Asa fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,

亚撒生约沙法；约沙法生约兰；约兰生乌西亚；

亚撒生约沙法，约沙法生约兰，约兰生乌西雅，

亚撒生约沙法，约沙法生约兰，约兰生乌西雅，

亚撒生约沙法，约沙法生约兰，约兰生乌西雅，

亚撒生约沙法，约沙法生约兰，约兰生乌西雅，

亚撒生约沙法，约沙法生约兰，约兰生乌西亚，

亞撒生約沙法；約沙法生約蘭；約蘭生烏西雅；

亞撒生約沙法，約沙法生約蘭，約蘭生烏西雅，

亞撒生約沙法，約沙法生約蘭，約蘭生烏西雅，

亞撒生約沙法，約沙法生約蘭，約蘭生烏西雅，

亞撒生約沙法，約沙法生約蘭，約蘭生烏西雅，

亞撒生約沙法；約沙法生約蘭；約蘭生烏西雅；

亞撒生約沙法，約沙法生約蘭，約蘭生烏西亞，

亞撒生約沙法、約沙法生約蘭、約蘭生烏西亞、

亞撒生約沙法、約沙法生約蘭、約蘭生烏西亞、

亞撒生約沙法、約沙法生約蘭、約蘭生烏西雅、

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Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram, Jehoram the father of Uzziah,

Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was the father of Uzziah.

and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,

Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was the father of Uzziah.

Asa fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, and Joram fathered Uzziah.

Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah.

and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah;

Asa fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,

And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,

Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.

his son Jehoram, his son Ahaziah, his son Joash,

Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

In the fifth year of Israel’s King Joram son of Ahab, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat became king of Judah, replacing his father.

However, in the third year, King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to visit the king of Israel.The king of Israel had said to his servants,“ Don’t you know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we’re doing nothing to take it from the king of Aram?”So he asked Jehoshaphat,“ Will you go with me to fight Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel,“ I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”But Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel,“ First, please ask what the LORD’s will is.”So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them,“ Should I go against Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain?” They replied,“ March up, and the Lord will hand it over to the king.”But Jehoshaphat asked,“ Isn’t there a prophet of the LORD here anymore? Let’s ask him.”The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“ There is still one man who can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”“ The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.So the king of Israel called an officer and said,“ Hurry and get Micaiah son of Imlah!”Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah, clothed in royal attire, were each sitting on his own throne. They were on the threshing floor at the entrance to the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying in front of them.Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made iron horns and said,“ This is what the LORD says:‘ You will gore the Arameans with these until they are finished off.’”And all the prophets were prophesying the same:“ March up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, for the LORD will hand it over to the king.”The messenger who went to call Micaiah instructed him,“ Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable for the king. So let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”But Micaiah said,“ As the LORD lives, I will say whatever the LORD says to me.”So he went to the king, and the king asked him,“ Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth-gilead for war, or should we refrain?” Micaiah told him,“ March up and succeed. The LORD will hand it over to the king.”But the king said to him,“ How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”So Micaiah said: I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said,“ They have no master; let everyone return home in peace.”So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“ Didn’t I tell you he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster?”Then Micaiah said,“ Therefore, hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and the whole heavenly army was standing by him at his right hand and at his left hand.And the LORD said,‘ Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ So one was saying this and another was saying that.“ Then a spirit came forward, stood in the LORD’s presence, and said,‘ I will entice him.’“ The LORD asked him,‘ How?’“ He said,‘ I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’“ Then he said,‘ You will certainly entice him and prevail. Go and do that.’“ You see, the LORD has put a lying spirit into the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has pronounced disaster against you.”Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah on the cheek, and demanded,“ Did the Spirit of the LORD leave me to speak to you?”Micaiah replied,“ You will soon see when you go to hide in an inner chamber on that day.”Then the king of Israel ordered,“ Take Micaiah and return him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the king’s son,and say,‘ This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only a little bread and water until I come back safely.’”But Micaiah said,“ If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he said,“ Listen, all you people!”Then the king of Israel and Judah’s King Jehoshaphat went up to Ramoth-gilead.But the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,“ I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders,“ Do not fight with anyone at all except the king of Israel.”When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they shouted,“ He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.When the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to his charioteer,“ Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. He died that evening, and blood from his wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.Then the cry rang out in the army as the sun set, declaring: Each man to his own city, and each man to his own land!So the king died and was brought to Samaria. They buried the king in Samaria.Then someone washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes bathed in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, including the ivory palace he built, and all the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.Ahab rested with his ancestors, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Israel’s King Ahab.Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king; he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the LORD’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, along with the might he exercised and how he waged war, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.He eradicated from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.There was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go because the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.At that time, Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat,“ Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoram became king in his place.

Joram son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria during the eighteenth year of Judah’s King Jehoshaphat, and he reigned twelve years.

His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the former ways of his ancestor David. He did not seek the Baalsbut sought the God of his father and walked by his commands, not according to the practices of Israel.So the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. Then all Judah brought him tribute, and he had riches and honor in abundance.He took great pride in the LORD’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials— Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah— to teach in the cities of Judah.The Levites with them were Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah; the priests, Elishama and Jehoram, were with these Levites.They taught throughout Judah, having the book of the LORD’s instruction with them. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.The terror of the LORD was on all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so they didn’t fight against Jehoshaphat.Some of the Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him flocks: 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judahand carried out great works in the towns of Judah. He had fighting men, valiant warriors, in Jerusalem.These are their numbers according to their ancestral families. For Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander and three hundred thousand valiant warriors with him;next to him, Jehohanan the commander and two hundred eighty thousand with him;next to him, Amasiah son of Zichri, the volunteer of the LORD, and two hundred thousand valiant warriors with him;from Benjamin, Eliada, a valiant warrior, and two hundred thousand with him armed with bow and shield;next to him, Jehozabad and one hundred eighty thousand with him equipped for war.These were the ones who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jehoram became king in his place.

All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.After Amaziah the king rested with his ancestors, Uzziah rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah.Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.He did what was right in the LORD’s sight just as his father Amaziah had done.He sought God throughout the lifetime of Zechariah, the teacher of the fear of God. During the time that he sought the LORD, God gave him success.Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod. Then he built cities in the vicinity of Ashdod and among the Philistines.God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs that live in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the entrance of Egypt, for God made him very powerful.Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the corner buttress, and he fortified them.Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.Uzziah had an army equipped for combat that went out to war by division according to their assignments, as recorded by Jeiel the court secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.The total number of family heads was 2,600 valiant warriors.Under their authority was an army of 307,500 equipped for combat, a powerful force to help the king against the enemy.Uzziah provided the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.He made skillfully designed devices in Jerusalem to shoot arrows and catapult large stones for use on the towers and on the corners. So his fame spread even to distant places, for he was wondrously helped until he became strong.But when he became strong, he grew arrogant, and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the LORD his God by going into the LORD’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.The priest Azariah, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.They took their stand against King Uzziah and said,“ Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD— only the consecrated priests, the descendants of Aaron, have the right to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully! You will not receive honor from the LORD God.”Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the LORD’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease broke out on his forehead.Then Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw that he was diseased on his forehead. They rushed him out of there. He himself also hurried to get out because the LORD had afflicted him.So King Uzziah was diseased to the time of his death. He lived in quarantine with a serious skin disease and was excluded from access to the LORD’s temple, while his son Jotham was over the king’s household governing the people of the land.Now the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz wrote about the rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from beginning to end.Uzziah rested with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the burial ground of the kings’ cemetery, for they said,“ He has a skin disease.” His son Jotham became king in his place.

Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place.

In the twenty-seventh year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah.He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.Azariah did what was right in the LORD’s sight just as his father Amaziah had done.Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.The LORD afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in quarantine, while Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.The rest of the events of Azariah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.