First Book of Kings

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 ÿupon  the six steps: there was not
the like made in any kingdom.

21 ÿÿAnd all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, ÿand
all ÿthe  vessels ÿof the house of the forest of Lebanon were of
pure gold; ÿÿnone  were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in
the days of Solomon.

22 ÿÿFor the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of
Hiram:  once ÿin ÿthree years came the navy of Tharshish,
ÿbringing ÿgold, ÿÿand  silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

23 ÿÿSo king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for
riches ÿand  for wisdom.

24 ÿAnd all the earth sought to Solomon, ÿto hear his wisdom,
ÿwhich God  had put in his heart.

25 ÿÿAnd ÿthey brought every man his present, ÿvessels of
ÿsilver, ÿÿand  vessels of gold, ÿand garments, ÿand armour, ÿand
spices, ÿhorses, ÿÿand  mules, a rate year by year.

26 ÿÿAnd Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: ÿand he
had ÿa  thousand and four hundred chariots, ÿand twelve thousand
horsemen, ÿwhom  he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with
the king at Jerusalem.

27 ÿÿAnd the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, ÿand
ÿcedars  made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the
vale, for abundance.

28 ÿÿAnd Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, ÿand linen
yarn: ÿÿthe  king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.


29 ÿÿAnd a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
skekels  of ÿsilver, ÿand an horse for an hundred and fifty: ÿand
so for all ÿthe  kings of the Hittites, ÿand for the kings of
Syria, ÿdid they bring them  out by their means.

11:1 ÿÿBut ÿking ÿSolomon loved many strange women, ÿtogether
ÿwith ÿthe  daughter ÿof ÿPharaoh, ÿÿwomen of the Moabites,
ÿÿAmmonites, ÿÿEdomites,  Zidonians, and Hittites;

2 ÿÿOf ÿthe nations concerning which the Lord said unto the
children ÿof  Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall
they come in unto you:  for ÿsurely ÿthey will turn away your
heart after their ÿgods: ÿÿSolomon  clave unto these in love.

3 ÿÿAnd ÿhe ÿhad seven hundred wives, ÿprincesses, ÿÿand ÿthree
ÿhundred  concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

4 ÿFor it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives
turned away  his heart after other gods: ÿand his heart was not
perfect with the Lord  his God, as was the heart of David his
father.

5 ÿÿFor Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Zidonians, ÿÿand  after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

6 ÿÿAnd ÿSolomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, ÿand went not
ÿfully  after the Lord, as did David his father.

7 ÿThen did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, ÿthe abomination of
Moab, ÿÿin ÿthe ÿhill that is before Jerusalem, ÿand ÿfor ÿMolech, ÿÿthe
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 ÿÿAnd had commanded him concerning this thing, ÿthat he should not go
after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.

11 ÿWherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, ÿForasmuch as this is done ÿof
thee, ÿand thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, ÿwhich I have
commanded thee, ÿI will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give
it to thy servant.

12 ÿÿNotwithstanding 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 ÿFor it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of
the host was gone up to bury the slain, ÿafter he had smitten every male
in Edom;

16 ÿ(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, ÿuntil he had
cut off every male in Edom:)

17 ÿÿThat Hadad fled, ÿhe and certain Edomites of his father's ÿservants
with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

18 ÿAnd they arose out of Midian, ÿand came to Paran: ÿand they took men
with ÿthem out of Paran, ÿand they came to Egypt, ÿunto Pharaoh king ÿof
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 ÿto ÿwife ÿthe sister of his own wife, ÿthe sister of ÿTahpenes ÿthe
queen.

20 ÿAnd the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, ÿwhom Tahpenes
weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among
the sons of Pharaoh.

21 ÿAnd when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
that Joab the captain of the host was dead, ÿHadad said to Pharaoh, ÿLet
me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, ÿthat,
behold, ÿÿthou ÿseekest ÿto go to thine own country? ÿAnd ÿhe ÿanswered,
Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

23 ÿAnd God stirred him up another adversary, ÿRezon the son of Eliadah,
which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:

24 ÿAnd he gathered men unto him, ÿand became captain over a band, ÿwhen
David slew them of Zobah: ÿand 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 ÿAnd Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ÿan Ephrathite of Zereda, ÿÿSolomon's
servant, ÿwhose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, ÿeven he lifted
up his hand against the king.

27 ÿAnd this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the ÿking:
Solomon built Millo, ÿand repaired the breaches of the city of David his
father.

28 ÿAnd the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: ÿand Solomon seeing
the ÿyoung man that he was industrious, ÿhe made him ruler over all ÿthe
charge of the house of Joseph.

29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
that ÿthe prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; ÿand he had
clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

30 ÿÿAnd Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, ÿand rent it ÿin
twelve pieces:

31 ÿÿAnd he said to Jeroboam, ÿTake thee ten pieces: ÿfor 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 ÿÿ(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, ÿand ÿfor
Jerusalem's sake, ÿthe 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 ÿof the Zidonians, ÿChemosh the god of the Moabites, ÿand Milcom
the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, ÿto do
that ÿwhich ÿis ÿright in mine eyes, ÿand to keep ÿmy ÿstatutes ÿand ÿmy
judgments, as did David his father.

34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will
make ÿhim prince all the days of his life for David my ÿservant's ÿsake,
whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

35 ÿBut I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, ÿand will give it
unto thee, even ten tribes.

36 ÿÿAnd unto his son will I give one tribe, ÿthat David my servant ÿmay
have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, ÿthe city which I have chosen
me to put my name there.

37 And I will take thee, ÿand thou shalt reign according to all that thy
soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

38 ÿAnd it shall be, ÿif thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee,
and wilt walk in my ways, ÿand do that is right in my sight, ÿto keep my
statutes ÿand my commandments, ÿas David my servant did; ÿthat I will be
with thee, ÿand build thee a sure house, as I built for David, ÿand will
give Israel unto thee.

39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

40 ÿSolomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. ÿAnd Jeroboam arose, ÿand
fled into Egypt, ÿunto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the
death of Solomon.

41 ÿÿAnd the rest of the acts of Solomon, ÿand all that he did, ÿand his
wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

42 ÿÿAnd the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel ÿwas
forty years.

43 ÿÿAnd Solomon slept with his fathers, ÿand was buried in the city ÿof
David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.


12:1 ÿAnd Rehoboam went to Shechem: ÿfor all Israel were come to Shechem
to make him king.

2 ÿAnd it came to pass, ÿwhen Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ÿwho was yet in
Egypt, ÿheard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon,
and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)

3 ÿThat they sent and called him. ÿAnd Jeroboam and all the congregation
of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,

4 ÿÿThy ÿfather ÿmade our yoke grievous: ÿnow therefore ÿmake ÿthou ÿthe
grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us,
lighter, and we will serve thee.

5 ÿAnd he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, ÿthen come again to
me. And the people departed.

6 ÿÿAnd ÿking ÿRehoboam consulted with the old men, ÿthat ÿstood ÿbefore
Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I
may answer this people?

7 ÿAnd they spake unto him, saying, ÿIf thou wilt be a servant unto this
people this day, ÿand wilt serve them, ÿand answer them, ÿand speak good
words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

8 ÿBut he forsook the counsel of the old men, ÿwhich they had given him,
and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, ÿand which
stood before him:

9 ÿÿAnd he said unto them, ÿWhat counsel give ye that we may answer this
people, ÿwho have spoken to me, ÿsaying, ÿMake 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 ÿsay unto them, ÿMy little finger shall be thicker than my father's
loins.

11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I ÿwill add
to ÿyour ÿyoke: ÿÿmy father hath chastised you with whips, ÿbut ÿI ÿwill
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 ÿAnd the king answered the people roughly, ÿand forsook the old men's
counsel that they gave him;

14 ÿÿAnd spake to them after the counsel of the young men, ÿsaying, ÿÿMy
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 ÿWherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; ÿfor 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 ÿÿSo when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, ÿÿthe
people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither
have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: ÿto your tents, ÿO Israel: ÿnow
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 ÿThen king Rehoboam sent Adoram, ÿwho was over the tribute; ÿand ÿall
Israel ÿstoned him with stones, ÿthat he died. ÿTherefore king ÿRehoboam
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 ÿÿAnd it came to pass, ÿwhen all Israel heard that Jeroboam was ÿcome
again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him
king ÿover all Israel: ÿthere was none that followed the house of David,
but the tribe of Judah only.

21 ÿAnd when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, ÿhe assembled all the house
of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, ÿan hundred and fourscore thousand
chosen men, ÿwhich were warriors, ÿto 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 ÿSpeak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all
the ÿhouse ÿof ÿJudah and Benjamin, ÿand to the remnant of ÿthe ÿpeople,
saying,

24 ÿÿThus ÿsaith the Lord, ÿYe shall not go up, ÿnor fight against ÿyour
brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this
thing is from me. ÿThey 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; ÿand
went out from thence, and built Penuel.

26 ÿAnd Jeroboam said in his heart, ÿNow shall the kingdom return to the
house of David:

27 ÿÿIf ÿthis people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the ÿLord ÿat
Jerusalem, ÿÿthen ÿshall the heart of this people turn again unto ÿtheir
lord, ÿeven unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, ÿand go
again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

28 ÿÿWhereupon the king took counsel, ÿand made two calves of gold, ÿand
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 ÿÿAnd this thing became a sin: ÿfor the people went to worship before
the one, even unto Dan.

31 ÿAnd he made an house of high places, ÿand made priests of the lowest
of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

32 ÿAnd Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, ÿon the fifteenth
day of the month, ÿlike unto the feast that is in Judah, ÿand he offered
upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he
had made: ÿand he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places ÿwhich
he had made.

33 ÿÿSo ÿhe ÿoffered ÿupon the altar which he had ÿmade ÿin ÿBethel ÿthe
fifteenth ÿday ÿof ÿthe eighth month, ÿeven in the month ÿwhich ÿhe ÿhad
devised ÿof ÿhis own heart; ÿand ordained a feast unto the ÿchildren ÿof
Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

13:1 ÿAnd, ÿbehold, ÿthere 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 ÿAnd he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, ÿand said, ÿO
altar, ÿaltar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, ÿa ÿchild shall be born unto
the ÿhouse of David, ÿJosiah by name; ÿand upon thee shall he offer ÿthe
priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, ÿand men's bones
shall be burnt upon thee.

3 ÿAnd he gave a sign the same day, ÿsaying, ÿThis is the sign which the
Lord hath spoken; ÿBehold, ÿthe altar shall be rent, ÿand 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, ÿwhich 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 ÿagainst him, ÿdried up, ÿso that he could not pull it in again to
him.

5 ÿÿThe altar also was rent, ÿand the ashes poured out from ÿthe ÿaltar,
according ÿto the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
Lord.

6 ÿAnd the king answered and said unto the man of God, ÿEntreat now ÿthe
face of the Lord thy God, ÿand pray for me, that my hand may be restored
me again. And the man of God besought the Lord, ÿand the king's hand was
restored him again, and became as it was before.

7 ÿAnd 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, ÿI ÿwill not go in with thee, ÿneither will I eat bread nor drink
water in this place:

9 ÿÿFor ÿso was it charged me by the word of the Lord, ÿsaying, ÿEat ÿno
bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

10 ÿSo he went another way, ÿand returned not by the way that he came to
Bethel.

11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; ÿand his sons came and told
him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: ÿÿthe
words ÿwhich he had spoken unto the king, ÿthem they told also to ÿtheir
father.

12 ÿAnd their father said unto them, What way went he? ÿFor 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 ÿÿAnd went after the man of God, ÿand found him sitting under an oak:
and ÿhe said unto him, ÿArt thou the man of God that camest from ÿJudah?
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 ÿÿFor it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ÿThou shalt ÿeat ÿno
bread nor drink water there, ÿnor turn again to go by the way that ÿthou
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, ÿsaying, ÿBring him back with thee into
thine ÿhouse, ÿthat he may eat bread and drink water. ÿBut he lied ÿunto
him.

19 ÿSo he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, ÿand drank
water.

20 ÿAnd it came to pass, as they sat at the table, ÿthat the word of the
Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back:

21 ÿAnd he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, ÿThus
saith the Lord, ÿForasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord,
and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

22 ÿBut camest back, ÿand 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 ÿÿAnd ÿit came to pass, ÿafter he had eaten bread, ÿand after he ÿhad
drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, ÿfor the prophet whom he
had brought back.

24 ÿAnd when he was gone, ÿa lion met him by the way, and slew him: ÿand
his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, ÿthe lion also
stood by the carcase.

25 ÿAnd, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and
the lion standing by the carcase: ÿand they came and told it in the city
where the old prophet dwelt.

26 ÿÿAnd ÿwhen ÿthe prophet that brought him back ÿfrom ÿthe ÿway ÿheard
thereof, ÿhe said, ÿIt is the man of God, ÿwho was disobedient unto ÿthe
word of the Lord: ÿtherefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the ÿlion,
which hath torn him, ÿand slain him, ÿaccording 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 ÿAnd he went and found his carcase cast in the way, ÿand the ass ÿand
the ÿlion standing by the carcase: ÿthe lion had not eaten the ÿcarcase,
nor torn the ass.

29 ÿAnd the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, ÿand laid ÿit
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; ÿand they mourned over him,
saying, Alas, my brother!

31 ÿAnd it came to pass, ÿafter he had buried him, ÿthat he spake to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, ÿthen bury me in the sepulchre wherein the
man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

32 ÿÿFor the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord ÿagainst ÿthe
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 ÿAfter this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, ÿbut ÿmade
again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: ÿwhosoever
would, he consecrated him, ÿand he became one of the priests of the high
places.

34 ÿAnd 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 ÿÿAnd Jeroboam said to his wife, ÿArise, ÿI ÿpray thee, ÿand ÿdisguise
thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee
to Shiloh: ÿbehold, ÿthere is Ahijah the prophet, ÿwhich told me that ÿI
should be king over this people.

3 ÿAnd take with thee ten loaves, ÿand cracknels, ÿand 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. ÿBut Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
reason of his age.

5 And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, ÿthe wife of Jeroboam cometh to
ask ÿa thing of thee for her son; ÿfor he is sick: ÿthus and thus ÿshalt
thou say unto her: ÿfor it shall be, when she cometh in, ÿthat 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; ÿwhy feignest
thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

7 ÿGo, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ÿForasmuch as I
exalted thee from among the people, ÿand made thee prince over my people
Israel,

8 ÿAnd rent the kingdom away from the house of David, ÿand gave it thee:
and ÿyet ÿthou ÿhast ÿnot ÿbeen ÿas ÿmy ÿservant ÿDavid, ÿÿwho ÿkept ÿmy
commandments, ÿÿand who followed me with all his heart, ÿto 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, ÿand
will ÿcut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, ÿand ÿhim
that ÿis shut up and left in Israel, ÿand will take away the remnant ÿof
the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

11 ÿÿHim that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; ÿand him
that ÿdieth ÿin the field shall the fowls of the air eat: ÿfor the ÿLord
hath spoken it.

12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: ÿand when thy feet
enter into the city, the child shall die.

13 ÿÿAnd all Israel shall mourn for him, ÿand bury him: ÿfor he only ÿof
Jeroboam ÿshall ÿcome to the grave, ÿbecause in him there is found ÿsome
good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

14 ÿMoreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, ÿwho ÿshall
cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

15 ÿÿFor the Lord shall smite Israel, ÿas a reed is shaken in the water,
and ÿhe ÿshall root up Israel out of this good land, ÿwhich he ÿgave ÿto
their ÿfathers, ÿand shall scatter them beyond the river, ÿbecause ÿthey
have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.

16 ÿAnd 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 ÿof the Lord, ÿwhich he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
prophet.

19 ÿÿAnd ÿthe rest of the acts of Jeroboam, ÿhow he warred, ÿand how ÿhe
reigned, ÿbehold, ÿthey 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 ÿAnd 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, ÿthe city which the Lord did choose out of all the ÿtribes
of ÿIsrael, ÿto put his name there. ÿAnd 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, ÿabove all that their
fathers had done.

23 ÿFor they also built them high places, ÿand images, ÿand groves, ÿÿon
every high hill, and under every green tree.

24 ÿAnd there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to
all ÿthe abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before ÿthe
children of Israel.

25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, ÿthat Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

26 ÿÿAnd ÿhe took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, ÿand ÿthe
treasures of the king's house; ÿhe even took away all: ÿand he took away
all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

27 ÿAnd king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, ÿand committed
them ÿunto the hands of the chief of the guard, ÿwhich kept the door ÿof
the king's house.

28 ÿAnd it was so, ÿwhen the king went into the house of the Lord, ÿthat
the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

29 ÿNow the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, ÿare 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, ÿand was buried with his fathers
in ÿthe city of David. ÿAnd his mother's name was Naamah an ÿAmmonitess.
And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

15:1 ÿÿNow ÿin ÿthe eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the ÿson ÿof ÿNebat
reigned Abijam over Judah.

2 ÿÿThree ÿyears ÿreigned he in Jerusalem. ÿAnd his ÿmother's ÿname ÿwas
Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

3 ÿAnd he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before
him: ÿand his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, ÿas the heart
of David his father.

4 ÿNevertheless 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 ÿÿBecause David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, ÿand
turned ÿnot aside from any thing that he commanded him all the ÿdays ÿof
his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 ÿÿAnd there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of ÿhis
life.

7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, ÿare they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ÿAnd ÿthere
was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

8 ÿAnd Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of
David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

9 ÿAnd in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over
Judah.

10 ÿÿAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. ÿAnd his ÿmother's
name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11 ÿÿAnd ÿAsa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, ÿas ÿdid
David his father.

12 ÿAnd he took away the sodomites out of the land, ÿand removed all the
idols that his fathers had made.

13 ÿAnd also Maachah his mother, ÿeven her he removed from being ÿqueen,
because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and
burnt it by the brook Kidron.

14 ÿBut the high places were not removed: ÿnevertheless Asa's heart ÿwas
perfect with the Lord all his days.

15 ÿAnd he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the
things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, ÿsilver,
and gold, and vessels.

16 ÿÿAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel ÿall ÿtheir
days.

17 ÿÿAnd Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, ÿand built ÿRamah,
that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

18 ÿÿThen ÿAsa took all the silver and the gold that were ÿleft ÿin ÿthe
treasures ÿof ÿthe house of the Lord, ÿand the treasures of ÿthe ÿking's
house, ÿand delivered them into the hand of his servants: ÿand king ÿAsa
sent them to Benhadad, ÿthe son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, ÿking of
Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

19 ÿThere 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 ÿÿSo Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, ÿand sent the captains of ÿthe
hosts ÿwhich he had against the cities of Israel, ÿand smote Ijon, ÿÿand
Dan, ÿÿand A-bel-bethmaachah, ÿand all Cinneroth, ÿwith all the land ÿof
Naphtali.

21 ÿÿAnd it came to pass, ÿwhen Baasha heard thereof, ÿthat he left ÿoff
building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

22 ÿÿThen king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; ÿÿnone ÿwas
exempted: ÿÿand ÿthey ÿtook away the stones of Ramah, ÿÿand ÿthe ÿtimber
thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba
of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

23 ÿThe rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, ÿand all that he
did, and the cities which he built, ÿare they not written in the book of
the ÿchronicles of the kings of Judah? ÿNevertheless in the time of ÿhis
old age he was diseased in his feet.

24 ÿAnd Asa slept with his fathers, ÿand was buried with his fathers ÿin
the ÿcity of David his father: ÿand Jehoshaphat his son reigned ÿin ÿhis
stead.

25 ÿÿAnd ÿNadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over ÿIsrael ÿin ÿthe
second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.

26 ÿÿAnd he did evil in the sight of the Lord, ÿand walked in the way of
his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

27 ÿÿAnd Baasha the son of Ahijah, ÿof the house of Issachar, ÿconspired
against him; ÿand Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, ÿwhich belonged to ÿthe
Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

28 ÿEven 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, ÿthat he smote all the house of
Jeroboam; ÿÿhe ÿleft ÿnot to Jeroboam any that breathed, ÿuntil ÿhe ÿhad
destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, ÿwhich he spake by
his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

30 ÿÿBecause of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, ÿand which he made
Israel ÿsin, ÿÿby his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God ÿof
Israel to anger.

31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, ÿare they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

32 ÿÿAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel ÿall ÿtheir
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 ÿAnd he did evil in the sight of the Lord, ÿand walked in the way ÿof
Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

16:1 ÿÿThen the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani ÿagainst
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, ÿand 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 ÿHim 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 ÿNow the rest of the acts of Baasha, ÿand what he did, ÿand his might,
are ÿthey ÿnot ÿwritten in the book of the chronicles of ÿthe ÿkings ÿof
Israel?

6 ÿSo Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: ÿand Elah
his son reigned in his stead.

7 ÿÿAnd also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came ÿthe
word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the
evil ÿthat he did in the sight of the Lord, ÿin provoking him ÿto ÿanger
with ÿthe work of his hands, ÿin being like the house of Jeroboam; ÿÿand
because he killed him.

8 ÿIn the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the ÿson
of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against
him, ÿas he was in Tirzah, ÿdrinking himself drunk in the house of ÿArza
steward of his house in Tirzah.

10 ÿAnd Zimri went in and smote him, ÿand killed him, ÿin 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, ÿthat he slew all the house of Baasha: ÿhe 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 ÿFor all the sins of Baasha, ÿand the sins of Elah his son, ÿby which
they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord
God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

14 ÿNow the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, ÿare they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15 ÿÿIn the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign
seven ÿdays in Tirzah. ÿAnd the people were encamped against ÿGibbethon,
which belonged to the Philistines.

16 ÿÿAnd the people that were encamped heard say, ÿZimri hath conspired,
and ÿhath ÿalso slain the king: ÿwherefore all Israel ÿmade ÿOmri, ÿÿthe
captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

17 ÿAnd Omri went up from Gibbethon, ÿand all Israel with him, ÿand they
besieged Tirzah.

18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, ÿthat he
went ÿinto the palace of the king's house, ÿand burnt the ÿking's ÿhouse
over him with fire, and died,

19 ÿFor 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, ÿto make
Israel to sin.

20 ÿNow the rest of the acts of Zimri, ÿand his treason that he wrought,
are ÿthey ÿnot ÿwritten in the book of the chronicles of ÿthe ÿkings ÿof
Israel?

21 ÿÿThen were the people of Israel divided into two parts: ÿhalf of the
people ÿfollowed Tibni the son of Ginath, ÿto make him king; ÿÿand ÿhalf
followed Omri.

22 ÿBut the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people ÿthat
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 ÿÿAnd he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver,
and ÿbuilt on the hill, ÿand 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 ÿwherewith he made Israel to sin, ÿto provoke the Lord God of Israel
to anger with their vanities.

27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, ÿand his might that he
shewed, ÿare they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?

28 ÿSo Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: ÿand 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: ÿand Ahab the son of Omri reigned over
Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

30 ÿAnd Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all
that were before him.

31 ÿAnd it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk
in ÿthe sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ÿthat 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 ÿAnd Ahab made a grove; ÿand Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of
Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

34 ÿÿIn ÿhis ÿdays did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: ÿÿhe ÿlaid ÿthe
foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof
in his youngest son Segub, ÿaccording to the word of the Lord, ÿwhich 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, ÿthere
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 ÿGet thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
Cherith, that is before Jordan.

4 ÿÿAnd ÿit shall be, ÿthat thou shalt drink of the brook; ÿand ÿI ÿhave
commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

5 ÿÿSo he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: ÿfor he went
and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

6 ÿAnd the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, ÿand bread
and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

7 ÿAnd it came to pass after a while, ÿthat the brook dried up, ÿbecause
there had been no rain in the land.

8 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

9 ÿÿArise, ÿget thee to Zarephath, ÿwhich belongeth to Zidon, ÿand dwell
there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

10 ÿSo he arose and went to Zarephath. ÿAnd when he came to the gate ÿof
the city, ÿbehold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he
called to her, ÿand said, ÿFetch me, I ÿpray thee, ÿa ÿlittle water in a
vessel, that I may drink.

11 ÿAnd as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, ÿBring
me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

12 ÿAnd she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, ÿbut an
handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I
am ÿgathering ÿtwo sticks, ÿthat I may go in and dress it for me and ÿmy
son, that we may eat it, and die.

13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: ÿbut
make ÿme thereof a little cake first, ÿand bring it unto me, ÿand ÿafter
make for thee and for thy son.

14 ÿFor thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ÿThe barrel of meal shall not
waste, ÿneither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord
sendeth rain upon the earth.

15 ÿAnd she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: ÿand 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 ÿÿAnd it came to pass after these things, ÿthat 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 ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd he said unto her, ÿGive me thy son. ÿAnd he took him out of ÿher
bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon
his own bed.

20 ÿAnd he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, ÿhast thou also
brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

21 ÿAnd he stretched himself upon the child three times, ÿand cried unto
the Lord, ÿand said, O Lord my God, I ÿpray thee, ÿlet this child's soul
come into him again.

22 ÿÿAnd the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; ÿand the soul of the ÿchild
came into him again, and he revived.

23 ÿÿAnd Elijah took the child, ÿand brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See,
thy son liveth.

24 ÿAnd 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, ÿsaying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; ÿand 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 ÿAnd Ahab called Obadiah, ÿwhich was the governor of his house. ÿÿ(Now
Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:

4 ÿFor it was so, ÿwhen Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, ÿÿthat
Obadiah took an hundred prophets, ÿand hid them by fifty in a cave, ÿand
fed them with bread and water.)

5 ÿAnd Ahab said unto Obadiah, ÿGo into the land, ÿunto all fountains of
water, ÿand unto all brooks: ÿperadventure 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 ÿAnd as Obadiah was in the way, ÿbehold, ÿElijah met him: ÿand 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 ÿÿAnd ÿhe said, ÿWhat have I sinned, ÿthat thou wouldest ÿdeliver ÿthy
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 ÿAnd it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, ÿthat the
spirit ÿof the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; ÿand so when ÿI
come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy
servant fear the Lord from my youth.

13 ÿWas it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
the Lord, ÿhow I hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water?

14 ÿAnd now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: ÿand
he shall slay me.

15 And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, ÿI
will surely shew myself unto him today.

16 ÿSo Obadiah went to meet Ahab, ÿand told him: ÿand Ahab went to ÿmeet
Elijah.

17 ÿAnd it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, ÿthat Ahab said unto him,
Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

18 ÿÿAnd he answered, ÿI ÿhave not troubled Israel; ÿbut thou, ÿand ÿthy
father's ÿhouse, ÿin that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord,
and thou hast followed Baalim.

19 ÿNow therefore send, ÿand gather to me all Israel unto mount ÿCarmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the
groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.

20 ÿÿSo ÿAhab sent unto all the children of Israel, ÿÿand ÿgathered ÿthe
prophets together unto mount Carmel.

21 ÿÿAnd Elijah came unto all the people, ÿand said, ÿHow long ÿhalt ÿye
between two opinions? ÿif 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 ÿÿLet ÿthem therefore give us two bullocks; ÿand let them choose ÿone
bullock for themselves, ÿand cut it in pieces, ÿand lay it on wood, ÿand
put ÿno fire under: ÿand I will dress the other bullock, ÿand lay it ÿon
wood, and put no fire under:

24 ÿAnd call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of
the Lord: ÿand the God that answereth by fire, ÿlet him be God. ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it,
and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, ÿsaying, ÿO
Baal, ÿhear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. ÿAnd they
leaped upon the altar which was made.

27 ÿAnd it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, ÿCry
aloud: ÿfor he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, ÿor he
is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

28 ÿÿAnd they cried aloud, ÿand cut themselves after their ÿmanner ÿwith
knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

29 ÿAnd it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until
the ÿtime ÿof ÿthe offering of the evening sacrifice, ÿÿthat ÿthere ÿwas
neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

30 ÿAnd Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. ÿAnd all the
people ÿcame near unto him. ÿAnd he repaired the altar of the Lord ÿthat
was broken down.

31 And Elijah took twelve stones, ÿaccording to the number of the tribes
of ÿthe ÿsons of Jacob, ÿunto whom the word of the Lord ÿcame, ÿÿsaying,
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, ÿand pour it on
the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

34 ÿAnd 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 ÿÿAnd the water ran round about the altar; ÿand he filled the ÿtrench
also with water.

36 ÿÿAnd ÿit ÿcame to pass at the time of the offering ÿof ÿthe ÿevening
sacrifice, ÿÿthat Elijah the prophet came near, ÿand said, ÿLord God ÿof
Abraham, ÿIsaac, ÿand of Israel, ÿlet 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 ÿAnd when all the people saw it, ÿthey fell on their faces: ÿand 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; ÿlet not one of
them ÿescape. ÿAnd they took them: ÿand Elijah brought them down to ÿthe
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; ÿÿand ÿhe ÿcast himself down upon the earth, ÿand put ÿhis ÿface
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, ÿGo
again seven times.

44 ÿAnd it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there
ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, ÿlike a man's hand. ÿAnd he said,
Go up, ÿsay unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, ÿthat the
rain stop thee not.

45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with
clouds and wind, ÿand there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
Jezreel.

46 ÿAnd the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; ÿand he girded up his loins,
and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

19:1 ÿAnd Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, ÿand withal how he
had slain all the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, ÿSo let the gods do
to me, ÿand more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them
by tomorrow about this time.

3 ÿAnd when he saw that, ÿhe arose, ÿand went for his life, ÿand came to
Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, ÿand came and
sat ÿdown ÿunder a juniper tree: ÿand he requested for himself ÿthat ÿhe
might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I
am not better than my fathers.

5 ÿAnd as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, ÿbehold, ÿthen 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. ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, ÿbehold, ÿthe
word ÿof ÿthe Lord came to him, ÿand he said unto him, ÿWhat doest ÿthou
here, Elijah?

10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: ÿfor
the ÿchildren of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, ÿthrown ÿdown ÿthine
altars, ÿand slain thy prophets with the sword; ÿand I, even I only, ÿam
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, ÿÿthe ÿLord ÿpassed by, ÿand a great and strong ÿwind ÿrent ÿthe
mountains, ÿand brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; ÿbut the Lord
was not in the wind: ÿand after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was
not in the earthquake:

12 ÿAnd after the earthquake a fire; ÿbut the Lord was not in the ÿfire:
and after the fire a still small voice.

13 ÿAnd it was so, ÿwhen Elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in his
mantle, ÿand went out, ÿand stood in the entering in of the cave. ÿÿAnd,
behold, ÿthere came a voice unto him, ÿand said, ÿWhat doest thou ÿhere,
Elijah?

14 ÿÿAnd he said, ÿI ÿhave been very jealous for the Lord God of ÿhosts:
because ÿthe children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, ÿthrown 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 ÿAnd the Lord said unto him, Go, ÿreturn on thy way to the wilderness
of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

16 ÿAnd Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel:
and ÿElisha ÿthe son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint ÿto ÿbe
prophet in thy room.

17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael
shall ÿJehu ÿslay: ÿand him that escapeth from the sword of ÿJehu ÿshall
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 ÿSo he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, ÿwho was
plowing ÿwith twelve yoke of oxen before him, ÿand he with the ÿtwelfth:
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 ÿpray
thee, ÿkiss 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 ÿÿAnd he returned back from him, ÿand took a yoke of oxen, ÿand ÿslew
them, ÿand 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 ÿAnd Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and
there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: ÿand
he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

2 ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, ÿaccording
to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.

5 ÿÿAnd the messengers came again, ÿand said, ÿThus ÿspeaketh ÿBenhadad,
saying, ÿAlthough I have sent unto thee, ÿsaying, ÿThou shalt deliver me
thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

6 ÿYet I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about this time, ÿÿand
they ÿshall search thine house, ÿand the houses of thy servants; ÿand it
shall be, ÿthat whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, ÿthey shall put it
in their hand, and take it away.

7 ÿThen the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, ÿand said,
Mark, ÿI ÿpray you, ÿand see how this man seeketh mischief: ÿfor 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 ÿAnd all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto
him, nor consent.

9 ÿWherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, ÿTell my lord ÿthe
king, ÿÿAll that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I ÿwill
do: ÿÿbut ÿthis thing I may not do. ÿAnd the messengers ÿdeparted, ÿÿand
brought him word again.

10 ÿAnd Benhadad sent unto him, ÿand said, ÿThe gods do so unto me, ÿand
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, ÿLet not him that
girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

12 ÿÿAnd it came to pass, ÿwhen Benhadad heard this message, ÿas he ÿwas
drinking, ÿÿhe ÿand the kings in the pavilions, ÿthat he said ÿunto ÿhis
servants, ÿÿSet yourselves in array. ÿAnd they set themselves ÿin ÿarray
against the city.

13 ÿAnd, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, ÿsaying,
Thus saith the Lord, ÿHast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I
will deliver it into thine hand this day; ÿand 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 ÿThen he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, ÿand
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 ÿpavilions, ÿhe and the kings, ÿthe 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, ÿand 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; ÿor
whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

19 ÿÿSo these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of ÿthe
city, and the army which followed them.

20 ÿÿAnd they slew every one his man: ÿand the Syrians fled; ÿand Israel
pursued ÿthem: ÿand Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse ÿwith
the horsemen.

21 ÿAnd the king of Israel went out, ÿand smote the horses and chariots,
and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

22 ÿAnd the prophet came to the king of Israel, ÿand said unto him, ÿGo,
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 ÿAnd the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, ÿTheir gods are
gods ÿof ÿthe hills; ÿtherefore they were stronger than we; ÿbut let ÿus
fight ÿagainst them in the plain, ÿand surely we shall be stronger ÿthan
they.

24 ÿAnd do this thing, Take the kings away, ÿevery 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, ÿand chariot for chariot: ÿand we will fight against them in ÿthe
plain, ÿand 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 ÿAnd the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, ÿand
went against them: ÿand the children of Israel pitched before them ÿlike
two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

28 ÿAnd there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, ÿand
said, ÿThus saith the Lord, ÿBecause the Syrians have said, ÿThe Lord is
God ÿof the hills, ÿbut he is not God of the valleys, ÿtherefore will ÿI
deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that
I am the Lord.

29 ÿÿAnd they pitched one over against the other seven days. ÿAnd so ÿit
was, ÿthat 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. ÿAnd Benhadad fled,
and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

31 ÿAnd his servants said unto him, ÿBehold now, ÿwe have heard that the
kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: ÿlet us, ÿI ÿpray thee,
put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, ÿand go out to the
king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

32 ÿÿSo ÿthey girded sackcloth on their loins, ÿand put ropes ÿon ÿtheir
heads, ÿand came to the king of Israel, ÿand said, ÿThy servant Benhadad
saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? ÿhe is my
brother.

33 ÿNow 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 ÿsaid, ÿGo ye, ÿbring him. ÿThen Benhadad came forth to him; ÿand ÿhe
caused him to come up into the chariot.

34 And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy
father, ÿÿI ÿÿwill ÿrestore; ÿand thou shalt make streets ÿfor ÿthee ÿin
Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee
away with this covenant. ÿSo he made a covenant with him, ÿand sent ÿhim
away.

35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour
in the word of the Lord, ÿSmite me, I pray thee. ÿAnd the man refused to
smite him.

36 Then said he unto him, ÿBecause thou hast not obeyed the voice of the
Lord, ÿbehold, ÿas soon as thou art departed from me, a ÿlion shall slay
thee. ÿAnd as soon as he was departed from him, ÿa ÿlion found him, ÿand
slew him.

37 ÿThen he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. ÿAnd the
man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

38 ÿÿSo the prophet departed, ÿand waited for the king by the way, ÿÿand
disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

39 ÿAnd as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, ÿThy
servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned
aside, ÿand brought a man unto me, ÿand said, ÿKeep this man: ÿif by any
means he be missing, ÿthen shall thy life be for his life, ÿor 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, ÿSo 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 ÿAnd he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, ÿBecause thou hast let go
out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, ÿÿtherefore
thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

43 ÿÿAnd the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, ÿand
came to Samaria.

21:1 ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, ÿthat I may
have it for a garden of herbs, ÿbecause it is near unto my house: ÿand I
will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; ÿor, 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 ÿAnd Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word
which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: ÿfor he had said, I ÿwill
not ÿgive thee the inheritance of my fathers. ÿAnd 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 ÿAnd he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and
said ÿunto him, ÿGive me thy vineyard for money; ÿor else, ÿif it please
thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I ÿwill
not give thee my vineyard.

7 ÿAnd Jezebel his wife said unto him, ÿDost thou now govern the kingdom
of Israel? ÿarise, ÿand eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I ÿwill
give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

8 ÿSo she wrote letters in Ahab's name, ÿand sealed them with his ÿseal,
and ÿsent 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, ÿand set Naboth
on high among the people:

10 ÿAnd set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against
him, ÿsaying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. ÿAnd then carry him
out, and stone him, that he may die.

11 And the men of his city, ÿeven the elders and the nobles who were the
inhabitants ÿin his city, ÿdid as Jezebel had sent unto them, ÿand 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 ÿAnd there came in two men, ÿchildren of Belial, ÿand sat before him:
and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the
presence of the people, ÿsaying, ÿNaboth 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 ÿAnd it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, ÿand
was ÿdead, ÿthat Jezebel said to Ahab, ÿArise, ÿtake possession ÿof ÿthe
vineyard ÿof Naboth the Jezreelite, ÿwhich he refused to give ÿthee ÿfor
money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

16 ÿAnd it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab
rose ÿup ÿto go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, ÿto ÿtake
possession of it.

17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

18 ÿÿArise, ÿgo down to meet Ahab king of Israel, ÿwhich is in ÿSamaria:
behold, ÿÿhe ÿis in the vineyard of Naboth, ÿwhither he is gone down ÿto
possess it.

19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou
killed, ÿÿand ÿalso ÿtaken possession? ÿAnd thou shalt speak ÿunto ÿhim,
saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of
Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

20 ÿAnd Ahab said to Elijah, ÿHast thou found me, O ÿmine enemy? ÿAnd he
answered, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to work evil
in the sight of the Lord.

21 ÿÿBehold, ÿÿI ÿÿwill bring evil upon thee, ÿand will ÿtake ÿaway ÿthy
posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall,
and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

22 ÿÿAnd ÿwill make thine house like the house of Jeroboam ÿthe ÿson ÿof
Nebat, ÿÿand ÿlike ÿthe ÿhouse of Baasha the son ÿof ÿAhijah, ÿÿfor ÿthe
provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to
sin.

23 ÿÿAnd ÿof Jezebel also spake the Lord, ÿsaying, ÿThe dogs ÿshall ÿeat
Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

24 ÿHim that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; ÿand him that
dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

25 ÿÿBut there was none like unto Ahab, ÿwhich did sell himself to ÿwork
wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

26 ÿÿAnd ÿhe did very abominably in following idols, ÿaccording ÿto ÿall
things as did the Amorites, ÿwhom the Lord cast out before the ÿchildren
of Israel.

27 ÿAnd it came to pass, ÿwhen Ahab heard those words, ÿthat he rent his
clothes, ÿÿand ÿput sackcloth upon his flesh, ÿand fasted, ÿand ÿlay ÿin
sackcloth, and went softly.

28 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

29 ÿSeest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? ÿbecause he humbleth
himself before me, ÿI ÿwill not bring the evil in his days: ÿbut in ÿhis
son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

22:1 ÿÿAnd ÿthey ÿcontinued three years without war ÿbetween ÿSyria ÿand
Israel.

2 ÿÿAnd it came to pass in the third year, ÿthat Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah came down to the king of Israel.

3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, ÿKnow ye that Ramoth in
Gilead is ours, ÿand we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the
king of Syria?

4 ÿÿAnd ÿhe said unto Jehoshaphat, ÿWilt thou go with me ÿto ÿbattle ÿto
Ramothgilead? ÿAnd Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I ÿam 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 ÿÿThen the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, ÿabout ÿfour
hundred ÿmen, ÿand said unto them, ÿShall I go against ÿRamothgilead ÿto
battle, ÿor shall I forbear? ÿAnd they said, ÿGo up; ÿfor 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 ÿAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, ÿThere is yet one ÿman,
Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate
him; ÿÿfor ÿhe ÿdoth not prophesy good concerning me, ÿÿbut ÿevil. ÿÿAnd
Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

9 ÿThen the king of Israel called an officer, ÿand said, ÿHasten ÿhither
Micaiah the son of Imlah.

10 ÿAnd the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on
his throne, ÿhaving put on their robes, ÿin a void place in the entrance
of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

11 ÿÿAnd Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: ÿÿand ÿhe
said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until
thou have consumed them.

12 ÿAnd all the prophets prophesied so, ÿsaying, ÿGo up to Ramothgilead,
and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hand.

13 ÿÿAnd ÿthe messenger that was gone to call Micaiah ÿspake ÿunto ÿhim,
saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king
with one mouth: ÿlet thy word, I ÿpray thee, ÿbe like the word of one of
them, and speak that which is good.

14 ÿAnd Micaiah said, ÿAs the Lord liveth, ÿwhat 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, ÿor shall we forbear? And he answered
him, Go, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the
king.

16 ÿAnd the king said unto him, ÿHow 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: ÿand the Lord said, These have no master: ÿlet them
return every man to his house in peace.

18 ÿÿAnd the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, ÿDid I not tell ÿthee
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 ÿÿAnd the Lord said, ÿWho shall persuade Ahab, ÿthat he may go up and
fall at Ramothgilead? ÿAnd one said on this manner, ÿand another said on
that manner.

21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I
will persuade him.

22 ÿAnd the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth,
and ÿI will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. ÿAnd ÿhe
said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

23 ÿNow therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth
of ÿall ÿthese thy prophets, ÿand the Lord hath spoken ÿevil ÿconcerning
thee.

24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the
cheek, and said, ÿWhich 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 ÿAnd the king of Israel said, ÿTake Micaiah, ÿand 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, ÿuntil I come
in peace.

28 ÿAnd Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, ÿthe Lord hath not
spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.

29 ÿÿSo the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up ÿto
Ramothgilead.

30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself,
and ÿenter into the battle; ÿbut put thou on thy robes. ÿAnd the king of
Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

31 ÿBut 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 ÿÿAnd ÿit ÿcame ÿto pass, ÿwhen the ÿcaptains ÿof ÿthe ÿchariots ÿsaw
Jehoshaphat, ÿthat they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. ÿAnd 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 ÿÿAnd a certain man drew a bow at a venture, ÿand smote the ÿking ÿof
Israel ÿbetween the joints of the harness: ÿwherefore he said ÿunto ÿthe
driver ÿof his chariot, ÿTurn thine hand, ÿand carry me out of the host;
for I am wounded.

35 And the battle increased that day: ÿand the king was stayed up in his
chariot against the Syrians, ÿand died at even: and the blood ran out of
the wound into the midst of the chariot.

36 ÿÿAnd ÿthere went a proclamation throughout the host about the ÿgoing
down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own
country.

37 ÿSo the king died, ÿand was brought to Samaria; ÿand they buried ÿthe
king in Samaria.

38 ÿÿAnd ÿone washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; ÿand ÿthe ÿdogs
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, ÿand the ivory
house ÿwhich ÿhe made, ÿand all the cities that he built, ÿare they ÿnot
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

40 ÿSo Ahab slept with his fathers; ÿand Ahaziah his son reigned in ÿhis
stead.

41 ÿÿAnd ÿJehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over ÿJudah ÿin ÿthe
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 ÿAnd he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside
from ÿit, ÿÿdoing ÿthat ÿwhich ÿwas ÿright in ÿthe ÿeyes ÿof ÿthe ÿLord:
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 ÿÿNow ÿthe ÿrest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, ÿand his might ÿthat ÿhe
shewed, ÿÿand ÿhow he warred, ÿare they not written in the book ÿof ÿthe
chronicles of the kings of Judah?

46 ÿAnd the remnant of the sodomites, ÿwhich 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 ÿThen said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, ÿLet my servants
go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

50 ÿÿAnd ÿJehoshaphat slept with his fathers, ÿand was buried ÿwith ÿhis
fathers in the city of David his father: ÿand Jehoram his son reigned in
his stead.

51 ÿÿAhaziah ÿthe son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria ÿthe
seventeenth ÿyear ÿof Jehoshaphat king of Judah, ÿand reigned two ÿyears
over Israel.

52 ÿAnd he did evil in the sight of the Lord, ÿand walked in the way ÿof
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 ÿÿFor he served Baal, ÿand worshipped him, ÿand provoked to anger the
Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.