and he said, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;Make many cisterns in this valley,&#8217;<n id="1" />

So he asked Gehazi,<n id="1" /> &#8220;What can I do for her?&#8221; Gehazi replied, &#8220;She has no son, and her husband is old.&#8221;

Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved,<n id="1" /> just as<n id="2" /> Jehoiada the priest taught him.

It was handed over<n id="1" /> to the foremen who used it to repair the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

They worshiped<n id="1" /> the disgusting idols<n id="2" /> in blatant disregard of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s command.<n id="3" />p>

The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate<n id="1" /> them.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;p> <p class="poetry">survivors will come out of Mount Zion.p> <p class="poetry">The intense devotion of the sovereign <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> to his people<n id="2" /> will accomplish this.p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations<n id="2" /> whom the <sc>Lordsc> drove out from before the Israelites.

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah&#8217;s reign, such a Passover of the <sc>Lordsc> was observed in Jerusalem.p>

So the palace supervisor,<n id="1" /> the city commissioner,<n id="2" /> the leaders,<n id="3" /> and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, &#8220;We are your subjects!<n id="4" /> Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Jehu, &#8220;You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab&#8217;s dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.&#8221;<n id="1" />

They would then hand over<n id="1" /> the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen<n id="2" /> assigned to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple,

They abandoned all the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky,<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> Baal.

<p class="bodytext">To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the <sc>Lordsc> gave<n id="2" /> the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

These nations are worshiping the <sc>Lordsc> and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.p>

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> them.

&#8220;King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins.<n id="1" /> He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.<n id="2" />