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| 22:1 |
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
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| 22:2 |
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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| 22:3 |
In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,
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| 22:4 |
"Go up to the high priest Hilkiah, and have him count the entire sum of the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people;
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| 22:5 |
let it be given into the hand of the workers who have the oversight of the house of the LORD; let them give it to the workers who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house,
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| 22:6 |
that is, to the carpenters, to the builders, to the masons; and let them use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the house.
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| 22:7 |
But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly."
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| 22:8 |
The high priest Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." When Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, he read it.
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| 22:9 |
Then Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workers who have oversight of the house of the LORD."
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| 22:10 |
Shaphan the secretary informed the king, "The priest Hilkiah has given me a book." Shaphan then read it aloud to the king.
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| 22:11 |
When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
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| 22:12 |
Then the king commanded the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary, and the king's servant Asaiah, saying,
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| 22:13 |
"Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our ancestors did not obey the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
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| 22:14 |
So the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess Huldah the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; she resided in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter, where they consulted her.
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| 22:15 |
She declared to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Tell the man who sent you to me,
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| 22:16 |
Thus says the LORD, I will indeed bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants-- all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.
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| 22:17 |
Because they have abandoned me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
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| 22:18 |
But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,
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| 22:19 |
because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.
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| 22:20 |
Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place." They took the message back to the king.
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| 22:21 |
until a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.'
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| 22:22 |
'How?' the LORD asked him. He replied, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then the LORD said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.'
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| 22:23 |
So you see, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has decreed disaster for you."
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| 22:24 |
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up to Micaiah, slapped him on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?"
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| 22:25 |
Micaiah replied, "You will find out on that day when you go in to hide in an inner chamber."
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| 22:26 |
The king of Israel then ordered, "Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son,
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| 22:27 |
and say, 'Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.'"
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| 22:28 |
Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, you peoples, all of you!"
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| 22:29 |
So the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
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| 22:30 |
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
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| 22:31 |
Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with no one small or great, but only with the king of Israel."
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| 22:32 |
When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is surely the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out.
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| 22:33 |
When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
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| 22:34 |
But a certain man drew his bow and unknowingly struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; so he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."
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| 22:35 |
The battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, until at evening he died; the blood from the wound had flowed into the bottom of the chariot.
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| 22:36 |
Then about sunset a shout went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"
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| 22:37 |
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; they buried the king in Samaria.
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| 22:38 |
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.
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| 22:39 |
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
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| 22:40 |
So Ahab slept with his ancestors; and his son Ahaziah succeeded him.
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| 22:41 |
Jehoshaphat son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of King Ahab of Israel.
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| 22:42 |
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
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| 22:43 |
He walked in all the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD; yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and offered incense on the high places.
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| 22:44 |
Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.
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| 22:45 |
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his power that he showed, and how he waged war, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?
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| 22:46 |
The remnant of the male temple prostitutes who were still in the land in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated.
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| 22:47 |
There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.
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| 22:48 |
Jehoshaphat made ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for gold; but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
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| 22:49 |
Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing.
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| 22:50 |
Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his father David; his son Jehoram succeeded him.
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| 22:51 |
Ahaziah son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah; he reigned two years over Israel.
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| 22:52 |
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father and mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
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| 22:53 |
He served Baal and worshiped him; he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
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