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The king said, + What would you? +001:017 She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God + to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall + reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne. +001:018 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, + don't know it: +001:019 and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, + and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, + and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn't called + Solomon your servant. +001:020 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, + that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my + lord the king after him. +001:021 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall + sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall + be counted offenders. +001:022 Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the + prophet came in. +001:023 They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. + When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before + the king with his face to the ground. +001:024 Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall + reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? +001:025 For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings + and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, + and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; + and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, + [Long] live king Adonijah. +001:026 But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, + and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon. +001:027 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown + to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord + the king after him? +001:028 Then king David answered, Call to me Bathsheba. + She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. +001:029 The king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed + my soul out of all adversity, +001:030 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, + saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, + and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most certainly + so will I do this day. +001:031 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance + to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever. +001:032 King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan + the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They came + before the king. +001:033 The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, + and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring + him down to Gihon: +001:034 and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him + there king over Israel; and blow you the trumpet, and say, + [Long] live king Solomon. +001:035 Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit + on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have + appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah. +001:036 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, + and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, + say so [too]. +001:037 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be + he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne + of my lord king David. +001:038 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 on king David's mule, + and brought him to Gihon. +001:039 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, + and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all + the people said, [Long] live king Solomon. +001:040 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, + and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with + the sound of them. +001:041 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they + had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound + of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being + in an uproar? +001:042 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar + the priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are + a worthy man, and bring good news. +001:043 Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most certainly our lord king David + has made Solomon king: +001:044 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, + and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, + and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused + him to ride on the king's mule; +001:045 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him + king in Gihon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, + so that the city rang again. This is the noise that + you have heard. +001:046 Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom. +001:047 Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord + king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better + than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: + and the king bowed himself on the bed. +001:048 Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, + who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes + even seeing it. +001:049 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went + every man his way. +001:050 Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, + and caught hold on the horns of the altar. +001:051 It was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; + for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, + saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not + kill his servant with the sword. +001:052 Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall + not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found + in him, he shall die. +001:053 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. + He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said + to him, Go to your house. +002:001 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; + and he charged Solomon his son, saying, +002:002 I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, + and show yourself a man; +002:003 and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, + to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, + and his testimonies, according to that which is written + in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, + and wherever you turn yourself. +002:004 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, + saying, If your 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 you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel. +002:005 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, + even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, + to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, + whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put + the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, + and in his shoes that were on his feet. +002:006 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray + head go down to Sheol in peace. +002:007 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, + and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they + came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother. +002:008 Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, + of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I + went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, + and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you + to death with the sword. +002:009 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; + and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall + bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood. +002:010 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. +002:011 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; + seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years + reigned he in Jerusalem. +002:012 Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom + was established greatly. +002:013 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba + the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you peaceably? + He said, Peaceably. +002:014 He said moreover, I have somewhat to tell you. + She said, Say on. +002:015 He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all + Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: + however the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; + for it was his from Yahweh. +002:016 Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said + to him, Say on. +002:017 He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell + you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife." +002:018 Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king. +002:019 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him + for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself + to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be + set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. +002:020 Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me. + The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you. +002:021 She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah + your brother as wife. +002:022 King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag + the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; + for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar + the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. +002:023 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, + and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against + his own life. +002:024 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, + and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made + me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put + to death this day. +002:025 King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell + on him, so that he died. +002:026 To Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, + to your own fields; for you are worthy of death: + but I will not at this time put you to death, because you bear + the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because + you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted. +002:027 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, + that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he spoke + concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. +002:028 The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, + though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent + of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. +002:029 It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, + and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah + the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him. +002:030 Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, Thus says + the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I will die here. + Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, + and thus he answered me. +002:031 The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, + and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab + shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. +002:032 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell + on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed + them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, + [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, + and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. +002:033 So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on + the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, + and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be peace + for ever from Yahweh. +002:034 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, + and killed him; and he was buried in his own house + in the wilderness. +002:035 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the army; + and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. +002:036 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, + Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, + and don't go forth from there any where. +002:037 For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, + know you for certain that you shall surely die: + your blood shall be on your own head. +002:038 Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: + as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. + Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. +002:039 It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants + of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. + They told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath. +002:040 Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, + to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his + servants from Gath. +002:041 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, + and was come again. +002:042 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I + adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, + that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, + you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I + have heard is good. +002:043 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment + that I have charged you with? +002:044 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness + which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father: + therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head. +002:045 But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David + shall be established before Yahweh forever. +002:046 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; + and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. + The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. +003:001 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 Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. +003:002 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there + was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days. +003:003 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: + only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +003:004 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was + the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon + offer on that altar. +003:005 In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; + and God said, Ask what I shall give you. +003:006 Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father + great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, + and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; + and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, + that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it + is this day. +003:007 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead + of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't + know how to go out or come in. +003:008 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, + a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. +003:009 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge + your people, that I may discern between good and evil; + for who is able to judge this your great people? +003:010 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. +003:011 God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have + not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches + for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, + but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; +003:012 behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have + given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there + has been none like you before you, neither after you shall + any arise like you. +003:013 I have also given you that which you have not asked, + both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among + the kings like you, all your days. +003:014 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, + as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days. +003:015 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream: and he came + to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, + and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, + and made a feast to all his servants. +003:016 Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, + and stood before him. +003:017 The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; + and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. +003:018 It happened the third day after 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. +003:019 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it. +003:020 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, + while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, + and laid her dead child in my bosom. +003:021 When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; + but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was + not my son, whom I bore. +003:022 The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead + is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, + and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king. +003:023 Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, + and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your + son is the dead, and my son is the living. +003:024 The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword + before the king. +003:025 The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half + to the one, and half to the other. +003:026 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, + for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, + give her the living child, and in no way kill it. + But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. +003:027 Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no + way kill it: she is the mother of it. +003:028 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; + and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God + was in him, to do justice. +004:001 King Solomon was king over all Israel. +004:002 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son + of Zadok, the priest; +004:003 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the + son of Ahilud, the recorder; +004:004 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok + and Abiathar were priests; +004:005 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud + the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend; +004:006 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son + of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. +004:007 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided + food for the king and his household: each man had to make + provision for a month in the year. +004:008 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; +004:009 Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, + and Elon Beth Hanan; +004:010 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all + the land of Hepher); +004:011 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath + the daughter of Solomon as wife); +004:012 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all + Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, + from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; +004:013 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him [pertained] the towns + of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to + him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, + sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); +004:014 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; +004:015 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter + of Solomon as wife); +004:016 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; +004:017 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; +004:018 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; +004:019 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country + of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; + and [he was] the only officer who was in the land. +004:020 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea + in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. +004:021 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to + the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: + they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days + of his life. +004:022 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, + and sixty measures of meal, +004:023 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one + hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, + and fattened fowl. +004:024 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, + from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side + the River: and he had peace on all sides round about him. +004:025 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine + and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, + all the days of Solomon. +004:026 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, + and twelve thousand horsemen. +004:027 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all + who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; + they let nothing be lacking. +004:028 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought + they to the place where [the officers] were, every man + according to his charge. +004:029 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, + and very great understanding, even as the sand that is + on the seashore. +004:030 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children + of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. +004:031 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, + and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: + and his fame was in all the nations round about. +004:032 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were + one thousand five. +004:033 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to + the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, + and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. +004:034 There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, + from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. +005:001 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to 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. +005:002 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, +005:003 You know how that David my father could not build a house + for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about + him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles + of his feet. +005:004 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; + there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence. +005:005 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh + my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, + whom I will set on your throne in your room, he shall build + the house for my name. +005:006 Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon; + and my servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you + hire for your servants according to all that you shall say: + for you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut + timber like the Sidonians. +005:007 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, + that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, + who has given to David a wise son over this great people. +005:008 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the message] + which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning + timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. +005:009 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; + and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you + shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, + and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, + in giving food for my household. +005:010 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir + according to all his desire. +005:011 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. +005:012 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there + was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made + a league together. +005:013 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy + was thirty thousand men. +005:014 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 men subject to forced labor. +005:015 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty + thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; +005:016 besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, + three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people + who labored in the work. +005:017 The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, + to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. +005:018 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites + did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones + to build the house. +006:001 It happened 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 Ziv, which is the second month, that he began + to build the house of Yahweh. +006:002 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it + was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], + and the height of it thirty cubits. +006:003 The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was + the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; + [and] ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house. +006:004 For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work. +006:005 Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, + against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple + and of the oracle; and he made side chambers round about. +006:006 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle + was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; + for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house + round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls + of the house. +006:007 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made + ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor + any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. +006:008 The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side + of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into + the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third. +006:009 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house + with beams and planks of cedar. +006:010 He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: + and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. +006:011 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, +006:012 Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk + in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my + commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word + with you, which I spoke to David your father. +006:013 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake + my people Israel. +006:014 So Solomon built the house, and finished it. +006:015 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: + from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, + he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered + the floor of the house with boards of fir. +006:016 He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house + with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of + the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, + even for the most holy place. +006:017 The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], + was forty cubits [long]. +006:018 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and + open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. +006:019 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, + to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. +006:020 Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, + and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in + the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: + and he covered the altar with cedar. +006:021 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: + and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; + and he overlaid it with gold. +006:022 The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house + was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle + he overlaid with gold. +006:023 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, + each ten cubits high. +006:024 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 to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. +006:025 The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one + measure and one form. +006:026 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it + of the other cherub. +006:027 He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings + of the cherubim were stretched forth, 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. +006:028 He overlaid the cherubim with gold. +006:029 He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved + figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, + inside and outside. +006:030 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside. +006:031 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: + the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall]. +006:032 So [he made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them + carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid + them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, + and on the palm trees. +006:033 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts + of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall]; +006:034 and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door + were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. +006:035 He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; + and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work. +006:036 He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, + and a course of cedar beams. +006:037 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, + in the month Ziv. +006:038 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, + was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, + and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven + years in building it. +007:001 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished + all his house. +007:002 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it + was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, + and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, + with cedar beams on the pillars. +007:003 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, + that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. +007:004 There were beams in three rows, and window was over against + window in three ranks. +007:005 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: + and window was over against window in three ranks. +007:006 He made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, + and the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch before them; + and pillars and a threshold before them. +007:007 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, + even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar + from floor to floor. +007:008 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, + was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter + (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. +007:009 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, + according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, + even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside + to the great court. +007:010 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, + stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. +007:011 Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, + and cedar wood. +007:012 The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, + and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house + of Yahweh, and the porch of the house. +007:013 King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. +007:014 He was the son of a widow 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 skill, to work all works in brass. + He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work. +007:015 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits + high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either + of them about. +007:016 He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of + the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, + and the height of the other capital was five cubits. +007:017 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, + for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; + seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. +007:018 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on + the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top + of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital. +007:019 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch + were of lily work, four cubits. +007:020 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, + close by the belly which was beside the network: + and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about + on the other capital. +007:021 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: + and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it Jachin; + and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it Boaz. +007:022 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work + of the pillars finished. +007:023 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, + round in compass, and the height of it was five cubits; + and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about. +007:024 Under the brim of it round about there were buds which did + compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: + the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. +007:025 It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. +007:026 It was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked + like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: + it held two thousand baths. +007:027 He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length + of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits + the height of it. +007:028 The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; + and there were panels between the ledges; +007:029 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, + and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; + and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. +007:030 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; + and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin + were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each. +007:031 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: + and the mouth of it was round after the work of a pedestal, + a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it were engravings, + and their panels were foursquare, not round. +007:032 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles + of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel + was a cubit and half a cubit. +007:033 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: + their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, + were all molten. +007:034 There were four supports at the four corners of each base: + the supports of it were of the base itself. +007:035 In the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; + and on the top of the base the stays of it and the panels + of it were of the same. +007:036 On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, + he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to + the space of each, with wreaths round about. +007:037 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had + one casting, one measure, and one form. +007:038 He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; + and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten + bases one basin. +007:039 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, + and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea + on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. +007:040 Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. + So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked + for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh: +007:041 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on + the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two + bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; +007:042 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; + two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two + bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; +007:043 and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; +007:044 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; +007:045 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: + even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, + in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass. +007:046 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay + ground between Succoth and Zarethan. +007:047 Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were + exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out. +007:048 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: + the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show + bread was, of gold; +007:049 and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, + before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, + and the tongs, of gold; +007:050 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, + and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for + the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for + the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple, of gold. +007:051 Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house + of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things + which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, + and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries + of the house of Yahweh. +008:001 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads + of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the + children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up + the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, + which is Zion. +008:002 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at + the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. +008:003 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. +008:004 They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, + and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did + the priests and the Levites bring up. +008:005 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled + to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, + that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. +008:006 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to + its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, + even under the wings of the cherubim. +008:007 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place + of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles + of it above. +008:008 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from + the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: + and there they are to this day. +008:009 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone + which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant + with the children of Israel, when they came out of the + land of Egypt. +008:010 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, + that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, +008:011 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of + the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. +008:012 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell + in the thick darkness. +008:013 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you + to dwell in forever. +008:014 The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly + of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. +008:015 He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke + with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand + fulfilled it, saying, +008:016 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out + of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel + to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose + David to be over my people Israel. +008:017 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house + for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +008:018 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your + heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it + was in your heart: +008:019 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who + shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house + for my name. +008:020 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up + in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, + as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name + of Yahweh, the God of Israel. +008:021 There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant + of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought + them out of the land of Egypt. +008:022 Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all + the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; +008:023 and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, + in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant + and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you + with all their heart; +008:024 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you + did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have + fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. +008:025 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant + David my father that which you have promised him, saying, + There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne + of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, + to walk before me as you have walked before me. +008:026 Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, + which you spoke to your servant David my father. +008:027 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, + heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; + how much less this house that I have built! +008:028 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for + his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to + the prayer which your servant prays before you this day; +008:029 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, + even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall + be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall + pray toward this place. +008:030 Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your + people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: + yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when + you hear, forgive. +008:031 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him + to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before your + altar in this house; +008:032 then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, + condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, + and justifying the righteous, to give him according + to his righteousness. +008:033 When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, + because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, + and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you + in this house: +008:034 then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, + and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers. +008:035 When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they + have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, + and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you + do afflict them: +008:036 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, + and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way + in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, + which you have given to your people for an inheritance. +008:037 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, + if there is blight [or] mildew, locust [or] caterpillar; + if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; + whatever plague, whatever sickness there be; +008:038 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, + [or] by all your people Israel, who shall know every man + the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands + toward this house: +008:039 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, + and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, + whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts + of all the children of men;) +008:040 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land + which you gave to our fathers. +008:041 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, + when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake +008:042 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, + and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray + toward this house; +008:043 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all + that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples + of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your + people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I + have built is called by my name. +008:044 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, + by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh + toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house + which I have built for your name; +008:045 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, + and maintain their cause. +008:046 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), + and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, + so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, + far off or near; +008:047 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they + are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication + to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, + We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; +008:048 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their + soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, + and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, + the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have + built for your name: +008:049 then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, + your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; +008:050 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their + transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; + and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, + that they may have compassion on them +008:051 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought + forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); +008:052 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, + and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen + to them whenever they cry to you. +008:053 For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, + to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, + when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh. +008:054 It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all + this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before + the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands + spread forth toward heaven. +008:055 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a + loud voice, saying, +008:056 Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, + according to all that he promised: there has not failed + one word of all his good promise, which he promised by + Moses his servant. +008:057 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: + let him not leave us, nor forsake us; +008:058 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, + and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, + which he commanded our fathers. +008:059 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication + before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, + that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause + of his people Israel, as every day shall require; +008:060 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; + there is none else. +008:061 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, + to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, + as at this day. +008:062 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh. +008:063 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, + which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, + and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all + the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. +008:064 The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy + that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered + the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat + of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was + before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, + and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. +008:065 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, + a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook + of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, + even fourteen days. +008:066 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed + the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart + for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, + and to Israel his people. +009:001 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house + of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire + which he was pleased to do, +009:002 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had + appeared to him at Gibeon. +009:003 Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, + that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, + which you have built, to put my name there forever; + and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. +009:004 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, + in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according + to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes + and my ordinances; +009:005 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, + according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall + not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. +009:006 But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, + and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I + have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, + and worship them; +009:007 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; + and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast + out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword + among all peoples. +009:008 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes + by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, + Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house? +009:009 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, + who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, + and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: + therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them. +009:010 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had + built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house +009:011 (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. +009:012 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had + given him; and they didn't please him. +009:013 He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? + He called them the land of Cabul to this day. +009:014 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold. +009:015 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, + to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, + and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. +009:016 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt + it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, + and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife. +009:017 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower, +009:018 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land, +009:019 and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities + for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that + which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, + and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. +009:020 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, + the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, + who were not of the children of Israel; +009:021 their children who were left after them in the land, + whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, + of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. +009:022 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; + but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, + and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. +009:023 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, + five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored + in the work. +009:024 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David + to her house which [Solomon] had built for her: + then did he build Millo. +009:025 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings + and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, + burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. + So he finished the house. +009:026 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is + beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, + in the land of Edom. +009:027 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge + of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. +009:028 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred + and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. +010:001 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning + the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions. +010:002 She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels + that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; + and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all + that was in her heart. +010:003 Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything + hidden from the king which he didn't tell her. +010:004 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, + and the house that he had built, +010:005 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, + and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, + and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up + to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her. +010:006 She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my + own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. +010:007 However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my + eyes had seen it: and behold, the half was not told me; + your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. +010:008 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand + continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom. +010:009 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you + on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, + therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness. +010:010 She gave the king one hundred 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. +010:011 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in + from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones. +010:012 The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, + and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments + for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, + to this day. +010:013 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, + whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of + his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, + she and her servants. +010:014 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six + hundred sixty-six talents of gold, +010:015 besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic + of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, + and of the governors of the country. +010:016 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; + six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler. +010:017 [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas + of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house + of the forest of Lebanon. +010:018 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid + it with the finest gold. +010:019 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was + round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place + of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. +010:020 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on + the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom. +010:021 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. +010:022 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: + once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, + and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. +010:023 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches + and in wisdom. +010:024 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, + which God had put in his heart. +010:025 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels + of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, + a rate year by year. +010:026 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: + and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve + thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, + and with the king at Jerusalem. +010:027 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, + and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are + in the lowland, for abundance. +010:028 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; + and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove + at a price. +010:029 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred + [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; + and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings + of Syria, did they bring them out by their means. +011:001 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter + of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, + and Hittites; +011:002 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children + of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they + come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart + after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love. +011:003 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; + and his wives turned away his heart. +011:004 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned + away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect + with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father. +011:005 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, + and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. +011:006 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father. +011:007 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination + of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for + Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. +011:008 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and + sacrificed to their gods. +011:009 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away + from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, +011:010 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go + after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded. +011:011 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, + and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I + have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, + and will give it to your servant. +011:012 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David + your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand + of your son. +011:013 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will + give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, + and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen. +011:014 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: + he was of the king's seed in Edom. +011:015 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain + of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck + every male in Edom +011:016 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had + cut off every male in Edom); +011:017 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants + with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child. +011:018 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men + with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh + king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, + and gave him land. +011:019 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that + he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister + of Tahpenes the queen. +011:020 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes + weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's + house among the sons of Pharaoh. +011:021 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, + and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said + to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country. +011:022 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me, + that behold, you seek to go to your own country? + He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart. +011:023 God raised up [another] adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, + who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. +011:024 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, + when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, + and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus. +011:025 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, + besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, + and reigned over Syria. +011:026 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, + a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, + he also lifted up his hand against the king. +011:027 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: + Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city + of David his father. +011:028 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw + the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge + over all the labor of the house of Joseph. +011:029 It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, + that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; + now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new garment; and they + two were alone in the field. +011:030 Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore + it in twelve pieces. +011:031 He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, + the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of + the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you +011:032 (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); +011:033 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped + Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god + of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; + and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right + in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, + as did David his father. +011:034 However 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, who kept my commandments + and my statutes; +011:035 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will + give it to you, even ten tribes. +011:036 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may + have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I + have chosen me to put my name there. +011:037 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your + soul desires, and shall be king over Israel. +011:038 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, + and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, + to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; + that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, + as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. +011:039 I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever. +011:040 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, + and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt + until the death of Solomon. +011:041 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, + and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the + acts of Solomon? +011:042 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel + was forty years. +011:043 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city + of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. +012:001 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem + to make him king. +012:002 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it + (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence + of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt, +012:003 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly + of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, +012:004 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you + the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke + which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. +012:005 He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. + The people departed. +012:006 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before + Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel + give you me to return answer to this people? +012:007 They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this + people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak + good words to them, then they will be your servants forever. +012:008 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, + and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, + who stood before him. +012:009 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer + to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke + that your father did put on us lighter? +012:010 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, + Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying, + Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; + thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker + than my father's waist. +012:011 Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, + I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, + but I will chastise you with scorpions. +012:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, + as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day. +012:013 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel + of the old men which they had given him, +012:014 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, + My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: + my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise + you with scorpions. +012:015 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing + brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, + which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam + the son of Nebat. +012:016 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to 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, Israel: now see to your own house, David. + So Israel departed to their tents. +012:017 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities + of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +012:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject + to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. + King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, + to flee to Jerusalem. +012:019 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day. +012:020 It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, + that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him + king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house + of David, but the tribe of Judah only. +012:021 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house + of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty + thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against + the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam + the son of Solomon. +012:022 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, +012:023 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, + and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest + of the people, saying, +012:024 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your + brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; + for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, + and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh. +012:025 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, + and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel. +012:026 Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return + to the house of David: +012:027 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house + of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people + turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; + and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah. +012:028 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; + and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: + see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the + land of Egypt. +012:029 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. +012:030 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] + before the one, even to Dan. +012:031 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among + all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. +012:032 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth + day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went + up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves + that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests + of the high places that he had made. +012:033 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on + the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month + which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained + a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, + to burn incense. +013:001 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word + of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar + to burn incense. +013:002 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, + altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born + to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall + he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense + on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you. +013:003 He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign + which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, + and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out. +013:004 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, + which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam + put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. + His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, + so that he could not draw it back again to him. +013:005 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, + according to the sign which the man of God had given by + the word of Yahweh. +013:006 The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of Yahweh + your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. + The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was + restored him again, and became as it was before. +013:007 The king said to the man of God, Come home with me, + and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward. +013:008 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half + your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat + bread nor drink water in this place; +013:009 for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall + eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way + that you came. +013:010 So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that + he came to Bethel. +013:011 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of 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 to the king, + them also they told to their father. +013:012 Their father said to them, Which way did he go? + Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, + who came from Judah. +013:013 He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled + him the donkey; and he rode thereon. +013:014 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; + and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came + from Judah? He said, I am. +013:015 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread. +013:016 He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; + neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place: +013:017 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no + bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way + that you came. +013:018 He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel + spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with + you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. + [But] he lied to him. +013:019 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, + and drank water. +013:020 It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh + came to the prophet who brought him back; +013:021 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, + Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth + of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh + your God commanded you, +013:022 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place + of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; + your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers. +013:023 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, + that he saddled for him the donkey, [to wit], for the prophet + whom he had brought back. +013:024 When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: + and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; + the lion also stood by the body. +013:025 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, + and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it + in the city where the old prophet lived. +013:026 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, + he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth + of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, + which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke to him. +013:027 He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. + They saddled it. +013:028 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey + and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten + the body, nor torn the donkey. +013:029 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it + on the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city + of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him. +013:030 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, + [saying], Alas, my brother! +013:031 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, + saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which + the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. +013:032 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against + the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high + places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen. +013:033 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made + again from among all the people priests of the high places: + whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests + of the high places. +013:034 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, + and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth. +014:001 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. +014:002 Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, + that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you + to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke + concerning me that I should be king over this people. +014:003 Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, + and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child. +014:004 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, + and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; + for his eyes were set by reason of his age. +014:005 Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes + to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: + thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she + comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman. +014:006 It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came + in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; + why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you + with heavy news. +014:007 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because I + exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over + my people Israel, +014:008 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; + and yet you have 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 my eyes, +014:009 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone + and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me + to anger, and have cast me behind your back: +014:010 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, + and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,{or, + male} him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, + and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man + sweeps away dung, until it be all gone. +014:011 Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; + and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: + for Yahweh has spoken it. +014:012 Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your + feet enter into the city, the child shall die. +014:013 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, + in the house of Jeroboam. +014:014 Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, + who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: + but what? even now. +014:015 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; + and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave + to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, + because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger. +014:016 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, + which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin. +014:017 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: + [and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. +014:018 All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. +014:019 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. +014:020 The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: + and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned + in his place. +014:021 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was + forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned + seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen + out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: + and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. +014:022 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they + provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, + above all that their fathers had done. +014:023 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, + on every high hill, and under every green tree; +014:024 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according + to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove + out before the children of Israel. +014:025 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak + king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; +014:026 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, + 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. +014:027 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, + and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, + who kept the door of the king's house. +014:028 It was so, that as often as the king went into the house + of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into + the guard chamber. +014:029 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Judah? +014:030 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. +014:031 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in + the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. + Abijam his son reigned in his place. +015:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat + began Abijam to reign over Judah. +015:002 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name + was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. +015:003 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done + before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, + as the heart of David his father. +015:004 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give + him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, + and to establish Jerusalem; +015:005 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, + and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded + him all the days of his life, except only in the matter + of Uriah the Hittite. +015:006 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days + of his life. +015:007 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings + of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. +015:008 Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city + of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. +015:009 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa + to reign over Judah. +015:010 Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's + name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. +015:011 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did + David his father. +015:012 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all + the idols that his fathers had made. +015:013 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, + because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; + and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. +015:014 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart + of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days. +015:015 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father + had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, + silver, and gold, and vessels. +015:016 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. +015:017 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, + that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa + king of Judah. +015:018 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left + in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures + of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand + of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, + the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, + who lived at Damascus, saying, +015:019 [There is] a league between me and you, between my father and + your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver + and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, + that he may depart from me. +015:020 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of + his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, + and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all + the land of Naphtali. +015:021 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off + building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. +015:022 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: + and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, + with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith + Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. +015:023 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, + and all that he did, and the cities which he built, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings + of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased + in his feet. +015:024 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 place. +015:025 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second + year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years. +015:026 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked + in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made + Israel to sin. +015:027 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, + conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, + which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel + were laying siege to Gibbethon. +015:028 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, + and reigned in his place. +015:029 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house + of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, + until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, + which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite; +015:030 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which + he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which + he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger. +015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +015:032 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. +015:033 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha + the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, + [and reigned] twenty-four years. +015:034 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked + in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made + Israel to sin. +016:001 The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani + against Baasha, saying, +016:002 Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over + my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, + and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger + with their sins; +016:003 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; + and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam + the son of Nebat. +016:004 Him who dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; + and him who dies of his in the field shall the birds of + the sky eat. +016:005 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, + and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +016:006 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; + and Elah his son reigned in his place. +016:007 Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came + the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, + both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, + to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being + like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him. +016:008 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began + Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, + [and reigned] two years. +016:009 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired + against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk + in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah: +016:010 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, + in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned + in his place. +016:011 It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat + on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: + he didn't leave him a single one who urinates on a wall,{or, + male} neither of his relatives, nor of his friends. +016:012 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word + of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, +016:013 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, + which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, + to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. +016:014 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they + written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +016:015 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri + reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped + against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. +016:016 The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, + and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, + the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. +016:017 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, + and they besieged Tirzah. +016:018 It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, + that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt + the king's house over him with fire, and died, +016:019 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil + in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, + and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin. +016:020 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he did, + aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the + kings of Israel? +016:021 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. +016:022 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people + who followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, + and Omri reigned. +016:023 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri + to reign over Israel, [and reigned] twelve years: + six years reigned he in Tirzah. +016:024 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; + and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city + which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of + the hill, Samaria. +016:025 Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt + wickedly above all who were before him. +016:026 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, + and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, + the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. +016:027 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might + that he shown, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +016:028 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; + and Ahab his son reigned in his place. +016:029 In the thirty-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-two years. +016:030 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight + of Yahweh above all that were before him. +016:031 It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk + in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife + Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, + and went and served Baal, and worshiped him. +016:032 He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, + which he had built in Samaria. +016:033 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, + the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel + who were before him. +016:034 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid + the foundation of it with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, + and set up the gates of it with the loss of his youngest + son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke + by Joshua the son of Nun. +017:001 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, + said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom + I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, + but according to my word. +017:002 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, +017:003 Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself + by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. +017:004 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have + commanded the ravens to feed you there. +017:005 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went + and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. +017:006 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, + and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. +017:007 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there + was no rain in the land. +017:008 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, +017:009 Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, + and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there + to sustain you. +017:010 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate + of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: + and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water + in a vessel, that I may drink. +017:011 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, + Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. +017:012 She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, + but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: + and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake + it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. +017:013 Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; + but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, + and afterward make for you and for your son. +017:014 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall + not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day + that Yahweh sends rain on the earth. +017:015 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: + and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days. +017:016 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, + according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah. +017:017 It happened 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. +017:018 She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man + of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, + and to kill my son! +017:019 He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, + and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, + and laid him on his own bed. +017:020 He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought + evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son? +017:021 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, + and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come + into him again. +017:022 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child + came into him again, and he revived. +017:023 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the + chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; + and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives. +017:024 The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, + and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth. +018:001 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came + to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; + and I will send rain on the earth. +018:002 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was + sore in Samaria. +018:003 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. + (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly: +018:004 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, + that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty + in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) +018:005 Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs + of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find + grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose + all the animals. +018:006 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: + Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another + way by himself. +018:007 As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: + and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, + my lord Elijah? +018:008 He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is + here]. +018:009 He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your + servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? +018:010 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, + where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, + He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, + that they didn't find you. +018:011 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]. +018:012 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit + of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I + come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: + but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth. +018:013 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets + of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets + by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? +018:014 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; + and he will kill me. +018:015 Elijah said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, + I will surely show myself to him today. +018:016 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went + to meet Elijah. +018:017 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, + Is it you, you troubler of Israel? +018:018 He answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your + father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments + of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals. +018:019 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, + and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets + of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table. +018:020 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered + the prophets together to Mount Carmel. +018:021 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you + waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; + but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him + not a word. +018:022 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet + of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men. +018:023 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull + for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, + and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, + and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. +018:024 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name + of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God." + All the people answered, "It is well said." +018:025 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull + for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; + and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it." +018:026 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, + and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, + Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. + They leaped about the altar which was made. +018:027 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; + for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, + or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and + must be awakened. +018:028 They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner + with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. +018:029 It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until + the time of the offering of the [evening] offering; but there + was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded. +018:030 Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all + the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh + that was thrown down. +018:031 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes + of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, + Israel shall be your name. +018:032 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; + and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would + contain two measures of seed. +018:033 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, + and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water, + and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood. +018:034 He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. + He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time. +018:035 The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench + also with water. +018:036 It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, + that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God + of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this + day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, + and that I have done all these things at your word. +018:037 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know + that you, Yahweh, are God, and [that] you have turned their + heart back again. +018:038 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, + and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up + the water that was in the trench. +018:039 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: + and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God. +018:040 and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let + one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them + down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. +018:041 Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there + is the sound of abundance of rain. +018:042 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top + of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put + his face between his knees. +018:043 He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. + He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. + He said, Go again seven times. +018:044 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, + a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." + He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], + and get you down, that the rain not stop you. +018:045 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black + with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. + Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel: +018:046 and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his waist, + and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. +019:001 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had + killed all the prophets with the sword. +019:002 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let + the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life + as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. +019:003 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came + to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. +019:004 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 Yahweh, + take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. +019:005 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, + an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. +019:006 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked + on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink, + and laid him down again. +019:007 The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, + and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you. +019:008 He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that + food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God. +019:009 He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, + the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, What are + you doing here, Elijah? +019:010 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; + for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, + thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: + and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, + to take it away. +019:011 He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. + Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore + the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; + but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; + but Yahweh was not in the earthquake: +019:012 and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: + and after the fire a still small voice. +019:013 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face + in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance + of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to him, and said, + What are you doing here, Elijah? +019:014 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; + for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, + thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; + and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, + to take it away. +019:015 Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness + of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael + to be king over Syria; +019:016 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel; + and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah shall you anoint + to be prophet in your room. +019:017 It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael + shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu + shall Elisha kill. +019:018 Yet will I leave [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees + which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has + not kissed him. +019:019 So he departed there, 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 over to him, + and cast his mantle on him. +019:020 He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, + kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. + He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you? +019:021 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, + and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments + of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. + Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him. +020:001 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; + and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: + and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. +020:002 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, + and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad, +020:003 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, + even the best, are mine. +020:004 The king of Israel answered, It is according to your saying, + my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have. +020:005 The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben Hadad, + saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me + your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; +020:006 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, + and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; + and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, + they shall put it in their hand, and take it away. +020:007 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, + and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: + for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, + and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him. +020:008 All the elders and all the people said to him, Don't you + listen, neither consent. +020:009 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my + lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant + at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. + The messengers departed, and brought him word again. +020:010 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, + and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls + for all the people who follow me. +020:011 The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds + on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off. +020:012 It happened, when [Ben Hadad] heard this message, as he was drinking, + he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, + Set [yourselves in array]. They set [themselves in array] + against the city. +020:013 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, + Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, + I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know + that I am Yahweh. +020:014 Ahab said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young + men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall + begin the battle? He answered, You. +020:015 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, + and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them + he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, + being seven thousand. +020:016 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself + drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two + kings who helped him. +020:017 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; + and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are + men come out from Samaria. +020:018 He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, + or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive. +020:019 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes + of the provinces, and the army which followed them. +020:020 They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel + pursued them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on + a horse with horsemen. +020:021 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, + and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter. +020:022 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, + Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; + for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come + up against you. +020:023 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is + a god 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. +020:024 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, + and put captains in their room; +020:025 and number you an army, like the army that you have 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. + He listened to their voice, and did so. +020:026 It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered + the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. +020:027 The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, + and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped + before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians + filled the country. +020:028 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, + and said, Thus says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, + Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; + therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, + and you shall know that I am Yahweh. +020:029 They encamped one over against the other seven days. + So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; + and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred + thousand footmen in one day. +020:030 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell + on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, + and came into the city, into an inner chamber. +020:031 His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that + the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: + let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our bodies, + and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: + peradventure he will save your life. +020:032 So they girded sackcloth on their bodies, and [put] ropes + on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, + Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let me live. + He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. +020:033 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether + it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad. + Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came forth to him; + and he caused him to come up into the chariot. +020:034 [Ben Hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took + from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets + for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. + I, [said Ahab], will let you go with this covenant. + So he made a covenant with him, and let him go. +020:035 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow + by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused + to strike him. +020:036 Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice + of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, + a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed from him, + a lion found him, and killed him. +020:037 Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. + The man struck him, smiting and wounding him. +020:038 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, + and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. +020:039 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, + Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; + and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, + and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, + then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay + a talent of silver. +020:040 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. + The king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be; + yourself have decided it. +020:041 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; + and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets. +020:042 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have let go + out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, + therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people + for his people. +020:043 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, + and came to Samaria. +021:001 It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite + had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace + of Ahab king of Samaria. +021:002 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may + have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; + and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: + or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth + of it in money. +021:003 Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give + the inheritance of my fathers to you. +021:004 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word + which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, + I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. + He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face, + and would eat no bread. +021:005 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your + spirit so sad, that you eat no bread? +021:006 He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, + and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, + if it please you, I will give you [another] vineyard for it: + and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard. +021:007 Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom + of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: + I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. +021:008 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, + and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were + in his city, [and] who lived with Naboth. +021:009 She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set + Naboth on high among the people: +021:010 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them + testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. + Then carry him out, and stone him to death. +021:011 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived + in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it + was written in the letters which she had sent to them. +021:012 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. +021:013 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: + and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, + in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God + and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, + and stoned him to death with stones. +021:014 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, + and is dead. +021:015 It happened, 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 you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead. +021:016 It happened, 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. +021:017 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, +021:018 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria: + behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone + down to take possession of it. +021:019 You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you + killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to him, + saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked + the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours. +021:020 Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? + He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself + to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh. +021:021 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you + away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against + a wall,{or, male} and him who is shut up and him who is left + at large in Israel: +021:022 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son + of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah + for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, + and have made Israel to sin. +021:023 Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat + Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. +021:024 Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; + and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat. +021:025 (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do + that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel + his wife stirred up. +021:026 He did very abominably in following idols, according to + all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before + the children of Israel.) +021:027 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, + and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, + and went softly. +021:028 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, +021:029 See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles + himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; + but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house. +022:001 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. +022:002 It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king + of Judah came down to the king of Israel. +022:003 The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that + Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it + out of the hand of the king of Syria?" +022:004 He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to + Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am + as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses. +022:005 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first + for the word of Yahweh. +022:006 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, + about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go + against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? + They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand + of the king. +022:007 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, + that we may inquire of him? +022:008 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man + by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: + but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, + but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so." +022:009 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly + Micaiah the son of Imlah. +022:010 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah + were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, + in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; + and all the prophets were prophesying before them. +022:011 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, + Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, + until they be consumed. +022:012 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, + and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand + of the king. +022:013 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, + the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: + please let your word be like the word of one of them, + and speak you good. +022:014 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, + that will I speak. +022:015 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, + shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? + He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver + it into the hand of the king. +022:016 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you + speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh? +022:017 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep + that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; + let them return every man to his house in peace. +022:018 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you + that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? +022:019 [Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw + Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven + standing by him on his right hand and on his left. +022:020 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up + and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner; + and another said on that manner. +022:021 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, + 'I will entice him.' +022:022 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, + and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' + He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: + go forth, and do so.' +022:023 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in + the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken + evil concerning you." +022:024 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah + on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh + from me to speak to you? +022:025 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you + shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself. +022:026 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back + to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; +022:027 and say, Thus says 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. +022:028 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not + spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you. +022:029 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went + up to Ramoth Gilead. +022:030 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, + and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. + The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. +022:031 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains + of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, + save only with the king of Israel. +022:032 It happened, 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. +022:033 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was + not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. +022:034 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck + the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: + therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, + and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded. +022:035 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 bottom of the chariot. +022:036 There went a cry throughout the army about the going down + of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man + to his country. +022:037 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried + the king in Samaria. +022:038 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked + up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]); + according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke. +022:039 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, + and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that + he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles + of the kings of Israel? +022:040 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned + in his place. +022:041 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth + year of Ahab king of Israel. +022:042 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; + and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. + His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +022:043 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside + from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: + however the high places were not taken away; the people still + sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +022:044 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. +022:045 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that + he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book + of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +022:046 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his + father Asa, he put away out of the land. +022:047 There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king. +022:048 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: + but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber. +022:049 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants + go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. +022:050 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his + fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son + reigned in his place. +022:051 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria + in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, + and he reigned two years over Israel. +022:052 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made + Israel to sin. +022:053 He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, + the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): 1 KINGS *** + +This file should be named 8238.txt or 8238.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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