Now as Peter was utterly perplexed in himself as to what the  ¹vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made diligent inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate.

And they called out and inquired whether Simon, who is surnamed Peter, was lodging there.

And while Peter was pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, there are three men seeking you.

But rise up, go down and go with them, doubting nothing, because  ¹I have sent them.

And Peter went down to the men and said, Behold, I am he whom you seek; what is the cause for which you have come?

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God and is well attested to by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear words from you.

So he called them in and lodged them. And on the next day he rose up and went away with them; and  ¹some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

And on the next day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was awaiting them, having called together his relatives and intimate friends.

And when Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and falling at his feet, worshipped him.

But Peter raised him up, saying, Rise up; I myself am also a man.

And as he talked with him, he entered and found many who had come together.

And he said to them, You understand that it is unlawful for a man who is a Jew to join himself to or come near one of another race; yet God has shown me that I should not call any  ¹man common or unclean.

Hence, even without objection I came when I had been sent for. I ask therefore, For what reason have you sent for me?

And Cornelius said, Four days ago to this hour I was praying at the ninth hour in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

And he said, Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

Send therefore to Joppa and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this man is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.

Therefore I sent men at once to you, and you have done nobly in coming. Now therefore we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord.

And opening his mouth, Peter said, In truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,

But in every nation he who fears Him and works righteousness is  ¹acceptable to Him.

The word which He sent to the sons of Israel in announcing the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ (this One is Lord of  ¹all)

You yourselves know,  ¹the word which has been spoken throughout the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John proclaimed:

Jesus, the One from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all those who were being oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

And we are witnesses of all the things which He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom also they did away with by hanging Him on a tree.

This One,  ¹God raised on the third day; and He has made Him  ²manifest,

Not to all the people, but to witnesses appointed beforehand by God, to us, ones who ate and drank with Him after  ¹He rose from the dead.

And He has charged us to proclaim to the people and solemnly testify that this is the One who was designated by God to be the  ¹Judge of the living and the dead.

To this One all the prophets testify that through His name everyone who believes into Him will receive  ¹forgiveness of sins.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit  ¹fell upon all those  ²hearing the word.

And the believers who were of the circumcision, as many as had accompanied Peter, were amazed, because on the Gentiles also the  ¹gift of the Holy Spirit had been  ²poured out;

For they heard them  ¹speaking in tongues and  ²magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Can anyone forbid the water so that these would not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit even  ¹as we?

And he charged them to be  ¹baptized  ²in the  ³name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

And all the people of Judah took  ¹Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

It was he who built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jechiliah, from Jerusalem.

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.

And he set himself to seek after God during the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought after Jehovah, God caused him to prosper.

And he went out and waged war against the Philistines. And he broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the vicinity of Ashdod and among the Philistines.

And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur-baal and against the Meunim.

And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah; and his fame went as far as the entrance of Egypt, for he became exceedingly strong.

And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and he fortified them.

And he built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle, both in the lowlands and in the plain; he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fruitful fields, for he loved the soil.

Furthermore Uzziah had an army of soldiers that went out to war in companies according to the number of their muster done by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

The whole number of heads of fathers' houses, of mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.

And under their hand was an army force of three hundred seven thousand five hundred who could make war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.

And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets and body armor and bows and sling stones.

And in Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and at the corners for shooting with arrows and great stones. And his fame went out far abroad, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

But when he had become strong, his heart became uplifted, to his own destruction. And he trespassed against Jehovah his God and went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the incense altar.

And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with  ¹Azariah were eighty priests of Jehovah who were valiant men.

And they withstood Uzziah the king and said to him, It does not belong to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed and there will be no honor for you from Jehovah God.

Then Uzziah became angry, and in his hand was a censer for burning incense. And when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah beside the incense altar.

And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and there he was, leprous on his forehead; and they rushed him out of there, and he himself also hurried out to go out, for Jehovah had stricken him.

So Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death; and he dwelt in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah. And Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote down the rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first and the last.

And Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field which belonged to the kings, for they said, He is a leper.

And Jotham his son reigned in his place.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah according to all that his father Uzziah had done; only he did not enter into the temple of Jehovah. Yet the people still acted corruptly.

He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah and built much on the wall of the Ophel.

And he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.

And he fought with the king of the children of Ammon and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him that same year one hundred talents of silver and ten thousand  ¹cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. This much did the children of Ammon pay him also in the second and third years.

So Jotham became strong, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

And the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways are there written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David.

And Ahaz his son reigned in his place.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the sight of Jehovah as David his father had done,

But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made molten images for the Baals.

And he burned incense in the  ¹valley of the son of Hinnom and burned his children in fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every flourishing tree.

Therefore Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him and carried away captive from him a great multitude. And they brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, and he struck a great blow on him.

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew one hundred twenty thousand in Judah on one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the ruler of the house, and Elkanah, who was second to the king.

And the children of Israel carried away captive two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters of their brothers, and also plundered much spoil from them; and they brought the spoil to Samaria.

But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that was coming to Samaria and said to them, Now, because Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

And now you intend to subjugate the children of Judah and Jerusalem as your male and female slaves. Is there not even with you anything but trespasses against Jehovah your God?

Now therefore listen to me, and return the captives that you have carried away captive from among your brothers, for the burning anger of Jehovah is upon you.

Then some of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan and Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum and Amasa the son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming from the war;

And they said to them, You shall not bring the captives here, for you intend to bring a trespass against Jehovah upon us to add to our sins and our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is burning anger upon Israel.

So the soldiers left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.

And those men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them. And they clothed them and gave them sandals and fed them and gave them something to drink, and they anointed them and carried all the feeble among them on asses and brought them to Jericho, the city of palms, to their brothers. And they returned to Samaria.

At that time King Ahaz sent word to the kings of Assyria to help him,

For again the Edomites came and struck Judah and carried away captives.

And the Philistines raided the cities of the lowlands and the south of Judah and took Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco with its villages and Timnah with its villages and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there.

For Jehovah humbled Judah on account of Ahaz the king of Israel, for he cast off restraint in Judah and trespassed greatly against Jehovah.

And Tilgath-pilneser the king of Assyria came against him and distressed him and did not strengthen him.

For Ahaz took away a portion of the house of Jehovah and of the house of the king and the officials and gave it to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

And at the time of his distress, he added to his trespass against Jehovah, this same King Ahaz;

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had struck him, for he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, to them will I sacrifice, so that they will help me. But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut the vessels of the house of God into pieces, and he shut up the doors of the house of Jehovah and made himself altars in every corner in Jerusalem.

And in every city of Judah he made high places for burning incense to other gods and provoked Jehovah, the God of his fathers, to anger.

Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, the first and the last, are there written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

And Ahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel.