So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.

The officers of the units of hundreds did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported to Jehoiada the priest.

The two units who are off duty on the Sabbath will guard the Lord’s temple and protect the king.

Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and hit the water with it. The water divided, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

He looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.

While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.

They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.

pick the best and most capable of your master’s sons, place him on his father’s throne, and defend your master’s dynasty.”

He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar.

They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.

Each of them quickly took off his cloak and they spread them out at Jehu’s feet on the steps. The trumpet was blown and they shouted, “Jehu is king!”

“This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read.

Dogs will devour Jezebel on the plot of ground in Jezreel; she will not be buried.’” Then he opened the door and ran away.

He also removed the Sabbath awning that had been built in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria.