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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
king
David
was
old [and]
advanced
in
age;
and
they
covered
him
with
clothes,
but
he obtained
no warmth.
\VS{2}And
his
servants
said
to
him,
Let
there
be found
for
my
lord
the
king
a
young
virgin;
and
let
her
stand
before
the
king,
and
let
her
cherish
him,
and
let
her
lie
in thy
bosom,
that
my
lord
the
king
may get
warm.
\VS{3}And
they
sought
for
a
fair damsel
throughout
the
territory
of
Israel,
and
found
Abishag
a
Shunammite,
and
brought
her
to
the
king.
\VS{4}And
the damsel
was
very
fair;
and cherished
the
king,
and
ministered
to
him;
but
the
king
knew
her
not.
\VS{5}And
Adonijah
the
son
of
Haggith exalted
himself,
saying,
I
will
be
king;
and
he provided
himself
chariots
and
horsemen,
and
fifty
men
to
run
before
him.
\VS{6}And
his
father
had
not
grieved
him
at
any
time
in
saying,
Why doest thou
so?
and
he
was
also
a
very comely man;
and [his mother]
bore
him
after
Absalom.
\VS{7}And
he
conferred
with
Joab
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
and
with
Abiathar
the
priest;
and
they
helped
Adonijah
and
followed [him].
\VS{8}But
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Shimei,
and
Rei,
and
the
mighty
men
whom
David
had,
were
not
with
Adonijah.
\VS{9}And
Adonijah
sacrificed
sheep
and
oxen
and fatted
cattle
by
the
stone
of
Zoheleth,
which
is
by
En-rogel,
and
invited
all
his
brethren,
the king's
sons,
and
all
the
men
of
Judah,
the king's
servants;
\VS{10}but
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah,
and
the
mighty
men,
and
Solomon
his
brother,
he
did
not
invite.
\VS{11}And
Nathan
spoke
to
Bathsheba
the
mother
of
Solomon,
saying, Hast thou
not
heard
that
Adonijah
the
son
of
Haggith
is
king,
and
David
our
lord
does
not
know [it]?
\VS{12}And
now,
come,
let
me,
I
pray thee,
give thee
counsel,
that thou mayest
save thine
own
life,
and
the
life
of thy
son
Solomon.
\VS{13}Go
and
get thee
in
to
king
David,
and
say
to
him, Didst
not thou,
my
lord,
O
king,
swear
to thy
handmaid
saying,
Solomon thy
son
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
on
my
throne?
why
then
does
Adonijah
reign?
\VS{14}Behold,
while thou
yet talkest
there
with
the
king,
I
also
will
come
in
after thee
and
confirm thy
words.
\VS{15}And
Bathsheba
went
in
to
the
king
into
the
chamber;
and
the
king
was
very
old;
and
Abishag
the
Shunammite
ministered
to
the
king.
\VS{16}And
Bathsheba
bowed
and
did obeisance
to
the
king.
And
the
king
said,
What wouldest thou?
\VS{17}And
she
said
to
him,
My
lord, thou hast
sworn
by
Jehovah thy
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
to thy
handmaid, [saying,]
Solomon thy
son
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
on
my
throne.
\VS{18}And
now
behold,
Adonijah
is
king;
and
now,
my
lord
the
king, thou knowest
it
not.
\VS{19}And
he
has
sacrificed
oxen
and fatted
cattle
and
sheep
in
abundance,
and
has
invited
all
the
sons
of
the
king
and
Abiathar
the
priest
and
Joab
the
captain
of
the
host;
but
Solomon thy
servant
has
he
not
invited.
\VS{20}And thou,
my
lord
the
king,
the
eyes
of
all
Israel
are
upon thee,
that thou shouldest
tell
them
who
shall
sit
on
the
throne
of
my
lord
the
king
after
him.
\VS{21}Otherwise
it
shall
come
to
pass
when
my
lord
the
king
shall
sleep
with
his
fathers,
that
I
and
my
son
Solomon
will
be counted
offenders.
\VS{22}And
behold,
while
she
yet
talked
with
the
king,
Nathan
the
prophet
also
came
in.
\VS{23}And
they
told
the
king
saying,
Behold,
Nathan
the
prophet.
And
when
he
was
come
in
before
the
king,
he
bowed
himself
before
the
king
with
his
face
to
the
ground.
\VS{24}And
Nathan
said,
My
lord,
O
king, hast thou
said,
Adonijah
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
on
my
throne?
\VS{25}For
he
is
gone
down
this
day,
and
has
sacrificed
oxen
and fatted
cattle
and
sheep
in
abundance,
and
has
invited
all
the king's
sons,
and
the
captains
of
the
host,
and
Abiathar
the
priest;
and
behold,
they
eat
and
drink
before
him,
and
say,
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Elohim}God save
king
Adonijah!
\VS{26}But
me, [even]
me thy
servant,
and
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and thy
servant
Solomon,
he
has
not
invited.
\VS{27}Is
this
thing
done
by
my
lord
the
king,
and thou hast
not shewn
to thy
servants
who
should
sit
on
the
throne
of
my
lord
the
king
after
him?
\VS{28}Then
king
David
answered
and
said,
Call
me
Bathsheba.
And
she
came
into
the king's
presence,
and
stood
before
the
king.
\VS{29}And
the
king
swore,
and
said, [As]
Jehovah liveth,
who
has
redeemed
my
soul
out
of
all
distress,
\VS{30}even
as
I
swore
to thee
by
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:30 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
saying,
Solomon thy
son
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
on
my
throne
in
my
stead;
even
so
will
I
certainly
do
this
day.
\VS{31}And
Bathsheba
bowed
with
her
face
to
the
earth,
and
did reverence
to
the
king,
and
said, Let
my
lord
king
David
live
for
ever.
\VS{32}And
king
David
said,
Call
me
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada.
And
they
came
before
the
king.
\VS{33}And
the
king
said
to
them,
Take
with
you
the
servants
of
your
lord,
and
cause
Solomon
my
son
to
ride
upon
mine
own
mule,
and
bring
him
down
to
Gihon;
\VS{34}and let
Zadok
the
priest
and
Nathan
the
prophet
anoint
him
there
king
over
Israel;
and
blow ye
with
the
trumpet,
and
say, Long
live
king
Solomon!
\VS{35}And ye
shall
come
up
after
him,
that
he
may
come
and
sit
on
my
throne;
for
he
shall
reign
in
my
stead,
and
I
have
appointed
him
to
be
ruler
over
Israel
and
over
Judah.
\VS{36}And
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada
answered
the
king
and
said,
Amen:
Jehovah,
the
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
my
lord
the
king,
say
so too.
\VS{37}As
Jehovah
has
been
with
my
lord
the
king,
even
so
be
he
with
Solomon,
and
make
his
throne
greater
than
the
throne
of
my
lord
king
David.
\VS{38}And
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
the Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites
went
down,
and caused
Solomon
to
ride
upon
king David's
mule,
and
brought
him
to
Gihon.
\VS{39}And
Zadok
the
priest
took
the
horn
of
oil
out
of
the
tabernacle,
and
anointed
Solomon.
And
they
blew
the
trumpet;
and
all
the
people
said, Long
live
king
Solomon!
\VS{40}And
all
the
people
came
up
after
him,
and
the
people piped
with pipes,
and
rejoiced
with
great
joy,
so
that
the
earth rent
with
the
sound
of
them.
\VS{41}And
Adonijah
and
all
the
guests
that
were
with
him
heard [it]
as
they
were finishing
their repast;
and
Joab
heard
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
and
he
said, Wherefore
this
noise
of
the
city
in
an
uproar?
\VS{42}While
he
yet
spoke,
behold,
Jonathan
the
son
of
Abiathar
the
priest
came;
and
Adonijah
said [to
him],
Come
in;
for thou art
a
valiant
man,
and bringest
good
news.
\VS{43}And
Jonathan
answered
and
said
to
Adonijah,
Indeed,
our
lord
king
David
has made
Solomon
king.
\VS{44}And
the
king
has
sent
with
him
Zadok
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
and
the
Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites,
and
they
have
caused
him
to
ride
upon
the king's
mule;
\VS{45}and
Zadok
the
priest
and
Nathan
the
prophet
have
anointed
him
king
at
Gihon;
and
they
are
come
up
from thence
rejoicing,
so
that
the
city
is
in
an
uproar.
This
is
the
noise
which ye
have
heard.
\VS{46}And
also
Solomon
is
sitting
on
the
throne
of
the
kingdom.
\VS{47}And
moreover
the king's
servants
came
to
bless
our
lord
king
David,
saying, Thy
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
make
the
name
of
Solomon
more excellent
than thy
name,
and
make
his
throne
greater
than thy
throne!
And
the
king
bowed
himself
on
the
bed.
\VS{48}And
also
thus
said
the
king:
Blessed
be
Jehovah,
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:48 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
who
has
given
one
to
sit
on
my
throne
this
day, mine
eyes
even
seeing
it.
\VS{49}And
all Adonijah's
guests
were
afraid,
and
rose
up
and
went
every
man
his
way.
\VS{50}And
Adonijah
feared
because
of
Solomon,
and
arose
and
went
and
caught
hold
of
the
horns
of
the
altar.
\VS{51}And
it
was
told
Solomon
saying,
Behold,
Adonijah
fears
king
Solomon;
for
behold,
he
has
caught
hold
of
the
horns
of
the
altar,
saying,
Let
king
Solomon
swear
to
me
this
day
that
he
will
not
put
his
servant
to
death
with
the
sword.
\VS{52}And
Solomon
said,
If
he
be
a
worthy
man,
there
shall
not
one
of
his
hairs
fall
to
the
earth;
but
if
wickedness
be
found
in
him,
he
shall
die.
\VS{53}And
king
Solomon
sent,
and
they
brought
him
down
from
the
altar.
And
he
came
and
bowed
himself
to
king
Solomon;
and
Solomon
said
to
him,
Go
to thy
house.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
days
of
David
were
at hand
that
he
should
die;
and
he enjoined
Solomon
his
son
saying,
\VS{2}I
go
the
way
of
all
the
earth:
be
of good
courage
therefore,
and
be
a
man;
\VS{3}and
keep
the
charge
of
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to
walk
in
his
ways,
to
keep
his
statutes,
and
his
commandments,
and
his
ordinances,
and
his
testimonies,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of
Moses,
that thou mayest prosper
in
all
that thou doest
and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;
\VS{4}that
Jehovah
may
confirm
his
word
which
he
spoke
concerning
me,
saying,
If thy
sons
take
heed
to
their
way,
to
walk
before
me
in
truth
with
all
their
heart
and
with
all
their
soul,
there
shall
not
fail thee,
said
he,
a
man
upon
the
throne
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And thou knowest
also
what
Joab
the
son
of
Zeruiah
did
to
me,
what
he
did
to
the
two
captains
of
the
hosts
of
Israel,
to
Abner
the
son
of
Ner,
and
to
Amasa
the
son
of
Jether,
whom
he
slew,
and
shed
the
blood
of
war
in
peace,
and
put
the
blood
of
war
upon
his girdle
that
was
about
his
loins,
and
upon
his
sandals
that
were
on
his
feet.
\VS{6}And thou shalt
do according
to thy
wisdom,
and
not
let
his hoar
head
go
down
to
Sheol
in
peace.
\VS{7}But shew
kindness
to
the
sons
of
Barzillai
the
Gileadite,
and
let
them
be
of
those
that
eat
at thy
table;
for
so
they
came
up
to
me
when
I
fled
because
of
Absalom thy
brother.
\VS{8}And
behold,
there
is
with thee
Shimei
the
son
of
Gera,
the
Benjaminite
of
Bahurim,
who
cursed
me
with
a grievous
curse
in
the
day
that
I
went
to
Mahanaim;
but
he
came
down
to
meet
me
at
the
Jordan,
and
I
swore
to
him
by
Jehovah
saying,
I
will
not
put thee
to
death
with
the
sword.
\VS{9}And
now hold
him
not guiltless;
for thou art
a
wise
man,
and thou shalt
know
what thou oughtest
to
do
to
him;
but
bring
his hoar
head
down
to
Sheol
with
blood.
\VS{10}And
David
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David.
\VS{11}And
the
days
that
David
reigned
over
Israel
were
forty
years:
he
reigned
seven
years
in
Hebron,
and
he
reigned
thirty-three
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}And
Solomon
sat
on
the
throne
of
David
his
father;
and
his
kingdom
was
established
greatly.
\VS{13}And
Adonijah
the
son
of
Haggith
came
to
Bathsheba
the
mother
of
Solomon.
And
she
said, Comest thou
peaceably?
And
he
said,
Peaceably.
\VS{14}And
he
said,
I
have
something
to
say
to thee.
And she
said,
Speak.
\VS{15}And
he
said, Thou knowest
that
the
kingdom
was mine,
and
all
Israel
had
set
their
faces
on
me
that
I
should
reign;
but
the
kingdom
is
turned
about
and
is
become
my brother's,
for
it
was
his
from
Jehovah.
\VS{16}And
now
I
ask
one
petition
of thee;
refuse
me
not.
And
she
said
to
him,
Speak.
\VS{17}And
he
said,
Speak,
I
pray thee,
to
Solomon
the
king —
for
he
will
not
refuse thee —
that
he
give
me
Abishag
the
Shunammite
as
wife.
\VS{18}And
Bathsheba
said,
Well,
I
will
speak
for thee
to
the
king.
\VS{19}And
Bathsheba
went
to
king
Solomon,
to
speak
to
him
for
Adonijah.
And
the
king
rose
up
to
meet
her,
and
bowed
himself
to
her,
and
sat
down
on
his
throne;
and
he
caused
a
throne
to
be
set
for
the king's
mother,
and
she
sat
on
his
right
hand.
\VS{20}Then
she
said,
I desire
one
small
petition
of thee;
refuse
me
not.
And
the
king
said
to
her,
Ask,
my
mother,
for
I
will
not
refuse thee.
\VS{21}And she
said,
Let
Abishag
the
Shunammite
be
given
to
Adonijah thy
brother
as
wife.
\VS{22}And
king
Solomon
answered
and
said
to
his
mother,
And
why dost thou
ask
Abishag
the
Shunammite
for
Adonijah?
ask
for
him
the
kingdom
also;
for
he
is
mine
elder
brother;
even
for
him,
and
for
Abiathar
the
priest,
and
for
Joab
the
son
of
Zeruiah.
\VS{23}And
king
Solomon
swore
by
Jehovah
saying,
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
do
so
to
me,
and
more
also, —
Adonijah
has
spoken
this
word
against
his
own
life!
\VS{24}And
now [as]
Jehovah liveth,
who
has
established
me,
and
set
me
on
the
throne
of
David
my
father,
and
who
has
made
me
a
house,
as
he
promised,
Adonijah
shall
be
put
to
death
this
day.
\VS{25}And
king
Solomon
sent
by
the
hand
of
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada;
who
fell
on
him,
that
he
died.
\VS{26}And
the
king
said
to
Abiathar
the
priest, Go
to
Anathoth,
to thine
own
fields;
for thou art worthy
of
death;
but
I
will
not
at
this
time
put thee
to
death,
because thou didst
bear
the
ark
of Adonai Jehovah
before
David
my
father,
and
because thou hast
been
afflicted
in
all
wherein
my
father
was
afflicted.
\VS{27}And
Solomon thrust
out
Abiathar
from
being
priest
to
Jehovah,
to fulfil
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
he
had
spoken
concerning
the
house
of
Eli
in
Shiloh.
\VS{28}And
the
report
came
to
Joab (for
Joab
had
turned
after
Adonijah,
though
he
had
not
turned
after
Absalom);
and
Joab
fled
to
the
tent
of
Jehovah,
and
caught
hold
of
the
horns
of
the
altar.
\VS{29}And
it
was
told
king
Solomon
that
Joab
had
fled
to
the
tent
of
Jehovah;
and
behold,
he
is
by
the
altar.
And
Solomon
sent
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
saying,
Go,
fall
on
him.
\VS{30}And
Benaiah
came
to
the
tent
of
Jehovah
and
said
to
him,
Thus saith
the
king:
Come
forth.
And
he
said,
No;
for
I
will
die
here.
And
Benaiah
brought
the
king
word
again,
saying,
Thus
said
Joab,
and
thus
he
answered
me.
\VS{31}And
the
king
said
to
him,
Do
as
he
has
said,
and
fall
upon
him,
and
bury
him;
and
take
away
the
innocent
blood,
which
Joab
shed,
from
me
and
from
the
house
of
my
father.
\VS{32}And
Jehovah
shall requite
the
blood
which
he
shed
upon
his
own
head,
because
he
fell
upon
two
men
more
righteous
and
better
than
he,
and
slew
them
with
the
sword,
without
my
father David's
knowledge:
Abner
the
son
of
Ner,
captain
of
the
host
of
Israel,
and
Amasa
the
son
of
Jether,
captain
of
the
host
of
Judah.
\VS{33}And
their
blood
shall
be requited
upon
the
head
of
Joab,
and
upon
the
head
of
his
seed
for
ever;
but
upon
David,
and
upon
his
seed,
and
upon
his
house,
and
upon
his
throne,
shall
there
be
peace
for
ever
from
Jehovah.
\VS{34}And
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada
went
up
and
fell
upon
him,
and
put
him
to
death;
and
he
was
buried
in
his own
house
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{35}And
the
king
put
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada
in
his
stead
over
the
host;
and
Zadok
the
priest
the
king
put
in
the
stead
of
Abiathar.
\VS{36}And
the
king
sent
and
called
for
Shimei,
and
said
to
him,
Build thee
a
house
in
Jerusalem,
and
abide
there,
and
go
not
forth thence
anywhere.
\VS{37}And
it
shall
be
that
on
the
day thou goest
forth,
and passest
over
the torrent
of
Kidron, ...know
for
certain
that thou shalt
surely
die: thy
blood
shall
be
upon thine
own
head.
\VS{38}And
Shimei
said
to
the
king,
The
saying
is
good:
as
my
lord
the
king
has
said,
so
will thy
servant
do.
And
Shimei
dwelt
in
Jerusalem
many
days.
\VS{39}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the
end
of
three
years,
that
two
servants
of Shimei's
ran
away
to
Achish
son
of Maachah,
king
of
Gath.
And
they
told
Shimei
saying,
Behold, thy
servants
are
in
Gath.
\VS{40}Then
Shimei
arose,
and
saddled
his ass,
and
went
to
Gath,
to
Achish,
to
seek
his
servants;
and
Shimei
went,
and
brought
his
servants
from
Gath.
\VS{41}And
it
was
told
Solomon
that
Shimei
had
gone
from
Jerusalem
to
Gath,
and
had
come
again.
\VS{42}And
the
king
sent
and
called
for
Shimei,
and
said
to
him,
Did
I
not
make thee
swear
by
Jehovah,
and protest
to thee,
saying,
Know
for
certain,
that
on
the
day thou goest
forth,
and walkest abroad
anywhere, thou shalt
surely
die?
and thou saidst
to
me,
The
word
that
I
have
heard
is
good.
\VS{43}Why
then hast thou
not
kept
the
oath
of
Jehovah,
and
the
commandment
that
I
charged thee
with?
\VS{44}And
the
king
said
to
Shimei, Thou knowest
all
the
wickedness
of
which thy
heart
is conscious,
which thou didst
to
David
my
father;
and
Jehovah
returns thy
wickedness
upon thine own
head;
\VS{45}and
king
Solomon
shall
be
blessed,
and
the
throne
of
David
shall
be
established
before
Jehovah
for
ever.
\VS{46}And
the
king
commanded
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada;
who
went
out
and
fell
upon
him,
and
he
died.
And
the
kingdom
was
established
in
the
hand
of
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
allied
himself
by
marriage
with
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt,
and
took Pharaoh's
daughter,
and
brought
her
into
the
city
of
David,
until
he
had
ended
building
his own
house,
and
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
round
about.
\VS{2}Only,
the
people
sacrificed
on
the
high
places;
for
there
was
no
house
built
to
the
name
of
Jehovah,
until
those
days.
\VS{3}And
Solomon
loved
Jehovah, walking
in
the
statutes
of
David
his
father;
only,
he
sacrificed
and
burned
incense
on
the
high
places.
\VS{4}And
the
king
went
to
Gibeon
to
sacrifice
there;
for
that
was
the
great
high
place:
a
thousand burnt-offerings did
Solomon
offer
up
upon
that
altar.
\VS{5}In
Gibeon
Jehovah
appeared
to
Solomon
in
a
dream
by
night;
and
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said,
Ask
what
I
shall
give thee.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
said, Thou hast shewn unto thy
servant
David
my
father
great loving-kindness,
according
as
he
walked
before thee
in
truth,
and
in
righteousness,
and
in
uprightness
of
heart
with thee;
and thou hast
kept
for
him
this
great loving-kindness,
that thou hast
given
him
a
son
who
sits
upon
his
throne,
as
it
is
this
day.
\VS{7}And
now,
Jehovah
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, thou hast
made thy
servant
king
instead
of
David
my
father;
and
I
am
but
a
little
child:
I
know
not
to
go
out
and
to
come
in.
\VS{8}And thy
servant
is
in
the
midst
of thy
people
which thou hast
chosen,
a
great
people,
that
cannot
be
numbered
nor
counted
for
multitude.
\VS{9}Give
therefore
to thy
servant
an
understanding
heart,
to
judge thy
people,
to
discern
between
good
and
bad;
for
who
is
able
to
judge
this thy
numerous
people?
\VS{10}And
the
word
pleased
the
Lord,
that
Solomon
had
asked
this
thing.
\VS{11}And
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said
to
him,
Because thou hast
asked
this
thing,
and hast
not
asked
for thyself
long
life,
neither hast
asked
riches
for thyself,
nor hast
asked
the
life
of thine
enemies,
but hast
asked
for thyself
discernment
to
understand
judgment;
\VS{12}behold,
I
have
done
according
to thy
word:
behold,
I
have
given thee
a
wise
and
an
understanding
heart,
so
that
there hath
been
none
like unto thee
before thee,
neither
after thee
shall
any
arise
like unto thee.
\VS{13}And
I
have
also
given thee
that
which thou hast
not
asked,
both
riches
and
glory;
so
that
there
shall
not
be
any
among
the
kings
like unto thee
all thy
days.
\VS{14}And
if thou wilt
walk
in
my
ways,
to
keep
my
statutes
and
my
commandments,
as thy
father
David
did
walk,
then
I
will
prolong thy
days.
\VS{15}And
Solomon
awoke,
and
behold,
it
was
a
dream.
And
he
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
stood
before
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of Jehovah,
and
offered
up burnt-offerings,
and
offered peace-offerings,
and
made
a
feast
to
all
his
servants.
\VS{16}Then
came
two
women, harlots,
to
the
king,
and
stood
before
him.
\VS{17}And
the
first
woman
said, Ah,
my
lord!
I
and
this
woman
abode
in
one
house;
and
I
was
delivered
of
a
child
with
her
in
the
house.
\VS{18}And
it
came
to
pass
the
third
day
after
I
was
delivered,
that
this
woman
was
delivered
also;
and
we
were
together;
no stranger
was
with
us
in
the
house,
only
we
two
were
in
the
house.
\VS{19}And
this woman's
child
died
in
the
night;
because
she
had
lain
upon
it.
\VS{20}And
she
arose
at midnight,
and
took
my
son
from
beside
me, while thy
handmaid
slept,
and
laid
it
in
her
bosom,
and
laid
her
dead
son
in
my
bosom.
\VS{21}And
when
I
rose
in
the
morning
to
give
my
child
suck,
behold,
it
was
dead;
and
I
considered
it
in
the
morning,
and
behold,
it
was
not
my
son,
whom
I
bore.
\VS{22}And
the
other
woman
said,
No,
for
the
living
is
my
son,
and
the
dead
is thy
son.
And
this
one
said,
No,
but
the
dead
is thy
son,
and
the
living
is
my
son.
Thus
they
spoke
before
the
king.
\VS{23}Then
said
the
king,
The
one
says,
This
that
is
living
is
my
son,
and thy
son
is
the
dead;
and
the
other
says,
No,
for thy
son
is
the
dead,
and
my
son
is
the
living.
\VS{24}And
the
king
said,
Bring
me
a
sword.
And
they
brought
a
sword
before
the
king.
\VS{25}And
the
king
said,
Divide
the
living
child
in
two,
and
give
half
to
the
one,
and
half
to
the
other.
\VS{26}Then
spoke
the
woman
whose
was
the
living
child
to
the
king,
for
her bowels yearned
over
her
son,
and
she
said, Ah,
my
lord!
give
her
the
living
child,
and
in
no wise
put
it
to
death.
But
the
other
said,
Let
it
be
neither mine
nor thine;
divide
it.
\VS{27}And
the
king
answered
and
said,
Give
this
one
the
living
child,
and
in
no wise
put
it
to
death:
she
is
its
mother.
\VS{28}And
all
Israel
heard
of
the
judgment
which
the
king
had
judged;
and
they
feared
the
king,
for
they
saw
that
the
wisdom
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 3:28 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
was
in
him,
to
do
justice.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
king
Solomon
was
king
over
all
Israel.
\VS{2}And
these
are
the
princes
whom
he
had:
Azariah
the
son
of
Zadok
was
priest;
\VS{3}Elihoreph
and
Ahiah,
the
sons
of
Shisha,
scribes;
Jehoshaphat
the
son
of
Ahilud, chronicler;
\VS{4}and
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada
was
over
the
host;
and
Zadok
and
Abiathar
were
priests;
\VS{5}and
Azariah
the
son
of
Nathan
was
over
the superintendents;
and
Zabud
the
son
of
Nathan
was principal officer,
the king's
friend;
\VS{6}and
Ahishar
was
over
the
household;
and
Adoniram
the
son
of
Abda
was
over
the levy-service.
\VS{7}And
Solomon
had
twelve superintendents
over
all
Israel;
and
they
provided
food
for
the
king
and
his
household:
each
man
his
month
in
the
year
had
to make provision.
\VS{8}And
these
are their
names:
Ben-Hur,
in
mount
Ephraim.
\VS{9}Ben-Deker
in
Makaz,
and
in
Shaalbim,
and
Beth-shemesh,
and Elon-Beth-hanan.
\VS{10}Ben-Hesed,
in
Arubboth;
he
had Sochoh,
and
all
the
land
of
Hepher.
\VS{11}Ben-Abinadab
had
all
the upland
of
Dor;
Taphath
the
daughter
of
Solomon
was
his
wife.
\VS{12}Baana
the
son
of
Ahilud
had
Taanach
and
Megiddo,
and
all
Beth-shean,
which
is
by Zaretan
beneath Jizreel,
from
Beth-shean
to
Abel-Meholah,
as
far
as
beyond Jokneam.
\VS{13}Ben-Geber,
in
Ramoth-Gilead;
he
had
the villages
of
Jair
the
son
of
Manasseh,
which
are
in
Gilead;
he
had
the region
of Argob,
which
is
in
Bashan,
sixty
great
cities
with
walls
and
bars
of
bronze.
\VS{14}Ahinadab
the
son
of
Iddo,
at
Mahanaim.
\VS{15}Ahimaaz,
in Nephtali;
he
also
took Basmath
the
daughter
of
Solomon
as
wife.
\VS{16}Baanah
the
son
of
Hushai,
in
Asher
and
in 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
land
of
Sihon
the
king
of
the
Amorites,
and
of
Og
the
king
of
Bashan;
and [he
was]
the
only superintendent
that
was
in
the
land.
\VS{20}Judah
and
Israel
were
many,
as
the
sand
which
is
by
the
sea
in
multitude,
eating
and
drinking
and making merry.
\VS{21}And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
\VS{22}And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
\VS{23}ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.
\VS{24}For he had dominion over all on this side the river, from Tiphsah as far as Gazah, over all the kings on this side the river; and he had peace on all sides round about.
\VS{25}And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
\VS{26}And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
\VS{27}And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they let nothing be wanting.
\VS{28}And the barley, and the straw for the horses and coursers, they brought to the place where [the superintendents] were, every man according to his charge.
\VS{29}And
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 4:29 }
Elohim}God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
\VS{30}And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
\VS{31}For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
\VS{32}And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
\VS{33}And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
\VS{34}And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Hiram king
of Tyre sent
his
servants
to
Solomon;
for
he
had heard
that
they
had anointed
him king
in
the
place
of
his father;
for Hiram
always loved
David.
\VS{2}And
Solomon sent
to Hiram, saying,
\VS{3}Thou knowest that David my father could not build a house unto
the name
of Jehovah his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:3 }
Elohim}God, because
of
the wars which
were about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under
the soles
of his feet.
\VS{4}But
now Jehovah
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:4 }
Elohim}God
has given
me
rest
on
every
side:
there
is neither adversary nor evil event.
\VS{5}And behold,
I purpose
to build
a house unto
the name
of Jehovah
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 5:5 }
Elohim}God,
as Jehovah spoke
to
David
my father saying, Thy son, whom
I
will
set
upon thy throne
in thy
stead,
he
shall build
a house unto
my name.
\VS{6}And
now command
that they hew
me cedar-trees
out
of Lebanon;
and
my servants shall
be
with thy servants;
and
I
will
give thee hire
for thy servants according
to
all
that thou shalt say;
for thou knowest
that
there
is
not among us
any
that
are experienced
in cutting timber
like
to
the Zidonians.
\VS{7}And
it
came
to pass
when Hiram heard
the
words
of
Solomon,
that
he rejoiced greatly,
and
said, Blessed
be Jehovah
this
day,
who
has given
to David
a wise son
over
this great
people.
\VS{8}And Hiram sent
to Solomon, saying,
I
have heard
the
things
which thou sentest
to
me
for:
I
will
do
all thy desire
concerning timber
of cedar,
and
concerning timber
of cypress.
\VS{9}My servants
shall
bring [them]
down
from Lebanon
to
the
sea;
and
I
will
convey
them
by
sea [in] rafts
to
the
place
that thou shalt
appoint
me,
and
will
cause
them
to
be broken
up
there,
and thou shalt
receive
them.
And thou shalt accomplish
my desire
in
giving food
for
my household.
\VS{10}So Hiram gave
Solomon cedar-trees
and cypress-trees [according
to]
all
his desire.
\VS{11}And Solomon
gave Hiram twenty thousand measures
of wheat
as food
for
his household,
and twenty measures
of beaten oil:
thus
gave Solomon
to Hiram year
by year.
\VS{12}And Jehovah
gave Solomon wisdom
as
he
promised
him.
And
there
was peace between Hiram
and Solomon;
and
they two
made
a league.
\VS{13}And
king Solomon raised
a levy
out
of
all Israel;
and
the levy
was thirty thousand men.
\VS{14}And
he sent
them
to Lebanon, ten thousand
a month
by courses;
a month
they
were
in Lebanon, two months
at
home;
and Adoniram
was
over
the levy.
\VS{15}And
Solomon
had seventy thousand
that bore burdens,
and eighty thousand stone-masons
in
the mountains;
\VS{16}besides
the overseers whom
Solomon
had
set
over
the work, three thousand three hundred,
who ruled
over
the people
that wrought
in
the work.
\VS{17}And
the king commanded,
and
they
brought
great stones, costly stones, hewn stones,
to
lay
the foundation
of
the
house.
\VS{18}And Solomon's builders
and Hiram's builders
and
the Giblites hewed
them,
and prepared timber
and stones
to build
the house.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
four
hundred
and
eightieth
year
after
the
children
of
Israel
were
come
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
in
the
fourth
year
of Solomon's
reign
over
Israel,
in
the
month Zif,
which
is
the
second
month,
that
he
began
to
build
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{2}And
the
house
that
king
Solomon
built
for
Jehovah
was
sixty
cubits
in
length,
and
twenty
in
breadth,
and
thirty
cubits
in
height.
\VS{3}And
the
porch,
in
front
of
the
temple
of
the
house,
was
twenty
cubits
in
length,
in
front
of
the
house broadways, [and]
ten
cubits
was
its
breadth,
in
front
of
the
house.
\VS{4}And
for
the
house
he
made closed
windows
with fixed lattices.
\VS{5}And
against
the
wall
of
the
house
he
built floors
round
about, [against]
the
walls
of
the
house,
round
about
the
temple
and
the oracle;
and
he
made side-chambers
round
about.
\VS{6}The
lowest
floor
was
five
cubits broad,
and
the
middle
one
was
six
cubits broad,
and
the
third
was
seven
cubits broad;
for
in
the [thickness
of
the
wall
of]
the
house
he
made resets
round
about
outside,
that
nothing
should
be
fastened
in
the
walls
of
the
house.
\VS{7}And
the
house,
when
it
was being
built,
was
built
of
stone
entirely
made ready
before
it
was brought thither;
so
that
there
was
neither
hammer
nor
axe
nor
any
tool
of
iron
heard
in
the
house
while
it
was being
built.
\VS{8}The
entrance
to
the side-chambers
of
the
middle [floor]
was
in
the
right
side
of
the
house;
and
they
went
up
by
winding
stairs
into
the
middle [floor],
and
out
of
the
middle
into
the
third.
\VS{9}And
he
built
the
house,
and
finished
it;
and
covered
the
house
with beams
and boards
of cedar.
\VS{10}And
he
built
the floors
against
all
the
house,
five
cubits
high;
and
they
held
to
the
house
by
the
timbers
of
cedar.
\VS{11}And
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Solomon
saying,
\VS{12}As
to
this
house
which thou art
building,
if thou wilt walk
in
my
statutes,
and practise mine
ordinances,
and
keep
all
my
commandments
to walk
in
them,
then
will
I
perform
my
word
as
to thee
which
I
spoke unto
David thy
father;
\VS{13}and
I
will
dwell
among
the
children
of
Israel,
and
will
not
forsake
my
people
Israel.
\VS{14}And
Solomon
built
the
house
and
finished
it.
\VS{15}And
he
built
the
walls
of
the
house
within
with
boards
of
cedar,
from
the
floor
of
the
house
to
the
walls
of
the roof;
he
overlaid [them]
on
the
inside
with
wood,
and
overlaid
the
floor
of
the
house
with
boards
of
cypress.
\VS{16}And
he
built
twenty
cubits
of
the
innermost
part
of
the
house,
both
floor
and
walls,
with
boards
of
cedar;
and
he
built [them]
for
it
within,
to [be]
the oracle,
the
most
holy
place.
\VS{17}And
the
house,
that
is,
the
temple before
it,
was
forty
cubits [long].
\VS{18}And
the
cedar
of
the
house
within
was
carved
with colocynths
and half-open flowers:
all
was
cedar;
there
was
no
stone
seen.
\VS{19}And
he
prepared
the oracle
in
the
midst
of
the
house
within,
to
set
there
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
Jehovah.
\VS{20}And
the oracle within
was
twenty
cubits
in
length,
and
twenty
cubits
in
breadth,
and
twenty
cubits
in
the
height thereof;
and
he
overlaid
it
with
pure
gold;
and
he
overlaid
the cedar-wood
altar —
\VS{21}and
Solomon
overlaid
the
house
within
with
pure
gold,
and
shut
off
the oracle
in
front
with
chains
of
gold,
and
overlaid
it
with
gold.
\VS{22}And
the
whole
house
he
overlaid
with
gold,
the
whole
house
entirely;
also
the
whole
altar
that
was
by
the oracle
he
overlaid
with
gold.
\VS{23}And
he
made
in
the oracle
two
cherubim
of olive-wood,
ten
cubits
high;
\VS{24}and
one
wing
of
the
cherub
was
five
cubits,
and
five
cubits
the
other
wing
of
the
cherub,
ten
cubits
from
the
end
of
one
wing
to
the
end
of
the
other
wing;
\VS{25}and
the
other
cherub
was
ten
cubits:
both
the
cherubim
were
of
one
measure
and
one
form.
\VS{26}The
height
of
the
one
cherub
was
ten
cubits,
and
so
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{27}And
he
set
the
cherubim
in
the
midst
of
the
inner
house;
and
the
wings
of
the
cherubim
were
stretched
forth,
so
that
the
wing
of
the
one
touched
the
wall,
and
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub
touched
the
other
wall;
and
their
wings
touched,
wing
to
wing,
in
the
midst
of
the
house.
\VS{28}And
he
overlaid
the
cherubim
with
gold.
\VS{29}And
he
carved
all
the
walls
of
the
house
round
about
with
carved sculptures
of
cherubim,
and palm-trees,
and half-open flowers,
within
and without.
\VS{30}And
the
floor
of
the
house
he
overlaid
with
gold,
within
and without.
\VS{31}And
for
the
entrance
of
the oracle
he
made
doors
of olive-wood:
the lintel [and] side
posts were
the
fifth
part [of
the breadth
of
the house].
\VS{32}The
two
doors
were
of olive-wood;
and
he
carved
on
them
carvings
of
cherubim,
and palm-trees
and half-open flowers,
and
overlaid
them
with
gold,
and
spread
gold
on
the
cherubim
and
on
the palm-trees.
\VS{33}And
he
also
made
for
the
doorway
of
the
temple
posts
of olive-wood,
of
the
fourth part [of
the breadth
of
the house].
\VS{34}And
the
two folding-doors
were
of cypress-wood:
the
two
leaves
of
the
one
door
were
folding,
and
the
two
leaves
of
the
other
door
were
folding.
\VS{35}And
he
carved
on
them
cherubim,
and palm-trees,
and half-open flowers;
and
overlaid
them
with
gold fitted
on
the
carved work.
\VS{36}And
he
built
the
inner
court
of
three
rows
of
hewn
stone,
and
a
row
of cedar-beams.
\VS{37}In
the
fourth
year
was
the
foundation
of
the
house
of
Jehovah
laid,
in
the
month Zif;
\VS{38}and
in
the
eleventh
year,
in
the
month
Bul,
which
is
the
eighth
month,
was
the
house
finished
in
all
its
parts,
and
according
to
all
the
fashion
of
it.
So
he
was
seven
years
in
building
it.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
was
thirteen
years
building
his own
house;
and
he
finished
all
his
house.
\VS{2}And
he
built
the
house
of
the
forest
of
Lebanon;
its
length
was
a
hundred
cubits,
and
its
breadth
fifty
cubits,
and
its
height
thirty
cubits,
upon
four
rows
of cedar-pillars,
with cedar-beams
upon
the
pillars;
\VS{3}and
it
was
covered
with
cedar
above
upon
the side-chambers,
which
were
on
forty-five
pillars,
fifteen
in
a
row.
\VS{4}And there
were cross-beams
in
three
rows,
and
window
was
against
window
in
three
ranks.
\VS{5}And
all
the
doors
and
posts
were
square,
with an architrave;
and
window
was
against
window
in
three
ranks.
\VS{6}And
he
made
the
porch
of
pillars;
its
length
was
fifty
cubits,
and
its
breadth
thirty
cubits;
and there
was
a
porch
in
front
of
them;
and there
were
pillars,
and steps
in
front
of
them.
\VS{7}And
he
made
the
porch
for
the
throne
where
he
judged,
the
porch
of
judgment;
and
it
was
covered
with
cedar
from
floor
to
floor.
\VS{8}And
his
house
where
he
dwelt
had
another
court
within
the
porch,
which
was
of
the
like
work.
And
he
made,
like
to
this
porch,
a
house
for Pharaoh's
daughter,
whom
Solomon
had
taken.
\VS{9}All
these [buildings]
were
of
costly
stones,
hewn
stones, according
to
the measures,
sawed
with
saws,
within
and without,
even
from
the
foundation
to
the
coping,
and
on
the
outside
as
far
as
the
great
court.
\VS{10}And
the
foundations
were
of
costly
stones,
great
stones,
stones
of
ten
cubits
and
stones
of
eight
cubits.
\VS{11}And
above
were
costly
stones,
hewn
stones, according
to
the measures,
and
cedar.
\VS{12}And
the
great
court
round
about
had
three
rows
of
hewn
stones,
and
a
row
of cedar-beams;
and so
it
was
for
the
inner
court
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
porch
of
the
house.
\VS{13}And
king
Solomon
sent
and fetched
Hiram
out
of
Tyre.
\VS{14}He
was
a widow's
son
of
the
tribe
of
Naphtali,
and
his
father
was
a
man
of
Tyre,
a
worker
in
brass;
and
he
was
full
of
wisdom
and
understanding
and
knowledge,
to
do
all
kinds
of
works
in
brass.
And
he
came
to
king
Solomon,
and
made
all
his
work.
\VS{15}And
he formed
the
two
pillars
of
brass;
the
height
of
one
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits,
and
a
line
of
twelve
cubits encompassed
the
second
pillar.
\VS{16}And
he
made
two
capitals
of
molten
brass,
to
set
upon
the
tops
of
the
pillars;
the
height
of
the
one
capital
was
five
cubits,
and
the
height
of
the
other
capital
was
five
cubits;
\VS{17}[and]
nets
of checker-work,
wreaths
of chain-work,
for
the
capitals
which
were
upon
the
top
of
the
pillars;
seven
for
the
one
capital
and
seven
for
the
other
capital.
\VS{18}And
he
made
pomegranates, namely
two
rows
round
about
upon
the
one
network,
to
cover
the
capitals
that
were
upon
the
top
of
the
pillars;
and
so
he
did
for
the
other
capital.
\VS{19}And
the
capitals
that
were
upon
the
top
of
the
pillars
were
of lily-work [as]
in
the
porch,
four
cubits.
\VS{20}And
the
capitals
upon
the
two
pillars,
above
also,
close
to
the enlargement
which
was behind
the
network,
had
two
hundred
pomegranates
in
rows
round
about, [also]
on
the
other
capital.
\VS{21}And
he
set
up
the
pillars
for
the
porch
of
the
temple;
and
he
set
up
the
right
pillar,
and
called
its
name
Jachin;
and
he
set
up
the
left
pillar,
and
called
its
name
Boaz.
\VS{22}And
upon
the
top
of
the
pillars
was lily-work;
and
the
work
of
the
pillars
was
finished.
\VS{23}And
he
made
the
sea, molten,
ten
cubits
from
brim
to
brim,
round
all
about;
and
its
height
was
five
cubits;
and
a line
of
thirty
cubits encompassed
it
round
about.
\VS{24}And
under
the
brim
of
it
round
about
there
were colocynths,
encompassing
it,
ten
in
a
cubit enclosing
the
sea
round
about;
two
rows
of colocynths,
cast when
it
was
cast.
\VS{25}It
stood
upon
twelve
oxen,
three looking
toward
the
north,
and
three looking
toward
the
west,
and
three looking
toward
the
south,
and
three looking
toward
the
east;
and
the
sea
was
above
upon
them,
and
all
their hinder
parts
were
inward.
\VS{26}And its
thickness
was a hand-breadth,
and its
brim
was
like
the
work
of
the
brim
of a
cup,
with lily-blossoms; it
held
two
thousand
baths.
\VS{27}And
he
made
ten bases
of
brass:
four
cubits
was
the
length
of
one
base,
and
the
breadth
four
cubits,
and
the
height
three
cubits.
\VS{28}And
the
work
of
the bases
was
this:
they
had panels,
and
the panels
were
between
the fillets.
\VS{29}And
on
the panels
that
were
between
the fillets
were
lions,
oxen
and
cherubim;
and
over
the fillets
there
was
a
base
above;
and
beneath
the
lions
and
oxen
were garlands
of festoon-work.
\VS{30}And
every base
had
four
wheels
of
brass,
and
axles
of
brass;
and
on
its
four corners
were shoulder-pieces:
under
the
laver
were shoulder-pieces molten, behind
every garland.
\VS{31}And
the
mouth
of
it
within
the
crown
and
above
was
a
cubit;
and
its
mouth
was rounded, [as]
the
work
of
the
base,
a
cubit
and
a
half;
and
also
upon
its
mouth
was sculpture;
but
their panels
were
square,
not
round.
\VS{32}And
the
four
wheels
were
under
the panels;
and
the supports
of
the
wheels
were
in
the base;
and
the
height
of
a
wheel
was
a
cubit
and
half
a
cubit.
\VS{33}And
the
work
of
the
wheels
was
like
the
work
of
a
chariot
wheel:
their supports,
and
their
rims,
and
their
spokes
and
their naves
were
all
molten.
\VS{34}And there
were
four shoulder-pieces
to
the
four
corners
of
one base;
of
the base itself
were
its shoulder-pieces.
\VS{35}And
in
the
top
of
the base there
was
a
circular elevation
of
half
a
cubit
round
about;
and
on
the
top
of
the base
its
stays
and
its panels
were
of
the
same.
\VS{36}And
he
engraved
on
the
plates
of
its
stays
and
on
its panels
cherubim,
lions
and palm-trees,
according
to
the
space
upon
each;
and garlands
were
round
about.
\VS{37}After
this [manner]
he
made
the
ten bases:
all
of
them
had
one
casting,
one measure,
one
form.
\VS{38}And
he
made
ten lavers
of
brass:
one
laver contained
forty
baths;
every
laver
was
four
cubits;
upon
every
one
of
the
ten bases
one
laver.
\VS{39}And
he
put
the bases,
five
on
the
right
side
of
the
house,
and
five
on
the
left
side
of
the
house;
and
he
set
the
sea
on
the
right
side
of
the
house
eastward,
over
against
the
south.
\VS{40}And
Hiram
made
the lavers,
and
the
shovels,
and
the
bowls.
So
Hiram
ended
doing
all
the
work
that
he
made
for
king
Solomon [for]
the
house
of
Jehovah:
\VS{41}two
pillars,
and
the globes
of
the
capitals
that
were
on
the
top
of
the
pillars,
two;
and
the
two
networks,
to
cover
the
two globes
of
the
capitals
which
were
on
the
top
of
the
pillars;
\VS{42}and
the
four
hundred
pomegranates
for
the
two
networks,
two
rows
of
pomegranates
for
one
network,
to
cover
the
two globes
of
the
capitals
which
were
upon
the
pillars;
\VS{43}and
the
ten bases,
and
the
ten lavers
on
the bases;
\VS{44}and
one
sea,
and
the
twelve
oxen
under
the
sea;
\VS{45}and
the
pots,
and
the
shovels,
and
the
bowls.
And
all
these
things,
which
Hiram
made
king
Solomon
for
the
house
of
Jehovah,
were
of bright
brass.
\VS{46}In
the
plain
of
the
Jordan did
the
king
cast them,
in
the clay-ground
between
Succoth
and Zaretan.
\VS{47}And
Solomon
left
all
the
vessels [unweighed]
from
their
exceeding
number;
the
weight
of
the
brass
was
not
ascertained.
\VS{48}And
Solomon
made
all
the
vessels
that
were [in]
the
house
of
Jehovah:
the
golden
altar;
and
the
table
of
gold, whereon
was
the shewbread;
\VS{49}and
the candlesticks
of
pure
gold,
five
on
the
right,
and
five
on
the
left,
before
the oracle;
and
the
flowers,
and
the
lamps,
and
the
tongs
of
gold,
\VS{50}and
the basons,
and
the knives,
and
the
bowls,
and
the cups,
and
the
censers
of
pure
gold;
and
the
hinges
of
gold,
for
the folding-doors
of
the
inner
house,
the
most
holy
place, [and]
for
the
doors
of
the
house,
of
the
temple.
\VS{51}And
all
the
work
was
finished
that
king
Solomon
made
for
the
house
of
Jehovah.
And
Solomon
brought
in
the
things
that
David
his
father
had
dedicated;
the
silver
and
the
gold
and
the
vessels
he
put among
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
assembled
the
elders
of
Israel,
and
all
the
heads
of
the
tribes,
the
princes
of
the
fathers
of
the
children
of
Israel, unto
king
Solomon
in
Jerusalem,
to
bring
up
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
Jehovah
out
of
the
city
of
David,
which
is
Zion.
\VS{2}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
assembled
themselves
to
king
Solomon
at
the
feast
in
the
month
Ethanim,
that
is,
the
seventh
month.
\VS{3}And
all
the
elders
of
Israel
came;
and
the
priests
took
up
the
ark.
\VS{4}And
they
brought
up
the
ark
of
Jehovah,
and
the
tent
of
meeting,
and
all
the
holy
vessels
that
were
in
the
tent:
the
priests
and
the
Levites
brought
them
up.
\VS{5}And
king
Solomon,
and
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
that
were
assembled
to
him, [who
were]
with
him
before
the
ark,
sacrificed
sheep
and
oxen,
which could
not
be
counted
nor
numbered
for
multitude.
\VS{6}And
the
priests
brought
in
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
Jehovah
to
its
place,
into
the oracle
of
the
house,
into
the
most
holy
place,
under
the
wings
of
the
cherubim;
\VS{7}for
the
cherubim
stretched forth [their]
wings
over
the
place
of
the
ark,
and
the
cherubim covered
the
ark
and
its staves
above.
\VS{8}And
the staves
were
long,
so
that
the
ends
of
the staves
were
seen
from
the
holy
place
before
the oracle,
but
they
were
not
seen
without.
And
there
they
are
to
this
day.
\VS{9}There
was
nothing
in
the
ark save
the
two tables
of
stone
which
Moses
placed
there
at
Horeb,
when
Jehovah
made [a covenant]
with
the
children
of
Israel,
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{10}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
priests
were
come
out
of
the
holy
place,
that
the
cloud
filled
the
house
of
Jehovah,
\VS{11}and
the
priests
could
not
stand
to
do
their
service
because
of
the
cloud;
for
the
glory
of
Jehovah
had
filled
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{12}Then
said
Solomon:
Jehovah
said
that
he
would
dwell
in
the
thick
darkness.
\VS{13}I
have indeed
built
a
house
of
habitation
for thee,
a
settled
place
for thee
to
abide
in
for
ever.
\VS{14}And
the
king
turned
his
face,
and
blessed
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel;
and
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel
stood.
\VS{15}And
he
said:
Blessed
be
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:15 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
who
spoke
with
his
mouth unto
David
my
father,
and hath
with
his
hand
fulfilled
it,
saying,
\VS{16}Since
the
day
that
I
brought
forth
my
people
Israel
out
of
Egypt,
I
chose
no
city
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
build
a
house
in,
that
my
name
might
be
there;
but
I
have
chosen
David
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.
\VS{17}And
it
was
in
the
heart
of
David
my
father
to
build
a
house unto
the
name
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:17 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{18}But
Jehovah
said
to
David
my
father, Whereas
it
was
in thy
heart
to
build
a
house unto
my
name, thou didst
well
that
it
was
in thy
heart;
\VS{19}nevertheless thou shalt
not
build
the
house;
but thy
son
that
shall
come
forth
out
of thy
loins,
he
shall
build
the
house unto
my
name.
\VS{20}And
Jehovah
has performed
his
word
which
he
spoke;
and
I
am
risen
up
in
the
room
of
David
my
father,
and
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
as
Jehovah
promised,
and
I
have
built
the
house unto
the
name
of
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel.
\VS{21}And
I
have
set
there
a
place
for
the
ark,
wherein
is
the
covenant
of
Jehovah,
which
he
made
with
our
fathers
when
he
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{22}And
Solomon
stood
before
the
altar
of
Jehovah
in
the
presence
of
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel,
and
spread forth
his
hands
toward
the
heavens.
\VS{23}And
he
said,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel!
there
is
no
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
like thee,
in
the
heavens
above,
or
on
the
earth
beneath,
who keepest
covenant
and
mercy
with thy
servants
that
walk
before thee
with
all
their
heart;
\VS{24}who hast
kept
with thy
servant
David
my
father
that
which thou didst
promise
him; thou spokest
with thy
mouth,
and hast
fulfilled [it]
with thy
hand,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{25}And
now,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
keep
with thy
servant
David
my
father
that
which thou hast
promised
him,
saying,
There
shall
not
fail thee
a
man
in
my
sight
to
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel,
if
only thy
sons
take
heed
to
their
way,
to
walk
before
me
as thou hast
walked
before
me.
\VS{26}And
now,
O
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
let thy
words,
I
pray thee,
be
verified,
which thou hast
spoken unto thy
servant
David
my
father.
\VS{27}But
will
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
indeed
dwell
on
the
earth?
Behold,
the
heavens,
and
the
heaven
of
heavens,
cannot
contain thee;
how
much
less
this
house
which
I
have
built!
\VS{28}Yet
have
respect unto
the
prayer
of thy
servant,
and
to
his
supplication,
Jehovah,
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:28 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to hearken unto
the
cry
and
to
the
prayer
which thy
servant prayeth
before thee
this
day;
\VS{29}that thine
eyes
may
be
open
upon
this
house
night
and
day,
upon
the
place
of
which thou hast
said,
My
name
shall
be
there:
to hearken unto
the
prayer
which thy
servant prayeth
toward
this
place.
\VS{30}And hearken unto
the
supplication
of thy
servant,
and
of thy
people
Israel,
when
they
shall
pray
toward
this
place,
and
hear thou
in thy dwelling-place,
in
the
heavens,
and
when thou hearest,
forgive.
\VS{31}If
a
man
have
sinned
against
his neighbour,
and
an
oath
be
laid
upon
him
to adjure
him,
and
the
oath
come
before thine
altar
in
this
house;
\VS{32}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens,
and
do,
and
judge thy
servants,
condemning
the
wicked,
to
bring
his
way upon
his own
head;
and
justifying
the
righteous,
giving
him according
to
his
righteousness.
\VS{33}When thy
people
Israel
are
put
to
the worse
before
the
enemy,
because
they
have
sinned
against thee,
and
shall
turn
again
to thee,
and
confess thy
name,
and
pray,
and
make
supplication unto thee
in
this
house;
\VS{34}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens,
and
forgive
the
sin
of thy
people
Israel,
and
bring
them
again unto
the
land
that thou gavest unto
their
fathers.
\VS{35}When
the
heavens
are
shut
up,
and
there
is
no
rain,
because
they
have
sinned
against thee;
if
they
pray
toward
this
place,
and
confess thy
name,
and
turn
from
their
sin,
because thou hast afflicted
them;
\VS{36}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens,
and
forgive
the
sin
of thy
servants,
and
of thy
people
Israel,
when thou teachest
them
the
good
way
wherein
they
should
walk;
and
give
rain
upon thy
land,
which thou hast
given
to thy
people
for
an
inheritance.
\VS{37}If
there
be
famine
in
the
land,
if
there
be
pestilence,
if
there
be
blight,
mildew,
locust,
caterpillar;
if
their
enemy besiege
them
in
the
land
of
their
gates;
whatever
plague,
whatever
sickness
there
be:
\VS{38}what
prayer,
what
supplication soever
be
made
by
any
man,
of
all thy
people
Israel,
when
they
shall
know
every
man
the
plague
of
his
own
heart,
and
shall
spread
forth
his
hands
toward
this
house;
\VS{39}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens,
the
settled
place
of thy
dwelling,
and
forgive,
and
do,
and
render unto
every
man
according
to
all
his
ways,
whose
heart thou knowest (for thou, thou
only, knowest
the
hearts
of
all
the
children
of
men),
\VS{40}that
they
may
fear thee
all
the
days
that
they
live
upon
the
land
which thou gavest unto
our
fathers.
\VS{41}And
as
to
the
stranger
also,
who
is
not
of thy
people
Israel,
but cometh
out
of
a
far
country
for thy name's
sake
\VS{42}(for
they
shall
hear
of thy
great
name,
and
of thy
mighty
hand,
and
of thy
stretched-out
arm);
when
he
shall
come
and
pray
toward
this
house,
\VS{43}hear thou
in
the
heavens thy dwelling-place,
and
do
according
to
all
that
the
stranger calleth
to thee
for;
in
order
that
all
peoples
of
the
earth
may
know thy
name, [and]
that
they
may
fear thee
as
do thy
people
Israel;
and
that
they
may
know
that
this
house
which
I
have
built
is
called
by thy
name.
\VS{44}If thy
people
go
out
to
battle
against
their
enemy,
by
the
way
that thou shalt
send
them,
and
they
pray
to
Jehovah
toward
the
city
that thou hast
chosen,
and
the
house
that
I
have
built unto thy
name;
\VS{45}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens
their
prayer
and
their
supplication,
and maintain
their
right.
\VS{46}If
they
have
sinned
against thee, (for
there
is
no
man
that sinneth
not,)
and thou
be
angry
with
them,
and
give
them
up
to
the
enemy,
and
they
have
carried
them
away
captives unto
the enemy's
land,
far
or
near;
\VS{47}and
if
they
shall
take
it
to
heart
in
the
land whither
they
were
carried
captive,
and
repent,
and
make supplication unto thee
in
the
land
of
them
that
carried
them
captive,
saying,
We
have
sinned,
and
have
done iniquity,
we
have dealt perversely;
\VS{48}and
if
they
return unto thee
with
all
their
heart
and
with
all
their
soul,
in
the
land
of
their
enemies
who
led
them
away
captive,
and
pray unto thee
toward
their
land
which thou gavest unto
their
fathers,
the
city
that thou hast
chosen,
and
the
house
that
I
have
built unto thy
name;
\VS{49}then
hear thou
in
the
heavens,
the
settled
place
of thy
dwelling,
their
prayer
and
their
supplication,
and maintain
their
right;
\VS{50}and
forgive thy
people
their
sin
against thee,
and
all
their
transgressions
whereby
they
have
transgressed
against thee,
and
give
them
to
find
compassion
with
those
who
carried
them
captive,
that
they
may
have
compassion
on
them
\VS{51}(for
they
are thy
people,
and thine
inheritance,
which thou broughtest
forth
out
of
Egypt,
from
the
midst
of
the
furnace
of
iron) —
\VS{52}thine
eyes
being
open unto
the
supplication
of thy
servant,
and unto
the
supplication
of thy
people
Israel,
to hearken unto
them
in
all
that
they
call
for unto thee.
\VS{53}For thou hast
separated
them
from
among
all
peoples
of
the
earth,
to
be thine
inheritance,
as thou spokest
through
Moses thy
servant,
when thou broughtest
our
fathers
out
of
Egypt,
O
Lord Jehovah.
\VS{54}And
it
was
so,
that
when
Solomon
had
ended
praying
all
this
prayer
and
supplication
to
Jehovah,
he
arose
from
before
the
altar
of
Jehovah,
from
kneeling
on
his
knees
with
his
hands
spread forth
to
the
heavens,
\VS{55}and
he
stood
and
blessed
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel
with
a
loud
voice,
saying,
\VS{56}Blessed
be
Jehovah,
who
has
given
rest
to
his
people
Israel,
according
to
all
that
he
promised:
there
has
not
failed
one
word
of
all
his
good
promises
which
he
spoke
through
Moses
his
servant!
\VS{57}Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:57 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
be
with
us,
as
he
was
with
our
fathers;
let
him
not
forsake
us
nor
cast
us
off:
\VS{58}that
he
may
incline
our
hearts
to
him,
to
walk
in
all
his
ways,
and
to
keep
his
commandments
and
his
statutes
and
his
ordinances,
which
he
commanded
our
fathers.
\VS{59}And
let
these
my
words,
with
which
I
have
made supplication
before
Jehovah,
be nigh
to
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:59 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
day
and
night,
that
he maintain
the
right
of
his
servant,
and
the
right
of
his
people
Israel,
as
the
matter
of
each
day
shall require;
\VS{60}that
all
peoples
of
the
earth
may
know
that
Jehovah
is
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:60 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
that
there
is
none
else;
\VS{61}and
that
your
heart
may
be
perfect
with
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:61 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
to walk
in
his
statutes
and
to
keep
his
commandments,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{62}And
the
king,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
offered
sacrifices
before
Jehovah.
\VS{63}And
Solomon
sacrificed
a
sacrifice
of peace-offerings,
which
he
sacrificed
to
Jehovah,
twenty-two
thousand
oxen
and
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
sheep.
So
the
king
and
all
the
children
of
Israel
dedicated
the
house
of
Jehovah.
\VS{64}The
same
day
the
king hallowed
the
middle
of
the
court
that
was
before
the
house
of
Jehovah;
for
there
he offered
the burnt-offerings,
and
the oblations,
and
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings,
because
the brazen
altar
that
was
before
Jehovah
was too
small
to receive
the burnt-offerings,
and
the oblations,
and
the
fat
of
the peace-offerings.
\VS{65}And
at
that
time
Solomon
held
the
feast,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
great
congregation,
from
the
entrance
of
Hamath unto
the torrent
of
Egypt,
before
Jehovah
our
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 8:65 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
seven
days
and
seven
days,
fourteen
days.
\VS{66}On
the
eighth
day
he
sent
the
people
away;
and
they
blessed
the
king,
and went
to
their
tents,
joyful
and
glad
of
heart
for
all
the goodness
that
Jehovah
had
done
to
David
his
servant,
and
to
Israel
his
people.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Solomon
had
completed
the
building
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the king's
house,
and
all Solomon's
desire
which
he
was
pleased
to
do,
\VS{2}that
Jehovah
appeared
to
Solomon
the
second
time,
as
he
had
appeared
to
him
at
Gibeon.
\VS{3}And
Jehovah
said
to
him,
I
have
heard thy
prayer
and thy
supplication
which thou hast
made
before
me:
I
have hallowed
this
house,
which thou hast
built,
to
put
my
name
there
for
ever;
and mine
eyes
and
my
heart
shall
be
there
perpetually.
\VS{4}And [as
for] thee,
if thou wilt
walk
before
me,
as
David thy
father
walked,
in
integrity
of
heart,
and
in
uprightness,
to
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded thee, [and] wilt
keep
my
statutes
and mine
ordinances;
\VS{5}then
will
I
establish
the
throne
of thy
kingdom
over
Israel
for
ever,
as
I
promised
to
David thy
father,
saying,
There
shall
not
fail thee
a
man
upon
the
throne
of
Israel.
\VS{6}[But]
if ye
shall
at
all
turn
from
following
me, ye
or
your
children,
and
will
not
keep
my
commandments,
my
statutes
which
I
have
set
before
you,
but
go
and
serve
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
worship
them;
\VS{7}then
will
I
cut
off
Israel
out
of
the
land
which
I
have
given
them;
and
the
house,
which
I
have hallowed
to
my
name,
will
I
cast
out
of
my
sight;
and
Israel
shall
be
a
proverb
and
a
by word
among
all
peoples;
\VS{8}and
this
house, [which]
is high,
every
one
that
passes
by
it
shall
be
astonished
at,
and
shall
hiss,
and
they
shall
say,
Why
has
Jehovah
done
thus
to
this
land
and
to
this
house?
\VS{9}And
they
shall
say,
Because
they forsook
Jehovah
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
who
brought
forth
their
fathers
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
have attached
themselves
to
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 9:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
have worshipped
them
and
served
them;
therefore
has
Jehovah
brought
upon
them
all
this
evil.
\VS{10}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the
end
of
twenty
years,
when
Solomon
had
built
the
two
houses,
the
house
of
Jehovah
and
the king's
house,
\VS{11}Hiram
the
king
of
Tyre
having furnished
Solomon
with cedar-trees
and cypress-trees,
and
with
gold, according
to
all
his
desire, —
that
then
king
Solomon
gave
Hiram
twenty
cities
in
the
land
of
Galilee.
\VS{12}And
Hiram
came
out
from
Tyre
to
see
the
cities
that
Solomon
had
given
him;
and
they
did
not please
him.
\VS{13}And
he
said,
What
cities
are
these
which thou hast
given
me,
my
brother?
And
he
called
them
the
land
of
Cabul
to
this
day.
\VS{14}And
Hiram
had
sent
to
the
king
one
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold.
\VS{15}And
this
is
the
account
of
the levy
which
king
Solomon
raised,
to
build
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
his own
house,
and
Millo,
and
the
wall
of
Jerusalem,
and
Hazor,
and
Megiddo,
and
Gezer.
\VS{16}—
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
had
gone
up
and
taken
Gezer,
and
burned
it
with
fire,
and
slain
the
Canaanites
that
dwelt
in
the
city,
and
given
it
as
a
dowry
to
his
daughter, Solomon's
wife.
\VS{17}—
And
Solomon
built
Gezer,
and
lower
Beth-horon,
\VS{18}and
Baalath,
and Tadmor
in
the
wilderness,
in
the
land,
\VS{19}and
all
the store-cities
that
Solomon
had,
and
cities
for
chariots,
and
cities
for
the
horsemen,
and
that
which
Solomon desired
to
build
in
Jerusalem,
and
on
Lebanon,
and
in
all
the
land
of
his
dominion.
\VS{20}All
the
people
that
were
left
of
the
Amorites,
the
Hittites,
the
Perizzites,
the
Hivites,
and
the
Jebusites,
who
were
not
of
the
children
of
Israel,
\VS{21}their
children
that
were
left
after
them
in
the
land,
whom
the
children
of
Israel
were
not
able utterly
to
destroy, upon
them
did
Solomon impose
a
tribute
of bondservice
until
this
day.
\VS{22}But
of
the
children
of
Israel
did
Solomon
make
no bondmen;
but
they
were
men
of
war,
and
his
servants,
and
his
chiefs,
and
his
captains,
and
captains
of
his
chariots,
and
his
horsemen.
\VS{23}These
were
the
chief superintendents
that
were
over Solomon's
work,
five
hundred
and
fifty,
that ruled
over
the
people
that wrought
in
the
work.
\VS{24}But Pharaoh's
daughter
came
up
out
of
the
city
of
David
to
her
house
which
he
had
built
for
her:
then
he
built
Millo.
\VS{25}And
three
times
in
the
year
did
Solomon
offer
up burnt-offerings
and peace-offerings
upon
the
altar
that
he
had
built
to
Jehovah,
and
he
burned
incense
upon
that
which
was
before
Jehovah.
So
he
finished
the
house.
\VS{26}And
king
Solomon
made
a
fleet
of
ships
in
Ezion-Geber,
which
is
beside
Eloth,
on
the
shore
of
the Red
Sea,
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{27}And
Hiram
sent
in
the
fleet
his
servants, shipmen
that
had
knowledge
of
the
sea,
with
the
servants
of
Solomon;
\VS{28}and
they
went
to
Ophir,
and fetched thence
gold,
four
hundred
and
twenty
talents,
and
brought
it
to
king
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
queen
of
Sheba
heard
of
the
fame
of
Solomon
in connection
with
the
name
of
Jehovah,
and
came
to prove
him
with enigmas.
\VS{2}And
she
came
to
Jerusalem
with
a
very
great train,
with
camels
that
bore
spices
and
gold
in
very
great
abundance,
and
precious
stones;
and
she
came
to
Solomon,
and
spoke
to
him
of
all
that
was
in
her
heart.
\VS{3}And
Solomon explained
to
her
all
she
spoke
of:
there
was
not
a
thing
hidden
from
the
king
that
he
did
not
explain
to
her.
\VS{4}And
when
the
queen
of
Sheba
saw
all Solomon's
wisdom,
and
the
house
that
he
had
built,
\VS{5}and
the
food
of
his
table,
and
the deportment
of
his
servants,
and
the order
of
service
of
his
attendants,
and
their apparel,
and
his cupbearers,
and
his
ascent
by
which
he
went
up
to
the
house
of
Jehovah,
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
her.
\VS{6}And
she
said
to
the
king,
It
was
a
true
report
that
I
heard
in mine
own
land
of thine
affairs,
and
of thy
wisdom;
\VS{7}but
I
gave
no credit
to
the
words,
until
I
came
and mine
eyes
had
seen;
and
behold,
the
half
was
not
told
me:
in
wisdom
and
prosperity thou exceedest
the
report
that
I
heard.
\VS{8}Happy
are thy
men!
happy
are
these thy
servants,
who
stand
continually
before thee,
who
hear thy
wisdom!
\VS{9}Blessed
be
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 10:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
who delighted
in thee,
to
set thee
on
the
throne
of
Israel!
Because
Jehovah
loves
Israel
for
ever,
therefore
did
he
make thee
king,
to
do
judgment
and
justice.
\VS{10}And
she
gave
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
spices
in
very
great
abundance,
and
precious
stones:
there
came
no
more
such
abundance
of
spices
as
those
which
the
queen
of
Sheba
gave
to
king
Solomon.
\VS{11}(And
the
fleet
also
of
Hiram,
which
carried
gold
from
Ophir,
brought
from
Ophir sandal-wood
in
very
great
abundance,
and
precious
stones.
\VS{12}And
the
king
made
of
the sandal-wood
a balustrade
for
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
for
the king's
house,
and
harps
and lutes
for
the
singers.
There
came
no
such sandal-wood,
nor
was
there
seen
to
this
day.)
\VS{13}And
king
Solomon
gave
to
the
queen
of
Sheba
all
her
desire,
whatever
she
asked,
besides
what
he
gave
her
of
the
bounty
of
king
Solomon.
And
she
turned
and went
to
her own
land,
she
and
her
servants.
\VS{14}And
the
weight
of
gold
that
came
to
Solomon
in
one
year
was
six
hundred
and sixty-six
talents
of
gold,
\VS{15}besides what [came]
by
the dealers,
and
by
the traffic
of
the
merchants,
and
by
all
the
kings
of
Arabia,
and
by
the
governors
of
the
country.
\VS{16}And
king
Solomon
made
two
hundred targets
of beaten
gold, —
he applied
six
hundred [shekels]
of
gold
to
one target;
\VS{17}and
three
hundred
shields
of beaten
gold, —
he
applied
three
minas
of
gold
to
one
shield;
and
the
king
put
them
in
the
house
of
the
forest
of
Lebanon.
\VS{18}And
the
king
made
a
great
throne
of
ivory,
and
overlaid
it
with
refined
gold:
\VS{19}the
throne
had
six
steps,
and
the
top
of
the
throne
was rounded
behind;
and
there
were
arms
on
each
side
at
the
place
of
the
seat,
and
two
lions
stood
beside
the
arms;
\VS{20}and
twelve
lions
stood
there
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other
upon
the
six
steps:
there
was
not
the
like
made
in
any
kingdom.
\VS{21}And
all
king Solomon's drinking
vessels
were
of
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
forest
of
Lebanon
were
of precious
gold:
none
were
of
silver, [which]
was
not
of
the least
account
in
the
days
of
Solomon.
\VS{22}For
the
king
had
on
the
sea
a Tarshish-fleet,
with
the
fleet
of
Hiram:
once
in
three
years
came
the Tarshish-fleet,
bringing
gold
and
silver,
ivory,
and
apes,
and
peacocks.
\VS{23}And
king
Solomon
was
greater
than
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
in
riches
and
in
wisdom.
\VS{24}And
all
the
earth
sought
the
presence
of
Solomon,
to
hear
his
wisdom,
which
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 10:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
put
in
his
heart.
\VS{25}And
they
brought
every
man
his
present,
vessels
of
silver,
and
vessels
of
gold,
and
clothing,
and armour,
and
spices,
horses
and
mules,
a rate
year
by
year.
\VS{26}And
Solomon
gathered
chariots
and
horsemen;
and
he
had
a
thousand
four
hundred
chariots,
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen;
and
he
placed
them
in
the chariot-cities,
and
with
the
king
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{27}And
the
king
made
silver
in
Jerusalem
as
stones,
and
cedars
made
he
as
the
sycamores
that
are
in
the
lowland
for
abundance.
\VS{28}And
the exportation
of
horses
that
Solomon
had
was
from
Egypt:
a caravan
of
the king's
merchants fetched
a drove [of
horses],
at
a
price.
\VS{29}And
a
chariot
came
up
and
went
out
of
Egypt
for
six
hundred [shekels]
of
silver,
and
a
horse
for
a
hundred
and
fifty;
and
so
they
brought [them]
by
their
means,
for
all
the
kings
of
the
Hittites
and
for
the
kings
of
Syria.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
king
Solomon
loved
many
foreign
women, besides
the
daughter
of
Pharaoh:
women
of
the
Moabites,
Ammonites,
Edomites, Zidonians,
Hittites;
\VS{2}of
the
nations
of
which
Jehovah
had
said
to
the
children
of
Israel, Ye
shall
not
go
in
to
them,
neither
shall
they
come
in
to
you;
they
would
certainly
turn
away
your
heart
after
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods:
to
these
Solomon
was attached
in
love.
\VS{3}And
he
had
seven
hundred
wives,
princesses,
and
three
hundred
concubines;
and
his
wives
turned
away
his
heart.
\VS{4}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Solomon
was
old, [that]
his
wives
turned
away
his
heart
after
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods;
and
his
heart
was
not
perfect
with
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
as
the
heart
of
David
his
father.
\VS{5}And
Solomon went
after Ashtoreth
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}goddess
of
the Zidonians,
and
after
Milcom
the
abomination
of
the
Ammonites.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and
followed
not
fully
Jehovah,
as
David
his
father.
\VS{7}Then
did
Solomon
build
a
high
place
for
Chemosh
the
abomination
of
the
Moabites,
on
the
hill
that
is
before
Jerusalem,
and
for
Molech
the
abomination
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{8}And
so
he
did
for
all
his
foreign
wives,
who
burned
incense
and
sacrificed
to
their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods.
\VS{9}And
Jehovah
was
angry
with
Solomon,
because
his
heart
was
turned
away
from
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
who
had
appeared
to
him
twice,
\VS{10}and
had
commanded
him
concerning
this
thing,
not
to go
after
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods;
but
he
kept
not
what
Jehovah
had
commanded.
\VS{11}And
Jehovah
said
to
Solomon, Forasmuch
as
this
is
done
by thee,
and thou hast
not
kept
my
covenant
and
my
statutes
which
I
commanded thee,
I
will
certainly
rend
the
kingdom
from thee,
and
will
give
it
to thy
servant:
\VS{12}notwithstanding
in thy
days
I
will
not
do
it,
for
David thy father's
sake;
I
will
rend
it
out
of
the
hand
of thy
son;
\VS{13}only,
I
will
not
rend
away
all
the
kingdom:
I
will
give
one
tribe
to thy
son,
for
David
my servant's
sake,
and
for Jerusalem's
sake
which
I
have
chosen.
\VS{14}And
Jehovah
stirred
up
an
adversary
to
Solomon,
Hadad
the
Edomite;
he
was
of
the king's
seed
in
Edom.
\VS{15}Now
it
came
to
pass
when
David
was
in
Edom,
when
Joab
the
captain
of
the
host
had
gone
up
to
bury
the
slain,
after
he
had
smitten
every
male
in
Edom
\VS{16}(for
Joab
abode
there
six
months
with
all
Israel,
until
he
had
cut
off
every
male
in
Edom),
\VS{17}that
Hadad
fled,
he
and
certain
Edomites
of
his father's
servants
with
him,
to
go
into
Egypt,
Hadad being yet
a
little
child.
\VS{18}And
they
arose
out
of
Midian,
and
came
to
Paran,
and
took
men
with
them
out
of
Paran,
and
they
came
to
Egypt,
to
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt;
who
gave
him
a
house,
and
appointed
him victuals,
and
gave
him
land.
\VS{19}And
Hadad
found
great favour
in
the
sight
of
Pharaoh,
and
he
gave
him
as
wife
the
sister
of
his
own
wife,
the
sister
of
Tahpenes
the
queen.
\VS{20}And
the
sister
of
Tahpenes
bore
him
Genubath
his
son;
and
Tahpenes
brought
him
up
in Pharaoh's
house;
and
Genubath
was
in Pharaoh's
household,
among
the
sons
of
Pharaoh.
\VS{21}And
Hadad
heard
in
Egypt
that
David
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
that
Joab
the
captain
of
the
host
was
dead;
and
Hadad
said
to
Pharaoh,
Let
me depart,
that
I
may
go
to
mine
own
country.
\VS{22}And
Pharaoh
said
to
him,
What
then dost thou
lack
with
me,
that
behold, thou desirest
to
go
to thine
own
country?
And
he
said,
Nothing;
but
in
any
case
let
me depart.
\VS{23}\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
stirred
him
up yet
an
adversary,
Rezon
the
son
of
Eliada,
who
had
fled
from
Hadadezer
king
of
Zobah,
his
lord.
\VS{24}And
he
collected
men
to
him,
and
became
captain
of
a
band,
when
David
slew
them [of Zobah];
and
they
went
to
Damascus,
and
dwelt
there,
and
reigned
in
Damascus.
\VS{25}And
he
was
an
adversary
to
Israel
all
the
days
of
Solomon,
besides
the mischief
that
Hadad [did];
and
he
abhorred
Israel,
and
reigned
over
Syria.
\VS{26}And
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
an
Ephrathite
of
Zeredah, Solomon's
servant (whose mother's
name
was
Zeruah,
a
widow
woman), even
he
lifted
up
his
hand
against
the
king.
\VS{27}And
this
was
the
cause
that
he
lifted
up
his
hand
against
the
king:
Solomon
was
building
Millo,
and closing
the
breach
of
the
city
of
David
his
father;
\VS{28}and
the
man
Jeroboam
was
strong
and
valiant;
and
Solomon
saw
the
young
man
that
he
was industrious,
and
he
made
him ruler
over
all
the
charge
of
the
house
of
Joseph.
\VS{29}And
it
came
to
pass
at
that
time
that
Jeroboam
went
out
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
prophet
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
found
him
in
the
way;
and
he
had clad
himself
with
a
new
garment;
and
they
two
were
alone
in
the
field.
\VS{30}Then
Ahijah
seized
the
new
garment
that
was
on
him,
and rent
it
in
twelve
pieces;
\VS{31}and
said
to
Jeroboam,
Take thee
ten
pieces;
for
thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:31 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
Behold,
I
will
rend
the
kingdom
out
of
the
hand
of
Solomon,
and
will
give
ten
tribes
to thee;
\VS{32}but
one
tribe
shall
he
have
for
my
servant David's
sake,
and
for Jerusalem's
sake,
the
city
which
I
have
chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel:
\VS{33}because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have worshipped Ashtoreth
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}goddess
of
the Zidonians,
Chemosh
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
Moabites,
and
Milcom
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 11:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
have
not
walked
in
my
ways,
to
do
that
which
is
right
in
my
sight,
and
my
statutes
and mine
ordinances,
as
David
his
father.
\VS{34}But
I
will
not
take
the
whole
kingdom
out
of
his
hand;
for
I
will
make
him
prince
all
the
days
of
his
life
for
David
my servant's
sake,
whom
I
chose,
who
kept
my
commandments
and
my
statutes;
\VS{35}but
I
will
take
the
kingdom
out
of
his son's
hand,
and
will
give
it unto thee, —
the
ten
tribes.
\VS{36}And unto
his
son
will
I
give
one
tribe,
that
David
my
servant
may
have
a
lamp
always
before
me
in
Jerusalem,
the
city
that
I
have
chosen
for myself
to
put
my
name
there.
\VS{37}And
I
will
take thee,
that thou mayest
reign
over
all
that thy
soul desireth,
and thou shalt
be
king
over
Israel.
\VS{38}And
it
shall
be,
if thou wilt hearken unto
all
that
I
command thee,
and wilt
walk
in
my
ways,
and
do
that
which
is
right
in
my
sight,
in
keeping
my
statutes
and
my
commandments,
as
David
my
servant
did,
that
I
will
be
with thee,
and
build thee
a
lasting
house,
as
I
built
for
David,
and
will
give
Israel unto thee.
\VS{39}And
I
will
for
this
afflict
the
seed
of
David,
but
not
for ever.
\VS{40}And
Solomon
sought
to
kill
Jeroboam;
and
Jeroboam
arose
and
fled
into
Egypt,
to
Shishak
king
of
Egypt;
and
he
was
in
Egypt
until
the
death
of
Solomon.
\VS{41}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Solomon,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
wisdom,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
acts
of
Solomon?
\VS{42}And
the
time
that
Solomon
reigned
in
Jerusalem
over
all
Israel
was
forty
years.
\VS{43}And
Solomon
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David
his
father;
and
Rehoboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Rehoboam
went
to
Shechem;
for
all
Israel
had
come
to
Shechem
to
make
him
king.
\VS{2}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
heard
it (now
he
was
yet
in
Egypt, whither
he
had
fled
from
the
presence
of
king
Solomon,
and
Jeroboam
dwelt
in
Egypt;
\VS{3}and
they
sent
and
called
him),
that
Jeroboam
and
all
the
congregation
of
Israel
came
and
spoke
to
Rehoboam,
saying,
\VS{4}Thy
father
made
our
yoke
grievous;
and
now
lighten thou
the
grievous
servitude
of thy
father
and
his
heavy
yoke
that
he
put
upon
us,
and
we
will
serve thee.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them, Depart
yet
for
three
days,
then
come
again
to
me.
And
the
people departed.
\VS{6}And
king
Rehoboam
consulted
with
the
old
men,
who
had
stood
before
Solomon
his
father
while
he yet
lived,
saying,
How
do ye
advise
to
return
answer
to
this
people?
\VS{7}And
they
spoke
to
him
saying,
If
this
day thou wilt
be
a
servant
to
this
people,
and wilt
serve
them
and
answer
them
and
speak
good
words
to
them,
they
will
be thy
servants
for
ever.
\VS{8}But
he forsook
the
advice
of
the
old
men
which
they
had
given
him,
and
consulted
with
the
young
men,
who
had
grown
up
with
him,
that
stood
before
him.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
them,
What
advice
give ye
that
we
may
return
answer
to
this
people
who
have
spoken
to
me
saying,
Lighten
the
yoke
which thy
father
put
upon
us?
\VS{10}And
the
young
men
that
had
grown
up
with
him
spoke
to
him
saying,
Thus shalt thou
say
to
this
people
that
have
spoken
to thee
saying, Thy
father
made
our
yoke
heavy,
and
lighten thou
it
for
us, —
thus shalt thou
say
to
them:
My
little [finger]
is
thicker
than
my father's
loins;
\VS{11}and
whereas
my
father laid
a
heavy
yoke
upon
you,
{\BD{
I}}
will
add
to
your
yoke:
my
father
chastised
you
with
whips,
but
{\BD{
I}}
will
chastise
you
with
scorpions.
\VS{12}And
Jeroboam
and
all
the
people
came
to
Rehoboam
the
third
day,
as
the
king
had appointed
saying,
Come
again
to
me
on
the
third
day.
\VS{13}And
the
king
answered
the
people roughly,
and forsook
the
advice
of
the
old
men
which
they
had
given
him;
\VS{14}and
he
spoke
to
them
according
to
the
advice
of
the
young
men,
saying,
My
father
made
your
yoke
heavy,
but
{\BD{
I}}
will
add
to
your
yoke:
my
father
chastised
you
with
whips,
but
{\BD{
I}}
will
chastise
you
with
scorpions.
\VS{15}So
the
king hearkened
not
to
the
people;
for
it
was
brought
about
by
Jehovah,
that
he
might
give
effect
to
his
word,
which
Jehovah
spoke
through
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
to
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat.
\VS{16}And
all
Israel
saw
that
the
king hearkened
not
to
them;
and
the
people
answered
the
king
saying,
What
portion
have
we
in
David?
And [we
have]
no
inheritance
in
the
son
of
Jesse:
To
your
tents,
O
Israel!
Now
see
to thine own
house,
David!
And
Israel
went
to
their
tents.
\VS{17}But
as
for
the
children
of
Israel
that
dwelt
in
the
cities
of
Judah,
Rehoboam
reigned
over
them.
\VS{18}And
king
Rehoboam
sent
Adoram,
who
was
over
the levy;
but
all
Israel
stoned
him
with
stones,
that
he
died.
And
king
Rehoboam hastened
to
mount
his
chariot,
to
flee
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}And
Israel
rebelled
against
the
house
of
David, unto
this
day.
\VS{20}And
it
came
to
pass
when
all
Israel
heard
that
Jeroboam
had
come
back,
that
they
sent
and
called
him
to
the
assembly,
and
made
him
king
over
all
Israel:
none
followed
the
house
of
David,
but
the
tribe
of
Judah
only.
\VS{21}And
Rehoboam
came
to
Jerusalem;
and
he
assembled
all
the
house
of
Judah,
with
the
tribe
of
Benjamin,
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand chosen
men apt
for
war,
to
fight
against
the
house
of
Israel,
that
he
might
bring
the
kingdom
again
to
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon.
\VS{22}But
the
word
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
came
to
Shemaiah
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:22 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
saying,
\VS{23}Speak unto
Rehoboam,
the
son
of
Solomon,
king
of
Judah,
and unto
all
the
house
of
Judah
and
Benjamin,
and
to
the
remainder
of
the
people,
saying,
\VS{24}Thus saith
Jehovah:
Go
not
up,
nor
fight
with
your
brethren,
the
children
of
Israel;
return
every
man
to
his
house,
for
this
thing
is
from
me.
And
they hearkened
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
and
returned
to
depart,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{25}And
Jeroboam
built
Shechem
in
mount
Ephraim,
and
dwelt therein;
and
went
out
from thence,
and
built
Penuel.
\VS{26}And
Jeroboam
said
in
his
heart,
Now
shall
the
kingdom
return
to
the
house
of
David.
\VS{27}If
this
people
go
up
to
do
sacrifice
in
the
house
of
Jehovah
at
Jerusalem,
the
heart
of
this
people
will
turn
again
to
their
lord,
to
Rehoboam
king
of
Judah,
and
they
will
kill
me,
and
return
to
Rehoboam
king
of
Judah.
\VS{28}And
the
king
took
counsel,
and
made
two
calves
of
gold.
And
he
said
to
them,
It
is
too
much
for
you
to
go
up
to
Jerusalem:
behold thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 12:28 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
Israel,
which
brought thee
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt!
\VS{29}And
he
set
the
one
in
Bethel,
and
the
other
he
put
in
Dan.
\VS{30}And
this
thing
became
a
sin;
and
the
people
went [to worship]
before
the
one,
as
far
as
Dan.
\VS{31}And
he
made
a
house
of
high
places,
and
made
priests
from
all classes
of
the
people,
who
were
not
of
the
sons
of
Levi.
\VS{32}And
Jeroboam ordained
a
feast
in
the
eighth
month,
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
month,
like
the
feast
that
was
in
Judah,
and
he
offered
upon
the
altar.
So
did
he
in
Bethel,
sacrificing
to
the
calves
that
he
had
made;
and
he
placed
in
Bethel
the
priests
of
the
high
places
that
he
had
made.
\VS{33}And
he
offered
upon
the
altar
that
he
had
made
in
Bethel,
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
eighth
month,
in
the
month
which
he
had
devised
of
his own heart;
and
he
made
a
feast
for
the
children
of
Israel,
and
he
offered
upon
the
altar,
burning
incense.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
behold,
there
came
a
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
from
Judah,
by
the
word
of
Jehovah,
to
Bethel;
and
Jeroboam
stood
by
the
altar
to
burn
incense.
\VS{2}And
he
cried
against
the
altar
by
the
word
of
Jehovah,
and
said,
O
altar,
altar!
thus saith
Jehovah:
Behold,
a
child
shall
be
born unto
the
house
of
David,
Josiah
by
name;
and
upon thee
shall
he
sacrifice
the
priests
of
the
high
places
that
burn
incense
upon thee,
and men's
bones
shall
be
burned
upon thee.
\VS{3}And
he
gave
a
sign
the
same
day,
saying,
This
is
the
sign
that
Jehovah hath
spoken:
Behold,
the
altar
shall
be rent,
and
the
ashes
that
are
upon
it
shall
be
poured
out.
\VS{4}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
king
heard
the
word
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
which
he
cried
against
the
altar
in
Bethel,
that
Jeroboam
stretched
forth
his
hand
from
the
altar,
saying,
Lay
hold
on
him.
And
his
hand
which
he
stretched
out
against
him
dried
up,
so
that
he
could
not
bring
it
back
again
to
him.
\VS{5}And
the
altar
was rent,
and
the
ashes
poured
out
from
the
altar,
according
to
the
sign
that
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:5 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
given
by
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{6}And
the
king
answered
and
said
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, Intreat
now
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
pray
for
me,
that
my
hand
may
be
restored
to
me
again.
And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:6 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God intreated
Jehovah,
and
the king's
hand
was
restored
to
him
again,
and
became
as
before.
\VS{7}And
the
king
said
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
Come
home
with
me,
and
refresh thyself,
and
I
will
give thee
a
present.
\VS{8}And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
said
to
the
king,
If thou wilt
give
me
half thy
house,
I
will
not
go
in
with thee,
neither
will
I
eat
bread
nor
drink
water
in
this
place;
\VS{9}for
so
was
it
charged
me
by
the
word
of
Jehovah,
saying, Thou shalt
eat
no
bread,
nor
drink
water,
nor
return
by
the
way
that thou shalt
go.
\VS{10}So
he
went
another
way,
and
returned
not
by
the
way
that
he
had
come
to
Bethel.
\VS{11}Now
there
dwelt
a
certain
old
prophet
in
Bethel;
and
his
sons
came
and
told
him
all
the
works
that
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:11 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
had
done
that
day
in
Bethel;
the
words
that
he
had
spoken
to
the
king,
them
they
told
also
to
their
father.
\VS{12}And
their
father
said
to
them,
Which
way
went
he?
for
his
sons
had
seen
which
way
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
went,
who
came
from
Judah.
\VS{13}And
he
said
to
his
sons,
Saddle
me
the ass.
So
they
saddled
him
the ass;
and
he
rode
thereon,
\VS{14}and
went
after
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
found
him
sitting
under
a
terebinth;
and
he
said
to
him, Art thou
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
that camest
from
Judah?
And
he
said,
I
am.
\VS{15}And
he
said
to
him, Come
home
with
me,
and
eat
bread.
\VS{16}And
he
said,
I
cannot
return
with thee,
nor
go
in
with thee;
neither
will
I
eat
bread
nor
drink
water
with thee
in
this
place.
\VS{17}For
it
was
said
to
me
by
the
word
of
Jehovah, Thou shalt
eat
no
bread
nor
drink
water
there,
nor
turn
again
to
go
by
the
way
that thou wentest.
\VS{18}And
he
said
to
him,
I
am
a
prophet
also
as thou art;
and
an
angel
spoke
to
me
by
the
word
of
Jehovah
saying,
Bring
him
back
with thee
into thy
house,
that
he
may
eat
bread
and
drink
water.
He
lied unto
him.
\VS{19}Then
he
went
back
with
him,
and
ate
bread
in
his
house,
and
drank
water.
\VS{20}And
it
came
to
pass
as
they
sat
at
the
table,
that
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
the
prophet
that
brought
him
back;
\VS{21}and
he
cried
to
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
that
came
from
Judah,
saying,
Thus saith
Jehovah: Forasmuch
as thou hast
disobeyed
the
word
of
Jehovah,
and hast
not
kept
the
commandment
that
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
commanded thee,
\VS{22}but camest
back,
and hast
eaten
bread
and
drunk
water
in
the
place
of
which
he
said
to thee,
Eat
no
bread
and
drink
no
water; thy carcase
shall
not
come
to
the sepulchre
of thy
fathers.
\VS{23}And
it
came
to
pass,
after
he
had
eaten
bread,
and
after
he
had
drunk,
that
he
saddled
the ass
for
him,
for
the
prophet
that
he
had
brought
back;
\VS{24}and he departed.
And
a
lion
met
him
by
the
way
and slew
him;
and
his
corpse
was
cast
in
the
way,
and
the ass
stood
by
it;
the
lion also
stood
by
the
corpse.
\VS{25}And
behold,
men
passed
by,
and
saw
the
corpse
cast
in
the
way
and
the
lion
standing
by
the
corpse;
and
they
came
and
told
it
in
the
city
where
the
old
prophet
dwelt.
\VS{26}And
the
prophet
that
brought
him
back
from
the
way
heard [of
it]
and
said,
It
is
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
who
was
disobedient
to
the
word
of
Jehovah;
therefore
Jehovah
has
delivered
him
to
the
lion,
which
has
torn
him
and slain
him,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
which
he
spoke
to
him.
\VS{27}And
he
spoke
to
his
sons
saying,
Saddle
me
the ass;
and
they
saddled
it.
\VS{28}And
he went
and
found
his
corpse
cast
in
the
way,
and
the ass
and
the
lion
standing
by
the
corpse:
the
lion
had
not
eaten
the
corpse,
nor
torn
the ass.
\VS{29}And
the
prophet
took
up
the
corpse
of
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:29 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
laid
it
upon
the ass,
and
brought
it
back;
and
the
old
prophet
came
into
the
city,
to
mourn
and
to
bury
him.
\VS{30}And
he laid
his
corpse
in
his own sepulchre;
and
they
mourned
over
him [saying],
Alas,
my
brother!
\VS{31}And
it
came
to
pass
after
he
had
buried
him,
that
he
spoke
to
his
sons
saying,
When
I
am
dead,
bury
me
in
the sepulchre
in
which
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 13:31 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
is
buried;
lay
my
bones
beside
his
bones.
\VS{32}For
the
word
that
he
cried
by
the
word
of
Jehovah
against
the
altar
in
Bethel,
and
against
all
the
houses
of
the
high
places
that
are
in
the
cities
of
Samaria,
shall
certainly
come
to
pass.
\VS{33}After
this
thing
Jeroboam
turned
not
from
his
evil
way,
but
made
again
from
all classes
of
the
people
priests
of
the
high
places: whosoever
would,
he consecrated
him,
and
he
became [one]
of
the
priests
of
the
high
places.
\VS{34}And
by
this
thing
there
was
sin
on
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
even
to
cut
it
off
and
to
destroy
it
from
off
the
face
of
the
earth.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time
Abijah
the
son
of
Jeroboam
was
sick.
\VS{2}And
Jeroboam
said
to
his
wife,
Arise,
I
pray thee,
and disguise thyself,
that thou
be
not
known
to
be
the
wife
of
Jeroboam;
and
go
to
Shiloh:
behold,
there
is
Ahijah
the
prophet,
who
told
me
that [I
should
be]
king
over
this
people.
\VS{3}And
take
with thee
ten
loaves,
and
cakes,
and
a cruse
of
honey,
and
go
to
him:
he
will
tell thee
what
shall
become
of
the
lad.
\VS{4}And Jeroboam's
wife
did
so,
and
arose
and
went
to
Shiloh,
and
came
to
the
house
of
Ahijah.
And
Ahijah
could
not
see;
for
his
eyes
were
set
by
reason
of
his
age.
\VS{5}And
Jehovah
said
to
Ahijah,
Behold,
the
wife
of
Jeroboam cometh
to
ask
a
thing
of thee
about
her
son;
for
he
is
sick:
thus
and
thus shalt thou
say unto
her;
for
it
shall
be,
when
she cometh
in,
that
she
shall feign
to
be
another.
\VS{6}And
it
was
so,
when
Ahijah
heard
the
sound
of
her
feet,
as
she
came
in
at
the
door,
that
he
said,
Come
in, thou
wife
of
Jeroboam;
why feignest thou
to
be
another?
But
I
am
sent
to thee
with
a
hard [message].
\VS{7}Go,
tell
Jeroboam,
Thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:7 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel: Forasmuch
as
I
exalted thee
from
among
the
people,
and
made thee
prince
over
my
people
Israel,
\VS{8}and rent
the
kingdom
away
from
the
house
of
David,
and
gave
it thee;
and thou hast
not
been
as
my
servant
David,
who
kept
my
commandments,
and
who
followed
me
with
all
his
heart,
to
do
only
that
which
is
right
in
my
sight;
\VS{9}but thou hast
done
evil
above
all
that
were
before thee,
and hast
gone
and
made thee
other
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:9 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and molten
images,
to
provoke
me
to
anger,
and hast
cast
me
behind thy
back:
\VS{10}therefore
behold,
I
will
bring
evil
upon
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
and
will
cut
off
from
Jeroboam
every male,
him
that
is
shut
up
and
left
in
Israel,
and
will
take
away
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
as
a man taketh
away
dung,
till
it
be
all
gone.
\VS{11}Him
that dieth
of
Jeroboam
in
the
city
shall
the
dogs
eat,
and
him
that dieth
in
the
field
shall
the
fowl
of
the
heavens
eat;
for
Jehovah hath
spoken.
\VS{12}And thou,
arise,
go
to thine own
house;
when thy
feet
enter
into
the
city,
the
child
shall
die.
\VS{13}And
all
Israel
shall
mourn
for
him,
and
they
shall
bury
him;
for
he
only
of
Jeroboam
shall
come
to
the
grave,
because
in
him
there
is
found
something
good
toward
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 14:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
in
the
house
of
Jeroboam.
\VS{14}And
Jehovah
shall
raise
up
for
himself
a
king
over
Israel,
who
shall
cut
off
the
house
of
Jeroboam
that
day;
and
what? ...even
now.
\VS{15}And
Jehovah
will
smite
Israel,
as
a
reed
is
shaken
in
the
water,
and
he
will
root
up
Israel
out
of
this
good
land
which
he
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
will
scatter
them
beyond
the
river,
because
they
have
made
their Asherahs,
provoking
Jehovah
to
anger.
\VS{16}And
he
will
give
Israel
up
because
of
the
sins
of
Jeroboam, wherewith
he
has
sinned,
and
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{17}And Jeroboam's
wife
arose
and
departed,
and
came
to
Tirzah;
when
she
came
to
the threshold
of
the door,
the
child
died.
\VS{18}And
they
buried
him;
and
all
Israel
mourned
for
him,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
he
spoke
through
his
servant
Ahijah
the
prophet.
\VS{19}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jeroboam,
how
he warred,
and
how
he
reigned,
behold,
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{20}And
the
days
that
Jeroboam
reigned
were
twenty-two
years;
and
he
slept
with
his
fathers.
And
Nadab
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{21}And
Rehoboam
the
son
of
Solomon
reigned
in
Judah.
Rehoboam
was forty-one
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
city
that
Jehovah
had
chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
put
his
name
there;
and
his mother's
name
was
Naamah,
an
Ammonitess.
\VS{22}And
Judah
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and
they
provoked
him
to
jealousy
with
their
sins
which
they
committed more
than
all
that
their
fathers
had
done.
\VS{23}And
they
also
built
for
themselves
high
places,
and columns,
and Asherahs
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree;
\VS{24}and
there
were
also
sodomites
in
the
land.
They
did according
to
all
the
abominations
of
the
nations
that
Jehovah
had
dispossessed
before
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{25}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
fifth
year
of
king
Rehoboam, [that]
Shishak
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
he
took
away
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
the
treasures
of
the king's
house;
he
even
took
away
all;
and
he
took
away
all
the
shields
of
gold
that
Solomon
had
made.
\VS{27}And
king
Rehoboam
made
in
their
stead brazen
shields,
and
committed
them
to
the
hands
of
the
chief
of
the
couriers
who
kept
the
entrance
of
the king's
house.
\VS{28}And
it
was
so,
that
as
often
as
the
king
entered
into
the
house
of
Jehovah,
the
couriers
bore
them,
and
brought
them
again
into
the chamber
of
the
couriers.
\VS{29}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Rehoboam,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
\VS{30}And
there
was
war
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam
all [their]
days.
\VS{31}And
Rehoboam
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David.
And
his mother's
name
was
Naamah,
an
Ammonitess.
And
Abijam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
king
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat began
Abijam
to
reign
over
Judah.
\VS{2}He
reigned
three
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Maachah,
a
daughter
of
Abishalom.
\VS{3}And
he walked
in
all
the
sins
of
his
father,
which
he
had
done
before
him;
and
his
heart
was
not
perfect
with
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:3 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
as
the
heart
of
David
his
father.
\VS{4}But
for David's
sake
Jehovah
his
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:4 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
gave
him
a
lamp
in
Jerusalem,
setting
up
his
son
after
him,
and
establishing
Jerusalem;
\VS{5}because
David
did
that
which
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and
turned
not
aside
from
anything
that
he
commanded
him
all
the
days
of
his
life,
except
in
the
matter
of Urijah
the
Hittite.
\VS{6}And
there
had
been
war
between
Rehoboam
and
Jeroboam
all
the
days
of
his
life.
\VS{7}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Abijam,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
And
there
was
war
between
Abijam
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{8}And
Abijam
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David.
And
Asa
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{9}And
in
the
twentieth
year
of
Jeroboam
king
of
Israel,
Asa began
to
reign
over
Judah;
\VS{10}and
he
reigned forty-one
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was Maachah,
daughter
of
Abishalom.
\VS{11}And
Asa
did
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
as
David
his
father.
\VS{12}And
he
put
away
the
sodomites
out
of
the
land,
and
removed
all
the
idols
that
his
father
had
made.
\VS{13}And
also Maachah
his
mother
he
removed
from
being
queen,
because
she
had
made
an idol
for
the
Asherah;
and
Asa
cut
down
her idol,
and
burned
it
in
the
valley
of
Kidron.
\VS{14}But
the
high
places
were
not
removed;
only, Asa's
heart
was
perfect
with
Jehovah
all
his
days.
\VS{15}And
he
brought
into
the
house
of
Jehovah
the
things
which
his
father
had
dedicated,
and
the
things
which
he himself
had
dedicated,
silver
and
gold
and
vessels.
\VS{16}And
there
was
war
between
Asa
and
Baasha
king
of
Israel
all
their
days.
\VS{17}And
Baasha
king
of
Israel
came
up
against
Judah,
and
built
Ramah,
in order
to
let none
go
out
or
come
in
to
Asa
king
of
Judah.
\VS{18}And
Asa
took
all
the
silver
and
the
gold
that
were
left
in
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
Jehovah,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the king's
house,
and
gave
them
into
the
hand
of
his
servants;
and
king
Asa
sent
them
to
Ben-Hadad,
the
son
of
Tabrimmon,
the
son
of
Hezion,
king
of
Syria,
who
dwelt
at
Damascus,
saying,
\VS{19}There
is
a
league
between
me
and thee, [as]
between
my
father
and thy
father;
behold,
I
send thee
a
present
of
silver
and
gold:
go,
break thy
league
with
Baasha
king
of
Israel,
that
he
may
depart
from
me.
\VS{20}And
Ben-Hadad hearkened
to
king
Asa,
and
sent
the
captains
of
his
forces
against
the
cities
of
Israel,
and
smote
Ijon,
and
Dan,
and Abel-Beth-Maachah,
and
all Kinneroth,
with
all
the
land
of
Naphtali.
\VS{21}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Baasha
heard
of
it,
that
he
left
off
building
Ramah,
and
dwelt
in
Tirzah.
\VS{22}And
king
Asa called together
all
Judah:
none
was exempted;
and
they
carried
away
the
stones
and
the
timber
from
Ramah,
with
which
Baasha
had
been
building;
and
king
Asa
built
with
them
Geba
of
Benjamin,
and
Mizpah.
\VS{23}And
the
rest
of
all
the
acts
of
Asa,
and
all
his
might,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
the
cities
that
he
built,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Judah?
Only,
in
the
time
of
his
old
age
he
was diseased
in
his
feet.
\VS{24}And
Asa
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David
his
father.
And
Jehoshaphat
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{25}And
Nadab
the
son
of
Jeroboam began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
the
second
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah;
and
he
reigned
over
Israel
two
years.
\VS{26}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and walked
in
the
way
of
his
father,
and
in
his
sin
with
which
he
made
Israel
sin.
\VS{27}And
Baasha
the
son
of
Ahijah,
of
the
house
of
Issachar,
conspired
against
him;
and
Baasha
smote
him
at
Gibbethon,
which [belonged]
to
the
Philistines,
when
Nadab
and
all
Israel
were
besieging
Gibbethon.
\VS{28}And
Baasha slew
him
in
the
third
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
and
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{29}And
it
came
to
pass
when
he
was
king,
he
smote
all
the
house
of
Jeroboam;
he
left
to
Jeroboam
none
that
breathed;
until
he
had
destroyed
him,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
which
he
spoke
by
his
servant
Ahijah
the
Shilonite,
\VS{30}because
of
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
which
he
sinned,
and wherewith
he
made
Israel
to
sin;
by
his provocation
with
which
he
provoked
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 15:30 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
to
anger.
\VS{31}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Nadab,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{32}And
there
was
war
between
Asa
and
Baasha
king
of
Israel
all
their
days.
\VS{33}In
the
third
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah began
Baasha
the
son
of
Ahijah
to
reign
over
all
Israel
in
Tirzah,
for
twenty-four
years.
\VS{34}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and walked
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam,
and
in
his
sin
where
with
he
made
Israel
to
sin.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani
against
Baasha,
saying,
\VS{2}Forasmuch
as
I
exalted thee
out
of
the
dust,
and
made thee
prince
over
my
people
Israel,
and thou hast walked
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam,
and hast
made
my
people
Israel
to
sin,
provoking
me
to
anger
with
their
sins;
\VS{3}behold,
I
will
take
away
Baasha
and
his
house,
and
will
make thy
house
like
the
house
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat.
\VS{4}Him
that dieth
of
Baasha
in
the
city
shall
the
dogs
eat,
and
him
that dieth
of
his
in
the
field
shall
the
fowl
of
the
heavens
eat.
\VS{5}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Baasha,
and
what
he
did,
and
his
might,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{6}And
Baasha
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
Tirzah;
and
Elah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{7}And
also
through
the
prophet
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
against
Baasha,
and
against
his
house,
even
for
all
the
evil
that
he
did
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
provoking
him
to
anger
with
the
work
of
his
hands,
in
being
like
the
house
of
Jeroboam;
and
because
he
had
smitten
him.
\VS{8}In
the twenty-sixth
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
Elah
the
son
of
Baasha began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Tirzah
for two
years.
\VS{9}And
his
servant
Zimri,
captain
of
half [his]
chariots,
conspired
against
him;
and
he
was
in
Tirzah,
drinking
himself
drunk
in
the
house
of
Arza,
who
was
the steward
of
his
house
in
Tirzah;
\VS{10}and
Zimri
went
in
and
smote
him,
and
killed
him,
in
the twenty-seventh
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
and
he
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{11}And
it
came
to
pass
when
he
began
to
reign,
as soon
as
he
sat
on
his
throne,
he
slew
all
the
house
of
Baasha:
he
left
him
not
a male,
neither
of
his kinsmen
nor
of
his
friends.
\VS{12}And
Zimri
destroyed
all
the
house
of
Baasha,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
he
spoke
against
Baasha
through
Jehu
the
prophet,
\VS{13}for
all
the
sins
of
Baasha,
and
the
sins
of
Elah
his
son,
which
they
sinned
and wherewith
they
made
Israel
to
sin,
provoking
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 16:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
to
anger
with
their
vanities.
\VS{14}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Elah,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{15}In
the twenty-seventh
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
Zimri
reigned
seven
days
in
Tirzah.
Now
the
people
were
encamped
against
Gibbethon,
which [belonged]
to
the
Philistines.
\VS{16}And
the
people
that
were
encamped
heard
say,
Zimri
has
conspired,
and
has
also
smitten
the
king;
and
all
Israel
made
Omri,
the
captain
of
the
host,
king
over
Israel
that
day
in
the
camp.
\VS{17}And
Omri
went
up
from
Gibbethon,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
and
they besieged
Tirzah.
\VS{18}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Zimri
saw
that
the
city
was
taken,
that
he
went
into
the
citadel
of
the king's
house,
and
burned
the king's
house
over
him
with
fire;
\VS{19}and
he died
for
his
sins
which
he
sinned
in
doing
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
in walking
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam,
and
in
his
sin
which
he
did,
making
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{20}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Zimri,
and
his
conspiracy
which
he wrought,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{21}Then
were
the
people
of
Israel
divided
into
two
parts:
half
of
the
people
followed
Tibni
the
son
of
Ginath,
to make
him
king;
and
half
followed
Omri.
\VS{22}But
the
people
that
followed
Omri overcame
the
people
that
followed
Tibni
the
son
of
Ginath;
and
Tibni
died,
and
Omri
reigned.
\VS{23}In
the thirty-first
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah,
Omri began
to
reign
over
Israel, —
twelve
years;
he
reigned
six
years
in
Tirzah.
\VS{24}And
he
bought
the
hill
Samaria
of
Shemer
for two
talents
of
silver;
and
built
on
the
hill,
and
called
the
name
of
the
city
that
he
built,
after
the
name
of
Shemer,
owner
of
the
hill,
Samaria.
\VS{25}And
Omri wrought
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
and
did
worse
than
all
that
were
before
him.
\VS{26}And
he walked
in
all
the
way
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
in
his
sins wherewith
he
made
Israel
to
sin,
provoking
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 16:26 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
to
anger
with
their
vanities.
\VS{27}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Omri,
what
he
did,
and
his
might
which
he shewed,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{28}And
Omri
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
Samaria;
and
Ahab
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{29}And
Ahab
the
son
of
Omri began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
the thirty-eighth
year
of
Asa
king
of
Judah;
and
Ahab
the
son
of
Omri
reigned
over
Israel
in
Samaria
twenty-two
years.
\VS{30}And
Ahab
the
son
of
Omri wrought
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah more
than
all
that
were
before
him.
\VS{31}And
it
came
to
pass,
as
if
it
was
a
light
thing
for
him
to walk
in
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
that
he
took
as
wife
Jezebel
the
daughter
of
Ethbaal
king
of
the Zidonians;
and
he
went
and
served
Baal
and worshipped
him.
\VS{32}And
he reared
up
an
altar
for
Baal
in
the
house
of
Baal,
which
he
built
in
Samaria.
\VS{33}And
Ahab
made
the
Asherah;
and
Ahab
did
more
to
provoke
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 16:33 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel
to
anger
than
all
the
kings
of
Israel
that
were
before
him.
\VS{34}In
his
days
Hiel
the
Bethelite
built
Jericho;
he
laid
its
foundation
in
Abiram
his
firstborn,
and
set
up
its
gates
in
Segub
his
youngest,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
which
he
spoke
through
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Elijah
the Tishbite,
of
the inhabitants
of
Gilead,
said
to
Ahab,
As
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:1 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel liveth,
before
whom
I
stand,
there
shall
not
be
dew
nor
rain
these
years,
except
by
my
word.
\VS{2}And
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
him
saying,
\VS{3}Get thee hence,
and
turn thee
eastward,
and
hide thyself
by
the torrent
Cherith,
which
is
before
the
Jordan.
\VS{4}And
it shall
be,
that thou shalt
drink
of
the torrent;
and
I
have
commanded
the
ravens
to feed thee
there.
\VS{5}And
he
went
and
did
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah;
he
went
and
abode
by
the torrent
Cherith,
which
is
before
the
Jordan.
\VS{6}And
the
ravens
brought
him
bread
and
flesh
in
the
morning,
and
bread
and
flesh
in
the
evening;
and
he
drank
of
the torrent.
\VS{7}And
it
came
to
pass
after
a
while
that
the torrent
dried
up,
for
there
had
been
no
rain
in
the
land.
\VS{8}And
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
him
saying,
\VS{9}Arise,
go
to
Zarephath,
which
is
by Zidon,
and
abide
there:
behold,
I
have
commanded
a
widow
woman
there
to
maintain thee.
\VS{10}And
he
arose
and
went
to
Zarephath;
and
when
he
came
to
the
entrance
of
the
city,
behold,
a
widow
woman
was
there
gathering
sticks.
And
he
called
to
her
and
said, Fetch
me,
I
pray thee,
a
little
water
in
a
vessel,
that
I
may
drink.
\VS{11}And
she
went
to fetch [it],
and
he
called
to
her
and
said,
Bring
me,
I
pray thee,
a
morsel
of
bread
in thy
hand.
\VS{12}And
she
said,
As
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God liveth,
I
have
not
a cake,
but
a handful
of
meal
in
a barrel,
and
a
little
oil
in
a cruse;
and
behold,
I
am
gathering
two
sticks,
that
I
may
go
in
and dress
it
for
me
and
my
son,
that
we
may
eat
it,
and
die.
\VS{13}And
Elijah
said
to
her,
Fear
not;
go,
do
as thou hast
said;
but
make
me thereof
a
little
cake
first;
and
bring
it
to
me;
and
afterwards
make
for thee
and
for thy
son.
\VS{14}For
thus saith
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel:
The
meal
in
the barrel
shall
not
waste,
neither
shall
the
oil
in
the cruse
fail,
until
the
day
that
Jehovah sendeth
rain
upon
the
face
of
the
earth!
\VS{15}And
she
went
and
did according
to
the
word
of
Elijah;
and
she,
and
he,
and
her
house,
ate
a
whole
year.
\VS{16}The
meal
in
the barrel
did
not
waste,
neither
did
the
oil
in
the cruse
fail,
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah
which
he
had
spoken
through
Elijah.
\VS{17}And
it
came
to
pass
after
these
things,
that
the
son
of
the
woman,
the
mistress
of
the
house,
fell
sick;
and
his
sickness
was
so
severe
that
there
was
no
breath
left
in
him.
\VS{18}And
she
said
to
Elijah,
What
have
I
to
do
with thee,
O thou
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:18 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God? art thou
come
to
me
to
call mine
iniquity
to
remembrance,
and
to
slay
my
son?
\VS{19}And
he
said
to
her,
Give
me thy
son.
And
he
took
him
out
of
her
bosom,
and
carried
him
up
into
the
upper
chamber
where
he
abode,
and
laid
him
upon
his own
bed.
\VS{20}And
he
cried
to
Jehovah
and
said,
Jehovah,
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:20 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God, hast thou
also brought
evil
upon
the
widow
with
whom
I sojourn,
by slaying
her
son?
\VS{21}And
he
stretched
himself
upon
the
child
three
times,
and
cried
to
Jehovah
and
said,
Jehovah,
my
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
I
pray thee,
let
this child's
soul
come
into
him
again!
\VS{22}And
Jehovah
heard
the
voice
of
Elijah,
and
the
soul
of
the
child
came
into
him
again,
and
he
lived.
\VS{23}And
Elijah
took
the
child,
and
brought
him
down
from
the
upper
chamber
into
the
house,
and
delivered
him
to
his
mother;
and
Elijah
said,
See, thy
son
lives.
\VS{24}And
the
woman
said
to
Elijah,
Now
by
this
I
know
that thou art
a
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 17:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and
that
the
word
of
Jehovah
in thy
mouth
is
truth.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
after
many
days,
that
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Elijah
in
the
third
year,
saying,
Go, shew thyself
to
Ahab;
and
I
will
send
rain
upon
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{2}And
Elijah
went
to shew
himself
to
Ahab.
And
the
famine
was
severe
in
Samaria.
\VS{3}And
Ahab
called
Obadiah,
who
was
the steward
of
his
house (now
Obadiah feared
Jehovah
greatly;
\VS{4}and
it
was
so,
when
Jezebel
cut
off
the
prophets
of
Jehovah,
that
Obadiah
took
a
hundred
prophets,
and
hid
them
by
fifty
in
a
cave,
and maintained
them
with
bread
and
water);
\VS{5}and
Ahab
said
to
Obadiah, Go
through
the
land,
to
all
the
fountains
of
water
and
to
all
the torrents,
perhaps
we
may
find
grass
to save
the
horses
and
the
mules
alive,
so
that
we
may
not
have
to
destroy
some
of [our]
beasts.
\VS{6}And
they
divided
the
land
between
them
to
pass
through
it:
Ahab
went
one
way
by
himself,
and
Obadiah
went
another
way
by
himself.
\VS{7}And
as
Obadiah
was
on
the
way,
behold,
Elijah
met
him;
and
he knew
him,
and
fell
on
his
face,
and
said,
Is
it
indeed thou,
my
lord
Elijah?
\VS{8}And
he
said
to
him,
I [am
he]:
go,
say
to thy
lord,
Behold
Elijah!
\VS{9}And
he
said,
What
have
I
sinned,
that thou givest thy
servant
into
the
hand
of
Ahab,
to
put
me
to
death?
\VS{10}As
Jehovah thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God liveth,
there
is
no
nation
or
kingdom whither
my
lord
has
not
sent
to
seek thee;
and
when
they
said,
He
is
not [here],
he
took
an
oath
of
the
kingdom
or
nation
that
they
found thee
not.
\VS{11}And
now thou sayest,
Go,
say
to thy
lord,
Behold
Elijah!
\VS{12}And
it
shall
come
to
pass
when
I
am
gone
from thee,
that
the
Spirit
of
Jehovah
shall
carry thee whither
I
know
not;
and
when
I
come
and
tell
Ahab,
and
he
cannot
find thee,
he
will
kill
me;
and
I thy
servant
fear
Jehovah
from
my
youth.
\VS{13}Was
it
not
told
my
lord
what
I
did
when
Jezebel
slew
the
prophets
of
Jehovah,
how
I
hid
a
hundred
men
of Jehovah's
prophets
by
fifty
in
a
cave,
and maintained
them
with
bread
and
water?
\VS{14}And
now thou sayest,
Go,
say
to thy
lord,
Behold
Elijah!
and
he
will
kill
me.
\VS{15}And
Elijah
said,
As
Jehovah
of
hosts liveth,
before
whom
I
stand,
I
will
certainly shew myself
to
him to-day.
\VS{16}Then
Obadiah
went
to
meet
Ahab,
and
told
him.
And
Ahab
went
to
meet
Elijah.
\VS{17}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Ahab
saw
Elijah,
that
Ahab
said
to
him,
Is
it thou,
the
troubler
of
Israel?
\VS{18}And
he
said,
I
have
not
troubled
Israel,
but thou
and thy father's
house,
in
that ye
have forsaken
the
commandments
of
Jehovah,
and thou hast
followed
the
Baals.
\VS{19}And
now
send,
gather
to
me
all
Israel
to
mount
Carmel,
and
the
prophets
of
Baal
four
hundred
and
fifty,
and
the
prophets
of
the
Asherah
four
hundred,
who
eat
at Jezebel's
table.
\VS{20}So
Ahab
sent
to
all
the
children
of
Israel,
and
gathered
the
prophets
together unto
mount
Carmel.
\VS{21}Then
Elijah
drew
near
to
all
the
people,
and
said,
How
long
do ye halt
between
two opinions?
if
Jehovah
be
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:21 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
follow
him;
and
if
Baal,
follow
him.
And
the
people
answered
him
not
a
word.
\VS{22}And
Elijah
said
to
the
people,
I,
only
I,
remain
a
prophet
of
Jehovah;
and Baal's
prophets
are
four
hundred
and
fifty
men.
\VS{23}Let
them therefore
give
us
two bullocks:
and
let
them
choose
one bullock
for
themselves,
and
cut
it
in
pieces,
and
put
it
on
the
wood,
and
put
no
fire;
and
I
will sacrifice
the
other bullock,
and
put
it
on
the
wood,
and
put
no
fire.
\VS{24}And
call ye
on
the
name
of
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods,
and
I
will
call
on
the
name
of
Jehovah;
and
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
that
answers
by
fire,
let
him
be
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:24 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
And
all
the
people
answered
and
said,
The
word
is
good.
\VS{25}And
Elijah
said
to
the
prophets
of
Baal,
Choose
one bullock
for
yourselves,
and sacrifice
it
first;
for ye
are
the
many;
and
call
on
the
name
of
your
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:25 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god,
but
put
no
fire.
\VS{26}And
they
took
the bullock
which
had
been
given
them,
and sacrificed
it,
and
called
on
the
name
of
Baal
from
morning
until
noon,
saying,
O
Baal,
answer
us!
But
there
was
no
voice,
and
none
answered.
And
they leaped
about
the
altar
that
had
been
made.
\VS{27}And
it
came
to
pass
at
noon
that
Elijah
mocked
them
and
said,
Cry aloud;
for
he
is
a
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:27 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god;
for
he
is meditating,
or
gone aside,
or
he
is
on
a
journey;
perhaps
he sleeps,
and
will awake.
\VS{28}And
they
cried aloud,
and
cut
themselves
after
their
manner
with
swords
and
spears,
till
the
blood
gushed
out
upon
them.
\VS{29}And
it
came
to
pass
when midday
was past,
that
they
prophesied
until
the [time]
of
the
offering
up
of
the oblation;
but
there
was
neither
voice,
nor
any
that
answered,
nor
any
attention.
\VS{30}Then
Elijah
said
to
all
the
people,
Draw
near
to
me.
And
all
the
people
drew
near
to
him.
And
he
repaired
the
altar
of
Jehovah which
was
broken
down.
\VS{31}And
Elijah
took
twelve
stones,
according
to
the
number
of
the
tribes
of
the
sons
of
Jacob,
to
whom
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
saying,
Israel
shall
be thy
name;
\VS{32}and
with
the
stones
he
built
an
altar
in
the
name
of
Jehovah,
and
made
a trench
round
about
the
altar,
of
the capacity
of
two
measures
of
seed;
\VS{33}and
he
put
the
wood
in order,
and
cut
the bullock
in
pieces,
and
laid
it
on
the
wood.
And
he said, Fill four pitchers
with water,
and pour
it
on
the burnt-offering,
and
on
the
wood.
\VS{34}And
he
said,
Do
it
the
second
time.
And
they
did
it
the
second
time.
And
he
said,
Do
it
the
third
time.
And
they
did
it
the
third
time.
\VS{35}And
the
water ran
round
about
the
altar;
and
he
filled
the trench
also
with
water.
\VS{36}And
it
came
to
pass
at [the
time
of]
the
offering
up
of
the oblation,
that
Elijah
the
prophet
drew
near,
and
said,
Jehovah,
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:36 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Abraham,
Isaac
and
Israel,
let
it
be
known
this
day
that thou art
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:36 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
in
Israel,
and
that
I
am thy
servant,
and
that
I
have
done
all
these
things
by thy
word.
\VS{37}Answer
me,
Jehovah,
answer
me,
that
this
people
may
know
that thou
Jehovah art
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:37 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God,
and [that]
{\BD{thou}} hast
turned
their
heart
back
again.
\VS{38}And
the
fire
of
Jehovah
fell,
and
consumed
the burnt-offering,
and
the
wood,
and
the
stones,
and
the
dust,
and
licked
up
the
water
that
was
in
the trench.
\VS{39}And
all
the
people
saw [it],
and
they
fell
on
their
faces
and
said,
Jehovah,
he
is
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:39 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God!
Jehovah,
he
is
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 18:39 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God!
\VS{40}And
Elijah
said
to
them,
Seize
the
prophets
of
Baal;
let
not
one
of
them
escape!
And
they
seized
them;
and
Elijah
brought
them
down
to
the torrent
of
Kishon,
and
slaughtered
them
there.
\VS{41}And
Elijah
said
to
Ahab,
Go
up,
eat
and
drink;
for
there
is
a
sound
of
abundance
of
rain.
\VS{42}And
Ahab
went
up
to
eat
and
to
drink.
And
Elijah
went
up
to
the
top
of
Carmel;
and
he bowed
down
on
the
earth,
and
put
his
face
between
his
knees.
\VS{43}And
he
said
to
his
servant,
Go
up
now,
look
toward
the
sea.
And
he
went
up
and
looked,
and
said, [There
is]
nothing.
And
he
said,
Go
again
seven
times.
\VS{44}And
it
came
to
pass
at
the
seventh
time
that
he
said,
Behold
there
is
a
cloud,
small
as
a man's
hand, arising
out
of
the
sea.
And
he
said,
Go
up,
say
to
Ahab,
Harness
and
go
down,
that
the pour
of
rain
stop thee
not.
\VS{45}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the mean
while,
that
the
heavens
became
black [with]
clouds
and
wind,
and
there
was
a
great pour
of
rain.
And
Ahab got
on
the
chariot,
and
went
to Jizreel.
\VS{46}And
the
hand
of
Jehovah
was
upon
Elijah;
and
he
girded
up
his
loins,
and
ran
before
Ahab
to
the
entrance
of Jizreel.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Ahab
told
Jezebel
all
that
Elijah
had
done,
and
in detail
how
he
had
slain
all
the
prophets
with
the
sword.
\VS{2}And
Jezebel
sent
a
messenger
to
Elijah
saying,
So
do
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:2 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods [to
me],
and
more
also,
if
I
make
not thy
life
as
the
life
of
one
of
them
by to-morrow
about
this
time!
\VS{3}And
when
he
saw [that],
he
arose,
and
went
for
his
life,
and
came
to Beer-sheba,
which belongs
to
Judah,
and
left
his
servant
there.
\VS{4}And
he
himself
went
a day's
journey
into
the
wilderness,
and
came
and
sat
down
under
a
certain broom-bush,
and
requested
for
himself
that
he
might
die;
and
said,
It
is
enough:
now,
Jehovah,
take
my
life;
for
I
am
not
better
than
my
fathers.
\VS{5}And
he
lay
down
and
slept
under
the broom-bush.
And
behold,
an
angel
touched
him,
and
said
to
him,
Arise,
eat!
\VS{6}And
he
looked,
and
behold,
at
his
head
was
a
cake, baked
on hot stones,
and
a cruse
of
water.
And
he
ate
and
drank,
and
lay
down
again.
\VS{7}And
the
angel
of
Jehovah
came
again
the
second
time,
and
touched
him,
and
said,
Arise,
eat;
for
the
journey
is
too
great
for thee.
\VS{8}And
he
arose,
and
ate
and
drank,
and
went
in
the
strength
of
that
food
forty
days
and
forty
nights
to
Horeb
the
mount
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:8 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God.
\VS{9}And
there
he
went
into
a
cave,
and lodged
there.
And
behold,
the
word
of
Jehovah [came]
to
him,
and
he
said
to
him,
What doest thou
here,
Elijah?
\VS{10}And
he
said,
I
have
been
very
jealous
for
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts;
for
the
children
of
Israel
have forsaken thy
covenant,
thrown
down thine
altars,
and
slain thy
prophets
with
the
sword;
and
I
am
left,
I
alone,
and
they
seek
my
life,
to
take
it
away.
\VS{11}And
he
said,
Go
forth,
and
stand
upon
the
mount
before
Jehovah.
And
behold,
Jehovah
passed
by,
and
a
great
and
strong
wind rent
the
mountains,
and
broke
in
pieces
the
rocks
before
Jehovah:
Jehovah
was
not
in
the
wind.
And
after
the
wind,
an
earthquake:
Jehovah
was
not
in
the
earthquake.
\VS{12}And
after
the
earthquake,
a
fire:
Jehovah
was
not
in
the
fire.
And
after
the
fire,
a soft
gentle
voice.
\VS{13}And
it
came
to
pass,
when
Elijah
heard
it,
that
he
wrapped
his
face
in
his
mantle,
and
went
out,
and
stood
in
the
entrance
of
the
cave.
And
behold,
a
voice [came]
to
him
and
said,
What doest thou
here,
Elijah?
\VS{14}And
he
said,
I
have
been
very
jealous
for
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 19:14 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
hosts;
for
the
children
of
Israel
have forsaken thy
covenant,
thrown
down thine
altars,
and
slain thy
prophets
with
the
sword;
and
I
am
left,
I
alone,
and
they
seek
my
life,
to
take
it
away.
\VS{15}And
Jehovah
said
to
him,
Go,
return
on thy
way
to
the
wilderness
of
Damascus;
and
when thou comest,
anoint
Hazael
king
over
Syria;
\VS{16}and
Jehu
the
son
of
Nimshi shalt thou
anoint
king
over
Israel;
and
Elisha
the
son
of
Shaphat
of
Abel-meholah shalt thou
anoint
prophet
in thy
stead.
\VS{17}And
it
shall
come
to
pass, [that]
him
that escapeth
the
sword
of
Hazael
shall
Jehu
slay;
and
him
that escapeth
the
sword
of
Jehu
shall
Elisha
slay.
\VS{18}Yet
I
have
left [myself]
seven
thousand
in
Israel,
all
the
knees
that
have
not
bowed unto
Baal,
and
every
mouth
that hath
not
kissed
him.
\VS{19}And
he departed thence,
and
found
Elisha
the
son
of
Shaphat,
who
was ploughing [with]
twelve yokes
before
him,
and
he
with
the twelfth;
and
Elijah
went
over
to
him,
and
cast
his
mantle
on
him.
\VS{20}And
he
left
the
oxen,
and
ran
after
Elijah,
and
said,
Let
me,
I
pray thee, kiss
my
father
and
my
mother,
and
I
will
follow thee.
And
he
said
to
him,
Go
back
again;
for
what
have
I
done
to thee?
\VS{21}And
he
returned
back
from
him,
and
took
the
yoke
of
oxen,
and killed
them,
and
boiled
their
flesh
with
the
implements
of
the
oxen,
and
gave
to
the
people,
and
they
ate.
And
he
arose
and
went
after
Elijah,
and
ministered
to
him.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Ben-Hadad
king
of
Syria
assembled
all
his
host;
and
there
were thirty-two
kings
with
him,
and
horses
and
chariots;
and
he
went
up
and besieged
Samaria,
and
fought
against
it.
\VS{2}And
he
sent
messengers
to
Ahab
king
of
Israel
into
the
city,
and
said
to
him, Thus says Ben-Hadad:
\VS{3}Thy
silver
and thy
gold
is mine; thy
wives
also
and thy
children,
the goodliest,
are mine.
\VS{4}And
the
king
of
Israel
answered
and
said,
My
lord,
O
king, according
to thy
saying,
I
am thine,
and
all
that
I
have.
\VS{5}And
the
messengers
came
again,
and
said,
Thus
speaks
Ben-Hadad
saying:
I
sent
to thee
indeed,
saying, Thou shalt
deliver
me thy
silver,
and thy
gold,
and thy
wives,
and thy
children;
\VS{6}but to-morrow
about
this
time
I
will
send
my
servants
to thee,
and
they
shall
search thy
house,
and
the
houses
of thy
servants;
and
it
shall
be,
that
whatsoever
is
pleasant
in thy
sight,
they
shall
put
in
their
hand
and
take
away.
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Israel
called
all
the
elders
of
the
land
and
said, Mark,
I
pray
you,
and
see
how
this [man]
seeks mischief;
for
he
sent
to
me
for
my
wives,
and
for
my
children,
and
for
my
silver,
and
for
my
gold;
and
I denied
him
not.
\VS{8}And
all
the
elders
and
all
the
people
said
to
him, Hearken
not,
nor
consent.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
the
messengers
of
Ben-Hadad,
Tell
my
lord
the
king,
All
that thou didst
send
for
to thy
servant
at
the
first
I
will
do;
but
this
thing
I
cannot
do.
And
the
messengers departed,
and
brought
him
word
again.
\VS{10}And
Ben-Hadad
sent
to
him
and
said,
The
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
do
so
to
me,
and
more
also,
if
the
dust
of
Samaria
shall suffice
for
handfuls
for
all
the
people
that
follow
me!
\VS{11}And
the
king
of
Israel
answered
and
said,
Tell [him],
Let
not
him
that girdeth
on
boast himself
as
he
that putteth
off!
\VS{12}And
it
came
to
pass
when
he
heard
this
word,
as
he
was
drinking,
he
and
the
kings
in
the tents,
that
he
said
to
his
servants,
Set
yourselves.
And
they
set
themselves
against
the
city.
\VS{13}And
behold,
a
prophet
drew
near
to
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
and
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah: Hast thou
seen
all
this
great
multitude?
behold,
I
will
deliver
it
into thy
hand
this
day;
and thou shalt
know
that
I
am
Jehovah.
\VS{14}And
Ahab
said,
By
whom?
And
he
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
By
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces.
Then
he
said,
Who
shall
begin
the
battle?
And
he
said, Thou.
\VS{15}And
he
numbered
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces,
and
they
were
two
hundred
and thirty-two;
and
after
them
he
numbered
all
the
people,
all
the
children
of
Israel,
seven
thousand.
\VS{16}And
they
went
out
at
noon;
and
Ben-Hadad
drank
himself
drunk
in
the tents,
he
and
the
kings,
the thirty-two
kings
that
helped
him.
\VS{17}And
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces
went
out
first;
and
Ben-Hadad
sent
out,
and
they
told
him
saying, There
are
men
come
out
of
Samaria.
\VS{18}And
he
said,
Whether
they
be
come
out
for
peace,
take
them
alive;
or
whether
they
be
come
out
for
war,
take
them
alive.
\VS{19}And
these
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces
came
out
of
the
city,
and
the
army
that
followed
them.
\VS{20}And
they
slew
every
one
his
man;
and
the Syrians
fled,
and
Israel
pursued
them;
and
Ben-Hadad
the
king
of
Syria
escaped
on
a
horse
with
the
horsemen.
\VS{21}And
the
king
of
Israel
went
out,
and
smote
the
horses
and
chariots,
and
slew
the Syrians
with
a
great
slaughter.
\VS{22}And
the
prophet
drew
near
to
the
king
of
Israel,
and
said
to
him,
Go,
strengthen thyself,
and
understand,
and
see
what thou shalt
do;
for
at
the
return
of
the
year
the
king
of
Syria
will
come
up
against thee.
\VS{23}And
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Syria
said
to
him,
Their
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
are
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:23 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods
of
the
mountains;
therefore
they
were
stronger
than
we;
but
if
we
fight
against
them
on
the
plateau,
shall
we
not
be
stronger
than
they?
\VS{24}And
do
this:
take
the
kings
away,
every
man
out
of
his
place,
and
put
governors
in
their
stead;
\VS{25}and
number thee
an
army,
like
the
army
that thou hast
lost,
horse
for
horse,
and
chariot
for
chariot;
and
we
will
fight
against
them
on
the
plateau:
shall
we
not
be
stronger
than
they?
And
he hearkened
to
their
voice,
and
did
so.
\VS{26}And
it
came
to
pass,
at
the
return
of
the
year,
that
Ben-Hadad
numbered
the Syrians,
and
went
up
to
Aphek,
to
fight
against
Israel.
\VS{27}And
the
children
of
Israel
were
numbered
and victualled,
and
they
went
against
them;
and
the
children
of
Israel
encamped
before
them
like
two
little
flocks
of
goats; but
the Syrians
filled
the
land.
\VS{28}And
the
man
of
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:28 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
drew
near,
and
spoke
to
the
king
of
Israel
and
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
Because
the Syrians
have
said,
Jehovah
is
a
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:28 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
mountains,
but
he
is
not
a
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 20:28 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
of
the
valleys,
I
will
give
all
this
great
multitude
into thy
hand,
and ye
shall
know
that
I
am
Jehovah.
\VS{29}And
they
encamped
one
over
against
the
other
seven
days;
and
it
came
to
pass
that
on
the
seventh
day
the
battle
was
joined;
and
the
children
of
Israel
smote
of
the Syrians
a
hundred
thousand
footmen
in
one
day.
\VS{30}And
the
rest
fled
to
Aphek,
into
the
city;
and
the
wall
fell
on twenty-seven
thousand
men
of
them
that
were
left.
And
Ben-Hadad
fled,
and
came
into
the
city, [from]
chamber
to
chamber.
\VS{31}And
his
servants
said
to
him,
Behold
now,
we
have
heard
that
the
kings
of
the
house
of
Israel
are merciful
kings:
let
us,
I
pray thee,
put
sackcloth
on
our
loins,
and
ropes
upon
our
heads,
and
go
out
to
the
king
of
Israel;
perhaps
he
will
save thy
life.
\VS{32}And
they
girded
sackcloth
on
their
loins,
and
ropes
on
their
heads,
and
came
to
the
king
of
Israel,
and
said, Thy
servant
Ben-Hadad
says,
I
pray thee,
let
me
live.
And
he
said,
Is
he
yet
alive?
he
is
my
brother.
\VS{33}And
the
men
took
it
as
a good
omen,
and
hastened
to catch
what
came
from
him,
and
they
said, Thy
brother
Ben-Hadad. ...And
he
said,
Go,
bring
him.
And
Ben-Hadad
came
forth
to
him;
and
he caused
him
to
come
up
into
the
chariot.
\VS{34}And [Ben-Hadad]
said
to
him,
The
cities
that
my
father
took
from thy
father
I
will
restore;
and thou shalt
make
streets
for thyself
in
Damascus,
as
my
father
made
in
Samaria.
And
I [said
Ahab]
will
send thee
away
with
this
covenant.
So
he
made
a
covenant
with
him,
and
sent
him
away.
\VS{35}And
a
certain
man
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
said
to
another
by
the
word
of
Jehovah,
Smite
me,
I
pray thee.
But
the
man
refused
to
smite
him.
\VS{36}Then
said
he
to
him,
Because thou hast
not hearkened
to
the
voice
of
Jehovah,
behold,
when thou departest
from
me,
the
lion
will
slay thee.
And
when
he
had
departed
from
him,
the
lion
found
him
and
slew
him.
\VS{37}Then
he
found
another
man,
and
said,
Smite
me,
I
pray thee.
And
the
man
smote
him violently,
and
wounded [him].
\VS{38}And
the
prophet departed,
and
waited
for
the
king
by
the
way,
and
disguised himself
with
a sash
over
his
eyes.
\VS{39}And
as
the
king
passed
by,
he
cried
to
the
king
and
said, Thy
servant
went
out
into
the
midst
of
the
battle;
and
behold,
a
man
turned
aside,
and
brought
a
man
to
me
and
said,
Keep
this
man;
if
by
any
means
he
be
missing,
then
shall thy
life
be
for
his
life,
or thou shalt
pay
a
talent
of
silver.
\VS{40}And
as thy
servant
was busy
here
and
there,
he
was
gone.
And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
him,
So [is] thy
judgment: thyself hast
decided [it].
\VS{41}Then
he
hastily
took
the sash
away
from
his
face;
and
the
king
of
Israel discerned
him,
that
he
was
of
the
prophets.
\VS{42}And
he
said
to
him,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
Because thou hast
let
go
out
of thy
hand
the
man
that
I
had
devoted
to destruction, thy
life
shall
be
for
his
life,
and thy
people
for
his
people.
\VS{43}And
the
king
of
Israel
went
to
his
house
sullen
and
vexed,
and
came
to
Samaria.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
after
these
things, [that]
Naboth
the Jizreelite
had
a
vineyard,
which
was
in Jizreel,
by
the
side
of
the
palace
of
Ahab
king
of
Samaria.
\VS{2}And
Ahab
spoke
to
Naboth
saying,
Give
me thy
vineyard,
that
I
may
have
it
for
a
garden
of herbs,
for
it
is
near,
by
the
side
of
my
house;
and
I
will
give thee
for
it
a
better
vineyard
than
it;
if
it
seem
good
to thee,
I
will
give thee
its
value
in
money.
\VS{3}And
Naboth
said
to
Ahab,
Jehovah
forbid
it
me,
that
I
should
give
the
inheritance
of
my
fathers
to thee!
\VS{4}And
Ahab
came
into
his
house
sullen
and
vexed
because
of
the
word
that
Naboth
the Jizreelite
had
spoken
to
him;
for
he
had
said,
I
will
not
give thee
the
inheritance
of
my
fathers.
And
he
lay
down
on
his
bed,
and
turned
away
his
face,
and
ate
no
bread.
\VS{5}And
Jezebel
his
wife
came
to
him,
and
said
to
him,
Why
is thy
spirit
sullen,
and thou eatest
no
bread?
\VS{6}And
he
said
to
her,
Because
I
spoke
to
Naboth
the Jizreelite
and
said
to
him,
Give
me thy
vineyard
for
money;
or
else,
if
it please thee,
I
will
give thee
a
vineyard
for
it;
and
he
said,
I
will
not
give thee
my
vineyard.
\VS{7}And
Jezebel
his
wife
said
to
him, Dost thou
now exercise sovereignty
over
Israel?
arise,
eat
bread,
and
let thy
heart
be
glad:
I
will
give thee
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
the Jizreelite.
\VS{8}And
she
wrote
a
letter
in Ahab's
name,
and
sealed
it
with
his
seal,
and
sent
the
letter
to
the
elders
and
to
the
nobles
that
were
in
his
city,
dwelling
with
Naboth.
\VS{9}And
she
wrote
in
the
letter
saying,
Proclaim
a
fast,
and
set
Naboth
at
the
head
of
the
people;
\VS{10}and
set
two
men,
sons
of Belial,
before
him,
and
they
shall bear witness
against
him
saying, Thou didst
curse
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 21:10 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
and
the
king;
and
carry
him
out,
and
stone
him,
that
he
may
die.
\VS{11}And
the
men
of
his
city,
the
elders
and
the
nobles
that
dwelt
in
his
city,
did
as
Jezebel
had
sent
to
them,
as
it
was
written
in
the
letter
that
she
had
sent
to
them:
\VS{12}they
proclaimed
a
fast,
and
set
Naboth
at
the
head
of
the
people.
\VS{13}And
there
came
the
two
men,
sons
of Belial,
and
sat
before
him;
and
the
men
of Belial witnessed
against
him,
against
Naboth,
in
the
presence
of
the
people,
saying,
Naboth blasphemed
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 21:13 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
and
the
king.
And
they
carried
him
forth
out
of
the
city,
and
stoned
him
with
stones,
that
he
died.
\VS{14}And
they
sent
to
Jezebel
saying,
Naboth
is
stoned,
and
is
dead.
\VS{15}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Jezebel
heard
that
Naboth
was
stoned
and
was
dead,
that
Jezebel
said
to
Ahab,
Arise,
take
possession
of
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
the Jizreelite,
which
he
refused
to
give thee
for
money;
for
Naboth
is
not
alive,
but
dead.
\VS{16}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Ahab
heard
that
Naboth
was
dead,
that
Ahab
rose
up
to
go
down
to
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
the Jizreelite,
to
take
possession
of
it.
\VS{17}And
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying,
\VS{18}Arise,
go
down
to
meet
Ahab
king
of
Israel,
who
is
in
Samaria:
behold,
he
is
in
the
vineyard
of
Naboth, whither
he
is
gone
down
to
take
possession
of
it.
\VS{19}And thou shalt
speak unto
him
saying,
Thus saith
Jehovah: Hast thou
killed,
and
also
taken
possession?
And thou shalt
speak unto
him
saying,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
In
the
place
where
the
dogs
licked
the
blood
of
Naboth
shall
the
dogs
lick thy
blood,
even thine.
\VS{20}And
Ahab
said
to
Elijah, Hast thou
found
me, mine
enemy?
And
he
said,
I
have
found [thee];
because thou hast
sold thyself
to
do
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah.
\VS{21}Behold,
I
will
bring
evil
upon thee,
and
will
take
away thy posterity,
and
will
cut
off
from
Ahab
every male,
and
him
that
is
shut
up
and
left
in
Israel;
\VS{22}and
I
will
make thy
house
like
the
house
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat,
and
like
the
house
of
Baasha
the
son
of
Ahijah,
for
the provocation wherewith thou hast
provoked
me
to
anger,
and
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{23}And
of
Jezebel
also
spoke
Jehovah
saying,
The
dogs
shall
eat
Jezebel
by
the moat
of Jizreel.
\VS{24}Him
that dieth
of
Ahab
in
the
city
shall
the
dogs
eat,
and
him
that dieth
in
the
field
shall
the
fowl
of
the
heavens
eat.
\VS{25}(Surely
there
was
none
like
to
Ahab,
who
did
sell
himself
to
do
evil
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah,
Jezebel
his
wife urging
him
on.
\VS{26}And
he
did
very
abominably
in
following
idols,
according
to
all
that
the
Amorites
did,
whom
Jehovah
had
dispossessed
before
the
children
of
Israel.)
\VS{27}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Ahab
heard
these
words,
that
he rent
his
garments,
and
put
sackcloth
upon
his
flesh,
and
fasted,
and
lay
in
sackcloth,
and
went softly.
\VS{28}And
the
word
of
Jehovah
came
to
Elijah
the Tishbite,
saying,
\VS{29}Seest thou
how
Ahab humbleth
himself
before
me?
because
he humbleth
himself
before
me,
I
will
not
bring
the
evil
in
his
days:
in
his son's
days
will
I
bring
the
evil
upon
his
house.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
they continued
three
years
without
war
between
Syria
and
Israel.
\VS{2}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
third
year,
that
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah
came
down
to
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{3}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
his
servants,
Do ye
know
that
Ramoth
in
Gilead
is ours,
and
we
keep quiet without
taking
it
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria?
\VS{4}And
he
said
to
Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go
with
me
to
battle
to
Ramoth-Gilead?
And
Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
I am
as thou,
my
people
as thy
people,
my
horses
as thy
horses.
\VS{5}And
Jehoshaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel,
Inquire,
I
pray thee,
this
day
of
the
word
of
Jehovah.
\VS{6}And
the
king
of
Israel
assembled
the
prophets,
about
four
hundred
men,
and
said
to
them,
Shall
I
go
against
Ramoth-Gilead
to
battle,
or
shall
I forbear?
And
they
said,
Go
up,
and
the
Lord
will
give
it
into
the king's
hand.
\VS{7}But
Jehoshaphat
said,
Is
there
not
here
a
prophet
of
Jehovah
besides,
that we
might
inquire
of
him?
\VS{8}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
There
is
yet
one
man
by
whom
we
may
inquire
of
Jehovah;
but
I
hate
him,
for
he
prophesies
no
good
concerning
me,
but
evil: [it
is]
Micah
the
son
of
Imlah.
And
Jehoshaphat
said,
Let
not
the
king
say
so.
\VS{9}Then
the
king
of
Israel
called
a chamberlain,
and
said, Fetch
quickly
Micah
the
son
of
Imlah.
\VS{10}And
the
king
of
Israel
and
Jehoshaphat
the
king
of
Judah,
having
put
on
their
robes,
sat
each
on
his
throne,
in
the
open
place
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
Samaria;
and
all
the
prophets
prophesied
before
them.
\VS{11}And
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Chenaanah
made
for himself
horns
of
iron,
and
he
said,
Thus saith
Jehovah:
With
these shalt thou
push
the Syrians,
until thou
have
exterminated
them.
\VS{12}And
all
the
prophets
prophesied
so,
saying,
Go
up
to
Ramoth-Gilead,
and
prosper;
for
Jehovah
will
give
it
into
the king's
hand.
\VS{13}And
the
messenger
that
went
to
call
Micah
spoke
to
him
saying,
Behold
now,
the
words
of
the
prophets [declare]
good
to
the
king
with
one assent:
let thy
word,
I
pray thee,
be
like
the
word
of
one
of
them,
and
speak
good.
\VS{14}And
Micah
said,
As
Jehovah liveth,
even
what
Jehovah
shall
say
to
me,
that
will
I
speak.
\VS{15}And
he
came
to
the
king.
And
the
king
said
to
him,
Micah,
shall
we
go
against
Ramoth-Gilead
to
battle,
or
shall
we forbear?
And
he
said
to
him,
Go
up,
and
prosper;
for
Jehovah
will
give
it
into
the
hand
of
the
king.
\VS{16}And
the
king
said
to
him,
How
many
times
shall
I
adjure thee
that thou
tell
me
nothing
but
truth
in
the
name
of
Jehovah?
\VS{17}And
he
said,
I
saw
all
Israel
scattered
upon
the
mountains,
as
sheep
that
have
no
shepherd.
And
Jehovah
said,
These
have
no
master:
let
them
return
every
man
to
his
house
in
peace.
\VS{18}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
Jehoshaphat,
Did
I
not
tell thee
that
he
prophesies
no
good
concerning
me,
but
evil?
\VS{19}And
he
said,
Hear
therefore
the
word
of
Jehovah:
I
saw
Jehovah
sitting
upon
his
throne,
and
all
the
host
of
heaven
standing
by
him,
on
his
right
hand
and
on
his
left;
\VS{20}and
Jehovah
said,
Who
shall entice
Ahab
that
he
may
go
up
and
fall
at
Ramoth-Gilead?
And
one
said after
this manner,
and
another
said after
that manner.
\VS{21}And
there
came
forth
a
spirit,
and
stood
before
Jehovah,
and
said,
I
will entice
him.
\VS{22}And Jehovah
said unto
him, Wherewith?
And
he
said,
I
will
go
forth,
and
will
be
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.
And
he
said, Thou shalt entice [him],
and
also
succeed:
go
forth,
and
do
so.
\VS{23}And
now,
behold,
Jehovah
has
put
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all
these thy
prophets,
and
Jehovah
has
spoken
evil
concerning thee.
\VS{24}Then
Zedekiah
the
son
of
Chenaanah
went
near,
and
smote
Micah
upon
the
cheek,
and
said,
Where
now
went
the
Spirit
of
Jehovah
from
me
to
speak
to thee?
\VS{25}And
Micah
said,
Behold, thou shalt
see
on
that
day
when thou shalt
go
from
chamber
to
chamber
to
hide thyself.
\VS{26}And
the
king
of
Israel
said,
Take
Micah
and
carry
him
back
to
Amon
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
to
Joash
the king's
son;
\VS{27}and thou shalt
say,
Thus
says
the
king:
Put
this [man]
in
the
prison,
and
feed
him
with
bread
of affliction
and
with
water
of affliction,
until
I
come
in
peace.
\VS{28}And
Micah
said,
If thou
return
at
all
in
peace,
Jehovah
has
not
spoken
by
me.
And
he
said, Hearken,
O
peoples,
all
of
you!
\VS{29}And
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
disguise myself,
and
will
enter
into
the
battle;
but
put thou
on thy
robes.
And
the
king
of
Israel
disguised
himself,
and
went
into
the
battle.
\VS{31}And
the
king
of
Syria
commanded
the thirty-two
captains
of
his
chariots
saying,
Fight
neither
with
small
nor
great,
but
with
the
king
of
Israel
only.
\VS{32}And
it
came
to
pass
when
the
captains
of
the
chariots
saw
Jehoshaphat,
that
they
said,
Surely
that
is
the
king
of
Israel;
and
they
turned
against
him
to
fight;
and
Jehoshaphat
cried
out.
\VS{33}And
it
came
to
pass
that
when
the
captains
of
the
chariots
perceived
that
it
was
not
the
king
of
Israel,
they
turned
back
from
pursuing
him.
\VS{34}And
a
man
drew
a
bow
at
a venture,
and
smote
the
king
of
Israel
between
the fastenings
and
the corslet.
And
he
said
to
his charioteer,
Turn thy
hand,
and drive
me
out
of
the
camp;
for
I am
wounded.
\VS{35}And
the
battle increased
that
day;
and
the
king
was
stayed
up
in
his
chariot
against
the Syrians,
and
he
died
at even;
and
the
blood
of
the
wound
ran
out
into
the hollow
of
the
chariot.
\VS{36}And there
went
the
cry
throughout
the
host
at
the
going down
of
the
sun,
saying,
Every
man
to
his
city,
and
every
man
to
his
own
country!
\VS{37}And
the
king
died,
and
was
brought
to
Samaria;
and
they
buried
the
king
in
Samaria.
\VS{38}And
one
washed
the
chariot
in
the
pool
of
Samaria;
and
the
dogs
licked
his
blood,
where
the harlots
bathed:
according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
which
he
had
spoken.
\VS{39}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Ahab,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
the
ivory
house
that
he
built,
and
all
the
cities
that
he
built,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
chronicles
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{40}And
Ahab
slept
with
his
fathers;
and
Ahaziah
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{41}And
Jehoshaphat
the
son
of
Asa began
to
reign
over
Judah
in
the
fourth
year
of
Ahab
king
of
Israel.
\VS{42}Jehoshaphat
was thirty-five
years
old
when
he began
to
reign;
and
he
reigned
twenty-five
years
in
Jerusalem;
and
his mother's
name
was
Azubah,
the
daughter
of
Shilhi.
\VS{43}And
he walked
in
all
the
way
of
Asa
his
father;
he
turned
not
aside
from
it,
doing
what
was
right
in
the
sight
of
Jehovah.
Only,
the high
places
were
not
removed:
the
people offered
and burned incense still
on
the high
places.
\VS{44}And Jehoshaphat
was
at peace
with
the king
of
Israel.
\VS{45}And
the rest
of
the acts
of
Jehoshaphat,
and
his
might which
he shewed,
and how
he warred,
are
they not written
in
the book
of
the chronicles
of
the
kings
of Judah?
\VS{46}And
the
remainder
of
the sodomites,
which
were left
in
the
days
of
his father Asa,
he put away
from
out
of
the land.
\VS{47}And
there
was
no king
in Edom:
a deputy reigned.
\VS{48}Jehoshaphat made Tarshish-ships
to go
to Ophir
for gold;
but
they went
not,
for
the ships
were broken
at Ezion-geber.
\VS{49}Then said Ahaziah
the son
of Ahab
to
Jehoshaphat,
Let
my servants
go
with thy servants
in
the
ships.
But
Jehoshaphat
would
not.
\VS{50}And
Jehoshaphat slept
with
his fathers,
and
was buried
with
his fathers
in
the city
of
David
his father;
and Jehoram
his
son reigned
in
his stead.
\VS{51}Ahaziah
the
son
of Ahab began
to
reign over Israel
in Samaria
the seventeenth year
of
Jehoshaphat
king
of Judah;
and
he
reigned two years over Israel.
\VS{52}And
he did evil
in
the sight
of Jehovah,
and walked
in
the
way
of
his father,
and
in
the
way
of
his mother,
and
in
the
way
of Jeroboam
the
son
of Nebat,
who made
Israel
to sin.
\VS{53}And
he served Baal,
and worshipped
him,
and provoked
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 22:53 }
Elohim}God
of
Israel
to anger, according
to all
that
his
father
had
done.
\par }