Gedaliah is slain.

I 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the

the ninth bases which Solomon had made the

of his reign, in the tenth month, in house of the LORD; the brass of all these the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchad- vessels was without weight. nezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all 17 The height of the one pillar was his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it against it; and they built forts against it was brass: and the height of the chapiter round about. three cubits; and the wreathen work, and

The people carried away.

CHAP. XXV.

CHAP. XXV.

2 And the city was besieged unto the pomegranates upon the chapiter round eleventh year of king Zedekiah. about, all of brass: and like unto these had

3 And on the ninth day of the fourth the second pillar with wreathen work. month the famine prevailed in the city, 18 And the captain of the guard took and there was no bread for the people of Seraial the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers

the land.

4 And the city was broken up, and of the door:

all the men of war fled by night by the 19 And out of the city he took an officer way of the gate between two walls, which that was set over the men of war, and five is by the king's garden: (now the Chal- men of them that were in the king's predees were against the city round about ;) sence, which were found in the city, and and the king went the way toward the plain. the principal scribe of the host, which 5 And the army of the Chaldees pur- mustered the people of the land, and threesued after the king, and overtook him in score men of the people of the land that the plains of Jericho and all his army were found in the city: were scattered from him.

20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the 6 So they took the king, and brought guard took these, and brought them to the him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; king of Babylon to Riblah: and they gave judgment upon him.

21 And the king of Babylon smote 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah them, and slew them at Riblah in the land before his eyes, and put out the eyes of of Hamath. So Judah was carried away Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of out of their land.

brass, and carried him to Babylon.

22 ¶ And as for the people that re8 ¶ And in the fifth month, on the se-mained in the land of Judah, whom Neventh day of the month,(which is the nine-buchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, teenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Babylon,)came Nebuzar-adan, captain of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem :

9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Miz pah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maacha

10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. thite, they and their men.

11 Now the rest of the people that were 24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and left in the city, and the fugitives that fell to their men, and said unto them, Fear away to the king of Babylon, with the not to be the servants of the Chaldees: remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar- dwell in the land, and serve the king of adan the captain of the guard carry away. Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 12 But the captain of the guard left of 25 But it came to pass in the seventh the poor of the land to be vine-dressers month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and husbandmen. the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, 26 And all the people, both small and and carried the brass of them to Babylon. great, and the captains of the armies, arose,

14 And the pots, and the shovels, and and came to Egypt: for they were afraid the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the of the Chaldees. vessels of brass wherewith they minister- 27 And it came to pass in the seven ed, took they away. and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of

15 And the fire-pans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the the month, that Evil-merodach king of guard took away. Babylon in the year that he began to reign

Adam's line. The sons of Shem. I. CHRONICLES.

The posterity of Abraham.

did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of and he did eat bread continually before Judah out of prison; him all the days of his life.

28 And he spake kindly to him, and 30 And his allowance was a continual set his throne above the throne of the allowance given him of the king, a aily kings that were with him in Babylon; rate for every day, all the days of his 29 And changed his prison garments: li.

¶ The First Book of the CHRONICLES.

CHAP. I.

ADAM, Sheth, Enosh,

2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 5 ¶ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

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

31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

32 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

33 And the sons of Midian ; Ephab, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and EIdaah. All these are the sons of Keturah. 34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac ; Esau, and Israel.

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

36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and An-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 Ezer, 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 Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.

41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And 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.

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

7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah,a d Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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

9 And the sons of Cush; “eba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

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

11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and amim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphtorim.

13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

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 brother's name was Joktan.

20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

21 Hadoram also, and U 1, and Diklah, 22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, 23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zera of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

45 And when Job 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 bis stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

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

48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul

The sons of Israel.

CHAP. II. The posterity of Jerahmeel. of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his rioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and stead. Shobab, and Ardon.

49 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

21 ¶ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

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

23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of MaThese chir the father of Gilead.

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

52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,

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

HESE are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

THE

2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

3 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the first-born of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

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

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

8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah. 9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

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.

24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah,Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.

29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.

31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.

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

33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth,

10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and and Zaza. These were the sons of JerahAmminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the meel. children of Judah;

34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but

11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Sal-daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, ma begat Boaz, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

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,

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 Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,

39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,

40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,

41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and

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 Je-Jekamiah begat Elishama.

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

49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannab, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

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

51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Ha- dabiah. reph the father of Beth-gader.

19 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Ze

52 And Shobal the father of Kirjath-rubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zejearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the rubbabel, Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Manabethites. Shelomith their sister:

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

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

13 Ahaz bis son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

14 Amon his son, Josiah his son. 15 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

17 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son.

6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

53 And the families of Kirjath-jearim; 20 And Hashubah, and Obel, and Berethe Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shu-chiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five. mathites, and the Mishraites of them 21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites. and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the

54 The sons of Salma ; Beth-lehem, and sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of sons of Shechaniah. Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the 22 And the sons of Shechaniah; SheZorites. maiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush,

18 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Ne

55 And the families of the scribes which and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shi-Shaphat, six. meathites, and Suchathites. These are 23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, the Kenites that came of Hemath, the fa- and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. ther of the house of Rechab.

24 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

CHAP. III.

NOW

TOW these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the first-born Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jez

CHAP. IV.

reelitess; the second, Daniel of Abigail thed Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. HE sons of Judah; Pharcz, Hezron,

Carmelitess:

2 The third, Absalom the son of Maa- 2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat chah the daughter of Talmai king of Ge- Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and shur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Hag- Lahad. These are the families of the Zogith: rathites.

3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the 3 And these were of the father of Etam; sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife. Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:

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.

4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.

5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah,

The posterity of Shelah.

The line of Reuben.

CHAP. V. 7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth,] 27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six and Jezoar, and Ethnan. daughters: but his brethren had not many 8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, children, neither did all their family mul and the families of Aharhel the son of Ha- tiply like to the children of Judah.

28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,

29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and

rum.

9

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying Because I bare 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. thy 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 that which he requested.

32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan,

11 T And Chelub the brother of Shuah five cities: begat Mehir,which was the father of Eshton.

12 And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.

13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elab, even Kenaz.

16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.

17 And the sons of Ezra were Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

20 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.

33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,

35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah.

38 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. 19 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the 41 And these written by name came in sister of Naham, the father of Keilab the the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and Garinite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.

39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.

42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sous of Ishi.

21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And unto this day. these are ancient things.

CHAP. V.

sons of Reuben,the first-born

23 These were the potters, and those that NOW the l, (for he was the first-born; dwelt among plants and hedges: there of they dwelt with the king for his work. but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, 24 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joand Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul: seph the son of Israel: and the genealogy 25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, is not to be reckoned after the birthright. Mishma his son.

43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there

2 For Judah prevailed above his brethn, and of him came the chief ruler; but The birthright was Joseph's:)