Now king David
was old
and stricken
in years;
and
they covered him
with clothes,
but
he gat no heat.
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.
So they
sought
for a fair damsel
throughout all
the coasts
of Israel,
and found
Abishag a Shunammite,
and brought her
to the king.
And the damsel
was very fair,
and cherished
the king,
and ministered
to him:
but the king
knew her not.
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.
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.
And he
conferred
with Joab
the son
of Zeruiah,
and
with Abiathar the priest:
and they
following
Adonijah helped him.
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.
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:
But Nathan
the prophet,
and Benaiah,
and the mighty men,
and Solomon
his brother,
he called not.
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?
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.
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?
Behold,
while thou
yet talkest there
with the king,
I also will come in
after thee,
and confirm
thy words.
And Bathsheba
went in
unto the king
into the chamber:
and the king
was very old;
and Abishag
the Shunammite
ministered
unto the king.
And Bathsheba bowed,
and did obeisance
unto the king.
And the king said,
What wouldest thou?
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.
And now,
behold,
Adonijah reigneth;
and now,
my lord the king,
thou knowest it not:
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.
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.
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.
And,
lo,
while she
yet talked
with the king,
Nathan the prophet
also came in.
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.
And Nathan said,
My lord,
O king,
hast thou said,
Adonijah
shall reign
after me,
and he
shall sit
upon my throne?
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.
But me,
even me thy servant,
and Zadok
the priest,
and Benaiah
the son
of Jehoiada,
and thy servant Solomon,
hath he not called.
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?
Then
king David
answered
and said,
Call me Bathsheba.
And she
came
into the king's presence,
and stood
before the king.
And the king sware,
and said,
As the LORD liveth,
that hath redeemed
my soul
out of all distress,
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
And Benaiah
the son
of Jehoiada
answered the king,
and said,
Amen:
the LORD God
of my lord
the king
say
so too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
And Jonathan
answered
and said
to Adonijah,
Verily
our lord king David
hath made
Solomon king.
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:
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.
And
also Solomon
sitteth on the throne
of the kingdom.
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.
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.
And all
the guests
that
were with Adonijah
were afraid,
and rose up,
and went every man
his way.
And Adonijah
feared
because
of Solomon,
and arose,
and went,
and caught
hold on the horns
of the altar.
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 today
that he
will not slay
his servant
with the sword.
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.
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.
Now the days
of David
drew nigh
that he
should die;
and
he charged Solomon
his son,
saying,
I go the way
of all the earth:
be thou strong
therefore,
and shew thyself
a man;
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:
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.
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.
Do therefore according to
thy wisdom,
and let not
his hoar head go down
to the grave
in peace.
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.
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.
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.
So David
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
in the city
of David.
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.
Then sat Solomon
upon the throne
of David his father;
and his kingdom
was established greatly.
And Adonijah
the son
of Haggith
came to Bathsheba
the mother
of Solomon.
And she said,
Comest
thou peaceably?
And he said,
Peaceably.
He said moreover,
I have somewhat
to say
unto thee.
And she said,
Say on.
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.
And now
I ask one petition
of thee,
deny me not.
And
she
said unto him,
Say on.
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.
And Bathsheba said,
Well;
I will speak
for thee
unto the king.
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.
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.
And she said,
Let Abishag the Shunammite
be given
to Adonijah
thy brother
to wife.
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.
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.
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.
And king Solomon
sent
by the hand
of Benaiah
the son
of Jehoiada;
and
he fell
upon him that
he died.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And it
was told
Solomon that Shimei
had gone
from Jerusalem
to Gath,
and was come again.
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.
Why then
hast
thou not kept
the oath
of the LORD,
and the commandment that
I have charged thee with?
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;
And king Solomon
shall be blessed,
and
the throne
of David
shall be established
before the LORD
for ever.
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.
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.
Only the people
sacrificed
in high places,
because
there was
no house
built unto the name
of the LORD,
until those days.
And Solomon
loved the LORD,
walking
in the statutes
of David his father:
only he
sacrificed
and burnt
incense
in high places.
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.
In Gibeon
the LORD
appeared
to Solomon
in a dream
by night:
and God said,
Ask
what
I shall give thee.
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.
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.
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.
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?
And the speech pleased
the LORD,
that Solomon
had asked
this thing.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then came there two women,
that were harlots,
unto the king,
and stood
before him.
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.
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.
And this woman's child
died
in the night;
because
she overlaid it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the king said,
Bring me
a sword.
And they
brought
a sword
before the king.
And the king said,
Divide the living child
in two,
and give half
to the one,
and half
to the other.
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.
Then the king
answered
and said,
Give her
the living child,
and in no wise
slay it:
she is
the mother thereof.
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.
So king Solomon
was king
over all Israel.
And these
were the princes
which he had;
Azariah the son
of Zadok the priest,
Elihoreph
and Ahiah,
the sons
of Shisha,
scribes;
Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud,
the recorder.
And Benaiah
the son
of Jehoiada
was over the host:
and Zadok
and Abiathar
were the priests:
And Azariah
the son
of Nathan
was over the officers:
and Zabud
the son
of Nathan
was principal officer,
and the king's friend:
And Ahishar
was over the household:
and Adoniram
the son
of Abda
was over the tribute.
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.
And these
are their names:
The son of Hur,
in mount Ephraim:
The son of Dekar,
in Makaz,
and in Shaalbim,
and Bethshemesh,
and Elonbethhanan:
The son of Hesed,
in Aruboth;
to him
pertained Sochoh,
and all
the land
of Hepher:
The son
of Abinadab,
in all the region
of Dor;
which had Taphath
the daughter
of Solomon
to wife:
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:
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:
Ahinadab
the son
of Iddo
had Mahanaim:
Ahimaaz
was in Naphtali;
he also took Basmath
the daughter
of Solomon
to wife:
Baanah
the son
of Hushai
was in Asher
and in Aloth:
Jehoshaphat the son
of Paruah,
in Issachar:
Shimei the son
of Elah,
in Benjamin:
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.
Judah
and Israel
were many,
as the sand
which is by the sea
in multitude,
eating and drinking,
and making merry.
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.
And Solomon's provision
for one day
was thirty measures
of fine flour,
and threescore
measures
of meal,
Ten fat oxen,
and twenty oxen
out of the pastures,
and an hundred sheep,
beside harts,
and roebucks,
and fallowdeer,
and fatted fowl.
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.
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.
And Solomon
had
forty thousand stalls
of horses
for his chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen.
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.
Barley
also and straw
for the horses
and dromedaries
brought
they
unto the place
where the officers were,
every man
according to his charge.
And God
gave Solomon wisdom
and understanding exceeding much,
and largeness
of heart,
even as
the sand
that is
on the sea shore.
And Solomon's wisdom
excelled the wisdom
of all the children
of the east country,
and all
the wisdom
of Egypt.
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.
And
he spake three thousand proverbs:
and his songs
were a thousand
and five.
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.
And there came
of all people
to hear the wisdom
of Solomon,
from all kings
of the earth,
which had heard
of his wisdom.
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.
And Solomon
sent
to Hiram,
saying,
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.
But now
the LORD my God
hath given me
rest
on every side,
so that
there is
neither adversary
nor evil occurrent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So Hiram
gave
Solomon cedar trees
and fir trees
according to all his desire.
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.
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.
And king Solomon
raised
a levy
out of all Israel;
and the levy
was thirty thousand men.
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.
And Solomon
had threescore
and ten thousand
that bare burdens,
and fourscore thousand hewers
in the mountains;
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.
And the king commanded,
and
they brought
great stones,
costly stones,
and hewed stones,
to lay the foundation
of the house.
And Solomon's builders
and Hiram's builders
did hew them,
and the stonesquarers:
so they
prepared
timber
and stones
to build the house.
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.
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.
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.
And for the house
he made windows
of narrow lights.
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:
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.
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.
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.
So he
built the house,
and finished it;
and covered
the house
with beams
and boards
of cedar.
And
then
he built chambers
against all the house,
five cubits high:
and they
rested
on the house
with timber
of cedar.
And
the word
of the LORD
came to Solomon,
saying,
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:
And
I will dwell
among the children
of Israel,
and will not forsake
my people Israel.
So Solomon
built the house,
and finished it.
And he
built
the walls
of the house within
with boards
of cedar,
both the floor
of the house,
and the walls
of the ceiling:
and
he covered them
on the inside
with wood,
and covered
the floor
of the house
with planks
of fir.
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.
And the house,
that is,
the temple
before it,
was forty cubits long.
And the cedar
of the house
within was carved
with knops and
open flowers:
all was cedar;
there was
no stone seen.
And the oracle
he prepared
in the house
within,
to set there
the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD.
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.
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.
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.
And
within the oracle
he made two cherubims
of olive tree,
each ten cubits high.
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.
And the other cherub
was ten cubits:
both the cherubims
were of one measure
and one size.
The height
of the one cherub
was ten cubits,
and so
was it
of the other cherub.
And he set
the cherubims
within the inner house:
and
they stretched
forth the wings
of the cherubims,
so that
the 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.
And he
overlaid
the cherubims
with gold.
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.
And the floors
of the house
he overlaid
with gold,
within and without.
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.
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.
So also made
he for the door
of the temple
posts
of olive tree,
a fourth part
of the wall.
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.
And
he carved thereon cherubims
and palm trees
and open flowers:
and covered them
with gold
fitted upon the carved work.
And he
built
the inner court
with three rows
of hewed stone,
and a row
of cedar beams.
In the fourth year
was the foundation
of the house
of the LORD laid,
in the month Zif:
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.
But Solomon
was building
his own house thirteen years,
and
he finished all
his house.
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.
And it
was covered with cedar above
upon the beams,
that lay
on forty five pillars,
fifteen
in a row.
And there were windows
in three rows,
and light
was against light
in three ranks.
And all
the doors
and posts
were square,
with the windows:
and light
was against light
in three ranks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the foundation
was of
costly stones,
even great stones,
stones
of ten cubits,
and stones
of eight cubits.
And above
were costly stones,
after the measures
of hewed stones,
and cedars.
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.
And king Solomon
sent and fetched Hiram
out of Tyre.
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.
For he cast two pillars
of brass,
of eighteen cubits high apiece:
and
a line
of twelve cubits
did compass either
of them about.
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:
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.
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.
And the chapiters
that were upon the top
of the pillars
were of lily work
in the porch,
four cubits.
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.
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.
And upon the top
of the pillars
was
lily work:
so was the work
of the pillars finished.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And
the work
of the bases
was on this manner:
they had borders,
and the borders
were between the ledges:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And there were
four undersetters
to the four
corners
of one base:
and the undersetters
were of the very
base itself.
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.
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.
After this manner
he made
the ten bases:
all of them
had
one casting,
one measure,
and one size.
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.
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.
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:
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;
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;
And the ten bases,
and ten lavers
on the bases;
And one sea,
and twelve oxen
under the sea;
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.
In the plain
of Jordan
did
the king
cast them,
in the clay
ground
between Succoth
and Zarthan.
And Solomon
left all
the vessels unweighed,
because
they were exceeding many:
neither was
the weight
of the brass found out.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
And all
the men
of Israel
assembled themselves
unto king Solomon
at the feast
in the month Ethanim,
which is the seventh month.
And all
the elders
of Israel came,
and the priests
took up
the ark.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And it
came
to pass,
when the priests
were come
out of the holy place,
that the cloud
filled
the house
of the LORD,
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.
Then spake Solomon,
The LORD
said that
he would dwell
in the thick darkness.
I have surely built
thee an house
to dwell in,
a settled
place for thee
to abide in
for ever.
And the king
turned
his face about,
and blessed all
the congregation
of Israel:
(and all
the congregation
of Israel stood;)
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,
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.
And it
was in the heart
of David
my father
to build an house
for the name
of the LORD God
of Israel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
And now,
O God of Israel,
let thy word,
I pray thee,
be verified,
which thou
spakest unto thy servant David
my father.
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?
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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;
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:
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;)
That they
may fear
thee all
the days that
they live
in the land
which thou
gavest unto our fathers.
Moreover concerning
a stranger,
that is not
of thy people Israel,
but cometh out of a
far country
for thy name's sake;
(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;
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.
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:
Then hear
thou
in heaven
their prayer
and their supplication,
and maintain
their cause.
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;
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;
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:
Then hear
thou their prayer
and their supplication
in heaven
thy dwelling place,
and maintain
their cause,
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:
For they
be thy people,
and thine inheritance,
which thou
broughtest forth out of Egypt,
from the midst
of the furnace
of iron:
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.
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.
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.
And he stood,
and blessed all
the congregation
of Israel
with a loud voice,
saying,
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.
The LORD our God
be with us,
as he
was with our fathers:
let him
not leave us,
nor forsake us:
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.
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:
That all the people
of the earth
may know
that the LORD
is God,
and that
there is none else.
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.
And the king,
and all Israel
with him,
offered
sacrifice
before the LORD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
That the LORD
appeared
to Solomon
the second time,
as he
had appeared
unto him
at Gibeon.
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.
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:
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.
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:
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:
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?
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.
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,
(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.
And Hiram
came out
from Tyre to see
the cities which Solomon
had given him;
and
they pleased him not.
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.
And Hiram
sent
to the king sixscore talents
of gold.
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.
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.
And Solomon
built Gezer,
and Bethhoron
the nether,
And Baalath,
and Tadmor
in the wilderness,
in the land,
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.
And all
the people
that were left
of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites,
which were not
of the children
of Israel,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Hiram
sent
in the navy
his servants,
shipmen that
had knowledge
of the sea,
with the servants
of Solomon.
And they
came
to Ophir,
and fetched
from thence gold,
four hundred
and twenty talents,
and brought it
to king Solomon.
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.
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.
And Solomon
told
her all her questions:
there was not
any thing
hid from the king,
which he
told her not.
And
when the queen
of Sheba
had seen all Solomon's wisdom,
and the house that
he had built,
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.
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.
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.
Happy are thy men,
happy are these
thy servants,
which stand continually
before thee,
and that
hear thy wisdom.
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.
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.
And the navy
also of Hiram,
that brought gold
from Ophir,
brought in
from Ophir great plenty
of almug trees,
and precious stones.
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.
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.
Now the weight
of gold
that came
to Solomon
in one year
was six hundred threescore
and six talents
of gold,
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.
And king Solomon
made
two hundred targets
of beaten gold:
six hundred shekels
of gold
went to one target.
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.
Moreover the king
made
a great throne
of ivory,
and overlaid it
with the best gold.
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.
And twelve lions
stood there
on the one side
and on the other
upon the six steps:
there was not
the like made
in any kingdom.
And all
king Solomon's drinking vessels
were of gold,
and all
the vessels
of the house
of the forest
of Lebanon
were of pure gold;
none were of silver:
it was nothing accounted of
in the days
of Solomon.
For the king
had
at sea a navy
of Tharshish
with the navy
of Hiram:
once in three years
came the navy
of Tharshish,
bringing gold,
and silver,
ivory,
and apes,
and peacocks.
So king Solomon
exceeded all
the kings
of the earth
for riches
and for wisdom.
And all
the earth
sought
to Solomon,
to hear his wisdom,
which God
had put in
his heart.
And
they brought every man
his present,
vessels of silver,
and vessels
of gold,
and garments,
and armour,
and spices,
horses,
and mules,
a rate year by year.
And Solomon
gathered
together chariots
and horsemen:
and he
had
a thousand
and four hundred chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen,
whom
he bestowed
in the cities
for chariots,
and with the king
at Jerusalem.
And the king
made silver
to be
in Jerusalem
as stones,
and cedars
made
he to be
as the sycomore trees
that are in the vale,
for abundance.
And Solomon
had horses
brought out of Egypt,
and linen yarn:
the king's merchants
received
the linen yarn
at a price.
And a chariot
came
up and went out of Egypt
for six hundred shekels
of silver,
and an horse
for an hundred
and fifty:
and so
for all
the kings
of the Hittites,
and for the kings
of Syria,
did they
bring
them out
by their means.
But king Solomon
loved many strange women,
together with the daughter
of Pharaoh,
women
of the Moabites, Ammonites,
Edomites, Zidonians,
and Hittites:
Of the nations
concerning
which the LORD
said unto the children
of Israel,
Ye shall not go in
to them,
neither shall
they come in
unto you:
for surely
they will turn away
your heart
after their gods:
Solomon clave
unto these
in love.
And
he had
seven hundred wives,
princesses,
and three hundred concubines:
and his wives
turned away
his heart.
For it
came to pass,
when Solomon
was old,
that his wives
turned away
his heart
after other gods:
and his heart
was not
perfect
with the LORD his God,
as was the heart
of David his father.
For Solomon
went after Ashtoreth
the goddess
of the Zidonians,
and
after Milcom
the abomination
of the Ammonites.
And Solomon
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
and went not
fully after the LORD,
as did David
his father.
Then did
Solomon build
an high place
for Chemosh,
the abomination
of Moab,
in the hill
that is
before Jerusalem,
and for Molech,
the abomination
of the children
of Ammon.
And likewise
did
he for all
his strange wives,
which burnt
incense
and sacrificed
unto their gods.
And the LORD
was angry
with Solomon,
because
his heart
was turned from the LORD God
of Israel,
which had appeared
unto him twice,
And had commanded him concerning
this thing,
that he
should not go
after other gods:
but
he kept not
that which the LORD commanded.
Wherefore
the LORD
said
unto Solomon,
Forasmuch as this
is done of thee,
and
thou hast not kept
my covenant
and my statutes,
which I
have commanded thee,
I will surely rend the kingdom
from thee,
and will give it
to thy servant.
Notwithstanding in
thy days
I will not do it
for David
thy father's sake:
but
I will rend it
out of the hand
of thy son.
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.
And the LORD
stirred
up an adversary
unto Solomon,
Hadad the Edomite:
he was of the king's seed
in Edom.
For it
came to pass,
when David
was in Edom,
and Joab
the captain
of the host
was gone up to
bury the slain,
after he had smitten every male
in Edom;
(For six months
did
Joab
remain there
with all Israel,
until he
had cut off every male
in Edom:)
That Hadad fled,
he and certain Edomites
of his father's servants
with him,
to go into Egypt;
Hadad
being yet
a little child.
And
they
arose out of Midian,
and came
to Paran:
and they
took men
with them
out of Paran,
and they
came
to Egypt,
unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt;
which gave him
an house,
and appointed him
victuals,
and gave him land.
And Hadad
found great favour
in the sight
of Pharaoh,
so that
he
gave him
to wife the sister
of his own wife,
the sister
of Tahpenes the queen.
And the sister
of Tahpenes
bare him Genubath
his son,
whom
Tahpenes
weaned
in Pharaoh's house:
and Genubath
was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
And
when Hadad
heard
in Egypt
that David
slept
with his fathers,
and that Joab
the captain
of the host
was dead,
Hadad
said
to Pharaoh,
Let me depart,
that I
may go
to mine own country.
Then Pharaoh
said unto him,
But
what hast
thou
lacked with me,
that,
behold,
thou seekest to go
to thine own country?
And he answered,
Nothing:
howbeit
let me
go in any wise.
And God
stirred him
up another adversary,
Rezon the son
of Eliadah,
which fled
from his lord Hadadezer king
of Zobah:
And
he gathered men
unto him,
and became captain
over a band,
when David
slew them
of Zobah:
and
they went to Damascus,
and dwelt
therein,
and reigned
in Damascus.
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.
And Jeroboam
the son
of Nebat,
an Ephrathite
of Zereda,
Solomon's servant,
whose mother's name
was Zeruah,
a widow woman,
even
he lifted
up his hand
against the king.
And this
was the cause
that he
lifted
up his hand
against the king:
Solomon built Millo,
and repaired
the breaches
of the city
of David his father.
And the man Jeroboam
was a
mighty man
of valour:
and Solomon
seeing the young man that
he was industrious,
he made him ruler
over all the charge
of the house
of Joseph.
And it
came to pass
at that time
when Jeroboam
went out of Jerusalem,
that the prophet Ahijah
the Shilonite
found him
in the way;
and
he had clad himself
with a new garment;
and
they two
were alone
in the field:
And Ahijah
caught the new garment
that was on him,
and rent it
in twelve pieces:
And he
said
to Jeroboam,
Take thee ten pieces:
for thus
saith the LORD,
the God
of Israel, Behold,
I will rend the kingdom
out of the hand
of Solomon,
and will give
ten tribes
to thee:
(But
he shall have one tribe
for my servant David's sake,
and
for Jerusalem's sake,
the city
which I
have chosen
out of all the tribes
of Israel:)
Because
that
they have forsaken me,
and have worshipped Ashtoreth
the goddess
of the Zidonians,
Chemosh the god
of the Moabites,
and Milcom
the god
of the children
of Ammon,
and have not walked
in my ways,
to do
that which
is right
in mine eyes,
and to keep
my statutes
and my judgments,
as did David
his father.
Howbeit
I will not take
the whole kingdom
out of his hand:
but
I will make him prince all
the days
of his life
for David
my servant's sake,
whom
I chose,
because
he kept
my commandments
and my statutes:
But I
will take
the kingdom
out of his son's hand,
and will give
it unto thee,
even ten tribes.
And unto his son
will
I give one tribe,
that David my servant
may have a light
alway before me
in Jerusalem,
the city which
I have chosen me
to put my name there.
And
I will take thee,
and
thou shalt reign
according to all
that thy soul desireth,
and shalt be king
over Israel.
And it
shall be,
if thou
wilt hearken
unto all
that
I command thee,
and wilt walk
in my ways,
and do
that is
right
in my sight,
to keep
my statutes
and my commandments,
as David my servant did;
that I
will be
with thee,
and build
thee a sure house,
as I built
for David,
and will give Israel
unto thee.
And
I will for this
afflict the seed
of David,
but not for ever.
Solomon
sought therefore
to kill Jeroboam.
And Jeroboam arose,
and fled
into Egypt,
unto Shishak king
of Egypt,
and was in Egypt
until the death
of Solomon.
And the rest
of the acts
of Solomon,
and all that
he did,
and his wisdom,
are
they not written
in the book
of the acts
of Solomon?
And the time
that Solomon
reigned
in Jerusalem
over all
Israel was forty years.
And Solomon
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
in the city
of David his father:
and Rehoboam
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And Rehoboam
went to Shechem:
for all Israel
were come
to Shechem
to make him king.
And it
came
to pass,
when Jeroboam
the son
of Nebat,
who was yet
in Egypt,
heard of it,
(for he
was fled
from the presence
of king Solomon,
and Jeroboam
dwelt
in Egypt;)
That they
sent
and called him.
And Jeroboam
and all
the congregation
of Israel came,
and spake unto Rehoboam,
saying,
Thy father
made our yoke grievous:
now therefore
make
thou the grievous service
of thy father,
and his heavy yoke
which he
put upon us,
lighter,
and
we will serve thee.
And
he said unto them,
Depart
yet for three days,
then come again to me.
And the people departed.
And king Rehoboam
consulted
with the old men,
that stood
before Solomon
his father
while he
yet lived,
and said,
How do
ye advise
that I
may answer
this people?
And
they
spake unto him,
saying,
If thou
wilt be a servant
unto this people
this day,
and wilt serve them,
and answer them,
and speak good words
to them,
then
they will be thy servants
for ever.
But he
forsook
the counsel
of the old men,
which they
had given him,
and consulted
with the young men
that were grown up with him,
and which
stood
before him:
And
he said unto them,
What
counsel
give
ye that
we may answer
this people,
who have spoken to me,
saying,
Make the yoke
which thy
father
did put
upon us lighter?
And the young men that
were grown up
with him spake unto him,
saying,
Thus shalt thou
speak unto this people
that spake unto thee,
saying,
Thy father
made our yoke heavy,
but make
thou it lighter
unto us;
thus
shalt
thou
say unto them,
My little finger
shall be thicker
than my father's loins.
And
now whereas
my father
did lade you
with a heavy yoke,
I will add
to your yoke:
my father
hath chastised you
with whips,
but
I will chastise you
with scorpions.
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.
And the king
answered
the people roughly,
and forsook
the old men's counsel that
they gave him;
And spake to them
after the counsel
of the young men,
saying,
My father
made your yoke heavy,
and
I will add
to your yoke:
my father
also chastised you
with whips,
but
I will chastise you
with scorpions.
Wherefore
the king
hearkened not
unto the people;
for the cause
was from the LORD,
that he
might perform
his saying,
which the LORD
spake by Ahijah
the Shilonite
unto Jeroboam
the son
of Nebat.
So when
all Israel
saw
that the king
hearkened not unto them,
the people
answered the king,
saying,
What portion
have
we in David?
neither have
we inheritance
in the son
of Jesse:
to your tents,
O Israel:
now see
to thine own house,
David.
So Israel
departed
unto their tents.
But
as for the children
of Israel
which dwelt in the cities
of Judah,
Rehoboam
reigned over them.
Then king Rehoboam
sent Adoram,
who was over the tribute;
and all Israel
stoned him
with stones,
that he died.
Therefore king Rehoboam
made
speed
to get him up to
his chariot,
to flee
to Jerusalem.
So Israel
rebelled
against the house
of David unto this day.
And it
came
to pass,
when all Israel
heard
that Jeroboam
was come again,
that they
sent
and called him
unto the congregation,
and made him king
over all Israel:
there was none
that followed
the house
of David,
but the tribe
of Judah only.
And
when Rehoboam
was come
to Jerusalem,
he assembled all the house
of Judah,
with the tribe
of Benjamin,
an hundred
and fourscore thousand
chosen men,
which were warriors,
to fight
against the house
of Israel,
to bring the kingdom
again to Rehoboam
the son
of Solomon.
But
the word
of God
came
unto Shemaiah
the man of God,
saying,
Speak
unto Rehoboam,
the son
of Solomon,
king of Judah,
and
unto all the house
of Judah
and Benjamin,
and
to the remnant
of the people,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD,
Ye shall not go up,
nor fight
against your brethren
the children
of Israel:
return every man
to his house;
for this thing
is from me.
They hearkened therefore
to the word
of the LORD,
and returned
to depart,
according to
the word
of the LORD.
Then Jeroboam
built Shechem
in mount Ephraim,
and dwelt
therein;
and went out
from thence,
and built
Penuel.
And Jeroboam
said
in his heart,
Now shall
the kingdom
return
to the house
of David:
If this people
go up to
do sacrifice
in the house
of the LORD
at Jerusalem,
then shall
the heart
of this people
turn again
unto their lord,
even unto Rehoboam king
of Judah,
and
they shall kill me,
and go again
to Rehoboam king
of Judah.
Whereupon
the king
took counsel,
and made two calves
of gold,
and
said unto them,
It is too much
for you
to go up to Jerusalem:
behold thy gods,
O Israel,
which brought thee up
out of the land
of Egypt.
And he set
the one
in Bethel,
and the other put
he in Dan.
And this thing
became
a sin:
for the people
went
to worship
before the one,
even unto Dan.
And he
made
an house
of high places,
and made priests
of the lowest
of the people,
which were not of the sons
of Levi.
And Jeroboam
ordained
a feast
in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day
of the month,
like
unto the feast
that is in Judah,
and he
offered
upon the altar.
So did
he in Bethel,
sacrificing
unto the calves
that
he had made:
and he
placed
in Bethel
the priests
of the high places
which he
had made.
So he
offered
upon the altar which
he had made
in Bethel
the fifteenth day
of the eighth month,
even in the month
which he
had devised
of his own heart;
and ordained
a feast
unto the children
of Israel:
and he
offered
upon the altar,
and burnt incense.
And,
behold,
there came a man
of God
out of Judah
by the word
of the LORD
unto Bethel:
and Jeroboam
stood by
the altar
to burn incense.
And he
cried
against the altar
in the word
of the LORD,
and said,
O altar,
altar,
thus saith the LORD;
Behold,
a child
shall be born
unto the house
of David,
Josiah by name;
and upon thee
shall
he offer
the priests
of the high places
that burn incense
upon thee,
and men's bones
shall be burnt
upon thee.
And he
gave
a sign the same day,
saying,
This is the sign
which the LORD
hath spoken;
Behold,
the altar
shall be rent,
and the ashes
that
are upon it
shall be poured out.
And it
came
to pass,
when
king Jeroboam
heard
the saying
of the man
of God,
which had cried
against the altar
in Bethel,
that he put forth
his hand
from the altar,
saying,
Lay hold on him.
And his hand,
which he
put forth against him,
dried up,
so that
he could not pull it
in again to him.
The altar
also was rent,
and the ashes
poured out
from the altar,
according to the sign
which the man
of God
had given
by the word
of the LORD.
And the king
answered
and said
unto the man
of God,
Intreat
now the face
of the LORD thy God,
and pray for me,
that my hand
may be restored me again.
And the man
of God
besought the LORD,
and the king's hand
was restored him again,
and became
as it
was before.
And the king
said
unto the man
of God,
Come
home with me,
and refresh thyself,
and
I will give
thee a reward.
And the man
of God
said unto the king,
If thou
wilt give me half
thine house,
I will not go in
with thee,
neither will
I eat bread
nor drink
water
in this place:
For so
was
it charged me
by the word
of the LORD,
saying,
Eat no bread,
nor drink water,
nor turn again
by the same way
that thou camest.
So he
went
another way,
and returned not
by the way
that he
came
to Bethel.
Now there dwelt
an old prophet
in Bethel;
and his sons
came
and told him all
the works that the man
of God
had done
that day
in Bethel:
the words
which he
had spoken
unto the king,
them they
told also
to their father.
And their father
said unto them,
What way
went he?
For his sons
had seen
what way
the man
of God went,
which came
from Judah.
And he
said
unto his sons,
Saddle me
the ass.
So they
saddled him
the ass:
and
he rode thereon,
And went after the man
of God,
and found him
sitting under an oak:
and
he said unto him,
Art
thou the man
of God
that camest
from Judah?
And he said,
I am.
Then
he said unto him,
Come
home with me,
and eat bread.
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:
For it
was said to me
by the word
of the LORD,
Thou
shalt eat
no bread nor
drink
water there,
nor turn again
to go by
the way
that thou camest.
He said unto him,
I am a prophet
also as thou art;
and an angel
spake unto me
by the word
of the LORD,
saying,
Bring him
back
with thee
into thine house,
that he
may eat bread
and drink water.
But
he lied unto him.
So he
went back with him,
and did eat bread
in his house,
and drank water.
And it
came
to pass,
as they sat
at the table,
that the word
of the LORD
came
unto the prophet
that brought him back:
And he
cried
unto the man
of God
that came
from Judah,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD,
Forasmuch as thou
hast disobeyed
the mouth
of the LORD,
and hast not kept
the commandment
which the LORD thy God
commanded thee,
But camest back,
and hast eaten bread
and drunk
water
in the place,
of the which the Lord
did say to thee,
Eat no bread,
and drink
no water;
thy carcase
shall not come
unto the sepulchre
of thy fathers.
And it
came
to pass,
after he
had eaten bread,
and after he
had drunk,
that he
saddled
for him the ass,
to wit,
for the prophet whom
he had brought back.
And
when he
was gone,
a lion
met him
by the way,
and slew him:
and his carcase
was cast
in the way,
and the ass
stood by it,
the lion
also stood by
the carcase.
And,
behold,
men passed by,
and saw
the carcase
cast in the way,
and the lion
standing by
the carcase:
and they
came
and told it
in the city
where the old prophet dwelt.
And
when the prophet
that brought him
back
from the way heard
thereof,
he said,
It is the man
of God,
who was disobedient
unto the word
of the LORD:
therefore the LORD
hath delivered him
unto the lion,
which hath torn him,
and slain him,
according to
the word
of the LORD,
which he
spake unto him.
And
he spake to his sons,
saying,
Saddle me
the ass.
And
they saddled him.
And he
went
and found
his carcase
cast in the way,
and the ass
and the lion
standing by
the carcase:
the lion
had not eaten
the carcase,
nor torn
the ass.
And the prophet
took up
the carcase
of the man
of God,
and laid it
upon the ass,
and brought
it back:
and the old prophet
came
to the city,
to mourn and
to bury him.
And he
laid
his carcase
in his own grave;
and
they
mourned over him,
saying,
Alas,
my brother!
And it
came
to pass,
after he
had buried him,
that he
spake to his sons,
saying,
When I
am dead,
then bury me
in the sepulchre
wherein the man
of God
is buried;
lay my bones
beside his bones:
For the saying
which he
cried
by the word
of the LORD
against the altar
in Bethel,
and against all
the houses
of the high places
which are in the cities
of Samaria,
shall surely come
to pass.
After this thing Jeroboam
returned not
from his evil way,
but made again
of the lowest
of the people priests
of the high places:
whosoever would,
he consecrated him,
and he
became one
of the priests
of the high places.
And this thing
became
sin
unto the house
of Jeroboam,
even to
cut it off,
and
to destroy it from
off the face
of the earth.
At that time Abijah
the son
of Jeroboam fell sick.
And Jeroboam
said
to his wife,
Arise,
I pray thee,
and disguise
thyself,
that thou
be not known
to be the wife
of Jeroboam;
and get thee
to Shiloh:
behold,
there is Ahijah
the prophet,
which told me that
I should be king
over this people.
And take
with thee ten loaves,
and cracknels,
and a cruse
of honey,
and go to him:
he shall tell thee what
shall become
of the child.
And Jeroboam's wife
did so,
and arose,
and went to Shiloh,
and came
to the house
of Ahijah.
But Ahijah
could not see;
for his eyes
were set
by reason
of his age.
And the LORD
said
unto Ahijah, Behold,
the wife
of Jeroboam
cometh
to ask a thing
of thee
for her son;
for he
is sick:
thus
and thus
shalt thou
say unto her:
for it
shall be,
when
she cometh in,
that she
shall feign herself to be
another woman.
And it
was so,
when Ahijah
heard
the sound
of her feet,
as she came in
at the door,
that he said,
Come in,
thou wife
of Jeroboam;
why feignest
thou thyself to be
another?
for I
am sent to thee
with heavy tidings.
Go,
tell Jeroboam,
Thus saith
the LORD God
of Israel,
Forasmuch
as I exalted thee from
among the people,
and made thee prince
over my people Israel,
And rent
the kingdom
away from the house
of David,
and gave it thee:
and yet
thou hast not been
as my servant David,
who kept
my commandments,
and
who followed me
with all
his heart,
to do
that only which
was right
in mine eyes;
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:
Therefore,
behold,
I will bring evil
upon the house
of Jeroboam,
and will cut off
from Jeroboam
him that
pisseth against the wall,
and him
that is shut
up and left
in Israel,
and will take away
the remnant
of the house
of Jeroboam,
as a man
taketh away dung,
till it
be all gone.
Him that dieth
of Jeroboam
in the city
shall
the dogs eat;
and him that dieth
in the field
shall
the fowls
of the air eat:
for the LORD
hath spoken it.
Arise thou
therefore,
get thee
to thine own house:
and
when thy feet
enter into the city,
the child
shall die.
And all Israel
shall mourn for him,
and bury him:
for he
only of Jeroboam
shall come
to the grave,
because
in him there is found
some good thing
toward the LORD God
of Israel
in the house
of Jeroboam.
Moreover the LORD
shall raise him up a king
over Israel,
who shall cut off the house
of Jeroboam
that day:
but what?
even now.
For the LORD
shall smite
Israel,
as a reed
is shaken
in the water,
and
he shall root up Israel
out of this good land,
which he
gave to their fathers,
and shall scatter them
beyond the river,
because
they have made
their groves,
provoking the LORD
to anger.
And
he shall give Israel up
because
of the sins
of Jeroboam,
who did sin,
and
who made Israel
to sin.
And Jeroboam's wife arose,
and departed,
and came
to Tirzah:
and
when
she came
to the threshold
of the door,
the child died;
And
they buried him;
and all Israel
mourned for him,
according to
the word
of the LORD,
which he
spake by the hand
of his servant Ahijah
the prophet.
And the rest
of the acts
of Jeroboam,
how he warred,
and
how he reigned,
behold,
they are written in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel.
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.
And Rehoboam
the son
of Solomon
reigned
in Judah.
Rehoboam was forty
and one years old
when
he began
to reign,
and
he reigned seventeen years
in Jerusalem,
the city
which the LORD
did choose
out of all the tribes
of Israel,
to put
his name there.
And his mother's name
was Naamah
an Ammonitess.
And Judah
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
and
they provoked him
to jealousy
with their sins
which they
had committed,
above
all
that their fathers
had done.
For they
also built them
high places,
and images,
and groves,
on every high hill,
and
under every green tree.
And there were also sodomites
in the land:
and
they did according to all
the abominations
of the nations
which the LORD
cast out
before the children
of Israel.
And it
came
to pass
in the fifth year
of king Rehoboam,
that Shishak king
of Egypt
came up
against Jerusalem:
And he
took away
the treasures
of the house
of the LORD,
and the treasures
of the king's house;
he even took away all:
and
he took away all
the shields
of gold which Solomon
had made.
And king Rehoboam
made
in their stead brasen shields,
and committed them
unto the hands
of the chief
of the guard,
which kept
the door
of the king's house.
And it
was so,
when the king
went into the house
of the LORD,
that the guard
bare them,
and brought them
back into the guard chamber.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Rehoboam,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And there was
war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all
their days.
And Rehoboam
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
with his fathers
in the city
of David.
And his mother's name
was Naamah
an Ammonitess.
And Abijam
his son
reigned
in his stead.
Now in the eighteenth year
of king Jeroboam
the son
of Nebat
reigned Abijam
over Judah.
Three years
reigned
he in Jerusalem.
and his mother's name
was Maachah,
the daughter
of Abishalom.
And he
walked
in all
the sins
of his father,
which he
had done
before him:
and his heart
was not
perfect
with the LORD his God,
as the heart
of David his father.
Nevertheless for David's sake
did the LORD
his God
give him a lamp
in Jerusalem,
to set up
his son
after him,
and to establish Jerusalem:
Because David
did that which
was right
in the eyes
of the LORD,
and turned not
aside from any thing
that he
commanded him all
the days
of his life,
save
only in the matter
of Uriah the Hittite.
And there was
war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all
the days
of his life.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Abijam,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And there was
war between Abijam
and Jeroboam.
And Abijam
slept
with his fathers;
and
they buried him
in the city
of David:
and Asa
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And in the twentieth year
of Jeroboam king
of Israel
reigned Asa
over Judah.
And forty
and one years
reigned
he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name
was Maachah,
the daughter
of Abishalom.
And Asa
did that which
was right
in the eyes
of the LORD,
as did David
his father.
And he
took away
the sodomites
out of the land,
and removed all
the idols
that his fathers
had made.
And
also Maachah
his mother,
even
her he
removed
from being queen,
because
she had made
an idol
in a grove;
and Asa
destroyed
her idol,
and burnt it
by the brook Kidron.
But the high places
were not removed:
nevertheless Asa's heart
was perfect
with the LORD all his days.
And
he brought in
the things
which his father
had dedicated,
and the things which himself
had dedicated,
into the house
of the LORD,
silver,
and gold,
and vessels.
And there was
war between Asa
and Baasha king of Israel all
their days.
And
Baasha king
of Israel
went up
against Judah,
and built Ramah,
that he
might not suffer any
to go out
or come in
to Asa king
of Judah.
Then Asa
took all
the silver
and the gold
that were left
in the treasures
of the house
of the LORD,
and the treasures
of the king's house,
and delivered them
into the hand
of his servants:
and king Asa
sent them
to Benhadad,
the son
of Tabrimon,
the son
of Hezion,
king of Syria,
that dwelt
at Damascus,
saying,
There is a league
between me and thee,
and
between my father
and thy father:
behold,
I have sent
unto thee
a present
of silver
and gold;
come
and break
thy league
with Baasha king
of Israel,
that he
may depart from me.
So Benhadad
hearkened
unto king Asa,
and sent
the captains
of the hosts
which he
had against the cities
of Israel,
and smote Ijon,
and Dan,
and Abelbethmaachah,
and all Cinneroth,
with all
the land
of Naphtali.
And it
came
to pass,
when Baasha
heard thereof,
that he
left off
building
of Ramah,
and dwelt
in Tirzah.
Then
king Asa
made
a proclamation
throughout all Judah;
none was exempted:
and
they took away
the stones
of Ramah,
and the timber
thereof,
wherewith Baasha
had builded;
and king Asa
built
with them Geba
of Benjamin,
and Mizpah.
The rest
of all the acts
of Asa,
and all
his might,
and all that
he did,
and the cities
which he built,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
Nevertheless in the time
of his old age
he was diseased
in his feet.
And Asa
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
with his fathers
in the city
of David his father:
and Jehoshaphat
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And Nadab
the son
of Jeroboam
began
to reign
over Israel
in the second year
of Asa king
of Judah,
and reigned
over Israel two years.
And he
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
and walked
in the way
of his father,
and in his sin
wherewith
he made Israel
to sin.
And Baasha
the son
of Ahijah,
of the house
of Issachar,
conspired against him;
and Baasha
smote him
at Gibbethon,
which belonged
to the Philistines;
for Nadab
and all Israel
laid siege
to Gibbethon.
Even in the third year
of Asa king
of Judah
did
Baasha slay him,
and reigned
in his stead.
And it
came
to pass,
when he reigned,
that he
smote all
the house
of Jeroboam;
he left not
to Jeroboam any
that breathed,
until he
had destroyed him,
according
unto the saying
of the LORD,
which he
spake by his servant Ahijah
the Shilonite:
Because
of the sins
of Jeroboam
which he sinned,
and which
he made
Israel sin,
by his provocation
wherewith
he provoked
the LORD God
of Israel
to anger.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Nadab,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
And there was
war between Asa
and Baasha king of Israel all
their days.
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.
And he
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
and walked
in the way
of Jeroboam,
and in his sin
wherewith
he made Israel
to sin.
Then
the word
of the LORD
came
to Jehu the son
of Hanani
against Baasha,
saying,
Forasmuch
as I exalted thee
out of the dust,
and made thee prince
over my people Israel;
and
thou hast walked
in the way
of Jeroboam,
and hast made
my people Israel
to sin,
to provoke me
to anger
with their sins;
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.
Him that dieth
of Baasha
in the city
shall
the dogs eat;
and him
that dieth
of his in the fields
shall
the fowls
of the air eat.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Baasha,
and what he did,
and his might,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
So Baasha
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
in Tirzah:
and Elah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And
also by the hand
of the prophet Jehu
the son
of Hanani
came the word
of the LORD
against Baasha,
and
against his house,
even for all
the evil
that he
did in the sight
of the LORD,
in provoking him
to anger
with the work
of his hands,
in being like
the house
of Jeroboam;
and
because he killed him.
In the twenty
and sixth year
of Asa king
of Judah
began Elah
the son
of Baasha
to reign
over Israel
in Tirzah,
two years.
And his servant Zimri,
captain of half
his chariots,
conspired against him,
as he
was in Tirzah,
drinking himself
drunk in the house
of Arza steward
of his house
in Tirzah.
And Zimri
went in
and smote him,
and killed him,
in the twenty
and seventh year
of Asa king
of Judah,
and reigned
in his stead.
And it
came
to pass,
when
he began
to reign,
as soon as he
sat
on his throne,
that he
slew all
the house
of Baasha:
he left him not
one
that pisseth against a wall,
neither of his kinsfolks,
nor
of his friends.
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.
For all
the sins
of Baasha,
and the sins
of Elah his son,
by which
they sinned,
and by which
they made Israel
to sin,
in provoking
the LORD God
of Israel
to anger
with their vanities.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Elah,
and all that
he did,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
In the twenty
and seventh year
of Asa king
of Judah
did
Zimri reign seven days
in Tirzah.
And the people
were encamped
against Gibbethon,
which belonged
to the Philistines.
And
the people
that were encamped heard say,
Zimri hath conspired,
and hath also slain
the king:
wherefore all
Israel made Omri,
the captain
of the host,
king over Israel
that day
in the camp.
And Omri
went up
from Gibbethon,
and all Israel
with him,
and
they besieged
Tirzah.
And it
came
to pass,
when Zimri
saw that
the city
was taken,
that he
went into the palace
of the king's house,
and burnt
the king's house
over him with fire,
and died.
For his sins
which he
sinned
in doing evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
in walking
in the way
of Jeroboam,
and in his sin
which he did,
to make Israel to sin.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Zimri,
and his treason
that he wrought,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
Then were
the people
of Israel
divided
into two parts:
half
of the people
followed
Tibni the son
of Ginath,
to make him king;
and half
followed Omri.
But the people
that
followed
Omri
prevailed
against the people
that followed
Tibni the son
of Ginath:
so Tibni died,
and Omri reigned.
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.
And he
bought
the hill Samaria
of Shemer
for two talents
of silver,
and built
on the hill,
and called
the name
of the city
which he built,
after the name
of Shemer,
owner
of the hill,
Samaria.
But Omri wrought evil
in the eyes
of the LORD,
and did worse
than all
that were
before him.
For he walked
in all
the way
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
and in his sin
wherewith
he made Israel
to sin,
to provoke
the LORD God
of Israel
to anger
with their vanities.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Omri
which he did,
and his might
that he shewed,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
So Omri
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
in Samaria:
and Ahab
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And
in the thirty
and eighth year
of Asa king
of Judah
began Ahab
the son
of Omri
to reign
over Israel:
and Ahab
the son
of Omri
reigned
over Israel
in Samaria twenty
and two years.
And Ahab
the son
of Omri
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD above all
that were
before him.
And it
came
to pass,
as if
it had been
a light thing
for him to walk
in the sins
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
that he
took to wife Jezebel
the daughter
of Ethbaal king
of the Zidonians,
and went
and served Baal,
and worshipped him.
And he
reared
up an altar
for Baal
in the house
of Baal,
which he
had built
in Samaria.
And Ahab
made a grove;
and Ahab
did
more
to provoke
the LORD God
of Israel
to anger
than all
the kings
of Israel
that were
before him.
In his days
did Hiel
the Bethelite
build Jericho:
he laid the foundation
thereof in Abiram his firstborn,
and set up
the gates
thereof in his youngest son Segub,
according to
the word
of the LORD,
which he
spake by Joshua
the son
of Nun.
And Elijah
the Tishbite,
who was of the inhabitants
of Gilead,
said unto Ahab,
As the LORD God
of Israel liveth,
before whom
I stand,
there shall not be dew
nor rain
these years,
but
according to my word.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto him,
saying,
Get thee hence,
and turn
thee eastward,
and hide thyself
by the brook Cherith,
that is
before Jordan.
And it
shall be,
that thou
shalt drink
of the brook;
and
I have commanded
the ravens
to feed thee there.
So he
went
and did
according
unto the word
of the LORD:
for he
went
and dwelt
by the brook Cherith,
that is
before Jordan.
And the ravens
brought him bread
and flesh
in the morning,
and bread
and flesh
in the evening;
and
he drank of the brook.
And it
came to pass
after a while,
that the brook
dried up,
because
there had been
no rain
in the land.
And
the word
of the LORD
came unto him,
saying,
Arise,
get thee
to Zarephath,
which belongeth
to Zidon,
and dwell there:
behold,
I have commanded
a widow woman
there to sustain thee.
So he
arose
and went
to Zarephath.
And
when he
came
to the gate
of the city,
behold,
the widow woman
was there gathering
of sticks:
and he
called
to her,
and said,
Fetch me,
I pray thee,
a little water
in a vessel,
that I
may drink.
And as she
was going
to fetch it,
he called to her,
and said,
Bring me,
I pray thee,
a morsel
of bread
in thine hand.
And she said,
As the LORD
thy God liveth,
I have not
a cake,
but an handful
of meal
in a barrel,
and a little oil
in a cruse:
and,
behold,
I am gathering
two sticks,
that I
may go in
and dress it
for me and my son,
that we
may eat it,
and die.
And Elijah
said
unto her,
Fear not;
go and do
as thou
hast said:
but make me thereof
a little cake first,
and bring it
unto me,
and
after make
for thee
and for thy son.
For thus
saith the LORD God
of Israel,
The barrel
of meal
shall not waste,
neither shall
the cruse
of oil fail,
until the day
that the LORD
sendeth
rain
upon the earth.
And
she went
and did according to
the saying
of Elijah:
and she,
and he,
and her house,
did eat
many days.
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.
And it
came
to pass
after these things,
that the son
of the woman,
the mistress
of the house,
fell sick;
and his sickness
was so sore,
that there was
no breath
left in him.
And she
said
unto Elijah,
What
have
I to do
with thee,
O thou man
of God?
art
thou come unto me
to call my sin
to remembrance,
and to slay
my son?
And he
said
unto her,
Give me
thy son.
And
he took him
out of her bosom,
and carried
him up
into a loft,
where he abode,
and laid him
upon his own bed.
And he
cried
unto the LORD,
and said,
O LORD my God,
hast
thou also brought evil
upon the widow
with whom
I sojourn,
by slaying her son?
And he
stretched himself
upon the child three times,
and cried
unto the LORD,
and said,
O LORD my God,
I pray thee,
let this child's soul
come
into him again.
And the LORD
heard
the voice
of Elijah;
and the soul
of the child
came
into him again,
and he revived.
And Elijah
took the child,
and brought
him down
out of the chamber
into the house,
and delivered him
unto his mother:
and Elijah said,
See,
thy son liveth.
And the woman
said
to Elijah,
Now by this
I know that
thou art a man
of God,
and
that the word
of the LORD
in thy
mouth is truth.
And it
came to pass
after many days,
that the word
of the LORD
came to Elijah
in the third year,
saying,
Go,
shew thyself
unto Ahab;
and
I will send
rain
upon the earth.
And Elijah
went
to shew himself
unto Ahab.
And there was
a sore famine
in Samaria.
And Ahab
called Obadiah,
which was the governor
of his house.
(Now Obadiah
feared
the LORD greatly:
For it
was so,
when Jezebel cut off
the prophets
of the LORD,
that Obadiah
took an hundred prophets,
and hid them
by fifty
in a cave,
and fed them
with bread and water.)
And Ahab
said
unto Obadiah,
Go into the land,
unto all fountains
of water,
and unto all brooks:
peradventure
we may find grass
to save the horses
and mules alive,
that we
lose not all
the beasts.
So they
divided
the land
between them
to pass
throughout it:
Ahab went one way
by himself,
and Obadiah
went
another way
by himself.
And as Obadiah
was in the way,
behold,
Elijah met him:
and he
knew him,
and fell
on his face,
and said,
Art
thou
that my lord Elijah?
And
he answered him,
I am:
go,
tell thy lord,
Behold,
Elijah is here.
And he said,
What
have
I sinned,
that thou
wouldest deliver
thy servant
into the hand
of Ahab,
to slay me?
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.
And now
thou sayest,
Go,
tell thy lord,
Behold,
Elijah is here.
And it
shall come
to pass,
as soon as I
am gone
from thee,
that the Spirit
of the LORD
shall carry thee
whither
I know not;
and so
when
I come
and tell Ahab,
and
he cannot find thee,
he shall slay me:
but I thy servant
fear the LORD
from my youth.
Was it
not told
my lord
what
I did
when Jezebel
slew
the prophets
of the LORD,
how I
hid
an hundred men
of the LORD's prophets
by fifty
in a cave,
and fed them
with bread and water?
And now
thou sayest,
Go,
tell thy lord,
Behold,
Elijah is here:
and
he shall slay me.
And Elijah said,
As the LORD
of hosts liveth,
before whom
I stand,
I will surely shew myself
unto him
to day.
So Obadiah
went to meet Ahab,
and told him:
and Ahab
went to meet Elijah.
And it
came
to pass,
when Ahab
saw Elijah,
that Ahab
said unto him,
Art
thou
he that
troubleth Israel?
And he answered,
I have not troubled
Israel;
but thou,
and thy father's house,
in that
ye have forsaken
the commandments
of the LORD,
and
thou hast followed
Baalim.
Now therefore send,
and gather
to me all Israel
unto mount Carmel,
and the prophets
of Baal four hundred
and fifty,
and the prophets
of the groves four hundred,
which eat
at Jezebel's table.
So Ahab
sent
unto all
the children
of Israel,
and gathered
the prophets
together unto
mount Carmel.
And Elijah
came
unto all
the people,
and said,
How long
halt
ye between two opinions?
if the LORD
be God,
follow him:
but if Baal,
then follow him.
And the people
answered him not
a word.
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.
Let them
therefore give us
two bullocks;
and let them
choose one bullock
for themselves,
and cut it
in pieces,
and lay it
on wood,
and put
no fire under:
and
I will dress
the other bullock,
and lay it
on wood,
and put
no fire under:
And call
ye on the name
of your gods,
and
I will call on
the name
of the LORD:
and the God
that answereth by fire,
let him be God.
And all
the people
answered
and said,
It is well spoken.
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.
And they
took
the bullock which
was given them,
and
they dressed it,
and called on
the name
of Baal
from morning
even until noon,
saying,
O Baal,
hear us.
But there was
no voice,
nor any
that answered.
And they
leaped
upon the altar which
was made.
And it
came
to pass at noon,
that Elijah
mocked them,
and said,
Cry aloud:
for he
is a god;
either he
is talking,
or he
is pursuing,
or he
is in a journey,
or peradventure
he sleepeth,
and must be
awaked.
And
they cried aloud,
and cut themselves
after their manner
with knives
and lancets,
till the blood
gushed out upon them.
And it
came
to pass,
when midday
was past,
and they
prophesied until
the time
of the offering
of the evening sacrifice,
that there was
neither voice,
nor any
to answer,
nor any
that regarded.
And Elijah
said
unto all
the people,
Come near unto me.
And all
the people
came near unto him.
And he
repaired
the altar
of the LORD
that was broken down.
And Elijah
took twelve stones,
according to the number
of the tribes
of the sons
of Jacob,
unto whom
the word
of the LORD came,
saying,
Israel
shall be
thy name:
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.
And he put
the wood
in order,
and cut
the bullock
in pieces,
and laid him
on the wood,
and said,
Fill four
barrels with water,
and pour it
on the burnt sacrifice,
and
on the wood.
And he said,
Do it
the second time.
And they
did it
the second time.
And he said,
Do it
the third time.
And they
did it
the third time.
And the water
ran round
about the altar;
and he
filled
the trench
also with water.
And it
came
to pass
at the time
of the offering
of the evening sacrifice,
that Elijah the prophet
came near,
and said,
LORD God
of Abraham, Isaac,
and of Israel,
let it
be known
this day
that thou art God
in Israel,
and that
I am thy servant,
and that I
have done all these things
at thy word.
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.
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.
And
when all
the people saw it,
they fell
on their faces:
and they said,
The LORD,
he is the God;
the LORD,
he is the God.
And Elijah
said unto them,
Take the prophets
of Baal;
let not one
of them escape.
And
they took them:
and Elijah
brought
them down
to the brook Kishon,
and slew them there.
And Elijah
said
unto Ahab,
Get thee up,
eat and drink;
for there is a sound
of abundance
of rain.
So Ahab
went up to
eat and
to drink.
And Elijah
went
up to the top
of Carmel;
and
he cast himself down
upon the earth,
and put
his face
between his knees,
And said
to his servant,
Go up now,
look
toward the sea.
And he went up,
and looked,
and said,
There is nothing.
And he said,
Go again seven times.
And it
came
to pass
at the seventh time,
that he said,
Behold,
there ariseth
a little cloud
out of the sea,
like a man's hand.
And he said,
Go up,
say unto Ahab,
Prepare thy chariot,
and get thee
down that
the rain
stop thee not.
And it
came to pass
in the mean while,
that the heaven
was black
with clouds
and wind,
and there was
a great rain.
And Ahab rode,
and went to Jezreel.
And
the hand
of the LORD
was on Elijah;
and he
girded
up his loins,
and ran before Ahab
to the entrance
of Jezreel.
And Ahab
told
Jezebel all that Elijah
had done,
and withal
how he
had slain all
the prophets
with the sword.
Then Jezebel
sent
a messenger
unto Elijah,
saying,
So let
the gods
do to me,
and more also,
if I
make not thy life
as the life
of one
of them by
to morrow
about this time.
And
when he
saw that,
he arose,
and went for his life,
and came
to Beersheba,
which belongeth
to Judah,
and left
his servant there.
But
he himself
went
a day's journey
into the wilderness,
and came
and sat down
under a juniper tree:
and he
requested
for himself
that he
might die;
and said,
It is enough;
now,
O LORD,
take away
my life;
for I
am not
better
than my fathers.
And as he
lay
and slept
under a juniper tree,
behold,
then an angel
touched him,
and
said unto him,
Arise and eat.
And he looked,
and,
behold,
there was
a cake baken
on the coals,
and a cruse
of water
at his head.
And he
did eat
and drink,
and laid him
down again.
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.
And he arose,
and did eat
and drink,
and went in
the strength
of that meat forty days
and forty nights
unto Horeb
the mount
of God.
And
he came thither
unto a cave,
and lodged there;
and,
behold,
the word
of the LORD
came to him,
and
he said unto him,
What
doest
thou here,
Elijah?
And he said,
I have been very jealous
for the LORD God
of hosts:
for the children
of Israel
have forsaken
thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars,
and slain
thy prophets
with the sword;
and I,
even I only,
am left;
and
they seek my life,
to take it away.
And he said,
Go forth,
and stand
upon the mount
before the LORD.
And,
behold,
the LORD
passed by,
and a great
and strong wind
rent the mountains,
and brake
in pieces
the rocks
before the LORD;
but the LORD
was not
in the wind:
and
after the wind an earthquake;
but the LORD
was not
in the earthquake:
And after the earthquake a fire;
but the LORD
was not
in the fire:
and
after the fire
a still small voice.
And it
was so,
when Elijah
heard it,
that he
wrapped
his face
in his mantle,
and went out,
and stood
in the entering in
of the cave.
And,
behold,
there came a voice
unto him,
and said,
What
doest
thou here,
Elijah?
And he said,
I have been very jealous
for the LORD God
of hosts:
because the children
of Israel
have forsaken
thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars,
and slain
thy prophets
with the sword;
and I,
even I only,
am left;
and
they seek my life,
to take it away.
And the LORD
said unto him,
Go,
return on thy way
to the wilderness
of Damascus:
and
when thou comest,
anoint Hazael
to be king
over Syria:
And Jehu
the son
of Nimshi
shalt thou
anoint
to be king
over Israel:
and Elisha
the son
of Shaphat
of Abelmeholah
shalt thou
anoint
to be prophet
in thy room.
And it
shall come
to pass,
that him that
escapeth
the sword
of Hazael
shall
Jehu slay:
and him
that escapeth from the sword
of Jehu
shall Elisha slay.
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.
So he
departed thence,
and found Elisha
the son
of Shaphat,
who was plowing
with twelve yoke
of oxen
before him,
and
he with the twelfth:
and Elijah
passed by him,
and cast
his mantle
upon him.
And
he left the oxen,
and ran after Elijah,
and said,
Let me,
I pray thee,
kiss my father
and my mother,
and
then
I will follow thee.
And
he said unto him,
Go back again:
for what
have
I done
to thee?
And
he returned
back from him,
and took
a yoke
of oxen,
and slew them,
and boiled
their flesh
with the instruments
of the oxen,
and gave unto the people,
and they did eat.
Then he arose,
and went after Elijah,
and
ministered unto him.
And Benhadad
the king
of Syria
gathered all his host
together:
and there were thirty
and two kings
with him,
and horses,
and chariots;
and
he went up and
besieged Samaria,
and warred
against it.
And
he sent messengers
to Ahab king
of Israel
into the city,
and
said unto him,
Thus saith Benhadad,
Thy silver
and thy gold
is mine;
thy wives
also and
thy children,
even the goodliest,
are mine.
And the king
of Israel answered
and said,
My lord,
O king,
according to
thy saying,
I am thine,
and all that
I have.
And the messengers
came again,
and said,
Thus speaketh Benhadad,
saying,
Although I
have sent
unto thee,
saying,
Thou
shalt deliver me
thy silver,
and thy gold,
and thy wives,
and thy children;
Yet I
will send
my servants
unto thee
to morrow
about this time,
and they
shall search
thine house,
and the houses
of thy servants;
and it
shall be,
that whatsoever is pleasant
in thine eyes,
they shall put it
in their hand,
and take it away.
Then the king
of Israel
called all
the elders
of the land,
and said,
Mark,
I pray you,
and see how
this man
seeketh mischief:
for he
sent unto me
for my wives,
and for my children,
and for my silver,
and for my gold;
and
I denied him not.
And all
the elders
and all
the people
said unto him,
Hearken
not unto him,
nor consent.
Wherefore
he said
unto the messengers
of Benhadad,
Tell my lord
the king,
All
that thou
didst send for
to thy servant
at the first
I will do:
but this thing
I may not do.
And the messengers departed,
and brought him
word again.
And Benhadad
sent unto him,
and said,
The gods
do so unto me,
and more also,
if the dust
of Samaria
shall suffice for handfuls
for all
the people that
follow me.
And the king
of Israel answered
and said,
Tell him,
Let not
him that
girdeth on his harness
boast himself as he
that putteth it off.
And it
came
to pass,
when Ben-hadad
heard this message,
as he
was drinking,
he and the kings
in the pavilions,
that he
said
unto his servants,
Set yourselves
in array.
And
they set themselves
in array
against the city.
And,
behold,
there came a prophet
unto Ahab king
of Israel,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD,
Hast
thou seen all
this great multitude?
behold,
I will deliver it
into thine hand
this day;
and
thou shalt know
that I
am the LORD.
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.
Then he
numbered
the young men
of the princes
of the provinces,
and
they were two hundred
and thirty two:
and
after them
he numbered all
the people,
even all
the children
of Israel,
being seven thousand.
And they
went out
at noon.
But Benhadad
was drinking himself
drunk in the pavilions,
he and the kings,
the thirty
and two kings that
helped him.
And the young men
of the princes
of the provinces
went out first;
and Benhadad
sent out,
and
they told him,
saying,
There are men
come out of Samaria.
And he said,
Whether
they be come out
for peace,
take them alive;
or whether
they
be come out
for war,
take them alive.
So these young men
of the princes
of the provinces
came
out of the city,
and the army which
followed them.
And
they slew every one
his man:
and the Syrians fled;
and Israel
pursued them:
and Benhadad
the king
of Syria
escaped
on an horse
with the horsemen.
And
the king
of Israel went out,
and smote
the horses
and chariots,
and slew
the Syrians
with a great slaughter.
And the prophet
came to the king
of Israel,
and
said unto him,
Go,
strengthen thyself,
and mark,
and see
what thou doest:
for at the return
of the year
the king
of Syria
will come up
against thee.
And the servants
of the king
of Syria
said unto him,
Their gods
are gods
of the hills;
therefore they
were stronger
than we;
but let us
fight
against them
in the plain,
and surely
we shall be stronger
than they.
And do
this thing,
Take the kings away,
every man
out of his place,
and put captains
in their rooms:
And number thee
an army,
like the army
that thou
hast lost,
horse for horse,
and chariot for chariot:
and we
will fight
against them
in the plain,
and surely
we shall be stronger
than they.
And he
hearkened
unto their voice,
and did so.
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.
And the children
of Israel
were numbered,
and were
all present,
and
went against them:
and the children
of Israel
pitched
before them like
two little flocks
of kids;
but the Syrians
filled the country.
And there came a man
of God,
and spake unto the king
of Israel,
and said,
Thus saith the LORD,
Because the Syrians
have said,
The LORD
is God
of the hills,
but
he is not God
of the valleys,
therefore will
I deliver all this
great multitude
into thine hand,
and ye
shall know
that I
am the LORD.
And they
pitched
one over
against the other seven days.
And so
it was,
that in the seventh day
the battle
was joined:
and the children
of Israel
slew of the Syrians
an hundred thousand footmen
in one day.
But the rest
fled to Aphek,
into the city;
and there
a wall
fell
upon twenty
and seven thousand
of the men
that were left.
And Benhadad fled,
and came
into the city,
into an inner chamber.
And his servants
said unto him,
Behold now,
we have heard
that the kings
of the house
of Israel
are merciful kings:
let us,
I pray thee,
put sackcloth
on our loins,
and ropes
upon our heads,
and go out
to the king
of Israel:
peradventure
he will save
thy life.
So they
girded sackcloth
on their loins,
and put ropes
on their heads,
and came
to the king
of Israel,
and said,
Thy servant Benhadad saith,
I pray thee,
let me live.
And he said,
Is he yet alive?
he is my brother.
Now the men
did diligently observe
whether any thing
would come from him,
and did hastily catch it:
and they said,
Thy brother Benhadad.
Then he said,
Go ye,
bring him.
Then Benhadad
came forth
to him;
and
he caused him to
come up
into the chariot.
And Ben-hadad
said unto him,
The cities,
which my father
took from thy father,
I will restore;
and
thou shalt make streets
for thee
in Damascus,
as my father made
in Samaria.
Then said Ahab,
I will send thee
away with this covenant.
So he
made
a covenant
with him,
and sent him away.
And a certain man
of the sons
of the prophets
said unto his neighbour
in the word
of the LORD,
Smite me,
I pray thee.
And the man
refused
to smite him.
Then said
he unto him,
Because
thou hast not obeyed
the voice
of the LORD,
behold,
as soon as thou
art
departed from me,
a lion
shall slay thee.
And
as soon as he
was departed from him,
a lion
found him,
and slew him.
Then he
found
another man,
and said,
Smite me,
I pray thee.
And the man
smote him,
so that
in smiting
he wounded him.
So the prophet departed,
and waited
for the king
by the way,
and disguised himself
with ashes
upon his face.
And
as the king
passed by,
he cried
unto the king:
and he said,
Thy servant
went out
into the midst
of the battle;
and,
behold,
a man
turned aside,
and brought a man
unto me,
and said,
Keep this man:
if by any means
he be missing,
then shall
thy life
be for his life,
or else
thou shalt pay
a talent
of silver.
And as thy servant
was busy here
and there,
he was gone.
And
the king
of Israel
said unto him,
So shall
thy judgment be;
thyself hast decided it.
And he hasted,
and took
the ashes
away from his face;
and the king
of Israel
discerned him
that he
was of the prophets.
And
he said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Because
thou hast let go
out of thy hand a man
whom
I appointed
to utter destruction,
therefore thy life
shall go
for his life,
and thy people
for his people.
And
the king
of Israel
went to his house heavy
and displeased,
and came
to Samaria.
And it
came
to pass
after these things,
that Naboth the Jezreelite
had a vineyard,
which was in Jezreel,
hard
by the palace
of Ahab king
of Samaria.
And Ahab
spake unto Naboth,
saying,
Give me
thy vineyard,
that I
may have it
for a garden
of herbs,
because
it is near
unto my house:
and
I will give thee
for it
a better vineyard
than it;
or,
if it
seem good
to thee,
I will give thee
the worth of it
in money.
And Naboth
said
to Ahab,
The LORD
forbid it me,
that I
should give
the inheritance
of my fathers
unto thee.
And Ahab
came
into his house heavy
and displeased
because
of the word
which Naboth the Jezreelite
had spoken
to him:
for he
had said,
I will not give thee
the inheritance
of my fathers.
And he
laid
him down
upon his bed,
and turned away
his face,
and would eat
no bread.
But Jezebel
his wife
came
to him,
and
said unto him,
Why is thy spirit so sad,
that thou
eatest no bread?
And he
said
unto her,
Because I
spake unto Naboth
the Jezreelite,
and
said unto him,
Give me
thy vineyard
for money;
or else,
if it
please thee,
I will give thee
another vineyard
for it:
and he answered,
I will not give
thee my vineyard.
And Jezebel
his wife
said unto him,
Dost thou
now govern the kingdom
of Israel?
arise,
and eat bread,
and let
thine heart
be merry:
I will give thee
the vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite.
So she
wrote
letters
in Ahab's name,
and sealed them
with his seal,
and sent
the letters
unto the elders
and to the nobles
that were in his city,
dwelling
with Naboth.
And
she wrote in the letters,
saying,
Proclaim a fast,
and set Naboth
on high
among the people:
And set two men,
sons of Belial,
before him,
to bear
witness against him,
saying,
Thou didst blaspheme God
and the king.
And
then
carry him out,
and stone him,
that he
may die.
And the men
of his city,
even
the elders
and the nobles
who were the inhabitants
in his city,
did as Jezebel
had sent unto them,
and as it
was written
in the letters
which she
had sent unto them.
They proclaimed
a fast,
and set Naboth
on high
among the people.
And there came
in two men,
children
of Belial,
and sat
before him:
and the men
of Belial
witnessed against him,
even against Naboth,
in the presence
of the people,
saying,
Naboth did blaspheme God
and the king.
Then they
carried
him forth
out of the city,
and stoned him
with stones,
that he died.
Then they
sent
to Jezebel,
saying,
Naboth is stoned,
and is dead.
And it
came
to pass,
when Jezebel
heard
that Naboth
was stoned,
and was dead,
that Jezebel
said to Ahab, Arise,
take possession
of the vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite,
which he
refused
to give thee
for money:
for Naboth
is not alive,
but dead.
And it
came
to pass,
when Ahab
heard
that Naboth
was dead,
that Ahab
rose up to go down
to the vineyard
of Naboth the Jezreelite,
to take possession of it.
And
the word
of the LORD
came
to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying,
Arise,
go down
to meet Ahab king
of Israel,
which is in Samaria:
behold,
he is in the vineyard
of Naboth,
whither
he is gone down
to possess it.
And
thou
shalt speak unto him,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD,
Hast thou killed,
and also taken
possession?
And
thou
shalt speak unto him,
saying,
Thus saith the LORD,
In the place
where dogs
licked
the blood
of Naboth
shall dogs
lick thy blood,
even thine.
And Ahab
said
to Elijah,
Hast
thou found me,
O mine enemy?
And he answered,
I have found thee:
because
thou hast sold
thyself
to work evil
in the sight
of the LORD.
Behold,
I will bring evil
upon thee,
and will take away
thy posterity,
and will cut off
from Ahab
him that
pisseth against the wall,
and him
that is shut
up and left
in Israel,
And will make
thine house like
the house
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
and like
the house
of Baasha
the son
of Ahijah,
for the provocation
wherewith thou
hast provoked me
to anger,
and made Israel
to sin.
And of Jezebel
also spake
the LORD,
saying,
The dogs
shall eat Jezebel
by the wall
of Jezreel.
Him that dieth
of Ahab
in the city
the dogs
shall eat;
and him that dieth
in the field
shall
the fowls
of the air eat.
But there was none like
unto Ahab,
which did sell himself
to work wickedness
in the sight
of the LORD,
whom
Jezebel his wife
stirred up.
And he
did very
abominably in following idols,
according to all things
as did the Amorites,
whom
the LORD
cast out
before the children
of Israel.
And it
came
to pass,
when Ahab
heard those words,
that he
rent his clothes,
and put sackcloth
upon his flesh,
and fasted,
and lay
in sackcloth,
and went softly.
And
the word
of the LORD
came
to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying,
Seest
thou
how Ahab
humbleth himself
before me?
because
he humbleth himself
before me,
I will not bring the evil
in his days:
but in his son's days
will
I bring
the evil
upon his house.
And
they continued three years
without war
between Syria
and Israel.
And it
came
to pass
in the third year,
that Jehoshaphat
the king
of Judah
came down
to the king
of Israel.
And
the king
of Israel
said unto his servants,
Know ye that
Ramoth
in Gilead
is ours,
and we
be still,
and take it
not out of the hand
of the king
of Syria?
And he
said
unto Jehoshaphat,
Wilt thou
go with me
to battle
to Ramothgilead?
And Jehoshaphat
said to the king
of Israel,
I am as thou art,
my people
as thy people,
my horses
as thy horses.
And Jehoshaphat
said
unto the king
of Israel, Enquire,
I pray thee,
at the word
of the LORD
to day.
Then the king
of Israel
gathered
the prophets
together,
about four hundred men,
and
said unto them,
Shall I
go against Ramothgilead
to battle,
or shall
I forbear?
And they said,
Go up;
for the LORD
shall deliver it
into the hand
of the king.
And Jehoshaphat said,
Is there not
here a prophet
of the LORD
besides,
that we
might enquire of him?
And
the king
of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat,
There
is yet
one man,
Micaiah the son
of Imlah,
by whom
we may enquire
of the LORD:
but I
hate him;
for he
doth not prophesy
good concerning me,
but evil.
And Jehoshaphat said,
Let not
the king say so.
Then the king
of Israel
called an officer,
and said,
Hasten hither Micaiah
the son
of Imlah.
And the king
of Israel
and Jehoshaphat
the king
of Judah
sat each
on his throne,
having put on
their robes,
in a void place
in the entrance
of the gate
of Samaria;
and all
the prophets
prophesied
before them.
And Zedekiah
the son
of Chenaanah
made him horns
of iron:
and he said,
Thus saith the LORD,
With these
shalt thou
push the Syrians,
until thou
have consumed them.
And all
the prophets
prophesied so,
saying,
Go up to Ramothgilead,
and prosper:
for the LORD
shall deliver
it into the king's hand.
And the messenger
that was gone
to call
Micaiah
spake unto him,
saying,
Behold now,
the words
of the prophets
declare good
unto the king
with one mouth:
let thy word,
I pray thee,
be like
the word
of one of them,
and speak
that which
is good.
And Micaiah said,
As the LORD liveth,
what the LORD
saith unto me,
that will
I speak.
So he
came
to the king.
And the king
said unto him,
Micaiah,
shall
we go
against Ramothgilead
to battle,
or shall
we forbear?
And
he answered him,
Go,
and prosper:
for the LORD
shall deliver it
into the hand
of the king.
And the king
said unto him,
How many
times
shall
I adjure thee
that thou
tell me nothing
but that which
is true
in the name
of the LORD?
And he said,
I saw all Israel
scattered
upon the hills,
as sheep
that have not
a shepherd:
and the LORD said,
These
have
no master:
let them
return every man
to his house
in peace.
And
the king
of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat,
Did I
not tell thee that
he would prophesy
no good concerning me,
but evil?
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.
And the LORD said,
Who shall persuade Ahab,
that he
may go
up and fall
at Ramothgilead?
And one
said
on this manner,
and
another said
on that manner.
And there came
forth a spirit,
and stood
before the LORD,
and said,
I will persuade him.
And the LORD
said unto him,
Wherewith?
And he said,
I will go forth,
and I
will be
a lying spirit
in the mouth
of all
his prophets.
And he said,
Thou shalt persude him,
and prevail also:
go forth,
and do so.
Now therefore,
behold,
the LORD
hath put
a lying spirit
in the mouth
of all
these thy prophets,
and the LORD
hath spoken
evil concerning thee.
But Zedekiah
the son
of Chenaanah
went near,
and smote Micaiah
on the cheek,
and said,
Which way
went the Spirit
of the LORD
from me
to speak
unto thee?
And Micaiah said,
Behold,
thou shalt see
in that day,
when
thou shalt go
into an inner chamber
to hide thyself.
And
the king
of Israel said,
Take Micaiah,
and carry him
back unto Amon
the governor
of the city,
and
to Joash
the king's son;
And say,
Thus saith the king,
Put this fellow
in the prison,
and feed him
with bread
of affliction and
with water
of affliction,
until I come in peace.
And Micaiah said,
If thou
return at
all in peace,
the LORD
hath not spoken by me.
And he said,
Hearken,
O people,
every one
of you.
So the king
of Israel
and Jehoshaphat
the king
of Judah
went up to Ramothgilead.
And
the king
of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat,
I will disguise myself,
and enter
into the battle;
but put
thou on thy robes.
And the king
of Israel
disguised himself,
and went into the battle.
But the king
of Syria
commanded
his thirty
and
two captains
that had
rule
over his chariots,
saying,
Fight neither
with small
nor great,
save
only with the king
of Israel.
And it
came
to pass,
when the captains
of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat,
that they said,
Surely it
is the king
of Israel.
And
they turned aside
to fight against him:
and Jehoshaphat cried out.
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.
And a certain man
drew
a bow
at a venture,
and smote
the king
of Israel
between the joints
of the harness:
wherefore
he said
unto the driver
of his chariot,
Turn thine hand,
and carry me
out of the host;
for I
am wounded.
And the battle
increased
that day:
and the king
was stayed up in his chariot
against the Syrians,
and died at even:
and the blood
ran out of
the wound
into the midst
of the chariot.
And there went
a proclamation
throughout the host
about the going down
of the sun,
saying,
Every man
to his city,
and every man
to his own country.
So the king died,
and was brought
to Samaria;
and they
buried
the king
in Samaria.
And one
washed
the chariot
in the pool
of Samaria;
and the dogs
licked
up his blood;
and
they washed
his armour;
according
unto the word
of the LORD
which he spake.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Ahab,
and all that
he did,
and the ivory
house
which he made,
and all
the cities
that he built,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Israel?
So Ahab
slept
with his fathers;
and Ahaziah
his son
reigned
in his stead.
And Jehoshaphat
the son
of Asa
began
to reign
over Judah
in the fourth year
of Ahab king
of Israel.
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.
And he
walked
in all
the ways
of Asa his father;
he turned not aside
from it,
doing
that which
was right
in the eyes
of the LORD:
nevertheless
the high places
were not taken away;
for the people
offered
and burnt
incense yet
in the high places.
And Jehoshaphat made peace
with the king
of Israel.
Now the rest
of the acts
of Jehoshaphat,
and his might
that he shewed,
and
how he warred,
are
they not written
in the book
of the chronicles
of the kings
of Judah?
And the remnant
of the sodomites,
which remained
in the days
of his father Asa,
he took out of the land.
There was
then no king
in Edom:
a deputy was king.
Jehoshaphat
made
ships
of Tharshish
to go to Ophir
for gold:
but
they went not;
for the ships
were broken
at Eziongeber.
Then said Ahaziah
the son
of Ahab
unto Jehoshaphat,
Let my servants
go
with thy servants
in the ships.
But Jehoshaphat
would not.
And Jehoshaphat
slept
with his fathers,
and was buried
with his fathers
in the city
of David his father:
and Jehoram
his son
reigned
in his stead.
Ahaziah
the son
of Ahab
began to reign over Israel
in Samaria
the seventeenth year
of Jehoshaphat king
of Judah,
and reigned two years
over Israel.
And he
did evil
in the sight
of the LORD,
and walked
in the way
of his father,
and in the way
of his mother,
and in the way
of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat,
who made Israel
to sin:
For he
served Baal,
and worshipped him,
and provoked
to anger
the LORD God
of Israel,
according to all
that his father
had done.