Sheshan gave his daughter to his servant Jarha as a wife; she bore him Attai.

The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

They were allotted as cities of refuge Shechem and its pasturelands (in the hill country of Ephraim), Gezer and its pasturelands,

The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

From Naphtali there were 1,000 officers, along with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears.

The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah, the oldest. Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had many descendants.

He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.

He made the curtain out of violet, purple, crimson, and white fabrics, and embroidered on it decorative cherubim.

He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

Asa passed away in the forty-first year of his reign.

The conspirators were Zabad son of Shimeath (an Ammonite woman) and Jehozabad son of Shimrith (a Moabite woman).

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

Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

Everything was verified by number and by weight, and the total weight was written down at that time.

So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

Or ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?

“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.