Benaiah was the leader of the thirty warriors and his division; his son was Ammizabad.

All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

Later King Jehoshaphat of Judah made an alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, who did evil.

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.

Uzziah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah had passed away.

He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.

During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.

From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also known as Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

Shallum son of Hallohesh, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to him, assisted by his daughters.

And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who together with his colleagues was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.