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1:1 And king David was old [and] advanced in age; and they
 covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.
1:2 And his servants said to him, Let there be found for my lord
 the king a young virgin; and let her stand before the king, and
 let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord
 the king may get warm.
1:3 And they sought for a fair damsel throughout the territory
 of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to
 the king.
1:4 And the damsel was very fair; and cherished the king, and
 ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
1:5 And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I
 will be king; and he provided himself chariots and horsemen,
 and fifty men to run before him.
1:6 And his father had not grieved him at any time in saying,
 Why doest thou so? and he was also a very comely man; and [his
 mother] bore him after Absalom.
1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with
 Abiathar the priest; and they helped Adonijah and followed
 [him].
1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
 Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men
 whom David had, were not with Adonijah.
1:9 And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fatted cattle by
 the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and invited all
 his brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the
 king's servants;
1:10 but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men,
 and Solomon his brother, he did not invite.
1:11 And Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon,
 saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith is
 king, and David our lord does not know [it]?
1:12 And now, come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that
 thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son
 Solomon.
1:13 Go and get thee in to king David, and say to him, Didst not
 thou, my lord, O king, swear to thy handmaid saying, Solomon
 thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
 why then does Adonijah reign?
1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also
 will come in after thee and confirm thy words.
1:15 And Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber; and the
 king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the
 king.
1:16 And Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance to the king. And the
 king said, What wouldest thou?
1:17 And she said to him, My lord, thou hast sworn by Jehovah
 thy God to thy handmaid, [saying,] Solomon thy son shall reign
 after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
1:18 And now behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the
 king, thou knowest it not.
1:19 And he has sacrificed oxen and fatted cattle and sheep in
 abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and
 Abiathar the priest and Joab the captain of the host; but
 Solomon thy servant has he not invited.
1:20 And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon
 thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne
 of my lord the king after him.
1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass when my lord the king shall
 sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be
 counted offenders.
1:22 And behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the
 prophet also came in.
1:23 And they told the king saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet.
 And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself
 before the king with his face to the ground.
1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah
 shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
1:25 For he is gone down this day, and has sacrificed oxen and
 fatted cattle and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the
 king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the
 priest; and behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God
 save king Adonijah!
1:26 But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and
 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, he has
 not invited.
1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not
 shewn to thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord
 the king after him?
1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And
 she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
1:29 And the king swore, and said, [As] Jehovah liveth, who has
 redeemed my soul out of all distress,
1:30 even as I swore to thee by Jehovah the God of Israel,
 saying, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit
 on my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
1:31 And Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did
 reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live
 for ever.
1:32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan
 the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came
 before the king.
1:33 And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of
 your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule,
 and bring him down to Gihon;
1:34 and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
 there king over Israel; and blow ye with the trumpet, and say,
 Long live king Solomon!
1:35 And ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit on
 my throne; for he shall reign in my stead, and I have appointed
 him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said,
 Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so too.
1:37 As Jehovah has been with my lord the king, even so be he
 with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my
 lord king David.
1:38 And Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah
 the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites
 went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule,
 and brought him to Gihon.
1:39 And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the
 tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet;
 and all the people said, Long live king Solomon!
1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped
 with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent
 with the sound of them.
1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard
 [it] as they were finishing their repast; and Joab heard the
 sound of the trumpet, and he said, Wherefore this noise of the
 city in an uproar?
1:42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar
 the priest came; and Adonijah said [to him], Come in; for thou
 art a valiant man, and bringest good news.
1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Indeed, our
 lord king David has made Solomon king.
1:44 And the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan
 the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the
 Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to
 ride upon the king's mule;
1:45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed
 him king at Gihon; and they are come up from thence rejoicing,
 so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise which ye
 have heard.
1:46 And also Solomon is sitting on the throne of the kingdom.
1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord
 king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon more
 excellent than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy
 throne! And the king bowed himself on the bed.
1:48 And also thus said the king: Blessed be Jehovah, the God of
 Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, mine
 eyes even seeing it.
1:49 And all Adonijah's guests were afraid, and rose up and went
 every man his way.
1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose and went
 and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
1:51 And it was told Solomon saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king
 Solomon; for behold, he has caught hold of the horns of the
 altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me this day that he
 will not put his servant to death with the sword.
1:52 And Solomon said, If he be a worthy man, there shall not
 one of his hairs fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found
 in him, he shall die.
1:53 And king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the
 altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon; and
 Solomon said to him, Go to thy house.
2:1 And the days of David were at hand that he should die; and
 he enjoined Solomon his son saying,
2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be of good courage therefore,
 and be a man;
2:3 and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways,
 to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances,
 and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that
 thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever
 thou turnest thyself;
2:4 that Jehovah may confirm his word which he spoke concerning
 me, saying, If thy sons take heed to their way, to walk before
 me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there
 shall not fail thee, said he, a man upon the throne of Israel.
2:5 And thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to
 me, what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to
 Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he
 slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of
 war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and upon his
 sandals that were on his feet.
2:6 And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his
 hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.
2:7 But shew kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite,
 and let them be of those that eat at thy table; for so they
 came up to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
2:8 And behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the
 Benjaminite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in
 the day that I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at
 the Jordan, and I swore to him by Jehovah saying, I will not
 put thee to death with the sword.
2:9 And now hold him not guiltless; for thou art a wise man, and
 thou shalt know what thou oughtest to do to him; but bring his
 hoar head down to Sheol with blood.
2:10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
 city of David.
2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty
 years: he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned
 thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
2:12 And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his
 kingdom was established greatly.
2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the
 mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he
 said, Peaceably.
2:14 And he said, I have something to say to thee. And she said,
 Speak.
2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and
 all Israel had set their faces on me that I should reign; but
 the kingdom is turned about and is become my brother's, for it
 was his from Jehovah.
2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee; refuse me not. And she
 said to him, Speak.
2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, to Solomon the king -- for
 he will not refuse thee -- that he give me Abishag the
 Shunammite as wife.
2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well, I will speak for thee to the
 king.
2:19 And Bathsheba went to king Solomon, to speak to him for
 Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself
 to her, and sat down on his throne; and he caused a throne to
 be set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.
2:20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; refuse
 me not. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, for I will
 not refuse thee.
2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to
 Adonijah thy brother as wife.
2:22 And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why
 dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him
 the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him,
 and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
2:23 And king Solomon swore by Jehovah saying, God do so to me,
 and more also, -- Adonijah has spoken this word against his own
 life!
2:24 And now [as] Jehovah liveth, who has established me, and
 set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a
 house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of
 Jehoiada; who fell on him, that he died.
2:26 And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth,
 to thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death; but I will
 not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the
 ark of Adonai Jehovah before David my father, and because thou
 hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
2:27 And Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to
 Jehovah, to fulfil the word of Jehovah, which he had spoken
 concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
2:28 And the report came to Joab (for Joab had turned after
 Adonijah, though he had not turned after Absalom); and Joab
 fled to the tent of Jehovah, and caught hold of the horns of
 the altar.
2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent
 of Jehovah; and behold, he is by the altar. And Solomon sent
 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.
2:30 And Benaiah came to the tent of Jehovah and said to him,
 Thus saith the king: Come forth. And he said, No; for I will
 die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus
 said Joab, and thus he answered me.
2:31 And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon
 him, and bury him; and take away the innocent blood, which Joab
 shed, from me and from the house of my father.
2:32 And Jehovah shall requite the blood which he shed upon his
 own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and
 better than he, and slew them with the sword, without my father
 David's knowledge: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of
 Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of
 Judah.
2:33 And their blood shall be requited upon the head of Joab,
 and upon the head of his seed for ever; but upon David, and
 upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall
 there be peace for ever from Jehovah.
2:34 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him,
 and put him to death; and he was buried in his own house in the
 wilderness.
2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his stead
 over the host; and Zadok the priest the king put in the stead
 of Abiathar.
2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him,
 Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and abide there, and go not
 forth thence anywhere.
2:37 And it shall be that on the day thou goest forth, and
 passest over the torrent of Kidron, ... know for certain that
 thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
2:38 And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord
 the king has said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in
 Jerusalem many days.
2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two
 servants of Shimei's ran away to Achish son of Maachah, king of
 Gath. And they told Shimei saying, Behold, thy servants are in
 Gath.
2:40 Then Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath,
 to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought
 his servants from Gath.
2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem
 to Gath, and had come again.
2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him,
 Did I not make thee swear by Jehovah, and protest to thee,
 saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest forth, and
 walkest abroad anywhere, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst
 to me, The word that I have heard is good.
2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the
 commandment that I charged thee with?
2:44 And the king said to Shimei, Thou knowest all the
 wickedness of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to
 David my father; and Jehovah returns thy wickedness upon thine
 own head;
2:45 and king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David
 shall be established before Jehovah for ever.
2:46 And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; who
 went out and fell upon him, and he died. And the kingdom was
 established in the hand of Solomon.
3:1 And Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of
 Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the
 city of David, until he had ended building his own house, and
 the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
3:2 Only, the people sacrificed on the high places; for there
 was no house built to the name of Jehovah, until those days.
3:3 And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David
 his father; only, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high
 places.
3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was
 the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon
 offer up upon that altar.
3:5 In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night;
 and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewn unto thy servant David my
 father great loving-kindness, according as he walked before
 thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of
 heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great
 loving-kindness, that thou hast given him a son who sits upon
 his throne, as it is this day.
3:7 And now, Jehovah my God, thou hast made thy servant king
 instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know
 not to go out and to come in.
3:8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou
 hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor
 counted for multitude.
3:9 Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to
 judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who is
 able to judge this thy numerous people?
3:10 And the word pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this
 thing.
3:11 And God said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing,
 and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked
 riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies,
 but hast asked for thyself discernment to understand judgment;
3:12 behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have
 given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there
 hath been none like unto thee before thee, neither after thee
 shall any arise like unto thee.
3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked,
 both riches and glory; so that there shall not be any among the
 kings like unto thee all thy days.
3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and
 my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will
 prolong thy days.
3:15 And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came
 to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of
 Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered
 peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
3:16 Then came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before
 him.
3:17 And the first woman said, Ah, my lord! I and this woman
 abode in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in
 the house.
3:18 And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered,
 that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; no
 stranger was with us in the house, only we two were in the
 house.
3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she had
 lain upon it.
3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
 while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid
 her dead son in my bosom.
3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,
 behold, it was dead; and I considered it in the morning, and
 behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
3:22 And the other woman said, No, for the living is my son, and
 the dead is thy son. And this one said, No, but the dead is thy
 son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
3:23 Then said the king, The one says, This that is living is my
 son, and thy son is the dead; and the other says, No, for thy
 son is the dead, and my son is the living.
3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a
 sword before the king.
3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give
 half to the one, and half to the other.
3:26 Then spoke the woman whose was the living child to the
 king, for her bowels yearned over her son, and she said, Ah, my
 lord! give her the living child, and in no wise put it to
 death. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine;
 divide it.
3:27 And the king answered and said, Give this one the living
 child, and in no wise put it to death: she is its mother.
3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
 judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom
 of God was in him, to do justice.
4:1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
4:2 And these are the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of
 Zadok was priest;
4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
 Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, chronicler;
4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok
 and Abiathar were priests;
4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the superintendents;
 and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, the king's
 friend;
4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of
 Abda was over the levy-service.
4:7 And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel; and
 they provided food for the king and his household: each man his
 month in the year had to make provision.
4:8 And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
4:9 Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and
 Elon-Beth-hanan.
4:10 Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; he had Sochoh, and all the land of
 Hepher.
4:11 Ben-Abinadab had all the upland of Dor; Taphath the
 daughter of Solomon was his wife.
4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all
 Beth-shean, which is by Zaretan beneath Jizreel, from
 Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, as far as beyond Jokneam.
4:13 Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead; he had the villages of Jair
 the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he had the region of
 Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and
 bars of bronze.
4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, at Mahanaim.
4:15 Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of
 Solomon as wife.
4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.
4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.
4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin.
4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of
 Sihon the king of the Amorites, and of Og the king of Bashan;
 and [he was] the only superintendent that was in the land.
4:20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea
 in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
4:21 And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the
 land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt:
 they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his
 life.
4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of
 fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
4:23 ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a
 hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer,
 and fatted fowl.
4:24 For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from
 Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the
 river; and he had peace on all sides round about.
4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine
 and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the
 days of Solomon.
4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
 chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
4:27 And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for
 all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month:
 they let nothing be wanting.
4:28 And the barley, and the straw for the horses and coursers,
 they brought to the place where [the superintendents] were,
 every man according to his charge.
4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding
 and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the
 sea-shore.
4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of
 the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
 Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame
 was in all the nations round about.
4:32 And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a
 thousand and five.
4:33 And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on
 Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he
 spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and
 of fishes.
4:34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of
 Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his
 wisdom.
5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he
 had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his
 father; for Hiram always loved David.
5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
5:3 Thou knowest that David my father could not build a house
 unto the name of Jehovah his God, because of the wars which
 were about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the
 soles of his feet.
5:4 But now Jehovah my God has given me rest on every side:
 there is neither adversary nor evil event.
5:5 And behold, I purpose to build a house unto the name of
 Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spoke to David my father saying, Thy
 son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy stead, he shall
 build a house unto my name.
5:6 And now command that they hew me cedar-trees out of Lebanon;
 and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give
 thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt
 say; for thou knowest that there is not among us any that are
 experienced in cutting timber like to the Zidonians.
5:7 And it came to pass when Hiram heard the words of Solomon,
 that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Jehovah this
 day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.
5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the things
 which thou sentest to me for: I will do all thy desire
 concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of cypress.
5:9 My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon to the sea;
 and I will convey them by sea [in] rafts to the place that thou
 shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there,
 and thou shalt receive them. And thou shalt accomplish my
 desire in giving food for my household.
5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees
 [according to] all his desire.
5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as
 food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil: thus
 gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
5:12 And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom as he promised him. And
 there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a
 league.
5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the
 levy was thirty thousand men.
5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by
 courses; a month they were in Lebanon, two months at home; and
 Adoniram was over the levy.
5:15 And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and
 eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains;
5:16 besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work,
 three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that
 wrought in the work.
5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,
 costly stones, hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the
 Giblites hewed them, and prepared timber and stones to build
 the house.
6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year
 after the children of Israel were come out of the land of
 Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in
 the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to
 build the house of Jehovah.
6:2 And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty
 cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in
 height.
6:3 And the porch, in front of the temple of the house, was
 twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, [and]
 ten cubits was its breadth, in front of the house.
6:4 And for the house he made closed windows with fixed
 lattices.
6:5 And against the wall of the house he built floors round
 about, [against] the walls of the house, round about the temple
 and the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
6:6 The lowest floor was five cubits broad, and the middle one
 was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for
 in the [thickness of the wall of] the house he made resets
 round about outside, that nothing should be fastened in the
 walls of the house.
6:7 And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone
 entirely made ready before it was brought thither; so that
 there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in
 the house while it was being built.
6:8 The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor] was
 in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding
 stairs into the middle [floor], and out of the middle into the
 third.
6:9 And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the
 house with beams and boards of cedar.
6:10 And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits
 high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.
6:11 And the word of Jehovah came to Solomon saying,
6:12 As to this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk
 in my statutes, and practise mine ordinances, and keep all my
 commandments to walk in them, then will I perform my word as to
 thee which I spoke unto David thy father;
6:13 and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not
 forsake my people Israel.
6:14 And Solomon built the house and finished it.
6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of
 cedar, from the floor of the house to the walls of the roof; he
 overlaid [them] on the inside with wood, and overlaid the floor
 of the house with boards of cypress.
6:16 And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the
 house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built
 [them] for it within, to [be] the oracle, the most holy place.
6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty
 cubits [long].
6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with
 colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no
 stone seen.
6:19 And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house
 within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
6:20 And the oracle within was twenty cubits in length, and
 twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height
 thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the
 cedar-wood altar --
6:21 and Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and
 shut off the oracle in front with chains of gold, and overlaid
 it with gold.
6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, the whole house
 entirely; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he
 overlaid with gold.
6:23 And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, ten
 cubits high;
6:24 and one wing of the cherub was five cubits, and five cubits
 the other wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the end of one
 wing to the end of the other wing;
6:25 and the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were
 of one measure and one form.
6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the
 other cherub.
6:27 And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner house;
 and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the
 wing of the one touched the wall, and the wing of the other
 cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched, wing to
 wing, in the midst of the house.
6:28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with
 carved sculptures of cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open
 flowers, within and without.
6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within
 and without.
6:31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of
 olive-wood: the lintel [and] side posts were the fifth part [of
 the breadth of the house].
6:32 The two doors were of olive-wood; and he carved on them
 carvings of cherubim, and palm-trees and half-open flowers, and
 overlaid them with gold, and spread gold on the cherubim and on
 the palm-trees.
6:33 And he also made for the doorway of the temple posts of
 olive-wood, of the fourth part [of the breadth of the house].
6:34 And the two folding-doors were of cypress-wood: the two
 leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the
 other door were folding.
6:35 And he carved on them cherubim, and palm-trees, and
 half-open flowers; and overlaid them with gold fitted on the
 carved work.
6:36 And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone,
 and a row of cedar-beams.
6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of
 Jehovah laid, in the month Zif;
6:38 and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
 eighth month, was the house finished in all its parts, and
 according to all the fashion of it. So he was seven years in
 building it.
7:1 And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and
 he finished all his house.
7:2 And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length
 was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its
 height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar-pillars, with
 cedar-beams upon the pillars;
7:3 and it was covered with cedar above upon the side-chambers,
 which were on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
7:4 And there were cross-beams in three rows, and window was
 against window in three ranks.
7:5 And all the doors and posts were square, with an architrave;
 and window was against window in three ranks.
7:6 And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty
 cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and there was a porch in
 front of them; and there were pillars, and steps in front of
 them.
7:7 And he made the porch for the throne where he judged, the
 porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to
 floor.
7:8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the
 porch, which was of the like work. And he made, like to this
 porch, a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken.
7:9 All these [buildings] were of costly stones, hewn stones,
 according to the measures, sawed with saws, within and without,
 even from the foundation to the coping, and on the outside as
 far as the great court.
7:10 And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones,
 stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
7:11 And above were costly stones, hewn stones, according to the
 measures, and cedar.
7:12 And the great court round about had three rows of hewn
 stones, and a row of cedar-beams; and so it was for the inner
 court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.
7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
7:14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his
 father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was full of
 wisdom and understanding and knowledge, to do all kinds of
 works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and made all his
 work.
7:15 And he formed the two pillars of brass; the height of one
 pillar was eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits
 encompassed the second pillar.
7:16 And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the
 tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five
 cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits;
7:17 [and] nets of checker-work, wreaths of chain-work, for the
 capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the
 one capital and seven for the other capital.
7:18 And he made pomegranates, namely two rows round about upon
 the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top
 of the pillars; and so he did for the other capital.
7:19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were
 of lily-work [as] in the porch, four cubits.
7:20 And the capitals upon the two pillars, above also, close to
 the enlargement which was behind the network, had two hundred
 pomegranates in rows round about, [also] on the other capital.
7:21 And he set up the pillars for the porch of the temple; and
 he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he
 set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.
7:22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work; and the work
 of the pillars was finished.
7:23 And he made the sea, molten, ten cubits from brim to brim,
 round all about; and its height was five cubits; and a line of
 thirty cubits encompassed it round about.
7:24 And under the brim of it round about there were colocynths,
 encompassing it, ten in a cubit enclosing the sea round about;
 two rows of colocynths, cast when it was cast.
7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north,
 and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the
 south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was above
 upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
7:26 And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim was like
 the work of the brim of a cup, with lily-blossoms; it held two
 thousand baths.
7:27 And he made ten bases of brass: four cubits was the length
 of one base, and the breadth four cubits, and the height three
 cubits.
7:28 And the work of the bases was this: they had panels, and
 the panels were between the fillets.
7:29 And on the panels that were between the fillets were lions,
 oxen and cherubim; and over the fillets there was a base above;
 and beneath the lions and oxen were garlands of festoon-work.
7:30 And every base had four wheels of brass, and axles of
 brass; and on its four corners were shoulder-pieces: under the
 laver were shoulder-pieces molten, behind every garland.
7:31 And the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit;
 and its mouth was rounded, [as] the work of the base, a cubit
 and a half; and also upon its mouth was sculpture; but their
 panels were square, not round.
7:32 And the four wheels were under the panels; and the supports
 of the wheels were in the base; and the height of a wheel was a
 cubit and half a cubit.
7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot
 wheel: their supports, and their rims, and their spokes and
 their naves were all molten.
7:34 And there were four shoulder-pieces to the four corners of
 one base; of the base itself were its shoulder-pieces.
7:35 And in the top of the base there was a circular elevation
 of half a cubit round about; and on the top of the base its
 stays and its panels were of the same.
7:36 And he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its
 panels cherubim, lions and palm-trees, according to the space
 upon each; and garlands were round about.
7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had
 one casting, one measure, one form.
7:38 And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
 baths; every laver was four cubits; upon every one of the ten
 bases one laver.
7:39 And he put the bases, five on the right side of the house,
 and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea on
 the right side of the house eastward, over against the south.
7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the bowls.
 So Hiram ended doing all the work that he made for king Solomon
 [for] the house of Jehovah:
7:41 two pillars, and the globes of the capitals that were on
 the top of the pillars, two; and the two networks, to cover the
 two globes of the capitals which were on the top of the
 pillars;
7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two
 rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two globes
 of the capitals which were upon the pillars;
7:43 and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;
7:44 and one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls. And all these
 things, which Hiram made king Solomon for the house of Jehovah,
 were of bright brass.
7:46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the
 clay-ground between Succoth and Zaretan.
7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed] from their
 exceeding number; the weight of the brass was not ascertained.
7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were [in] the house
 of Jehovah: the golden altar; and the table of gold, whereon
 was the shewbread;
7:49 and the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right, and
 five on the left, before the oracle; and the flowers, and the
 lamps, and the tongs of gold,
7:50 and the basons, and the knives, and the bowls, and the
 cups, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, for
 the folding-doors of the inner house, the most holy place,
 [and] for the doors of the house, of the temple.
7:51 And all the work was finished that king Solomon made for
 the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the things that
 David his father had dedicated; the silver and the gold and the
 vessels he put among the treasures of the house of Jehovah.
8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
 heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers of the children
 of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
 of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is
 Zion.
8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king
 Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, that is, the seventh
 month.
8:3 And all the elders of Israel came; and the priests took up
 the ark.
8:4 And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of
 meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent: the
 priests and the Levites brought them up.
8:5 And king Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel that were
 assembled to him, [who were] with him before the ark,
 sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be counted nor
 numbered for multitude.
8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
 Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the
 most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim;
8:7 for the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the
 place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its
 staves above.
8:8 And the staves were long, so that the ends of the staves
 were seen from the holy place before the oracle, but they were
 not seen without. And there they are to this day.
8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone
 which Moses placed there at Horeb, when Jehovah made [a
 covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of
 the land of Egypt.
8:10 And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the
 holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,
8:11 and the priests could not stand to do their service because
 of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of
 Jehovah.
8:12 Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the
 thick darkness.
8:13 I have indeed built a house of habitation for thee, a
 settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
8:14 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
 congregation of Israel; and the whole congregation of Israel
 stood.
8:15 And he said: Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, who
 spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his
 hand fulfilled it, saying,
8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of
 Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build
 a house in, that my name might be there; but I have chosen
 David to be over my people Israel.
8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house
 unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.
8:18 But Jehovah said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy
 heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it
 was in thy heart;
8:19 nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
 that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
 house unto my name.
8:20 And Jehovah has performed his word which he spoke; and I am
 risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne
 of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and I have built the house unto
 the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.
8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the
 covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers when he
 brought them out of the land of Egypt.
8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the
 presence of the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth
 his hands toward the heavens.
8:23 And he said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like
 thee, in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, who
 keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before
 thee with all their heart;
8:24 who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which
 thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast
 fulfilled [it] with thy hand, as at this day.
8:25 And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep with thy servant
 David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,
 There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the
 throne of Israel, if only thy sons take heed to their way, to
 walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy words, I pray thee, be
 verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David my
 father.
8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the
 heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how
 much less this house which I have built!
8:28 Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
 supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to
 the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;
8:29 that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day,
 upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there:
 to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward
 this place.
8:30 And hearken unto the supplication of thy servant, and of
 thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place, and
 hear thou in thy dwelling-place, in the heavens, and when thou
 hearest, forgive.
8:31 If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be
 laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine
 altar in this house;
8:32 then hear thou in the heavens, and do, and judge thy
 servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own
 head; and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his
 righteousness.
8:33 When thy people Israel are put to the worse before the
 enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn
 again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make
 supplication unto thee in this house;
8:34 then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
 people Israel, and bring them again unto the land that thou
 gavest unto their fathers.
8:35 When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because
 they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place,
 and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou
 hast afflicted them;
8:36 then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy
 servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the
 good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land,
 which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
8:37 If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if
 there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy
 besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague,
 whatever sickness there be:
8:38 what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man,
 of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the
 plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands
 toward this house;
8:39 then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy
 dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man
 according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou,
 thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men),
8:40 that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon
 the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
8:41 And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people
 Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake
8:42 (for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty
 hand, and of thy stretched-out arm); when he shall come and
 pray toward this house,
8:43 hear thou in the heavens thy dwelling-place, and do
 according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; in
 order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, [and]
 that they may fear thee as do thy people Israel; and that they
 may know that this house which I have built is called by thy
 name.
8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by the
 way that thou shalt send them, and they pray to Jehovah toward
 the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built
 unto thy name;
8:45 then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their
 supplication, and maintain their right.
8:46 If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that
 sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to
 the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the
 enemy's land, far or near;
8:47 and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they
 were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto
 thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We
 have sinned, and have done iniquity, we have dealt perversely;
8:48 and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with
 all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away
 captive, and pray unto thee toward their land which thou gavest
 unto their fathers, the city that thou hast chosen, and the
 house that I have built unto thy name;
8:49 then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy
 dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain
 their right;
8:50 and forgive thy people their sin against thee, and all
 their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against
 thee, and give them to find compassion with those who carried
 them captive, that they may have compassion on them
8:51 (for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
 broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of
 iron) --
8:52 thine eyes being open unto the supplication of thy servant,
 and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto
 them in all that they call for unto thee.
8:53 For thou hast separated them from among all peoples of the
 earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spokest through Moses
 thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O
 Lord Jehovah.
8:54 And it was so, that when Solomon had ended praying all this
 prayer and supplication to Jehovah, he arose from before the
 altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands
 spread forth to the heavens,
8:55 and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel
 with a loud voice, saying,
8:56 Blessed be Jehovah, who has given rest to his people
 Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed
 one word of all his good promises which he spoke through Moses
 his servant!
8:57 Jehovah our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let
 him not forsake us nor cast us off:
8:58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his
 ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
 ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
8:59 And let these my words, with which I have made supplication
 before Jehovah, be nigh to Jehovah our God day and night, that
 he maintain the right of his servant, and the right of his
 people Israel, as the matter of each day shall require;
8:60 that all peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah is God,
 that there is none else;
8:61 and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to
 walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this
 day.
8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices
 before Jehovah.
8:63 And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace-offerings,
 which he sacrificed to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen and a
 hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
 children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.
8:64 The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that
 was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the
 burnt-offerings, and the oblations, and the fat of the
 peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before
 Jehovah was too small to receive the burnt-offerings, and the
 oblations, and the fat of the peace-offerings.
8:65 And at that time Solomon held the feast, and all Israel
 with him, a great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath
 unto the torrent of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days
 and seven days, fourteen days.
8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed
 the king, and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for
 all the goodness that Jehovah had done to David his servant,
 and to Israel his people.
9:1 And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building
 of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all
 Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
9:2 that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
 appeared to him at Gibeon.
9:3 And Jehovah said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
 supplication which thou hast made before me: I have hallowed
 this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for
 ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
9:4 And [as for] thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
 father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
 according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my
 statutes and mine ordinances;
9:5 then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel
 for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
 shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
 children, and will not keep my commandments, my statutes which
 I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
 them;
9:7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have
 given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name,
 will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and
 a by word among all peoples;
9:8 and this house, [which] is high, every one that passes by it
 shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why
 has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
9:9 And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God,
 who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and
 have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped
 them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought upon them
 all this evil.
9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when
 Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the
 king's house,
9:11 Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with
 cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all
 his desire, -- that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities
 in the land of Galilee.
9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon
 had given him; and they did not please him.
9:13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given
 me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this
 day.
9:14 And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty
 talents of gold.
9:15 And this is the account of the levy which king Solomon
 raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and
 Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and
 Gezer.
9:16 -- Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, and
 burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the
 city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
9:17 -- And Solomon built Gezer, and lower Beth-horon,
9:18 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
9:19 and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and cities for
 chariots, and cities for the horsemen, and that which Solomon
 desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the
 land of his dominion.
9:20 All the people that were left of the Amorites, the
 Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who
 were not of the children of Israel,
9:21 their children that were left after them in the land, whom
 the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, upon
 them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this
 day.
9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen;
 but they were men of war, and his servants, and his chiefs, and
 his captains, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
9:23 These were the chief superintendents that were over
 Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled over the
 people that wrought in the work.
9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to
 her house which he had built for her: then he built Millo.
9:25 And three times in the year did Solomon offer up
 burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar that he had
 built to Jehovah, and he burned incense upon that which was
 before Jehovah. So he finished the house.
9:26 And king Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-Geber,
 which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land
 of Edom.
9:27 And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had
 knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;
9:28 and they went to Ophir, and fetched thence gold, four
 hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
10:1 And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon in
 connection with the name of Jehovah, and came to prove him with
 enigmas.
10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with
 camels that bore spices and gold in very great abundance, and
 precious stones; and she came to Solomon, and spoke to him of
 all that was in her heart.
10:3 And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of: there was
 not a thing hidden from the king that he did not explain to
 her.
10:4 And when the queen of Sheba saw all Solomon's wisdom, and
 the house that he had built,
10:5 and the food of his table, and the deportment of his
 servants, and the order of service of his attendants, and their
 apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up
 to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.
10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard
 in mine own land of thine affairs, and of thy wisdom;
10:7 but I gave no credit to the words, until I came and mine
 eyes had seen; and behold, the half was not told me: in wisdom
 and prosperity thou exceedest the report that I heard.
10:8 Happy are thy men! happy are these thy servants, who stand
 continually before thee, who hear thy wisdom!
10:9 Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set
 thee on the throne of Israel! Because Jehovah loves Israel for
 ever, therefore did he make thee king, to do judgment and
 justice.
10:10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of
 gold, and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones:
 there came no more such abundance of spices as those which the
 queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
10:11 (And the fleet also of Hiram, which carried gold from
 Ophir, brought from Ophir sandal-wood in very great abundance,
 and precious stones.
10:12 And the king made of the sandal-wood a balustrade for the
 house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and lutes
 for the singers. There came no such sandal-wood, nor was there
 seen to this day.)
10:13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her
 desire, whatever she asked, besides what he gave her of the
 bounty of king Solomon. And she turned and went to her own
 land, she and her servants.
10:14 And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year
 was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
10:15 besides what [came] by the dealers, and by the traffic of
 the merchants, and by all the kings of Arabia, and by the
 governors of the country.
10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,
 -- he applied six hundred [shekels] of gold to one target;
10:17 and three hundred shields of beaten gold, -- he applied
 three minas of gold to one shield; and the king put them in the
 house of the forest of Lebanon.
10:18 And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
 with refined gold:
10:19 the throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was
 rounded behind; and there were arms on each side at the place
 of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms;
10:20 and twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the
 other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any
 kingdom.
10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and
 all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
 precious gold: none were of silver, [which] was not of the
 least account in the days of Solomon.
10:22 For the king had on the sea a Tarshish-fleet, with the
 fleet of Hiram: once in three years came the Tarshish-fleet,
 bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
10:23 And king Solomon was greater than all the kings of the
 earth in riches and in wisdom.
10:24 And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear
 his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,
 and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armour, and spices,
 horses and mules, a rate year by year.
10:26 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a
 thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen;
 and he placed them in the chariot-cities, and with the king at
 Jerusalem.
10:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and
 cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for
 abundance.
10:28 And the exportation of horses that Solomon had was from
 Egypt: a caravan of the king's merchants fetched a drove [of
 horses], at a price.
10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six
 hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and
 fifty; and so they brought [them] by their means, for all the
 kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria.
11:1 But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the
 daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites,
 Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;
11:2 of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of
 Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in
 to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after their
 gods: to these Solomon was attached in love.
11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
 hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
11:4 And it came to pass when Solomon was old, [that] his wives
 turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not
 perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
11:5 And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
 Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed
 not fully Jehovah, as David his father.
11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the
 abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before
 Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of
 Ammon.
11:8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense
 and sacrificed to their gods.
11:9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was
 turned away from Jehovah the God of Israel, who had appeared to
 him twice,
11:10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, not to go
 after other gods; but he kept not what Jehovah had commanded.
11:11 And Jehovah said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by
 thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which
 I commanded thee, I will certainly rend the kingdom from thee,
 and will give it to thy servant:
11:12 notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David
 thy father's sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;
11:13 only, I will not rend away all the kingdom: I will give
 one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for
 Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
11:14 And Jehovah stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the
 Edomite; he was of the king's seed in Edom.
11:15 Now it came to pass when David was in Edom, when Joab the
 captain of the host had gone up to bury the slain, after he had
 smitten every male in Edom
11:16 (for Joab abode there six months with all Israel, until he
 had cut off every male in Edom),
11:17 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's
 servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little
 child.
11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran, and took
 men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh
 king of Egypt; who gave him a house, and appointed him
 victuals, and gave him land.
11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, and
 he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of
 Tahpenes the queen.
11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son; and
 Tahpenes brought him up in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in
 Pharaoh's household, among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21 And Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his
 fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and
 Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own
 country.
11:22 And Pharaoh said to him, What then dost thou lack with me,
 that behold, thou desirest to go to thine own country? And he
 said, Nothing; but in any case let me depart.
11:23 God stirred him up yet an adversary, Rezon the son of
 Eliada, who had fled from Hadadezer king of Zobah, his lord.
11:24 And he collected men to him, and became captain of a band,
 when David slew them [of Zobah]; and they went to Damascus, and
 dwelt there, and reigned in Damascus.
11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
 besides the mischief that Hadad [did]; and he abhorred Israel,
 and reigned over Syria.
11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zeredah,
 Solomon's servant (whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow
 woman), even he lifted up his hand against the king.
11:27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against
 the king: Solomon was building Millo, and closing the breach of
 the city of David his father;
11:28 and the man Jeroboam was strong and valiant; and Solomon
 saw the young man that he was industrious, and he made him
 ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
11:29 And it came to pass at that time that Jeroboam went out of
 Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in
 the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they
 two were alone in the field.
11:30 Then Ahijah seized the new garment that was on him, and
 rent it in twelve pieces;
11:31 and said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith
 Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out
 of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee;
11:32 but one tribe shall he have for my servant David's sake,
 and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of
 all the tribes of Israel:
11:33 because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped
 Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the
 Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have
 not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my sight,
 and my statutes and mine ordinances, as David his father.
11:34 But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; for
 I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my
 servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my
 statutes;
11:35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and
 will give it unto thee, -- the ten tribes.
11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my
 servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city
 that I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
11:37 And I will take thee, that thou mayest reign over all that
 thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.
11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I
 command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is
 right in my sight, in keeping my statutes and my commandments,
 as David my servant did, that I will be with thee, and build
 thee a lasting house, as I built for David, and will give
 Israel unto thee.
11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for
 ever.
11:40 And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; and Jeroboam arose
 and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt; and he was in
 Egypt until the death of Solomon.
11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,
 and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of
 Solomon?
11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
 Israel was forty years.
11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
 city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
 stead.
12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel had come to
 Shechem to make him king.
12:2 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it
 (now he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence
 of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;
12:3 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the
 congregation of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten thou the
 grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put
 upon us, and we will serve thee.
12:5 And he said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come
 again to me. And the people departed.
12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, who had stood
 before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do ye
 advise to return answer to this people?
12:7 And they spoke to him saying, If this day thou wilt be a
 servant to this people, and wilt serve them and answer them and
 speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
12:8 But he forsook the advice of the old men which they had
 given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up
 with him, that stood before him.
12:9 And he said to them, What advice give ye that we may return
 answer to this people who have spoken to me saying, Lighten the
 yoke which thy father put upon us?
12:10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him
 saying, Thus shalt thou say to this people that have spoken to
 thee saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and lighten thou
 it for us, -- thus shalt thou say to them: My little [finger]
 is thicker than my father's loins;
12:11 and whereas my father laid a heavy yoke upon you, *I* will
 add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but *I*
 will chastise you with scorpions.
12:12 And Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third
 day, as the king had appointed saying, Come again to me on the
 third day.
12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the
 advice of the old men which they had given him;
12:14 and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young
 men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but *I* will add
 to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but *I* will
 chastise you with scorpions.
12:15 So the king hearkened not to the people; for it was
 brought about by Jehovah, that he might give effect to his
 word, which Jehovah spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to
 Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
12:16 And all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them;
 and the people answered the king saying, What portion have we
 in David? And [we have] no inheritance in the son of Jesse: To
 your tents, O Israel! Now see to thine own house, David! And
 Israel went to their tents.
12:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities
 of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
12:18 And king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the levy; but
 all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. And king
 Rehoboam hastened to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
12:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David, unto this
 day.
12:20 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam
 had come back, that they sent and called him to the assembly,
 and made him king over all Israel: none followed the house of
 David, but the tribe of Judah only.
12:21 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem; and he assembled all the
 house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and
 eighty thousand chosen men apt for war, to fight against the
 house of Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to
 Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
12:22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God,
 saying,
12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah,
 and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the
 remainder of the people, saying,
12:24 Thus saith Jehovah: Go not up, nor fight with your
 brethren, the children of Israel; return every man to his
 house, for this thing is from me. And they hearkened to the
 word of Jehovah, and returned to depart, according to the word
 of Jehovah.
12:25 And Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt
 therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom
 return to the house of David.
12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of
 Jehovah at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will turn again
 to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill
 me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
12:28 And the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold.
 And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to
 Jerusalem: behold thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out
 of the land of Egypt!
12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
12:30 And this thing became a sin; and the people went [to
 worship] before the one, as far as Dan.
12:31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests from
 all classes of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
 fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that was in Judah,
 and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing
 to the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the
 priests of the high places that he had made.
12:33 And he offered upon the altar that he had made in Bethel,
 on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he
 had devised of his own heart; and he made a feast for the
 children of Israel, and he offered upon the altar, burning
 incense.
13:1 And behold, there came a man of God from Judah, by the word
 of Jehovah, to Bethel; and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn
 incense.
13:2 And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and
 said, O altar, altar! thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a child shall
 be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee
 shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn
 incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burned upon thee.
13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign
 that Jehovah hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and
 the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
13:4 And it came to pass when the king heard the word of the man
 of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that
 Jeroboam stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay
 hold on him. And his hand which he stretched out against him
 dried up, so that he could not bring it back again to him.
13:5 And the altar was rent, and the ashes poured out from the
 altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by
 the word of Jehovah.
13:6 And the king answered and said to the man of God, Intreat
 now Jehovah thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
 restored to me again. And the man of God intreated Jehovah, and
 the king's hand was restored to him again, and became as
 before.
13:7 And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and
 refresh thyself, and I will give thee a present.
13:8 And the man of God said to the king, If thou wilt give me
 half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat
 bread nor drink water in this place;
13:9 for so was it charged me by the word of Jehovah, saying,
 Thou shalt eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way
 that thou shalt go.
13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
 he had come to Bethel.
13:11 Now there dwelt a certain old prophet in Bethel; and his
 sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had
 done that day in Bethel; the words that he had spoken to the
 king, them they told also to their father.
13:12 And their father said to them, Which way went he? for his
 sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from
 Judah.
13:13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
 saddled him the ass; and he rode thereon,
13:14 and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under
 a terebinth; and he said to him, Art thou the man of God that
 camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
13:15 And he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
13:16 And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with
 thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in
 this place.
13:17 For it was said to me by the word of Jehovah, Thou shalt
 eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the
 way that thou wentest.
13:18 And he said to him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and
 an angel spoke to me by the word of Jehovah saying, Bring him
 back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink
 water. He lied unto him.
13:19 Then he went back with him, and ate bread in his house,
 and drank water.
13:20 And it came to pass as they sat at the table, that the
 word of Jehovah came to the prophet that brought him back;
13:21 and he cried to the man of God that came from Judah,
 saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed
 the word of Jehovah, and hast not kept the commandment that
 Jehovah thy God commanded thee,
13:22 but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in
 the place of which he said to thee, Eat no bread and drink no
 water; thy carcase shall not come to the sepulchre of thy
 fathers.
13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after
 he had drunk, that he saddled the ass for him, for the prophet
 that he had brought back;
13:24 and he departed. And a lion met him by the way and slew
 him; and his corpse was cast in the way, and the ass stood by
 it; the lion also stood by the corpse.
13:25 And behold, men passed by, and saw the corpse cast in the
 way and the lion standing by the corpse; and they came and told
 it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
13:26 And the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
 [of it] and said, It is the man of God who was disobedient to
 the word of Jehovah; therefore Jehovah has delivered him to the
 lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word
 of Jehovah which he spoke to him.
13:27 And he spoke to his sons saying, Saddle me the ass; and
 they saddled it.
13:28 And he went and found his corpse cast in the way, and the
 ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion had not eaten
 the corpse, nor torn the ass.
13:29 And the prophet took up the corpse of the man of God, and
 laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and the old prophet
 came into the city, to mourn and to bury him.
13:30 And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they
 mourned over him [saying], Alas, my brother!
13:31 And it came to pass after he had buried him, that he spoke
 to his sons saying, When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre in
 which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
13:32 For the word that he cried by the word of Jehovah against
 the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high
 places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall certainly come
 to pass.
13:33 After this thing Jeroboam turned not from his evil way,
 but made again from all classes of the people priests of the
 high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became
 [one] of the priests of the high places.
13:34 And by this thing there was sin on the house of Jeroboam,
 even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the
 earth.
14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam was sick.
14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
 disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of
 Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the
 prophet, who told me that [I should be] king over this people.
14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of
 honey, and go to him: he will tell thee what shall become of
 the lad.
14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh,
 and came to the house of Ahijah. And Ahijah could not see; for
 his eyes were set by reason of his age.
14:5 And Jehovah said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
 cometh to ask a thing of thee about her son; for he is sick:
 thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it shall be, when
 she cometh in, that she shall feign to be another.
14:6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as
 she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of
 Jeroboam; why feignest thou to be another? But I am sent to
 thee with a hard [message].
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel:
 Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made
 thee prince over my people Israel,
14:8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave
 it thee; and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept
 my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do
 only that which is right in my sight;
14:9 but thou hast done evil above all that were before thee,
 and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to
 provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
14:10 therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of
 Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that
 is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of
 Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat,
 and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens
 eat; for Jehovah hath spoken.
14:12 And thou, arise, go to thine own house; when thy feet
 enter into the city, the child shall die.
14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and they shall bury
 him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because
 in him there is found something good toward Jehovah the God of
 Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14:14 And Jehovah shall raise up for himself a king over Israel,
 who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day; and what? ...
 even now.
14:15 And Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
 water, and he will root up Israel out of this good land which
 he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the
 river, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking Jehovah
 to anger.
14:16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of
 Jeroboam, wherewith he has sinned, and made Israel to sin.
14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to
 Tirzah; when she came to the threshold of the door, the child
 died.
14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him,
 according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his
 servant Ahijah the prophet.
14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and
 how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel.
14:20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years;
 and he slept with his fathers. And Nadab his son reigned in his
 stead.
14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam
 was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
 seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah had chosen
 out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there; and his
 mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they
 provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed
 more than all that their fathers had done.
14:23 And they also built for themselves high places, and
 columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green
 tree;
14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land. They did
 according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah
 had dispossessed before the children of Israel.
14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
 [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah,
 and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all;
 and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and
 committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who
 kept the entrance of the king's house.
14:28 And it was so, that as often as the king entered into the
 house of Jehovah, the couriers bore them, and brought them
 again into the chamber of the couriers.
14:29 And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
 are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
 of Judah?
14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
 [their] days.
14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with
 his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was
 Naamah, an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
15:1 And in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of
 Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
15:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name
 was Maachah, a daughter of Abishalom.
15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had
 done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his
 God, as the heart of David his father.
15:4 But for David's sake Jehovah his God gave him a lamp in
 Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing
 Jerusalem;
15:5 because David did that which was right in the sight of
 Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded
 him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Urijah
 the Hittite.
15:6 And there had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
 the days of his life.
15:7 And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did,
 are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
 of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
 the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his stead.
15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa
 began to reign over Judah;
15:10 and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his
 mother's name was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
15:11 And Asa did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, as
 David his father.
15:12 And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed
 all the idols that his father had made.
15:13 And also Maachah his mother he removed from being queen,
 because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down
 her idol, and burned it in the valley of Kidron.
15:14 But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart
 was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
15:15 And he brought into the house of Jehovah the things which
 his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had
 dedicated, silver and gold and vessels.
15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
 all their days.
15:17 And Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built
 Ramah, in order to let none go out or come in to Asa king of
 Judah.
15:18 And Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in
 the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of
 the king's house, and gave them into the hand of his servants;
 and king Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the
 son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,
15:19 There is a league between me and thee, [as] between my
 father and thy father; behold, I send thee a present of silver
 and gold: go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that
 he may depart from me.
15:20 And Ben-Hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains
 of his forces against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and
 Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Kinneroth, with all the
 land of Naphtali.
15:21 And it came to pass when Baasha heard of it, that he left
 off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
15:22 And king Asa called together all Judah: none was exempted;
 and they carried away the stones and the timber from Ramah,
 with which Baasha had been building; and king Asa built with
 them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
15:23 And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might,
 and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 Only, in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
 fathers in the city of David his father. And Jehoshaphat his
 son reigned in his stead.
15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel
 in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over
 Israel two years.
15:26 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the
 way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel
 sin.
15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
 conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which
 [belonged] to the Philistines, when Nadab and all Israel were
 besieging Gibbethon.
15:28 And Baasha slew him in the third year of Asa king of
 Judah, and reigned in his stead.
15:29 And it came to pass when he was king, he smote all the
 house of Jeroboam; he left to Jeroboam none that breathed;
 until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah
 which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
15:30 because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and
 wherewith he made Israel to sin; by his provocation with which
 he provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger.
15:31 And the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,
 are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
 of Israel?
15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
 all their days.
15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the
 son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, for
 twenty-four years.
15:34 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the
 way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to
 sin.
16:1 And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani
 against Baasha, saying,
16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee
 prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way
 of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, provoking
 me to anger with their sins;
16:3 behold, I will take away Baasha and his house, and will
 make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat,
 and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowl of the
 heavens eat.
16:5 And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and
 his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
 of the kings of Israel?
16:6 And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in
 Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
16:7 And also through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani the
 word of Jehovah came against Baasha, and against his house,
 even for all the evil that he did in the sight of Jehovah,
 provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being
 like the house of Jeroboam; and because he had smitten him.
16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son
 of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.
16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots,
 conspired against him; and he was in Tirzah, drinking himself
 drunk in the house of Arza, who was the steward of his house in
 Tirzah;
16:10 and Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the
 twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned in his
 stead.
16:11 And it came to pass when he began to reign, as soon as he
 sat on his throne, he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him
 not a male, neither of his kinsmen nor of his friends.
16:12 And Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to
 the word of Jehovah, which he spoke against Baasha through Jehu
 the prophet,
16:13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,
 which they sinned and wherewith they made Israel to sin,
 provoking Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their
 vanities.
16:14 And the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are
 they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri
 reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped
 against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines.
16:16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has
 conspired, and has also smitten the king; and all Israel made
 Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the
 camp.
16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,
 and they besieged Tirzah.
16:18 And it came to pass when Zimri saw that the city was
 taken, that he went into the citadel of the king's house, and
 burned the king's house over him with fire;
16:19 and he died for his sins which he sinned in doing evil in
 the sight of Jehovah, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in
 his sin which he did, making Israel to sin.
16:20 And the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his conspiracy
 which he wrought, are they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts:
 half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make
 him king; and half followed Omri.
16:22 But the people that followed Omri overcame the people that
 followed Tibni the son of Ginath; and Tibni died, and Omri
 reigned.
16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began
 to reign over Israel, -- twelve years; he reigned six years in
 Tirzah.
16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents
 of silver; and built on the hill, and called the name of the
 city that he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the
 hill, Samaria.
16:25 And Omri wrought evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did
 worse than all that were before him.
16:26 And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
 and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, provoking
 Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
16:27 And the rest of the acts of Omri, what he did, and his
 might which he shewed, are they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:28 And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in
 Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
16:29 And Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel in the
 thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah; and Ahab the son of
 Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri wrought evil in the sight of
 Jehovah more than all that were before him.
16:31 And it came to pass, as if it was a light thing for him to
 walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as
 wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians; and
 he went and served Baal and worshipped him.
16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal,
 which he built in Samaria.
16:33 And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more to provoke
 Jehovah the God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel
 that were before him.
16:34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its
 foundation in Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates in
 Segub his youngest, according to the word of Jehovah which he
 spoke through Joshua the son of Nun.
17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said
 to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I
 stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by
 my word.
17:2 And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,
17:3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by
 the torrent Cherith, which is before the Jordan.
17:4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the torrent; and
 I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
17:5 And he went and did according to the word of Jehovah; he
 went and abode by the torrent Cherith, which is before the
 Jordan.
17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,
 and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the
 torrent.
17:7 And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried
 up, for there had been no rain in the land.
17:8 And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,
17:9 Arise, go to Zarephath, which is by Zidon, and abide there:
 behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to maintain thee.
17:10 And he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to
 the entrance of the city, behold, a widow woman was there
 gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, Fetch me, I
 pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
17:11 And she went to fetch [it], and he called to her and said,
 Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
17:12 And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a
 cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a
 cruse; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in
 and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
17:13 And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go, do as thou hast
 said; but make me thereof a little cake first; and bring it to
 me; and afterwards make for thee and for thy son.
17:14 For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: The meal in the
 barrel shall not waste, neither shall the oil in the cruse
 fail, until the day that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the face of
 the earth!
17:15 And she went and did according to the word of Elijah; and
 she, and he, and her house, ate a whole year.
17:16 The meal in the barrel did not waste, neither did the oil
 in the cruse fail, according to the word of Jehovah which he
 had spoken through Elijah.
17:17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of
 the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his
 sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O
 thou man of God? art thou come to me to call mine iniquity to
 remembrance, and to slay my son?
17:19 And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out
 of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber where
 he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
17:20 And he cried to Jehovah and said, Jehovah, my God, hast
 thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by
 slaying her son?
17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and
 cried to Jehovah and said, Jehovah, my God, I pray thee, let
 this child's soul come into him again!
17:22 And Jehovah heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the
 child came into him again, and he lived.
17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the
 upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother;
 and Elijah said, See, thy son lives.
17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou
 art a man of God, and that the word of Jehovah in thy mouth is
 truth.
18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of
 Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew
 thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the face of the
 earth.
18:2 And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And the famine was
 severe in Samaria.
18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the steward of his house
 (now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly;
18:4 and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of
 Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by
 fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);
18:5 and Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the
 fountains of water and to all the torrents, perhaps we may find
 grass to save the horses and the mules alive, so that we may
 not have to destroy some of [our] beasts.
18:6 And they divided the land between them to pass through it:
 Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by
 himself.
18:7 And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him; and
 he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it indeed thou,
 my lord Elijah?
18:8 And he said to him, I [am he]: go, say to thy lord, Behold
 Elijah!
18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou givest thy
 servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?
18:10 As Jehovah thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom
 whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and when they said,
 He is not [here], he took an oath of the kingdom or nation that
 they found thee not.
18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!
18:12 And it shall come to pass when I am gone from thee, that
 the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and
 when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will
 kill me; and I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.
18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the
 prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's
 prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and
 water?
18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!
 and he will kill me.
18:15 And Elijah said, As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before whom I
 stand, I will certainly shew myself to him to-day.
18:16 Then Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab
 went to meet Elijah.
18:17 And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said
 to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel?
18:18 And he said, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy
 father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of
 Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baals.
18:19 And now send, gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and
 the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets
 of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
18:20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered
 the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
18:21 Then Elijah drew near to all the people, and said, How
 long do ye halt between two opinions? if Jehovah be God, follow
 him; and if Baal, follow him. And the people answered him not a
 word.
18:22 And Elijah said to the people, I, only I, remain a prophet
 of Jehovah; and Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks: and let them
 choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and
 put it on the wood, and put no fire; and I will sacrifice the
 other bullock, and put it on the wood, and put no fire.
18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on
 the name of Jehovah; and the god that answers by fire, let him
 be God. And all the people answered and said, The word is good.
18:25 And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose one
 bullock for yourselves, and sacrifice it first; for ye are the
 many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire.
18:26 And they took the bullock which had been given them, and
 sacrificed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning
 until noon, saying, O Baal, answer us! But there was no voice,
 and none answered. And they leaped about the altar that had
 been made.
18:27 And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and
 said, Cry aloud; for he is a god; for he is meditating, or gone
 aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he sleeps, and will
 awake.
18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their
 manner with swords and spears, till the blood gushed out upon
 them.
18:29 And it came to pass when midday was past, that they
 prophesied until the [time] of the offering up of the oblation;
 but there was neither voice, nor any that answered, nor any
 attention.
18:30 Then Elijah said to all the people, Draw near to me. And
 all the people drew near to him. And he repaired the altar of
 Jehovah which was broken down.
18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of
 the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Jehovah
 came saying, Israel shall be thy name;
18:32 and with the stones he built an altar in the name of
 Jehovah, and made a trench round about the altar, of the
 capacity of two measures of seed;
18:33 and he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in
 pieces, and laid it on the wood. And he said, Fill four
 pitchers with water, and pour it on the burnt-offering, and on
 the wood.
18:34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the
 second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it
 the third time.
18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the
 trench also with water.
18:36 And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering up of
 the oblation, that Elijah the prophet drew near, and said,
 Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this
 day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and
 that I have done all these things by thy word.
18:37 Answer me, Jehovah, answer me, that this people may know
 that thou Jehovah art God, and [that] *thou* hast turned their
 heart back again.
18:38 And the fire of Jehovah fell, and consumed the
 burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
 licked up the water that was in the trench.
18:39 And all the people saw [it], and they fell on their faces
 and said, Jehovah, he is God! Jehovah, he is God!
18:40 And Elijah said to them, Seize the prophets of Baal; let
 not one of them escape! And they seized them; and Elijah
 brought them down to the torrent of Kishon, and slaughtered
 them there.
18:41 And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink; for there
 is a sound of abundance of rain.
18:42 And Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up
 to the top of Carmel; and he bowed down on the earth, and put
 his face between his knees.
18:43 And he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the
 sea. And he went up and looked, and said, [There is] nothing.
 And he said, Go again seven times.
18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said,
 Behold there is a cloud, small as a man's hand, arising out of
 the sea. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Harness and go down,
 that the pour of rain stop thee not.
18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heavens
 became black [with] clouds and wind, and there was a great pour
 of rain. And Ahab got on the chariot, and went to Jizreel.
18:46 And the hand of Jehovah was upon Elijah; and he girded up
 his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jizreel.
19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and in
 detail how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
19:2 And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, So do the
 gods [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life
 of one of them by to-morrow about this time!
19:3 And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life,
 and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his
 servant there.
19:4 And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
 and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested
 for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now,
 Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
19:5 And he lay down and slept under the broom-bush. And behold,
 an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise, eat!
19:6 And he looked, and behold, at his head was a cake, baked on
 hot stones, and a cruse of water. And he ate and drank, and lay
 down again.
19:7 And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time, and
 touched him, and said, Arise, eat; for the journey is too great
 for thee.
19:8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength
 of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of
 God.
19:9 And there he went into a cave, and lodged there. And
 behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, and he said to him,
 What doest thou here, Elijah?
19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God
 of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
 covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with
 the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to
 take it away.
19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before
 Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong
 wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before
 Jehovah: Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind, an
 earthquake: Jehovah was not in the earthquake.
19:12 And after the earthquake, a fire: Jehovah was not in the
 fire. And after the fire, a soft gentle voice.
19:13 And it came to pass, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped
 his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance
 of the cave. And behold, a voice [came] to him and said, What
 doest thou here, Elijah?
19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God
 of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
 covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with
 the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to
 take it away.
19:15 And Jehovah said to him, Go, return on thy way to the
 wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, anoint Hazael
 king over Syria;
19:16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint king over
 Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt
 thou anoint prophet in thy stead.
19:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the
 sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth the
 sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
19:18 Yet I have left [myself] seven thousand in Israel, all the
 knees that have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth that hath
 not kissed him.
19:19 And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
 Shaphat, who was ploughing [with] twelve yokes before him, and
 he with the twelfth; and Elijah went over to him, and cast his
 mantle on him.
19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let
 me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and I will
 follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again; for what have I
 done to thee?
19:21 And he returned back from him, and took the yoke of oxen,
 and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the implements of
 the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. And he arose
 and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
20:1 And Ben-Hadad king of Syria assembled all his host; and
 there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots;
 and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the
 city, and said to him, Thus says Ben-Hadad:
20:3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy
 children, the goodliest, are mine.
20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,
 according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks
 Ben-Hadad saying: I sent to thee indeed, saying, Thou shalt
 deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy
 children;
20:6 but to-morrow about this time I will send my servants to
 thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy
 servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thy
 sight, they shall put in their hand and take away.
20:7 And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land
 and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeks
 mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children,
 and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
20:8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken
 not, nor consent.
20:9 And he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, Tell my lord
 the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the
 first I will do; but this thing I cannot do. And the messengers
 departed, and brought him word again.
20:10 And Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me,
 and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for
 handfuls for all the people that follow me!
20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let
 not him that girdeth on boast himself as he that putteth off!
20:12 And it came to pass when he heard this word, as he was
 drinking, he and the kings in the tents, that he said to his
 servants, Set yourselves. And they set themselves against the
 city.
20:13 And behold, a prophet drew near to Ahab king of Israel,
 and said, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou seen all this great
 multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day;
 and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah:
 By the servants of the princes of the provinces. Then he said,
 Who shall begin the battle? And he said, Thou.
20:15 And he numbered the servants of the princes of the
 provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after
 them he numbered all the people, all the children of Israel,
 seven thousand.
20:16 And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself
 drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that
 helped him.
20:17 And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out
 first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told him saying, There
 are men come out of Samaria.
20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them
 alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
20:19 And these servants of the princes of the provinces came
 out of the city, and the army that followed them.
20:20 And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and
 Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on
 a horse with the horsemen.
20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and
 chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
20:22 And the prophet drew near to the king of Israel, and said
 to him, Go, strengthen thyself, and understand, and see what
 thou shalt do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria
 will come up against thee.
20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their
 gods are gods of the mountains; therefore they were stronger
 than we; but if we fight against them on the plateau, shall we
 not be stronger than they?
20:24 And do this: take the kings away, every man out of his
 place, and put governors in their stead;
20:25 and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast
 lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will
 fight against them on the plateau: shall we not be stronger
 than they? And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.
20:26 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that
 Ben-Hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight
 against Israel.
20:27 And the children of Israel were numbered and victualled,
 and they went against them; and the children of Israel encamped
 before them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians
 filled the land.
20:28 And the man of God drew near, and spoke to the king of
 Israel and said, Thus saith Jehovah: Because the Syrians have
 said, Jehovah is a god of the mountains, but he is not a god of
 the valleys, I will give all this great multitude into thy
 hand, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
20:29 And they encamped one over against the other seven days;
 and it came to pass that on the seventh day the battle was
 joined; and the children of Israel smote of the Syrians a
 hundred thousand footmen in one day.
20:30 And the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall
 fell on twenty-seven thousand men of them that were left. And
 Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, [from] chamber to
 chamber.
20:31 And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard
 that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let
 us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our
 heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save
 thy life.
20:32 And they girded sackcloth on their loins, and ropes on
 their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy
 servant Ben-Hadad says, I pray thee, let me live. And he said,
 Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
20:33 And the men took it as a good omen, and hastened to catch
 what came from him, and they said, Thy brother Ben-Hadad. ...
 And he said, Go, bring him. And Ben-Hadad came forth to him;
 and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
20:34 And [Ben-Hadad] said to him, The cities that my father
 took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make
 streets for thyself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.
 And I [said Ahab] will send thee away with this covenant. So he
 made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to
 another by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. But the
 man refused to smite him.
20:36 Then said he to him, Because thou hast not hearkened to
 the voice of Jehovah, behold, when thou departest from me, the
 lion will slay thee. And when he had departed from him, the
 lion found him and slew him.
20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray
 thee. And the man smote him violently, and wounded [him].
20:38 And the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the
 way, and disguised himself with a sash over his eyes.
20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king and said,
 Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold,
 a man turned aside, and brought a man to me and said, Keep this
 man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for
 his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
 And the king of Israel said to him, So [is] thy judgment:
 thyself hast decided [it].
20:41 Then he hastily took the sash away from his face; and the
 king of Israel discerned him, that he was of the prophets.
20:42 And he said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Because thou hast
 let go out of thy hand the man that I had devoted to
 destruction, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for
 his people.
20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexed,
 and came to Samaria.
21:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the
 Jizreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jizreel, by the side of
 the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
21:2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth saying, Give me thy vineyard, that
 I may have it for a garden of herbs, for it is near, by the
 side of my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard
 than it; if it seem good to thee, I will give thee its value in
 money.
21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I
 should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee!
21:4 And Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of
 the word that Naboth the Jizreelite had spoken to him; for he
 had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.
 And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and ate
 no bread.
21:5 And Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is
 thy spirit sullen, and thou eatest no bread?
21:6 And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the
 Jizreelite and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or
 else, if it please thee, I will give thee a vineyard for it;
 and he said, I will not give thee my vineyard.
21:7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now exercise
 sovereignty over Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be
 glad: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite.
21:8 And she wrote a letter in Ahab's name, and sealed it with
 his seal, and sent the letter to the elders and to the nobles
 that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
21:9 And she wrote in the letter saying, Proclaim a fast, and
 set Naboth at the head of the people;
21:10 and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they
 shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and
 the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
21:11 And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles that
 dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was
 written in the letter that she had sent to them:
21:12 they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the
 people.
21:13 And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before
 him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against
 Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth
 blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of
 the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
21:14 And they sent to Jezebel saying, Naboth is stoned, and is
 dead.
21:15 And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
 stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take
 possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite, which he
 refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but
 dead.
21:16 And it came to pass when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,
 that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the
 Jizreelite, to take possession of it.
21:17 And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite,
 saying,
21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in
 Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is
 gone down to take possession of it.
21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah:
 Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt
 speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where
 the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy
 blood, even thine.
21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy?
 And he said, I have found [thee]; because thou hast sold
 thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah.
21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away
 thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male, and him
 that is shut up and left in Israel;
21:22 and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the
 son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah,
 for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger,
 and made Israel to sin.
21:23 And of Jezebel also spoke Jehovah saying, The dogs shall
 eat Jezebel by the moat of Jizreel.
21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and
 him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat.
21:25 (Surely there was none like to Ahab, who did sell himself
 to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, Jezebel his wife urging him
 on.
21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according
 to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah had dispossessed
 before the children of Israel.)
21:27 And it came to pass when Ahab heard these words, that he
 rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and
 fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
21:28 And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite,
 saying,
21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he
 humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his
 days: in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria
 and Israel.
22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the
 king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do ye know
 that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we keep quiet without taking
 it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
22:4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle
 to Ramoth-Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I
 am as thou, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
22:5 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray
 thee, this day of the word of Jehovah.
22:6 And the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four
 hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead
 to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and the
 Lord will give it into the king's hand.
22:7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of
 Jehovah besides, that we might inquire of him?
22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet
 one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for
 he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: [it is] Micah
 the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say
 so.
22:9 Then the king of Israel called a chamberlain, and said,
 Fetch quickly Micah the son of Imlah.
22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
 having put on their robes, sat each on his throne, in the open
 place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the
 prophets prophesied before them.
22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns
 of iron, and he said, Thus saith Jehovah: With these shalt thou
 push the Syrians, until thou have exterminated them.
22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
 Ramoth-Gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will give it into the
 king's hand.
22:13 And the messenger that went to call Micah spoke to him
 saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to
 the king with one assent: let thy word, I pray thee, be like
 the word of one of them, and speak good.
22:14 And Micah said, As Jehovah liveth, even what Jehovah shall
 say to me, that will I speak.
22:15 And he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micah,
 shall we go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we
 forbear? And he said to him, Go up, and prosper; for Jehovah
 will give it into the hand of the king.
22:16 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure
 thee that thou tell me nothing but truth in the name of
 Jehovah?
22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the
 mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And Jehovah said,
 These have no master: let them return every man to his house in
 peace.
22:18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
 thee that he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil?
22:19 And he said, Hear therefore the word of Jehovah: I saw
 Jehovah sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven
 standing by him, on his right hand and on his left;
22:20 and Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab that he may go up
 and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one said after this manner, and
 another said after that manner.
22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah,
 and said, I will entice him.
22:22 And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will
 go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
 prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice [him], and also
 succeed: go forth, and do so.
22:23 And now, behold, Jehovah has put a lying spirit in the
 mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah has spoken evil
 concerning thee.
22:24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote
 Micah upon the cheek, and said, Where now went the Spirit of
 Jehovah from me to speak to thee?
22:25 And Micah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when
 thou shalt go from chamber to chamber to hide thyself.
22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micah and carry him back
 to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
22:27 and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this [man] in
 the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with
 water of affliction, until I come in peace.
22:28 And Micah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah
 has not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O peoples, all of
 you!
22:29 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
 went up to Ramoth-Gilead.
22:30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will
 disguise myself, and will enter into the battle; but put thou
 on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and
 went into the battle.
22:31 And the king of Syria commanded the thirty-two captains of
 his chariots saying, Fight neither with small nor great, but
 with the king of Israel only.
22:32 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw
 Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely that is the king of Israel;
 and they turned against him to fight; and Jehoshaphat cried
 out.
22:33 And it came to pass that when the captains of the chariots
 perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back
 from pursuing him.
22:34 And a man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
 Israel between the fastenings and the corslet. And he said to
 his charioteer, Turn thy hand, and drive me out of the camp;
 for I am wounded.
22:35 And the battle increased that day; and the king was stayed
 up in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died at even; and
 the blood of the wound ran out into the hollow of the chariot.
22:36 And there went the cry throughout the host at the going
 down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man
 to his own country!
22:37 And the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they
 buried the king in Samaria.
22:38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the
 dogs licked his blood, where the harlots bathed: according to
 the word of Jehovah, which he had spoken.
22:39 And the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and
 the ivory house that he built, and all the cities that he
 built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
 the kings of Israel?
22:40 And Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son
 reigned in his stead.
22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah
 in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to
 reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem; and his
 mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned
 not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of
 Jehovah. Only, the high places were not removed: the people
 offered and burned incense still on the high places.
22:44 And Jehoshaphat was at peace with the king of Israel.
22:45 And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might
 which he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the
 book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
22:46 And the remainder of the sodomites, which were left in the
 days of his father Asa, he put away from out of the land.
22:47 And there was no king in Edom: a deputy reigned.
22:48 Jehoshaphat made Tarshish-ships to go to Ophir for gold;
 but they went not, for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my
 servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat
 would not.
22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried
 with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoram
 his son reigned in his stead.
22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
 Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; and
 he reigned two years over Israel.
22:52 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the
 way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way
 of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
22:53 And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked
 Jehovah the God of Israel to anger, according to all that his
 father had done.