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The people carried away. again any more out of his land: for the nezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all king of Babylon had taken from the river his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that against it; and they built forts against it pertained to the king of Egypt. round about.

8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old 2 And the city was besieged unto the when he began to reign, and he reigned in eleventh year of king Zedekiah. Jerusalem three months. And his mother's 3 And on the ninth day of the fourth name was Nehushta, the daughter of El-month the famine prevailed in the city, and nathan of Jerusalem. there was no bread for the people of the

9 And he did that which was evil in the land. sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of 10 At that time the servants of Nebu- the gate between two walls, which is by chadnezzar king of Babylon came up the king's garden: (now the Chaldees against Jerusalem, and the city was be- were against the city round about :) and the sieged. king went the way toward the plain.

Il And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.

5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were

6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah scattered from him. went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in 8 ¶ And in the fifth month, on the sepieces all the vessels of gold which Solo- venth day of the month, which is the ninemon king of Israel had made in the tem- teenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king ple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, of the guard, a servant of the king of Babyand all the princes, and all the mighty lon, unto Jerusalem:

men of valour, even ten thousand captives, 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and all the craftsmen, and smiths: none and the king's house, and all the houses of remained, save the poorest sort of the peo-Jerusalem, and every great man's house ple of the land. burnt he with fire.

15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to 10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that Babylon, and the king's mother, and the were with the captain of the guard, brake king's wives, and his officers, and the down the walls of Jerusalem round about. mighty of the land, those carried he into 11 Now the rest of the people that were captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. left in the city, and the fugitives that fell 16 And all the men of might, even seven away to the king of Babylon, with the rem thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a nant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan thousand, all that were strong and apt for the captain of the guard carry away war, even them the king of Babylon 12 But the captain of the guard left of brought captive to Babylon. the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and 17 And the king of Babylon made husbandmen. Mattaniah his father's brother king in his 13 ¶ And the pillars of brass that were in stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. the house of the LORD, and the bases, and 18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years the brazen sea that was in the house of the old when he began to reign, and he reign- LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, ed eleven years in Jerusalem. And his and carried the brass of them to Babylon. mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and of Jeremiah of Libnah. the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the 19 And he did that which was evil in vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, the sight of the LORD, according to all that took they away. Jehoiakim had done. 15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, 20 For through the anger of the LORD and such things as were of gold, in gold, it came to pass in Jerusalem, and Judah, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the until he had cast them out from his pre- guard took away. sence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

CHAP. XXV.

AND it came to pass in the nont yar
ND it came to pass in the ninth year

the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchad

16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it

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The sons of Shem. soas brass: and the height of the chapiter, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, three cubits; and the wreathen work, and and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, pomegranates upon the chapiter round they and their men.

about, all of brass: and like unto these had 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to the second pillar with wreathen work. their men, and said unto them, Fear not to 18 And the captain of the guard took be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the land, and serve the king of Babylon, the second priest, and the three keepers of and it shall be well with you.

the door: 25 But it came to pass in the seventh 19 And out of the city he took an officer month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, that was set over the men of war, and five the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, men of them that were in the king's pre- came, and ten men with him, and smote Gesence, which were found in the city, and daliah, that he died, and the Jews and the the principal scribe of the host, which Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:

20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the King of Babylon to Riblah:

21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.

26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign 22 And as for the people that remain- did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of ed in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchad- Judah out of prison;

nezzar king of Babylon had left, even over 28 And he spake kindly to him, and set them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, his throne above the throne of the kings the son of Shaphan, ruler. that were with him in Babylon;

23 And when all the captains of the ar- 29 And changed his prison-garments. mies, they and their men, heard that the and he did eat bread continually before king of Babylon had made Gedaliah go- him all the days of his life.

vernor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, 30 And his allowance was a continual even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and allowance given him of the king, a daily Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah rate for every day, all the days of his life.

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CHAP. I.

DAM, Sheth, Enosh,

2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

7 And the sons of Javan; Elisha, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

15 And the Hivite, and the Archite, and the Sinite,

16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

17 ¶ The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram and Uz, and Hul, and Gether and Meshech. 18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided and his 9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and brother's name was Joktan: Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; She-leph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, ba, and Dedan.

10 And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be mighty upon the earth.

11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.

13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and She

21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

27 Abram; the same is Abraham.

28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.

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The sons of Israel.

29 ¶ These are their generations. The 52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Ke- Pinon, dar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke

30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Mibzar, and Tema,

54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These Kedemah. are the dukes of Edom. CHAP. II.

31 Jetur, Naphish, and These are the sons of Ishmael. 32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abra-HESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, ham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and and Zebulun,

Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jok- 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, shan; Sheba, and Dedan. Gad, and Asher. 33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and 3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and El- and Shelah: which three were born unto daah. All these are the sons of Keturah. him of the daughter of Shua the Canaan34 ¶ And Abraham begat Isaac. The itess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, sons of Isaac; Esau, and Israel. was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

35 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare 36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Judah were five. Timna, and Amalek.

37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.

39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.

40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Ónam.

5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Ďara : five of them in all.

7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubier of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.

8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah. 9 The sons also of Hezron, that were And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah. born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and 41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And Chelubai. the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.

43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. 45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Mazrekah reigned in his stead.

10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

13 ¶ And Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the

fifth,

15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh : 16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

18 ¶ And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Je48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of rioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. Shobab, and Ardon.

49 And when Shaul was dead, Baal- 19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his took unto him Ephrath, which bare him stead. Hur.

50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, 20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name Bezaleel. of his city was Pai; and his wife's name 21 ¶ And afterward Hezron went in to was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, the daughter of Mezahab. whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

51 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,

22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

The posterity of Sheshan.

CHAP. III.

The sons of David. 23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath and Shaaph. and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.

49 She bare also Shaaph the father of

24 And after that Hezron was dead in Madmannah, Sheva the father of MachbeCaleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife nah, and the father of Gibea: and the bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa. daughter of Caleb was Achsa.

25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.

26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,

51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

52 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the 27 And the sons of Ram, the first-born Manahethites. of Jerahmeel, were, Maaz, and Jamin, and 53 And the families of Kirjath-jearim; Eker. the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shu28 And the sons of Onam were, Sham-mathites, and the Mishraites; of them came mai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites. Nadab, and Abishur. 54 The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and 29 And the name of the wife of Abishur the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of was Abihail; and she bare him Ahban, and Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Molid. Zorites.

30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and 55 And the families of the scribes which Appaim: but Seled died without children. dwelt at Jabez; The Tirathites, the Shi31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And meathites, and Suchathites. These are the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the chil- the Kenites that came of Hemath, the fadren of Sheshan; Ahlai. ther of the house of Rechab.

32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.

NOW

CHAP. III.

OW these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; 33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, the first-born Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezand Zaza. These were the sons of Jerah-reelitess; the second, Daniel of Abigail the meel. Carmelitess:

34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but 2 The third, Absalom the son of Maadaughters. And Sheshan had a servant, chah the daughter of Talmai king of Gean Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. shur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:

35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.

36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,

37 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,

38 And Óbed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,

39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,

40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, Sisamai begat Shallum,

and

41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his first-born, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. 44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam and Rekem begat Shammai. 45 And the son of Shamniai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.

3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

4 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel :

6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eli

phelet,

7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

9 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.

10 ¶ And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehosaphat his son,

11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Ma

47 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and nasseh his son,

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21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishsons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the bah the father of Eshtemoa. sons of Shechaniah. 18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered 22 And the sons of Shechaniah; She- the father of Gedor, and Heber the father maiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zaand Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and noah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the Shaphat, six. daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

21 ¶ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er, the father of Lecah, and Laa2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat dah the father of Mareshah, and the famiJahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and lies of the house of them that wrought fine Lahad. These are the families of the Zo-linen, of the house of Ashbea,

3 And these were of the father of Etam; ba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. name of their sister was Hazelelponi: And these are ancient things.

4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and 23 These were the potters, and those that Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the dwelt among plants and hedges: there sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah, the they dwelt with the king for his work. father of Beth-lehem.

27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his brethren had not many 8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, children, neither did all their family multiand the families of Aharhel the son of Ha-ply like to the children of Judah. 28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and 9 ¶ And Jabez was more honourable Moladah, and Hazar-shual, than his brethren: and his mother called

his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare Tolad, him with sorrow.

10 And Jabez called on the God of Is- at Ziklag, rael, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless 31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazarme indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that susim, and at Beth-birei, and at Shaaraim. thine hand might be with me, and that These were their cities unto the reign of thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it David.

may not grieve me! And God granted him 32 And their villages were, Etam, and that which he requested. Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan

11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah five cities: