goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all
the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit,
so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the
slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the
enemies had prevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew
the sword, to break in upon the king of Edom: but they could
not.</span></li>
<li><span>Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in
his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and
there was great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed
from him, and returned into their own country.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">2 Kings 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to
Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest
that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor
is come to take away my two sons to serve him.</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for
thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy
handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint
me.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours
empty vessels not a few.</span></li>
<li><span>And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and
thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when
they are full take them away.</span></li>
<li><span>So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon
her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured
in.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the vessels were full, she said to her son:
Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil
stood.</span></li>
<li><span>And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go,
sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of
the rest.</span></li>
<li><span>And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now
there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread; and
as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat
bread.</span></li>
<li><span>And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a
holy man of God, who often passeth by us.</span></li>
<li><span>Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and put a
little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a
candlestick, that when he cometh to us, he may abide
there.</span></li>
<li><span>Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to
the chamber, and rested there.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to Giezi his servant Call this Sunamitess.
And when he had called her, and she stood before him,</span></li>
<li><span>He said to his servant: Say to her Behold thou hast
diligently served us in all things, what wilt thou have me to de
for thee? hast thou any business, and wilt thou that I speak to the
king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in
the midst of my own people.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said : What will she then that I do for her? And
Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is
old.</span></li>
<li><span>Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and
stood before the door.</span></li>
<li><span>He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life
accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do
not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy
handmaid.</span></li>
<li><span>And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the
time, and at the same hour, that Eliseus had said.</span></li>
<li><span>And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went
out to his father to the reapers,</span></li>
<li><span>He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth.
But he said to his servant: Take him, and carry him to his
mother.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother,
she set him on her knees until noon, and then he died.</span></li>
<li><span>And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of
God, and shut the door: and going out,</span></li>
<li><span>She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech
thee, one of thy servants, and an ass that I may run to the man of
God, and come again.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is
neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.</span></li>
<li><span>And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive,
and make haste, make no stay in going. And do that which I bid
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>So she went forward, and came to the man of God to mount
Carmel: and when the mall of God saw her coming towards, he said to
Giezi his servant : Behold that Sunamitess.</span></li>
<li><span>Go therefore to meet her, and say to her: Is all well
with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? and she
answered: Well.</span></li>
<li><span>And when she came to the man of God to the mount, she
caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man
of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord
hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.</span></li>
<li><span>And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I
not say to thee: Do not deceive me?</span></li>
<li><span>Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my
staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not:
and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon
the face of the child.</span></li>
<li><span>But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and
followed her.</span></li>
<li><span>But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon
the face of the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he
returned to meet him, and told him, saying: The child is not
risen.</span></li>
<li><span>Eliseus therefore went into the house, and behold the
child lay dead on his bed.</span></li>
<li><span>And going in he shut the door upon him, and upon the
child, and prayed to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And he went up, and lay upon the child: and he put his
mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands
upon his hands: and he bowed himself upon him, and the child's
flesh grew warm.</span></li>
<li><span>Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and
fro: and he went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven
times, and opened his eyes.</span></li>
<li><span>And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this
Sunamitess. And she being called, went in to him: and he said: Take
up thy son.</span></li>
<li><span>She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the
ground: and took up her son, and went out.</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in
the land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him. And he
said to one of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage
for the sons of the prophets.</span></li>
<li><span>And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and
he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds
of the field, and filled his mantle, and coming back he shred them
into the pot of pottage, for he knew not what it was.</span></li>
<li><span>And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and
when they had tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death
is in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat
thereof.</span></li>
<li><span>But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought
it, he cast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people,
that they may eat. And there was now no bitterness in the
pot.</span></li>
<li><span>And a certain man came from Baalsalisa bringing to the
man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty leaves of barley, and
new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they
may eat.</span></li>
<li><span>And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I
should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the
people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat,
and there shall be left.</span></li>
<li><span>So he fief it before them: and they ate, and there was
left according to the word of the Lord.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">2 Kings 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Naaman, general of the army of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave
deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man and rich, but a
leper.</span></li>
<li><span>Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she
waited upon Naaman's wife.</span></li>
<li><span>And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been
with the prophet, that is in Samaria: he would certainly have
healed him of the leprosy which he hath.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying:
Thus and thus said tile girl from the land of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Syria sad to him: Go, and I will send a
letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him
ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and tell
changes of raiment,</span></li>
<li><span>And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these
words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent
to thee Naaman my servant, that thou mayest heal him of his
leprosy.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent
his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life,
that this man hath sent to me, to heal a man of his leprosy? mark,
and see how he seeketh occasions against me.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Eliseus the man of God had heard this, to wit,
that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him,
saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and
let him know that there is a prophet in Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>So Naaman came with Iris horses and chariots, and stood
at the door of the house of Eliseus:</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash
seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and
thee shalt be clean.</span></li>
<li><span>Naaman was angry and went away, saying: I thought he
would hare come out to me, and standing would hare invoked the name
of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the
leprosy, and healed me.</span></li>
<li><span>Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus,
better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and
be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with
indignation,</span></li>
<li><span>His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the
prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have
done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and
thou shalt he clean?</span></li>
<li><span>Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times:
according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was
restored, like the flesh of a little child, and he was made
clean.</span></li>
<li><span>And returning to the man of God with all his train, be
came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no
other God in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee
therefore take a blessing of thy servant.</span></li>
<li><span>But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand,
I will receive none. And when he pressed him, he still
refused.</span></li>
<li><span>And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant
to me thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth:
for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to
other gods, but to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the
Lord for thy servant, when my master goeth into the temple of
Remmon, to worship: and he leaneth upon my hand, if I bow down in
the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that
the Lord pardon me thy servant for this thing.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him
in the springtime of the earth.</span></li>
<li><span>But Giezi the servant of the man of God said: My master
hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which
he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some
thing of him:</span></li>
<li><span>And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him
running after him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and
said: Is all well?</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee,
saying: Just now there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young
men of the sons of the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and
two changes of garments.</span></li>
<li><span>And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents.
And he forced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and
two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants,
and they carried them before him.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took
them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the
men away, and they departed.</span></li>
<li><span>But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus
said: Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no
whither.</span></li>
<li><span>But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man
turned back from his chariot to meet thee? So now thou hast
received money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards, and
vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
maidservants.</span></li>
<li><span>But the leprosy of Naaman shall also stick to thee, and
to thy seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper as white as
snow.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="6">2 Kings 6</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold the
place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.</span></li>
<li><span>Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood
every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to
dwell in. And he said: Go.</span></li>
<li><span>And one of them said: But come thou also with thy
servants. He answered: I will come.</span></li>
<li><span>So he went with them. And when they were come to the
Jordan they cut down wood.</span></li>
<li><span>And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the
head of the axe fell into the water: and he cried out, and said:
Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.</span></li>
<li><span>And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed
him the place. Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in
thither: and the iron swam.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand and took
it.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took
counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place let us
lay ambushes.</span></li>
<li><span>And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying:
Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are
there in ambush.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself
there not once nor twice.</span></li>
<li><span>And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled for this
thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not
tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of
Israel?</span></li>
<li><span>And one of his servants said: No one, my lord O king: but
Eliseus the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel
all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may
send, and take him. And they told him, saying: Behold he is in
Dothan.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore he sent thither horses and chariots, and the
strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the
city.</span></li>
<li><span>And the servant of the man of God rising early, went out,
and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and
he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we
do?</span></li>
<li><span>But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us
than with them.</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that
he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he
saw: and behold the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of
fire round about Eliseus.</span></li>
<li><span>And the enemies came down to him, but Eliseus prayed to
the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with
blindness. And the Lord struck them with blindness, according to
the word of Eliseus.</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is
this the city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you
seek. So he led them into Samaria.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord,
open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened
their eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of
Samaria.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them:
My father, shall I kill them?</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not
take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them:
but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink,
and go to their master.</span></li>
<li><span>And a great provision of meats was set before them, and
they ate and drank, and he let them go, and they went away to their
master, and the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And tit came to pass after these things, that Benadad
king of Syria gathered together all his army, and went up, and
besieged Samaria.</span></li>
<li><span>And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did
the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore
pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeon's dung,
for five pieces of silver.</span></li>
<li><span>And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a
certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord O
king.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I
save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the
king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:</span></li>
<li><span>This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him
to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.</span></li>
<li><span>So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on
the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid
her son.</span></li>
<li><span>When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and
passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which
he wore within next to his flesh.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he
add more, if the head of Eliseus the son of Saphat shall stand on
him this day.</span></li>
<li><span>But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with
him. So he sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he
said to the ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath
sent to cut off my head? Look then, when the messenger shall come,
shut the door, and suffer him not to come in: for behold the sound
of his master's feet is behind him.</span></li>
<li><span>While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared
who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is
from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the
Lord?</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="7">2 Kings 7</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus
saith the Lord: To morrow about this time a bushel of fine hour
shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater,
in the gate of Samaria.</span></li>
<li><span>Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned,
answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates
in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said:
Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.</span></li>
<li><span>Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the
gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till
we die?</span></li>
<li><span>If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the
famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die: come,
therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they
spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but
die.</span></li>
<li><span>So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp,
And when they were come to the first part of the camp of the
Syrians, they found no man there.</span></li>
<li><span>For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria,
the noise of chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army, and
they said one to another: Behold the king of Israel hath hired
against us the kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyptians, and
they are come upon us.</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left
their tents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled,
desiring to save their lives.</span></li>
<li><span>So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the
camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took
from thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it:
and they came again, and went into another tent, and carried from
thence in like manner, and hid it.</span></li>
<li><span>Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this
is a day of good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it
till the morning, we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go
and tell it in the king's court.</span></li>
<li><span>So they came to the gate of the city, and told them,
saying: We went to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man
there, but horses, and asses tied, and the tents
standing.</span></li>
<li><span>Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within the
king's palace.</span></li>
<li><span>And he arose in the night and said to his servants: I
tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer
great famine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie
hid in the fields, saying: When they come out of the city we shall
take them alive, and then we may get into the city.</span></li>
<li><span>And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five
horses that are remaining in the city (because there are no more in
the whole multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed,) and let
us send and see.</span></li>
<li><span>They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into
the camp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.</span></li>
<li><span>And they went after them as far as the Jordan: and behold
all the way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians
had cast away in their fright, and the messengers returned end told
the king.</span></li>
<li><span>And the people going out pillaged the camp of the
Syrians: and a bushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two
bushels of barley for a stater, according to the word of the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned,
to stand at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance
of the gate; and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king
came down to him.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass according to the word of the man of
God, which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of
barley shall be for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a
stater, at this very time to morrow in the gate of
Samaria.</span></li>
<li><span>When that lord answered the mall of' God, and said:
Although the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this
come to pass which thou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see
with thy eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.</span></li>
<li><span>And so it fell out to him as it was foretold, and the
people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="8">2 Kings 8</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored
to life, saying: Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn
wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath exiled a famine, and
it shall come upon the land seven years.</span></li>
<li><span>And she arose, and did according to the word of the man
of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of
the Philistines many days.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned
out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to
the king for her house, and for her lands.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of
God, saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath
done.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was telling the king how he had raised one
dead to life, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to
life, crying to the king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi
said: My lord O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom
Eliseus raised to life.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the
king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers,
and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the
land, to this present.</span></li>
<li><span>Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad king of Syria
was sick: and they told him, saying: The man of God is come
hither.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and
go to meet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can
I recover of this my illness?</span></li>
<li><span>And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents,
and all the good things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels.
And when he stood before him, he said: Thy son Benadad the king of
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying: Can I recover of this my
illness?</span></li>
<li><span>And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover:
bat the Lord hath shewn me that he shall surely die.</span></li>
<li><span>And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to
blush: and the man of God wept.</span></li>
<li><span>And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he
said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of
Israel. Their strong cities then wilt burn with fire, and their
young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their
children, and rip up their pregnant women.</span></li>
<li><span>And Hazael said: But what am I thy servant a dog, that I
should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewn
me that thou shalt be king of Syria.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was departed from Eliseus, he came to his
master, who said to him: What saith Eliseus to thee? And he
answered: He told me: Thou shalt recover.</span></li>
<li><span>And on the next day he took a blanket, and pouted water
on it, and spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned
in his stead.</span></li>
<li><span>In the fifth year of Joram son of Achab king of Israel,
and of Josaphat king of Juda, reigned Joram son of Josaphat king of
Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</span></li>
<li><span>And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the
house of Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife:
and he did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his
servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to
his children always.</span></li>
<li><span>In his days Edom revolted, from being under Juda, and
made themselves a king.</span></li>
<li><span>And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him:
and he arose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had
surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots, but the people
fled into their tents.</span></li>
<li><span>So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day.
Then Lobna also revolted at the same time.</span></li>
<li><span>But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the
kings of Juda?</span></li>
<li><span>And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with
them in the city of David, and Ochozias his son reigned in Iris
stead.</span></li>
<li><span>In the twelfth year of Joram son of Achab king of Israel,
reigned Ochozias son of Joram king of Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother
was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he
did evil before the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the
son in law of the house of Achab.</span></li>
<li><span>He went also with Joram son of Achab, to fight against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded
Joram:</span></li>
<li><span>And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the
Syrians had wounded him in Ramoth when he fought against Hazael
king of Syria. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda, went
down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel, because he was
sick there.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="9">2 Kings 9</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Eliseus the prophet called one of the sons of the
prophets, slid said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little
bottle of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad.</span></li>
<li><span>And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the
son of Josaphat the son of Namsi: and going in thou shalt make him
rise up from amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner
chamber.</span></li>
<li><span>Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it
on his head, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed
thee king over Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and
shalt not stay there.</span></li>
<li><span>So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went awry
to Ramoth Galaad,</span></li>
<li><span>And went in thither: and behold the captains of the army
were sitting: and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And
Jehu said: Unto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O
prince.</span></li>
<li><span>And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured
the oil upon his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel
: I have anointed thee king over Israel, the people of the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab thy master, and
I will revenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood
of all the servants of the Lord at the hand of Jezabel.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut
off from Achab him that pisseth against the well, and him that is
shut up, and the meanest in Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will make the house of Achab like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of
Ahias.</span></li>
<li><span>And the dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel,
and there shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and
fled.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his lord: and
they said to him: Are all things well? why came this mad man to
thee? And he said to them: You know the man, and what he
said.</span></li>
<li><span>But they answered: It is false, but rather do thou tell
us. And he said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he
said: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>Then they made haste and taking every man his garment
laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and
they sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.</span></li>
<li><span>So Jehu the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi conspired
against Joram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he and all
Israel fighting with Hazael king of Syria:</span></li>
<li><span>And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds,
for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no mall go forth or
flee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.</span></li>
<li><span>And he got up, and went into Jezrahel: for Joram was sick
there, and Ochozias king of Juda was come down to visit
Joram.</span></li>
<li><span>The watchmen therefore, that stood upon the tower of
Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop.
And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him
that goeth say: Is all well?</span></li>
<li><span>So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said :
Thus saith the king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What
hast thou to do with peace? go behind and follow me. And the
watchman told, saying: The messenger came to them, but he returneth
not.</span></li>
<li><span>And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to
them, and said: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said:
What hast thou to do with peace? pass, and follow me.</span></li>
<li><span>And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but
returneth not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son
of Namsi, for he drives furiously.</span></li>
<li><span>And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made
ready his chariot, and Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of
Juda went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu,
and met him in the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu?
And he answered: What peace ? so long as the fornications of
Jezabel thy mother, and her many sorceries are in their
vigour.</span></li>
<li><span>And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias:
There is treachery, Ochozias.</span></li>
<li><span>But Jehu bent Iris bow with his hand, and shot Joram
between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart,
and immediately he fell in his chariot.</span></li>
<li><span>And Jehu said to Badacer his captain: Take him, and cast
him into the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite: for I remember when I
and thou sitting in a chariot followed Achab this man's father,
that the Lord laid this burden upon him, saying :</span></li>
<li><span>If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord,
for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I
saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into
the field, according to the word of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>But Ochozias king of Juda seeing this, fled by the way of
the garden house : and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also
in his chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which
is by Jeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died
there.</span></li>
<li><span>And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried
him to Jerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his
fathers in the city of David.</span></li>
<li><span>In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Achab, Ochozias
reigned over Juda,</span></li>
<li><span>And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel hearing of his
coming in, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her
head, and looked out of a window</span></li>
<li><span>At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be
peace for Zambri, that hath killed his master?</span></li>
<li><span>And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said : Who
is this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: Throw her down headlong: and they
threw her down, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the
hoofs of the horses trod upon her.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was come in, to eat, and to drink, he said:
Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her: because she is a
king's daughter.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but
the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her
hands.</span></li>
<li><span>And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the
word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias the Thesbite,
saying: In the field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of
Jezabel,</span></li>
<li><span>And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face
of the earth in the field of Jezrahel, so that they who pass by
shall say: Is this that same Jezabel?</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="10">2 Kings 10</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote
letters, and sent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to
the ancients, and to them that brought up Achab's children,
saying:</span></li>
<li><span>As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your
master's sons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and
armour,</span></li>
<li><span>Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of
your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight
for the house of your master.</span></li>
<li><span>But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two
kings could not stand before him, and how shall we be able to
resist?</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore the overseers of the house, and the rulers of
the city, and the ancients, and the tutors sent to Jehu, saying: We
are thy servants, whatsoever thou shalt command us we will do,
neither will we make us a king: do thou all that pleaseth
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If
you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your
master, and come to me to Jezrahel by to morrow this time. Now the
king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men
of the city.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the letters came to them, they took the king's
sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and
sent them to him to Jezrahel.</span></li>
<li><span>And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in
two heaps by the entering in of the gate until the
morning.</span></li>
<li><span>And when it was light, he went out, and standing said to
all the people: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and
slew him, who hath slain all these?</span></li>
<li><span>See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the
ground any of the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke
concerning the house of Achab, and the Lord hath done that which he
spoke in the hand of his servant Elias.</span></li>
<li><span>So Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in
Jezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests,
till there were no remains left of him.</span></li>
<li><span>And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come
to the shepherds' cabin in the way,</span></li>
<li><span>He met with the brethren of Ochozias king of Juda, and he
said to them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren
of Ochozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and
the sons of the queen.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive,
and killed them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he
left not any of them.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab the son
of Rechab coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to
him: Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab
said: It is. If it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his
hand. And he lifted him up to him into the chariot,</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the
Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,</span></li>
<li><span>And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were
left of Achab in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the