\NormalFont\ShortTitle{1 Kings}
{\MT The First Book of Kings

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
King
David
was
old
and far
on
in
years;
and though
they
put
covers
over
him,
his body
was cold.
\VS{2}So
his
servants
said
to
him,
Let
search
be
made
for
a
young
virgin
for
my
lord
the
king,
to
take
care
of
him
and
be waiting
on
him;
and
you
may
take
her
in
your
arms,
and
so
my
lord
the
king
will
be
warm.
\VS{3}So after
searching
through
all
the
land
of
Israel
for
a
fair
young
girl,
they saw
Abishag
the
Shunammite,
and
took
her
to
the
king.
\VS{4}Now
she
was
very
beautiful;
and
she
took
care
of
the
king,
waiting
on
him
at
all times;
but
the
king
had
no connection
with
her.
\VS{5}Then
Adonijah,
the
son
of
Haggith, lifting
himself
up
in pride,
said,
I
will become
king;
and
he
made ready
his carriages
of war
and
his
horsemen,
with
fifty
runners
to go
before
him.
\VS{6}Now
all
his
life
his
father
had
never
gone
against
him
or
said
to
him,
Why
have
you
done
so?
and
he
was
a
very
good-looking man,
and younger
than
Absalom.
\VS{7}And
he
had
talk
with
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
and
with
Abiathar
the
priest;
and
they
were
on
his
side
and
gave
him
their
support.
\VS{8}But
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
Nathan
the
prophet
and
Shimei
and
Rei,
and David's
men
of war
did
not
take
the
side
of
Adonijah.
\VS{9}Then
Adonijah put
to
death
sheep
and
oxen
and fat
beasts
by
the
stone
of
Zoheleth,
by
En-rogel;
and
he sent
for
all
his
brothers,
the king's
sons,
and
all
the
men
of
Judah,
the king's
servants,
to come
to
him:
\VS{10}But
he
did
not send
for
Nathan
the
prophet
and
Benaiah
and
the
other
men
of war
and
Solomon
his
brother.
\VS{11}Then
Nathan
said
to Bath-sheba,
the
mother
of
Solomon,
Has
it
not come
to
your ears
that
Adonijah,
the
son
of
Haggith,
has
made
himself
king
without
the
knowledge
of
David
our
lord?
\VS{12}So
now,
let
me make
a suggestion,
so
that
you
may keep
your
life safe
and
the
life
of
your
son
Solomon.
\VS{13}Come
now,
go
to
King
David
and
say
to
him,
Did
you
not,
O
my
lord,
take
an
oath
to
me,
your
servant,
saying,
Truly
Solomon
your
son
will
be
king
after
me,
seated
on
the
seat
of
my
kingdom?
why
then
is
Adonijah acting
as
king?
\VS{14}And
while
you
are
still
talking
there
with
the
king,
see,
I
will
come
in
after
you
and
say
that
your story
is true.
\VS{15}Then Bath-sheba
went
into
the king's
room;
now
the
king
was
very
old,
and
Abishag
the
Shunammite
was waiting
on
him.
\VS{16}And Bath-sheba went
down
on
her face
on
the earth before
the
king giving
him honour.
And
he
said,
What
is
your desire?
\VS{17}And
she
said
to
him,
My
lord,
you
took
an
oath
by
the
Lord
your
God
and
gave
your
word
to
your
servant,
saying,
Truly,
Solomon
your
son
will
be
king
after
me,
seated
on
the
seat
of
my kingdom.
\VS{18}And
now,
see,
Adonijah
has
made
himself
king
without
my lord's
knowledge;
\VS{19}And
has put
to death
oxen
and fat
beasts
and
sheep
in
great
numbers,
and
has sent
for
all
the
sons
of
the
king,
and
Abiathar
the
priest,
and
Joab,
the
captain
of
the
army;
but
he
has
not sent
for
Solomon
your
servant.
\VS{20}And
now,
my
lord
the
king,
the
eyes
of
all
Israel
are
on
you, waiting
for
you
to
say
who
is
to
take
the
place
of
my
lord
the
king
after
him.
\VS{21}For
as
things
are,
it
will
come
about,
when
my
lord
the
king
is sleeping
with
his
fathers,
that
I
and
Solomon
my
son
will
be
made outlaws.
\VS{22}And
while
she
was
still
talking
with
the
king,
Nathan
the
prophet
came
in.
\VS{23}And
they
said
to
the
king,
Here
is
Nathan
the
prophet.
And
when
he
came
in
before
the
king,
he
went
down
on
his
face
on
the
earth.
\VS{24}And
Nathan
said,
O
my
lord
king,
have
you
said,
Adonijah
is
to
be
king
after
me,
seated
on
the
seat
of
my
kingdom?
\VS{25}Because
today
he
has
gone
down
and
has
put
to death
oxen
and fat
beasts
and
sheep
in
great
numbers,
and
has
sent
for
all
the king's
sons
to
come
to
him,
with
the
captains
of
the
army
and
Abiathar
the
priest;
and
they
are
feasting
before
him
and
crying,
Long
life
to
King
Adonijah!
\VS{26}But
me,
your
servant,
and
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
your
servant
Solomon,
he
has
not sent
for.
\VS{27}Has
this
thing
been
done
by
my
lord
the
king,
without giving
word
to
your
servants
who
was
to
be
placed
on
my
lord
the king's
seat
after
him?
\VS{28}Then
King
David
in
answer
said, Send
for Bath-sheba
to
come
to
me.
And
she
came
in
and
took
her
place
before
the
king.
\VS{29}And
the
king
took
an
oath,
and
said,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
has
been
my saviour
from
all
my troubles,
\VS{30}As
I
took
an
oath
to
you
by
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
saying,
Certainly
Solomon
your
son
will become
king
after
me,
seated
on
my
seat
in
my
place;
so
will
I
do
this
day.
\VS{31}Then Bath-sheba went
down
on
her
face
on
the
earth
before
the
king giving
him honour,
and
said,
May
my
lord
King
David go
on living
for
ever.
\VS{32}And
King
David
said, Send
for
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada.
And
they
came
before
the
king.
\VS{33}And
the
king
said
to
them,
Take
with
you
the
servants
of
your
lord,
and
put
Solomon
my
son
on
my beast, yes,
mine,
and
take
him
down
to
Gihon;
\VS{34}And
there let
Zadok
the
priest
and
Nathan
the
prophet put
the holy
oil
on
him
to make
him
king
over
Israel;
and sounding
the
horn
say, Long
life
to
King
Solomon!
\VS{35}Then
come
up
after
him
and
he
will
come
in
and
take
his
place
on
the
seat
of
my kingdom;
for
he
is
to
be
king
in
my
place,
and
I
have
given
orders
that
he
is
to
be
ruler
over
Israel
and
over
Judah.
\VS{36}And
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada, answering
the
king,
said,
So
be
it:
and
may
the
Lord,
the
God
of
my
lord
the
king,
say
so.
\VS{37}As
the
Lord
has
been
with
my
lord
the
king,
even
so
may
he
be
with
Solomon
and
make
the
seat
of
his
authority
greater
than
that
of
my
lord
King
David.
\VS{38}So
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
the Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites,
went
down
and
put
Solomon
on
King David's beast
and
took
him
to
Gihon.
\VS{39}And
Zadok
the
priest
took
the vessel
of
oil
out
of
the
Tent,
and
put
the holy
oil
on
Solomon.
And
when
the
horn
was
sounded,
all
the
people
said, Long
life
to
King
Solomon!
\VS{40}And
all
the
people
came
up
after
him, piping
with pipes,
and
they
were
glad
with
great
joy,
so
that
the
earth
was shaking
with
the
sound.
\VS{41}And
it
came
to
the ears
of
Adonijah
and
all
the
guests
who
were
with
him,
when
their meal
was
ended.
And
Joab,
hearing
the
sound
of
the
horn,
said,
What
is
the
reason
of
this
noise
as
if
the
town
was worked
up?
\VS{42}And
while
the words
were
on
his lips,
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Abiathar
the
priest,
came;
and
Adonijah
said,
Come
in;
for
you
are
a
man
of
good faith
and
the
news which
you
have
for
us
will
be
good.
\VS{43}And
Jonathan, answering,
said
to
Adonijah,
Not
so,
but
our
lord
King
David
has made
Solomon
king:
\VS{44}And
he
sent
with
him
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
the
Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites;
and
they
put
him
on
the king's beast:
\VS{45}And
Zadok
the
priest
and
Nathan
the
prophet
put
the holy
oil
on
him
and
made
him
king
in
Gihon;
and
they
came
back
from
there
with joy,
and
the
town
was
all
worked
up.
This
is
the
noise
which
has
come
to
your ears.
\VS{46}And
now
Solomon
is
seated
on
the
seat
of
the
kingdom.
\VS{47}And
the king's
servants
came
to
our
lord
King
David,
blessing
him
and
saying,
May
God
make
the
name
of
Solomon
better
than
your
name,
and
the
seat
of
his
authority
greater
than
your
seat;
and
the
king
was bent low
in
worship
on
his
bed.
\VS{48}Then
the
king
said,
May
the
God
of
Israel
be
praised,
who
has
given
one
of
my seed
to
be
king
in
my
place
this
day
and
has
let
my
eyes
see
it.
\VS{49}And
all
the
guests
of
Adonijah
got
up
in
fear
and
went
away,
every
man
to
his
place.
\VS{50}And
Adonijah
himself
was full
of
fear
because
of
Solomon;
and
he
got
up
and
went
to
the
altar,
and
put
his hands
on
its
horns.
\VS{51}And
they
gave
Solomon
word
of
it,
saying,
See,
Adonijah goes
in such
fear
of
King
Solomon,
that
he
has
put
his hands
on
the
horns
of
the
altar,
saying,
Let
King
Solomon
first
give
me
his
oath
that
he
will
not
put
his
servant
to
death
with
the
sword.
\VS{52}And
Solomon
said,
If
he
is seen
to
be
a
man
of good faith,
not
a
hair
of
him
will
be touched;
but
if
any wrongdoing
is seen
in
him,
he
is
to
be
put
to
death.
\VS{53}So
King
Solomon
sent,
and
they
took
him
down
from
the
altar.
And
he
came
and
gave honour
to
King
Solomon;
and
Solomon
said
to
him,
Go
to
your
house.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
time
of David's
death
came
near;
and
he
gave
orders
to
Solomon
his
son,
saying,
\VS{2}I
am
going
the
way
of
all
the
earth:
so
be
strong
and
be
a
man;
\VS{3}And
keep
the
orders
of
the
Lord
your
God, walking
in
his
ways,
keeping
his
laws
and
his
orders
and
his
rules
and
his
words,
as
they
are
recorded
in
the
law
of
Moses;
so
that
you
may
do
well
in
all
you
do
and
wherever
you go,
\VS{4}So
that
the
Lord
may
give
effect
to
what
he
said
of
me,
If
your
children
give
attention
to
their
ways,
living uprightly
before
me
with
all
their
heart
and
their
soul,
you
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
be
king
in
Israel.
\VS{5}Now
you
have
knowledge
of
what
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
did
to
me,
and
to
the
two
captains
of
the
army
of
Israel,
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner,
and
Amasa,
the
son
of
Jether,
whom
he
put
to
death,
taking payment
for
the
blood
of
war
in
time
of
peace,
and
making
the band
of
my clothing
and
the
shoes
on
my
feet red
with
the
blood
of
one
put
to
death without
cause.
\VS{6}So
be guided
by
your
wisdom,
and
let
not
his white
head
go
down
to
the underworld
in
peace.
\VS{7}But
be good
to
the
sons
of
Barzillai
the
Gileadite,
and
let
them
be guests
at
your
table;
for
so
they
came
to
me
when
I
went
in
flight
from
Absalom
your
brother.
\VS{8}Now
you
have
with
you
Shimei,
the
son
of
Gera
the
Benjamite
of
Bahurim,
who
put
a bitter
curse
on
me
on
the
day
when
I
went
to
Mahanaim;
but
he
came
down
to
see
me
at
Jordan,
and
I
gave
him
my
oath
by
the
Lord,
saying,
I
will
not
put
you
to
death
by
the
sword.
\VS{9}But
do
not
let
him
be
free
from
punishment,
for
you
are
a
wise
man;
and
it
will
be
clear
to
you
what
you
have
to
do
with
him;
see
that
his white
head
goes
down
to
the underworld
in
blood.
\VS{10}Then
David went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
his body
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David.
\VS{11}David
was
king
over
Israel
for
forty
years:
for
seven
years
he
was
king
in
Hebron
and
for
thirty-three
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}And
Solomon
took
his
place
on
the
seat
of
David
his
father,
and
his
kingdom
was
made safe
and strong.
\VS{13}Then
Adonijah,
the
son
of
Haggith,
came
to Bath-sheba,
the
mother
of
Solomon.
And
she
said,
Come
you
in
peace?
And
he
said, Yes,
in
peace.
\VS{14}Then
he
said,
I
have
something
to
say
to
you.
And she
said,
Say
on.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
You saw
how
the
kingdom
was mine,
and
all
Israel
had
the idea
that
I
would
be
their
king;
but
now
the
kingdom
is
turned
about,
and
has
become
my brother's,
for
it
was given
to
him
by
the
Lord.
\VS{16}Now
I
have
one
request
to
make
to
you,
and
do
not
say,
No,
to
me.
And
she
said
to
him,
Say
on.
\VS{17}Then
he
said,
Will
you
go
to
Solomon
the
king (for
he
will
not
say,
No,
to
you)
and
put
before
him
my
request
that
he
will
give
me
Abishag
the
Shunammite
for
a
wife?
\VS{18}And Bath-sheba
said,
Good!
I
will make
your request
to
the
king.
\VS{19}So Bath-sheba
went
to
King
Solomon
to
have
talk
with
him
on Adonijah's
account.
And
the
king
got
up
to
come
to
her,
and
went
down low
to
the earth
before
her;
then
he
took
his
place
on
the king's
seat
and
had
a
seat
made ready
for
the king's
mother
and
she
took
her
place
at
his
right
hand.
\VS{20}Then
she
said,
I
have
one
small
request
to
make
to
you;
do
not
say,
No,
to
me.
And
the
king
said,
Say
on,
my
mother,
for
I
will
not
say,
No,
to
you.
\VS{21}And she
said,
Let
Abishag
the
Shunammite
be
given
to
Adonijah
your
brother
for
a
wife.
\VS{22}Then
King
Solomon made
answer
and
said
to
his
mother,
Why
are
you requesting
me
to
give
Abishag
the
Shunammite
to
Adonijah? Take
the
kingdom
for
him
in addition,
for
he
is
my
older
brother,
and
Abiathar
the
priest
and
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
are
on
his side.
\VS{23}Then
King
Solomon
took
an
oath
by
the
Lord,
saying,
May God's punishment
be
on
me
if
Adonijah
does
not
give payment
for
these
words
with
his
life.
\VS{24}Now
by
the
living
Lord,
who
has given
me
my
place
on
the
seat
of
David
my
father,
and
made
me
one
of
a line
of kings,
as
he
gave
me
his
word,
truly
Adonijah
will
be
put
to
death
this
day.
\VS{25}And
King
Solomon
sent
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
he made
an
attack
on
him
and
put
him
to
death.
\VS{26}And
to
Abiathar
the
priest
the
king
said, Go
to
Anathoth,
to
your
fields;
for
death
would
be
your right reward;
but
I
will
not
put
you
to
death
now,
because
you
took
up
the
ark
of
the
Lord
God
before
David
my
father,
and
you
were
with
him
in
all
his troubles.
\VS{27}So
Solomon
let
Abiathar
be
priest no longer,
so
that
he
might make
the
word
of
the
Lord
come
true
which
he
said
about
the sons
of
Eli
in
Shiloh.
\VS{28}And
news
of
this
came
to
Joab;
for
Joab
had
been
one
of Adonijah's
supporters,
though
he
had
not
been
on Absalom's
side.
Then
Joab
went
in
flight
to
the
Tent
of
the
Lord,
and
put
his hands
on
the
horns
of
the
altar.
\VS{29}And
they
said
to
King
Solomon,
Joab
has gone
in
flight
to
the
Tent
of
the
Lord
and
is
by
the
altar.
Then
Solomon
sent
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
saying,
Go,
make
an
attack
on
him.
\VS{30}And
Benaiah
came
to
the
Tent
of
the
Lord
and
said
to
him,
The
king
says,
Come
out.
And
he
said,
No;
but
let
death
come
to
me
here.
And
Benaiah
went
back
to
the
king
and
gave
him
word
of
the
answer
which
Joab
had given.
\VS{31}And
the
king
said,
Do
as
he
has
said
and
make
an
attack
on
him
there,
and
put
his body
into
the earth;
so
that
you
may
take
away
from
me
and
from
my
family
the
blood
of
one
put
to
death
by
Joab
without
cause.
\VS{32}And
the
Lord
will send
back
his
blood
on
his
head,
because
of
the
attack
he
made
on
two
men
more
upright
and
better
than
himself, putting
them
to
the
sword
without
my father's
knowledge;
even
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner,
captain
of
the
army
of
Israel,
and
Amasa,
the
son
of
Jether,
captain
of
the
army
of
Judah.
\VS{33}So
their
blood
will
be
on
the
head
of
Joab,
and
on
the
head
of
his
seed
for
ever;
but
for
David
and
his
seed
and
his
family
and
the
seat
of
his kingdom,
there
will
be
peace
for
ever
from
the
Lord.
\VS{34}So
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
went
up,
and falling
on
him,
put
him
to
death;
and
his
body
was
put
to rest
in
his
house
in
the waste land.
\VS{35}And
the
king
put
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
in
his
place
over
the
army;
and
Zadok
the
priest
he
put
in
the
place
of
Abiathar.
\VS{36}Then
the
king
sent
for
Shimei,
and
said
to
him,
Make
a
house
for
yourself
in
Jerusalem
and keep
there
and
go
to
no other
place.
\VS{37}For
be
certain
that
on
the
day
when
you
go
out
and
go
over
the
stream
Kidron,
death
will overtake
you:
and
your
blood
will
be
on
your
head.
\VS{38}And
Shimei
said
to
the
king,
Very
well!
as
my
lord
the
king
has
said,
so
will
your
servant
do.
And
for
a
long
time
Shimei went
on
living
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{39}But
after
three
years,
two
of
the
servants
of
Shimei
went
in
flight
to
Achish,
son
of
Maacah,
king
of
Gath.
And
word
was
given
to
Shimei
that
his
servants
had
gone
to
Gath.
\VS{40}Then
Shimei
got
up,
and making ready
his ass,
he
went
to
Gath,
to
Achish,
in
search
of
his
servants;
and
he sent
and
got
them
from
Gath.
\VS{41}And news
was given
to
Solomon
that
Shimei
had
gone
from
Jerusalem
to
Gath
and
had
come
back
again.
\VS{42}Then
the
king
sent
for
Shimei,
and
said
to
him,
Did
I
not
make
you
take
an
oath
by
the
Lord, protesting
to
you
and
saying,
Be
certain
that
on
the
day
when
you
go
out
from
here,
wherever
you
go,
death
will overtake
you?
and
you
said
to
me,
Very
well!
\VS{43}Why
then
have
you
not
kept
the
oath
of
the
Lord
and
the
order
which
I
gave
you?
\VS{44}And
the
king
said
to
Shimei,
You
have
knowledge
of
all
the
evil
which
you
did
to
David
my
father;
and
now
the
Lord
has
sent
back
your
evil
on
yourself.
\VS{45}But
a
blessing
will
be
on
King
Solomon,
and
the
kingdom
of
David
will keep
its
place
before
the
Lord
for
ever.
\VS{46}So
the
king
gave
orders
to
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada;
and
he
went
out
and, falling
on
him,
put
him
to
death.
And Solomon's
authority
over
the
kingdom
was complete.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Solomon became
the
son-in-law
of
Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
and
took Pharaoh's
daughter
as
his wife, keeping
her
in
the
town
of
David,
till
the
house
he
was
building
for
himself,
and
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the
wall
round
Jerusalem,
were
complete.
\VS{2}But
all
this
time
the
people
were making
their
offerings
in
the
high
places,
because
no
house
had
been put
up
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
till
those
days.
\VS{3}And
Solomon,
in
his
love
for
the
Lord, kept
the laws
of
David
his
father;
but
he
made
offerings
and let
them go
up
in
smoke
on
the
high
places.
\VS{4}And
the
king
went
to
Gibeon
to
make
an
offering
there,
because
that
was
the chief
high
place:
it
was Solomon's
way
to
make
a
thousand burned
offerings
on
that
altar.
\VS{5}In
Gibeon,
Solomon
had
a
vision
of
the
Lord
in
a
dream
by
night;
and
God
said
to
him,
Say
what
I
am
to
give
you.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
said,
Great
was
your mercy
to
David
my
father,
as
his
life
before
you
was
true
and upright
and
his
heart
was
true
to
you;
and
you
have
kept
for
him
this
greatest mercy,
a
son
to
take
his
place
this
day.
\VS{7}And
now,
O
Lord
my
God,
you
have
made
your
servant
king
in
the
place
of
David
my
father;
and
I
am only
a
young
boy,
with
no
knowledge
of
how
to
go
out
or
come
in.
\VS{8}And
your
servant
has round
him
the
people
of
your selection,
a
people
so
great
that
they
may
not
be
numbered,
and
no
account
of
them
may
be
given.
\VS{9}Give
your
servant,
then,
a wise
heart
for
judging
your
people,
able
to
see
what
is
good
and
what
evil;
for
who
is
able
to
be
the
judge
of
this
great
people?
\VS{10}Now
these
words
and Solomon's
request
were
pleasing
to
the
Lord.
\VS{11}And
God
said
to
him,
Because
your
request
is
for
this
thing,
and
not
for
long
life
for
yourself
or
for
wealth
or
for
the
destruction
of
your haters,
but
for wisdom
to
be
a
judge
of causes;
\VS{12}I
have
done
as
you
said:
I
have
given
you
a
wise
and far-seeing
heart,
so
that
there
has
never
been
your equal
in
the past,
and
never
will
there
be
any
like
you
in
the future.
\VS{13}And
with
this
I
have
given
you
what
you
made
no
request
for:
wealth
and honour,
so
that
no
king
was ever
your equal.
\VS{14}And
if
you
go
on
in
my
ways,
keeping
my
laws
and
my
orders
as
your
father
David
did,
I
will
give
you
a
long
life.
\VS{15}And
Solomon, awakening,
saw
that
it
was
a
dream;
then
he
came
to
Jerusalem,
where
he
went
before
the
ark
of
the
agreement
of
the
Lord,
offering burned
offerings
and peace-offerings;
and
he
made
a
feast
for
all
his
servants.
\VS{16}Then
two loose
women
of
the town
came
and
took
their places
before
the
king;
\VS{17}And
one
of
them
said,
O
my
lord,
I
and
this
woman
are
living
in
the
same
house;
and
I
gave
birth
to
a
child
by
her
side
in
the
house.
\VS{18}And
three
days
after
the
birth
of
my
child,
this
woman
had
a
child:
we
were
together,
no other-person
was
with
us
in
the
house
but
we
two
only.
\VS{19}In
the
night,
this
woman, sleeping
on
her
child,
was
the cause
of
its
death.
\VS{20}And
she
got
up
in
the
middle
of
the
night
and
took
my
son
from
my
side while
your
servant
was
sleeping;
and
she
took
it
in
her
arms
and
put
her
dead
child
in
my
arms.
\VS{21}And
when
I
got
up
to
give
my
child
the breast,
I
saw
that
it
was
dead;
but
in
the
morning,
looking
at
it
with care,
I
saw
that
it
was
not
my
son.
\VS{22}And
the
other
woman
said,
No;
but
the
living
child
is
my
son
and
the
dead
one yours.
But
the
first
said,
No;
the
dead
child
is
your
son
and
the
living
one mine.
So
they kept
on
talking
before
the
king.
\VS{23}Then
the
king
said,
One
says,
The
living
child
is
my
son,
and yours
is
the
dead:
and
the
other
says,
Not
so;
but
your
son
is
the
dead
one
and mine
is
the
living.
\VS{24}Then
he
said,
Get
me
a
sword.
So
they
went
and
put
a
sword
before
the
king.
\VS{25}And
the
king
said,
Let
the
living
child
be
cut
in
two
and
one
half
given
to
one woman
and
one
to
the
other.
\VS{26}Then
the mother
of
the
living
child
came
forward,
for
her heart
went
out
to
her
son,
and
she
said,
O
my
lord,
give
her
the
child;
do
not
on
any
account
put
it
to
death.
But
the
other
woman
said,
It
will
not
be mine
or
yours;
let
it
be
cut
in
two.
\VS{27}Then
the
king
made
answer
and
said,
Give
her
the
child,
and do
not
put
it
to
death;
she
is
the
mother
of
it.
\VS{28}And news
of
this
decision
which
the
king
had
made
went
through
all
Israel;
and
they
had
fear
of
the
king,
for
they
saw
that
the
wisdom
of
God
was
in
him
to
give
decisions.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Solomon
was
king
over
all
Israel.
\VS{2}And
these
were
his
chief
men:
Azariah,
the
son
of
Zadok,
was
the
priest;
\VS{3}Elihoreph
and
Ahijah,
the
sons
of
Shisha,
were
scribes;
Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Ahilud,
was
the
recorder;
\VS{4}Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
was head
of
the
army;
Zadok
and
Abiathar
were
priests;
\VS{5}Azariah,
the
son
of
Nathan,
was
over
those
in
authority
in
the different divisions
of
the country;
Zabud,
the
son
of
Nathan,
was
priest
and
the king's
friend;
\VS{6}Ahishar
was controller
of
the king's
house;
Adoniram,
the
son
of
Abda,
was overseer
of
the
forced work.
\VS{7}And
Solomon put
twelve overseers
over
all
Israel,
to
be responsible
for
the stores needed
for
the
king
and
those
of
his
house;
every
man
was responsible
for
one
month
in
the
year.
\VS{8}And
these
are their
names: ...
the son
of Hur
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim;
\VS{9}... the son of Deker
in
Makaz
and
Shaalbim
and
Beth-shemesh
and
Elonbeth-hanan;
\VS{10}...
the son
of Hesed
in
Arubboth;
Socoh
and
all
the
land
of
Hepher
were under
his control;
\VS{11}...
the son
of Abinadab
in
all Naphath-dor;
his
wife
was
Taphath,
the
daughter
of
Solomon.
\VS{12}Baana,
the
son
of
Ahilud,
in
Taanach
and
Megiddo,
and
all
Beth-shean
which
is
by
the
side
of
Zarethan,
under
Jezreel,
from
Beth-shean
to
Abel-meholah,
as
far
as
the
far
side
of
Jokmeam;
\VS{13}...
the
son
of Geber
in
Ramoth-gilead;
he
had
the
towns
of
Jair,
the
son
of
Manasseh,
which
are
in
Gilead,
and
the country
of Argob,
which
is
in
Bashan,
sixty
great
towns
with
walls
and locks
of
brass.
\VS{14}Ahinadab,
the
son
of
Iddo,
in
Mahanaim;
\VS{15}Ahimaaz
in
Naphtali;
he
took
Basemath,
the
daughter
of
Solomon,
as
his
wife;
\VS{16}Baana,
the
son
of
Hushai,
in
Asher
and Aloth;
\VS{17}Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Paruah,
in
Issachar;
\VS{18}Shimei,
the
son
of
Ela,
in
Benjamin;
\VS{19}Geber,
the
son
of
Uri,
in
the
land
of
Gilead,
the
country
of
Sihon,
king
of
the
Amorites,
and
Og,
king
of
Bashan;
and
one overseer
had authority
over
all
the overseers
who
were
in
the
land.
\VS{20}Judah
and
Israel
were
as
great
in
number
as
the
sand
by
the seaside,
and
they
took
their
food
and
drink
with
joy
in
their hearts.
\VS{21}And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
\VS{22}And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
\VS{23}Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
\VS{24}For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.
\VS{25}So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
\VS{26}And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.
\VS{27}And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.
\VS{28}And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
\VS{29}And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
\VS{30}And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
\VS{31}For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.
\VS{32}He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
\VS{33}He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.
\VS{34}People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now Hiram, king
of Tyre, hearing
that
Solomon
had
been
made king
in
place
of
his father, sent
his
servants
to
him;
for Hiram
had ever
been
a friend
to
David.
\VS{2}And
Solomon sent back word
to Hiram, saying,
\VS{3}You
have knowledge that David my father
was not able
to make a house
for
the name
of
the Lord his God, because
of
the wars which
were round him on every side, till
the Lord put all those who
were against him under his feet.
\VS{4}But
now
the Lord
my God
has given
me
rest
on
every
side;
no
one
is
making trouble,
and
no evil
is taking
place.
\VS{5}And
so
it
is
my purpose
to make
a house
for
the name
of
the Lord
my God,
as
he said
to
David
my father,
Your son, whom
I
will make king
in
your
place,
will
be
the builder
of
a house
for
my name.
\VS{6}So
now,
will
you
have cedar-trees
from Lebanon cut down
for
me,
and
my servants
will
be
with
your servants;
and
I
will
give
you payment
for
your servants
at whatever rate
you say;
for
it
is common knowledge
that we
have no
such wood-cutters among us
as
the
men
of Zidon.
\VS{7}And
these
words
of
Solomon
made Hiram glad,
and
he
said, Now
may
the Lord
be praised
who
has given
to David
a wise son
to
be
king
over
this great
people.
\VS{8}Then Hiram sent
to Solomon, saying;
The words
you sent
have
been given
to
me:
I
will
do
all
your desire
in
the question
of cedar-wood
and cypress-wood.
\VS{9}My men
will
take
them
down
from Lebanon
to
the
sea,
where
I
will
have
them corded
together
to go
by
sea
to
whatever
place
you say,
and
I
will
have
them cut
up
there
so
that
you
may
take
them away;
as
for payment,
it
will
be
enough
if
you
give
me food
for
my
people.
\VS{10}So Hiram gave
Solomon
all
the cedar-wood
and cypress-wood
he
had need
of;
\VS{11}And Solomon
gave Hiram twenty thousand measures
of
grain,
as food
for
his
people,
and twenty measures
of
clear oil;
this
he did
every year.
\VS{12}Now
the Lord
had given Solomon wisdom,
as
he
had
said
to
him;
and
there
was peace between Hiram
and Solomon,
and
they
made
an agreement together.
\VS{13}Then
King Solomon
got
together men
for
the forced work
through
all Israel, thirty thousand men
in number;
\VS{14}And sent
them
to Lebanon
in bands
of ten thousand
every month:
for
a month
they
were working
in Lebanon
and
for two months
in
their
country,
and Adoniram
was
in control
of
them.
\VS{15}Then
he
had seventy thousand
for
the work
of transport,
and eighty thousand stone-cutters
in
the mountains;
\VS{16}In
addition
to
the chiefs
of
the responsible
men
put
by
Solomon
to oversee
the work, three thousand
and three hundred
in authority
over
the workmen.
\VS{17}By
the king's orders
great stones, stones
of high price,
were cut
out,
so
that
the base
of
the
house
might
be
made
of squared
stone.
\VS{18}Solomon's builders
and Hiram's builders did
the work
of cutting
them,
and
put edges
on
them,
and got
the wood
and
the stone
ready
for
the building
of
the house.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
four
hundred
and
eightieth
year
after
the
children
of
Israel
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
in
the
fourth
year
that
Solomon
was
king
of
Israel,
in
the
month
Ziv,
which
is
the
second
month,
the
building
of
the Lord's
house
was
started.
\VS{2}The
house
which
Solomon
made
for
the
Lord
was
sixty
cubits
long,
twenty
cubits
wide
and
thirty
cubits
high.
\VS{3}The covered
way
before
the
Temple
of
the
house
was
twenty
cubits
long,
as
wide
as
the
house,
and
ten
cubits
wide
in
front
of
the
house.
\VS{4}And
for
the
house
he
made
windows,
with network across.
\VS{5}And
against
the
walls
all
round,
and
against
the
walls
of
the
Temple
and
of
the inmost
room,
he put
up wings,
with
side
rooms
all
round:
\VS{6}The
lowest line
of
them being
five
cubits
wide,
the
middle
six
cubits
wide
and
the
third
seven
cubits;
for there
was
a space
all
round
the
outside
walls
of
the
house
so
that
the boards supporting
the
rooms did
not
have
to
be fixed
in
the
walls
of
the
house.
\VS{7}(And
the
stones
used
in
the
building
of
the
house
were squared
at
the
place
where
they
were cut
out;
there
was
no
sound
of
hammer
or
axe
or
any
iron instrument
while
they
were
building
the
house.)
\VS{8}The
door
to
the
lowest
side
rooms
was
in
the
right
side
of
the
house;
and
they
went
up
by twisting steps
into
the
middle
rooms,
and
from
the
middle
into
the
third.
\VS{9}So
he
put
up
the
house
and
made
it
complete, roofing
it
with boards
of cedar-wood.
\VS{10}And
he put
up
the line
of side
rooms
against
the walls
of
the
house, fifteen
cubits
high, resting
against
the
house
on boards
of cedar-wood.
\VS{11}(And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Solomon,
saying,
\VS{12}About
this
house
which
you
are
building:
if
you
will
keep
my laws
and
give
effect
to
my
decisions
and
be guided
by
my
rules,
I
will
give
effect
to
my
word
which
I
gave
to
David
your
father.
\VS{13}And
I
will
be ever
among
the
children
of
Israel,
and
will
not go away
from
my
people.
\VS{14}So
Solomon
made
the
building
of
the
house
complete.)
\VS{15}The
walls
of
the
house
were covered
inside
with cedar-wood
boards;
from
the
floor
to
the roof
of
the
house
they
were covered
inside
with
wood;
and
the
floor
was covered
with
boards
of cypress-wood.
\VS{16}And
at
the
back
of
the
house
a further space
of
twenty
cubits
was shut
in
with
boards
of cedar-wood,
for
the inmost
room.
\VS{17}And
the
house,
that
is,
the
Temple,
in front
of
the holy
place
was
forty
cubits long.
\VS{18}(All
the
inside
of
the
house
was cedar-wood, ornamented
with designs
of buds
and flowers;
no stonework
was
to
be
seen
inside.)
\VS{19}And
he
made
ready
an inmost
room
in
the
middle
of
the
house,
in
which
to
put
the
ark
of
the
agreement
of
the
Lord.
\VS{20}And
the inmost room
was
twenty
cubits square
and
twenty
cubits
high,
plated
over
with clear
gold,
and
he made
an
altar
of cedar-wood, plating
it
with
gold.
\VS{21}Solomon
had all
the
inside
of
the
house covered
with
gold,
and
he put
chains
of
gold
across
in
front
of
the inmost
room,
which itself
was covered
with
gold.
\VS{22}Plates
of
gold
were put
all
through
the
house
till
it
was covered
completely (and
the
altar
in
the inmost
room
was
all covered
with
gold).
\VS{23}In
the inmost room
he
made
two winged beings
of olive-wood,
ten
cubits
high;
\VS{24}With outstretched
wings
five
cubits wide;
the distance
from
the
edge
of
one
wing
to
the
edge
of
the
other
was
ten
cubits.
\VS{25}The
two winged ones
were
ten
cubits high,
of
the
same
size
and
form.
\VS{26}The
two
of them
were
ten
cubits
high.
\VS{27}These
were
placed
inside
the
inner
house,
their outstretched
wings
touching
the
walls
of
the
house,
one
touching
one
wall
and
one
the
other,
while
their
other
wings
were
touching
in
the
middle.
\VS{28}These winged ones
were
plated
over
with
gold.
\VS{29}And
all
the
walls
of
the
house
inside
and
out
were ornamented
with forms
of winged ones
and palm-trees
and
open flowers.
\VS{30}And
the
floor
of
the
house
was covered
with
gold,
inside
and
out.
\VS{31}For
the way into
the inmost room
he
made
doors
of olive-wood,
the arch
and
the
door supports forming
a
five-sided
opening.
\VS{32}On
the olive-wood
doors
were cut designs
of winged ones
and palm-trees
and open flowers, all
of
them,
with
the
doors,
plated
with
gold.
\VS{33}Then
he
made pillars
of olive-wood
for
the
way into
the
Temple;
the pillars
were
square:
\VS{34}And
two
folding
doors
of cypress-wood,
with
two
leaves.
\VS{35}These
were ornamented
with designs
of winged ones
and palm-trees
and open flowers,
plated
over
with
gold.
\VS{36}And
the
inner space was walled
with
three lines
of squared
stones
and
a line
of cedar-wood boards.
\VS{37}In
the
fourth
year
the base
of
the
house
was put
in
its
place,
in
the
month
Ziv.
\VS{38}And
in
the
eleventh
year,
in
the
month
Bul,
which
is
the
eighth
month,
the
building
of
the
house
was
complete
in
every detail,
as
it
had
been
designed.
So
he
was
seven
years
building
it.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Solomon
was
thirteen
years
building
a
house
for himself till
it
was
complete.
\VS{2}And
he
made
the
house
of
the
Woods
of
Lebanon,
which
was
a
hundred
cubits
long
and
fifty
cubits
wide
and
thirty
cubits
high, resting
on
four lines
of cedar-wood
pillars
with cedar-wood supports
on
the
pillars.
\VS{3}And
it
was
covered
with
cedar
over
the
forty-five supports
which
were
on
the
pillars,
fifteen
in
a line.
\VS{4}There
were
three lines
of window-frames,
window facing
window
in every line.
\VS{5}And
all
the
doors
and windows
had
square
frames,
with
the windows facing
one another
in
three lines.
\VS{6}And
he
made
a covered
room
of
pillars,
fifty
cubits
long
and
thirty
cubits
wide,
and ...
with steps
before
it.
\VS{7}Then
he
made
a
covered
room
for
his high
seat
when
he
gave
decisions;
this
was
the
covered
room
of
judging;
it
was
covered
with cedar-wood
from
floor
to roof.
\VS{8}And
the
house
for
his living-place,
the
other
open square
in
the
covered
room,
was
made
in
the
same
way.
And
then
he
made
a
house
like
it
for Pharaoh's
daughter,
whom
Solomon
had
taken
as
his wife.
\VS{9}All
these
buildings
were
made,
inside
and
out,
from base
to crowning
stone,
and
outside
to
the
great walled square,
of highly priced
stone,
cut
to different sizes
with cutting-instruments.
\VS{10}And
the base
was
of
great masses
of highly priced
stone, some
ten
cubits
and some
eight
cubits square.
\VS{11}Overhead
were
highly priced
stones
cut
to measure,
and cedar-wood.
\VS{12}The
great outer square
all
round
was walled
with
three lines
of squared
stones
and
a line
of cedar-wood boards,
round
about
the open square
inside
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the covered
room
of
the king's
house.
\VS{13}Then
King
Solomon
sent
and
got
Hiram
from
Tyre.
\VS{14}He
was
the
son
of
a
widow
of
the
tribe
of
Naphtali,
and
his
father
was
a
man
of
Tyre,
a
worker
in
brass;
he
was
full
of
wisdom
and
knowledge
and
an
expert
worker
in
brass.
He
came
to
King
Solomon
and
did
all
his
work
for
him.
\VS{15}He
it
was
who
made
the
two
brass
pillars;
the
first
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits
high,
and
a
line
of
twelve
cubits
went
round
it;
and
the
second
was
the
same.
\VS{16}And
he
made
the
two
crowns
to
be
put
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars,
of
brass
made soft
in
the fire;
the
crowns
were
five
cubits
high.
\VS{17}There
were
nets
of open-work
for
the
crowns
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars,
a net
of open-work
for
one
and
a net
of open-work
for
the
other.
\VS{18}And
he
made
ornaments
of apples;
and
two lines
of apples
all
round
over
the
network,
covering
the
crowns
of
the
pillars,
the
two
crowns
in
the
same
way.
\VS{19}The
crowns
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars
were ornamented
with
a
design
of flowers,
and
were
four
cubits
across.
\VS{20}And
there
were
crowns
on
the
two
pillars
near
the
round
part
by
the
network,
and
there
were
two
hundred apples
in lines
round
every
crown.
\VS{21}He put
up
the
pillars
at
the doorway
of
the
Temple, naming
the
one
on
the
right
Jachin,
and
that
on
the
left
Boaz.
\VS{22}The
tops
of
the
pillars
had
a
design
of flowers;
and
the
work
of making
the
pillars
was
complete.
\VS{23}And
he
made
a great
metal water-vessel
ten
cubits across
from
edge
to
edge,
five
cubits
high
and
thirty
cubits
round.
\VS{24}And
under
the
edge
of
it,
circling
it
all
round
for
ten
cubits,
were
two lines
of flower buds,
made
together
with
it
from liquid metal.
\VS{25}It
was supported
on
twelve
oxen,
with
their
back
parts
turned
to
the middle
of
it,
three
of
them
facing
to
the
north,
three
to
the
west,
three
to
the
south,
and
three
to
the
east;
the vessel
was resting
on
top
of
them.
\VS{26}It
was
as
thick
as a man's open hand,
and
was curved
like
the
edge
of a
cup,
like
the
flower
of a
lily: it
would take
two
thousand
baths.
\VS{27}And
he
made
ten wheeled bases
of
brass;
every
one
four
cubits
long,
four
cubits
wide,
and
three
cubits
high.
\VS{28}And
the bases
were
made
in
this
way;
their
sides
were square, fixed
in
a framework;
\VS{29}And
on
the square sides
between
the
frames
were
lions,
oxen,
and winged ones;
and
the same
on
the
frame;
and
over
and
under
the
lions
and
the
oxen
and
the winged ones
were steps.
\VS{30}Every base
had
four
wheels
of
brass, turning
on
brass rods,
and
their
four angles
had angle-plates
under
them;
the angle-plates
under
the base
were
of metal,
and
there
were ornaments
at
the
side
of
every
one.
\VS{31}The
mouth
of
it
inside
the angle-plate
was
one
cubit
across;
it
was
round
like
a
pillar,
a
cubit
and
a
half
across;
it
had designs cut
on
it;
the sides
were
square,
not
round.
\VS{32}The
four
wheels
were
under
the
frames,
and
the rods
on which
the
wheels
were fixed
were
in
the base;
the
wheels
were
a
cubit
and
a
half
high.
\VS{33}The
wheels
were
made
like carriage-wheels,
the rods
on which
they
were fixed,
the
parts forming
their edges,
their rods
and
the middle points
of
them,
were
all formed
out
of liquid metal.
\VS{34}And there
were
four angle-plates
at
the
four angles
of
every base, forming
part
of
the structure
of
the base.
\VS{35}And
at
the
top
of
the base there
was
a
round vessel,
half
a
cubit
high;
\VS{36}In
the spaces
of
the flat
sides
and
on
the
frames
of
them,
he made designs
of winged ones,
lions,
and palm-trees,
with ornamented edges
all
round.
\VS{37}All
the
ten bases were
made
in
this
way, after
the
same design,
of
the
same
size
and
form.
\VS{38}And
he
made
ten
brass washing-vessels,
everyone taking
forty
baths,
and measuring
four
cubits;
one vessel
was placed
on
every
one
of
the
ten bases.
\VS{39}And
he
put
the bases
by
the
house,
five
on
the
right
side
and
five
on
the
left;
and
he
put
the great water-vessel
on
the
right
side
of
the
house,
to
the
east, facing
south.
\VS{40}And
Hiram
made
the pots
and spades
and
the
basins.
So
Hiram
came
to
the
end
of
all
the
work
he
did
for
King
Solomon
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
\VS{41}The
two
pillars
and
the
two cups
of
the
crowns
which
were
on
the
tops
of
the
two
pillars;
and
the
network
covering
the
two cups
of
the
crowns
on
the
tops
of
the
pillars,
\VS{42}And
the
four
hundred apples
for
the
network,
two lines
of apples
for
every
network,
covering
the
two cups
of
the
crowns
on
the
pillars;
\VS{43}And
the
ten bases,
with
the
ten washing-vessels
on
them;
\VS{44}And
the great water-vessel,
with
the
twelve
oxen
under
it;
\VS{45}And
the
pots
and
the spades
and
the
basins;
all
the
vessels
which
Hiram
made
for
King
Solomon,
for
the
house
of
the
Lord,
were
of
polished
brass.
\VS{46}He made them
of liquid metal
in
the lowland
of
Jordan,
at
the way across
the river,
at Adama,
between
Succoth
and
Zarethan.
\VS{47}The
weight
of
all
these
vessels
was
not measured,
because
there
was
such
a
number
of
them;
it
was
not possible
to get
the
weight
of
the
brass.
\VS{48}And
Solomon
had
all
the
vessels
made
for use
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
the
altar
of
gold
and
the
gold
table
on
which
the holy
bread
was placed;
\VS{49}And
the supports
for
the lights,
five
on
the
right
side
and
five
on
the
left
before
the inmost room,
of clear
gold;
and
the
flowers
and
the lights
and all
the instruments
of
gold;
\VS{50}And
the cups
and
the scissors
and
the
basins
and
the
spoons
and
the fire-trays, all
of
gold;
and
the pins
on
which
the
doors
were
turned,
the
doors
of
the
inner
house,
the
most
holy
place,
and
the
doors
of
the
Temple, all
of
gold.
\VS{51}So
all
the
work
King
Solomon
had
done
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
was
complete.
Then
Solomon
took
the
holy
things
which
David
his
father
had
given,
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
all
the
vessels,
and
put
them
in
the store-houses
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
sent
for
all
the
responsible
men
of
Israel,
and
all
the
chiefs
of
the
tribes,
and
the
heads
of
families
of
the
children
of
Israel,
to
come
to
him
in
Jerusalem
to
take
the
ark
of
the Lord's
agreement
up
out
of
the
town
of
David,
which
is
Zion.
\VS{2}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
came
together
to
King
Solomon
at
the
feast,
in
the
month
Ethanim,
the
seventh
month.
\VS{3}And
all
the responsible
men
of
Israel
came,
and
the
priests
took
up
the
ark.
\VS{4}They
took
up
the
ark
of
the
Lord,
and
the
Tent
of
meeting,
and
all
the
holy
vessels
which
were
in
the
Tent;
all
these
the
priests
and
the
Levites
took
up.
\VS{5}And
King
Solomon
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
who
had come
together
there,
were
with
him
before
the
ark,
making
offerings
of
sheep
and
oxen
more
than
might
be
numbered.
\VS{6}And
the
priests
took
the
ark
of
the
agreement
of
the
Lord
and
put
it
in
its
place
in
the
inner
room
of
the
house,
in
the
most
holy
place,
under
the
wings
of
the
winged
ones.
\VS{7}For
their
wings
were outstretched
over
the
place
where
the
ark
was,
covering
the
ark
and
its rods.
\VS{8}The rods
were
so
long
that
their
ends
were
seen
from
the
holy
place,
in
front
of
the inmost room;
but
they
were
not
seen
from
outside:
and
there
they
are
to
this
day.
\VS{9}There
was
nothing
in
the
ark
but
the
two flat
stones
which
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb,
where
the
Lord
made
an agreement
with
the
children
of
Israel
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{10}Now
when
the
priests
had
come
out
of
the
holy
place,
the
house
of
the
Lord
was
full
of
the
cloud,
\VS{11}So
that
the
priests
were
not
able
to keep
their
places
to
do
their work
because
of
the
cloud,
for
the
house
of
the
Lord
was
full
of
the
glory
of
the
Lord.
\VS{12}Then
Solomon
said,
O
Lord,
to
the sun
you
have given
the heaven
for
a living-place,
but
your living-place
was not seen
by
men;
\VS{13}So I
have
made
for
you
a living-place,
a
house
in
which
you
may
be
for
ever present.
\VS{14}Then,
turning
his
face
about,
the
king gave
a
blessing
to
all
the
men
of
Israel;
and
they
were
all
on
their feet together.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
Praise
be
to
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
himself
gave
his
word
to
David
my
father,
and
with
his strong
hand
has
made
his
word
come
true,
saying,
\VS{16}From
the
day
when
I
took
my
people
Israel
out
of
Egypt,
no
town
in
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
has
been marked
out
by
me
for
the
building
of
a
house
for
the resting-place
of
my
name;
but
I
made selection
of
David
to
be
king
over
my
people
Israel.
\VS{17}Now
it
was
in
the
heart
of
David
my
father
to put
up
a
house
for
the
name
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{18}But
the
Lord
said
to
David
my
father,
You
did
well
to
have
in
your
heart
the
desire
to
make
a
house
for
my
name;
\VS{19}But
you
yourself
will
not
be
the builder
of
my
house;
but
your
son,
the
offspring
of
your body,
he
it
is
who
will
put
up
a
house
for
my
name.
\VS{20}And
the
Lord
has
made
his
word
come
true;
for
I
have
taken
my
father David's
place
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom
of
Israel,
as
the
Lord gave
his
word;
and
I
have
made
a
house
for
the
name
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{21}In
it
I
have
made
a
place
for
the
ark,
in
which
is
the
agreement
which
the
Lord
made
with
our
fathers,
when
he
took
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{22}Then
Solomon
took
his
place
before
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
all
the
men
of
Israel being
present,
and
stretching
out
his
hands
to
heaven,
\VS{23}Said,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like
you
in
heaven
or
on
the
earth;
keeping faith
and
mercy unchanging
for
your
servants,
while
they
go
in
your ways
with
all
their
hearts.
\VS{24}And
you
have
kept
the
word
which
you
gave
to
your
servant
David,
my
father;
with
your
mouth
you
said
it
and
with
your
hand
you
have
made
it
come true
this
day.
\VS{25}So
now,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
let
your
word
to
your
servant
David,
my
father,
come
true,
when
you
said,
You
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
take
his place
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom
of
Israel
before
me,
if
only
your
children
give
attention
to
their
ways,
walking
before
me
as
you
have
done.
\VS{26}So
now,
O
God
of
Israel,
it
is
my prayer
that
you
will make
your
word
come true
which
you
said
to
your
servant
David,
my
father.
\VS{27}But
is
it
truly possible
that
God
may
be housed
on
earth?
see,
heaven
and
the
heaven
of
heavens
are
not wide enough
to
be
your resting-place;
how
much
less
this
house
which
I
have
made!
\VS{28}Still, let
your
heart
be
turned
to
the
prayer
of
your
servant,
O
Lord
God,
and
to
his
prayer
for
grace;
give ear
to
the
cry
and
the
prayer
which
your
servant sends
up
to
you
this
day;
\VS{29}That
your
eyes
may
be
open
to
this
house
night
and
day,
to
this
place
of
which
you
have
said,
My
name
will
be
there;
hearing
the
prayer
which
your
servant
may
make, turning
to
this
place.
\VS{30}Give ear
to
the prayers
of
your
servant,
and
the prayers
of
your
people
Israel,
when
they
make
their prayers, turning
to
this
place;
give ear
in
heaven
your living-place,
and
hearing,
have
mercy.
\VS{31}If
a
man
does
wrong
to
his neighbour,
and
has
to
take
an
oath,
and
comes
before
your
altar
to
take
his
oath
in
this
house:
\VS{32}Then
let
your ear
be open
in
heaven,
and
be
the
judge
of
your
servants,
giving
your decision against
the wrongdoer,
so
that
punishment
for
his sins
may come
on
his
head;
and,
by
your decision,
keeping
from
evil
him
who
has
done
no wrong.
\VS{33}When
your
people
Israel
are overcome
in war,
because
of
their
sin
against
you;
if
they
are
turned
to
you
again, honouring
your
name,
making prayers
to
you
and requesting
your grace
in
this
house:
\VS{34}Then
give ear
in
heaven,
and
let
the
sin
of
your
people
Israel
have forgiveness,
and
take
them
back
again
into
the
land
which
you
gave
to
their
fathers.
\VS{35}When
heaven
is
shut
up
and
there
is
no
rain,
because
of
their
sin
against
you;
if
they
make prayers
with
their faces
turned
to
this
place, honouring
your
name
and
turning
away
from
their
sin
when
you send
trouble
on
them:
\VS{36}Then
give ear
in
heaven,
so
that
the
sin
of
your
servants,
and
of
your
people
Israel,
may
have forgiveness,
when
you
make clear
to
them
the
good
way
in
which
they
are
to go;
and
send
rain
on
your
land
which
you
have
given
to
your
people
for
their
heritage.
\VS{37}If
there
is
no food
in
the
land,
or
if
there
is
disease,
or
if
the fruits
of
the
earth
are damaged
through heat
or water,
locust
or worm;
if
their
towns
are shut
in
by
their attackers;
whatever
trouble,
whatever
disease
there
may
be:
\VS{38}Whatever
prayer
or request
for
your
grace
is
made
by
any
man,
or
by
all
your
people
Israel,
whatever
his
trouble
may
be,
whose
hands
are
stretched
out
to
this
house:
\VS{39}Give ear
in
heaven
your living-place, acting
in mercy;
and
give
to
every
man
whose secret
heart
is open
to
you,
the reward
of
all
his
ways;
for
you,
and
you
only,
have
knowledge
of
the
hearts
of
all
the
children
of
men:
\VS{40}So
that
they
may
give
you
worship
all
the
days
of
their
life
in
the
land
which
you
gave
to
our
fathers.
\VS{41}And
as
for
the man
from
a strange
land,
who
is
not
of
your
people
Israel;
when
he
comes
from
a
far
country
because
of
the glory
of
your
name:
\VS{42}(For
they
will
have news
of
your
great
name
and
your
strong
hand
and
your out-stretched
arm;)
when
he
comes
to
make
his prayer,
turning
to
this
house:
\VS{43}Give ear
in
heaven
your living-place,
and
give
him
his desire,
whatever
it
may
be;
so
that
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
may
have
knowledge
of
your
name, worshipping
you
as
do
your
people
Israel,
and
that
they
may
see
that
this
house
which
I
have put
up
is
truly
named
by
your
name.
\VS{44}If
your
people
go
out
to
war
against
their attackers,
by
whatever
way
you
may
send
them,
if
they
make
their prayer
to
the
Lord, turning
their
faces
to
this
town
of yours
and
to
this
house
which
I
have
made
for
your
name:
\VS{45}Give ear
in
heaven
to
their
prayer
and
their cry
for
grace,
and see
right
done
to
them.
\VS{46}If
they
do
wrong
against
you, (for
no
man
is
without
sin,)
and
you
are
angry
with
them
and
give
them
up
into
the power
of
those
who
are fighting
against
them,
so
that
they
take
them
away
as prisoners
into
a strange
land,
far
off
or
near;
\VS{47}And
if
they
take
thought,
in
the
land
where
they
are prisoners,
and
are
turned
again
to
you, crying
out
in prayer
to
you
in
that
land,
and
saying,
We
are sinners,
we
have
done
wrong,
we
have
done
evil;
\VS{48}And
with
all
their
heart
and
soul
are
turned
again
to
you,
in
the
land
of
those
who
took
them prisoners,
and
make
their prayer
to
you,
turning
their eyes
to
this
land
which
you
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
to
the
town
which
you
took
for
yourself,
and
the
house
which
I
made
for
your
name:
\VS{49}Then
give ear
to
their
prayer
and
to
their cry
in
heaven
your living-place,
and see
right
done
to
them;
\VS{50}Answering
with forgiveness
the
people
who
have
done
wrong
against
you,
and overlooking
the evil
which
they
have
done
against
you;
let
those
who
made
them prisoners
be moved
with
pity
for
them,
and
have
pity
on
them;
\VS{51}For
they
are
your
people
and
your
heritage,
which
you
took
out
of
Egypt,
out
of
the
iron fireplace;
\VS{52}Let
your
eyes
be
open
to
your servant's prayer
for
grace
and
to
the prayer
of
your
people
Israel,
hearing
them
when
their
cry
comes
to
you.
\VS{53}For
you
made
them
separate
from
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth,
to
be
your
heritage,
as
you
said
by
Moses
your
servant,
when
you
took
our
fathers
out
of
Egypt,
O
Lord
God.
\VS{54}Then
Solomon,
after
making
all
these
prayers
and requests
for
grace
to
the
Lord,
got
up
from
his
knees
before
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
where
his
hands
had
been
stretched
out
in
prayer
to
heaven;
\VS{55}And, getting
on
his feet,
he
gave
a
blessing
to
all
the
men
of
Israel,
saying
with
a
loud
voice,
\VS{56}Praise
be
to
the
Lord
who
has
given
rest
to
his
people
Israel,
as
he
gave
them
his
word
to
do;
every
word
of
all
his
oath,
which
he
gave
by
the
hand
of
Moses
his
servant,
has
come
true.
\VS{57}Now
may
the
Lord
our
God
be
with
us
as
he
was
with
our
fathers;
let
him
never
go
away
from
us
or
give
us
up;
\VS{58}Turning
our
hearts
to
himself, guiding
us
to go
in
all
his
ways,
to
keep
his
orders
and
his
laws
and
his
decisions,
which
he
gave
to
our
fathers.
\VS{59}And
may
these
my
words,
the
words
of
my prayer
to
the
Lord,
be
before
the
Lord
our
God
day
and
night,
so
that
he
may
see
right
done
to
his
servant
and
to
his
people
Israel,
day
by
day
as
we
have
need.
\VS{60}So
that
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
may
see
that
the
Lord
is
God,
and
there
is
no
other.
\VS{61}Then
let
your
hearts
be without sin
before
the
Lord
our
God, walking
in
his
laws
and
keeping
his
orders
as
at
this
day.
\VS{62}Now
the
king,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
were
making
offerings
before
the
Lord.
\VS{63}And
Solomon gave
to
the
Lord
for peace-offerings,
twenty-two
thousand
oxen
and
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
sheep.
So
the
king
and
all
the
children
of
Israel kept
the feast
of
the opening
of
the Lord's
house.
\VS{64}The
same
day
the
king
made
holy
the
middle
of
the
open square
in
front
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
offering
there
the burned
offering
and
the
meal
offering
and
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings;
for
there
was
not
room
on
the
brass
altar
of
the
Lord
for
the burned
offerings
and
the
meal
offerings
and
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings.
\VS{65}So
Solomon
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
very
great meeting, (for
the
people
had
come
together
from
the
way
into
Hamath
to
the
river
of
Egypt,)
kept
the
feast
at
that
time
before
the
Lord
our
God,
for two weeks,
even
fourteen
days.
\VS{66}And
on
the
eighth
day
he
sent
the
people
away,
and,
blessing
the
king,
they went
to
their
tents
full
of
joy
and
glad
in
their
hearts,
because
of
all
the
good
which
the
Lord
had
done
to
David
his
servant
and
to
Israel
his
people.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
Solomon
came
to
the
end
of
building
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the king's
house,
and
all Solomon's desires,
which
he
had
in mind
were effected;
\VS{2}The
Lord
came
to
him
again
in
a
vision,
as
he
had done
at
Gibeon;
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Your
prayers
and
your requests
for
grace
have
come
to
my ears:
I
have
made
holy
this
house
which
you
have
made,
and
I
have
put
my
name
there
for
ever;
my
eyes
and
my
heart
will
be
there
at
all
times.
\VS{4}As
for
you,
if
you
will
go
on
your
way
before
me,
as
David
your
father
did, uprightly
and
with
a true
heart,
doing
what
I
have
given
you
orders
to
do,
keeping
my
laws
and
my
decisions;
\VS{5}Then
I
will
make
the
seat
of
your
rule
over
Israel
certain
for
ever,
as
I
gave
my
word
to
David
your
father,
saying,
You
will
never
be
without
a
man
to
be
king
in
Israel.
\VS{6}But
if
you
are
turned
from
my ways,
you
or
your
children,
and
do
not
keep
my
orders
and
my laws
which
I
have
put
before
you,
but
go
and
make
yourselves
servants
to
other
gods
and
give
them
worship:
\VS{7}Then
I
will
have
Israel
cut
off
from
the
land
which
I
have
given
them;
and
this
house,
which
I
have
made
holy
for
myself,
I
will
put
away
from
before
my eyes;
and
Israel
will
be
a public example,
and
a word
of shame
among
all
peoples.
\VS{8}And
this
house
will
become
a mass
of
broken walls,
and
everyone
who goes
by
will
be overcome
with wonder
at
it
and
make whistling sounds;
and
they
will
say,
Why
has
the
Lord
done
so
to
this
land
and
to
this
house?
\VS{9}And
their
answer
will
be,
Because
they
were turned
away
from
the
Lord
their
God,
who
took
their
fathers
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt;
they
took
for
themselves
other
gods
and
gave
them
worship
and
became
their
servants:
that
is
why
the
Lord
has
sent
all
this
evil
on
them.
\VS{10}Now
at
the
end
of
twenty
years,
in
which
time
Solomon
had put
up
the
two
houses,
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
the king's
house,
\VS{11}(Hiram,
king
of
Tyre,
had
given
Solomon cedar-trees
and cypress-trees
and
gold,
as
much
as
he
had need
of,)
King
Solomon
gave
Hiram
twenty
towns
in
the
land
of
Galilee.
\VS{12}But
when
Hiram
came
from
Tyre
to
see
the
towns
which
Solomon
had
given
him,
he
was
not
pleased
with
them.
\VS{13}And
he
said,
What sort
of
towns
are
these
which
you
have
given
me,
my
brother?
So
they
were
named
the
land
of
Cabul,
to
this
day.
\VS{14}And
Hiram
sent
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold.
\VS{15}Now,
this
was
the
way
of Solomon's system
of
forced
work
for
the
building
of
the Lord's
house
and
of
the king's
house,
and
the
Millo
and
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
and
Megiddo
and
Gezer. ...
\VS{16}Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
came
and
took
Gezer,
burning
it
down
and
putting
to death
the
Canaanites
living
in
the
town,
and
he
gave
it
for
a bride-offering
to
his
daughter, Solomon's
wife. ...
\VS{17}...
and
Solomon
was
the builder
of
Gezer
and
Beth-horon
the
lower,
\VS{18}And
Baalath
and
Tamar
in
the waste
land,
in
that
land;
\VS{19}And
all
the store-towns
and
the
towns
which
Solomon
had
for
his war-carriages
and
for
his
horsemen,
and
everything
which
it
was
his pleasure
to put
up
in
Jerusalem
and
in
Lebanon
and
in
all
the
land
under
his
rule.
\VS{20}As
for
the
rest
of
the
Amorites,
the
Hittites,
the
Perizzites,
the
Hivites,
and
the
Jebusites,
who
were
not
children
of
Israel;
\VS{21}Their
children
who
were
still
in
the
land,
and
whom
the
children
of
Israel
had
not
been
able
to
put
to complete destruction,
them
did
Solomon
put
to
forced
work,
to
this
day.
\VS{22}But
Solomon
did
not
put
the
children
of
Israel
to forced
work;
they
were
the
men
of
war,
his
servants,
his
captains,
and
his
chiefs,
captains
of
his war-carriages
and
of
his
horsemen.
\VS{23}These
were
the
chiefs
of
the
overseers
of Solomon's
work,
five
hundred
and
fifty,
in
authority
over
the
people
who
did
the
work.
\VS{24}At
that
time Solomon
made Pharaoh's
daughter
come
up
from
the
town
of
David
to
the
house
which
he
had
made
for
her:
then
he
made
the
Millo.
\VS{25}Three
times
in
the
year
it
was Solomon's
way
to
give
burned
offerings
and peace-offerings
on
the
altar
he
had
made
to
the
Lord, causing
his fire-offering
to
go
up
on
the
altar
before
the
Lord.
\VS{26}And
King
Solomon
made
a sea-force
of
ships
in
Ezion-geber,
by
Eloth,
on
the Red
Sea,
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{27}Hiram
sent
his
servants,
who
were
experienced seamen,
in
the sea-force
with Solomon's
men.
\VS{28}And
they
came
to
Ophir,
where
they
got
four
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
took
it
back
to
King
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
the
queen
of
Sheba,
hearing great things
of
Solomon,
came
to
put
his wisdom
to
the
test
with hard
questions.
\VS{2}And
she
came
to
Jerusalem
with
a
very
great train,
with
camels weighted
down
with
spices,
and stores
of
gold
and jewels:
and
when
she
came
to
Solomon
she
had
talk
with
him
of
everything
in
her
mind.
\VS{3}And
Solomon
gave
her
answers
to
all
her
questions;
there
was
no
secret
which
the
king
did
not
make
clear
to
her.
\VS{4}And
when
the
queen
of
Sheba
had
seen
all
the
wisdom
of
Solomon,
and
the
house
which
he
had
made,
\VS{5}And
the
food
at
his
table,
and
all
his
servants seated
there,
and
those
who
were waiting
on
him
in
their
places,
and
their
robes,
and
his wine-servants,
and
the burned
offerings
which
he
made
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
her.
\VS{6}And
she
said
to
the
king,
The
account
which
was
given
to
me
in
my
country
of
your
acts
and
your
wisdom
was
true.
\VS{7}But
I
had
no
faith
in
what
was
said
about
you,
till
I
came
and
saw
for myself;
and
now
I
see
that
it
was
not
half
the story;
your
wisdom
and
your
wealth
are
much greater
than
they
said.
\VS{8}Happy
are
your wives,
happy
are
these
your
servants
whose
place
is
ever
before
you,
hearing
your words
of
wisdom.
\VS{9}May
the
Lord
your
God
be
praised,
whose
pleasure
it
was
to
put
you
on
the
seat
of
the
kingdom
of
Israel;
because
the Lord's
love
for
Israel
is
eternal,
he
has
made
you
king,
to
be
their
judge
in
righteousness.
\VS{10}And
she
gave
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
a
great store
of
spices
and jewels:
never
again
was
such
a
wealth
of
spices seen
as
that
which
the
queen
of
Sheba
gave
King
Solomon.
\VS{11}And
the sea-force
of
Hiram,
in
addition
to
gold
from
Ophir,
came
back
with
much sandal-wood
and jewels.
\VS{12}And
from
the sandal-wood
the
king
made pillars
for
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
for
the king's
house,
and instruments
of music
for
the makers
of melody:
never
has
such sandal-wood
been
seen
to
this
day.
\VS{13}And
King
Solomon
gave
the
queen
of
Sheba
all
her
desire,
whatever
she
made
request
for,
in addition
to
what
he
gave
her freely
from
the impulse
of
his heart.
So
she went
back
to
her
country,
she
and
her
servants.
\VS{14}Now
the
weight
of
gold
which
came
to
Solomon
in
one
year
was
six
hundred
and sixty-six
talents;
\VS{15}In addition
to what
came
to
him
from
the business
of
the
traders,
and
from
all
the
kings
of
the Arabians,
and
from
the rulers
of
the
country.
\VS{16}And
Solomon
made
two
hundred body-covers
of hammered
gold,
every
one
having
six
hundred shekels
of
gold
in
it.
\VS{17}And
he
made
three
hundred smaller body-covers
of hammered
gold,
with
three pounds
of
gold
in
every cover:
and
the
king
put
them
in
the
house
of
the
Woods
of
Lebanon.
\VS{18}Then
the
king
made
a
great
ivory
seat,
plated
with
the best
gold.
\VS{19}There
were
six
steps going
up
to
it,
and
the
top
of
it
was
round
at
the
back,
there
were
arms
on
the
two
sides
of
the
seat,
and
two
lions
by
the
side
of
the
arms;
\VS{20}And
twelve
lions
were
placed
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
side
on
the
six
steps:
there
was
nothing
like
it
in
any
kingdom.
\VS{21}And
all
King Solomon's drinking-vessels
were
of
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Woods
of
Lebanon
were
of
the best
gold;
not
one
was
of
silver,
for
no
one
gave
a
thought
to
silver
in
the
days
of
King
Solomon.
\VS{22}For
the
king
had Tarshish-ships
at
sea
with
the
ships
of
Hiram;
once
every
three
years
the Tarshish-ships
came
with
gold
and
silver
and
ivory
and monkeys
and
peacocks.
\VS{23}And
King
Solomon
was
greater
than
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
in
wealth
and
in
wisdom.
\VS{24}And
from
all
over
the
earth
they came
to
see
Solomon
and
to
give ear
to
his
wisdom,
which
God
had
put
in
his
heart.
\VS{25}And
everyone
took
with
him
an
offering,
vessels
of
silver
and
vessels
of
gold,
and robes,
and coats
of metal,
and
spices,
and
horses,
and beasts
of transport, regularly
year
by
year.
\VS{26}And
Solomon got
together war-carriages
and
horsemen;
he
had
one
thousand,
four
hundred carriages
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen, whom
he kept, some
in
the carriage-towns
and some
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{27}And
the
king
made
silver
as common
as
stones
in
Jerusalem
and
cedars
like
the sycamore-trees
of
the lowlands
in
number.
\VS{28}And Solomon's
horses came
from
Egypt
and
from Kue;
the king's
traders
got
them
at
a
price
from Kue.
\VS{29}A war-carriage might
be
got
from
Egypt
for
six
hundred
shekels
of
silver,
and
a
horse
for
a
hundred
and
fifty;
they
got
them
at
the
same rate
for
all
the
kings
of
the
Hittites
and
the
kings
of
Aram.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
a number
of strange
women
were
loved
by
Solomon,
women
of
the
Moabites,
Ammonites,
Edomites, Zidonians,
and
Hittites:
\VS{2}The
nations
of
which
the
Lord
had
said
to
the
children
of
Israel,
You
are
not
to
take wives
from
them
and
they
are
not
to
take wives
from
you;
or
they
will
certainly make
you
go
after
their
gods:
to
these
Solomon
was united
in
love.
\VS{3}He
had
seven
hundred
wives, daughters
of kings,
and
three
hundred other
wives;
and
through
his
wives
his
heart
was
turned
away.
\VS{4}For
it
came
about
that
when
Solomon
was
old,
his
heart
was
turned
away
to
other
gods
by
his
wives;
and
his
heart
was
no
longer
true
to
the
Lord
his
God
as
the
heart
of
his
father
David
had
been.
\VS{5}For
Solomon went
after Ashtoreth,
the
goddess
of
the Zidonians,
and
Milcom,
the disgusting
god
of
the
Ammonites.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
not walking
in
the Lord's ways
with
all
his heart
as
David
his
father
did.
\VS{7}Then
Solomon put
up
a
high
place
for
Chemosh,
the disgusting god
of
Moab,
in
the
mountain
before
Jerusalem,
and
for
Molech,
the disgusting god worshipped
by
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{8}And
so
he
did
for
all
his strange
wives,
who
made offerings
with
burning
of perfumes
to
their
gods.
\VS{9}And
the
Lord
was
angry
with
Solomon,
because
his
heart
was
turned
away
from
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
had
twice come
to
him
in
a
vision;
\VS{10}And
had
given
him
orders
about
this
very
thing,
that
he
was
not
to go
after
other
gods;
but
he
did
not
keep
the
orders
of
the
Lord.
\VS{11}So
the
Lord
said
to
Solomon,
Because
you
have
done
this,
and
have
not
kept
my
agreement
and
my laws,
which
I
gave
you,
I
will
take
the
kingdom
away
from
you
by force
and
will
give
it
to
your
servant.
\VS{12}I
will
not
do
it
in
your life-time,
because
of
your
father
David,
but
I
will take
it
from
your
son.
\VS{13}Still
I
will
not
take
all
the
kingdom
from
him;
but
I
will
give
one
tribe
to
your
son,
because
of
my
servant
David,
and
because
of
Jerusalem,
the town
of
my selection.
\VS{14}So
the
Lord sent
Hadad
the
Edomite
to
make trouble
for
Solomon:
he
was
of
the king's
seed
in
Edom.
\VS{15}And
when
David
had
sent destruction
on
Edom,
and
Joab,
the
captain
of
the
army,
had
gone
to
put
the
dead
into
the
earth,
and
had
put
to death
every
male
in
Edom;
\VS{16}(For
Joab
and
all
Israel
were
there
six
months
till
every
male
in
Edom
had
been
cut
off;)
\VS{17}Hadad, being still
a
young
boy,
went
in
flight
to
Egypt,
with
certain
Edomites,
servants
of
his
father;
\VS{18}And
they
went
on
from
Midian
and
came
to
Paran;
and,
taking
men
from
Paran
with
them,
they
came
to
Egypt,
to
Pharaoh,
king
of
Egypt,
who
gave
him
a
house
and
gave
orders
for
his
food
and
gave
him
land.
\VS{19}Now
Hadad
was
very pleasing
to
Pharaoh,
so
that
he
gave
him
the
sister
of
his
wife,
Tahpenes
the
queen,
for
his
wife.
\VS{20}And
the
sister
of
Tahpenes
had
a
son
by
him,
Genubath, whom
Tahpenes
took care
of
in Pharaoh's
house;
and
Genubath
was living
in Pharaoh's
house
among Pharaoh's
sons.
\VS{21}Now
when
Hadad
had
news
in
Egypt
that
David
had
been
put
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
that
Joab,
the
captain
of
the
army,
was
dead,
he
said
to
Pharaoh,
Send
me
back
to
my
country.
\VS{22}But
Pharaoh
said
to
him,
What
have
you
been short
of
while
you
have
been
with
me,
that
you
are desiring
to
go
back
to
your
country?
And
he
said,
Nothing;
but
even
so,
send
me
back.
\VS{23}And
God sent another trouble-maker,
Rezon,
the
son
of
Eliada,
who
had
gone
in
flight
from
his
lord,
Hadadezer,
king
of
Zobah:
\VS{24}He got
some
men
together
and
made
himself
captain
of
a
band
of outlaws;
and
went
to
Damascus
and
became
king
there.
\VS{25}He
was
a
trouble
to
Israel
all
through
the
days
of
Solomon.
And
this
is
the damage
Hadad
did:
he
was cruel
to
Israel
while
he
was ruler
over
Edom.
\VS{26}And there
was
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
an
Ephraimite
from
Zeredah,
a
servant
of
Solomon,
whose
mother
was
Zeruah,
a
widow;
and
his
hand
was
lifted
up
against
the
king.
\VS{27}The
way
in
which
his
hand came
to
be
lifted
up
against
the
king
was
this:
Solomon
was
building
the
Millo
and
making good
the damaged
parts
of
the
town
of
his
father
David;
\VS{28}And
Jeroboam
was
an
able
and
responsible
man;
and
Solomon
saw
that
he
was
a good
worker
and
made
him
overseer
of
all
the
work given
to
the sons
of
Joseph.
\VS{29}Now
at
that
time,
when
Jeroboam
was
going
out
of
Jerusalem,
the
prophet
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
came across
him
on
the
road;
now
Ahijah
had
put
on
a
new
robe;
and
the
two
of
them
were
by
themselves
in
the open
country.
\VS{30}And
Ahijah
took
his
new
robe
in
his hands, parting
it violently
into
twelve.
\VS{31}And
he
said
to
Jeroboam,
Take
ten
of
the
parts,
for
this
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
See,
I
will
take
the
kingdom
away
from
Solomon
by
force,
and
will
give
ten
tribes
to
you;
\VS{32}(But
one
tribe
will
be
his,
because
of
my
servant
David,
and
because
of
Jerusalem,
the
town
which,
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
I
have
made mine,)
\VS{33}Because
they
are turned
away
from
me
to
the
worship
of Ashtoreth,
the
goddess
of
the Zidonians,
and
Chemosh,
the
god
of
Moab,
and
Milcom,
the
god
of
the
Ammonites;
they
have
not
been
walking
in
my
ways
or
doing
what
is
right
in
my
eyes
or keeping
my laws
and
my
decisions
as
his
father
David
did.
\VS{34}But
I
will
not
take
the
kingdom
from
him;
I
will
let
him
be
king
all
the
days
of
his
life,
because
of
David
my
servant,
in
whom
I
took delight
because
he
kept
my
orders
and
my laws.
\VS{35}But
I
will
take
the
kingdom
from
his
son,
and
give
it
to
you.
\VS{36}And
one
tribe
I
will
give
to
his
son,
so
that
David
my
servant
may
have
a
light
for ever burning
before
me
in
Jerusalem,
the
town
which
I
have
made mine
to
put
my
name
there.
\VS{37}And
you
I
will
take,
and
you
will
be
king
over
Israel, ruling
over
whatever
is
the
desire
of
your
soul.
\VS{38}And
if
you
give
attention
to
the
orders
I
give
you,
walking
in
my
ways
and
doing
what
is
right
in
my
eyes
and
keeping
my laws
and
my
orders
as
David
my
servant
did;
then
I
will
be
with
you,
building
up
for
you
a
safe
house,
as
I
did
for
David,
and
I
will
give
Israel
to
you.
\VS{39}(So
that
I
may send trouble
for
this
on
the
seed
of
David,
but
not
for ever.)
\VS{40}And
Solomon
was
looking
for
a chance
to
put
Jeroboam
to
death;
but
he
went
in
flight
to
Egypt,
to
Shishak,
king
of
Egypt,
and
was
in
Egypt
till
the
death
of
Solomon.
\VS{41}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Solomon,
and
all
he
did,
and
his
wisdom,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the
acts
of
Solomon?
\VS{42}And
the
time
Solomon
was
king
in
Jerusalem
over
all
Israel
was
forty
years.
\VS{43}And
Solomon went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David
his
father:
and
Solomon went
to
rest
with
his
fathers
and
Rehoboam
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Rehoboam
went
to
Shechem, where
all
Israel
had
come together
to
make
him
king,
\VS{2}And,
hearing
of
it,
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
who
was
still
in
Egypt,
where
he
had
gone
in
flight
from
Solomon,
and
was
living
there,
came
back
to
his town Zeredah,
in
the hill-country
of Ephraim;
\VS{3}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
came
to
Rehoboam
and
said,
\VS{4}Your
father
put
a
hard
yoke
on
us:
if
you
will
make
the conditions
under
which
your
father
kept
us
down less
cruel,
and
the weight
of
the
yoke
he
put
on
us less
hard,
then
we
will
be
your
servants.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them,
Go
away
for
three
days
and
then
come
back
to
me
again.
So
the
people
went
away.
\VS{6}Then
King
Rehoboam
took
the opinion
of
the
old
men
who
had
been
with
Solomon
his
father
when
he
was
living,
and
said,
In
your opinion,
what
answer
am
I
to
give
to
this
people?
\VS{7}And
they
said
to
him,
If
you
will
be
a
servant
to
this
people
today, caring
for
them
and
giving
them
a gentle
answer,
then
they
will
be
your
servants
for
ever.
\VS{8}But
he
gave no
attention
to
the opinion
of
the
old
men,
and
went
to
the
young
men
of
his generation
who
were waiting
before
him:
\VS{9}And
said
to
them,
What
is
your opinion?
What
answer
are
we
to
give
to
this
people
who
have
said
to
me,
Make less
the weight
of
the
yoke
which
your
father
put
on
us?
\VS{10}And
the
young
men
of
his
generation
said
to
him,
This
is
the
answer
to
give
to
the
people
who
came
to
you
saying,
Your
father put
a hard
yoke
on
us;
will
you
make
it less?
say
to
them,
My
little
finger
is
thicker
than
my father's
body;
\VS{11}If
my
father put
a
hard
yoke
on
you,
I
will
make
it harder:
my
father
gave
you punishment
with
whips,
but
I
will
give
you blows
with snakes.
\VS{12}So
all
the
people
came
to
Rehoboam
on
the
third
day,
as
the
king
had given
orders,
saying,
Come
back
to
me
the
third
day.
\VS{13}And
the
king
gave
them
a rough
answer, giving no attention
to
the suggestion
of
the
old
men;
\VS{14}But
giving
them
the
answer put forward
by
the
young
men,
saying,
My
father
made
your
yoke hard,
but
I
will
make
it harder;
my
father
gave
you punishment
with
whips,
but
I
will
give
it
with snakes.
\VS{15}So
the
king
did
not
give ear
to
the
people;
and
this
came
about
by
the
purpose
of
the
Lord,
so
that
what
he
had
said
by
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
to
Jeroboam,
son
of
Nebat,
might
be effected.
\VS{16}And
when
all
Israel
saw
that
the
king
would
give
no
attention
to
them,
the
people
in
answer
said
to
the
king,
What part
have
we
in
David?
what
is
our
heritage
in
the
son
of
Jesse?
to
your
tents,
O
Israel;
now
see
to
your
people,
David.
So
Israel
went
away
to
their
tents.
\VS{17}(But
Rehoboam
was
still
king
over
those
of
the
children
of
Israel
who
were
living
in
the
towns
of
Judah.)
\VS{18}Then
King
Rehoboam
sent
Adoniram,
the overseer
of
the
forced work;
and
he
was
stoned
to
death
by
all
Israel.
And
King
Rehoboam
went quickly
and
got
into
his carriage
to
go
in
flight
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}So
Israel
was
turned away
from
the
family
of
David
to
this
day.
\VS{20}Now
when
all
Israel
had news
that
Jeroboam
had
come
back,
they
sent
for
him
to
come
before
the meeting
of
the
people,
and
made
him
king
over
Israel:
not
one
of
them
was joined
to
the
family
of
David
but
only
the
tribe
of
Judah.
\VS{21}When
Rehoboam
came
to
Jerusalem,
he got
together
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
the
tribe
of
Benjamin,
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand
of
his best fighting-men,
to
make
war
against
Israel
and
get
the
kingdom
back
for
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon.
\VS{22}But
the
word
of
God
came
to
Shemaiah,
the
man
of
God,
saying,
\VS{23}Say
to
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
king
of
Judah,
and
to
all
the
men
of
Judah
and
Benjamin
and
the
rest
of
the
people:
\VS{24}The
Lord
has
said,
You
are
not
to
go
to war
against
your
brothers,
the
children
of
Israel;
go
back,
every
man
to
his
house,
because
this
thing
is
my
purpose.
So
they
gave ear
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
and
went
back,
as
the
Lord
had
said.
\VS{25}Then
Jeroboam
made
the town
of
Shechem
in
the hill-country
of
Ephraim
a strong
place,
and
was
living
there;
and
from
there
he
went
out
and did
the
same
to
Penuel.
\VS{26}And
Jeroboam
said
in
his
heart,
Now
the
kingdom
will
go
back
to
the
family
of
David:
\VS{27}If
the
people
go
up
to
make
offerings
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
at
Jerusalem,
their
heart
will
be
turned
again
to
their
lord,
to
Rehoboam,
king
of
Judah;
and
they
will
put
me
to death
and
go
back
to
Rehoboam,
king
of
Judah.
\VS{28}So
after taking
thought
the
king
made
two oxen
of
gold;
and
he
said
to
the
people,
You
have
been
going
up
to
Jerusalem
long
enough;
see!
these
are
your
gods,
O
Israel,
who
took
you
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{29}And
he
put
one
in Beth-el
and
the
other
in
Dan.
\VS{30}And
this
became
a
sin
in
Israel;
for
the
people
went
to
give worship
to
the
one
at Beth-el,
and
to
the
other
at
Dan.
\VS{31}And
he
made
places
for worship
at
the
high
places,
and
made
priests,
who
were
not
Levites,
from
among
all
the
people.
\VS{32}And
Jeroboam
gave orders
for
a
feast
in
the
eighth
month,
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
month,
like
the
feast
which
is
kept
in
Judah,
and
he
went
up
to
the
altar.
And
in
the
same
way,
in Beth-el,
he
gave
offerings
to
the oxen
which
he
had
made, placing
in Beth-el
the
priests
of
the
high
places
he
had
made.
\VS{33}He
went
up
to
the
altar
he
had
made
in Beth-el
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
eighth
month,
the
month fixed
by
him
at
his pleasure;
and
he
gave orders
for
a
feast
for
the
people
of
Israel,
and
went
up
to
the
altar,
and
there
he
made
the
smoke
of
his
offerings
go
up.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
a
man
of
God
came
from
Judah
by
the
order
of
the
Lord
to Beth-el,
where
Jeroboam
was
by
the
altar,
burning
offerings.
\VS{2}And
by
the
order
of
the
Lord
he
made
an outcry
against
the
altar,
saying,
O
altar,
altar,
the
Lord
has
said,
From
the seed
of
David
will come
a
child,
named
Josiah,
and
on
you
he
will put
to death
the
priests
of
the
high
places,
who
are
burning
offerings
on
you,
and men's
bones
will
be
burned
on
you.
\VS{3}The
same
day
he
gave
them
a
sign,
saying,
This
is
the
sign
which
the
Lord
has
given:
See,
the
altar
will
be broken
and
the burned waste
on
it overturned.
\VS{4}Then
the
king,
hearing
the
man
of
God
crying
out
against
the
altar
at Beth-el,
put
out
his
hand
from
the
altar,
saying,
Take
him prisoner.
And
his
hand,
stretched
out
against
him,
became dead,
and
he
had
no
power
of pulling
it
back.
\VS{5}And
the
altar
was broken
and
the burned waste
on
it overturned;
this
was
the
sign
which
the
man
of
God
had
given
by
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Then
the
king
made
answer
and
said
to
the
man
of
God,
Make
a prayer
now
for
the grace
of
the
Lord
your
God,
and
for
me,
that
my
hand
may
be
made well.
And
in
answer
to
the prayer
of
the
man
of
God,
the king's
hand
was
made well
again,
as
it
was
before.
\VS{7}And
the
king
said
to
the
man
of
God,
Come
with
me
to
my
house
for
food
and rest,
and
I
will
give
you
a
reward.
\VS{8}But
the
man
of
God
said
to
the
king,
Even
if
you
gave
me
half
of
all
you
have,
I
would
not
go
in
with
you,
and
I
would
not
take
food
or
a
drink
of
water
in
this
place;
\VS{9}For
so
I
was
ordered
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
who
said,
You
are
not
to
take
food
or
a
drink
of
water,
and
you
are
not
to
go
back
the
way
you
came.
\VS{10}So
he
went
another
way,
and
not
by
the
way
he
came
to Beth-el.
\VS{11}Now
there
was
an
old
prophet
living
in Beth-el;
and
one
of
his
sons
came
and
gave
him
word
of
all
the
man
of
God
had
done
that
day
in Beth-el,
and
they
gave
their
father
an
account
of
the
words
he
had
said
to
the
king.
\VS{12}Then
their
father
said
to
them,
Which
way
did
he
go?
Now
his
sons
had
seen
which
way
the
man
of
God
who
came
from
Judah
had
gone.
\VS{13}So
the
prophet
said
to
his
sons, Make ready
an ass
for
me.
So
they made
an ass ready,
and
he got
on
it,
\VS{14}And
went
after
the
man
of
God,
and
came
up
with
him
while
he
was
seated
under
an oak-tree.
And
he
said
to
him,
Are
you
the
man
of
God
who
came
from
Judah?
And
he
said,
I
am.
\VS{15}Then
he
said
to
him, Come
back
to
the
house
with
me
and
have
a
meal.
\VS{16}But
he
said,
I
may
not
go
back
with
you
or
go
into
your house;
and
I
will
not
take
food
or
a
drink
of
water
with
you
in
this
place;
\VS{17}For
the
Lord
said
to
me,
You
are
not
to
take
food
or
water
there,
or
go
back
again
by
the
way
you
came.
\VS{18}Then
he
said
to
him,
I
am
a
prophet
like
you;
and
an
angel
said
to
me
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
Take
him
back
with
you
and
give
him
food
and
water.
But
he
said false
words
to
him.
\VS{19}So
he
went
back
with
him,
and
had
a
meal
in
his
house
and
a
drink
of
water.
\VS{20}But
while
they
were
seated
at
the
table,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
the
prophet
who
had
taken
him
back;
\VS{21}And
crying
out
to
the
man
of
God
who
came
from
Judah,
he
said,
The
Lord
says,
Because
you
have
gone
against
the voice
of
the
Lord,
and
have
not done
as
you
were
ordered
by
the
Lord,
\VS{22}But
have
come
back,
and
have taken
food
and
water
in
this
place
where
he
said
you
were
to
take
no
food
or
water;
your
dead
body
will
not
be
put
to rest
with
your
fathers.
\VS{23}Now
after
the
meal
he
made ready
the ass
for
him,
for
the
prophet
whom
he
had
taken
back.
\VS{24}And he
went
on
his
way;
but
on
the
road
a
lion
came rushing
at
him
and
put
him
to
death;
and
his
dead
body
was stretched
in
the
road
with
the ass
by
its
side,
and
the
lion
was
there
by
the
body.
\VS{25}And
some
men,
going
by,
saw
the
body stretched
out
in
the
road
with
the
lion
by
its
side;
and
they
came
and
gave news
of
it
in
the
town
where
the
old
prophet
was
living.
\VS{26}Then
the
prophet
who
had
made
him
come
back,
hearing
it,
said,
It
is
the
man
of
God,
who
went
against
the
word
of
the
Lord;
that
is
why
the
Lord
has
given
him
to
the
lion
to
be wounded
to
death,
as
the
Lord
said.
\VS{27}And
he
said
to
his
sons, Make ready
the ass
for
me.
And
they did
so.
\VS{28}And
he went
and saw
the
dead
body stretched
out
in
the
road
with
the ass
and
the
lion
by
its
side:
the
lion
had
not
taken
the
body
for
its
food
or done
any damage
to
the ass.
\VS{29}Then
the
prophet
took
up
the
body
of
the
man
of
God
and
put
it
on
the ass
and
took
it
back;
and
he
came
to
the
town
to
put
the
body
to rest
with weeping.
\VS{30}And
he
put
the
body
in
the resting-place made ready
for himself, weeping
and sorrowing
over
it, saying, O
my
brother!
\VS{31}And
when
he
had
put
it
to
rest,
he
said
to
his
sons,
When
I
am
dead,
then
you
are
to
put
my
body
into
the earth
with
the
body
of
this
man
of
God,
and
put
me
by
his
bones
so
that
my
bones
may
be kept safe
with
his
bones.
\VS{32}For
the outcry
he
made
by
the
word
of
the
Lord
against
the
altar
in Beth-el
and
against
all
the
houses
of
the
high
places
in
the
towns
of
Samaria,
will
certainly
come
about.
\VS{33}After
this
Jeroboam,
not
turning
back
from
his
evil
ways,
still
made
priests
for
his altars
from
among
all
the
people;
he
made
a
priest
of anyone desiring
it,
so
that
there might
be
priests
of
the
high
places.
\VS{34}And
this
became
a
sin
in
the
family
of
Jeroboam, causing
it
to
be
cut
off
and sent
to
destruction
from
the
face
of
the
earth.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time
Abijah,
the
son
of
Jeroboam, became ill.
\VS{2}And
Jeroboam
said
to
his
wife,
Now
come, put
on different clothing
so
that
you
may
not seem
to
be
the
wife
of
Jeroboam,
and
go
to
Shiloh;
see,
Ahijah
is
there,
the
prophet
who
said
I
would
be
king
over
this
people.
\VS{3}And
take
with
you
ten
cakes
of
bread
and dry
cakes
and
a pot
of
honey,
and
go
to
him:
he
will
give
you
word
of
what
is
to
become
of
the
child.
\VS{4}So Jeroboam's
wife
did
so,
and
got
up
and
went
to
Shiloh
and
came
to
the
house
of
Ahijah.
Now
Ahijah
was
unable
to
see,
because
he
was
very old.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord
had
said
to
Ahijah,
The
wife
of
Jeroboam
is
coming
to
get
news
from
you
about
her
son,
who
is ill;
give
her
such
and
such
an
answer;
for
she
will
make
herself seem
to
be
another
woman.
\VS{6}Then
Ahijah,
hearing
the
sound
of
her
footsteps
coming
in
at
the
door,
said,
Come
in,
O
wife
of
Jeroboam;
why
do
you
make
yourself seem
like
another?
for
I
am
sent
to
you
with bitter
news.
\VS{7}Go,
say
to
Jeroboam,
These
are
the words
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel: Though
I
took
you
from
among
the
people,
lifting
you
up
to
be
a
ruler
over
my
people
Israel,
\VS{8}And
took
the
kingdom
away
by force
from
the seed
of
David
and
gave
it
to
you,
you
have
not
been
like
my
servant
David,
who
kept
my
orders,
and
was true
to
me
with
all
his
heart,
doing
only
what
was
right
in
my
eyes.
\VS{9}But
you
have
done
evil
more
than
any
before
you,
and
have
made
for yourself
other
gods,
and
images
of
metal, moving
me
to wrath,
and turning
your
back
on
me.
\VS{10}So
I
will send
evil
on
the
line
of
Jeroboam, cutting
off
from
his
family
every male child,
those
who
are
shut
up
and
those
who
go free
in
Israel;
the
family
of
Jeroboam
will
be brushed
away
like
a man brushing
away waste
till
it
is
all
gone.
\VS{11}Those
of
the
family
of
Jeroboam
who come
to
death
in
the
town,
will become
food
for
the
dogs;
and
those
on whom
death comes
in
the open
country,
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the air;
for
the
Lord
has
said
it.
\VS{12}Up,
then!
go
back
to
your
house;
and
in
the hour
when
your
feet
go
into
the
town,
the
death
of
the
child
will
take
place.
\VS{13}And
all
Israel
will
put
his body
to rest, weeping
over
him,
because
he
only
of
the
family
of
Jeroboam
will
be
put
into
his resting-place
in
the earth;
for
of
all
the
family
of
Jeroboam,
in
him
only
has
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel, seen
some
good.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord
will put
up
a
king
over
Israel
who
will send destruction
on
the
family
of
Jeroboam
in
that
day;
\VS{15}And
even
now
the
hand
of
the
Lord
has come
down
on
Israel, shaking
it
like
a river-grass
in
the
water;
and, uprooting
Israel
from
this
good
land,
which
he
gave
to
their
fathers,
he
will
send
them
this
way
and
that
on
the
other
side
of
the
River;
because
they
have
made
for
themselves images, moving
the
Lord
to wrath.
\VS{16}And
he
will
give
Israel
up
because
of
the
sins
which
Jeroboam
has
done
and
made
Israel do.
\VS{17}Then Jeroboam's
wife
got
up
and
went
away
and
came
to
Tirzah;
and
when
she
came
to
the doorway
of
the
house,
death
came
to
the
child.
\VS{18}And
all
Israel
put
his body
to rest, weeping
over
him,
as
the
Lord
had
said
by
his
servant
Ahijah
the
prophet.
\VS{19}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jeroboam,
how
he
made war
and
how
he
became
king,
are
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{20}And
Jeroboam
was
king
for
twenty-two
years,
and
was put
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
Nadab
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{21}And
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
was
king
in
Judah.
Rehoboam
was forty-one
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was
king
for
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
town
which
the
Lord
had
made
his
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
to
put
his
name
there;
his mother's
name
was
Naamah,
an Ammonite
woman.
\VS{22}And
Judah
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and
made
him more angry
than
their
fathers
had
done
by
their
sins.
\VS{23}For
they
made
high
places
and upright stones
and
wood
pillars
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree;
\VS{24}And
more
than
this,
there
were
those
in
the
land
who
were
used
for sex purposes
in
the
worship
of
the gods,
doing
the same
disgusting crimes
as
the
nations
which
the
Lord
had sent
out
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{25}Now
in
the
fifth
year
of
King
Rehoboam,
Shishak,
king
of
Egypt,
came
up
against
Jerusalem;
\VS{26}And
took
away
all
the
stored
wealth
from
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
from
the king's
house,
and
all
the
gold body-covers
which
Solomon
had
made.
\VS{27}So
in
their
place
King
Rehoboam
had other body-covers
made
of
brass,
and
gave
them
into
the
care
of
the
captains
of
the
armed
men
who
were stationed
at
the
door
of
the king's
house.
\VS{28}And
whenever
the
king
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
the armed men
went
with
him
taking
the body-covers,
and
then
took
them
back
to
their
room.
\VS{29}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Rehoboam,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{30}And
there
was
war
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam
all
their
days.
\VS{31}And
Rehoboam went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
with
his
fathers
in
the
town
of
David;
his mother's
name
was
Naamah,
an Ammonite
woman.
And
Abijam
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
king
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
Abijam
became
king
over
Judah.
\VS{2}For
three
years
he
was
king
in
Jerusalem:
and
his mother's
name
was
Maacah,
the
daughter
of
Abishalom.
\VS{3}And
he
did
the same
sins
which
his
father
had
done
before
him:
his
heart
was
not
completely
true
to
the
Lord
his
God,
like
the
heart
of
David
his
father.
\VS{4}But
because
of
David,
the
Lord
gave
him
a light
in
Jerusalem,
making
his
sons
king
after
him,
so
that
Jerusalem
might
be safe;
\VS{5}Because
David
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and
never
in
all
his
life went
against
his
orders,
but
only
in
the
question
of
Uriah
the
Hittite.
\VS{6}...
\VS{7}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Abijam,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
And
there
was
war
between
Abijam
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{8}Then
Abijam went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
they put
him into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David:
and
Asa
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{9}In
the
twentieth
year
that
Jeroboam
was
king
of
Israel,
Asa
became
king
over
Judah.
\VS{10}And
he
was
king
for forty-one
years
in
Jerusalem;
his mother's
name
was
Maacah,
the
daughter
of
Abishalom.
\VS{11}Asa
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
as
David
his
father
did.
\VS{12}Those
used
for sex purposes
in
the worship
of
the gods
he sent
out
of
the
country,
and
he
took
away
all
the images
which
his
fathers
had
made.
\VS{13}And
he
would
not let
Maacah
his
mother
be
queen,
because
she
had
made
a disgusting
image
for
Asherah;
and
Asa
had
the
image
cut
down
and
burned
by
the
stream
Kidron.
\VS{14}The
high
places,
however,
were
not
taken
away:
but still
the
heart
of
Asa
was
true
to
the
Lord
all
his
life.
\VS{15}He
took
into
the
house
of
the
Lord all
the
things
which
his
father
had
made
holy,
and
those
which
he himself
had
made
holy,
silver
and
gold
and
vessels.
\VS{16}Now
there
was
war
between
Asa
and
Baasha,
king
of
Israel,
all
their
days.
\VS{17}And
Baasha,
king
of
Israel,
went
up
against
Judah,
building
Ramah,
so
that
no
one
was able
to
go
out
or
in
to
Asa,
king
of
Judah.
\VS{18}Then
Asa
took
all
the
silver
and
gold
which
was
still
stored
in
the Lord's
house,
and
in
the king's
house,
and
sent
them,
in
the
care
of
his
servants,
to
Ben-hadad,
son
of
Tabrimmon,
son
of Rezon,
king
of
Aram,
at
Damascus,
saying,
\VS{19}Let
there
be
an
agreement
between
me
and
you
as
there
was
between
my
father
and
your
father:
see,
I
have
sent
you
an
offering
of
silver
and
gold;
go
and
put
an end
to
your
agreement
with
Baasha,
king
of
Israel,
so
that
he
may
give
up attacking
me.
\VS{20}So
Ben-hadad
did
as
King
Asa
said,
and
sent
the
captains
of
his
armies
against
the
towns
of
Israel,
attacking
Ijon
and
Dan
and
Abel-beth-maacah,
and
all
Chinneroth
as
far
as
all
the
land
of
Naphtali.
\VS{21}And
Baasha,
hearing
of
it, put
a
stop
to
the
building
of
Ramah,
and
was
living
in
Tirzah.
\VS{22}Then
King
Asa got
all
Judah together,
making
every
man come;
and
they
took
away
the
stones
and
the
wood
with
which
Baasha
was
building
Ramah,
and
King
Asa
made
use
of
them
for
building
Geba
in
the land
of
Benjamin,
and
Mizpah.
\VS{23}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Asa,
and
his
power,
and
all
he
did,
and
the
towns
of
which
he
was
the builder,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
But
when
he
was
old
he
had
a
disease
of
the
feet.
\VS{24}So
Asa went
to
rest
with
his
fathers
and
was put into
the earth
in
the
town
of
David
his
father:
and
Jehoshaphat
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{25}Nadab,
the
son
of
Jeroboam,
became
king
over
Israel
in
the
second
year
that
Asa
was
king
of
Judah;
and
he
was
king
of
Israel
for
two
years.
\VS{26}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, copying
the
evil
ways
of
his
father,
and
the
sin
which
he
did
and
made
Israel
do.
\VS{27}And
Baasha,
the
son
of
Ahijah,
of
the
family
of
Issachar,
made
a secret design
against
him,
attacking
him
at
Gibbethon,
a town
of
the
Philistines;
for
Nadab
and
the armies
of
Israel
were
making war
on
Gibbethon.
\VS{28}In
the
third
year
of
the
rule
of
Asa,
king
of
Judah,
Baasha
put
him
to
death,
and
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{29}And straight
away
when
he
became
king,
he
sent
destruction
on
all
the offspring
of
Jeroboam;
there
was
not
one living
person
of
all
the
family
of
Jeroboam
whom
he
did
not
put
to death,
so
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
said
by
his
servant
Ahijah
the
Shilonite,
came
about;
\VS{30}Because
of
the
sins
which
Jeroboam
did
and
made
Israel do, moving
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
to wrath.
\VS{31}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Nadab,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{32}And
there
was
war
between
Asa
and
Baasha,
king
of
Israel,
all
their
days.
\VS{33}In
the
third
year
of
the
rule
of
Asa,
king
of
Judah,
Baasha,
the
son
of
Ahijah,
became
king
over
all
Israel
in
Tirzah,
and
was
king
for
twenty-four
years.
\VS{34}He
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, copying
the
evil
ways
of
Jeroboam
and
the
sin
which
he
made
Israel
do.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jehu,
son
of
Hanani, protesting
against
Baasha
and
saying,
\VS{2}Because
I
took
you
up
out
of
the
dust,
and
made
you
ruler
over
my
people
Israel;
and
you
have
gone
in
the
ways
of
Jeroboam,
and
made
my
people
Israel
do evil, moving
me
to wrath
by
their
sins;
\VS{3}Truly,
I
will
see
that
Baasha
and
all
his
family
are completely brushed
away;
I
will
make
your
family
like
the
family
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat.
\VS{4}Anyone
of
the
family
of
Baasha
who comes
to
death
in
the
town,
will become
food
for
the
dogs;
and
he
to whom
death comes
in
the open
country,
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the air.
\VS{5}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Baasha,
and
what
he
did,
and
his
power,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{6}And
Baasha went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
at
Tirzah;
and
Elah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{7}And
the
Lord
sent
his
word
against
Baasha
and
his
family
by
the mouth
of
the
prophet
Jehu,
the
son
of
Hanani,
because
of
all
the
evil
he
did
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, moving
him
to wrath
by
the
work
of
his
hands,
because
he
was
like
the
family
of
Jeroboam,
and
because
he
put
it
to death.
\VS{8}In
the twenty-sixth
year
that
Asa
was
king
of
Judah,
Elah,
the
son
of
Baasha,
became
king
of
Israel
in
Tirzah,
and
he
was
king
for two
years.
\VS{9}And
his
servant
Zimri,
captain
of
half
his war-carriages,
made secret designs
against
him: now
he
was
in
Tirzah,
drinking
hard
in
the
house
of
Arza, controller
of
the king's
house
in
Tirzah.
\VS{10}And
Zimri
went
in
and
made
an
attack
on
him
and
put
him
to
death,
in
the twenty-seventh
year
that
Asa
was
king
of
Judah,
and
made himself
king
in
his
place.
\VS{11}And straight
away
when
he
became
king
and
took
his
place
on
the
seat
of
the kingdom,
he put
to death
all
the
family
of
Baasha:
not
one male child
of
his relations
or
his
friends kept
his life.
\VS{12}So
Zimri
put
to death
all
the
family
of
Baasha,
so
that
the
word
which
the
Lord
said
against
him
by
the mouth
of
Jehu
the
prophet
came
about;
\VS{13}Because
of
all
the
sins
of
Baasha,
and
the
sins
of
Elah
his
son,
which
they
did
and
made
Israel
do, moving
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
to wrath
by
their foolish acts.
\VS{14}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Elah,
and
all
he
did,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{15}In
the twenty-seventh
year
of
Asa,
king
of
Judah,
Zimri
was
king
for
seven
days
in
Tirzah.
Now
the
people
were attacking
Gibbethon
in
the land
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{16}And
news
came
to
the
people
in
the tents
that
Zimri
had
made
a secret design
and
had put
the
king
to death:
so
all
Israel
made
Omri,
the
captain
of
the
army,
king
that
day
in
the tents.
\VS{17}Then
Omri
went
up
from
Gibbethon,
with
all
the
army
of
Israel,
and
they
made
an
attack
on
Tirzah, shutting
in
the town
on
every
side.
\VS{18}And
when
Zimri
saw
that
the
town
was
taken,
he
went
into
the
inner
room
of
the king's
house,
and
burning
the
house
over
his head,
came
to
his end,
\VS{19}Because
of
his
sin
in
doing
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
in going
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam
and
in
his
sin
which
he
made
Israel
do.
\VS{20}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Zimri,
and
the secret design
he
made,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{21}Then
there
was
a division
among
the
people
of
Israel;
half
the
people
were
for making
Tibni,
son
of
Ginath,
king,
and
half
were supporting
Omri.
\VS{22}But
the
supporters
of
Omri overcame
those
who
were
on
the
side
of
Tibni,
the
son
of
Ginath;
and
death came
to
Tibni
and
to
his brother Joram
at
that time:
and
Omri
became
king
in
the place
of
Tibni.
\VS{23}In
the thirty-first
year
of
Asa,
king
of
Judah,
Omri
became
king
over
Israel,
and
he
was
king
for
twelve
years;
for
six
years
he
was ruling
in
Tirzah.
\VS{24}He got
the
hill
Samaria
from
Shemer
for
the
price
of two
talents
of
silver,
and
he
made
a
town
there,
building
it
on
the
hill
and naming
it
Samaria,
after
Shemer
the
owner
of
the
hill.
\VS{25}And
Omri
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
even
worse
than
all
those
before
him,
\VS{26}Copying
all
the evil
ways
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
all
the
sins
he
did
and
made
Israel
do, moving
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
to wrath
by
their foolish
ways.
\VS{27}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
which
Omri
did,
and
his great
power,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{28}So
Omri went
to
rest
with
his
fathers,
and
was put into
the earth
in
Samaria;
and
Ahab
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{29}In
the thirty-eighth
year
that
Asa
was
king
of
Judah,
Ahab,
the
son
of
Omri,
became
king
over
Israel;
and
Ahab
was
king
in
Samaria
for
twenty-two
years.
\VS{30}And
Ahab,
the
son
of
Omri,
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
even
worse
than
all
who
went
before
him.
\VS{31}And
as
if copying
the evil ways
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
was
a
small
thing
for
him,
he
took
as
his
wife
Jezebel,
daughter
of
Ethbaal,
king
of Zidon,
and
became
a
servant
and worshipper
of
Baal.
\VS{32}And
he put
up
an
altar
for
Baal
in
the
house
of
Baal
which
he
had
made
in
Samaria.
\VS{33}And
Ahab
made
an image
of
Asherah
and
did
more
than
all
the
kings
of
Israel
before
him
to
make
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
angry.
\VS{34}In
his
days
Hiel
made
Jericho;
he
put
its base
in
position
at
the price
of
Abiram,
his
oldest
son,
and
he
put
its
doors
in
place
at
the price
of
his
youngest
son
Segub;
even
as
the
Lord
had
said
by
Joshua,
the
son
of
Nun.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elijah
the Tishbite,
of Tishbe
in
Gilead,
said
to
Ahab,
By
the
living
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
whose servant
I
am,
there
will
be
no
dew
or
rain
in
these
years,
but
only
at
my
word.
\VS{2}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
him,
saying,
\VS{3}Go
from
here
in
the
direction
of
the
east,
and keep
yourself
in
a
secret
place
by
the
stream
Cherith,
east
of
Jordan.
\VS{4}The water
of
the
stream
will
be
your
drink,
and
by
my
orders
the
ravens
will
give
you food
there.
\VS{5}So
he
went
and
did
as
the
Lord
said,
living
by
the
stream
Cherith,
east
of
Jordan.
\VS{6}And
the
ravens
took
him
bread
in
the
morning
and
meat
in
the
evening;
and
the water
of
the
stream
was
his
drink.
\VS{7}Now
after
a
time
the
stream
became
dry,
because
there
was
no
rain
in
the
land.
\VS{8}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
him,
saying,
\VS{9}Up!
go
now
to
Zarephath,
in Zidon,
and
make
your living-place
there;
I
have
given
orders
to
a
widow
woman
there
to
see
that
you
have food.
\VS{10}So
he
got
up
and
went
to
Zarephath;
and
when
he
came
to
the
door
of
the
town,
he
saw
a
widow
woman getting
sticks together;
and
crying
out
to
her
he
said,
Will
you
give
me
a
little
water
in
a
vessel
for
my
drink?
\VS{11}And
when
she
was going
to
get
it,
he
said
to
her,
And
get
me
with
it
a small bit
of
bread.
\VS{12}Then
she
said,
By
the
life
of
the
Lord
your
God,
I
have
nothing
but
a
little
meal
in
my store,
and
a drop
of
oil
in
the bottle;
and
now
I
am getting
two
sticks together
so
that
I
may
go
in
and
make
it ready
for
me
and
my
son,
so
that
we
may
have
a
meal
before
our
death.
\VS{13}And
Elijah
said
to
her,
Have
no
fear;
go
and
do
as
you
have
said,
but
first
make
me
a
little
cake
of
it
and
come
and
give
it
to
me,
and
then
make
something
for
yourself
and
your
son.
\VS{14}For
this
is
the
word
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel:
The store
of
meal
will
not
come
to
an
end,
and
the bottle
will
never
be
without
oil,
till
the
day
when
the
Lord
sends
rain
on
the
earth.
\VS{15}So
she
went
and
did
as
Elijah
said;
and
she
and
he
and
her
family
had
food
for
a
long
time.
\VS{16}The store
of
meal
did
not
come
to
an
end,
and
the bottle
was
never
without
oil,
as
the
Lord
had
said
by
the mouth
of
Elijah.
\VS{17}Now
after
this,
the
son
of
the
woman
of
the
house
became ill,
so ill
that
there
was
no
breath
in
him.
\VS{18}And
she
said
to
Elijah,
What
have
I
to
do
with
you,
O
man
of
God?
have
you
come
to
put
God
in
mind
of
my
sin,
and
to
put
my
son
to
death?
\VS{19}And
he
said
to
her,
Give
your
son
to
me.
And lifting
him
out
of
her
arms,
he
took
him
up
to
his
room
and
put
him
down
on
his
bed.
\VS{20}And
crying
to
the
Lord
he
said,
O
Lord
my
God,
have
you
sent
evil
even
on
the
widow
whose
guest
I
am,
by causing
her son's
death?
\VS{21}And stretching
herself
out
on
the
child
three
times,
he
made
his prayer
to
the
Lord,
saying,
O
Lord
my
God,
be pleased
to
let
this child's
life
come
back
to
him
again.
\VS{22}And
the
Lord
gave ear
to
the
voice
of
Elijah,
and
the child's
spirit
came
into
him
again,
and
he
came
back
to
life.
\VS{23}And
Elijah
took
the
child
down
from
his
room
into
the
house
and
gave
him
to
his
mother
and
said
to
her,
See,
your
son
is
living.
\VS{24}Then
the
woman
said
to
Elijah,
Now
I
am
certain
that
you
are
a
man
of
God,
and
that
the
word
of
the
Lord
in
your
mouth
is
true.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
a
long
time,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Elijah,
in
the
third
year,
saying,
Go
and
let
Ahab
see
you,
so
that
I
may
send
rain
on
the
earth.
\VS{2}So
Elijah
went
to let
Ahab
see
him. Now there
was no food
to
be
had
in
Samaria.
\VS{3}And
Ahab sent
for
Obadiah,
the controller
of
the king's
house. (Now
Obadiah
had
the
fear
of
the
Lord
before
him
greatly;
\VS{4}For
when
Jezebel
was cutting
off
the
prophets
of
the
Lord,
Obadiah
took
a
hundred
of
them,
and kept
them
secretly
in
a hole
in
the rock,
fifty
at
a
time,
and
gave
them
bread
and
water.)
\VS{5}And
Ahab
said
to
Obadiah,
Come,
let
us go
through
all
the
country,
to
all
the
fountains
of
water
and
all
the rivers,
and see
if
there
is
any
grass
to
be
had
for
the
horses
and
the transport
beasts,
so
that
we
may
be able
to keep
some
of
the
beasts
from destruction.
\VS{6}So
they
went
through
all
the
country, covering
it
between
them;
Ahab
went
in
one
direction
by
himself,
and
Obadiah
went
in
another
by
himself.
\VS{7}And
while
Obadiah
was
on
his
way,
he
came
face
to
face
with
Elijah;
and seeing
who
it
was,
he
went
down
on
his
face
and
said,
Is
it
you,
my
lord
Elijah?
\VS{8}And
Elijah
in
answer
said,
It
is
I;
now
go
and
say
to
your
lord,
Elijah
is
here.
\VS{9}And
he
said,
What
sin
have
I
done,
that
you
would
give
up
your
servant
into
the
hand
of
Ahab,
and
be
the
cause
of
my
death?
\VS{10}By
the
life
of
the
Lord
your
God,
there
is
not
a
nation
or
kingdom
where
my
lord
has
not
sent
in
search
of
you;
and
when
they
said,
He
is
not
here;
he
made
them
take
an
oath
that
they
had
not seen
you.
\VS{11}And
now
you
say,
Go,
say
to
your
lord,
Elijah
is
here.
\VS{12}And straight
away,
when
I
have
gone
from
you,
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
will
take
you
away,
I
have
no idea
where,
so
that
when
I
come
and
give
word
to
Ahab,
and
he sees
you
not,
he
will
put
me
to death: though
I,
your
servant,
have
been
a worshipper
of
the
Lord
from
my earliest years.
\VS{13}Has
my
lord
not
had
word
of
what
I
did
when
Jezebel
was putting
the Lord's
prophets
to death?
how
I
kept
a
hundred
of
them
in
a secret hole
in
the rock,
fifty
at
a time,
and
gave
them
bread
and
water?
\VS{14}And
now
you
say,
Go
and
say
to
your
Lord,
Elijah
is
here;
and
he
will put
me
to death.
\VS{15}And
Elijah
said,
By
the
life
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
whose servant
I
am,
I
will
certainly let
him
see
me
today.
\VS{16}So
Obadiah
went
to
Ahab
and gave
him
the news;
and
Ahab
went
to see
Elijah.
\VS{17}And
when
he
saw
Elijah,
Ahab
said
to
him,
Is
it
you,
you
troubler
of
Israel?
\VS{18}Then
he
said
in
answer,
I
have
not
been troubling
Israel,
but
you
and
your
family;
because, turning
away
from
the
orders
of
the
Lord,
you
have
gone
after
the
Baals.
\VS{19}Now
send,
and
get
Israel
together
before
me
at
Mount
Carmel,
with
the
four
hundred
and
fifty
prophets
of
Baal
who
get
their
food
at Jezebel's
table.
\VS{20}So
Ahab
sent
for
all
the
children
of
Israel,
and got
the
prophets
together
at
Mount
Carmel.
\VS{21}And
Elijah
came
near
to
all
the
people
and
said,
How
long
will
you
go
on balancing
between
two opinions?
if
the
Lord
is
God,
then
give worship
to
him;
but
if
Baal,
give worship
to
him.
And
the
people
said
not
a
word
in
answer.
\VS{22}Then
Elijah
said
to
the
people,
I, even
I,
am
the
only
living
prophet
of
the
Lord;
but Baal's
prophets
are
four
hundred
and
fifty
men.
\VS{23}Now,
let
them
give
us
two
oxen;
and
let
them
take
one
for
themselves,
and
have
it
cut
up,
and
put
it
on
the
wood,
but
put
no
fire
under
it;
I
will get
the
other
ox ready,
and
put
it
on
the
wood,
and
put
no
fire
under
it.
\VS{24}And
do
you
make prayers
to
your
god,
and
I
will
make
a prayer
to
the
Lord:
and
it
will
be
clear
that
the
one
who
gives
an
answer
by
fire
is
God.
And
all
the
people
in
answer
said,
It
is
well
said.
\VS{25}Then
Elijah
said
to
the
prophets
of
Baal,
Take
one
ox
for
yourselves
and get
it ready
first,
for there
are
more
of
you;
and
make
your prayers
to
your
god,
but
put
no
fire under.
\VS{26}So
they
took
the
ox
which
was
given
them,
and
made
it ready,
crying
out
to
Baal
from
morning
till
the middle
of
the
day,
and
saying,
O
Baal,
give ear
to
us.
But
there
was
no
voice
and
no
answer.
And
they
were jumping
up
and
down
before
the
altar
they
had
made.
\VS{27}And
in
the middle
of
the day,
Elijah
made sport
of
them,
saying,
Give
louder
cries,
for
he
is
a
god;
he
may
be
deep
in
thought,
or
he
may
have
gone away
for some purpose,
or
he
may
be
on
a
journey,
or
by chance
he
is
sleeping
and
has
to
be
made awake.
\VS{28}So
they
gave
loud
cries, cutting
themselves
with
knives
and
swords,
as
was
their
way,
till
the
blood came streaming
out
all
over
them.
\VS{29}And
from
the middle
of
the day
they
went
on
with
their prayers
till
the
time
of
the
offering;
but
there
was
no
voice,
or
any
answer,
or
any
who
gave
attention
to
them.
\VS{30}Then
Elijah
said
to
all
the
people,
Come
near
to
me;
and
all
the
people
came
near.
And
he
put
up again
the
altar
of
the
Lord which
had
been
broken
down.
\VS{31}And
Elijah
took
twelve
stones,
the
number
of
the
tribes
of
the
sons
of
Jacob,
to
whom
the
Lord
had
said,
Israel
will
be
your
name:
\VS{32}And
with
the
stones
he
made
an
altar
to
the
name
of
the
Lord;
and
he
made
a deep drain
all
round
the
altar, great
enough
to take
two
measures
of
seed.
\VS{33}And
he
put
the
wood
in order,
and, cutting
up
the
ox,
put
it
on
the
wood.
Then
he said, Get four vessels full
of water
and
put
it
on
the burned offering
and
on
the
wood.
And
he said, Do
it
a second time,
and
they did
it
a second time;
\VS{34}And
he
said,
Do
it
a
third
time,
and
they
did
it
a
third
time.
\VS{35}And
the
water went
all
round
the
altar, till
the drain
was
full.
\VS{36}Then
at
the
time
of
the
offering,
Elijah
the
prophet
came
near
and
said,
O
Lord,
the
God
of
Abraham,
of
Isaac,
and
of
Israel,
let
it
be seen
this
day
that
you
are
God
in
Israel,
and
that
I
am
your
servant,
and
that
I
have
done
all
these
things
by
your
order.
\VS{37}Give
me
an
answer,
O
Lord,
give
me
an
answer,
so
that
this
people
may
see
that
you
are
God,
and
that
you
have
made
their
hearts
come
back
again.
\VS{38}Then
the
fire
of
the
Lord
came
down,
burning
up
the
offering
and
the
wood
and
the
stones
and
the
dust,
and drinking
up
the
water
in
the drain.
\VS{39}And
when
the
people
saw
it,
they
all
went
down
on
their
faces,
and
said,
The
Lord,
he
is
God,
the
Lord,
he
is
God.
\VS{40}And
Elijah
said
to
them,
Take
the
prophets
of
Baal,
let
not
one
of
them
get
away.
So
they
took
them,
and
Elijah made
them
go
down
to
the
stream
Kishon,
and
put
them
to death
there.
\VS{41}Then
Elijah
said
to
Ahab,
Up!
take
food
and
drink,
for
there
is
a
sound
of much
rain.
\VS{42}So
Ahab
went
up
to
have
food
and
drink, while
Elijah
went
up
to
the
top
of
Carmel;
and
he
went
down
on
the
earth,
putting
his
face
between
his
knees.
\VS{43}And
he
said
to
his
servant,
Go
now,
and
take
a
look
in
the
direction
of
the
sea.
And
he
went
up,
and
after looking
said,
There
is
nothing.
And
he
said,
Go
again
seven
times;
and
he
went
seven
times.
\VS{44}And
the
seventh
time
he
said,
I
see
a
cloud
coming
up
out
of
the
sea,
as
small
as
a man's
hand.
Then
he
said,
Go
up
and
say
to
Ahab,
Get
your carriage
ready
and
go
down
or
the
rain
will keep
you
back.
\VS{45}And
after
a
very little
time,
the
heaven
became
black
with
clouds
and
wind,
and
there
was
a
great
rain.
And
Ahab
went
in
his carriage
to
Jezreel.
\VS{46}And
the
hand
of
the
Lord
was
on
Elijah;
and
he
made
himself strong,
and
went
running
before
Ahab
till
they
came
to
Jezreel.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Ahab
gave
Jezebel news
of
all
Elijah
had
done,
and
how
he
had put
all
the
prophets
to death
with
the
sword.
\VS{2}Then
Jezebel
sent
a servant
to
Elijah,
saying,
May
the gods' punishment
be
on
me
if
I
do
not
make
your
life
like
the
life
of
one
of
them
by
tomorrow
about
this
time.
\VS{3}And
he
got
up, fearing
for
his
life,
and
went
in flight,
and
came
to Beer-sheba
in
Judah, parting
there
from
his
servant;
\VS{4}While
he
himself
went
a day's
journey
into
the waste land,
and
took
a
seat
under
a broom-plant, desiring
for
himself
only
death;
for
he
said,
It
is
enough:
now,
O
Lord,
take
away
my
life,
for
I
am
no
better
than
my
fathers.
\VS{5}And stretching himself
on
the earth,
he
went
to
sleep
under
the broom-plant;
but
an
angel,
touching
him,
said
to
him,
Get
up
and
have
some
food.
\VS{6}And looking
up,
he
saw
by
his
head
a
cake cooked
on
the stones
and
a bottle
of
water.
So
he
took
food
and
drink
and
went
to
sleep
again.
\VS{7}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
came
again
a
second
time,
and
touching
him
said,
Get
up
and
have
some
food,
or
the
journey
will
be overmuch
for
your strength.
\VS{8}So
he
got
up
and
took
food
and
drink,
and
in
the
strength
of
that
food
he
went
on
for
forty
days
and
nights,
to
Horeb,
the
mountain
of
God.
\VS{9}And
there
he
went
into
a hole
in
the rock
for
the night;
then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
him,
saying,
What
are
you doing
here,
Elijah?
\VS{10}And
he
said,
I
have
been burning
for
the honour
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies;
for
the
children
of
Israel
have
not kept
your
agreement;
they
have
made destruction
of
your
altars,
and
have
put
your
prophets
to
death
with
the
sword: till
I,
even
I,
am
the
only
one
living;
and
now
they
are attempting
to
take
away
my
life.
\VS{11}Then
he
said,
Go
out
and
take
your
place
on
the
mountain
before
the
Lord.
Then
the
Lord
went
by,
and
mountains
were parted
by
the force
of
a
great
wind,
and
rocks
were
broken
before
the
Lord;
but
the
Lord
was
not
in
the
wind.
And
after
the
wind
there
was
an earth-shock,
but
the
Lord
was
not
in
the earth-shock.
\VS{12}And
after
the earth-shock
a
fire,
but
the
Lord
was
not
in
the
fire.
And
after
the
fire,
the
sound
of
a soft breath.
\VS{13}And
Elijah,
hearing
it,
went
out, covering
his
face
with
his
robe,
and
took
his
place
in
the
opening
of
the hole.
And
there
a
voice
came
to
him
saying,
What
are
you
doing
here,
Elijah?
\VS{14}And
he
said,
I
have
been burning
for
the honour
of
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies;
for
the
children
of
Israel
have
not kept
your
agreement;
they
have
had
your
altars
broken
down,
and
have
put
your
prophets
to
death
with
the
sword: till
I,
even
I,
am
the
only
one
living;
and
now
they
are attempting
to
take
away
my
life.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Go
back
on
your
way
through
the waste land
to
Damascus;
and
when
you
come
there,
put
the holy
oil
on
Hazael
to
make
him
king
over
Aram;
\VS{16}And
on
Jehu,
son
of
Nimshi, making
him
king
over
Israel;
and
on
Elisha,
the
son
of
Shaphat
of
Abel-meholah,
to
be
prophet
in
your
place.
\VS{17}And
it
will
come
about
that
the
man who gets
away safe
from
the
sword
of
Hazael,
Jehu
will
put
to
death;
and
whoever gets
away safe
from
the
sword
of
Jehu,
Elisha
will
put
to
death.
\VS{18}But
I
will keep safe
seven
thousand
in
Israel,
all
those
whose
knees
have
not
been bent
to
Baal,
and
whose
mouths
have given
him
no kisses.
\VS{19}So
he
went
away
from
there
and
came
across
Elisha,
the
son
of
Shaphat, ploughing
with
twelve
yoke
of oxen,
he
himself walking
with
the twelfth;
and
Elijah
went
up
to
him
and put
his
robe
on
him.
\VS{20}And letting
the
oxen
be
where
they
were,
he
came
running
after
Elijah,
and
said, Only
let
me
give
a kiss
to
my
father
and
mother,
and
then
I
will
come
after
you.
But
he
said
to
him,
Go
back
again;
for
what
have
I
done
to
you?
\VS{21}And
he
went
back,
and
took
the
oxen
and
put
them
to death,
and cooking
their
flesh
with
the
yokes
of
the
oxen,
he
gave
the
people
a
feast.
Then
he
got
up
and
went
after
Elijah
and
became
his
servant.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Ben-hadad,
king
of
Aram,
got
all
his
army
together,
and thirty-two
kings
with
him,
and
horses
and carriages
of war;
he
went
up
and
made war
on
Samaria, shutting
it
in.
\VS{2}And
he
sent representatives
into
the
town
to
Ahab,
king
of
Israel;
\VS{3}And
they
said
to
him,
Ben-hadad
says,
Your
silver
and
your
gold
are mine;
and
your
wives
and
children
are mine.
\VS{4}And
the
king
of
Israel
sent
him
an
answer
saying,
As
you
say,
my
lord
king,
I
am yours
with
all
I
have.
\VS{5}Then
the representatives
came
back
again,
and
said, These
are
the words
of
Ben-hadad:
I
sent
to
you
saying,
Give
up
to
me
your
silver
and
your
gold,
your
wives
and
your
children;
\VS{6}But
I
will
send
my
servants
to
you
tomorrow
about
this
time,
to
make
a
search
through
your
house
and
the
houses
of
your
people,
and
everything
which
is pleasing
in
your
eyes
they
will
take
away
in
their
hands.
\VS{7}Then
the
king
of
Israel
sent
for
all
the responsible
men
of
the
land,
and
said,
Now
will
you
take
note
and
see
the
evil
purpose
of
this
man:
he
sent
for
my
wives
and
my
children,
my
silver
and
my
gold,
and
I
did
not
keep
them
back.
\VS{8}And
all
the responsible
men
and
the
people
said
to
him,
Do
not
give
attention
to
him
or
do what
he
says.
\VS{9}So
he
said
to
the representatives
of
Ben-hadad,
Say
to
my
lord
the
king,
All
the
orders
you
sent
the
first
time
I
will
do;
but
this
thing
I
may
not
do.
And
the representatives
went
back
with
this
answer.
\VS{10}Then
Ben-hadad
sent
to
him,
saying,
May
the gods' punishment
be
on
me
if
there
is
enough
of
the
dust
of
Samaria
for
all
the
people
at
my
feet
to
take
some
in
their hands.
\VS{11}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
in
answer,
Say
to
him,
The
time
for loud
talk
is
not
when
a
man
is putting
on
his arms,
but
when
he
is taking
them
off.
\VS{12}Now
when
this
answer
was
given
to Ben-hadad,
he
was
drinking
with
the
kings
in
the tents,
and
he
said
to
his
men,
Take
up
your positions.
So
they
put
themselves
in position
for attacking
the
town.
\VS{13}Then
a
prophet
came
up
to
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
and
said,
The
Lord
says,
Have
you
seen
all
this
great
army?
See,
I
will
give
it
into
your
hands
today,
and
you
will
see
that
I
am
the
Lord.
\VS{14}And
Ahab
said,
By
whom?
And
he
said,
The
Lord
says,
By
the
servants
of
the
chiefs
who
are
over
the divisions
of
the land.
Then
he
said,
By
whom
is
the fighting
to
be started?
And
he
made
answer,
By
you.
\VS{15}Then
he got
together
the
servants
of
all
the
chiefs
who
were
over
the
divisions
of
the land,
two
hundred
and thirty-two
of
them;
and
after
them,
he got
together
all
the
people,
all
the
children
of
Israel,
seven
thousand.
\VS{16}And
in
the middle
of
the day
they
went
out.
But
Ben-hadad
was
drinking
in
the tents
with
the thirty-two
kings
who
were
helping
him.
\VS{17}And
the
servants
of
the
chiefs
who
were
over
the divisions
of
the land
went
forward
first;
and
when
Ben-hadad
sent
out,
they
gave
him
the
news,
saying,
Men
have
come
out
from
Samaria.
\VS{18}And
he
said,
If
they
have
come
out
for
peace,
take
them
living,
and
if
they
have
come
out
for
war,
take
them
living.
\VS{19}So
the
servants
of
the
chiefs
of
the divisions
of
the land
went
out
of
the
town,
with
the
army
coming
after
them.
\VS{20}And
every
one
of
them
put
his
man
to death,
and
the Aramaeans
went
in
flight
with
Israel
after
them;
and
Ben-hadad,
king
of
Aram, got
away safely
on
a
horse
with
his
horsemen.
\VS{21}And
the
king
of
Israel
went
out
and
took
the
horses
and
the war-carriages,
and
made
great destruction
among
the Aramaeans.
\VS{22}Then
the
prophet
came
up
to
the
king
of
Israel,
and
said
to
him,
Now
make
yourself
strong,
and
take
care
what
you
do,
or
a
year
from
now
the
king
of
Aram
will
come
up
against
you again.
\VS{23}Then
the
king
of Aram's
servants
said
to
him,
Their
god
is
a
god
of
the
hills;
that
is
why
they
were
stronger
than
we:
but
if
we
make
an
attack
on
them
in
the lowlands,
we
will
certainly
be
stronger
than
they.
\VS{24}This
is
what
you
have
to
do:
take
away
the
kings
from
their positions,
and
put
captains
in
their
places;
\VS{25}And get
together
another
army
like
the
one which
came
to destruction,
horse
for
horse,
and carriage
for carriage;
and
let
us
make war
on
them
in
the lowlands,
and
certainly
we
will
be
stronger
than
they.
And
he
gave ear
to
what
they
said,
and
did
so.
\VS{26}So,
a
year
later,
Ben-hadad
got
the Aramaeans
together
and
went
up
to
Aphek
to make
war
on
Israel.
\VS{27}And
the
children
of
Israel got
themselves together,
and food
was
made ready
and
they
went
against
them;
the tents
of
the
children
of
Israel
were
like
two
little
flocks
of
goats
before
them, but
all
the
country
was
full
of
the Aramaeans.
\VS{28}And
a
man
of
God
came
up
and
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
The
Lord
says,
Because
the Aramaeans
have
said,
The
Lord
is
a
god
of
the
hills
and
not
of
the
valleys;
I
will
give
all
this
great
army
into
your
hands,
and
you
will
see
that
I
am
the
Lord.
\VS{29}Now
the
two armies kept
their positions facing
one
another
for
seven
days.
And
on
the
seventh
day
the
fight
was
started;
and
the
children
of
Israel put
to
the sword
a
hundred
thousand Aramaean
footmen
in
one
day.
\VS{30}But
the
rest
went
in
flight
to
Aphek,
into
the
town,
where
a
wall
came
down
on
the twenty-seven
thousand
who
were still
living.
And
Ben-hadad
went
in
flight
into
the
town,
into
an
inner
room.
\VS{31}Then
his
servants
said
to
him,
It
is
said
that
the
kings
of
Israel
are
full
of mercy:
let
us
then
put
on haircloth,
and
cords
on
our
heads,
and
go
to
the
king
of
Israel;
it
may
be
that
he
will
give
you
your
life.
\VS{32}So
they
put
on haircloth,
and
cords
on
their
heads,
and
came
to
the
king
of
Israel
and
said,
Your
servant
Ben-hadad
says,
Let
me
now
keep
my
life.
And
he
said,
Is
he
still
living?
he
is
my
brother.
\VS{33}Now
the
men
took
it
as
a sign,
and
quickly
took
up
his words;
and
they
said,
Ben-hadad
is
your
brother.
Then
he
said,
Go
and
get
him.
So
Ben-hadad
came
out
to
him
and
he
made
him
get
up
into
his carriage.
\VS{34}And Ben-hadad
said
to
him,
The
towns
my
father
took
from
your
father
I
will
give
back;
and
you
may
make
streets
for
yourself
in
Damascus
as
my
father
did
in
Samaria.
And
as
for
me,
at
the price
of
this
agreement
you
will
let
me
go.
So
he
made
an
agreement
with
him
and
let
him
go.
\VS{35}And
a
certain
man
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
said
to
his neighbour
by
the
word
of
the
Lord,
Give
me
a wound.
But
the
man
would
not.
\VS{36}Then
he
said
to
him,
Because
you
have
not
given ear
to
the
voice
of
the
Lord, straight
away
when
you
have
gone
from
me
a
lion
will put
you
to death.
And
when
he
had
gone, straight
away
a
lion
came rushing
at
him
and put
him
to death.
\VS{37}Then
he
came across
another
man,
and
said,
Give
me
a wound.
And
the
man
gave
him
a blow wounding
him.
\VS{38}So
the
prophet went away,
and pulling
his head-band
over
his
eyes
to keep
his
face covered,
took
his
place
by
the
road waiting
for
the
king.
\VS{39}And
when
the
king
went
by,
crying
out
to
him
he
said,
Your
servant
went
out
into
the
fight;
and
a
man
came
out
to
me
with
another
man
and
said,
Keep
this
man:
if
by
any chance
he
gets
away,
your
life
will
be
the
price
of
his
life,
or
you
will
have
to
give
a
talent
of
silver
in payment.
\VS{40}But
while
your
servant
was turning
this
way
and
that,
he
was
gone.
Then
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
him,
You
are
responsible;
you
have
given
the
decision
against
yourself.
\VS{41}Then
he
quickly
took
the head-band
from
his
eyes;
and
the
king
of
Israel saw
that
he
was
one
of
the
prophets.
\VS{42}And
he
said
to
him,
These
are
the words
of
the
Lord:
Because
you
have
let
go
from
your
hands
the
man whom
I
had
put
to
the curse,
your
life
will
be
taken
for
his
life,
and
your
people
for
his
people.
\VS{43}Then
the
king
of
Israel
went
back
to
his
house,
bitter
and angry,
and
came
to
Samaria.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Naboth
the
Jezreelite
had
a vine-garden
in
Jezreel,
near
the house
of
Ahab,
king
of
Samaria.
\VS{2}And
Ahab
said
to
Naboth,
Give
me
your vine-garden
so
that
I
may
have
it
for
a
garden
of sweet plants,
for
it
is
near
my
house;
and
let
me
give
you
a
better vine-garden
in
exchange,
or,
if
it
seems
good
to
you,
let
me
give
you
its
value
in
money.
\VS{3}But
Naboth
said
to
Ahab,
By
the
Lord,
far
be
it
from
me
to
give
you
the
heritage
of
my
fathers.
\VS{4}So
Ahab
came
into
his
house
bitter
and angry
because
Naboth
the
Jezreelite
had
said
to
him,
I
will
not
give
you
the
heritage
of
my
fathers.
And stretching
himself
on
the
bed
with
his
face
turned
away,
he
would
take
no
food.
\VS{5}But
Jezebel,
his
wife,
came
to
him
and
said,
Why
is
your
spirit
so
bitter
that
you
have
no desire
for
food?
\VS{6}And
he
said
to
her,
Because
I
was
talking
to
Naboth
the
Jezreelite,
and
I
said
to
him,
Let
me
have
your vine-garden
for
a
price,
or,
if
it
is pleasing
to
you,
I
will
give
you
another vine-garden
for
it:
and
he
said,
I
will
not
give
you
my vine-garden.
\VS{7}Then
Jezebel,
his
wife,
said,
Are
you
now
the ruler
of
Israel?
Get
up,
take
food,
and
let
your
heart
be
glad;
I
will
give
you
the vine-garden
of
Naboth
the
Jezreelite.
\VS{8}So
she
sent
a
letter
in Ahab's
name, stamped
with
his stamp,
to
the responsible
men
and
the chiefs
who
were
in
authority
with
Naboth.
\VS{9}And
in
the
letter
she
said, Let
a
time
of public sorrow be fixed,
and put
Naboth
at
the
head
of
the
people;
\VS{10}And
get
two
good-for-nothing
persons
to
come
before
him
and give witness
that
he
has been cursing
God
and
the
king.
Then
take
him
out
and
have
him
stoned
to
death.
\VS{11}So
the
responsible
men
and
the chiefs
who
were
in authority
in
his
town,
did
as
Jezebel
had
said
in
the
letter
she
sent
them.
\VS{12}They
gave orders
for
a day
of public sorrow,
and put
Naboth
at
the
head
of
the
people.
\VS{13}And
the
two
good-for-nothing
persons
came
in
and
took
their seats
before
him
and
gave witness
against
Naboth,
in
front
of
the
people,
saying,
Naboth
has been cursing
God
and
the
king.
Then
they
took
him
outside
the
town
and
had
him
stoned
to
death.
\VS{14}And
they
sent
word
to
Jezebel,
saying,
Naboth has been
stoned
and
is
dead.
\VS{15}Then
Jezebel,
hearing
that
Naboth
had
been
stoned
and
was
dead,
said
to
Ahab,
Get
up
and
take
as
your heritage
the vine-garden
of
Naboth
the
Jezreelite,
which
he
would
not
give
you
for
money,
for
Naboth
is
no
longer
living
but
is
dead.
\VS{16}So
Ahab,
hearing
that
Naboth
was
dead,
went
down
to
the vine-garden
of
Naboth
the
Jezreelite
to
take
it
as
his heritage.
\VS{17}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying,
\VS{18}Go
down
to
Ahab,
king
of
Israel,
in
Samaria;
see,
he
is
in
the vine-garden
of
Naboth
the Jezreelite,
where
he
has
gone
to
take
it
as
his heritage.
\VS{19}Say
to
him,
The
Lord
says,
Have
you
put
a man
to
death
and
taken
his heritage?
Then
say
to
him,
The
Lord
says,
In
the
place
where
dogs
have
been drinking
the
blood
of
Naboth,
there
will
your
blood
become
the drink
of
dogs.
\VS{20}And
Ahab
said
to
Elijah,
Have
you
come
face
to
face
with
me,
O
my hater?
And
he
said,
I
have
come
to
you
because
you
have given
yourself
up
to
do
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord.
\VS{21}See,
I
will send
evil
on
you
and
put
an
end
to
you
completely, cutting
off
from
Ahab
every male child,
him
who
is
shut
up
and
him
who
goes free
in
Israel;
\VS{22}And
I
will
make
your
family
like
the
family
of
Jeroboam,
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
like
the
family
of
Baasha,
the
son
of
Ahijah,
because
you
have
made
me
angry,
and
have
made
Israel do evil.
\VS{23}And
of
Jezebel
the
Lord
said,
Jezebel
will become
food
for
dogs
in
the heritage
of
Jezreel.
\VS{24}Any
man
of
the
family
of
Ahab who comes
to
his
death
in
the
town
will become
food
for
the
dogs;
and
he who comes
to
his
death
in
the open
country
will
be
food
for
the
birds
of
the air.
\VS{25}(There
was
no
one
like
Ahab,
who
gave
himself
up
to
do
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
moved
to
it
by
Jezebel
his
wife.
\VS{26}He
did
a
very disgusting
thing
in going
after false gods,
doing
all
the
things
the
Amorites
did,
whom
the
Lord sent
out
before
the
children
of
Israel.)
\VS{27}Hearing
these
words,
Ahab,
in great
grief,
put haircloth
on
his
flesh
and
went without food, sleeping
in haircloth,
and
going
about quietly.
\VS{28}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying,
\VS{29}Do
you
see
how
Ahab
has made
himself low
before
me?
because
he
has made
himself low
before
me,
I
will
not send
the
evil
in
his life-time,
but
in
his son's
time
I
will send
the
evil
on
his
family.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
for
three
years
there
was
no
war
between
Aram
and
Israel.
\VS{2}And
it
came
about
in
the
third
year,
that
Jehoshaphat,
king
of
Judah,
came
down
to
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{3}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
his
servants,
Do
you
not
see
that
Ramoth-gilead
is ours?
and
we
are
doing
nothing
to
get
it
back
from
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Aram.
\VS{4}And
he
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
Will
you go
with
me
to
Ramoth-gilead
to make
war?
And
Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
I am
as
you
are:
my
people
as
your
people,
my
horses
as
your
horses.
\VS{5}Then
Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Let
us
now get directions
from
the
Lord.
\VS{6}So
the
king
of
Israel
got
all
the
prophets
together,
about
four
hundred
men,
and
said
to
them, Am
I
to
go
to
Ramoth-gilead
to
make
war
or
not?
And
they
said,
Go
up:
for
the
Lord
will
give
it
into
the
hands
of
the
king.
\VS{7}But
Jehoshaphat
said,
Is
there
no
other
prophet
of
the
Lord
here
from whom we
may get directions?
\VS{8}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
There
is
still
one
man
by
whom
we
may get directions
from
the
Lord,
Micaiah,
son
of
Imlah;
but
I
have
no love
for
him,
for
he
is
a
prophet
of
evil
to
me
and
not
of
good.
And
Jehoshaphat
said,
Let
not
the
king
say
so.
\VS{9}Then
the
king
of
Israel
sent
for
one
of
his unsexed servants
and
said, Go
quickly
and come
back
with
Micaiah,
the
son
of
Imlah.
\VS{10}Now
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat,
the
king
of
Judah,
were
seated
on
their seats
of
authority,
dressed
in
their
robes,
by
the
doorway
into
Samaria;
and
all
the
prophets
were acting
as
prophets
before
them.
\VS{11}And
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Chenaanah,
made himself
horns
of
iron
and
said,
The
Lord
says, Pushing
back
the Aramaeans
with
these,
you
will
put
an
end
to
them
completely.
\VS{12}And
all
the
prophets
said
the
same
thing,
saying,
Go
up
to
Ramoth-gilead,
and
it
will
go
well
for
you,
for
the
Lord
will
give
it
into
the
hands
of
the
king.
\VS{13}Now
the servant
who
had
gone
to
get
Micaiah
said
to
him,
See
now,
all
the
prophets
with
one voice
are
saying
good
things
to
the
king;
so
let
your
words
be
like
theirs
and
say
good
things.
\VS{14}And
Micaiah
said,
By
the
living
Lord,
whatever
the
Lord
says
to
me
I
will
say.
\VS{15}When
he
came
to
the
king,
the
king
said
to
him,
Micaiah,
are
we
to
go
to
Ramoth-gilead
to
make
war
or
not?
And
in
answer
he
said,
Go
up,
and
it
will
go well
for
you;
and
the
Lord
will
give
it
into
the
hands
of
the
king.
\VS{16}Then
the
king
said
to
him,
Have
I
not,
again
and
again,
put
you
on
your
oath
to
say
nothing
to
me
but
what
is
true
in
the
name
of
the
Lord?
\VS{17}Then
he
said,
I
saw
all
Israel wandering
on
the
mountains
like
sheep
without
a keeper;
and
the
Lord
said,
These
have
no
master:
let
them
go
back,
every
man
to
his
house
in
peace.
\VS{18}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
Did
I
not
say
that
he
would
not
be
a
prophet
of
good
but
of
evil?
\VS{19}And
he
said,
Give ear
now
to
the
word
of
the
Lord:
I
saw
the
Lord
seated
on
his
seat
of power,
with
all
the
army
of
heaven
in
their
places round
him
at
his
right
hand
and
at
his
left.
\VS{20}And
the
Lord
said,
How
may
Ahab
be tricked
into
going
up
to
Ramoth-gilead
to
his death?
And
one
said
one
thing
and
one
another.
\VS{21}Then
a
spirit
came
forward
and
took
his
place
before
the
Lord
and
said,
I
will
get
him
to
do
it
by
a trick.
\VS{22}And
the Lord
said,
How?
And
he
said,
I
will
go
out
and
be
a
spirit
of
deceit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.
And
he
said,
Your trick
will
have
its effect
on
him:
go
out
and
do
so.
\VS{23}And
now,
see,
the
Lord
has
put
a
spirit
of
deceit
in
the
mouth
of
all
these
your
prophets;
and
the
Lord
has
said
evil
against
you.
\VS{24}Then
Zedekiah,
the
son
of
Chenaanah,
came
near
and
gave
Micaiah
a blow
on
the
side
of
the face,
saying,
Where
is
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
whose
word
is
in
you?
\VS{25}And
Micaiah
said, Truly,
you
will
see
on
that
day
when
you
go
into
an
inner
room
to
keep yourself safe.
\VS{26}And
the
king
of
Israel
said,
Take
Micaiah
and send
him
back
to
Amon,
the
ruler
of
the
town,
and
to
Joash,
the king's
son;
\VS{27}And
say,
It
is
the king's
order
that
this man
is
to
be
put
in
prison
and given
prison
food
till
I
come again
in
peace.
\VS{28}And
Micaiah
said,
If
you
come
back
at
all
in
peace,
the
Lord
has
not
sent
his
word
by
me.
\VS{29}So
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat,
the
king
of
Judah,
went
up
to
Ramoth-gilead.
\VS{30}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
I
will make
a change
in
my
clothing,
so
that
I
do not seem
to
be
the
king,
and
will
go
into
the
fight;
but
do
you
put
on
your
robes.
So
the
king
of
Israel made
a change
in
his
dress
and
went
into
the
fight.
\VS{31}Now
the
king
of
Aram
had
given
orders
to
the thirty-two
captains
of
his war-carriages,
saying,
Make
no
attack
on
small
or
great,
but
only
on
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{32}So
when
the
captains
of
the war-carriages
saw
Jehoshaphat,
they
said,
Truly,
this
is
the
king
of
Israel;
and
turning
against
him,
they
came round
him,
but
Jehoshaphat
gave
a
cry.
\VS{33}And
when
the
captains
of
the war-carriages
saw
that
he
was
not
the
king
of
Israel,
they
went
back
from
going
after
him.
\VS{34}And
a
certain
man
sent
an arrow
from
his
bow
without
thought
of
its
direction,
and
gave
the
king
of
Israel
a wound where
his
breastplate
was joined
to
his clothing;
so
he
said
to
the
driver
of
his war-carriage,
Go
to
one
side
and
take
me
away
out
of
the
army,
for
I am badly
wounded.
\VS{35}But
the
fight
became more
violent
while
the
day
went
on;
and
the
king
was supported
in
his war-carriage facing
the Aramaeans,
and
the floor
of
the carriage
was covered
with
the
blood
from
his
wound,
and
by
evening
he
was
dead.
\VS{36}And
about sundown
a
cry
went
up
from
all parts
of
the
army,
saying, Let
every
man
go
back
to
his
town
and
his
country,
for
the king
is dead.
\VS{37}And
they
came
to
Samaria,
and
put
the king's
body
to rest
in
Samaria.
\VS{38}And
the war-carriage
was
washed
by
the
pool
of
Samaria,
which
was
the bathing-place
of
the
loose women,
and
the
dogs
were drinking
his
blood
there,
as
the
Lord
had
said.
\VS{39}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahab,
and
all
he
did,
and
his
ivory
house,
and
all
the
towns
of
which
he
was
the builder,
are
they
not
recorded
in
the
book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{40}So
Ahab
was put
to
rest
with
his
fathers;
and
Ahaziah
his
son
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{41}And
Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Asa,
became
king
over
Judah
in
the
fourth
year
of Ahab's
rule
over
Israel.
\VS{42}Jehoshaphat
was thirty-five
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was
king
for
twenty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
His mother's
name
was
Azubah,
the
daughter
of
Shilhi.
\VS{43}He
did
as
Asa
his
father
had
done,
not
turning
away
from
it,
but
doing
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord;
but
the high
places
were
not
taken
away:
the
people went
on
making
offerings
and burning
them
in
the high
places.
\VS{44}And Jehoshaphat
made peace
with
the king
of
Israel.
\VS{45}Now
the rest
of
the acts
of
Jehoshaphat,
and
his great
power,
and how
he went
to war,
are
they not recorded
in
the book
of
the history
of
the
kings
of Judah?
\VS{46}He put
an end
to
the
rest
of
those
who
were
used
for sex purposes
in
the worship
of
the gods,
all
those
who
were still
in
the land
in
the
time
of
his father Asa.
\VS{47}At
that
time
there
was
no king
in Edom;
\VS{48}And
the representative
of
King Jehoshaphat made
a Tarshish-ship
to go
to Ophir
for gold,
but it did
not go, because it
was broken
at Ezion-geber.
\VS{49}Then Ahaziah,
the son
of Ahab, said
to
Jehoshaphat,
Let
my
men
go
with yours
in
the
ships.
But
Jehoshaphat
would
not
let
them.
\VS{50}Then
Jehoshaphat
went
to rest
with
his fathers,
and
his body
was put
into
the earth
in
the town
of
David
his father;
and Jehoram
his
son became king
in
his place.
\VS{51}Ahaziah,
the
son
of Ahab,
became
king over Israel
in Samaria
in
the seventeenth year
of
the
rule
of
Jehoshaphat,
the
king
of Judah,
and
he
was
king over Israel
for two years.
\VS{52}He did evil
in
the eyes
of
the Lord, going
in
the ways
of
his father
and
his mother,
and
in
the ways
of Jeroboam,
the
son
of Nebat,
who made
Israel do evil.
\VS{53}He
was
a servant
and worshipper
of Baal, moving
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
to wrath,
as
his
father
had
done.
\par }