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- I KINGS 1:1 Now king David was old {and} stricken in years; and
- they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- I KINGS 1:2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be
- sought 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 heat.
- I KINGS 1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the
- coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her
- to the king.
- I KINGS 1:4 And the damsel {was} very fair, and cherished the
- king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
- I KINGS 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself,
- saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and
- horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
- I KINGS 1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in
- saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also {was a} very goodly
- {man}; and {his mother} bare him after Absalom.
- I KINGS 1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and
- with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped
- {him}.
- I KINGS 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of
- Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the
- mighty men which {belonged} to David, were not with Adonijah.
- I KINGS 1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by
- the stone of Zoheleth, which {is} by Enrogel, and called all his
- brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's
- servants:
- I KINGS 1:10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty
- men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
- I KINGS 1:11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of
- Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of
- Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth {it} not?
- I KINGS 1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee
- counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of
- thy son Solomon.
- I KINGS 1:13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto
- him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid,
- saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he
- shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
- I KINGS 1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king,
- I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
- I KINGS 1:15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the
- chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite
- ministered unto the king.
- I KINGS 1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the
- king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
- I KINGS 1:17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the
- Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, {saying}, Assuredly Solomon thy
- son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
- I KINGS 1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord
- the king, thou knowest {it} not:
- I KINGS 1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
- abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar
- the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy
- servant hath he not called.
- I KINGS 1:20 And thou, my lord, O 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.
- I KINGS 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the
- king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon
- shall be counted offenders.
- I KINGS 1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan
- the prophet also came in.
- I KINGS 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.
- I KINGS 1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said,
- Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
- I KINGS 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen
- and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called 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.
- I KINGS 1:26 But me, {even} me thy servant, and Zadok the priest,
- and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he
- not called.
- I KINGS 1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou
- hast not shewed {it} unto thy servant, who should sit on the
- throne of my lord the king after him?
- I KINGS 1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me
- Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood
- before the king.
- I KINGS 1:29 And the king sware, and said, {As} the Lord liveth,
- that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
- I KINGS 1:30 Even as I sware unto thee by the Lord God of Israel,
- saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he
- shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do
- this day.
- I KINGS 1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with {her} face to the earth,
- and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David
- live for ever.
- I KINGS 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.
- I KINGS 1:33 The king also said unto 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:
- I KINGS 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, God save king Solomon.
- I KINGS 1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come
- and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I
- have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
- I KINGS 1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king,
- and said, Amen: the Lord God of my lord the king say so {too}.
- I KINGS 1:37 As the Lord hath 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.
- I KINGS 1:38 So 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.
- I KINGS 1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the
- tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and
- all the people said, God save king Solomon.
- I KINGS 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.
- I KINGS 1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that {were} with him
- heard {it} as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard
- the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore {is this} noise of
- the city being in an uproar?
- I KINGS 1:42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of
- Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in;
- for thou {art} a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
- I KINGS 1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily
- our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
- I KINGS 1:44 And the king hath 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:
- I KINGS 1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have
- anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence
- rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This {is} the noise that
- ye have heard.
- I KINGS 1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the
- kingdom.
- I KINGS 1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our
- lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than
- thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the
- king bowed himself upon the bed.
- I KINGS 1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed {be} the Lord
- God of Israel, which hath given {one} to sit on my throne this
- day, mine eyes even seeing {it}.
- I KINGS 1:49 And all the guests that {were} with Adonijah were
- afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
- I KINGS 1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose,
- and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
- I KINGS 1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah
- feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns
- of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that
- he will not slay his servant with the sword.
- I KINGS 1:52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy
- man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if
- wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
- I KINGS 1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from
- the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and
- Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.
- I KINGS 2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die;
- and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
- I KINGS 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong
- therefore, and shew thyself a man;
- I KINGS 2:3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in
- his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
- judgments, 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:
- I KINGS 2:4 That the Lord may continue his word which he spake
- concerning me, saying, If thy children 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 on the throne of
- Israel.
- I KINGS 2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of
- Zeruiah did to me, {and} what he did to the two captains of the
- hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto 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 in his shoes that {were} on his feet.
- I KINGS 2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his
- hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
- I KINGS 2:7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the
- Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so
- they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
- I KINGS 2:8 And, behold, {thou hast} with thee Shimei the son of
- Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous
- curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to
- meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will
- not put thee to death with the sword.
- I KINGS 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou {art}
- a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but
- his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
- I KINGS 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in
- the city of David.
- I KINGS 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel {were}
- forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and
- three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
- I KINGS 2:12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his
- father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
- I KINGS 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.
- I KINGS 2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
- And she said, Say on.
- I KINGS 2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine,
- and {that} all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign:
- howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's:
- for it was his from the Lord.
- I KINGS 2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And
- she said unto him, Say on.
- I KINGS 2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the
- king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the
- Shunammite to wife.
- I KINGS 2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto
- the king.
- I KINGS 2:19 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak
- unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and
- bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a
- seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right
- hand.
- I KINGS 2:20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee;
- {I pray thee}, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask
- on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
- I KINGS 2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to
- Adonijah thy brother to wife.
- I KINGS 2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto 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.
- I KINGS 2:23 Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do
- so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word
- against his own life.
- I KINGS 2:24 Now therefore, {as} the Lord liveth, which hath
- established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and
- who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put
- to death this day.
- I KINGS 2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son
- of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
- I KINGS 2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee
- to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou {art} worthy of
- death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because
- thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and
- because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was
- afflicted.
- I KINGS 2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest
- unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which
- he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
- I KINGS 2:28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after
- Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto
- the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the
- altar.
- I KINGS 2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto
- the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, {he is} by the altar.
- Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall
- upon him.
- I KINGS 2:30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and
- said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay;
- but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again,
- saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
- I KINGS 2:31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and
- fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the
- innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of
- my father.
- I KINGS 2:32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own
- head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he,
- and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing
- {thereof, to wit}, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of
- Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of
- Judah.
- I KINGS 2:33 Their blood shall therefore return 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 the Lord.
- I KINGS 2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell
- upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the
- wilderness.
- I KINGS 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his
- room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the
- room of Abiathar.
- I KINGS 2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said
- unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and
- go not forth thence any whither.
- I KINGS 2:37 For it shall be, {that} on the day thou goest out,
- and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain
- that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own
- head.
- I KINGS 2:38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying {is} good:
- as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei
- dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
- I KINGS 2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that
- two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah
- king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants
- {be} in Gath.
- I KINGS 2:40 And 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.
- I KINGS 2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from
- Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
- I KINGS 2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said
- unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord, and protested
- unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out,
- and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and
- thou saidst unto me, The word {that} I have heard {is} good.
- I KINGS 2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord,
- and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
- I KINGS 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all
- the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to
- David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness
- upon thine own head;
- I KINGS 2:45 And king Solomon {shall be} blessed, and the throne
- of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
- I KINGS 2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
- which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom
- was established in the hand of Solomon.
- I KINGS 3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt,
- and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of
- David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and
- the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- I KINGS 3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because
- there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those
- days.
- I KINGS 3:3 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes
- of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high
- places.
- I KINGS 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 upon that altar.
- I KINGS 3:5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by
- night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
- I KINGS 3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant
- David my father great mercy, 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 kindness, that thou
- hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as {it is} this day.
- I KINGS 3:7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant
- king instead of David my father: and I {am but} a little child: I
- know not {how} to go out or come in.
- I KINGS 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.
- I KINGS 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to
- judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for
- who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
- I KINGS 3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had
- asked this thing.
- I KINGS 3:11 And God said unto 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 understanding to discern
- judgment;
- I KINGS 3:12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I
- have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there
- was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any
- arise like unto thee.
- I KINGS 3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not
- asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any
- among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
- I KINGS 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 lengthen thy days.
- I KINGS 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 the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered
- peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
- I KINGS 3:16 Then came there two women, {that were} harlots, unto
- the king, and stood before him.
- I KINGS 3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman
- dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in
- the house.
- I KINGS 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was
- delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we {were}
- together; {there was} no stranger with us in the house, save we
- two in the house.
- I KINGS 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because
- she overlaid it.
- I KINGS 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from
- beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom,
- and laid her dead child in my bosom.
- I KINGS 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child
- suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the
- morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
- I KINGS 3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living {is}
- my son, and the dead {is} thy son. And this said, No; but the
- dead {is} thy son, and the living {is} my son. Thus they spake
- before the king.
- I KINGS 3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This {is} my son
- that liveth, and thy son {is} the dead: and the other saith, Nay;
- but thy son {is} the dead, and my son {is} the living.
- I KINGS 3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they
- brought a sword before the king.
- I KINGS 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two,
- and give half to the one, and half to the other.
- I KINGS 3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child {was}
- unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said,
- O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But
- the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, {but} divide
- {it}.
- I KINGS 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living
- child, and in no wise slay it: she {is} the mother thereof.
- I KINGS 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 judgment.
- I KINGS 4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
- I KINGS 4:2 And these {were} the princes which he had; Azariah
- the son of Zadok the priest,
- I KINGS 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
- Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
- I KINGS 4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada {was} over the host:
- and Zadok and Abiathar {were} the priests:
- I KINGS 4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan {was} over the
- officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan {was} principal officer,
- {and} the king's friend:
- I KINGS 4:6 And Ahishar {was} over the household: and Adoniram
- the son of Abda {was} over the tribute.
- I KINGS 4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel,
- which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man
- his month in a year made provision.
- I KINGS 4:8 And these {are} their names: the son of Hur, in mount
- Ephraim:
- I KINGS 4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and
- Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
- I KINGS 4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him {pertained}
- Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
- I KINGS 4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which
- had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
- I KINGS 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; {to him pertained} Taanach
- and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which {is} by Zartanah beneath
- Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, {even} unto {the place
- that is} beyond Jokneam:
- I KINGS 4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him
- {pertained} the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which {are} in
- Gilead; to him {also pertained} the region of Argob, which {is}
- in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
- I KINGS 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo {had} Mahanaim:
- I KINGS 4:15 Ahimaaz {was} in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the
- daughter of Solomon to wife:
- I KINGS 4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai {was} in Asher and in
- Aloth:
- I KINGS 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
- I KINGS 4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
- I KINGS 4:19 Geber the son of Uri {was} in the country of Gilead,
- {in} the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of
- Bashan; and {he was} the only officer which {was} in the land.
- I KINGS 4:20 Judah and Israel {were} many, as the sand which {is}
- by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
- I KINGS 4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river
- unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt:
- they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his
- life.
- I KINGS 4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty
- measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
- I KINGS 4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures,
- and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer,
- and fatted fowl.
- I KINGS 4:24 For he had dominion over all {the region} on this
- side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on
- this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about
- him.
- I KINGS 4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under
- his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all
- the days of Solomon.
- I KINGS 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for
- his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
- I KINGS 4:27 And those officers provided victual for king
- Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every
- man in his month: they lacked nothing.
- I KINGS 4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries
- brought they unto the place where {the officers} were, every man
- according to his charge.
- I KINGS 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding
- exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that
- {is} on the sea shore.
- I KINGS 4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
- children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
- I KINGS 4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the
- Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol:
- and his fame was in all nations round about.
- I KINGS 4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs
- were a thousand and five.
- I KINGS 4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that {is}
- in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall:
- he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and
- of fishes.
- I KINGS 4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of
- Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his
- wisdom.
- I KINGS 5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto
- Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the
- room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
- I KINGS 5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
- I KINGS 5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build
- an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which
- were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the
- soles of his feet.
- I KINGS 5:4 But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every
- side, {so that there is} neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
- I KINGS 5:5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the
- name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake unto David my father,
- saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he
- shall build an house unto my name.
- I KINGS 5:6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar
- trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants:
- and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all
- that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that {there is} not
- among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the
- Sidonians.
- I KINGS 5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of
- Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed {be} the
- Lord this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this
- great people.
- I KINGS 5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered
- the things which thou sentest to me for: {and} I will do all thy
- desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
- I KINGS 5:9 My servants shall bring {them} down from Lebanon unto
- the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place
- that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged
- there, and thou shalt receive {them}: and thou shalt accomplish
- my desire, in giving food for my household.
- I KINGS 5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees
- {according to} all his desire.
- I KINGS 5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of
- wheat {for} food to his household, and twenty measures of pure
- oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
- I KINGS 5:12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised
- him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two
- made a league together.
- I KINGS 5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel;
- and the levy was thirty thousand men.
- I KINGS 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by
- courses: a month they were in Lebanon, {and} two months at home:
- and Adoniram {was} over the levy.
- I KINGS 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that
- bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
- I KINGS 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which {were}
- over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over
- the people that wrought in the work.
- I KINGS 5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great
- stones, costly stones, {and} hewed stones, to lay the foundation
- of the house.
- I KINGS 5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew
- {them}, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones
- to build the house.
- I KINGS 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 the Lord.
- I KINGS 6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord,
- the length thereof {was} threescore cubits, and the breadth
- thereof twenty cubits, {and} the height thereof thirty cubits.
- I KINGS 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty
- cubits {was} the length thereof, according to the breadth of the
- house; {and} ten cubits {was} the breadth thereof before the
- house.
- I KINGS 6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
- I KINGS 6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers
- round about, {against} the walls of the house round about, {both}
- of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round
- about:
- I KINGS 6:6 The nethermost chamber {was} five cubits broad, and
- the middle {was} six cubits broad, and the third {was} seven
- cubits broad: for without {in the wall} of the house he made
- narrowed rests round about, that {the beams} should not be
- fastened in the walls of the house.
- I KINGS 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of
- stone 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 in building.
- I KINGS 6:8 The door for the middle chamber {was} in the right
- side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the
- middle {chamber}, and out of the middle into the third.
- I KINGS 6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered
- the house with beams and boards of cedar.
- I KINGS 6:10 And {then} he built chambers against all the house,
- five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of
- cedar.
- I KINGS 6:11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
- I KINGS 6:12 {Concerning} this house which thou art in building,
- if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and
- keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my
- word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
- I KINGS 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and
- will not forsake my people Israel.
- I KINGS 6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
- I KINGS 6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with
- boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of
- the cieling: {and} he covered {them} on the inside with wood, and
- covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
- I KINGS 6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the
- house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even
- built {them} for it within, {even} for the oracle, {even} for the
- most holy {place}.
- I KINGS 6:17 And the house, that {is}, the temple before it, was
- forty cubits {long}.
- I KINGS 6:18 And the cedar of the house within {was} carved with
- knops and open flowers: all {was} cedar; there was no stone seen.
- I KINGS 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to
- set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
- I KINGS 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart {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 {so}
- covered the altar {which was of} cedar.
- I KINGS 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold:
- and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle;
- and he overlaid it with gold.
- I KINGS 6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he
- had finished all the house: also the whole altar that {was} by
- the oracle he overlaid with gold.
- I KINGS 6:23 And within the oracle he made two Cherubims {of}
- olive tree, {each} ten cubits high.
- I KINGS 6:24 And five cubits {was} the one wing of the cherub,
- and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost
- part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other {were}
- ten cubits.
- I KINGS 6:25 And the other cherub {was} ten cubits: both the
- Cherubims {were} of one measure and one size.
- I KINGS 6:26 The height of the one cherub {was} ten cubits, and
- so {was it} of the other cherub.
- I KINGS 6:27 And he set the Cherubims within the inner house: and
- they stretched forth the wings of the Cherubims, so that wing of
- the one touched the one {wall}, and the wing of the other cherub
- touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in
- the midst of the house.
- I KINGS 6:28 And he overlaid the Cherubims with gold.
- I KINGS 6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about
- with carved figures of Cherubims and palm trees and open flowers,
- within and without.
- I KINGS 6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold,
- within and without.
- I KINGS 6:31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors
- {of} olive tree: the lintel {and} side posts {were} a fifth part
- {of the wall}.
- I KINGS 6:32 The two doors also {were of} olive tree; and he
- carved upon them carvings of Cherubims and palm trees and open
- flowers, and overlaid {them} with gold, and spread gold upon the
- Cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- I KINGS 6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts
- {of} olive tree, a fourth part {of the wall}.
- I KINGS 6:34 And the two doors {were of} fir tree: the two leaves
- of the one door {were} folding, and the two leaves of the other
- door {were} folding.
- I KINGS 6:35 And he carved {thereon} Cherubims and palm trees and
- open flowers: and covered {them} with gold fitted upon the carved
- work.
- I KINGS 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of
- hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
- I KINGS 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house
- of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:
- I KINGS 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which
- {is} the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the
- parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he
- seven years in building it.
- I KINGS 7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen
- years, and he finished all his house.
- I KINGS 7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the
- length thereof {was} an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof
- fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four
- rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
- I KINGS 7:3 And {it was} covered with cedar above upon the beams,
- that {lay} on forty five pillars, fifteen {in} a row.
- I KINGS 7:4 And {there were} windows {in} three rows, and light
- {was} against light {in} three ranks.
- I KINGS 7:5 And all the doors and posts {were} square, with the
- windows: and light {was} against light {in} three ranks.
- I KINGS 7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof
- {was} fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and
- the porch {was} before them: and the {other} pillars and the
- thick beam {were} before them.
- I KINGS 7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might
- judge, {even} the porch of judgment: and {it was} covered with
- cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
- I KINGS 7:8 And his house where he dwelt {had} another court
- within the porch, {which} was of the like work. Solomon made also
- an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken {to wife},
- like unto this porch.
- I KINGS 7:9 All these {were of} costly stones, according to the
- measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without,
- even from the foundation unto the coping, and {so} on the outside
- toward the great court.
- I KINGS 7:10 And the foundation {was of} costly stones, even
- great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
- I KINGS 7:11 And above {were} costly stones, after the measures
- of hewed stones, and cedars.
- I KINGS 7:12 And the great court round about {was} with three
- rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the
- inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the
- house.
- I KINGS 7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
- I KINGS 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
- filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all
- works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his
- work.
- I KINGS 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits
- high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of
- them about.
- I KINGS 7:16 And he made two chapiters {of} molten brass, to set
- upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter
- {was} five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter {was}
- five cubits:
- I KINGS 7:17 {And} nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain
- work, for the chapiters which {were} upon the top of the pillars;
- seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
- I KINGS 7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about
- upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that {were} upon the
- top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
- I KINGS 7:19 And the chapiters that {were} upon the top of the
- pillars {were} of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
- I KINGS 7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars {had
- pomegranates} also above, over against the belly which {was} by
- the network: and the pomegranates {were} two hundred in rows
- round about upon the other chapiter.
- I KINGS 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the
- temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name
- thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the
- name thereof Boaz.
- I KINGS 7:22 And upon the top of the pillars {was} lily work: so
- was the work of the pillars finished.
- I KINGS 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one
- brim to the other: {it was} round all about, and his height {was}
- five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round
- about.
- I KINGS 7:24 And under the brim of it round about {there were}
- knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round
- about: the knops {were} cast in two rows, when it was cast.
- I KINGS 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 set} above upon them, and all their hinder parts {were}
- inward.
- I KINGS 7:26 And it {was} an hand breadth thick, and the brim
- thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of
- lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
- I KINGS 7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits {was}
- the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and
- three cubits the height of it.
- I KINGS 7:28 And the work of the bases {was} on this {manner}:
- they had borders, and the borders {were} between the ledges:
- I KINGS 7:29 And on the borders that {were} between the ledges
- {were} lions, oxen, and Cherubims: and upon the ledges {there
- was} a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen {were} certain
- additions made of thin work.
- I KINGS 7:30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of
- brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the
- laver {were} undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
- I KINGS 7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above
- {was} a cubit: but the mouth thereof {was} round {after} the work
- of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it
- {were} gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
- I KINGS 7:32 And under the borders {were} four wheels; and the
- axletrees of the wheels {were joined} to the base: and the height
- of a wheel {was} a cubit and half a cubit.
- I KINGS 7:33 And the work of the wheels {was} like the work of a
- chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their
- felloes, and their spokes, {were} all molten.
- I KINGS 7:34 And {there were} four undersetters to the four
- corners of one base: {and} the undersetters {were} of the very
- base itself.
- I KINGS 7:35 And in the top of the base {was there} a round
- compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the
- ledges thereof and the borders thereof {were} of the same.
- I KINGS 7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the
- borders thereof, he graved Cherubims, lions, and palm trees,
- according to the proportion of every one, and additions round
- about.
- I KINGS 7:37 After this {manner} he made the ten bases: all of
- them had one casting, one measure, {and} one size.
- I KINGS 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver
- contained forty baths: {and} every laver was four cubits: {and}
- upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
- I KINGS 7:39 And he put five bases 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.
- I KINGS 7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the
- basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made
- king Solomon for the house of the Lord:
- I KINGS 7:41 The two pillars, and the {two} bowls of the
- chapiters that {were} on the top of the two pillars; and the two
- networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which {were}
- upon the top of the pillars;
- I KINGS 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks,
- {even} two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two
- bowls of the chapiters that {were} upon the pillars;
- I KINGS 7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
- I KINGS 7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
- I KINGS 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and
- all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house
- of the Lord, {were of} bright brass.
- I KINGS 7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in
- the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
- I KINGS 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels {unweighed},
- because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the
- brass found out.
- I KINGS 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that {pertained}
- unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of
- gold, whereupon the shewbread {was},
- I KINGS 7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right
- {side}, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the
- flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs {of} gold,
- I KINGS 7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and
- the spoons, and the censers {of} pure gold; and the hinges {of}
- gold, {both} for the doors of the inner house, the most holy
- {place, and} for the doors of the house, {to wit}, of the temple.
- I KINGS 7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for
- the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which
- David his father had dedicated; {even} the silver, and the gold,
- and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of
- the Lord.
- I KINGS 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all
- the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children
- of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring
- up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David,
- which {is} Zion.
- I KINGS 8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
- king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which {is} the
- seventh month.
- I KINGS 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests
- took up the ark.
- I KINGS 8:4 And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the
- tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that
- {were} in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the
- Levites bring up.
- I KINGS 8:5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel,
- that were assembled unto him, {were} with him before the ark,
- sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered
- for multitude.
- I KINGS 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
- the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the
- most holy {place, even} under the wings of the Cherubims.
- I KINGS 8:7 For the Cherubims spread forth {their} two wings over
- the place of the ark, and the Cherubims covered the ark and the
- staves thereof above.
- I KINGS 8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the
- staves were seen out in the holy {place} before the oracle, and
- they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
- I KINGS 8:9 {There was} nothing in the ark save the two tables of
- stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made {a
- covenant} with the children of Israel, when they came out of the
- land of Egypt.
- I KINGS 8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out
- of the holy {place}, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
- I KINGS 8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister
- because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the
- house of the Lord.
- I KINGS 8:12 Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would
- dwell in the thick darkness.
- I KINGS 8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a
- settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
- I KINGS 8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all
- the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel
- stood;)
- I KINGS 8:15 And he said, Blessed {be} the Lord God of Israel,
- which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with
- his hand fulfilled {it}, saying,
- I KINGS 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 an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David
- to be over my people Israel.
- I KINGS 8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build
- an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
- I KINGS 8:18 And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it
- was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst
- well that it was in thine heart.
- I KINGS 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.
- I KINGS 8:20 And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake,
- and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the
- throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house
- for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
- I KINGS 8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein
- {is} the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers,
- when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- I KINGS 8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in
- the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth
- his hands toward heaven:
- I KINGS 8:23 And he said, Lord God of Israel, {there is} no God
- like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest
- covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with
- all their heart:
- I KINGS 8:24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that
- thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast
- fulfilled {it} with thine hand, as {it is} this day.
- I KINGS 8:25 Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy
- servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There
- shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of
- Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they
- walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
- I KINGS 8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee,
- be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
- I KINGS 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the
- heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less
- this house that I have builded?
- I KINGS 8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy
- servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto
- the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee
- to day:
- I KINGS 8:29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night
- and day, {even} toward the place of which thou hast said, My name
- shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which
- thy servant shall make toward this place.
- I KINGS 8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant,
- and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place:
- and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou
- hearest, forgive.
- I KINGS 8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an
- oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come
- before thine altar in this house:
- I KINGS 8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy
- servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head;
- and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
- righteousness.
- I KINGS 8:33 When thy people Israel be smitten down 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:
- I KINGS 8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
- people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou
- gavest unto their fathers.
- I KINGS 8:35 When heaven is 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, when thou
- afflictest them:
- I KINGS 8:36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
- servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good
- way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which
- thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
- I KINGS 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be
- pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, {or} if there be
- caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their
- cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness {there be};
- I KINGS 8:38 What prayer and supplication soever be {made} by any
- man, {or} by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man
- the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward
- this house:
- I KINGS 8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and
- forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways,
- whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, {even} thou only, knowest
- the hearts of all the children of men;)
- I KINGS 8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live
- in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
- I KINGS 8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that {is} not of thy
- people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's
- sake;
- I KINGS 8:42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy
- strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come
- and pray toward this house;
- I KINGS 8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do
- according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all
- people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as {do} thy
- people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I
- have builded, is called by thy name.
- I KINGS 8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
- whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord
- toward the city which thou hast chosen, and {toward} the house
- that I have built for thy name:
- I KINGS 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
- supplication, and maintain their cause.
- I KINGS 8:46 If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man
- that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them
- to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land
- of the enemy, far or near;
- I KINGS 8:47 {Yet} if they shall bethink themselves in the land
- whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make
- supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them
- captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we
- have committed wickedness;
- I KINGS 8:48 And {so} return unto thee with all their heart, and
- with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them
- away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou
- gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and
- the house which I have built for thy name:
- I KINGS 8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication
- in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
- I KINGS 8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against
- thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed
- against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried
- them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
- I KINGS 8:51 For they {be} thy people, and thine inheritance,
- which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the
- furnace of iron:
- I KINGS 8:52 That thine eyes may be 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.
- I KINGS 8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the
- people of the earth, {to be} thine inheritance, as thou spakest
- by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our
- fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.
- I KINGS 8:54 And it was {so}, that when Solomon had made an end
- of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he
- arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his
- knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
- I KINGS 8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of
- Israel with a loud voice, saying,
- I KINGS 8:56 Blessed {be} the Lord, that hath given rest unto his
- people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not
- failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the
- hand of Moses his servant.
- I KINGS 8:57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our
- fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
- I KINGS 8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in
- all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and
- his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
- I KINGS 8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made
- supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day
- and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the
- cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall
- require:
- I KINGS 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the
- Lord {is} God, {and that there is} none else.
- I KINGS 8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord
- our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments,
- as at this day.
- I KINGS 8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered
- sacrifice before the Lord.
- I KINGS 8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings,
- which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and
- an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
- children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
- I KINGS 8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the
- court that {was} before the house of the Lord: for there he
- offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the
- peace offerings: because the brasen altar that {was} before the
- Lord {was} too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat
- offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
- I KINGS 8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all
- Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of
- Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven
- days and seven days, {even} fourteen days.
- I KINGS 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they
- blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of
- heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his
- servant, and for Israel his people.
- I KINGS 9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the
- building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all
- Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
- I KINGS 9:2 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as
- he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
- I KINGS 9:3 And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer
- and thy supplication, that 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 mine heart shall be there
- perpetually.
- I KINGS 9:4 And 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 my judgments:
- I KINGS 9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon
- Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
- shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
- I KINGS 9:6 {But} if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye
- or your children, and will not keep my commandments {and} my
- statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other
- gods, and worship them:
- I KINGS 9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I
- have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my
- name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb
- and a byword among all people:
- I KINGS 9:8 And at this house, {which} is high, every one that
- passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall
- say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this
- house?
- I KINGS 9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord
- their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of
- Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped
- them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them
- all this evil.
- I KINGS 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when
- Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the
- king's house,
- I KINGS 9:11 ({Now} Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon
- with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all
- his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in
- the land of Galilee.
- I KINGS 9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
- Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
- I KINGS 9:13 And he said, What cities {are} these which thou hast
- given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto
- this day.
- I KINGS 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
- I KINGS 9:15 And this {is} the reason of the levy which king
- Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own
- house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and
- Megiddo, and Gezer.
- I KINGS 9:16 {For} Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken
- Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that
- dwelt in the city, and given it {for} a present unto his
- daughter, Solomon's wife.
- I KINGS 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
- I KINGS 9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
- land,
- I KINGS 9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and
- cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that
- which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
- in all the land of his dominion.
- I KINGS 9:20 {And} all the people {that were} left of the
- Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which
- {were} not of the children of Israel,
- I KINGS 9:21 Their children that were left after them in the
- land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to
- destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice
- unto this day.
- I KINGS 9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no
- bondmen: but they {were} men of war, and his servants, and his
- princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his
- horsemen.
- I KINGS 9:23 These {were} the chief of the officers that {were}
- over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over
- the people that wrought in the work.
- I KINGS 9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of
- David unto her house which {Solomon} had built for her: then did
- he build Millo.
- I KINGS 9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt
- offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto
- the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that {was} before
- the Lord. So he finished the house.
- I KINGS 9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber,
- which {is} beside Eloth, on the shore of the red sea, in the land
- of Edom.
- I KINGS 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen
- that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
- I KINGS 9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence
- gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought {it} to king
- Solomon.
- I KINGS 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
- Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him
- with hard questions.
- I KINGS 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train,
- with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious
- stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him
- of all that was in her heart.
- I KINGS 10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was
- not {any} thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
- I KINGS 10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's
- wisdom, and the house that he had built,
- I KINGS 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his
- servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel,
- and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the
- house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
- I KINGS 10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that
- I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
- I KINGS 10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and
- mine eyes had seen {it}: and, behold, the half was not told me:
- thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
- I KINGS 10:8 Happy {are} thy men, happy {are} these thy servants,
- which stand continually before thee, {and} that hear thy wisdom.
- I KINGS 10:9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in
- thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved
- Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and
- justice.
- I KINGS 10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents
- of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones:
- there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the
- queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- I KINGS 10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from
- Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and
- precious stones.
- I KINGS 10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for
- the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, harps also and
- psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were
- seen unto this day.
- I KINGS 10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all
- her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside {that} which Solomon
- gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own
- country, she and her servants.
- I KINGS 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one
- year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
- I KINGS 10:15 Beside {that he had} of the merchantmen, and of the
- traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia,
- and of the governors of the country.
- I KINGS 10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets {of}
- beaten gold: six hundred {shekels} of gold went to one target.
- I KINGS 10:17 And {he made} three hundred shields {of} beaten
- gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put
- them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- I KINGS 10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
- overlaid it with the best gold.
- I KINGS 10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne
- {was} round behind: and {there were} stays on either side on the
- place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
- I KINGS 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.
-
- 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
- pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in
- the days of Solomon.
-
- 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of
- Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish,
- bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
-
- 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for
- riches and for wisdom.
-
- 24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
- which God had put in his heart.
-
- 25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of
- silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and
- spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
-
- 26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he
- had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
- horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with
- the king at Jerusalem.
-
- 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and
- cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the
- vale, for abundance.
-
- 28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen
- yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
-
-
- 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
- skekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and
- so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of
- Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
-
- 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together
- with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
- Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
-
- 2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the
- children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall
- they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your
- heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
-
- 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
- hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
-
- 4 For 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 the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his
- father.
-
- 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
- Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
-
- 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not
- fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
-
- 7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of
- Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
- abomination of the children of Ammon.
-
- 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and
- sacrificed unto their gods.
-
- 9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from
- the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
-
- 10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
- after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
-
- 11 Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of
- thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
- commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give
- it to thy servant.
-
- 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
- sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
-
- 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe
- to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I
- have chosen.
-
- 14 And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite:
- he was of the king's seed in Edom.
-
- 15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of
- the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male
- in Edom;
-
- 16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had
- cut off every male in Edom:)
-
- 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.
-
- 18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men
- with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of
- Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him
- land.
-
- 19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave
- him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the
- queen.
-
- 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
- weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among
- the sons of Pharaoh.
-
- 21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
- that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let
- me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
-
- 22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that,
- behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered,
- Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
-
- 23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
- which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
-
- 24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when
- David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein,
- and reigned in Damascus.
-
- 25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the
- mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
-
- 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's
- servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted
- up his hand against the king.
-
- 27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king:
- Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his
- father.
-
- 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing
- the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the
- charge of the house of Joseph.
-
- 29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
- that 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:
-
- 30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in
- twelve pieces:
-
- 31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
- Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand
- of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
-
- 32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
- Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
- Israel:)
-
- 33 Because that 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 mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my
- judgments, as did David his father.
-
- 34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will
- make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,
- whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
-
- 35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
- unto thee, even ten tribes.
-
- 36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
- have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen
- me to put my name there.
-
- 37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
- soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
-
- 38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee,
- and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my
- statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be
- with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will
- give Israel unto thee.
-
- 39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
-
- 40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
- fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the
- death of Solomon.
-
- 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?
-
- 42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
- forty years.
-
- 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 were come to Shechem
- to make him king.
-
- 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in
- Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon,
- and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
-
- 3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation
- of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
-
- 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the
- grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us,
- lighter, and we will serve thee.
-
- 5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to
- me. And the people departed.
-
- 6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before
- Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I
- may answer this people?
-
- 7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this
- people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good
- words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
-
- 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
- and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which
- stood before him:
-
- 9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this
- people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father
- did put upon us lighter?
-
- 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying,
- Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy
- father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt
- thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's
- loins.
-
- 11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add
- to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will
- chastise you with scorpions.
-
- 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the
- king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
-
- 13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's
- counsel that they gave him;
-
- 14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My
- father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also
- chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
-
- 15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was
- from the Lord, that he might perform his saying, which the Lord spake by
- Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
-
- 16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the
- people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither
- have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now
- see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
-
- 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah,
- Rehoboam reigned over them.
-
- 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all
- Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam
- made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
-
- 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
-
- 20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come
- again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him
- king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David,
- but the tribe of Judah only.
-
- 21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
- of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand
- chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel,
- to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
-
- 22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
-
- 23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all
- the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people,
- saying,
-
- 24 Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
- brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this
- thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and
- returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord.
-
- 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and
- went out from thence, and built Penuel.
-
- 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the
- house of David:
-
- 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at
- Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their
- lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go
- again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
-
- 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and
- said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy
- gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
-
- 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
-
- 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before
- the one, even unto Dan.
-
- 31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest
- of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
-
- 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
- day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered
- upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he
- had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which
- he had made.
-
- 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
- fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had
- devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of
- Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
-
- 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
- the Lord unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
-
- 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O
- altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto
- the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the
- priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones
- shall be burnt upon thee.
-
- 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the
- Lord hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that
- are upon it shall be poured out.
-
- 4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of
- God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his
- hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put
- forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to
- him.
-
- 5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
- according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
- Lord.
-
- 6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the
- face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored
- me again. And the man of God besought the Lord, and the king's hand was
- restored him again, and became as it was before.
-
- 7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
- thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
-
- 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine
- house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink
- water in this place:
-
- 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no
- bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
-
- 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
- Bethel.
-
- 11 Now there dwelt an 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 which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their
- father.
-
- 12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had
- seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
-
- 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the
- ass: and he rode thereon,
-
- 14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak:
- and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?
- And he said, I am.
-
- 15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
-
- 16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither
- will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
-
- 17 For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no
- bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou
- camest.
-
- 18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake
- unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into
- thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto
- him.
-
- 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank
- water.
-
- 20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
- Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back:
-
- 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus
- saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord,
- and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,
-
- 22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place,
- of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water;
- thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
-
- 23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
- drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he
- had brought back.
-
- 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and
- his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also
- stood by the carcase.
-
- 25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and
- the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city
- where the old prophet dwelt.
-
- 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
- thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the
- word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion,
- which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord,
- which he spake unto him.
-
- 27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled
- him.
-
- 28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and
- the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase,
- nor torn the ass.
-
- 29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it
- upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city,
- to mourn and to bury him.
-
- 30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
- saying, Alas, my brother!
-
- 31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
- sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the
- man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
-
- 32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the
- altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are
- in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
-
- 33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made
- again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever
- would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high
- places.
-
- 34 And this thing became sin unto 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 fell sick.
-
- 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 get thee
- to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I
- should be king over this people.
-
- 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey,
- and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
-
- 4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to
- the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
- reason of his age.
-
- 5 And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
- ask a thing of thee for 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 herself to be another woman.
-
- 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 thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
-
- 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
- exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people
- Israel,
-
- 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee:
- and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my
- commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only
- which was right in mine eyes;
-
- 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone
- and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and
- hast cast me behind thy back:
-
- 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and
- will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him
- that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of
- the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
-
- 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
- that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord
- hath spoken it.
-
- 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet
- enter into the city, the child shall die.
-
- 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
- Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some
- good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
-
- 14 Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall
- cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
-
- 15 For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water,
- and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to
- their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they
- have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
-
- 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did
- sin, and who made Israel to sin.
-
- 17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when
- she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
-
- 18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the
- word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
- prophet.
-
- 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.
-
- 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he
- slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
-
- 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty
- and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years
- in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes
- of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an
- Ammonitess.
-
- 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to
- jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their
- fathers had done.
-
- 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on
- every high hill, and under every green tree.
-
- 24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to
- all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the
- children of Israel.
-
- 25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
- king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
-
- 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the
- treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away
- all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
-
- 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed
- them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of
- the king's house.
-
- 28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that
- the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
-
- 29 Now 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?
-
- 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
-
- 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 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
- reigned Abijam over Judah.
-
- 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
- Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
-
- 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before
- him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart
- of David his father.
-
- 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in
- Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
-
- 5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and
- turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of
- his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
-
- 6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his
- life.
-
- 7 Now 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.
-
- 8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of
- David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
-
- 9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over
- Judah.
-
- 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
- name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
-
- 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did
- David his father.
-
- 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
- idols that his fathers had made.
-
- 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen,
- because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and
- burnt it by the brook Kidron.
-
- 14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
- perfect with the Lord all his days.
-
- 15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the
- things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver,
- and gold, and vessels.
-
- 16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
- days.
-
- 17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
- that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
-
- 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the
- treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's
- house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa
- sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of
- Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
-
- 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy
- father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come
- and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from
- me.
-
- 20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the
- hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and
- Dan, and A-bel-bethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of
- Naphtali.
-
- 21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off
- building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
-
- 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was
- exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber
- thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba
- of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
-
- 23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he
- did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of
- the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his
- old age he was diseased in his feet.
-
- 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.
-
- 25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
- second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
-
- 26 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of
- his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
-
- 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; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
-
- 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and
- reigned in his stead.
-
- 29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of
- Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had
- destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by
- his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
-
- 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made
- Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of
- Israel to anger.
-
- 31 Now 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?
-
- 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
- days.
-
- 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah
- to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
-
- 34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of
- Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
-
- 16:1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against
- Baasha, saying,
-
- 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, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
-
- 3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of
- his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
- Nebat.
-
- 4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that
- dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
-
- 5 Now 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?
-
- 6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah
- his son reigned in his stead.
-
- 7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the
- word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the
- evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger
- with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and
- because he killed him.
-
- 8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son
- of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
-
- 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against
- him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza
- steward of his house in Tirzah.
-
- 10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and
- seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
-
- 11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his
- throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that
- pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
-
- 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word
- of the Lord, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
-
- 13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which
- they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord
- God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
-
- 14 Now 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?
-
- 15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign
- seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon,
- which belonged to the Philistines.
-
- 16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired,
- and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the
- captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
-
- 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they
- besieged Tirzah.
-
- 18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he
- went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house
- over him with fire, and died,
-
- 19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord,
- in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make
- Israel to sin.
-
- 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought,
- are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
- Israel?
-
- 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.
-
- 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that
- followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
-
- 23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign
- over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
-
- 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 which he built,
- after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
-
- 25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all
- that were before him.
-
- 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his
- sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel
- to anger with their vanities.
-
- 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he
- shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
- of Israel?
-
- 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab
- his son reigned in his stead.
-
- 29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the
- son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over
- Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
-
- 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all
- that were before him.
-
- 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk
- in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel
- the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal,
- and worshipped him.
-
- 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had
- built in Samaria.
-
- 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of
- Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
-
- 34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
- foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof
- in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he
- spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
-
- 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said
- unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there
- shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
-
- 2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
-
- 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
- Cherith, that is before Jordan.
-
- 4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
- commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
-
- 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went
- and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
-
- 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread
- and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
-
- 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because
- there had been no rain in the land.
-
- 8 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
-
- 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell
- there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
-
- 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of
- the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he
- called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a
- vessel, that I may drink.
-
- 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring
- me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
-
- 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an
- 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.
-
- 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but
- make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after
- make for thee and for thy son.
-
- 14 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
- waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord
- sendeth rain upon the earth.
-
- 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she and
- he, and her house, did eat many days.
-
- 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail,
- according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
-
- 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 sore, that
- there was no breath left in him.
-
- 18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of
- God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my
- son?
-
- 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her
- bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon
- his own bed.
-
- 20 And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also
- brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
-
- 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto
- the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul
- come into him again.
-
- 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child
- came into him again, and he revived.
-
- 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
- into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See,
- thy son liveth.
-
- 24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man
- of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.
-
- 18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came
- to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I
- will send rain upon the earth.
-
- 2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine
- in Samaria.
-
- 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now
- Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
-
- 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that
- Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and
- fed them with bread and water.)
-
- 5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of
- water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the
- horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
-
- 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went
- one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
-
- 7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew
- him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
-
- 8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
-
- 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy
- servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
-
- 10 As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my
- lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he
- took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
-
- 11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
-
- 12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the
- spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I
- come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy
- servant fear the Lord from my youth.
-
- 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
- the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a
- cave, and fed them with bread and water?
-
- 14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and
- he shall slay me.
-
- 15 And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I
- will surely shew myself unto him today.
-
- 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet
- Elijah.
-
- 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
- Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
-
- 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy
- father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord,
- and thou hast followed Baalim.
-
- 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel,
- and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the
- groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
-
- 20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
- prophets together unto mount Carmel.
-
- 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
- between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then
- follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
-
- 22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of
- the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
-
- 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one
- bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and
- put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on
- wood, and put no fire under:
-
- 24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of
- the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all
- the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
-
- 25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for
- yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of
- your gods, but put no fire under.
-
- 26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it,
- and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O
- Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they
- leaped upon the altar which was made.
-
- 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry
- aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he
- is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
-
- 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with
- knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
-
- 29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until
- the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was
- neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
-
- 30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the
- people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that
- was broken down.
-
- 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes
- of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying,
- Israel shall be thy name:
-
- 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord: and he
- made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of
- seed.
-
- 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid
- him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on
- the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
-
- 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.
-
- 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
- also with water.
-
- 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening
- sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of
- Abraham, Isaac, and of 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 at thy word.
-
- 37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the
- Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
-
- 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and
- the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was
- in the trench.
-
- 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they
- said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
-
- 40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of
- them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the
- brook Kishon, and slew them there.
-
- 41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a
- sound of abundance of rain.
-
- 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of
- Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face
- between his knees,
-
- 43 And 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.
-
- 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there
- ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said,
- Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the
- rain stop thee not.
-
- 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with
- clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
- Jezreel.
-
- 46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins,
- and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
-
- 19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he
- had slain all the prophets with the sword.
-
- 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do
- to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them
- by tomorrow about this time.
-
- 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to
- Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
-
- 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and
- sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he
- might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I
- am not better than my fathers.
-
- 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel
- touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
-
- 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a
- cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down
- again.
-
- 7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him,
- and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
-
- 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that
- meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
-
- 9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the
- word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou
- here, Elijah?
-
- 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord 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, even I only, am
- left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
-
- 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And,
- behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
- mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord
- was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was
- not in the earthquake:
-
- 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire:
- and after the fire a still small voice.
-
- 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in his
- mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And,
- behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here,
- Elijah?
-
- 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts:
- because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down
- thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only,
- am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
-
- 15 And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness
- of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
-
- 16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel:
- and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be
- prophet in thy room.
-
- 17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael
- shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall
- Elisha slay.
-
- 18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have
- not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
-
- 19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was
- plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth:
- and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
-
- 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray
- thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he
- said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
-
- 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew
- them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave
- unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah,
- and ministered unto him.
-
- 20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and
- there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and
- he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
-
- 2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said
- unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
-
- 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even
- the goodliest, are mine.
-
- 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.
-
- 5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad,
- saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me
- thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
-
- 6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about this time, and
- they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it
- shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it
- in their hand, and take it away.
-
- 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said,
- Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent
- unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my
- gold; and I denied him not.
-
- 8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto
- him, nor consent.
-
- 9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the
- king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will
- do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and
- brought him word again.
-
- 10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and
- more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the
- people that follow me.
-
- 11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that
- girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
-
- 12 And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was
- drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his
- servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array
- against the city.
-
- 13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying,
- Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I
- will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am
- the Lord.
-
- 14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Even by the
- young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order
- the battle? And he answered, Thou.
-
- 15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and
- they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the
- people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
-
- 16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in
- the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped
- him.
-
- 17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and
- Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of
- Samaria.
-
- 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.
-
- 19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the
- city, and the army which followed them.
-
- 20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel
- pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with
- the horsemen.
-
- 21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots,
- and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
-
- 22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go,
- strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return
- of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
-
- 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are
- gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us
- fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than
- they.
-
- 24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place,
- and put captains in their rooms:
-
- 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 in the
- plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto
- their voice, and did so.
-
- 26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered
- the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
-
- 27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and
- went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like
- two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
-
- 28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and
- said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is
- God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I
- deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that
- I am the Lord.
-
- 29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it
- was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of
- Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
-
- 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon
- twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled,
- and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
-
- 31 And his servants said unto 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: peradventure he will save thy life.
-
- 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their
- heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad
- saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my
- brother.
-
- 33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from
- him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then
- he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he
- caused him to come up into the chariot.
-
- 34 And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy
- father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in
- Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee
- away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him
- away.
-
- 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour
- in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to
- smite him.
-
- 36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the
- Lord, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay
- thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and
- slew him.
-
- 37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the
- man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
-
- 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and
- disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
-
- 39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy
- servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned
- aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any
- means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou
- shalt pay a talent of silver.
-
- 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king
- of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided
- it.
-
- 41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of
- Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
-
- 42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let go
- out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore
- thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
-
- 43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and
- came to Samaria.
-
- 21:1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite
- had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of
- Samaria.
-
- 2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may
- have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I
- will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to
- thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
-
- 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the
- inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
-
- 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word
- which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will
- not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon
- his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
-
- 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit
- so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
-
- 6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and
- said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please
- thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will
- not give thee my vineyard.
-
- 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom
- of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will
- give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
-
- 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal,
- and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his
- city, dwelling with Naboth.
-
- 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth
- on high among the people:
-
- 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against
- him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him
- out, and stone him, that he may die.
-
- 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the
- inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it
- was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
-
- 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
-
- 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him:
- and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the
- presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king.
- Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones,
- that he died.
-
- 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
-
- 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 Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for
- money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
-
- 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 Jezreelite, to take
- possession of it.
-
- 17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
-
- 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria:
- behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to
- possess it.
-
- 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou
- killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him,
- saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of
- Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
-
- 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he
- answered, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to work evil
- in the sight of the Lord.
-
- 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
- posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall,
- and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
-
- 22 And will make thine 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.
-
- 23 And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat
- Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
-
- 24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that
- dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
-
- 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
- wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
-
- 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all
- things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children
- of Israel.
-
- 27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his
- clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
- sackcloth, and went softly.
-
- 28 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
-
- 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth
- himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but 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.
-
- 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of
- Judah came down to the king of Israel.
-
- 3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in
- Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the
- king of Syria?
-
- 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to
- Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou
- art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
-
- 5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at
- the word of the Lord today.
-
- 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four
- hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to
- battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall
- deliver it into the hand of the king.
-
- 7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides,
- that we might inquire of him?
-
- 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man,
- Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate
- him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And
- Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
-
- 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither
- Micaiah the son of Imlah.
-
- 10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on
- his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance
- of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
-
- 11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he
- said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until
- thou have consumed them.
-
- 12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead,
- and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hand.
-
- 13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him,
- saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king
- with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of
- them, and speak that which is good.
-
- 14 And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me,
- that will I speak.
-
- 15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we
- go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered
- him, Go, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the
- king.
-
- 16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that
- thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?
-
- 17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that
- have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master: let them
- return every man to his house in peace.
-
- 18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
- that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
-
- 19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord
- sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his
- right hand and on his left.
-
- 20 And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and
- fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on
- that manner.
-
- 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I
- will persuade him.
-
- 22 And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth,
- and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he
- said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
-
- 23 Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth
- of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning
- thee.
-
- 24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the
- cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me to speak
- unto thee?
-
- 25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt
- go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
-
- 26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto
- Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
-
- 27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed
- him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come
- in peace.
-
- 28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not
- spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
-
- 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to
- Ramothgilead.
-
- 30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself,
- and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of
- Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
-
- 31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had
- rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save
- only with the king of Israel.
-
- 32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
- Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they
- turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
-
- 33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that
- it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
-
- 34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
- Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the
- driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host;
- for I am wounded.
-
- 35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his
- chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of
- the wound into the midst of the chariot.
-
- 36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going
- down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own
- country.
-
- 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the
- king in Samaria.
-
- 38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
- licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word
- of the Lord which he spake.
-
- 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory
- house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not
- written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
-
- 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
- stead.
-
- 41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the
- fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
-
- 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and
- he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
- Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
-
- 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside
- from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord:
- nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered
- and burnt incense yet in the high places.
-
- 44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
-
- 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
- shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the
- chronicles of the kings of Judah?
-
- 46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his
- father Asa, he took out of the land.
-
- 47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
-
- 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they
- went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
-
- 49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants
- go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
-
- 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.
-
- 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the
- seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years
- over Israel.
-
- 52 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, 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:
-
- 53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the
- Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
-
-