Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 987
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
the seer, and put him into the Prison of the Stocks, for he was enraged with him about it. Asa also oppressed the people at the same time. But you must seek the beginning and end of the aHairs of Asa as they are recorded in the records of the Kings of judah and Israel. ,3sn Sufzrs frum ®¤1xt in his Gllir Qgz. 12 In the thirty—ninth year ofhis King— ship, Asa became lame in his feet, His suffering was very great.··—H0w· ever, in his suffering he did not consult the EvEn·1.1v11~z<;,——but Physicians,
r 3 so Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign. (grr; B.G.) 14 But they buried him in hisown tomb which he had formed for himself in the City of David, and laid him on a bed that was filled with perfumes, and spices, and preservatives, prepared by chemists. They also burnt a very great burning for him, (gr.; ac.) §ly¤¤nplmi `bzgius in lleignz. And jhosaphat his son reigned in
his place, and strengthened himself against Israel, and put a force in every Fortihed City of judah, and appointed commanders in the country of judah, and in the Citiesof Ephraim, that Asa his father had captured, for the Evnu—L1v11~{c; was with jhosaphat, because he walked in the paths of David his ancestral father, and did not seek Baals, but the GOD of his fathers : and followed his instructions, and not as Israel did. Consequently the EvEn·x.1v1NG iixed the govern· ment in his hand, and all judah paid tribute to jhosaphat, and he possessed wealth and much honour, and he exalted his heart in the paths of the EVER-LIVXNG, and he expelled the Mounds and Shrines from judah. (912 12.0.) 7 In the third year of his reign, also he sent his Oiiicers Ben-khail, and Abdiah, Zakeriah, and Nathanal, and Mikhihu, to teach in the Cities of
8 judah; and with them the Levites, Shemhiu, and Nathanihu, and Zaka— rhiu, and Asahal, and Shemiramoth, and jhonathan, and Aduihu, and 'I`obihu,and Tob-adoniah, the Levites, and Alishama,and jhoram the Priests, who taught in judah. They had a book of the Laws ofthe Ev1za—r.1vmc; with them, and they went round in all the towns of judah, and taught the people, so that a reverence for the EVER- Liv1NG came upon all the Kings of the neighbouring countries around judah, and they did not tight with jhosaphat. The Philishtim also brought tribute
to jhosaphat, and a money tax ; while the Arabians brought him of sheep seven thousand seven hundred rams; and seven thousand seven hundred he- goats. T husjhosaphat advanced and increased continually, and built Palaces in judea and residential towns. Hehad many well-disciplined soldiers in the Cities of judah, and a large army of brave merrin jerusalem, whose Commanderspf their Ancestral Houses, were the following :—·-As Generals in Judah were Aduah, the Commander - in - Chief, and three hundred thousand soldiers under him. And his Lieutenant was General hehanan, and with him were two undred and eighty thousand. Au :1 under him Amasiah,·ben—Zikri,
the Volunteer, and with him two hundred thousand trained men. Aliada was the Commander of the
disciplined troops from Benjamin, and had with him of Archers and Shield—men, two hundred thousand, His Lieutenant was jhozabad, who
contracted for a hundred and eighty thousand armed for war. These served the King, besides those
the King placed in the Fortified Cities of judah. IO X! I2 16 x8
(897 ac.) 3l;usiiplmt’¤ lili·usprritg. Ile joins §\l;alr against iliuuctlr Chilean. ]l1osaphat thus possessed wealth
and honour, in plenty, and made friendship with Ahab, and went down at the end of Summer to Ahab at Shomeron, when Ahab sacrificed many sheep and oxen, as did his people, and he persuaded him to advance against Ramoth-Gilad. For Ahab, King of Israel, said to jhosa- Will you go with me to Ramoth-Gilad? 087
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