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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.
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
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.
And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
