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On the ninth day when Lael reached Adjara the Issacharites of that city provided more pack animals for their goods, and two of the asses bore sufficient arms for twelve men, lest Lael run afoul of men or nephilim of the House of Bellon.

Within Adjara lay the Kemenly temple of Yahweh which men of the whole House of Israel had begun to build, and there Levites in exile guarded the Ark containing the Table of the Covenant.

And Bat-El had given commandment that the Ark should pass into the safekeeping of Lael and his sons until the temple was sanctified, that they may both preserve the stone tablet of the Abrahamic covenant and secure the White Scroll of Leliel contained within the chest.

King Thausael of Hadal laid upon Lael and his three sons a charge to bear the Ark on two gold-plated staves through rings in the side of the artifact. And when they were not actively carrying the Ark they were to set the ends of the staves through four stones pierced with holes.

Every time Lael paused, said King Thausael, the four stones were to be set on pillars of greater stones gathered from the ground around the encampment. The king said the Ark must never touch the ground, and save for the lid the Ark must never be touched by man nor beast.

Then Lael was bid to pass through Eliath Wood to a choice land prepared for him. But Lael would never be abandoned or forgotten, assured King Thausael, because the oracles of Yahweh came only through the Ark, and ever men of the House of Israel would come seeking for them.

When Pharaoh Necho II marched his army toward the River Euphrates to bring succor to the Assyrians King Josiah went out to confront them at the Jezreel Valley. Necho sent an epistle to Josiah that said, "What have we to do with one another, king of Judah? I am not come against you, but I march to break the seige at Harran."

In reply Josiah moved to block the narrow defile that reached the Jezreel Valley at Megiddo but the king was slain by archers. And his servants carried his body in a chariot to Jerusalem and laid him in a tomb, and his son Jehoahaz succeeded him.

King Jehoahaz reigned only three months in Jerusalem. Pharaoh Neco took him captive at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and demanded a tribute of much silver and gold.