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11 Now king David was old and stricken in years and they

covered him with clothes but he gat no heat .

12 Wherefore his servants said unto him Let there be sought

for my lord the king a young virgin and let her stand before the

king and let her cherish him and let her lie in thy bosom that

my lord the king may get heat .

13 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts

of Israel and found Abishag a Shunammite and brought her to the

king .

14 And the damsel was very fair and cherished the king and

ministered to him but the king knew her not .

15 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself saying I

will be king and he prepared him chariots and horsemen and fifty

men to run before him .

16 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying

Why hast thou done so and he also was a very goodly man and his

mother bare him after Absalom .

17 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with

Abiathar the priest and they following Adonijah helped him .

18 But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and

Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and the mighty men which

belonged to David were not with Adonijah .

19 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the

stone of Zoheleth which is by Enrogel and called all his

brethren the king's sons and all the men of Judah the king's

servants .

110 But Nathan the prophet and Benaiah and the mighty men and

Solomon his brother he called not .

111 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of

Solomon saying Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of

Haggith doth reign and David our lord knoweth it not .

112 Now therefore come let me I pray thee give thee counsel

that thou mayest save thine own life and the life of thy son

Solomon .

113 Go and get thee in unto king David and say unto him Didst

not thou my lord O king swear unto thine handmaid saying

Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit

upon my throne why then doth Adonijah reign .

114 Behold while thou yet talkest there with the king I also

will come in after thee and confirm thy words .

115 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber and

the king was very old and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto

the king .

116 And Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king And

the king said What wouldest thou .

117 And she said unto him My lord thou swarest by the LORD thy

God unto thine handmaid saying Assuredly Solomon thy son shall

reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne .

118 And now behold Adonijah reigneth and now my lord the king

thou knowest it not .

119 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in

abundance and hath called all the sons of the king and Abiathar

the priest and Joab the captain of the host but Solomon thy

servant hath he not called .

120 And thou my lord O king the eyes of all Israel are upon

thee that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne

of my lord the king after him .

121 Otherwise it shall come to pass when my lord the king

shall sleep with his fathers that I and my son Solomon shall be

counted offenders .

122 And lo while she yet talked with the king Nathan the

prophet also came in .

123 And they told the king saying Behold Nathan the prophet

And when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before

the king with his face to the ground .

124 And Nathan said My lord O king hast thou said Adonijah

shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne .

125 For he is gone down this day and hath slain oxen and fat

cattle and sheep in abundance and hath called all the king's

sons and the captains of the host and Abiathar the priest and

behold they eat and drink before him and say God save king

Adonijah .

126 But me even me thy servant and Zadok the priest and

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and thy servant Solomon hath he not

called .

127 Is this thing done by my lord the king and thou hast not

showed it unto thy servant who should sit on the throne of my

lord the king after him .

128 Then king David answered and said Call me Bathsheba And

she came into the king's presence and stood before the king .

129 And the king sware and said As the LORD liveth that hath

redeemed my soul out of all distress .

130 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel saying

Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit

upon my throne in my stead even so will I certainly do this day .

131 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and did

reverence to the king and said Let my lord king David live for

ever .

132 And king David said Call me Zadok the priest and Nathan

the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada And they came before

the king .

133 The king also said unto them Take with you the servants of

your lord and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule

and bring him down to Gihon .

134 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him

there king over Israel and blow ye with the trumpet and say God

save king Solomon .

135 Then ye shall come up after him that he may come and sit

upon my throne for he shall be king in my stead and I have

appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah .

136 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said

Amen the LORD God of my lord the king say so too .

137 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king even so be he

with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my

lord king David .

138 So Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the

son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down

and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule and brought

him to Gihon .

139 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the

tabernacle and anointed Solomon And they blew the trumpet and

all the people said God save king Solomon .

140 And all the people came up after him and the people piped

with pipes and rejoiced with great joy so that the earth rent

with the sound of them .

141 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard

it as they had made an end of eating And when Joab heard the

sound of the trumpet he said Wherefore is this noise of the city

being in an uproar .

142 And while he yet spake behold Jonathan the son of Abiathar

the priest came and Adonijah said unto him Come in for thou art

a valiant man and bringest good tidings .

143 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah Verily our lord

king David hath made Solomon king .

144 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest and

Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and the

Cherethites and the Pelethites and they have caused him to ride

upon the king's mule .

145 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed

him king in Gihon and they are come up from thence rejoicing so

that the city rang again This is the noise that ye have heard .

146 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom .

147 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord

king David saying God make the name of Solomon better than thy

name and make his throne greater than thy throne And the king

bowed himself upon the bed .

148 And also thus said the king Blessed be the LORD God of

Israel which hath given one to sit on my throne this day mine

eyes even seeing it .

149 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid and

rose up and went every man his way .

150 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon and arose and went

and caught hold on the horns of the altar .

151 And it was told Solomon saying Behold Adonijah feareth

king Solomon for lo he hath caught hold on the horns of the

altar saying Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will

not slay his servant with the sword .

152 And Solomon said If he will show himself a worthy man

there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth but if

wickedness shall be found in him he shall die .

153 So king Solomon sent and they brought him down from the

altar And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon and Solomon

said unto him Go to thine house .

* 21 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die and he

charged Solomon his son saying .

22 I go the way of all the earth be thou strong therefore and

show thyself a man .

23 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God to walk in his ways

to keep his statutes and his commandments and his judgments and

his testimonies as it is written in the law of Moses that thou

mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou

turnest thyself .

24 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake

concerning me saying If thy children take heed to their way to

walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their

soul there shall not fail thee (said he a man on the throne of

Israel .

25 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did

to me and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel

unto Abner the son of Ner and unto Amasa the son of Jether whom

he slew and shed the blood of war in peace and put the blood of

war upon his girdle that was about his loins and in his shoes

that were on his feet .

26 Do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his hoar

head go down to the grave in peace .

27 But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite

and let them be of those that eat at thy table for so they came

to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother .

28 And behold thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera a

Benjamite of Bahurim which cursed me with a grievous curse in

the day when I went to Mahanaim but he came down to meet me at

Jordan and I sware to him by the LORD saying I will not put thee

to death with the sword .

29 Now therefore hold him not guiltless for thou art a wise

man and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him but his hoar

head bring thou down to the grave with blood .

210 So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city

of David .

211 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty

years seven years reigned he in Hebron and thirty and three

years reigned he in Jerusalem .

212 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father and

his kingdom was established greatly .

213 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the

mother of Solomon And she said Comest thou peaceably And he said

Peaceably .

214 He said moreover I have somewhat to say unto thee And she

said Say on .

215 And he said Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine and

that all Israel set their faces on me that I should reign

howbeit the kingdom is turned about and is become my brother's

for it was his from the LORD .

216 And now I ask one petition of thee deny me not And she

said unto him Say on .

217 And he said Speak I pray thee unto Solomon the king (for

he will not say thee nay that he give me Abishag the Shunammite

to wife .

218 And Bathsheba said Well I will speak for thee unto the

king .

219 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon to speak unto

him for Adonijah And the king rose up to meet her and bowed

himself unto her and sat down on his throne and caused a seat to

be set for the king's mother and she sat on his right hand .

220 Then she said I desire one small petition of thee I pray

thee say me not nay And the king said unto her Ask on my mother

for I will not say thee nay .

221 And she said Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to

Adonijah thy brother to wife .

222 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother And why

dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah ask for him

the kingdom also for he is mine elder brother even for him and

for Abiathar the priest and for Joab the son of Zeruiah .

223 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD saying God do so to me

and more also if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his

own life .

224 Now therefore as the LORD liveth which hath established me

and set me on the throne of David my father and who hath made me

an house as he promised Adonijah shall be put to death this day .

225 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of

Jehoiada and he fell upon him that he died .

226 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king Get thee to

Anathoth unto thine own fields for thou art worthy of death but

I will not at this time put thee to death because thou barest

the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father and because thou

hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted .

227 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the

LORD that he might fulfil the word of the LORD which he spake

concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh .

228 Then tidings came to Joab for Joab had turned after

Adonijah though he turned not after Absalom And Joab fled unto

the tabernacle of the LORD and caught hold on the horns of the

altar .

229 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the

tabernacle of the LORD and behold he is by the altar Then

Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada saying Go fall upon him

230 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD and said

unto him Thus saith the king Come forth And he said Nay but I

will die here And Benaiah brought the king word again saying

Thus said Joab and thus he answered me .

231 And the king said unto him Do as he hath said and fall

upon him and bury him that thou mayest take away the innocent

blood which Joab shed from me and from the house of my father .

232 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head who

fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and slew

them with the sword my father David not knowing thereof to wit

Abner the son of Ner captain of the host of Israel and Amasa the

son of Jether captain of the host of Judah .

233 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab

and upon the head of his seed for ever but upon David and upon

his seed and upon his house and upon his throne shall there be

peace for ever from the LORD .

234 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him

and slew him and he was buried in his own house in the

wilderness .

235 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room

over the host and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room

of Abiathar .

236 And the king sent and called for Shimei and said unto him

Build thee an house in Jerusalem and dwell there and go not

forth thence any whither .

237 For it shall be that on the day thou goest out and passest

over the brook Kidron thou shalt know for certain that thou

shalt surely die thy blood shall be upon thine own head .

238 And Shimei said unto the king The saying is good as my

lord the king hath said so will thy servant do And Shimei dwelt

in Jerusalem many days .

239 And it came to pass at the end of three years that two of

the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king

of Gath And they told Shimei saying Behold thy servants be in

Gath .

240 And Shimei arose and saddled his ass and went to Gath to

Achish to seek his servants and Shimei went and brought his

servants from Gath .

241 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from

Jerusalem to Gath and was come again .

242 And the king sent and called for Shimei and said unto him

Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD and protested unto thee

saying Know for a certain on the day thou goest out and walkest

abroad any whither that thou shalt surely die and thou saidst

unto me The word that I have heard is good .

243 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD and the

commandment that I have charged thee with .

244 The king said moreover to Shimei Thou knowest all the

wickedness which thine heart is privy to that thou didst to

David my father therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness

upon thine own head .

245 And king Solomon shall be blessed and the throne of David

shall be established before the LORD for ever .

246 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada which

went out and fell upon him that he died And the kingdom was

established in the hand of Solomon .

* 31 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt and

took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David

until he had made an end of building his own house and the house

of the LORD and the wall of Jerusalem round about .

32 Only the people sacrificed in high places because there was

no house built unto the name of the LORD until those days .

33 And Solomon loved the LORD walking in the statutes of David

his father only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places .

34 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there for that was

the great high place a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon

offer upon that altar .

35 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night

and God said Ask what I shall give thee .

36 And Solomon said Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my

father great mercy according as he walked before thee in truth

and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee and

thou hast kept for him this great kindness that thou hast given

him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day .

37 And now O LORD my God thou hast made thy servant king

instead of David my father and I am but a little child I know

not how to go out or come in .

38 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou

hast chosen a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted

for multitude .

39 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge

thy people that I may discern between good and bad for who is

able to judge this thy so great a people .

310 And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked

this thing .

311 And God said unto him Because thou hast asked this thing

and hast not asked for thyself long life neither hast asked

riches for thyself nor hast asked the life of thine enemies but

hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment .

312 Behold I have done according to thy words lo I have given

thee a wise and an understanding heart so that there was none

like thee before thee neither after thee shall any arise like

unto thee .

313 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked

both riches and honour so that there shall not be any among the

kings like unto thee all thy days .

314 And if thou wilt walk in my ways to keep my statutes and

my commandments as thy father David did walk then I will

lengthen thy days .

315 And Solomon awoke and behold it was a dream And he came to

Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD

and offered up burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and

made a feast to all his servants .

316 Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king

and stood before him .

317 And the one woman said O my lord I and this woman dwell in

one house and I was delivered of a child with her in the house .

318 And it came to pass the third day after that I was

delivered that this woman was delivered also and we were

together there was no stranger with us in the house save we two

in the house .

319 And this woman's child died in the night because she

overlaid it .

320 And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me

while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her

dead child in my bosom .

321 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck

behold it was dead but when I had considered it in the morning

behold it was not my son which I did bear .

322 And the other woman said Nay but the living is my son and

the dead is thy son And this said No but the dead is thy son and

the living is my son Thus they spake before the king .

323 Then said the king The one saith This is my son that

liveth and thy son is the dead and the other saith Nay but thy

son is the dead and my son is the living .

324 And the king said Bring me a sword And they brought a

sword before the king .

325 And the king said Divide the living child in two and give

half to the one and half to the other .

326 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the

king for her bowels yearned upon her son and she said O my lord

give her the living child and in no wise slay it But the other

said Let it be neither mine nor thine but divide it .

327 Then the king answered and said Give her the living child

and in no wise slay it she is the mother thereof 328 And all

Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged and they

feared the king for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him

to do judgment .

* 41 So king Solomon was king over all Israel .

42 And these were the princes which he had Azariah the son of

Zadok the priest .

43 Elihoreph and Ahiah the sons of Shisha scribes Jehoshaphat

the son of Ahilud the recorder .

44 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host and Zadok

and Abiathar were the priests .

45 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers and

Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer and the king's

friend .

46 And Ahishar was over the household and Adoniram the son of

Abda was over the tribute .

47 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel which

provided victuals for the king and his household each man his

month in a year made provision .

48 And these are their names The son of Hur in mount Ephraim .

49 The son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Bethshemesh

and Elonbethhanan .

410 The son of Hesed in Aruboth to him pertained Sochoh and

all the land of Hepher .

411 The son of Abinadab in all the region of Dor which had

Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife .

412 Baana the son of Ahilud to him pertained Taanach and

Megiddo and all Bethshean which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel

from Bethshean to Abelmeholah even unto the place that is beyond

Jokneam .

413 The son of Geber in Ramothgilead to him pertained the

towns of Jair the son of Manasseh which are in Gilead to him

also pertained the region of Argob which is in Bashan threescore

great cities with walls and brazen bars .

414 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim .

415 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali he also took Basmath the daughter

of Solomon to wife .

416 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth .

417 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar .

418 Shimei the son of Elah in Benjamin .

419 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead in the

country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan

and he was the only officer which was in the land .

420 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea

in multitude eating and drinking and making merry .

421 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto

the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt they

brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life .

422 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of

fine flour and threescore measures of meal .

423 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures and an

hundred sheep beside harts and roebucks and fallowdeer and

fatted fowl .

424 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the

river from Tiphsah even to Azzah over all the kings on this side

the river and he had peace on all sides round about him .

425 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely every man under his vine

and under his fig tree from Dan even to Beersheba all the days

of Solomon .

426 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his

chariots and twelve thousand horsemen .

427 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon and

for all that came unto king Solomon's table every man in his

month they lacked nothing .

428 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries

brought they unto the place where the officers were every man

according to his charge .

429 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding

much and largeness of heart even as the sand that is on the sea

shore .

430 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the

children of the east country and all the wisdom of Egypt .

431 For he was wiser than all men than Ethan the Ezrahite and

Heman and Chalcol and Darda the sons of Mahol and his fame was

in all nations round about .

432 And he spake three thousand proverbs and his songs were a

thousand and five .

433 And he spake of trees from the cedar tree that is in

Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall he

spake also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of

fishes .

434 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon

from all kings of the earth which had heard of his wisdom .

* 51 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon for

he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his

father for Hiram was ever a lover of David .

52 And Solomon sent to Hiram saying .

53 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an

house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were

about him on every side until the LORD put them under the soles

of his feet .

54 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side so

that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent .

55 And behold I purpose to build an house unto the name of the

LORD my God as the LORD spake unto David my father saying Thy

son whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room he shall build

an house unto my name .

56 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out

of Lebanon and my servants shall be with thy servants and unto

thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that

thou shalt appoint for thou knowest that there is not among us

any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians .

57 And it came to pass when Hiram heard the words of Solomon

that he rejoiced greatly and said Blessed be the LORD this day

which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people .

58 And Hiram sent to Solomon saying I have considered the

things which thou sentest to me for and I will do all thy desire

concerning timber of cedar and concerning timber of fir .

59 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea

and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou

shalt appoint me and will cause them to be discharged there and

thou shalt receive them and thou shalt accomplish my desire in

giving food for my household .

510 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according

to all his desire .

511 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat

for food to his household and twenty measures of pure oil thus

gave Solomon to Hiram year by year .

512 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom as he promised him and

there was peace between Hiram and Solomon and they two made a

league together .

513 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel and the

levy was thirty thousand men .

514 And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by

courses a month they were in Lebanon and two months at home and

Adoniram was over the levy .

515 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare

burdens and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains .

516 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the

work three thousand and three hundred which ruled over the

people that wrought in the work .

517 And the king commanded and they brought great stones

costly stones and hewed stones to lay the foundation of the

house .

518 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them

and the stonesquarers so they prepared timber and stones to

build the house .

* 61 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year

after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt

in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel in the month

Zif which is the second month that he began to build the house

of the LORD .

62 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD the

length thereof was threescore cubits and the breadth thereof

twenty cubits and the height thereof thirty cubits .

63 And the porch before the temple of the house twenty cubits

was the length thereof according to the breadth of the house and

ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house .

64 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights .

65 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round

about against the walls of the house round about both of the

temple and of the oracle and he made chambers round about .

66 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad and the middle

was six cubits broad and the third was seven cubits broad for

without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round

about that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the

house .

67 And the house when it was in building was built of stone

made ready before it was brought thither so that there was

neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house

while it was in building .

68 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of

the house and they went up with winding stairs into the middle

chamber and out of the middle into the third .

69 So he built the house and finished it and covered the house

with beams and boards of cedar .

610 And then he built chambers against all the house five

cubits high and they rested on the house with timber of cedar .

611 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying .

612 Concerning this house which thou art in building if thou

wilt walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all

my commandments to walk in them then will I perform my word with

thee which I spake unto David thy father .

613 And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not

forsake my people Israel .

614 So Solomon built the house and finished it .

615 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of

cedar both the floor of the house and the walls of the ceiling

and he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the

floor of the house with planks of fir .

616 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house both

the floor and the walls with boards of cedar he even built them

for it within even for the oracle even for the most holy place .

617 And the house that is the temple before it was forty

cubits long .

618 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops

and open flowers all was cedar there was no stone seen .

619 And the oracle he prepared in the house within to set

there the ark of the covenant of the LORD .

620 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length

and twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in the height

thereof and he overlaid it with pure gold and so covered the

altar which was of cedar .

621 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold and he

made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle and he

overlaid it with gold .

622 And the whole house he overlaid with gold until he had

finished all the house also the whole altar that was by the

oracle he overlaid with gold .

623 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree

each ten cubits high .

624 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five

cubits the other wing of the cherub from the uttermost part of

the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten

cubits .

625 And the other cherub was ten cubits both the cherubims

were of one measure and one size .

626 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits and so was it

of the other cherub .

627 And he set the cherubims within the inner house and they

stretched forth the wings of the cherubims so that the wing of

the one touched the one wall and the wing of the other cherub

touched the other wall and their wings touched one another in

the midst of the house .

628 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold .

629 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with

carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers

within and without .

630 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within

and without .

631 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive

tree the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall .

632 The two doors also were of olive tree and he carved upon

them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and

overlaid them with gold and spread gold upon the cherubims and

upon the palm trees .

633 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive

tree a fourth part of the wall .

634 And the two doors were of fir tree the two leaves of the

one door were folding and the two leaves of the other door were

folding .

635 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open

flowers and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work .

636 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed

stone and a row of cedar beams .

637 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the

LORD laid in the month Zif .

638 And in the eleventh year in the month Bul which is the

eighth month was the house finished throughout all the parts

thereof and according to all the fashion of it So was he seven

years in building it .

* 71 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years and

he finished all his house .

72 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon the length

thereof was an hundred cubits and the breadth thereof fifty

cubits and the height thereof thirty cubits upon four rows of

cedar pillars with cedar beams upon the pillars .

73 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams that lay

on forty five pillars fifteen in a row .

74 And there were windows in three rows and light was against

light in three ranks .

75 And all the doors and posts were square with the windows

and light was against light in three ranks .

76 And he made a porch of pillars the length thereof was fifty

cubits and the breadth thereof thirty cubits and the porch was

before them and the other pillars and the thick beam were before

them .

77 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge

even the porch of judgment and it was covered with cedar from

one side of the floor to the other .

78 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the

porch which was of the like work Solomon made also an house for

Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken to wife like unto this

porch .

79 All these were of costly stones according to the measures

of hewed stones sawed with saws within and without even from the

foundation unto the coping and so on the outside toward the

great court .

710 And the foundation was of costly stones even great stones

stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits .

711 And above were costly stones after the measures of hewed

stones and cedars .

712 And the great court round about was with three rows of

hewed stones and a row of cedar beams both for the inner court

of the house of the LORD and for the porch of the house .

713 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre .

714 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali and his

father was a man of Tyre a worker in brass and he was filled

with wisdom and understanding and cunning to work all works in

brass And he came to king Solomon and wrought all his work .

715 For he cast two pillars of brass of eighteen cubits high

apiece and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them

about .

716 And he made two chapiters of molten brass to set upon the

tops of the pillars the height of the one chapiter was five

cubits and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits .

717 And nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the

chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars seven for the

one chapiter and seven for the other chapiter .

718 And he made the pillars and two rows round about upon the

one network to cover the chapiters that were upon the top with

pomegranates and so did he for the other chapiter .

719 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars

were of lily work in the porch four cubits .

720 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates

also above over against the belly which was by the network and

the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the

other chapiter .

721 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple and

he set up the right pillar and called the name thereof Jachin

and he set up the left pillar and called the name thereof Boaz .

722 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work so was the

work of the pillars finished .

723 And he made a molten sea ten cubits from the one brim to

the other it was round all about and his height was five cubits

and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about .

724 And under the brim of it round about there were knops

compassing it ten in a cubit compassing the sea round about the

knops were cast in two rows when it was cast .

725 It stood upon twelve oxen three looking toward the north

and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the

south and three looking toward the east and the sea was set

above upon them and all their hinder parts were inward .

726 And it was an hand breadth thick and the brim thereof was

wrought like the brim of a cup with flowers of lilies it

contained two thousand baths .

727 And he made ten bases of brass four cubits was the length

of one base and four cubits the breadth thereof and three cubits

the height of it .

728 And the work of the bases was on this manner they had

borders and the borders were between the ledges .

729 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions

oxen and cherubims and upon the ledges there was a base above

and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of

thin work .

730 And every base had four brazen wheels and plates of brass

and the four corners thereof had undersetters under the laver

were undersetters molten at the side of every addition .

731 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a

cubit but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base

a cubit and an half and also upon the mouth of it were gravings

with their borders foursquare not round .

732 And under the borders were four wheels and the axletrees of

the wheels were joined to the base and the height of a wheel was

a cubit and half a cubit .

733 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot

wheel their axletrees and their naves and their felloes and

their spokes were all molten .

734 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of

one base and the undersetters were of the very base itself .

735 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of

half a cubit high and on the top of the base the ledges thereof

and the borders thereof were of the same .

736 For on the plates of the ledges thereof and on the borders

thereof he graved cherubims lions and palm trees according to

the proportion of every one and additions round about .

737 After this manner he made the ten bases all of them had

one casting one measure and one size .

738 Then made he ten lavers of brass one laver contained forty

baths and every laver was four cubits and upon every one of the

ten bases one laver .

739 And he put five bases on the right side of the house and

five on the left side of the house and he set the sea on the

right side of the house eastward over against the south .

740 And Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the basins

So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king

Solomon for the house of the LORD .

741 The two pillars and the two bowls of the chapiters that

were on the top of the two pillars and the two networks to cover

the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the

pillars .

742 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks even

two rows of pomegranates for one network to cover the two bowls

of the chapiters that were upon the pillars .

743 And the ten bases and ten lavers on the bases .

744 And one sea and twelve oxen under the sea .

745 And the pots and the shovels and the basins and all these

vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the

LORD were of bright brass .

746 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them in the clay

ground between Succoth and Zarthan .

747 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed because they

were exceeding many neither was the weight of the brass found

out .

748 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the

house of the LORD the altar of gold and the table of gold

whereupon the showbread was .

749 And the candlesticks of pure gold five on the right side

and five on the left before the oracle with the flowers and the

lamps and the tongs of gold .

750 And the bowls and the snuffers and the basins and the

spoons and the censers of pure gold and the hinges of gold both

for the doors of the inner house the most holy place and for the

doors of the house to wit of the temple .

751 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the

house of the LORD And Solomon brought in the things which David

his father had dedicated even the silver and the gold and the

vessels did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD .

* 81 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the

heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of

Israel unto king Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up

the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David

which is Zion .

82 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king

Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim which is the seventh

month .

83 And all the elders of Israel came and the priests took up

the ark .

84 And they brought up the ark of the LORD and the tabernacle

of the congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the

tabernacle even those did the priests and the Levites bring up .

85 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that

were assembled unto him were with him before the ark sacrificing

sheep and oxen that could not be told nor numbered for multitude

86 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the

LORD unto his place into the oracle of the house to the most

holy place even under the wings of the cherubims .

87 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the

place of the ark and the cherubims covered the ark and the

staves thereof above .

88 And they drew out the staves that the ends of the staves

were seen out in the holy place before the oracle and they were

not seen without and there they are unto this day .

89 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone

which Moses put there at Horeb when the LORD made a covenant

with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of

Egypt .

810 And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the

holy place that the cloud filled the house of the LORD .

811 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of

the cloud for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the

LORD .

812 Then spake Solomon The LORD said that he would dwell in

the thick darkness .

813 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in a settled

place for thee to abide in for ever .

814 And the king turned his face about and blessed all the

congregation of Israel (and all the congregation of Israel stood

815 And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which spake

with his mouth unto David my father and hath with his hand

fulfilled it saying .

816 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of

Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build

an house that my name might be therein but I chose David to be

over my people Israel .

817 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the name of the LORD God of Israel .

818 And the LORD said unto David my father Whereas it was in

thine heart to build an house unto my name thou didst well that

it was in thine heart .

819 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house but thy son

that shall come forth out of thy loins he shall build the house

unto my name .

820 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake and I

am risen up in the room of David my father and sit on the throne

of Israel as the LORD promised and have built an house for the

name of the LORD God of Israel .

821 And I have set there a place for the ark wherein is the

covenant of the LORD which he made with our fathers when he

brought them out of the land of Egypt .

822 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the

presence of all the congregation of Israel and spread forth his

hands toward heaven .

823 And he said LORD God of Israel there is no God like thee

in heaven above or on earth beneath who keepest covenant and

mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their

heart .

824 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou

promisedst him thou spakest also with thy mouth and hast

fulfilled it with thine hand as it is this day .

825 Therefore now LORD God of Israel keep with thy servant

David my father that thou promisedst him saying There shall not

fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel so

that thy children take heed to their way that they walk before

me as thou hast walked before me .

826 And now O God of Israel let thy word I pray thee be

verified which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father .

827 But will God indeed dwell on the earth behold the heaven

and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee how much less this

house that I have builded .

828 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant and

to his supplication O LORD my God to hearken unto the cry and to

the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee to day .

829 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and

day even toward the place of which thou hast said My name shall

be there that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy

servant shall make toward this place .

830 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of

thy people Israel when they shall pray toward this place and

hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place and when thou hearest

forgive .

831 If any man trespass against his neighbour and an oath be

laid upon him to cause him to swear and the oath come before

thine altar in this house .

832 Then hear thou in heaven and do and judge thy servants

condemning the wicked to bring his way upon his head and

justifying the righteous to give him according to his

righteousness .

833 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy

because they have sinned against thee and shall turn again to

thee and confess thy name and pray and make supplication unto

thee in this house .

834 Then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy people

Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto

their fathers .

835 When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they

have sinned against thee if they pray toward this place and

confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou afflictest

them .

836 Then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy

servants and of thy people Israel that thou teach them the good

way wherein they should walk and give rain upon thy land which

thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance .

837 If there be in the land famine if there be pestilence

blasting mildew locust or if there be caterpillar if their enemy

besiege them in the land of their cities whatsoever plague

whatsoever sickness there be .

838 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man or

by all thy people Israel which shall know every man the plague

of his own heart and spread forth his hands toward this house .

839 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place and forgive

and do and give to every man according to his ways whose heart

thou knowest (for thou even thou only knowest the hearts of all

the children of men .

840 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the

land which thou gavest unto our fathers .

841 Moreover concerning a stranger that is not of thy people

Israel but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake .

842 (For they shall hear of thy great name and of thy strong

hand and of thy stretched out arm when he shall come and pray

toward this house .

843 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place and do according to

all that the stranger calleth to thee for that all people of the

earth may know thy name to fear thee as do thy people Israel and

that they may know that this house which I have builded is

called by thy name .

844 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy

whithersoever thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the LORD

toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that

I have built for thy name .

845 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their

supplication and maintain their cause .

846 If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth

not and thou be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so

that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy

far or near .

847 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither

they were carried captives and repent and make supplication unto

thee in the land of them that carried them captives saying We

have sinned and have done perversely we have committed

wickedness .

848 And so return unto thee with all their heart and with all

their soul in the land of their enemies which led them away

captive and pray unto thee toward their land which thou gavest

unto their fathers the city which thou hast chosen and the house

which I have built for thy name .

849 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in

heaven thy dwelling place and maintain their cause .

850 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee and

all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against

thee and give them compassion before them who carried them

captive that they may have compassion on them .

851 For they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou

broughtest forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of

iron .

852 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy

servant and unto the supplication of thy people Israel to

hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee .

853 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of

the earth to be thine inheritance as thou spakest by the hand of

Moses thy servant when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt

O Lord GOD .

854 And it was so that when Solomon had made an end of praying

all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD he arose from

before the altar of the LORD from kneeling on his knees with his

hands spread up to heaven .

855 And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel

with a loud voice saying .

856 Blessed be the LORD that hath given rest unto his people

Israel according to all that he promised there hath not failed

one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand

of Moses his servant .

857 The LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers let

him not leave us nor forsake us .

858 That he may incline our hearts unto him to walk in all his

ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his

judgments which he commanded our fathers .

859 And let these my words wherewith I have made supplication

before the LORD be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night that

he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people

Israel at all times as the matter shall require .

860 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is

God and that there is none else .

861 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God

to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments as at this

day .

862 And the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice

before the LORD .

863 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings which

he offered unto the LORD two and twenty thousand oxen and an

hundred and twenty thousand sheep So the king and all the

children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD .

864 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court

that was before the house of the LORD for there he offered burnt

offerings and meat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings

because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little

to receive the burnt offerings and meat offerings and the fat of

the peace offerings .

865 And at that time Solomon held a feast and all Israel with

him a great congregation from the entering in of Hamath unto the

river of Egypt before the LORD our God seven days and seven days

even fourteen days .

866 On the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed

the king and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for

all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant

and for Israel his people .

* 91 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building

of the house of the LORD and the king's house and all Solomon's

desire which he was pleased to do .

92 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time as he had

appeared unto him at Gibeon .

93 And the LORD said unto him I have heard thy prayer and thy

supplication that thou hast made before me I have hallowed this

house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever and

mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually .

94 And if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked

in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all

that I have commanded thee and wilt keep my statutes and my

judgments .

95 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel

for ever as I promised to David thy father saying There shall

not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel .

96 But if ye shall at all turn from following me ye or your

children and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which

I have set before you but go and serve other gods and worship

them .

97 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have

given them and this house which I have hallowed for my name will

I cast out of my sight and Israel shall be a proverb and a

byword among all people .

98 And at this house which is high every one that passeth by

it shall be astonished and shall hiss and they shall say Why

hath the LORD done thus unto this land and to this house .

99 And they shall answer Because they forsook the LORD their

God who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt and

have taken hold upon other gods and have worshipped them and

served them therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this

evil .

910 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years when

Solomon had built the two houses the house of the LORD and the

king's house .

911 (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 .

912 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which

Solomon had given him and they pleased him not .

913 And he said What cities are these which thou hast given me

my brother And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day .

914 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold .

915 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon

raised for to build the house of the LORD and his own house and

Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer .

916 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and

burnt it with fire and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the

city and given it for a present unto his daughter Solomon's wife

917 And Solomon built Gezer and Bethhoron the nether .

918 And Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness in the land .

919 And all the cities of store that Solomon had and cities

for his chariots and cities for his horsemen and that which

Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all

the land of his dominion .

920 And all the people that were left of the Amorites Hittites

Perizzites Hivites and Jebusites which were not of the children

of Israel .

921 Their children that were left after them in the land whom

the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy

upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this

day .

922 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen

but they were men of war and his servants and his princes and

his captains and rulers of his chariots and his horsemen .

923 These were the chief of the officers that were over

Solomon's work five hundred and fifty which bare rule over the

people that wrought in the work .

924 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David

unto her house which Solomon had built for her then did he build

Millo .

925 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt

offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto

the LORD and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the

LORD So he finished the house .

926 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber which

is beside Eloth on the shore of the Red sea in the land of Edom .

927 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants shipmen that had

knowledge of the sea with the servants of Solomon .

928 And they came to Ophir and fetched from thence gold four

hundred and twenty talents and brought it to king Solomon .

* 101 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon

concerning the name of the LORD she came to prove him with hard

questions .

102 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train with

camels that bare spices and very much gold and precious stones

and when she was come to Solomon she communed with him of all

that was in her heart .

103 And Solomon told her all her questions there was not any

thing hid from the king which he told her not .

104 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom

and the house that he had built .

105 And the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants

and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel and his

cupbearers and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of

the LORD there was no more spirit in her .

106 And she said to the king It was a true report that I heard

in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom .

107 Howbeit I believed not the words until I came and mine

eyes had seen it and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom

and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard .

108 Happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand

continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom .

109 Blessed be the LORD thy God which delighted in thee to set

thee on the throne of Israel because the LORD loved Israel for

ever therefore made he thee king to do judgment and justice .

1010 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of

gold and of spices very great store and precious stones there

came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen

of Sheba gave to king Solomon .

1011 And the navy also of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir

brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious

stones .

1012 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the

house of the LORD and for the king's house harps also and

psalteries for singers there came no such almug trees nor were

seen unto this day .

1013 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her

desire whatsoever she asked beside that which Solomon gave her

of his royal bounty So she turned and went to her own country

she and her servants .

1014 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year

was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold .

1015 Beside that he had of the merchantmen and of the traffic

of the spice merchants and of all the kings of Arabia and of the

governors of the country .

1016 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold

six hundred shekels of gold went to one target .

1017 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold three

pound of gold went to one shield and the king put them in the

house of the forest of Lebanon .

1018 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and

overlaid it with the best gold .

1019 The throne had six steps and the top of the throne was

round behind and there were stays on either side on the place of

the seat and two lions stood beside the stays .

1020 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the

other upon the six steps there was not the like made in any

kingdom .

1021 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold and

all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of

pure gold none were of silver it was nothing accounted of in the

days of Solomon .

1022 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy

of Hiram once in three years came the navy of Tharshish bringing

gold and silver ivory and apes and peacocks .

1023 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for

riches and for wisdom .

1024 And all the earth sought to Solomon to hear his wisdom

which God had put in his heart .

1025 And they brought every man his present vessels of silver

and vessels of gold and garments and armour and spices horses

and mules a rate year by year .

1026 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen and

he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand

horsemen whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots and with

the king at Jerusalem .

1027 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones and

cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale

for abundance .

1028 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and linen

yarn the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price .

1029 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six

hundred shekels of silver and an horse for an hundred and fifty

and so for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of

Syria did they bring them out by their means .

* 111 But king Solomon loved many strange women together with

the daughter of Pharaoh women of the Moabites Ammonites Edomites

Zidonians and Hittites .

112 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the

children of Israel Ye shall not go in to them neither shall they

come in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after

their gods Solomon clave unto these in love .

113 And he had seven hundred wives princesses and three

hundred concubines and his wives turned away his heart .

114 For it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives

turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not

perfect with the LORD his God as was the heart of David his

father .

115 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the

Zidonians and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites .

116 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD and went not

fully after the LORD as did David his father .

117 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh the

abomination of Moab in the hill that is before Jerusalem and for

Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon .

118 And likewise did he for all his strange wives which burnt

incense and sacrificed unto their gods .

119 And the LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart was

turned from the LORD God of Israel which had appeared unto him

twice .

1110 And had commanded him concerning this thing that he

should not go after other gods but he kept not that which the

LORD commanded .

1111 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon Forasmuch as this is

done of thee and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes

which I have commanded thee I will surely rend the kingdom from

thee and will give it to thy servant .

1112 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David

thy father's sake but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son .

1113 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom but will

give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake and for

Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen .

1114 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon Hadad

the Edomite he was of the king's seed in Edom .

1115 For it came to pass when David was in Edom and Joab the

captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain after he had

smitten every male in Edom .

1116 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel

until he had cut off every male in Edom .

1117 That Hadad fled he and certain Edomites of his father's

servants with him to go into Egypt Hadad being yet a little

child .

1118 And they arose out of Midian and came to Paran and they

took men with them out of Paran and they came to Egypt unto

Pharaoh king of Egypt which gave him an house and appointed him

victuals and gave him land .

1119 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh so

that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife the sister

of Tahpenes the queen .

1120 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son whom

Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house and Genubath was in Pharaoh's

household among the sons of Pharaoh .

1121 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his

fathers and that Joab the captain of the host was dead Hadad

said to Pharaoh Let me depart that I may go to mine own country .

1122 Then Pharaoh said unto him But what hast thou lacked with

me that behold thou seekest to go to thine own country And he

answered Nothing howbeit let me go in any wise .

1123 And God stirred him up another adversary Rezon the son of

Eliadah which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah .

1124 And he gathered men unto him and became captain over a

band when David slew them of Zobah and they went to Damascus and

dwelt therein and reigned in Damascus .

1125 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon

beside the mischief that Hadad did and he abhorred Israel and

reigned over Syria .

1126 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat an Ephrathite of Zereda

Solomon's servant whose mother's name was Zeruah a widow woman

even he lifted up his hand against the king .

1127 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against

the king Solomon built Millo and repaired the breaches of the

city of David his father .

1128 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour and

Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious he made him

ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph .

1129 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out

of Jerusalem that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in

the way and he had clad himself with a new garment and they two

were alone in the field .

1130 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him and

rent it in twelve pieces .

1131 And he said to Jeroboam Take thee ten pieces for thus

saith the LORD the God of Israel Behold I will rend the kingdom

out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to thee .

1132 (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 .

1133 Because that they have forsaken me and have worshipped

Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians Chemosh the god of the

Moabites and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon and have

not walked in my ways to do that which is right in mine eyes and

to keep my statutes and my judgments as did David his father .

1134 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand

but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my

servant's sake whom I chose because he kept my commandments and

my statutes .

1135 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and

will give it unto thee even ten tribes .

1136 And unto his son will I give one tribe that David my

servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem the city

which I have chosen me to put my name there .

1137 And I will take thee and thou shalt reign according to

all that thy soul desireth and shalt be king over Israel .

1138 And it shall be if thou wilt hearken unto all that I

command thee and wilt walk in my ways and do that is right in my

sight to keep my statutes and my commandments as David my

servant did that I will be with thee and build thee a sure house

as I built for David and will give Israel unto thee .

1139 And I will for this afflict the seed of David but not for

ever .

1140 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam And Jeroboam

arose and fled into Egypt unto Shishak king of Egypt and was in

Egypt until the death of Solomon .

1141 And the rest of the acts of Solomon and all that he did

and his wisdom are they not written in the book of the acts of

Solomon .

1142 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all

Israel was forty years .

1143 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the

city of David his father and Rehoboam his son reigned in his

stead .

* 121 And Rehoboam went to Shechem for all Israel were come to

Shechem to make him king .

122 And it came to pass when Jeroboam the son of Nebat who was

yet in Egypt heard of it (for he was fled from the presence of

king Solomon and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt .

123 That they sent and called him And Jeroboam and all the

congregation of Israel came and spake unto Rehoboam saying .

124 Thy father made our yoke grievous now therefore make thou

the grievous service of thy father and his heavy yoke which he

put upon us lighter and we will serve thee .

125 And he said unto them Depart yet for three days then come

again to me And the people departed .

126 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood

before Solomon his father while he yet lived and said How do ye

advise that I may answer this people .

127 And they spake unto him saying If thou wilt be a servant

unto this people this day and wilt serve them and answer them

and speak good words to them then they will be thy servants for

ever .

128 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had

given him and consulted with the young men that were grown up

with him and which stood before him .

129 And he said unto them What counsel give ye that we may

answer this people who have spoken to me saying Make the yoke

which thy father did put upon us lighter .

1210 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto

him saying Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake

unto thee saying Thy father made our yoke heavy but make thou it

lighter unto us thus shalt thou say unto them My little finger

shall be thicker than my father's loins .

1211 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke

I will add to your yoke my father hath chastised you with whips

but I will chastise you with scorpions .

1212 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third

day as the king had appointed saying Come to me again the third

day .

1213 And the king answered the people roughly and forsook the

old men's counsel that they gave him .

1214 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men

saying My father made your yoke heavy and I will add to your

yoke my father also chastised you with whips but I will chastise

you with scorpions .

1215 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people for the

cause was from the LORD that he might perform his saying which

the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of

Nebat .

1216 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto

them the people answered the king saying What portion have we in

David neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse to your

tents O Israel now see to thine own house David So Israel

departed unto their tents .

1217 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the

cities of Judah Rehoboam reigned over them .

1218 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the tribute

and all Israel stoned him with stones that he died Therefore

king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot to flee to

Jerusalem .

1219 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this

day .

1220 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam

was come again that they sent and called him unto the

congregation and made him king over all Israel there was none

that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only .

1221 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem he assembled all

the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin an hundred and

fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight

against the house of Israel to bring the kingdom again to

Rehoboam the son of Solomon .

1222 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God

saying .

1223 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah and

unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the remnant of

the people saying .

1224 Thus saith the LORD Ye shall not go up nor fight against

your brethren the children of Israel return every man to his

house for this thing is from me They hearkened therefore to the

word of the LORD and returned to depart according to the word of

the LORD .

1225 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim and dwelt

therein and went out from thence and built Penuel .

1226 And Jeroboam said in his heart Now shall the kingdom

return to the house of David .

1227 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the

LORD at Jerusalem then shall the heart of this people turn again

unto their lord even unto Rehoboam king of Judah and they shall

kill me and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah .

1228 Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of

gold and said unto them It is too much for you to go up to

Jerusalem behold thy gods O Israel which brought thee up out of

the land of Egypt .

1229 And he set the one in Bethel and the other put he in Dan .

1230 And this thing became a sin for the people went to

worship before the one even unto Dan .

1231 And he made an house of high places and made priests of

the lowest of the people which were not of the sons of Levi .

1232 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month on the

fifteenth day of the month like unto the feast that is in Judah

and he offered upon the altar So did he in Bethel sacrificing

unto the calves that he had made and he placed in Bethel the

priests of the high places which he had made .

1233 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel

the fifteenth day of the eighth month even in the month which he

had devised of his own heart and ordained a feast unto the

children of Israel and he offered upon the altar and burnt

incense .

* 131 And behold there came a man of God out of Judah by the

word of the LORD unto Bethel and Jeroboam stood by the altar to

burn incense .

132 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD and

said O altar altar thus saith the LORD Behold a child shall be

born unto the house of David Josiah by name and upon thee shall

he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon

thee and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee .

133 And he gave a sign the same day saying This is the sign

which the LORD hath spoken Behold the altar shall be rent and

the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out .

134 And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the saying of

the man of God which had cried against the altar in Bethel that

he put forth his hand from the altar saying Lay hold on him And

his hand which he put forth against him dried up so that he

could not pull it in again to him .

135 The altar also was rent and the ashes poured out from the

altar according to the sign which the man of God had given by

the word of the LORD .

136 And the king answered and said unto the man of God Entreat

now the face of the LORD thy God and pray for me that my hand

may be restored me again And the man of God besought the LORD

and the king's hand was restored him again and became as it was

before .

137 And the king said unto the man of God Come home with me

and refresh thyself and I will give thee a reward .

138 And the man of God said unto the king If thou wilt give me

half thine house I will not go in with thee neither will I eat

bread nor drink water in this place .

139 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD saying

Eat no bread nor drink water nor turn again by the same way that

thou camest .

1310 So he went another way and returned not by the way that

he came to Bethel .

1311 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel and his sons

came and told him all the works that the man of God had done

that day in Bethel the words which he had spoken unto the king

them they told also to their father .

1312 And their father said unto them What way went he For his

sons had seen what way the man of God went which came from Judah

1313 And he said unto his sons Saddle me the ass So they

saddled him the ass and he rode thereon .

1314 And went after the man of God and found him sitting under

an oak and he said unto him Art thou the man of God that camest

from Judah And he said I am .

1315 Then he said unto him Come home with me and eat bread .

1316 And he said I may not return with thee nor go in with

thee neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this

place .

1317 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD Thou shalt

eat no bread nor drink water there nor turn again to go by the

way that thou camest .

1318 He said unto him I am a prophet also as thou art and an

angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD saying Bring him

back with thee into thine house that he may eat bread and drink

water But he lied unto him .

1319 So he went back with him and did eat bread in his house

and drank water .

1320 And it came to pass as they sat at the table that the

word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back .

1321 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah

saying Thus saith the LORD Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the

mouth of the LORD and hast not kept the commandment which the

LORD thy God commanded thee .

1322 But camest back and hast eaten bread and drunk water in

the place of the which the LORD did say to thee Eat no bread and

drink no water thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of

thy fathers .

1323 And it came to pass after he had eaten bread and after he

had drunk that he saddled for him the ass to wit for the prophet

whom he had brought back .

1324 And when he was gone a lion met him by the way and slew

him and his carcase was cast in the way and the ass stood by it

the lion also stood by the carcase .

1325 And behold men passed by and saw the carcase cast in the

way and the lion standing by the carcase and they came and told

it in the city where the old prophet dwelt .

1326 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way

heard thereof he said It is the man of God who was disobedient

unto the word of the LORD therefore the LORD hath delivered him

unto the lion which hath torn him and slain him according to the

word of the LORD which he spake unto him .

1327 And he spake to his sons saying Saddle me the ass And

they saddled him .

1328 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way and the

ass and the lion standing by the carcase the lion had not eaten

the carcase nor torn the ass .

1329 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God and

laid it upon the ass and brought it back and the old prophet

came to the city to mourn and to bury him .

1330 And he laid his carcase in his own grave and they mourned

over him saying Alas my brother .

1331 And it came to pass after he had buried him that he spake

to his sons saying When I am dead then bury me in the sepulchre

wherein the man of God is buried lay my bones beside his bones .

1332 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD

against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the

high places which are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come

to pass .

1333 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way

but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high

places whosoever would he consecrated him and he became one of

the priests of the high places .

1334 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam even

to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth .

* 141 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick .

142 And Jeroboam said to his wife Arise I pray thee and

disguise thyself that thou be not known to be the wife of

Jeroboam and get thee to Shiloh behold there is Ahijah the

prophet which told me that I should be king over this people .

143 And take with thee ten loaves and cracknels and a cruse of

honey and go to him he shall tell thee what shall become of the

child .

144 And Jeroboam's wife did so and arose and went to Shiloh

and came to the house of Ahijah But Ahijah could not see for his

eyes were set by reason of his age .

145 And the LORD said unto Ahijah Behold the wife of Jeroboam

cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son for he is sick thus

and thus shalt thou say unto her for it shall be when she cometh

in that she shall feign herself to be another woman .

146 And it was so when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as

she came in at the door that he said Come in thou wife of

Jeroboam why feignest thou thyself to be another for I am sent

to thee with heavy tidings .

147 Go tell Jeroboam Thus saith the LORD God of Israel

Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee

prince over my people Israel .

148 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave

it thee and yet thou hast not been as my servant David who kept

my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do

that only which was right in mine eyes .

149 But hast done evil above all that were before thee for

thou hast gone and made thee other gods and molten images to

provoke me to anger and hast cast me behind thy back .

1410 Therefore behold I will bring evil upon the house of

Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against

the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel and will

take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam as a man taketh

away dung till it be all gone .

1411 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat

and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat

for the LORD hath spoken it .

1412 Arise thou therefore get thee to thine own house and when

thy feet enter into the city the child shall die .

1413 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him for he

only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him there is

found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house

of Jeroboam .

1414 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel

who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day but what even

now .

1415 For the LORD shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in

the water and he shall root up Israel out of this good land

which he gave to their fathers and shall scatter them beyond the

river because they have made their groves provoking the LORD to

anger .

1416 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of

Jeroboam who did sin and who made Israel to sin .

1417 And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah

and when she came to the threshold of the door the child died .

1418 And they buried him and all Israel mourned for him

according to the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of

his servant Ahijah the prophet .

1419 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam how he warred and

how he reigned behold they are written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Israel .

1420 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty

years and he slept with his fathers and Nadab his son reigned in

his stead .

1421 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah Rehoboam

was forty and one years old when he began to reign and he

reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD did

choose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there And

his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess .

1422 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD and they

provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had

committed above all that their fathers had done .

1423 For they also built them high places and images and

groves on every high hill and under every green tree .

1424 And there were also sodomites in the land and they did

according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD

cast out before the children of Israel .

1425 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam

that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem .

1426 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD

and the treasures of the king's house he even took away all and

he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made .

1427 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields and

committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard which

kept the door of the king's house .

1428 And it was so when the king went into the house of the

LORD that the guard bare them and brought them back into the

guard chamber .

1429 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did

are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings

of Judah .

1430 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their

days .

1431 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with

his fathers in the city of David And his mother's name was

Naamah an Ammonitess And Abijam his son reigned in his stead .

* 151 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of

Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah .

152 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem And his mother's name

was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom .

153 And he walked in all the sins of his father which he had

done before him and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his

God as the heart of David his father .

154 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give

him a lamp in Jerusalem to set up his son after him and to

establish Jerusalem .

155 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the

LORD and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him

all the days of his life save only in the matter of Uriah the

Hittite .

156 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the

days of his life .

157 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did are

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Judah And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam .

158 And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in

the city of David and Asa his son reigned in his stead .

159 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel

reigned Asa over Judah .

1510 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem And his

mother's name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom .

1511 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD

as did David his father .

1512 And he took away the sodomites out of the land and

removed all the idols that his fathers had made .

1513 And also Maachah his mother even her he removed from

being queen because she had made an idol in a grove and Asa

destroyed her idol and burnt it by the brook Kidron .

1514 But the high places were not removed nevertheless Asa's

heart was perfect with the LORD all his days .

1515 And he brought in the things which his father had

dedicated and the things which himself had dedicated into the

house of the LORD silver and gold and vessels .

1516 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel

all their days .

1517 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built

Ramah that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa

king of Judah .

1518 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left

in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of

the king's house and delivered them into the hand of his

servants and king Asa sent them to Benhadad the son of Tabrimon

the son of Hezion king of Syria that dwelt at Damascus saying .

1519 There is a league between me and thee and between my

father and thy father behold I have sent unto thee a present of

silver and gold come and break thy league with Baasha king of

Israel that he may depart from me .

1520 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa and sent the captains

of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel and smote

Ijon and Dan and Abelbethmaachah and all Cinneroth with all the

land of Naphtali .

1521 And it came to pass when Baasha heard thereof that he

left off building of Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah .

1522 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah

none was exempted and they took away the stones of Ramah and the

timber thereof wherewith Baasha had builded and king Asa built

with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah .

1523 The rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all

that he did and the cities which he built are they not written

in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah Nevertheless

in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet .

1524 And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his

fathers in the city of David his father and Jehoshaphat his son

reigned in his stead .

1525 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel

in the second year of Asa king of Judah and reigned over Israel

two years .

1526 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in

the way of his father and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to

sin .

1527 And Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar

conspired against him and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon which

belonged to the Philistines for Nadab and all Israel laid siege

to Gibbethon .

1528 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha

slay him and reigned in his stead .

1529 And it came to pass when he reigned that he smote all the

house of Jeroboam he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed

until he had destroyed him according unto the saying of the LORD

which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite .

1530 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and which

he made Israel sin by his provocation wherewith he provoked the

LORD God of Israel to anger .

1531 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did are

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel .

1532 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel

all their days .

1533 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the

son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah twenty and four

years .

1534 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in

the way of Jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to

sin .

* 161 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani

against Baasha saying .

162 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust and made thee

prince over my people Israel and thou hast walked in the way of

Jeroboam and hast made my people Israel to sin to provoke me to

anger with their sins .

163 Behold I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the

posterity of his house and will make thy house like the house of

Jeroboam the son of Nebat .

164 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat

and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the

air eat .

165 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his

might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel .

166 So Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah

and Elah his son reigned in his stead .

167 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani

came the word of the LORD against Baasha and against his house

even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in

provoking him to anger with the work of his hands in being like

the house of Jeroboam and because he killed him .

168 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began

Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah two years .

169 And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots

conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk

in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah .

1610 And Zimri went in and smote him and killed him in the

twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his

stead .

1611 And it came to pass when he began to reign as soon as he

sat on his throne that he slew all the house of Baasha he left

him not one that pisseth against a wall neither of his kinsfolks

nor of his friends .

1612 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha according

to the word of the LORD which he spake against Baasha by Jehu

the prophet .

1613 For all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son

by which they sinned and by which they made Israel to sin in

provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities .

1614 Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did are

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel .

1615 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did

Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah And the people were encamped

against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines .

1616 And the people that were encamped heard say Zimri hath

conspired and hath also slain the king wherefore all Israel made

Omri the captain of the host king over Israel that day in the

camp .

1617 And Omri went up from Gibbethon and all Israel with him

and they besieged Tirzah .

1618 And it came to pass when Zimri saw that the city was

taken that he went into the palace of the king's house and burnt

the king's house over him with fire and died .

1619 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight

of the LORD in walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin

which he did to make Israel to sin .

1620 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his treason that he

wrought are they not written in the book of the chronicles of

the kings of Israel .

1621 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 .

1622 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the

people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath so Tibni died and

Omri reigned .

1623 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began

Omri to reign over Israel twelve years six years reigned he in

Tirzah .

1624 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents

of silver and built on the hill and called the name of the city

which he built after the name of Shemer owner of the hill

Samaria .

1625 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD and did

worse than all that were before him .

1626 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat

and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin to provoke the

LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities .

1627 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his

might that he showed are they not written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Israel .

1628 So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria

and Ahab his son reigned in his stead .

1629 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah

began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel and Ahab the son

of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years .

1630 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the

LORD above all that were before him .

1631 And it came to pass as if it had been a light thing for

him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat that he

took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the

Zidonians and went and served Baal and worshipped him .

1632 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal

which he had built in Samaria .

1633 And Ahab made a grove and Ahab did more to provoke the

LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that

were before him .

1634 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho he laid

the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn and set up the

gates thereof in his youngest son Segub according to the word of

the LORD which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun .

* 171 And Elijah the Tishbite who was of the inhabitants of

Gilead said unto Ahab As the LORD God of Israel liveth before

whom I stand there shall not be dew nor rain these years but

according to my word .

172 And the word of the LORD came unto him saying .

173 Get thee hence and turn thee eastward and hide thyself by

the brook Cherith that is before Jordan .

174 And it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook and I

have commanded the ravens to feed thee there .

175 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD for

he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan .

176 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning

and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook .

177 And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up

because there had been no rain in the land .

178 And the word of the LORD came unto him saying .

179 Arise get thee to Zarephath which belongeth to Zidon and

dwell there behold I have commanded a widow woman there to

sustain thee .

1710 So he arose and went to Zarephath And when he came to the

gate of the city behold the widow woman was there gathering of

sticks and he called to her and said Fetch me I pray thee a

little water in a vessel that I may drink .

1711 And as she was going to fetch it he called to her and

said Bring me I pray thee a morsel of bread in thine hand .

1712 And she said As the LORD thy God liveth I have not a cake

but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse

and behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress

it for me and my son that we may eat it and die .

1713 And Elijah said unto her Fear not go and do as thou hast

said but make me thereof a little cake first and bring it unto

me and after make for thee and for thy son .

1714 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel The barrel of meal

shall not waste neither shall the cruse of oil fail until the

day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth .

1715 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah

and she and he and her house did eat many days .

1716 And the barrel of meal wasted not neither did the cruse

of oil fail according to the word of the LORD which he spake by

Elijah .

1717 And it came to pass after these things that the son of

the woman the mistress of the house fell sick and his sickness

was so sore that there was no breath left in him .

1718 And she said unto Elijah What have I to do with thee O

thou man of God art thou come unto me to call my sin to

remembrance and to slay my son .

1719 And he said unto her Give me thy son And he took him out

of her bosom and carried him up into a loft where he abode and

laid him upon his own bed .

1720 And he cried unto the LORD and said O LORD my God hast

thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn by

slaying her son .

1721 And he stretched himself upon the child three times and

cried unto the LORD and said O LORD my God I pray thee let this

child's soul come into him again .

1722 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of

the child came into him again and he revived .

1723 And Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the

chamber into the house and delivered him unto his mother and

Elijah said See thy son liveth .

1724 And the woman said to Elijah Now by this I know that thou

art a man of God and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is

truth .

* 181 And it came to pass after many days that the word of the

LORD came to Elijah in the third year saying Go show thyself

unto Ahab and I will send rain upon the earth .

182 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab And there was a

sore famine in Samaria .

183 And Ahab called Obadiah which was the governor of his

house (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly .

184 For it was so when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the

LORD that Obadiah took an hundred prophets and hid them by fifty

in a cave and fed them with bread and water .

185 And Ahab said unto Obadiah Go into the land unto all

fountains of water and unto all brooks peradventure we may find

grass to save the horses and mules alive that we lose not all

the beasts .

186 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout

it Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by

himself .

187 And as Obadiah was in the way behold Elijah met him and he

knew him and fell on his face and said Art thou that my lord

Elijah .

188 And he answered him I am go tell thy lord Behold Elijah is

here .

189 And he said What have I sinned that thou wouldest deliver

thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay me .

1810 As the LORD thy God liveth there is no nation or kingdom

whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee and when they said He

is not there he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they

found thee not .

1811 And now thou sayest Go tell thy lord Behold Elijah is

here .

1812 And it shall come to pass as soon as I am gone from thee

that the spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not

and so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find thee he

shall slay me but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth .

1813 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the

prophets of the LORD how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's

prophets by fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water .

1814 And now thou sayest Go tell thy lord Behold Elijah is

here and he shall slay me .

1815 And Elijah said As the LORD of hosts liveth before whom I

stand I will surely show myself unto him to day .

1816 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him and Ahab went

to meet Elijah .

1817 And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah that Ahab said

unto him Art thou he that troubleth Israel .

1818 And he answered I have not troubled Israel but thou and

thy father's house in that ye have forsaken the commandments of

the LORD and thou hast followed Baalim .

1819 Now therefore send and gather to me all Israel unto mount

Carmel and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty and the

prophets of the groves four hundred which eat at Jezebel's table

1820 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel and gathered

the prophets together unto mount Carmel .

1821 And Elijah came unto all the people and said How long

halt ye between two opinions if the LORD be God follow him but

if Baal then follow him And the people answered him not a word .

1822 Then said Elijah unto the people I even I only remain a

prophet of the LORD but Baal's prophets are four hundred and

fifty men .

1823 Let them therefore give us two bullocks and let them

choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay

it on wood and put no fire under and I will dress the other

bullock and lay it on wood and put no fire under .

1824 And call ye on the name of your gods and I will call on

the name of the LORD and the God that answereth by fire let him

be God And all the people answered and said It is well spoken .

1825 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal Choose you one

bullock for yourselves and dress it first for ye are many and

call on the name of your gods but put no fire under .

1826 And they took the bullock which was given them and they

dressed it and called on the name of Baal from morning even

until noon saying O Baal hear us But there was no voice nor any

that answered And they leaped upon the altar which was made .

1827 And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and

said Cry aloud for he is a god either he is talking or he is

pursuing or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and

must be awaked .

1828 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their

manner with knives and lancets till the blood gushed out upon

them .

1829 And it came to pass when midday was past and they

prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening

sacrifice that there was neither voice nor any to answer nor any

that regarded .

1830 And Elijah said unto all the people Come near unto me And

all the people came near unto him And he repaired the altar of

the LORD that was broken down .

1831 And Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of

the tribes of the sons of Jacob unto whom the word of the LORD

came saying Israel shall be thy name .

1832 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the

LORD and he made a trench about the altar as great as would

contain two measures of seed .

1833 And he put the wood in order and cut the bullock in

pieces and laid him on the wood and said Fill four barrels with

water and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood .

1834 And he said Do it the second time And they did it the

second time And he said Do it the third time And they did it the

third time .

1835 And the water ran round about the altar and he filled the

trench also with water .

1836 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the

evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said

LORD God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel let it be known this day

that thou art God in Israel and that I am thy servant and that I

have done all these things at thy word .

1837 Hear me O LORD hear me that this people may know that

thou art the LORD God and that thou hast turned their heart back

again .

1838 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt

sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up

the water that was in the trench .

1839 And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces

and they said The LORD he is the God the LORD he is the God .

1840 And Elijah said unto them Take the prophets of Baal let

not one of them escape And they took them and Elijah brought

them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there .

1841 And Elijah said unto Ahab Get thee up eat and drink for

there is a sound of abundance of rain .

1842 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink And Elijah went up to

the top of Carmel and he cast himself down upon the earth and

put his face between his knees .

1843 And said to his servant Go up now look toward the sea And

he went up and looked and said There is nothing And he said Go

again seven times .

1844 And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said

Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's

hand And he said Go up say unto Ahab Prepare thy chariot and get

thee down that the rain stop thee not .

1845 And it came to pass in the mean while that the heaven was

black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain And Ahab

rode and went to Jezreel .

1846 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah and he girded up

his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel .

* 191 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and withal

how he had slain all the prophets with the sword .

192 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah saying So let

the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the

life of one of them by to morrow about this time .

193 And when he saw that he arose and went for his life and

came to Beersheba which belongeth to Judah and left his servant

there .

194 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness

and came and sat down under a juniper tree and he requested for

himself that he might die and said It is enough now O LORD take

away my life for I am not better than my fathers .

195 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree behold then

an angel touched him and said unto him Arise and eat .

196 And he looked and behold there was a cake baken on the

coals and a cruse of water at his head And he did eat and drink

and laid him down again .

197 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time and

touched him and said Arise and eat because the journey is too

great for thee .

198 And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the

strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the

mount of God .

199 And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there and

behold the word of the LORD came to him and he said unto him

What doest thou here Elijah .

1910 And he said I have been very jealous for the LORD God of

hosts for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant

thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword

and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away .

1911 And he said Go forth and stand upon the mount before the

LORD And behold the LORD passed by and a great and strong wind

rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD

but the LORD was not in the wind and after the wind an

earthquake but the LORD was not in the earthquake .

1912 And after the earthquake a fire but the LORD was not in

the fire and after the fire a still small voice .

1913 And it was so when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his

face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering in of

the cave And behold there came a voice unto him and said What

doest thou here Elijah .

1914 And he said I have been very jealous for the LORD God of

hosts because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant

thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword

and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away .

1915 And the LORD said unto him Go return on thy way to the

wilderness of Damascus and when thou comest anoint Hazael to be

king over Syria .

1916 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king

over Israel and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt

thou anoint to be prophet in thy room .

1917 And it shall come to pass that him that escapeth the

sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay and him that escapeth from the

sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay .

1918 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel all the knees

which have not bowed unto Baal and every mouth which hath not

kissed him .

1919 So he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat

who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him and he with

the twelfth and Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon

him .

1920 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said Let me

I pray thee kiss my father and my mother and then I will follow

thee And he said unto him Go back again for what have I done to

thee .

1921 And he returned back from him and took a yoke of oxen and

slew them and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the

oxen and gave unto the people and they did eat Then he arose and

went after Elijah and ministered unto him .

* 201 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host

together and there were thirty and two kings with him and horses

and chariots and he went up and besieged Samaria and warred

against it .

202 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the

city and said unto him Thus saith Benhadad .

203 Thy silver and thy gold is mine thy wives also and thy

children even the goodliest are mine .

204 And the king of Israel answered and said My lord O king

according to thy saying I am thine and all that I have .

205 And the messengers came again and said Thus speaketh

Benhadad saying Although I have sent unto thee saying Thou shalt

deliver me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy

children .

206 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this

time and they shall search thine house and the houses of thy

servants and it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine

eyes they shall put it in their hand and take it away .

207 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land

and said Mark I pray you and see how this man seeketh mischief

for he sent unto me for my wives and for my children and for my

silver and for my gold and I denied him not .

208 And all the elders and all the people said unto him

Hearken not unto him nor consent .

209 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad Tell my

lord the king All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the

first I will do but this thing I may not do And the messengers

departed and brought him word again .

2010 And Benhadad sent unto him and said The gods do so unto

me and more also if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for

handfuls for all the people that follow me .

2011 And the king of Israel answered and said Tell him Let not

him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth

it off .

2012 And it came to pass when Benhadad heard this message as

he was drinking he and the kings in the pavilions that he said

unto his servants Set yourselves in array And they set

themselves in array against the city .

2013 And behold there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel

saying Thus saith the LORD Hast thou seen all this great

multitude behold I will deliver it into thine hand this day and

thou shalt know that I am the LORD .

2014 And Ahab said By whom And he said Thus saith the LORD

Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces Then he

said Who shall order the battle And he answered Thou .

2015 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the

provinces and they were two hundred and thirty two and after

them he numbered all the people even all the children of Israel

being seven thousand .

2016 And they went out at noon But Benhadad was drinking

himself drunk in the pavilions he and the kings the thirty and

two kings that helped him .

2017 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went

out first and Benhadad sent out and they told him saying There

are men come out of Samaria .

2018 And he said Whether they be come out for peace take them

alive or whether they be come out for war take them alive .

2019 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came

out of the city and the army which followed them .

2020 And they slew every one his man and the Syrians fled and

Israel pursued them and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an

horse with the horsemen .

2021 And the king of Israel went out and smote the horses and

chariots and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter .

2022 And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said unto

him Go strengthen thyself and mark and see what thou doest for

at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against

thee .

2023 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him Their

gods are gods of the hills therefore they were stronger than we

but let us fight against them in the plain and surely we shall

be stronger than they .

2024 And do this thing Take the kings away every man out of

his place and put captains in their rooms .

2025 And number thee an army like the army that thou hast lost

horse for horse and chariot for chariot and we will fight

against them in the plain and surely we shall be stronger than

they And he hearkened unto their voice and did so .

2026 And it came to pass at the return of the year that

Benhadad numbered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight

against Israel .

2027 And the children of Israel were numbered and were all

present and went against them and the children of Israel pitched

before them like two little flocks of kids but the Syrians

filled the country .

2028 And there came a man of God and spake unto the king of

Israel and said Thus saith the LORD Because the Syrians have

said The LORD is God of the hills but he is not God of the

valleys therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into

thine hand and ye shall know that I am the LORD .

2029 And they pitched one over against the other seven days

And so it was that in the seventh day the battle was joined and

the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand

footmen in one day .

2030 But the rest fled to Aphek into the city and there a wall

fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left

And Benhadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber .

2031 And his servants said unto him Behold now we have heard

that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings let us

I pray thee put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads

and go out to the king of Israel peradventure he will save thy

life .

2032 So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on

their heads and came to the king of Israel and said Thy servant

Benhadad saith I pray thee let me live And he said Is he yet

alive he is my brother .

2033 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing

would come from him and did hastily catch it and they said Thy

brother Benhadad Then he said Go ye bring him Then Benhadad came

forth to him and he caused him to come up into the chariot .

2034 And Benhadad said unto him The cities which my father

took from thy father I will restore and thou shalt make streets

for thee in Damascus as my father made in Samaria Then said Ahab

I will send thee away with this covenant So he made a covenant

with him and sent him away .

2035 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto

his neighbour in the word of the LORD Smite me I pray thee And

the man refused to smite him .

2036 Then said he unto him Because thou hast not obeyed the

voice of the LORD behold as soon as thou art departed from me a

lion shall slay thee And as soon as he was departed from him a

lion found him and slew him .

2037 Then he found another man and said Smite me I pray thee

And the man smote him so that in smiting he wounded him .

2038 So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the

way and disguised himself with ashes upon his face .

2039 And as the king passed by he cried unto the king and he

said Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle and

behold a man turned aside and brought a man unto me and said

Keep this man if by any means he be missing then shall thy life

be for his life or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver .

2040 And as thy servant was busy here and there he was gone

And the king of Israel said unto him So shall thy judgment be

thyself hast decided it .

2041 And he hasted and took the ashes away from his face and

the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets .

2042 And he said unto him Thus saith the LORD Because thou

hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter

destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy

people for his people .

2043 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and

displeased and came to Samaria .

* 211 And it came to pass after these things that Naboth the

Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel hard by the

palace of Ahab king of Samaria .

212 And Ahab spake unto Naboth saying Give me thy vineyard

that I may have it for a garden of herbs because it is near unto

my house and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it

or if it seem good to thee I will give thee the worth of it in

money .

213 And Naboth said to Ahab The LORD forbid it me that I

should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee .

214 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because

of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him for he

had said I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers And

he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face and would

eat no bread .

215 But Jezebel his wife came to him and said unto him Why is

thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread .

216 And he said unto her Because I spake unto Naboth the

Jezreelite and said unto him Give me thy vineyard for money or

else if it please thee I will give thee another vineyard for it

and he answered I will not give thee my vineyard .

217 And Jezebel his wife said unto him Dost thou now govern the

kingdom of Israel arise and eat bread and let thine heart be

merry I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite .

218 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with

his seal and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles

that were in his city dwelling with Naboth .

219 And she wrote in the letters saying Proclaim a fast and

set Naboth on high among the people .

2110 And set two men sons of Belial before him to bear witness

against him saying Thou didst blaspheme God and the king And

then carry him out and stone him that he may die .

2111 And the men of his city even the elders and the nobles

who were the inhabitants in his city did as Jezebel had sent

unto them and as it was written in the letters which she had

sent unto them .

2112 They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the

people .

2113 And there came in two men children of Belial and sat

before him and the men of Belial witnessed against him even

against Naboth in the presence of the people saying Naboth did

blaspheme God and the king Then they carried him forth out of

the city and stoned him with stones that he died .

2114 Then they sent to Jezebel saying Naboth is stoned and is

dead .

2115 And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was

stoned and was dead that Jezebel said to Ahab Arise take

possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he

refused to give thee for money for Naboth is not alive but dead .

2116 And it came to pass when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead

that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the

Jezreelite to take possession of it .

2117 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite

saying .

2118 Arise go down to meet Ahab king of Israel which is in

Samaria behold he is in the vineyard of Naboth whither he is

gone down to possess it .

2119 And thou shalt speak unto him saying Thus saith the LORD

Hast thou killed and also taken possession And thou shalt speak

unto him saying Thus saith the LORD In the place where dogs

licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood even thine .

2120 And Ahab said to Elijah hast thou found me O mine enemy

And he answered I have found thee because thou hast sold thyself

to work evil in the sight of the LORD .

2121 Behold I will bring evil upon thee and will take away thy

posterity and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against

the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel .

2122 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the

son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for

the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger and

made Israel to sin .

2123 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD saying The dogs shall

eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel .

2124 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat and

him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat .

2125 But there was none like unto Ahab which did sell himself

to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD whom Jezebel his

wife stirred up .

2126 And he did very abominably in following idols according

to all things as did the Amorites whom the LORD cast out before

the children of Israel .

2127 And it came to pass when Ahab heard those words that he

rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and

lay in sackcloth and went softly .

2128 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite

saying .

2129 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me because he

humbleth himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days

but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house .

* 221 And they continued three years without war between Syria

and Israel .

222 And it came to pass in the third year that Jehoshaphat the

king of Judah came down to the king of Israel .

223 And the king of Israel said unto his servants Know ye that

Ramoth in Gilead is ours and we be still and take it not out of

the hand of the king of Syria .

224 And he said unto Jehoshaphat Wilt thou go with me to

battle to Ramothgilead And Jehoshaphat said to the king of

Israel I am as thou art my people as thy people my horses as thy

horses .

225 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel Inquire I

pray thee at the word of the LORD to day .

226 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together

about four hundred men and said unto them Shall I go against

Ramothgilead to battle or shall I forbear And they said Go up

for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king .

227 And Jehoshaphat said Is there not here a prophet of the

LORD besides that we might inquire of him .

228 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat There is yet

one man Micaiah the son of Imlah by whom we may inquire of the

LORD but I hate him for he doth not prophesy good concerning me

but evil And Jehoshaphat said Let not the king say so .

229 Then the king of Israel called an officer and said Hasten

hither Micaiah the son of Imlah .

2210 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah

sat each on his throne having put on their robes in a void place

in the entrance of the gate of Samaria and all the prophets

prophesied before them .

2211 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron

and he said Thus saith the LORD With these shalt thou push the

Syrians until thou have consumed them .

2212 And all the prophets prophesied so saying Go up to

Ramothgilead and prosper for the LORD shall deliver it into the

king's hand .

2213 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake

unto him saying Behold now the words of the prophets declare

good unto the king with one mouth let thy word I pray thee be

like the word of one of them and speak that which is good .

2214 And Micaiah said As the LORD liveth what the LORD saith

unto me that will I speak .

2215 So he came to the king And the king said unto him Micaiah

shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle or shall we forbear

And he answered him Go and prosper for the LORD shall deliver it

into the hand of the king .

2216 And the king said unto him How many times shall I adjure

thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the

name of the LORD .

2217 And he said I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills as

sheep that have not a shepherd and the LORD said These have no

master let them return every man to his house in peace .

2218 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat Did I not

tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me but evil .

2219 And he said Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD I

saw the LORD sitting on his throne and all the host of heaven

standing by him on his right hand and on his left .

2220 And the LORD said Who shall persuade Ahab that he may go

up and fall at Ramothgilead And one said on this manner and

another said on that manner .

2221 And there came forth a spirit and stood before the LORD

and said I will persuade him .

2222 And the LORD said unto him Wherewith And he said I will

go forth and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his

prophets And he said Thou shalt persuade him and prevail also go

forth and do so .

2223 Now therefore behold the LORD hath put a lying spirit in

the mouth of all these thy prophets and the LORD hath spoken

evil concerning thee .

2224 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and smote

Micaiah on the cheek and said Which way went the spirit of the

LORD from me to speak unto thee .

2225 And Micaiah said Behold thou shalt see in that day when

thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself .

2226 And the king of Israel said Take Micaiah and carry him

back unto Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's

son .

2227 And say Thus saith the king Put this fellow in the prison

and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of

affliction until I come in peace .

2228 And Micaiah said If thou return at all in peace the LORD

hath not spoken by me And he said Hearken O people every one of

you .

2229 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah

went up to Ramothgilead .

2230 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat I will

disguise myself and enter into the battle but put thou on thy

robes And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the

battle .

2231 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two

captains that had rule over his chariots saying Fight neither

with small nor great save only with the king of Israel .

2232 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw

Jehoshaphat that they said Surely it is the king of Israel And

they turned aside to fight against him and Jehoshaphat cried out

2233 And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots

perceived that it was not the king of Israel that they turned

back from pursuing him .

2234 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the

king of Israel between the joints of the harness wherefore he

said unto the driver of his chariot Turn thine hand and carry me

out of the host for I am wounded .

2235 And the battle increased that day and the king was stayed

up in his chariot against the Syrians and died at even and the

blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot .

2236 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about

the going down of the sun saying Every man to his city and every

man to his own country .

2237 So the king died and was brought to Samaria and they

buried the king in Samaria .

2238 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria and the

dogs licked up his blood and they washed his armour according

unto the word of the LORD which he spake .

2239 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and

the ivory house which he made and all the cities that he built

are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings

of Israel .

2240 So Ahab slept with his fathers and Ahaziah his son

reigned in his stead .

2241 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah

in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel .

2242 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began

to reign and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem And

his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi .

2243 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father he turned

not aside from it doing that which was right in the eyes of the

LORD nevertheless the high places were not taken away for the

people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places .

2244 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel .

2245 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat and his might

that he showed and how he warred are they not written in the

book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .

2246 And the remnant of the sodomites which remained in the

days of his father Asa he took out of the land .

2247 There was then no king in Edom a deputy was king .

2248 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for

gold but they went not for the ships were broken at Eziongeber .

2249 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat Let my

servants go with thy servants in the ships But Jehoshaphat would

not .

2250 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried

with his fathers in the city of David his father and Jehoram his

son reigned in his stead .

2251 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in

Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and

reigned two years over Israel .

2252 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in

the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the

way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin .

2253 For he served Baal and worshipped him and provoked to

anger the LORD God of Israel according to all that his father

had done .