Because of the transgression of a land, many are its princes; But by a man of understanding and knowledge Right will be prolonged.

邦国因有罪过，君王就多更换；因有聪明知识的人，国必长存。

地上因有罪过，君王就多更换；因聪明和有见识的人，国必长存。

地上因有罪过，君王就多更换；因聪明和有见识的人，国必长存。

国中有罪，君王常换；国有哲士，长治久安。

国家因有过犯，领袖就经常更换；依赖聪明知识俱备的人，国家才可以长存。

国中因有过犯，就有许多首领争权；但靠着有悟性、有知识的人，国就得以长存。

邦國因有罪過，君王就多更換；因有聰明知識的人，國必長存。

地上因有罪過，君王就多更換；因聰明和有見識的人，國必長存。

地上因有罪過，君王就多更換；因聰明和有見識的人，國必長存。

國中有罪，君王常換；國有哲士，長治久安。

國家因有過犯，領袖就經常更換；依賴聰明知識俱備的人，國家才可以長存。

邦國因有罪過、人君就多更換；因有明達和知識的人、國必長久存立。

國中因有過犯，就有許多首領爭權；但靠著有悟性、有知識的人，國就得以長存。

國有罪惡、則主迭更、人有明哲、則邦恆存、

國亂則主迭更、民良則邦永治。

邦亂則多主迭更、有一明哲具知識者、可長治國、

When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.

A country has many rulers when its people don’t obey. But an understanding ruler knows how to keep order.

When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.

When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability.

When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers, but with a discerning and knowledgeable person, it endures.

Due to a wrongdoing of a land its leaders are many, But by a person of understanding and knowledge, so it endures.

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; But by men of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers, but with a discerning and knowledgeable person, it endures.

For the transgression of a land many[ are] the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding[ and] knowledge the state[ thereof] shall be prolonged.

When a country is rebellious it has many princes, but by someone who is discerning and knowledgeable order is maintained.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.

Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.Now the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem; and he imposed on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.Then the king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him off to Egypt.Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.Nebuchadnezzar also carried off some of the articles from the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord.At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and took him to Babylon, with the costly articles from the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, Jehoiakim’s brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel, and reigned two years in Tirzah.Now his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.And Zimri went in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.Then it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he was seated on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave him one male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they had sinned and by which they had made Israel sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri had reigned in Tirzah seven days. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.Now the people who were encamped heard it said,“ Zimri has conspired and also has killed the king.” So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.And it happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house down upon himself with fire, and died,because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Israel sin.Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the treason he committed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.But the people who followed Omri prevailed over the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri reigned.In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, and reigned twelve years. Six years he reigned in Tirzah.And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all who were before him.For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?So Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Then Ahab his son reigned in his place.In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

Now because of this King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried out to heaven.Then the Lord sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword there.Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.And many brought gifts to the Lord at Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations thereafter.In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord; and He spoke to him and gave him a sign.But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favor shown him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore wrath was looming over him and over Judah and Jerusalem.Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;The mighty man and the man of war, The judge and the prophet, And the diviner and the elder;The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the skillful artisan, And the expert enchanter.“ I will give children to be their princes, And babes shall rule over them.The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the honorable.”When a man takes hold of his brother In the house of his father, saying,“ You have clothing; You be our ruler, And let these ruins be under your power,”In that day he will protest, saying,“ I cannot cure your ills, For in my house is neither food nor clothing; Do not make me a ruler of the people.”

In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck and killed him in front of the people; and he reigned in his place.Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.This was the word of the Lord which He spoke to Jehu, saying,“ Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it was.Shallum the son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him; and he reigned in his place.Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he led, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.Then from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were there, and its territory. Because they did not surrender, therefore he attacked it. All the women there who were with child he ripped open.In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.Pul king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his control.And Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all the very wealthy, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land.Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?So Menahem rested with his fathers. Then Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, an officer of his, conspired against him and killed him in Samaria, in the citadel of the king’s house, along with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of Gilead. He killed him and reigned in his place.Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.And he did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.Then Hoshea the son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck and killed him; so he reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you; break off your sins by being righteous, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.”

You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways.When they cast you down, and you say,‘ Exaltation will come!’ Then He will save the humble person.He will even deliver one who is not innocent; Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”

Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.

Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.