Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them;<n id="1" /> 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

<p class="bodytext">King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Abijah,<n id="2" /> the daughter of Zechariah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did evil in the sight of<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> his God.

<p class="bodytext">All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400.<n id="1" /> Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.p>

As they were able,<n id="1" /> they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas<n id="2" /> of gold, 5,000 minas<n id="3" /> of silver, and 100 priestly robes.<n id="4" />p>

not counting their 7,337 male and female servants. They also had 245 male and female singers.

<v id="(7:68)" /><n id="1" /> 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

to have them observe the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of the month of Adar each year

<p class="poetry">For Syria&#8217;s leader is Damascus,p> <p class="poetry">and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.p> <p class="poetry">Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">There will be some left behind,p> <p class="poetry">like when an olive tree is beaten &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top,p> <p class="poetry">four or five on its fruitful branches,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time five cities<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies. One will be called the City of the Sun.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger<n id="1" /> went out and killed 185,000 troops<n id="2" /> in the Assyrian camp. When they<n id="3" /> got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirtieth year,<n id="1" /> on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles<n id="2" /> at the Kebar River,<n id="3" /> the heavens opened<n id="4" /> and I saw a divine vision.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month,<n id="1" /> a refugee came to me from Jerusalem<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;The city has been defeated!&#8221;<n id="3" />

He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet<n id="1" /> from one entrance to the opposite one.

There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others;<n id="1" /> 87½ feet<n id="2" /> long and 43¾ feet<n id="3" /> wide.

its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches. It had windows all around it; its length was 87½ feet<n id="1" /> and its width 43¾ feet.<n id="2" />