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Bible Reading for June 24
CHAPTER 7
2 Kings 7:1
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To
morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and
two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Kings 7:2
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said,
Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he
said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings 7:3
3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they
said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 2 Kings 7:4
4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and
we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come,
and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall
live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. 2 Kings 7:5
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and
when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there
was no man there.
2 Kings 7:6
6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots,
and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to
another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the
Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 2 Kings 7:7
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and
their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their
life.
2 Kings 7:8
8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into
one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and
raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another
tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. 2 Kings 7:9
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good
tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some
mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the
king's household.
2 Kings 7:10
10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them,
saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man
there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the
tents as they were.
2 Kings 7:11
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within. 2
Kings 7:12
12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now
shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry;
therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field,
saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and
get into the city.
2 Kings 7:13
13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five
of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as
all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even
as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send
and see.
2 Kings 7:14
14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of
the Syrians, saying, Go and see. 2 Kings 7:15
15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of
garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the
messengers returned, and told the king. 2 Kings 7:16
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure
of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
according to the word of the LORD. 2 Kings 7:17
17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge
of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the
man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. 2 Kings 7:18
18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two
measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel,
shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: 2 Kings 7:19
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD
should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. 2 Kings 7:20
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and
he died.
CHAPTER 8
2 Kings 8:1
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying,
Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst
sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come
upon the land seven years.
2 Kings 8:2
2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she
went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven
years.
2 Kings 8:3
3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of
the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her
house and for her land.
2 Kings 8:4
4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell
me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. 2 Kings 8:5
5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead
body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life,
cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord,
O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to
life.
2 Kings 8:6
6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto
her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits
of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now. 2 Kings
8:7
7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it
was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither. 2 Kings 8:8
8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet
the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of
this disease?
2 Kings 8:9
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good
thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and
said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying,
Shall I recover of this disease? 2 Kings 8:10
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover:
howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die. 2 Kings 8:11
11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the
man of God wept.
2 Kings 8:12
12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the
evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt
thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and
wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. 2 Kings 8:13
13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this
great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be
king over Syria.
2 Kings 8:14
14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What
said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely
recover.
2 Kings 8:15
15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped
it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in
his stead.
2 Kings 8:16
16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat
being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began
to reign.
2 Kings 8:17
17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 8:18
18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab:
for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the
LORD.
2 Kings 8:19
19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he
promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children. 2 Kings 8:20
20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king
over themselves.
2 Kings 8:21
21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by
night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of
the chariots: and the people fled into their tents. 2 Kings 8:22
22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah
revolted at the same time.
2 Kings 8:23
23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 2 Kings 8:24
24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. 2 Kings 8:25
25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the
son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. 2 Kings 8:26
26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of
Omri king of Israel. 2 Kings 8:27
27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of
the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of
Ahab.
2 Kings 8:28
28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of
Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. 2 Kings 8:29
29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the
Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.
And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. CHAPTER 9
2 Kings 9:1
1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said
unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go
to Ramothgilead:
2 Kings 9:2
2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the
son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and
carry him to an inner chamber; 2 Kings 9:3
3 Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the
LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee,
and tarry not.
2 Kings 9:4
4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead. 2
Kings 9:5
5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he
said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all
us? And he said, To thee, O captain. 2 Kings 9:6
6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head,
and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee
king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. 2 Kings 9:7
7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the
blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the
LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
2 Kings 9:8
8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him
that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel: 2
Kings 9:9
9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: 2 Kings 9:10
10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall
be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled. 2 Kings 9:11
11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is
all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye
know the man, and his communication. 2 Kings 9:12
12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake
he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
2 Kings 9:13
13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on
the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king. 2 Kings
9:14
14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.
(Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king
of Syria.
2 Kings 9:15
15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the
Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu
said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the
city to go to tell it in Jezreel. 2 Kings 9:16
16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And
Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. 2 Kings 9:17
17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the
company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take
an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace? 2 Kings
9:18
18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king,
Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind
me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he
cometh not again.
2 Kings 9:19
19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus
saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with
peace? turn thee behind me.
2 Kings 9:20
20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not
again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he
driveth furiously.
2 Kings 9:21
21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king
of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they
went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the
Jezreelite.
2 Kings 9:22
22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu?
And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel
and her witchcrafts are so many? 2 Kings 9:23
23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is
treachery, O Ahaziah.
2 Kings 9:24
24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his
arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. 2
Kings 9:25
25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion
of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou
rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
2 Kings 9:26
26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his
sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD.
Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the
word of the LORD.
2 Kings 9:27
27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the
garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the
chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And
he fled to Megiddo, and died there. 2 Kings 9:28
28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in
his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. 2 Kings 9:29
29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign
over Judah.
2 Kings 9:30
30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her
face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. 2 Kings 9:31
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his
master?
2 Kings 9:32
32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who?
And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. 2 Kings 9:33
33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood
was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
2 Kings 9:34
34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this
cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter. 2 Kings 9:35
35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull,
and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 2 Kings 9:36
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of
the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the
portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: 2 Kings 9:37
37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in
the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel. CHAPTER 10
2 Kings 10:1
1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to
Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought
up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Kings 10:2
2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with
you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and
armour;
2 Kings 10:3
3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his
father's throne, and fight for your master's house. 2 Kings 10:4
4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not
before him: how then shall we stand? 2 Kings 10:5
5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders
also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy
servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king:
do thou that which is good in thine eyes. 2 Kings 10:6
6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and
if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's
sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's
sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which
brought them up.
2 Kings 10:7
7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's
sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him
them to Jezreel.
2 Kings 10:8
8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the
heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the
entering in of the gate until the morning. 2 Kings 10:9
9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to
all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and
slew him: but who slew all these? 2 Kings 10:10
10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the
LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath
done that which he spake by his servant Elijah. 2 Kings 10:11
11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his
great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none
remaining.
2 Kings 10:12
12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the
shearing house in the way,
2 Kings 10:13
13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye?
And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute
the children of the king and the children of the queen. 2 Kings 10:14
14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at
the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of
them.
2 Kings 10:15
15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab
coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right,
as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be,
give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him
into the chariot.
2 Kings 10:16
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him
ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:17
17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in
Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which
he spake to Elijah.
2 Kings 10:18
18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served
Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. 2 Kings 10:19
19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and
all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do
to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it
in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. 2
Kings 10:20
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
2 Kings 10:21
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so
that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of
Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another. 2 Kings 10:22
22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for
all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments. 2 Kings 10:23
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and
said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with
you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
2 Kings 10:24
24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu
appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have
brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be
for the life of him.
2 Kings 10:25
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt
offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay
them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword;
and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the
house of Baal.
2 Kings 10:26
26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
2 Kings 10:27
27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal,
and made it a draught house unto this day. 2 Kings 10:28
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. 2 Kings 10:29
29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in
Bethel, and that were in Dan.
2 Kings 10:30
30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that
which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to
all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit
on the throne of Israel. 2 Kings 10:31
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all
his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to
sin.
2 Kings 10:32
32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in
all the coasts of Israel;
2 Kings 10:33
33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the
Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even
Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings 10:34
34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2
Kings 10:35
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And
Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. 2 Kings 10:36
36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight
years.
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