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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
king
David
was
old,
and
advanced
in
years:
and
when
he
was
covered
with
clothes,
he
was
not warm.
\VS{2}His
servants
therefore
said
to
him:
Let
us
seek
for
our
lord
the
king,
a
young
virgin,
and
let
her
stand
before
the
king,
and
cherish
him,
and
sleep
in
his
bosom,
and
warm
our
lord
the
king.
\VS{3}So
they
sought
a
beautiful
young
woman
in
all
the coasts
of
Israel,
and
they
found Abisag
a Sunamitess,
and
brought
her
to
the
king.
\VS{4}And
the damsel
was
exceeding
beautiful,
and
she slept
with
the
king:
and
served
him,
but
the
king
did
not
know
her.
\VS{5}And Adonias
the
son
of
Haggith exalted
himself,
saying:
I
will
be
king.
And
he
made
himself
chariots
and
horsemen,
and
fifty
men
to
run
before
him.
\VS{6}Neither
did
his
father rebuke
him
at
any
time,
saying:
Why hast thou
done
this?
And
he
also
was
very beautiful,
the next
in
birth
after
Absalom.
\VS{7}And
he
conferred
with
Joab
the
son
of Sarvia,
and
with
Abiathar
the
priest,
who
furthered Adonias’s
side.
\VS{8}But Sadoc
the
priest,
and Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and Semei,
and
Rei,
and
the strength
of
David’s army
was
not
with Adonias.
\VS{9}And Adonias
having slain rams
and
calves,
and
all fat
cattle
by
the
stone
of
Zoheleth,
which
was
near
the fountain Rogel,
invited
all
his
brethren
the
king’s
sons,
and
all
the
men
of Juda,
the
king’s
servants:
\VS{10}But
Nathan
the
prophet,
and Banaias,
and all
the
valiant
men,
and
Solomon
his
brother,
he
invited
not.
\VS{11}And
Nathan
said
to Bethsabee
the
mother
of
Solomon: Hast thou
not
heard
that Adonias
the
son
of
Haggith reigneth,
and
our
lord
David knoweth
it
not?
\VS{12}Now
then
come,
take
my
counsel
and
save thy
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
me thy
handmaid,
saying:
Solomon thy
son
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
on
my
throne?
why
then doth Adonias
reign?
\VS{14}And
while thou art
yet
speaking
there
with
the
king,
I
will
come
in
after thee,
and
will
fill
up thy
words.
\VS{15}So Bethsabee
went
in
to
the
king
into
the
chamber:
now
the
king
was
very
old,
and Abisag
the Sunamitess
ministered
to
him.
\VS{16}Bethsabee
bowed
herself,
and worshipped
the
king.
And
the
king
said
to
her:
What
is thy
will?
\VS{17}She
answered
and
said:
My
lord, thou didst
swear
to thy
handmaid
by
the
Lord thy
God,
saying:
Solomon thy
son
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
on
my
throne.
\VS{18}And
behold
now Adonias reigneth,
and thou,
my
lord
the
king, knowest
nothing
of
it.
\VS{19}He hath killed
oxen,
and
all fat
cattle,
and
many rams,
and
invited
all
the
king’s
sons,
and
Abiathar
the
priest,
and
Joab
the
general
of
the
army:
but
Solomon thy
servant
he
invited
not.
\VS{20}And
now,
my
lord
O
king,
the
eyes
of
all
Israel
are
upon thee,
that thou shouldst
tell
them,
who
shall
sit
on thy
throne,
my
lord
the
king,
after thee.
\VS{21}Otherwise
it
shall
come
to
pass,
when
my
lord
the
king sleepeth
with
his
fathers,
that
I
and
my
son
Solomon
shall
be counted
offenders.
\VS{22}As
she
was
yet
speaking
with
the
king,
Nathan
the
prophet
came.
\VS{23}And
they
told
the
king,
saying:
Nathan
the
prophet
is
here.
And
when
he
was
come
in
before
the
king,
and
had worshipped,
bowing
down
to
the
ground,
\VS{24}Nathan
said:
My
lord
O
king, hast thou
said: Let Adonias
reign
after
me,
and let
him
sit
upon
my
throne?
\VS{25}Because
he
is
gone
down
today,
and hath killed
oxen,
and
fatlings,
and
many rams,
and
invited
all
the
king’s
sons,
and
the
captains
of
the
army,
and
Abiathar
the
priest:
and
they
are
eating
and
drinking
before
him,
and
saying:
God save
king Adonias:
\VS{26}But
me thy
servant,
and Sadoc
the
priest,
and Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
and
Solomon thy
servant
he hath
not
invited.
\VS{27}Is
this
word
come
out
from
my
lord
the
king,
and hast thou
not
told
me thy
servant
who
should
sit
on
the
throne
of
my
lord
the
king
after
him?
\VS{28}And
king
David
answered
and
said:
Call
to
me Bethsabee.
And
when
she
was
come
in
to
the
king,
and
stood
before
him,
\VS{29}The
king
swore
and
said:
As
the
Lord liveth,
who hath
delivered
my
soul
out
of
all
distress,
\VS{30}Even
as
I
swore
to thee
by
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
saying:
Solomon thy
son
shall
reign
after
me,
and
he
shall
sit
upon
my
throne
in
my
stead,
so
will
I
do
this
day.
\VS{31}And Bethsabee
bowing
with
her
face
to
the
earth worshipped
the
king,
saying:
May
my
lord
David
live
for
ever.
\VS{32}King
David
also
said:
Call
me Sadoc
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada.
And
when
they
were
come
in
before
the
king,
\VS{33}He
said
to
them:
Take
with
you
the
servants
of
your
lord,
and
set
my
son
Solomon
upon
my
mule:
and
bring
him
to
Gihon.
\VS{34}And let Sadoc
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet
anoint
him
there
king
over
Israel:
and
you
shall
sound
the
trumpet,
and
shall
say:
God save
king
Solomon.
\VS{35}And
you
shall
come
up
after
him,
and
he
shall
come,
and
shall
sit
upon
my
throne,
and
he
shall
reign
in
my
stead:
and
I
will
appoint
him
to
be
ruler
over
Israel,
and
over Juda.
\VS{36}And Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada
answered
the
king,
saying:
Amen:
so
say
the
Lord
the
God
of
my
lord
the
king.
\VS{37}As
the
Lord hath
been
with
my
lord
the
king,
so
be
he
with
Solomon,
and
make
his
throne higher
than
the
throne
of
my
lord
king
David.
\VS{38}So Sadoc
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet
went
down,
and Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
and
the Cerethi,
and Phelethi:
and
they set
Solomon
upon
the
mule
of
king
David,
and
brought
him
to
Gihon.
\VS{39}And Sadoc
the
priest
took
a
horn
of
oil
out
of
the
tabernacle,
and
anointed
Solomon:
and
they
sounded
the
trumpet,
and
all
the
people
said:
God save
king
Solomon.
\VS{40}And
all
the multitude
went
up
after
him,
and
the
people played
with pipes,
and
rejoiced
with
a
great
joy,
and
the
earth rang
with
the
noise
of
their
cry.
\VS{41}And Adonias,
and
all
that
were
invited
by
him,
heard
it,
and
now
the
feast
was
at
an
end:
Joab
also
hearing
the
sound
of
the
trumpet,
said:
What meaneth
this
noise
of
the
city
in
an
uproar?
\VS{42}While
he
yet
spoke,
Jonathan
the
son
of
Abiathar
the
priest
came:
and Adonias
said
to
him:
Come
in,
because thou art
a
valiant
man,
and bringest
good
news.
\VS{43}And
Jonathan
answered Adonias:
Not
so:
for
our
lord
king
David hath appointed
Solomon
king.
\VS{44}And hath
sent
with
him Sadoc
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet,
and Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
and
the Cerethi,
and Phelethi,
and
they
have
set
him
upon
the
king’s
mule.
\VS{45}And Sadoc
the
priest,
and
Nathan
the
prophet
have
anointed
him
king
in
Gihon:
and
they
are
gone
up
from thence
rejoicing,
so
that
the
city rang again:
this
is
the
noise
that
you
have
heard.
\VS{46}Moreover
Solomon sitteth
upon
the
throne
of
the
kingdom,
\VS{47}And
the
king’s
servants
going
in
have
blessed
our
lord
king
David,
saying:
May
God
make
the
name
of
Solomon
greater
than thy
name,
and
make
his
throne
greater
than thy
throne.
And
the
king adored
in
his
bed:
\VS{48}And
he
said:
Blessed
be
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
who hath
given
this
day
one
to
sit
on
my
throne,
my
eyes
seeing
it.
\VS{49}Then
all
the
guests
of Adonias
were
afraid,
and
they
all
arose
and
every
man
went
his
way.
\VS{50}And Adonias fearing
Solomon,
arose,
and
went,
and
took
hold
on
the
horn
of
the
altar.
\VS{51}And
they
told
Solomon,
saying:
Behold Adonias, fearing
king
Solomon, hath
taken
hold
of
the
horn
of
the
altar,
saying:
Let
king
Solomon
swear
to
me
this
day,
that
he
will
not
kill
his
servant
with
the
sword.
\VS{52}And
Solomon
said:
If
he
be
a good
man,
there
shall
not
so much
as
one
hair
of
his
head
fall
to
the
ground:
but
if
evil
be
found
in
him,
he
shall
die.
\VS{53}Then
king
Solomon
sent,
and
brought
him
out
from
the
altar:
and
going
in
he worshipped
king
Solomon:
and
Solomon
said
to
him:
Go
to thy
house.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
days
of
David
drew nigh
that
he
should
die,
and
he
charged
his
son
Solomon,
saying:
\VS{2}I
am
going
the
way
of
all flesh:
take thou
courage,
and shew thyself
a
man.
\VS{3}And
keep
the
charge
of
the
Lord thy
God,
to
walk
in
his
ways,
and
observe
his ceremonies,
and
his precepts,
and
judgments,
and
testimonies,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of
Moses:
that thou mayest
understand
all thou dost,
and whithersoever thou shalt
turn thyself:
\VS{4}That
the
Lord
may
confirm
his
words,
which
he hath
spoken
of
me,
saying:
If thy
children
shall
take
heed
to
their
ways,
and
shall
walk
before
me
in
truth,
with
all
their
heart,
and
with
all
their
soul,
there
shall
not
be
taken
away
from thee
a
man
on
the
throne
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Thou knowest
also
what
Joab
the
son
of Sarvia hath
done
to
me,
what
he
did
to
the
two
captains
of
the
army
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
on
his girdle
that
was
about
his
loins,
and
in
his
shoes
that
were
on
his
feet.
\VS{6}Do therefore according
to thy
wisdom,
and
let
not
his hoary
head
go
down
to hell
in
peace.
\VS{7}But shew
kindness
to
the
sons
of Berzellai
the Galaadite,
and
let
them
eat
at thy
table:
for
they met
me
when
I
fled
from
the
face
of
Absalom thy
brother.
\VS{8}Thou hast
also
with thee Semei
the
son
of
Gera
the
son
of Jemini
of
Bahurim,
who
cursed
me
with
a grievous
curse,
when
I
went
to
the camp:
but
because
he
came
down
to
meet
me
when
I passed
over
the
Jordan,
and
I
swore
to
him
by
the
Lord,
saying:
I
will
not
kill thee
with
a
sword:
\VS{9}Do
not thou hold
him guiltless.
But thou art
a
wise
man,
and knowest
what
to
do
with
him,
and thou shalt
bring
down
his grey
hairs
with
blood
to hell.
\VS{10}So
David
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David.
\VS{11}And
the
days
that
David
reigned
in
Israel,
were
forty
years:
in
Hebron
he
reigned
seven
years,
in
Jerusalem
thirty-three.
\VS{12}And
Solomon
sat
upon
the
throne
of
his
father
David,
and
his
kingdom
was strengthened
exceedingly.
\VS{13}And Adonias
the
son
of
Haggith
came
to Bethsabee
the
mother
of
Solomon.
And
she
said
to
him:
Is thy
coming peaceable?
he
answered: Peaceable.
\VS{14}And
he
added:
I
have
a
word
to
speak
with thee. She
said
to
him:
Speak.
And
he
said:
\VS{15}Thou knowest
that
the
kingdom
was nine,
and
all
Israel
had preferred
me
to
be
their
king:
but
the
kingdom
is
transferred,
and
is
become
my
brother’s:
for
it
was
appointed
him
by
the
Lord.
\VS{16}Now
therefore
I
ask
one
petition
of thee:
turn
not
away
my
face.
And
she
said
to
him:
Say
on.
\VS{17}And
he
said:
I
pray thee
speak
to
king
Solomon (for
he
cannot deny thee
any
thing)
to
give
me Abisag
the Sunamitess
to
wife.
\VS{18}And Bethsabee
said:
Well,
I
will
speak
for thee
to
the
king.
\VS{19}Then Bethsabee
came
to
king
Solomon,
to
speak
to
him
for Adonias:
and
the
king
arose
to
meet
her,
and
bowed
to
her,
and
sat
down
upon
his
throne:
and
a
throne
was
set
for
the
king’s
mother,
and
she
sat
on
his
right
hand.
\VS{20}And
she
said
to
him:
I desire
one
small
petition
of thee,
do
not
put
me
to confusion.
And
the
king
said
to
her:
My
mother,
ask:
for
I
must
not
turn
away thy
face.
\VS{21}And she
said:
Let Abisag
the Sunamitess
be
given
to Adonias thy
brother
to
wife.
\VS{22}And
king
Solomon
answered,
and
said
to
his
mother:
Why dost thou
ask Abisag
the Sunamitess
for Adonias?
ask
for
him
also
the
kingdom:
for
he
is
my
elder
brother,
and hath
Abiathar
the
priest,
and
Joab
the
son
of Sarvia.
\VS{23}Then
king
Solomon
swore
by
the
Lord,
saying:
So
and
so
may
God
do
to
me,
and
add
more,
if Adonias hath
not
spoken
this
word
against
his
own
life.
\VS{24}And
now
as
the
Lord liveth,
who hath
established
me,
and
placed
me
upon
the
throne
of
David
my
father,
and
who hath
made
me
a
house,
as
he
promised, Adonias
shall
be
put
to
death
this
day.
\VS{25}And
king
Solomon
sent
by
the
hand
of Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
who slew
him,
and
he
died.
\VS{26}And
the
king
said
also
to
Abiathar
the
priest: Go
to
Anathoth
to thy
lands,
for
indeed thou art worthy
of
death:
but
I
will
not
at
this
time
put thee
to
death,
because thou didst
carry
the
ark
of
the
Lord
God
before
David
my
father,
and hast
endured
trouble
in
all
the troubles
my
father
endured.
\VS{27}So
Solomon cast
out
Abiathar,
from
being
the
priest
of
the
Lord,
that
the
word
of
the
Lord
might
be
fulfilled,
which
he
spoke
concerning
the
house
of Deli
in Silo.
\VS{28}And
the
news
came
to
Joab,
because
Joab
had
turned
after Adonias,
and
had
not
turned
after Solomon:
and
Joab
fled
into
the
tabernacle
of
the
Lord
and
laid
hold
on
the
horn
of
the
altar.
\VS{29}And
it
was
told
king
Solomon,
that
Joab
was
fled
into
the
tabernacle
of
the
Lord,
and
was
by
the
altar:
and
Solomon
sent Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
saying:
Go,
kill
him.
\VS{30}And Banaias
came
to
the
tabernacle
of
the
Lord,
and
said
to
him:
Thus saith
the
king:
Come
forth.
And
he
said:
I
will
not
come
forth,
but
here
I
will
die. Banaias
brought
word
back
to
the
king,
saying:
Thus saith
Joab,
and
thus
he
answered
me.
\VS{31}And
the
king
said
to
him:
Do
as
he hath
said:
and
kill
him,
and
bury
him,
and thou shalt
remove
the
innocent
blood
which hath
been
shed
by
Joab,
from
me,
and
from
the
house
of
my
father.
\VS{32}And
the
Lord
shall
return
his
blood
upon
his
own
head,
because
he
murdered
two
men,
just
and
better
than
himself:
and
slew
them
with
the
sword,
my
father
David
not
knowing
it,
Abner
the
son
of
Ner,
general
of
the
army
of
Israel,
and
Amasa
the
son
of
Jether,
general
of
the
army
of Juda.
\VS{33}And
their
blood
shall
return
the
head
of
Joab,
and
upon
the
head
of
his
seed
for
ever.
But
to
David
and
his
seed
and
his
house,
and
to
his
throne
be
peace
for
ever
from
the
Lord.
\VS{34}So Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada
went
up,
and setting
upon
him slew
him,
and
he
was
buried
in
his
house
in
the
desert.
\VS{35}And
the
king
appointed Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada
in
his room
over
the
army,
and Sadoc
the
priest
he
put
in
the
place
of
Abiathar.
\VS{36}The
king
also
sent,
and
called
for Semei,
and
said
to
him:
Build thee
a
house
in
Jerusalem,
and
dwell
there:
and
go
not
out
from thence
any whither.
\VS{37}For
on
what
day soever thou shalt
go
out,
and shalt
pass
over
the
brook Cedron,
know
that thou shalt
be
put
to
death: thy
blood
shall
be
upon thy
own
head:
\VS{38}And Semei
said
to
the
king:
The
saying
is
good:
as
my
lord
the
king hath
said,
so
will thy
servant
do.
And Semei
dwelt
in
Jerusalem,
many
days.
\VS{39}And
it
came
to
pass
after
three
years,
that
the
servants
of Semei
ran
away
to Achis
the
son
of Maacha
the
king
of Geth:
and
it
was
told Semei
that
his
servants
were
gone
to Geth.
\VS{40}And Semei
arose,
and
saddled
his ass,
and
went
to Achis
to Geth
to
seek
his
servants,
and
he
brought
them
out
of Geth.
\VS{41}And
it
was
told
Solomon
that Semei
had
gone
from
Jerusalem
to Geth,
and
was
come
back.
\VS{42}And
sending
he
called
for
him,
and
said
to
him:
Did
I
not protest
to thee
by
the
Lord,
and
tell thee
before:
On
what
day soever thou shalt
go
out
and
walk abroad
any whither,
know
that thou shalt
die?
And thou answeredst
me:
The
word
that
I
have
heard
is
good.
\VS{43}Why
then hast thou
not
kept
the
oath
of
the
Lord,
and
the
commandment
that
I
laid
upon thee?
\VS{44}And
the
king
said
to Semei: Thou knowest
all
the
evil,
of
which thy
heart
is conscious,
which thou didst
to
David
my
father:
the
Lord hath
returned thy
wickedness
upon thy own
head:
\VS{45}And
king
Solomon
shall
be
blessed,
and
the
throne
of
David
shall
be
established
before
the
Lord
for
ever.
\VS{46}So
the
king
commanded Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada:
and
he
went
out
and struck
him,
and
he
died.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
kingdom
was established
in
the hand
of
Solomon,
and
he
made affinity
with Pharao
the
king
of
Egypt:
for
he
took
his
daughter,
and
brought
her
into
the
city
of
David,
until
he
had
made
an
end
of
building
his own
house,
and
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
wall
of
Jerusalem
round
about.
\VS{2}But
yet
the
people
sacrificed
in
the
high
places:
far
there
was
no
temple
built
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
until
that
day.
\VS{3}And
Solomon
loved
the
Lord, walking
in
the precepts
of
David
his
father,
only
he
sacrificed
in
the
high
places:
and
burnt
incense.
\VS{4}He
went
therefore
to Gabaon,
to
sacrifice
there:
for
that
was
the
great
high
place:
a
thousand victims
for holocausts did
Solomon
offer
upon
that
altar
in Gabaon.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord
appeared
to
Solomon
in
a
dream
by
night,
saying:
Ask
what thou wilt
that
I
should
give thee.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
said: Thou hast shewn
great mercy
to thy
servant
David
my
father,
even
at,
he
walked
before thee
in
truth,
and
justice,
and
an upright
heart
with thee:
and thou hast
kept thy
great mercy
for
him,
and hast
given
him
a
son
to
sit
on
his
throne,
as
it
is
this
day.
\VS{7}And
now,
O
Lord
God, thou hast
made thy
servant
king
instead
of
David
my
father:
and
I
am
but
a
child,
and
know
not
how
to
go
out
and
come
in.
\VS{8}And thy
servant
is
in
the
midst
of
the
people
which thou hast
chosen,
an
immense
people,
which
cannot
be
numbered
nor
counted
for
multitude.
\VS{9}Give
therefore
to thy
servant
an
understanding
heart,
to
judge thy
people,
and
discern
between
good
and
evil.
For
who
shall
be
able
to
judge
this
people, thy
people
which
is
so
numerous?
\VS{10}And
the
word
was
pleasing
to
the
Lord
that
Solomon
had
asked
such
a
thing.
\VS{11}And
the Lord
said
to Solomon:
Because thou hast
asked
this
thing,
and hast
not
asked
for thyself
long
life
or
riches,
nor
the
lives
of thy
enemies,
but hast
asked
for thyself wisdom
to
discern
judgment,
\VS{12}Behold
I
have
done
for thee
according
to thy
words,
and
have
given thee
a
wise
and
understanding
heart, insomuch
that
there hath
been
no
one
like thee
before thee,
nor
shall
arise
after thee.
\VS{13}Yea
and
the
things
also
which thou didst
not
ask,
I
have
given thee:
to wit
riches
and
glory,
as
that
no
one hath
been
like thee
among
the
kings
in
all
days heretofore.
\VS{14}And
if thou wilt
walk
in
my
ways,
and Beep
my precepts,
and
my
commandments,
as thy
father
walked,
I
will
lengthen thy
days.
\VS{15}And
Solomon awaked,
and perceived
that
it
was
a
dream:
and
when
he
was
come
to
Jerusalem,
he
stood
before
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord,
and
offered holocausts,
and
sacrificed victims
of
peace
offerings,
and
made
a great
feast
for
all
his
servants.
\VS{16}Then
there
came
two
women
that
were harlots,
to
the
king,
and
stood
before
him:
\VS{17}And
one
of
them
said:
I beseech thee,
my
lord,
I
and
this
woman
dwelt
in
one
house,
and
I
was
delivered
of
a
child
with
her
in
the chamber.
\VS{18}And
the
third
day,
after
that
I
was
delivered,
she
also
was
delivered,
and
we
were
together,
and
no
other person
with
us
in
the
house,
only
we
two.
\VS{19}And
this
woman’s
child
died
in
the
night:
for
in
her
sleep
she overlaid
him.
\VS{20}And
rising
in
the
dead time
of
the
night,
she
took
my
child
from
my
side, while
I thy
handmaid
was
asleep,
and
laid
it
in
her
bosom:
and
laid
her
dead
child
in
my
bosom.
\VS{21}And
when
I
rose
in
the
morning
to
give
my
child
suck,
behold
it
was
dead:
but considering
him
more
diligently
when
it
was clear
day,
I found
that
it
was
not mine
which
I
bore.
\VS{22}And
the
other
woman
answered:
It
is
not
so
as thou sayest,
but thy
child
is
dead,
and mine
is
alive.
On
the contrary
she
said: Thou liest:
for
my
child liveth,
and thy
child
is
dead.
And
in
this manner
they strove
before
the
king.
\VS{23}Then
said
the
king:
The
one saith,
My
child
is
alive,
and thy
child
is
dead.
And
the
other answereth: Nay,
but thy
child
is
dead,
and mine liveth.
\VS{24}The
king
therefore
said:
Bring
me
a
sword.
And
when
they
had
brought
a
sword
before
the
king,
\VS{25}Divide,
said
he,
the
living
child
in
two,
and
give
half
to
the
one,
and
half
to
the
other.
\VS{26}But
the
woman
whose
child
was
alive,
said
to
the
king, (for
her bowels
were
moved
upon
her
child,)
I beseech thee,
my
lord,
give
her
the
child
alive,
and
do
not
kill
it.
But
the
other
said:
Let
it
be
neither mine
nor thine,
but
divide
it.
\VS{27}The
king
answered,
and
said:
Give
the
living
child
to
this woman,
and
let
it
not
be
killed,
for
she
is
the
mother thereof.
\VS{28}And
all
Israel
heard
the
judgment
which
the
king
had
judged,
and
they
feared
the
king,
seeing
that
the
wisdom
of
God
was
in
him
to
do
judgment.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
king
Solomon reigned
over
all
Israel:
\VS{2}And
these
were
the
princes
which
he
had: Azarias
the
son
of Sadoc
the
priest:
\VS{3}Elihoreph,
and Ahia,
the
sons
of Sisa,
scribes: Josaphat
the
son
of
Ahilud,
recorder:
\VS{4}Banaias
the
son
of
Joiada,
over
the
army:
and Sadoc
and
Abiathar
priests.
\VS{5}Azarias
the
son
of
Nathan,
over
them
that
were
about
the
king:
Zabud,
the
son
of
Nathan
the
priest,
the
king’s
friend:
\VS{6}And Ahisar governor
of
the
house:
and
Adoniram
the
son
of
Abda
over
the
tribute.
\VS{7}And
Solomon
had
twelve governors
over
all
Israel,
who
provided victuals
for
the
king
and
for
his
household:
for
every
one
provided necessaries,
each
man
his
month
in
the
year.
\VS{8}And
these
are their
names: Benhur,
in
mount
Ephraim,
\VS{9}Bendecar,
in Macces,
and
in Salebim,
and
in Bethsames,
and
in Elon,
and
in Bethanan.
\VS{10}Benhesed
in Aruboth:
his
was Socho,
and
all
the
land
of Epher.
\VS{11}Benabinadab,
to whom
belonged
all Nephath-Dor,
he
had Tapheth
the
daughter
of
Solomon
to
wife.
\VS{12}Bana
the
son
of
Ahilud,
who governed Thanac
and Mageddo,
and
all Bethsan,
which
is
by Sarthana
beneath Jezrael,
from Bethsan unto Abelmehula
over
against Jecmaan.
\VS{13}Bengaber
in
Ramoth Galaad:
he
had
the
towns
of
Jair
the
son
of Manasses
in Galaad,
he
was chief
in
all
the country
of Argob,
which
is
in Basan, threescore
great
cities
with
walls,
and brazen bolts.
\VS{14}Abinadab
the
son
of Addo
was chief
in Manaim.
\VS{15}Achimaas
in Nephtali:
he
also
had
Basemath
the
daughter
of
Solomon
to
wife.
\VS{16}Baana
the
son
of Husi,
in Aser
and
in Baloth.
\VS{17}Josaphat
the
son
of Pharue,
in
Issachar.
\VS{18}Semei
the
son
of
Ela
in
Benjamin.
\VS{19}Gaber
the
son
of
Uri,
in
the
land
of Galaad,
in
the
land
of Sehon
the
king
of
the Amorrhites
and
of
Og
the
king
of Basan,
over
all
that
were
in
that
land.
\VS{20}Juda
and
Israel
were innumerable,
as
the
sand
of
the
sea
in
multitude:
eating
and
drinking,
and
rejoicing.
\VS{21}And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought him presents, and served him, all the days of his life.
\VS{22}And the provision of Solomon for each day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
\VS{23}Ten fat oxen and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams, besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.
\VS{24}For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.
\VS{25}And Juda and Israel dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.
\VS{26}And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thousand for the saddle.
\VS{27}And the foresaid governors of the king fed them: and they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon’s table, with great care in their time.
\VS{28}They brought barley also and straw for the horses, and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.
\VS{29}And God gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart as the sand that is on the sea shore.
\VS{30}And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians,
\VS{31}And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about.
\VS{32}Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a thousand and five.
\VS{33}And he treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
\VS{34}And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Hiram king
of Tyre sent
his
servants
to
Solomon:
for
he heard
that
they
had anointed
him king
in
the
room
of
his father:
for Hiram
had
always
been David’s friend.
\VS{2}And
Solomon sent
to Hiram, saying:
\VS{3}Thou knowest
the
will
of David my father,
and that
he could not build a house
to
the name
of
the Lord his God, because
of
the wars that
were round about him, until
the Lord put them under
the soles
of his feet.
\VS{4}But
now
the Lord
my God hath given
me
rest
round
about:
and
there
is
no adversary nor evil occurrence.
\VS{5}Wherefore
I purpose
to build
a temple
to
the name
of
the Lord
my God,
as
the Lord spoke
to
David
my father, saying:
my son, whom
I
will
set
upon
the throne
in thy piece,
he
shall build
a house
to
my name.
\VS{6}Give orders
therefore
that thy servants cut
me down cedar trees
out
of Libanus,
and
let
my servants
be
with thy servants:
and
I
will
give thee
the hire
of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask,
for thou knowest how
there
is
not among
my people
a man
that
has skill
to hew wood
like
to
the Sidonians.
\VS{7}Now
when Hiram
had heard
the
words
of
Solomon,
he rejoiced exceedingly,
and
said: Blessed
be
the Lord
God
this
day,
who hath given
to David
a very wise son
over
this numerous
people.
\VS{8}And Hiram sent
to Solomon, saying:
I
have heard
all thou hast desired
of
me:
and
I
will
do
all thy desire
concerning cedar trees,
and fir trees.
\VS{9}My servants
shall
bring
them
down
from Libanus
to
the
sea:
and
I
will
put
them
together
in floats
in
the
sea,
and
convey
them
to
the
place,
which thou shalt signify
to
me;
and
will land
them
there,
and thou shalt
receive
them:
and thou shalt
allow
me necessaries,
to furnish food
for
my household.
\VS{10}So Hiram gave
Solomon cedar trees,
and fir trees, according
to
all
his desire.
\VS{11}And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures
of wheat,
for provision
for
his house,
and twenty measures
of
the purest oil:
thus
gave Solomon
to Hiram
every year.
\VS{12}And
the Lord
gave wisdom
to Solomon,
as
he
promised
him:
and
there
was peace between Hiram
and Solomon,
and
they two
made
a league together.
\VS{13}And
king Solomon chose workmen cut
of
all Israel,
and
the levy
was
of thirty thousand men.
\VS{14}And
he sent
them
to Libanus, ten thousand
every month
by turns,
so
that two months
they
were
at
home:
and Adoniram
was
over
this levy.
\VS{15}And
Solomon
had seventy thousand
to carry burdens,
and eighty thousand
to hew stones
in
the mountain:
\VS{16}Besides
the overseers
who were
over every work,
in number three thousand,
and three hundred
that ruled
over
the people,
and
them
that did
the work.
\VS{17}And
the king commanded,
that
they
should
bring
great stones, costly stones,
for
the foundation
of
the
temple,
and
should square
them:
\VS{18}And
the masons
of Solomon,
and
the masons
of Hiram hewed
them:
and
the Giblians 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
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
in
the
fourth
year
of
the
reign
of
Solomon
over
Israel,
in
the
month Zio (the
same
is
the
second
month),
he
began
to
build
a
house
to
the
Lord.
\VS{2}And
the
house,
which
king
Solomon
built
to
the
Lord,
was threescore
cubits
in
length,
and
twenty
cubits
in
breadth,
and
thirty
cubits
in
height.
\VS{3}And there
was
a
porch
before
the
temple
of
twenty
cubits
in
length,
according
to
the
measure
of
the
breadth
of
the
temple:
and
it
was
ten
cubits
in
breadth
before
the
face
of
the
temple.
\VS{4}And
he
made
in
the
temple oblique
windows.
\VS{5}And
upon
the
wall
of
the
temple
he
built floors
round
about,
in
the
walls
of
the
house
round
about
the
temple
and
the oracle,
and
he
made
sides
round
about.
\VS{6}The
floor
that
was underneath,
was
five
cubits
in
breadth,
and
the
middle
floor
was
six
cubits
in
breadth,
and
the
third door
was
seven
cubits
in
breadth.
And
he
put beams
in
the
house
round
about
on
the
outside,
that
they might
not
be
fastened
in
the
walls
of
the
temple.
\VS{7}And
the
house,
when
it
was
in
building,
was
built
of
stones hewed
and
made ready:
so
that
there
was
neither
hammer
nor
axe
nor
any
tool
of
iron
heard
in
the
house
when
it
was
in
building.
\VS{8}The
door
for
the
middle
side
was
on
the
right hand
of
the
house:
and
by
winding
stairs
they
went
up
to
the
middle
room,
and
from
the
middle
to
the
third.
\VS{9}So
he
built
the
house,
and
finished
it:
and
he
covered
the
house
with roofs
of cedar.
\VS{10}And
he
built
a floor
over
all
the
house
five
cubits
in
height,
and
he covered
the
house
with
timber
of
cedar.
\VS{11}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Solomon,
saying:
\VS{12}This
house,
which thou buildest,
if thou wilt walk
in
my
statutes,
and execute
my
judgments,
and
keep
all
my
commandments, walking
in
them,
I
will
fulfill
my
word
to thee
which
I
spoke
to
David thy
father.
\VS{13}And
I
will
dwell
in
the
midst
of
the
children
of
Israel,
and
will
not
forsake
my
people
Israel.
\VS{14}So
Solomon
built
the
house
and
finished
it.
\VS{15}And
he
built
the
walls
of
the
house
on
the
inside,
with
boards
of
cedar,
from
the
floor
of
the
house
to
the top
of
the
walls,
and
to
the roots,
he covered
it
with
boards
of
cedar
on
the
inside:
and
he covered
the
floor
of
the
house
with
planks
of
fir.
\VS{16}And
he
built
up
twenty
cubits
with
boards
of
cedar
at
the hinder
part
of
the
temple,
from
the
floor
to
the top:
and
made
the
inner
house
of
the oracle
to
be
the
holy
of
holies.
\VS{17}And
the
temple
itself before
the doors
of
the oracle
was
forty
cubits long.
\VS{18}And
all
the
house
was covered
within
with
cedar,
having
the turnings,
and
the joints thereof artfully wrought
and
carvings projecting
out:
all
was covered
with boards
of
cedar:
and
no
stone could
be
seen
in
the wall
at
all.
\VS{19}And
he
made
the oracle
in
the
midst
of
the
house,
in
the
inner
part,
to
set
there
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord.
\VS{20}Now
the oracle
was
twenty
cubits
in
length,
and
twenty
cubits
in
breadth,
and
twenty
cubits
in
height.
And
he covered
and
overlaid
it
with most
pure
gold.
And
the
altar also
he covered
with
cedar.
\VS{21}And
the
house
before
the oracle
he
overlaid
with most
pure
gold,
and fastened
on
the plates
with nails
of
gold.
\VS{22}And
there
was
nothing
in
the
temple
that
was not covered
with
gold:
the
whole
altar
of
the oracle
he covered
also
with
gold.
\VS{23}And
he
made
in
the oracle
two cherubims
of
olive
tree,
of
ten
cubits
in
height.
\VS{24}One
wing
of
the
cherub
was
five
cubits,
and
the
other
wing
of
the
cherub
was
five
cubits:
that
is,
in
all
ten
cubits,
from
the extremity
of
one
wing
to
the extremity
of
the
other
wing.
\VS{25}The
second
cherub also
was
ten
cubits:
and
the
measure,
and
the work
was
the
same
in
both
the cherubims:
\VS{26}That
is
to say,
one
cherub
was
ten
cubits
high,
and
in
like
manner
the
other
cherub.
\VS{27}And
he
set
the cherubims
in
the
midst
of
the
inner
temple:
and
the cherubims
stretched
forth
their
wings,
and
the
wing
of
the
one
touched
one
wall,
and
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub
touched
the
other
wall:
and
the
other
wings
in
the
midst
of
the
temple
touched
one
another.
\VS{28}And
he
overlaid
the cherubims
with
gold.
\VS{29}And
all
the
walls
of
the
temple
round
about
he
carved
with divers figures
and
carvings:
and
he
made
in
them cherubims
and
palm
trees,
and divers representations,
as
it
were standing
out,
and coming forth
from
the
wall.
\VS{30}And
the
floor
of
the
house
he
also
overlaid
with
gold
within
and without.
\VS{31}And
in
the
entrance
of
the oracle
he
made little
doors
of
olive
tree,
and
posts
of five corners,
\VS{32}And
two
doors
of
olive
tree:
and
he
carved
upon
them figures
of cherubims,
and figures
of
palm
trees,
and
carvings very
much projecting:
and
he
overlaid
them
with
gold:
and
he covered
both
the cherubims
and
the
palm
trees,
and
the
other
things
with
gold.
\VS{33}And
he
made
in
the
entrance
of
the
temple
posts
of
olive
tree foursquare:
\VS{34}And
two
doors
of
fir
tree,
one
of
each
side:
and
each
door
was
double,
and
so opened
with
folding
leaves.
\VS{35}And
he
carved cherubims,
and
palm
trees,
and
carved work standing very
much
out:
and
he
overlaid all
with
golden plates
in square work
by rule.
\VS{36}And
he
built
the
inner
court
with
three
rows
of polished
stones,
and one
row
of
beams
of
cedar.
\VS{37}In
the
fourth
year
was
the
house
of
the
Lord
founded
in
the
month Zio:
\VS{38}And
in
the
eleventh
year
in
the
month
Bul (which
is
the
eighth
month)
the
house
was
finished
in
all
the works thereof,
and
in
all
the appurtenances thereof:
and
he
was
seven
years
in
building
it.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
built
his own
house
in
thirteen
years,
and
brought
it
to perfection.
\VS{2}He
built
also
the
house
of
the
forest
of Libanus,
the
length
of
it
was
a
hundred
cubits,
and
the
breadth
fifty
cubits,
and
the
height
thirty
cubits:
and
four galleries
between
pillars
of
cedar:
for
he
had cut
cedar trees
into
pillars.
\VS{3}And
he
covered
the whole vault
with
boards
of
cedar,
and
it
was held
up
with
five
and
forty
pillars.
And
one
row
had
fifteen
pillars,
\VS{4}Set
one
against another,
\VS{5}And looking
one
upon another,
with equal space between
the pillars,
and
over
the pillars
were
square beams
in
all
things equal.
\VS{6}And
he
made
a
porch
of
pillars
of
fifty
cubits
in
length,
and
thirty
cubits
in
breadth:
and another
porch
before
the greater
porch:
and
pillars,
and chapiters
upon
the
pillars.
\VS{7}He
made
also
the
porch
of
the
throne,
wherein
is
the
seat
of
judgment:
and
covered
it
with
cedar wood
from
the
floor
to
the top.
\VS{8}And
in
the midst
of
the
porch,
was
a small
house
where
he
sat
in
judgment,
of
the
like
work.
He
made
also
a
house
for
the
daughter
of Pharao (whom
Solomon
had
taken
to wife)
of
the
same
work,
as
this
porch,
\VS{9}All
of
costly
stones,
which
were
sawed
by
a certain rule
and measure
both
within
and without:
from
the
foundation
to
the top
of
the walls,
and without unto
the
great
court.
\VS{10}And
the
foundations
were
of
costly
stones,
great
stones
of
ten
cubits
or
eight
cubits:
\VS{11}And
above
there
were
costly
stones, or equal measure, hewed;
and,
in
like manner, planks
of
cedar:
\VS{12}And
the
greater
court
was made
round
with
three
rows
of hewed
stones,
and
one
row
of planks
of
cedar, moreover
also
in
the
inner
court
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
the
porch
of
the
house.
\VS{13}And
king
Solomon
sent,
and
brought
Hiram
from
Tyre,
\VS{14}The
son
of
a
widow
woman
of
the
tribe
of Nephtali,
whose
father
was
a
Tyrian,
an artificer
in
brass,
and
full
of
wisdom,
and
understanding,
and
skill
to
work
all
work
in
brass.
And
when
he
was
come
to
king
Solomon,
he wrought
all
his
work.
\VS{15}And
he cast
two
pillars
in
brass,
each
pillar
was
eighteen
cubits
high:
and
a
line
of
twelve
cubits compassed
both
the
pillars.
\VS{16}He
made
also
two chapiters
of
molten
brass,
to
be
set
upon
the
tops
of
the
pillars:
the
height
of
one chapiter
was
five
cubits,
and
the
height
of
the
other chapiter
was
five
cubits:
\VS{17}And
a kind
of
network,
and chain
work wreathed
together
with wonderful
art.
Both
the chapiters
of
the
pillars
were cast:
seven rows
of
nets
were
on
one chapiter,
and
seven
nets
on
the
other chapiter.
\VS{18}And
he
made
the
pillars,
and
two
rows
round
about
each
network
to
cover
the chapiters,
that
were
upon
the
top,
with
pomegranates:
and
in
like
manner
did
he
to
the
other chapiter.
\VS{19}And
the chapiters
that
were
upon
the
top
of
the
pillars,
were
of
lily
work
in
the
porch,
of
four
cubits.
\VS{20}And
again
other chapiters
in
the
top
of
the
pillars
above,
according
to
the measure
of
the
pillar
over
against
the
network:
and
of
pomegranates
there
were
two
hundred
in
rows
round
about
the
other chapiter.
\VS{21}And
he
set
up
the two
pillars
in
the
porch
of
the
temple:
and
when
he
had
set
up
the
pillar
on
the
right hand,
he
called
the
name thereof
Jachin:
in like manner
he
set
up
the second
pillar,
and
called
the
name thereof Booz.
\VS{22}And
upon
the
tops
of
the
pillars
he
made
lily
work:
so
the
work
of
the
pillars
was
finished.
\VS{23}He
made
also
a molten
sea
of
ten
cubits
from
brim
to
brim,
round
all
about;
the
height
of
it
was
five
cubits,
and
a line
of
thirty
cubits compassed
it
round
about.
\VS{24}And
a graven work
under
the
brim
of
it compassed
it,
for
ten
cubits going
about
the
sea:
there
were
two
rows
cast
of chamfered sculptures.
\VS{25}And
it
stood
upon
twelve
oxen,
of
which
three
looked towards
the
north,
and
three towards
the
west,
and
three towards
the
south,
and
three towards
the
east,
and
the
sea
was
above
upon
them,
and
their hinder
parts
were
all hid
within.
\VS{26}And
the laver
was a
handbreadth
thick:
and
the
brim thereof
was
like
the
brim
of a
cup,
or
the leaf
of a crisped
lily: it contained
two
thousand bates.
\VS{27}And
he
made
ten bases
of
brass,
every
base
was
four
cubits
in
length,
and
four
cubits
in
breadth,
and
three
cubits
high.
\VS{28}And
the
work
itself
of
the bases,
was intergraven:
and
there
were gravings
between
the joinings.
\VS{29}And
between
the little
crowns
and
the ledges
were
lions,
and
oxen,
and cherubims:
and
in
the joinings likewise
above:
and
under
the
lions
and
oxen,
as
it
were bands
of brass
hanging
down.
\VS{30}And
every base
had
four
wheels,
and axletrees
of
brass:
and
at
the
four
sides
were undersetters
under
the
laver molten, looking
one
against
another.
\VS{31}The
mouth
also
of
the laver
within,
was
in
the
top
of
the chapiter:
and
that
which appeared
without,
was
of
one
cubit
all
round,
and
together
it
was
one
cubit
and
a
half:
and
in
the corners
of
the pillars
were divers
engravings:
and
the spaces
between
the pillars
were
square,
not
round.
\VS{32}And
the
four
wheels, which
were
at
the
four corners
of
the base,
were joined
one
to
another
under
the base:
the
height
of
a
wheel
was
a
cubit
and
a
half.
\VS{33}And
they
were
such
wheels
as
are
used
to
be
made
in
a
chariot:
and
their axletrees,
and
spokes,
and strakes,
and naves,
were
all east.
\VS{34}And
the
four undersetters
that
were
at
every
corner
of
each base,
were
of
the base itself cast
and joined
together.
\VS{35}And
in
the
top
of
the base there
was
a
round compass
of
half
a
cubit,
so wrought
that
the laver might
be set
thereon, having
its gravings,
and divers sculptures
of itself.
\VS{36}He
engraved also
in
those
plates, which
were
of brass.
and
in
the corners, cherubims,
and
lions,
and
palm
trees,
in likeness
of
a
man standing,
so
that
they seemed not
to
be engraven,
but added
round
about.
\VS{37}After
this manner
he
made
ten bases,
of
one
casting
and measure,
and
the
like graving.
\VS{38}He
made
also
ten lavers
of
brass:
one
laver contained
four bases,
and
was
of
four
cubits:
and
upon
every base,
in
all
ten,
he put
as many lavers.
\VS{39}And
he
set
the ten bases,
five
on
the
right
side
of
the
temple,
and
five
on
the
left:
and
the
sea
he
put
on
the
right
side
of
the
temple
over
against
the
east
southward.
\VS{40}And
Hiram
made caldrons,
and
shovels,
and
basins,
and
finished
all
the
work
of
king
Solomon
in
the
temple
of
the
Lord.
\VS{41}The
two
pillars
and
the
two cords
of
the chapiters,
upon
the chapiters
of
the
pillars:
and
the
two
networks,
to
cover
the
two cords,
that
were
upon
the
top
of
the
pillars.
\VS{42}And
four
hundred
pomegranates
for
the
two
networks:
two
rows
of
pomegranates
for
each
network,
to
cover
the cords
of
the chapiters,
which
were
upon
the
tops
of
the
pillars.
\VS{43}And
the
ten bases,
and
the
ten lavers
on
the bases.
\VS{44}And
one
sea,
and
twelve
oxen
under
the
sea.
\VS{45}And
the caldrons,
and
the
shovels,
and
the
basins.
All
the
vessels
that
Hiram
made
for
king
Solomon
for
the
house
of
the
Lord,
were
of fine
brass.
\VS{46}In
the plains
of
the
Jordan did
the
king
cast them
in
a
clay
ground,
between Socoth
and Sartham.
\VS{47}And
Solomon
placed
all
the
vessels:
but
for
exceeding
great
multitude
the
brass could
not
be
weighed.
\VS{48}And
Solomon
made
all
the
vessels
for
the
house
of
the
Lord:
the
altar
of
gold,
and
the
table
of
gold,
upon
which
the leaves
of proposition
should
be
set:
\VS{49}And
the
golden candlesticks,
five
on
the
right
hand,
and
five
on
the
left,
over
against
the oracle,
of
pure
gold:
and
the
flowers
like lilies,
and
the
lamps
over
them
of
gold:
and
golden
snuffers,
\VS{50}And pots,
and fleshhooks,
and
bowls,
and mortars,
and
censers,
of
most
pure
gold:
and
the
hinges
for
the
doors
of
the
inner
house
of
the
holy
of
holies,
and
for
the
doors
of
the
house
of
the
temple
were
of
gold.
\VS{51}And
Solomon
finished
all
the
work
that
he
made
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
brought
in
the
things
that
David
his
father
had
dedicated,
the
silver
and
the
gold,
and
the
vessels,
and
laid
them
up
in
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the ancients
of
Israel
with
the
princes
of
the
tribes,
and
the
heads
of
the
families
of
the
children
of
Israel
were
assembled
to
king
Solomon
in
Jerusalem:
that
they
might
carry
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord
out
of
the
city
of
David,
that
is,
out
of Sion.
\VS{2}And
all
Israel
assembled
themselves
to
king
Solomon
on
the
festival
day
in
the
month
of
Ethanim,
the
same
is
the
seventh
month.
\VS{3}And
all
the ancients
of
Israel
came,
and
the
priests
took
up
the
ark,
\VS{4}And
carried
the
ark
of
the
Lord,
and
the
tabernacle
of
the covenant,
and
all
the
vessels
of
the
sanctuary,
that
were
in
the
tabernacle:
and
the
priests
and
the
Levites
carried
them.
\VS{5}And
king
Solomon,
and
all
the
multitude
of
Israel,
that
were
assembled unto
him
went
with
him
before
the
ark,
and
they
sacrificed
sheep
and
oxen
that could
not
be
counted
or
numbered.
\VS{6}And
the
priests
brought
in
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord
into
its
place,
into
the oracle
of
the
temple,
into
the
holy
of
holies
under
the
wings
of
the cherubims.
\VS{7}For
the cherubims
spread forth
their
wings
over
the
place
of
the
ark,
and covered
the art,
and
the staves thereof
above.
\VS{8}And whereas
the staves stood
out,
the
ends
of
them
were
seen
without
in
the
sanctuary
before
the oracle,
but
were
not
seen farther
out,
and
there
they
have
been unto
this
day.
\VS{9}Now
in
the
ark
there
was
nothing else
but
the
two tables
of
stone,
which
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb,
when
the
Lord
made
a covenant
with
the
children
of
Israel,
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{10}And
it
came
to
pass,
when
the
priests
were
come
out
of
the
sanctuary,
that
a
cloud
filled
the
house
of
the
Lord,
\VS{11}And
the
priests
could
not
stand
to
minister
because
of
the
cloud:
for
the
glory
of
the
Lord
had
filled
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{12}Then
Solomon
said:
The
Lord
said
that
he
would
dwell
in
a
cloud.
\VS{13}Building I
have
built
a
house
for thy
dwelling,
to
be thy most firm throne
for
ever.
\VS{14}And
the
king
turned
his
face,
and
blessed
all
the
assembly
of
Israel:
for
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
stood.
\VS{15}And Solomon
said:
Blessed
be
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
who
spoke
with
his
mouth
to
David
my
father,
and
with
his own
hands hath
accomplished
it,
saying:
\VS{16}Since
the
day
that
I
brought
my
people
Israel
out
of
Egypt,
I
chose
no
city
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
for
a
house
to
be
built,
that
my
name
might
be
there:
but
I
chose
David
to
be
over
my
people
Israel.
\VS{17}And
David
my
father
would
have
built
a
house
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
\VS{18}And
the
Lord
said
to
David
my
father: Whereas thou hast
thought
in thy
heart
to
build
a
house
to
my
name, thou hast
done
well
in
having
this
same
thing
in thy
mind.
\VS{19}Nevertheless thou shalt
not
build
me
a
house,
but thy
son,
that
shall
come
forth
out
of thy
loins,
he
shall
build
a
house
to
my
name.
\VS{20}The
Lord hath performed
his
word
which
he
spoke:
and
I
stand
in
the
room
of
David
my
father,
and
sit
upon
the
throne
of
Israel,
as
the
Lord
promised:
and
have
built
a
house
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{21}And
I
have
set
there
a
place
for
the
ark,
wherein
is
the
covenant
of
the
Lord,
which
he
made
with
our
fathers,
when
they
came
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{22}And
Solomon
stood
before
the
altar
of
the
Lord
in
the
sight
of
the
assembly
of
Israel,
and
spread forth
his
hands towards
heaven;
\VS{23}And
said:
Lord
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like thee
in
heaven
above,
or
on
earth
beneath:
who keepest
covenant
and
mercy
with thy
servants
that
have
walked
before thee
with
all
their
heart.
\VS{24}Who hast
kept
with thy
servant
David
my
father
what thou hast
promised
him:
with thy
mouth thou didst
speak,
and
with thy
hands thou hast
performed,
as
this
day proveth.
\VS{25}Now
therefore,
O
Lord
God
of
Israel,
keep
with thy
servant
David
my
father
what thou hast
spoken
to
him,
saying:
There
shall
not
be
taken
away
of thee
a
man
in
my
sight,
to
sit
on
the
throne
of
Israel:
yet
so
that thy
children
take
heed
to
their
way,
that
they
walk
before
me
as thou hast
walked
in
my
sight.
\VS{26}And
now, Lord
God
of
Israel,
let thy
words
be
established,
which thou hast
spoken
to thy
servant
David
my
father.
\VS{27}Is
it
then
to
be thought
that
God
should
indeed
dwell
upon
earth?
for
if
heaven,
and
the
heavens
of
heavens
cannot
contain thee,
how
much
less
this
house
which
I
have
built?
\VS{28}But
have
regard
to
the
prayer
of thy
servant,
and
to
his
supplications,
O
Lord
my
God:
hear
the hymn
and
the
prayer,
which thy
servant prayeth
before thee
this
day:
\VS{29}That thy
eyes
may
be
open
upon
this
house
night
and
day:
upon
the
house
of
which thou hast
said:
My
name
shall
be
there:
that thou mayest hearken
to
the
prayer,
which thy
servant prayeth
in
this
place
to thee.
\VS{30}That thou mayest hearken
to
the
supplication
of thy
servant
and
of thy
people
Israel, whatsoever
they
shall
pray
for
in
this
place,
and
hear
them
in
the
place
of thy
dwelling
in
heaven;
and
when thou hearest, shew
them
mercy.
\VS{31}If
any
man trespass
against
his neighbour,
and
have
an
oath
upon
him, wherewith
he
is bound:
and
come
because
of
the
oath
before thy
altar
to thy
house,
\VS{32}Then
hear thou
in
heaven:
and
do,
and
judge thy
servants,
condemning
the
wicked,
and
bringing
his
way upon
his own
head,
and
justifying
the
just,
and rewarding
him according
to
his
justice.
\VS{33}If thy
people
Israel
shall fly
before
their
enemies, (because
they
will
sin
against thee,)
and doing penance,
and
confessing
to thy
name,
shall
come,
and
pray,
and
make supplications
to thee
in
this
house:
\VS{34}Then
hear thou
in
heaven,
and
forgive
the
sin
of thy
people
Israel,
and
bring
them
back
to
the
land
which thou gavest
to
their
fathers.
\VS{35}If
heaven
shall
be
shut
up,
and
there
shall
be
no
rain,
because
of
their
sins,
and
they
praying
in
this
place,
shall
do penance
to thy
name,
and
shall
be
converted
from
their
sins,
by occasion
of
their afflictions:
\VS{36}Then
hear thou
them
in
heaven,
and
forgive
the
sins
of thy
servants,
and
of thy
people
Israel:
and shew
them
the
good
way
wherein
they
should
walk,
and
give
rain
upon thy
land,
which thou hast
given
to thy
people
in
possession.
\VS{37}If
a
famine arise
in
the
land,
or
a
pestilence,
or corrupt air,
or blasting,
or
locust,
or
mildew,
if
their
enemy afflict
them besieging
the
gates,
whatsoever
plague,
whatsoever infirmity,
\VS{38}Whatsoever curse
or imprecation
shall
happen
to
any
man
of thy
people
Israel:
when
a
man
shall
know
the wound
of
his
own
heart,
and
shall
spread
forth
his
hands
in
this
house,
\VS{39}Then
hear thou
in
heaven,
in
the
place
of thy
dwelling,
and
forgive,
and
do
so
as
to
give
to
every
one
according
to
his
ways,
as thou shalt
see
his
heart (for thou
only knowest
the
heart
of
all
the
children
of
men)
\VS{40}That
they
may
fear thee
all
the
days
that
they
live
upon
the
face
of
the
land,
which thou hast
given
to
our
fathers.
\VS{41}Moreover
also
the
stranger,
who
is
not
of thy
people
Israel,
when
he
shall
come
out
of
a
far
country
for thy
name’s
sake, (for
they
shall hear everywhere
of thy
great
name
and thy mighty hand,
\VS{42}And thy
stretched
out
arm,)
so
when
he
shall
come,
and
shall
pray
in
this
place,
\VS{43}Then
hear thou
in
heaven,
in
the firmament
of thy
dwelling
place,
and
do
all
those
things,
for
which
that
stranger
shall
call
upon thee:
that
all
the
people
of
the
earth
may
learn
to
fear thy
name,
as
do thy
people
Israel,
and
may
prove
that thy
name
is
called
upon
on
this
house,
which
I
have
built.
\VS{44}If thy
people
go
out
to
war
against
their
enemies,
by
what
way soever thou shalt
send
them,
they
shall
pray
to thee towards
the
way
of
the
city,
which thou hast
chosen,
and towards
the
house,
which
I
have
built
to thy
name:
\VS{45}And
then
hear thou
in
heaven
their
prayers,
and
their
supplications,
and
do
judgment
for
them.
\VS{46}But
if
they
sin
against thee (for
there
is
no
man
who sinneth
not)
and thou being
angry
deliver
them
up
to
their
enemies,
so
that
they
be
led
away
captives
into
the
land
of
their
enemies
far
or
near;
\VS{47}Then
if
they
do penance
in
their
heart
in
the
place
of captivity,
and being
converted
make supplication
to thee
in
their captivity,
saying:
We
have
sinned,
we
have
done unjustly,
we
have
committed wickedness:
\VS{48}And
return
to thee
with
all
their
heart,
and
all
their
soul,
in
the
land
of
their
enemies,
to
which
they
had
been
led
captives:
and
pray
to thee towards
the
way
of
their
land,
which thou gavest
to
their
fathers,
and
of
the
city
which thou hast
chosen,
and
of
the
temple
which
I
have
built
to thy
name:
\VS{49}Then
hear thou
in
heaven,
in
the firmament
of thy throne,
their
prayers,
and
their
supplications,
and
do
judgment
for
them:
\VS{50}And
forgive thy
people,
that
have
sinned
against thee,
and
all
their iniquities,
by
which
they
have
transgressed
against thee:
and
give
them
mercy
before
them
that
have
made
them
captives,
that
they
may
have
compassion
on
them.
\VS{51}For
they
are thy
people,
and thy
inheritance,
whom thou hast
brought
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
from
the
midst
of
the
furnace
of
iron.
\VS{52}That thy
eyes
may
be
open
to
the
supplication
of thy
servant,
and
of thy
people
Israel,
to
hear
them
in
all
things
for
which
they
shall
call
upon thee.
\VS{53}For thou hast
separated
them
to thyself
for
an
inheritance
from
among
all
the
people
of
the
earth,
as thou hast
spoken
by
Moses thy
servant,
when thou broughtest
our
fathers
out
of
Egypt,
O
Lord
God.
\VS{54}And
it
came
to
pass,
when
Solomon
had
made
an
end
of
praying
all
this
prayer
and
supplication
to
the
Lord,
that
he
rose
from
before
the
altar
of
the
Lord:
for
he
had fixed
both
knees
on
the ground,
and
had
spread
his
hands towards
heaven.
\VS{55}And
he
stood
and
blessed
all
the
assembly
of
Israel
with
a,
loud
voice,
saying:
\VS{56}Blessed
be
the
Lord,
who hath
given
rest
to
his
people
Israel,
according
to
all
that
he
promised:
there hath
not
failed
so
much
as
one
word
of
all
the
good
things
that
he
promised
by
his
servant
Moses.
\VS{57}The
Lord
our
God
be
with
us,
as
he
was
with
our
fathers,
and
not
leave
us,
nor
cast
us
off:
\VS{58}But
may
he
incline
our
hearts
to
himself,
that
we
may
walk
in
all
his
ways,
and
keep
his
commandments,
and
his ceremonies,
and
all
his
judgments
which
he
commanded
our
fathers.
\VS{59}And
let
these
my
words, wherewith
I
have prayed
before
the
Lord,
he nigh unto
the
Lord
our
God
day
and
night,
that
he
may
do
judgment
for
his
servant,
and
for
his
people
Israel
day
by
day:
\VS{60}That
all
the
people
of
the
earth
may
know,
that
the
Lord
he
is
God,
and
there
is
no
other
besides
him.
\VS{61}Let
our
hearts
also
be
perfect
with
the
Lord
our
God,
that
we
may walk
in
his
statutes,
and
keep
his
commandments,
as
at
this
day.
\VS{62}And
the
king,
and
all
Israel
him,
offered victims
before
the
Lord.
\VS{63}And
Solomon slew victims
of
peace
offerings,
which
he
sacrificed
to
the
Lord,
two
and
twenty
thousand
oxen,
and
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
sheep:
so
the
king,
and
the
children
of
Israel
dedicated
the
temple
of
the
Lord.
\VS{64}In
that
day
the
king
sanctified
the
middle
of
the
court
that
was
before
the
house
of
the
Lord:
for
there
he offered
the holocaust,
and
sacrifice,
and
fat
of
the
peace
offerings:
because
the brazen
altar
that
was
before
the
Lord,
was too
little
to receive
the holocaust,
and
sacrifice,
and
fat
of
the
peace
offerings.
\VS{65}And
Solomon
made
at
the
same
time
a solemn
feast,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
great multitude
from
the
entrance
of Emath
to
the
river
of
Egypt,
before
the
Lord
our
God,
seven
days
and
seven
days,
that
is,
fourteen
days.
\VS{66}And
on
the
eighth
day
he
sent
away
the
people:
and
they
blessed
the
king,
and went
to
their dwellings
rejoicing,
and
glad
in
heart
for
all
the
good
things
that
the
Lord
had
done
for
David
his
servant,
and
for
Israel
his
people.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
when
Solomon
had
finished
the
building
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
king’s
house,
and
all
that
he
desired,
and
was
pleased
to
do,
\VS{2}That
the
Lord
appeared
to
him
the
second
time,
as
he
had
appeared
to
him
in Gabaon.
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
I
have
heard thy
prayer
and thy
supplication,
which thou hast
made
before
me:
I
have
sanctified
this
house,
which thou hast
built,
to
put
my
name
there
for
ever,
and
my
eyes
and
my
heart
shall
be
there
always.
\VS{4}And
if thou wilt
walk
before
me,
as thy
father
walked,
in simplicity
of
heart,
and
in
uprightness:
and wilt
do
all
that
I
have
commanded thee,
and wilt
keep
my
ordinances
and
my
judgments,
\VS{5}I
will
establish
the
throne
of thy
kingdom
over
Israel
for
ever,
as
I
promised
David thy
father,
saying:
There
shall
not
fail
a
man
of thy race
upon
the
throne
of
Israel.
\VS{6}But
if
you
and
your
children revolting
shall
turn
away
from
following
me,
and
will
not
keep
my
commandments,
and
my ceremonies,
which
I
have
set
before
you,
but
will
go
and
worship strange
gods,
and adore
them:
\VS{7}I
will
take
away
Israel
from
the
face
of
the
land
which
I
have
given
them;
and
the
temple
which
I
have
sanctified
to
my
name,
I
will
cast
out
of
my
sight;
and
Israel
shall
be
a
proverb,
and
a
byword
among
all
people.
\VS{8}And
this
house
shall
be
made
an example
of:
every
one
that
shall
pass
by
it,
shall
be
astonished,
and
shall
hiss,
and
say:
Why hath
the
Lord
done
thus
to
this
land,
and
to
this
house:
\VS{9}And
they
shall
answer:
Because
they forsook
the
Lord
their
God,
who
brought
their
fathers
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
followed strange
gods,
and adored
them,
and worshipped
them:
therefore hath
the
Lord
brought
upon
them
all
this
evil.
\VS{10}And
when
twenty
years
were ended
after
Solomon
had
built
the
two
houses,
that
is,
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
house
of
the
king,
\VS{11}(Hiram
the
king
of
Tyre
furnishing
Solomon
with
cedar
trees
and
fir
trees,
and
gold according
to
all
he
had need
of.)
then
Solomon
gave
Hiram
twenty
cities
in
the
land
of
Galilee.
\VS{12}And
Hiram
came
out
of
Tyre,
to
see
the
towns
which
Solomon
had
given
him,
and
they
pleased
him
not,
\VS{13}And
he
said:
Are
these
the
cities
which thou hast
given
me,
brother?
And
he
called
them
the
land
of Chabul, unto
this
day.
\VS{14}And
Hiram
sent
to
king
Solomon
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold.
\VS{15}This
is
the sum
of
the expenses,
which
king
Solomon
offered
to
build
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
his own
house,
and Mello,
and
the
wall
of
Jerusalem,
and Heser,
and Mageddo,
and Gazer.
\VS{16}Pharao
the
king
of
Egypt
came
up
and
took Gazer,
and
burnt
it
with
fire:
and
slew
the Chanaanite
that
dwelt
in
the
city,
and
gave
it
for
a
dowry
to
his
daughter,
Solomon’s
wife.
\VS{17}So
Solomon
built: Gazer,
and
Beth-horon
the nether,
\VS{18}And
Baalath,
and Palmira
in
the
land
of
the
wilderness.
\VS{19}And
all
the
towns
that
belonged
to himself,
and
were
not walled,
he
fortified,
the
cities
also
of
the
chariots,
and
the
cities
of
the
horsemen,
and
whatsoever
he
had
a mind
to
build
in
Jerusalem,
and
in Libanus,
and
in
all
the
land
of
his
dominion.
\VS{20}All
the
people
that
were
left
of
the Amorrhites,
and Hethites,
and Pherezites,
and Hevites,
and
Jebusites,
that
are
not
of
the
children
of
Israel:
\VS{21}Their
children,
that
were
left
in
the
land,
to wit,
such
as
the
children
of
Israel
had
not
been
able
to
destroy,
Solomon
made tributary unto
this
day.
\VS{22}But
of
the
children
of
Israel
Solomon
made
not
any
to
be bondmen,
but
they
were
men
of
war,
and
his
servants,
and
his
princes,
and
captains,
and
overseers
of
the
chariots
and
horses.
\VS{23}And
there
were
five
hundred
and
fifty
chief
officers
set
over all
the
works
of
Solomon,
and
they
had
people
under
them,
and
had
charge
over
the appointed
works.
\VS{24}And
the
daughter
of Pharao
came
up
out
of
the
city
of
David
to
her
house,
which Solomon
had
built
for
her:
then
did
he
build Mello.
\VS{25}Solomon
also
offered
three
times
every
year holocausts,
and victims
of
peace
offerings
upon
the
altar
which
he
had
built
to
the
Lord,
and
he
burnt
incense
before
the
Lord:
and
the
temple
was
finished.
\VS{26}And
king
Solomon
made
a
fleet
in Asiongaber,
which
is
by Ailath
on
the
shore
of
the Red
Sea
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{27}And
Hiram
sent
his
servants
in
the
fleet, sailors
that
had
knowledge
of
the
sea,
with
the
servants
of
Solomon.
\VS{28}And
they
came
to
Ophir,
and
they
brought
from thence
to
king
Solomon
four
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
queen
of Saba, having;
heard
of
the
fame
of
Solomon
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,
came
to
try
him
with hard
questions.
\VS{2}And
entering
into
Jerusalem
with
a
great train,
and
riches,
and
camels
that
carried
spices,
and
an
immense quantity
of
gold,
and
precious
stones,
she
came
to king
Solomon,
and
spoke
to
him
all
that
she
had
in
her
heart.
\VS{3}And
Solomon
informed
her
of
all
the
things
she
proposed
to
him:
there
was
not
any
word
the
king
was ignorant
of,
and
which
he
could
not
answer
her.
\VS{4}And
when
the
queen
of Saba
saw
all
the
wisdom
of
Solomon,
and
the
house
which
he
had
built,
\VS{5}And
the meat
of
his
table,
and
the apartments
of
his
servants,
and
the order
of
his
ministers,
and
their apparel,
and
the cupbearers,
and
the holocausts,
which
he
offered
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
she
had
no
longer
any
spirit
in
her,
\VS{6}And
she
said
to
the
king:
The
report
is
true,
which
I
heard
in
my
own
country,
\VS{7}Concerning thy
words,
and
concerning thy
wisdom.
And
I
did
not
believe
them
that
told
me,
till
I
came myself,
and
saw
with
my
own
eyes,
and
have found
that
the
half hath
not
been
told
me: thy
wisdom
and thy works,
exceed
the fame
which
I
heard.
\VS{8}Blessed
are thy
men,
and
blessed
are thy
servants,
who
stand
before thee
always,
and
hear thy
wisdom.
\VS{9}Blessed
be
the
Lord thy
God,
whom thou hast
pleased,
and
who hath
set thee
upon
the
throne
of
Israel,
because
the
Lord hath loved
Israel
for
ever,
and hath
appointed thee
king,
to
do
judgment
and
justice.
\VS{10}And
she
gave
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
of
spices
a
very
great store,
and
precious
stones:
there
was
brought
no
more
such
abundance
of
spices
as
these
which
the
queen
of Saba
gave
to
king
Solomon.
\VS{11}(The navy
also
of
Hiram,
which
brought
gold
from
Ophir,
brought
from
Ophir
great plenty
of thyine
trees,
and
precious
stones.
\VS{12}And
the
king
made
of
the thyine
trees
the rails
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
of
the
king’s
house,
and citterns
and
harps
for
singers:
there
were
no
such thyine
trees
as
these
brought,
nor
seen unto
this
day.)
\VS{13}And
king
Solomon
gave
the
queen
of Saba
all
that
she
desired,
and
asked
of
him:
besides
what
he
offered
he
himself
of
his
royal
bounty.
And
she returned,
and went
to
her own
country
with
her
servants.
\VS{14}And
the
weight
of
the
gold
that
was
brought
to
Solomon
every
year,
was
six
hundred
and sixty-six
talents
of
gold:
\VS{15}Besides
that which
the
men brought
him
that
were
over
the tributes,
and
the
merchants,
and
they
that sold
by retail,
and
all
the
kings
of
Arabia,
and
the
governors
of
the
country.
\VS{16}And
Solomon
made
two
hundred
shields
of
the purest
gold:
he allowed
six
hundred sides
of
gold
for
the plates
of
one
shield.
\VS{17}And
three
hundred targets
of fine
gold:
three
hundred pounds
of
gold covered
one
target:
and
the
king
put
them
in
the
house
of
the
forest
of Libanus.
\VS{18}King Solomon
also
made
a
great
throne
of
ivory:
and
overlaid
it
with
the finest
gold.
\VS{19}It
had
six
steps:
and
the
top
of
the
throne
was
round
behind:
and
there
were
two
hands
on
either
side holding
the
seat:
and
two
lions
stood,
one
at
each
hand.
\VS{20}And
twelve little
lions
stood
upon
the
six
steps
on
the
one
side
and
on
the
other:
there
was
no
such work
made
in
any
kingdom.
\VS{21}Moreover
all
the
vessels,
out
of
which
king
Solomon drank,
were
of
gold:
and
all
the
furniture
of
the
house
of
the
forest
of Libanus
was
of
most
pure
gold:
there
was
no
silver,
nor
was
any
account
made
of
it
in
the
days
of
Solomon:
\VS{22}For
the
king’s navy,
once
in
three
years,
went
with
the navy
of
Hiram
by
sea
to Tharsis,
and
brought
from thence
gold,
and
silver,
and elephants’ teeth,
and
apes,
and
peacocks.
\VS{23}And
king
Solomon exceeded
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
in
riches,
and
wisdom.
\VS{24}And
all
the
earth desired
to
see
Solomon’s
face,
to
hear
his
wisdom,
which
God
had
given
in
his
heart.
\VS{25}And
every
one
brought
him
presents,
vessels
of
silver
and
of
gold,
garments
and armour,
and
spices,
and
horses
and
mules
every
year.
\VS{26}And
Solomon
gathered
together
chariots
and
horsemen,
and
he
had
a
thousand
four
hundred
chariots,
and
twelve
thousand horseman:
and
he bestowed
them
in fenced
cities,
and
with
the
king
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{27}And
he
made
silver
to
be
as
plentiful
in
Jerusalem
as
stones:
and
cedars
to
be
as common
as
sycamores
which grow
in
the plains.
\VS{28}And
horses
were
brought
for
Solomon out
of
Egypt,
and Coa:
for
the
king’s
merchants
brought
them out
of Coa,
and bought
them
at
a
set
price.
\VS{29}And
a
chariot
of four
horses
came
out
of
Egypt,
for
six
hundred
sides
of
silver,
and
a
horse
for
a
hundred
and
fifty.
And
after
this
manner
did
all
the
kings
of
the Hethites,
and
of
Syria, sell
horses.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
king
Solomon
loved
many strange
women besides
the
daughter
of Pharao,
and
women
of
Moab,
and
of
Ammon,
and
of Edom,
and
of Sidon,
and
of
the Hethites:
\VS{2}Of
the
nations
concerning
which
the
Lord
said
to
the
children
of
Israel:
You
shall
not
go
in unto
them,
neither
shall
any
of
them
come
in
to yours:
for
they
will
most
certainly
turn
away
your
heart
to
follow
their
gods.
And
to
these
was
Solomon
joined
with
a
most ardent
love.
\VS{3}And
he
had
seven
hundred
wives
as queens,
and
three
hundred
concubines:
and
the
women
turned
away
his
heart.
\VS{4}And
when
he
was
now
old,
his
heart
was
turned
away
by
women
to
follow strange
gods:
and
his
heart
was
not
perfect
with
the
Lord
his
God,
as
was
the
heart
of
David
his
father.
\VS{5}But
Solomon worshipped Astarthe
the
goddess
of
the
Sidonians,
and Moloch
the
idol
of
the
ammonites.
\VS{6}And
Solomon
did
that
which
was net pleasing
before
the
Lord,
and
did
not
fully
follow
the
Lord,
as
David
his
father.
\VS{7}Then
Solomon
built
a temple
for Chamos
the
idol
of
Moab,
on
the
hill
that
is
over
against
Jerusalem,
and
for Moloch
the
idol
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{8}And
he
did
in
this
manner
for
all
his
wives
that
were strangers,
who
burnt
incense,
and
offered
sacrifice
to
their
gods.
\VS{9}And
the
Lord
was
angry
with
Solomon,
because
his
mind
was
turned
away
from
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
who
had
appeared
to
him
twice,
\VS{10}And
had
commanded
him
concerning
this
thing,
that
he
should
not
follow strange
gods:
but
he
kept
not
the
things
which
the
Lord
commanded
him.
\VS{11}The
Lord
therefore
said
to
Solomon:
Because thou hast
done
this,
and hast
not
kept
my
covenant,
and
my precepts,
which
I
have
commanded thee,
I
will
divide
and
rend thy
kingdom,
and
will
give
it
to thy
servant.
\VS{12}Nevertheless
in thy
days
I
will
not
do
it,
for
David thy
father’s
sake:
but
I
will
rend
it
out
of
the
hand
of thy
son.
\VS{13}Neither
will
I
take
away
the
whole
kingdom,
but
I
will
give
one
tribe
to thy
son
for
the
sake
of
David
my
servant,
and
Jerusalem
which
I
have
chosen.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord
raised
up
an
adversary
to
Solomon, Adad
the
Edomite
of
the
king’s
seed,
in
Edom.
\VS{15}For
when
David
was
in
Edom,
and
Joab
the
general
of
the
army
was
gone
up
to
bury
them
that
were
slain,
and
had
killed
every
male
in
Edom,
\VS{16}(For
Joab
remained
there
six
months
with
all
Israel,
till
he
had slain
every
male
in
Edom,)
\VS{17}Then Adad
fled,
he
and
certain
Edomites,
of
his
father’s
servants
with
him,
to
go
into
Egypt:
and Adad
was
then
a
little
boy.
\VS{18}And
they
arose
out
of Madian,
and
came
into Pharan,
and
they
took
men
with
them
from Pharan,
and
went
into
Egypt
to Pharao
the
king
of
Egypt:
who
gave
him
a
house,
and
appointed
him victuals,
and
assigned
him
land.
\VS{19}And Adad
found
great favour
before Pharao, insomuch
that
he
gave
him
to
wife,
the
own
sister
of
his
wife Taphnes
the
queen.
\VS{20}And
the
sister
of Taphnes
bore
him
his
son
Genubath,
and Taphnes
brought
him
up
in
the
house
of Pharao:
and
Genubath dwelt
with Pharao
among
his
children.
\VS{21}And
when Adad
heard
in
Egypt
that
David
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
that
Joab
the
general
of
the
army
was
dead,
he
said
to Pharao:
Let
me depart,
that
I
may
go
to
my
own
country.
\VS{22}And Pharao
said
to
him:
Why,
what
is wanting
to thee
with
me,
that thou seekest
to
go
to thy
own
country?
But
he
answered:
Nothing:
yet
I beseech thee
to
let
me
go.
\VS{23}God
also
raised
up against
him
an
adversary, Razon
the
son
of
Eliada,
who
had
fled
from
his
master Adarezer
the
king
of Soba:
\VS{24}And
he
gathered
men
against
him,
and
he
became
a
captain
of robbers,
when
David
slew
them
of Soba:
and
they
went
to
Damascus,
and
dwelt
there,
and
they
made
him
king
in
Damascus.
\VS{25}And
he
was
an
adversary
to
Israel,
all
the
days
of
Solomon:
and
this
is
the
evil
of Adad,
and
his hatred
against
Israel,
and
he
reigned
in
Syria.
\VS{26}Jeroboam
also
the
son
of Nabat
an
Ephrathite
of Sareda,
a
servant
of
Solomon,
whose
mother
was
named Sarua,
a
widow
woman,
lifted
up
his
hand
against
the
king.
\VS{27}And
this
is
the
cause
of
his rebellion
against
him,
for
Solomon
built Mello,
and filled
up
the
breach
of
the
city
of
David
his
father.
\VS{28}And
Jeroboam
was
a
valiant
and
mighty
man:
and
Solomon
seeing
him
a
young
man ingenious
and industrious,
made
him chief
over
the tributes
of
all
the
house
of
Joseph.
\VS{29}So
it
came
to paste
at
that
time,
that
Jeroboam
went
out
of
Jerusalem,
and
the
prophet Ahias
the Silonite, clad
with
a
new
garment,
found
him
in
the
way:
and
they
two
were
alone
in
the
held.
\VS{30}And Ahias taking
his
new
garment, wherewith
he
was clad, divided
it
into
twelve parts:
\VS{31}And
he
said
to
Jeroboam:
Take
to thee
ten
pieces:
for
thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
Behold
I
will
rend
the
kingdom
out
of
the
hand
of
Solomon,
and
will
give thee
ten
tribes.
\VS{32}But
one
tribe
shall
remain
to
him
for
the
sake
of
my
servant
David,
and
Jerusalem
the
city,
which
I
have
chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel:
\VS{33}Because
he hath forsaken
me,
and hath adored Astarthe
the
goddess
of
the
Sidonians,
and Chamos
the
god
of
Moab,
and Moloch
the
god
of
the
children
of
Ammon:
and hath
not
walked
in
my
ways,
to
do
justice
before
me,
and
to
keep
my precepts,
and
judgments
as
did
David
his
father.
\VS{34}Yet
I
will
not
take
away
all
the
kingdom
out
of
his
hand,
but
I
will
make
him
prince
all
the
days
of
his
life,
for
David
my
servant’s
sake,
whom
I
chose,
who
kept
my
commandments
and
my precepts.
\VS{35}But
I
will
take
away
the
kingdom
out
of
his
son’s
hand
and
will
give thee
ten
tribes:
\VS{36}And
to
his
son
I
will
give
one
tribe,
that
there
may
remain
a
lamp
for
my
servant
David
before
me
always
in
Jerusalem
the
city
which
I
have
chosen,
that
my
name
might
be
there.
\VS{37}And
I
will
take thee,
and thou shalt
reign
over
all
that thy
soul desireth,
and thou shalt
be
king
over
Israel.
\VS{38}If
then thou wilt hearken
to
all
that
I
shall
command thee,
and wilt
walk
in
my
ways,
and
do
what
is
right
before
me,
keeping
my
commandments
and
my precepts,
as
David
my
servant
did:
I
will
be
with thee,
and
will
build thee
up
a
faithful
house,
as
I
built
a
house
for
David,
and
I
will
deliver
Israel
to thee:
\VS{39}And
I
will
for
this
afflict
the
seed
of
David,
but
yet
not
for ever.
\VS{40}Solomon
therefore
sought
to
kill
Jeroboam:
but
he
arose,
and
fled
into
Egypt
to Sesac
the
king
of
Egypt,
and
was
in
Egypt
till
the
death
of
Solomon.
\VS{41}And
the
rest
of
the
words
of
Solomon,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his
wisdom:
behold
they
are
all
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the days
of
Solomon.
\VS{42}And
the
days
that
Solomon
reigned
in
Jerusalem
over
all
Israel,
were
forty
years.
\VS{43}And
Solomon
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David
his
father,
and Roboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Roboam
went
to Sichem:
for thither
were
all
Israel
come together
to
make
him
king.
\VS{2}But
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat,
who
was
yet
in
Egypt,
a fugitive
from
the
face
of
king
Solomon,
hearing
of
his death, returned
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{3}And
they
sent
and
called
him:
and
Jeroboam
came,
and
all
the multitude
of
Israel,
and
they
spoke
to Roboam,
saying:
\VS{4}Thy
father
laid
a
grievous
yoke
upon
us:
now
therefore
do thou
take
off
a little
of
the
grievous
service
of thy
father,
and
of
his most
heavy
yoke,
which
he
put
upon
us,
and
we
will
serve thee.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them:
Go till
the
third
day,
and
come
to
me
again.
And
when
the
people
was
gone,
\VS{6}King Roboam
took
counsel
with
the
old
men,
that
stood
before
Solomon
his
father
while
he yet
lived,
and
he
said:
What
counsel
do
you
give
me,
that
I
may
answer
this
people?
\VS{7}They
said
to
him:
If thou wilt yield
to
this
people
today,
and condescend
to
them,
and grant
their petition,
and wilt
speak gentle
words
to
them,
they
will
be thy
servants
always.
\VS{8}But
he
left
the
counsel
of
the
old
men,
which
they
had
given
him,
and
consulted
with
the
young
men,
that
had
been
brought
up
with
him,
and
stood
before
him.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
them:
What
counsel
do
you
give
me,
that
I
may
answer
this
people,
who
have
said
to
me:
Make
the
yoke
which thy
father
put
upon
us
lighter?
\VS{10}And
the
young
men
that
had
been
brought
up
with
him,
said:
Thus shalt thou
speak
to
this
people,
who
have
spoken
to thee,
saying: Thy
father
made
our
yoke
heavy,
do thou
ease
us. Thou shalt
say
to
them:
My
little
finger
is
thicker
than
the
back
of
my
father.
\VS{11}And
now
my
father put
a,
heavy
yoke
upon
you,
but
I
will
add
to
your
yoke:
my
father beat
you
with
whips,
but
I
will beat
you
with
scorpions.
\VS{12}So
Jeroboam
and
all
the
people
came
to Roboam
the
third
day,
as
the
king
had appointed,
saying:
Come
to
me
again
the
third
day.
\VS{13}And
the
king
answered
the
people roughly,
leaving
the
counsel
of
the
old
men,
which
they
had
given
him,
\VS{14}And
he
spoke
to
them
according
to
the
counsel
of
the
young
men,
saying:
My
father
made
your
yoke
heavy,
but
I
will
add
to
your
yoke:
my
father beat
you
with
whips,
but
I
will beat
you
with
scorpions.
\VS{15}And
the
king condescended
not
to
the
people:
for
the
Lord
was
turned
away
from
him,
to
make
good
his
word,
which
he
had
spoken
in
the
hand
of Ahias
the Silonite,
to
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat.
\VS{16}Then
the
people
seeing
that
the
king
would
not hearken
to
them,
answered
him,
saying:
What
portion
have
we
in
David?
or
what
inheritance
in
the
son
of Isai?
Go
home
to thy dwellings,
O
Israel,
now
David
look
to thy own
house.
So
Israel departed
to
their dwellings.
\VS{17}But
as
for all
the
children
of
Israel
that
dwelt
in
the
cities
of Juda, Roboam
reigned
over
them.
\VS{18}Then
king Roboam
sent Aduram,
who
was
over
the
tribute:
and
all
Israel
stoned
him,
and
he
died. Wherefore
king Roboam
made
haste
to
get
him
up
into
his
chariot,
and
he
fled
to
Jerusalem:
\VS{19}And
Israel
revolted
from
the
house
of
David, unto
this
day.
\VS{20}And
it
came
to
pass
when
all
Israel
heard
that
Jeroboam
was
come
again,
that
they
gathered
an
assembly,
and
sent
and
called
him,
and
made
him
king
over
all
Israel,
and
there
was
none
that
followed
the
house
of
David
but
the
tribe
of Juda
only.
\VS{21}And Roboam
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
gathered
together
all
the
house
of Juda,
and
the
tribe
of
Benjamin,
a
hundred four-score
thousand chosen
men
for
war,
to
fight
against
the
house
of
Israel
and
to
bring
the
kingdom
again
under Roboam
the
son
of
Solomon.
\VS{22}But
the
word
of
the Lord
came
to Semeias
the
man
of
God,
saying:
\VS{23}Speak
to Roboam
the
son
of
Solomon,
the
king
of Juda,
and
to
all
the
house
of Juda,
and
Benjamin,
and
the
rest
of
the
people,
saying:
\VS{24}Thus saith
the
Lord:
You
shall
not
go
up
nor
fight
against
your
brethren
the
children
of
Israel:
let
every
man
return
to
his
house,
for
this
thing
is
from
me.
They hearkened
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
and
returned
from
their journey,
as
the
Lord
had
commanded
them.
\VS{25}And
Jeroboam
built Sichem
in
mount
Ephraim,
and
dwelt
there,
and
going
out
from thence
he
built Phanuel.
\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
offer
sacrifices
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
at
Jerusalem:
and
the
heart
of
this
people
will
turn
to
their
lord Roboam
the
king
of Juda,
and
they
will
kill
me,
and
return
to
him.
\VS{28}And finding
out
a device
he
made
two
golden
calves,
and
said
to
them:
Go ye
up no
more
to
Jerusalem:
Behold thy
gods,
O
Israel,
who
brought thee
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
\VS{29}And
he
set
the
one
in
Bethel,
and
the
other
in
Dan:
\VS{30}And
this
thing
became
an occasion
of
sin:
for
the
people
went
to adore
the calf
as
far
as
Dan.
\VS{31}And
he
made
temples
in
the
high
places,
and
priests
of
the lowest
of
the
people,
who
were
not
of
the
sons
of
Levi.
\VS{32}And
he
appointed
a
feast
in
the
eighth
month,
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
month,
after
the
manner
of
the
feast
that
was
celebrated
in Juda.
And
going
up
to
the
altar,
he
did
in
like
manner
in
Bethel,
to
sacrifice
to
the
calves,
which
he
had
made:
and
he
placed
in
Bethel
priests
of
the
high
places,
which
he
had
made.
\VS{33}And
he
went
up
to
the
altar,
which
he
had
built
in
Bethel,
on
the fifteenth
day
of
the
eighth
month,
which
he
had
devised
of
his own heart:
and
he ordained
a
feast
to
the
children
of
Israel,
and
went
upon
the
altar
to
burn
incense.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
behold
there
came
a
man
of
God
out
of Juda,
by
the
word
of
the
Lord
to
Bethel,
when
Jeroboam
was
standing
upon
the
altar,
and
burning
incense.
\VS{2}And
he
cried
out
against
the
altar
in
the
word
of
the
Lord,
and
said:
O
altar,
altar,
thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
a
child
shall
be
born
to
the
house
of
David, Josias
by
name,
and
he
shall immolate
upon thee
the
priests
of
the
high
places,
who
now
burn
incense
upon thee,
and
he
shall
burn
men’s
bones
upon thee.
\VS{3}And
he
gave
a
sign
the
same
day,
saying:
This
shall
be
the
sign,
that
the
Lord hath
spoken:
Behold
the
altar
shall
be rent,
and
the
ashes
that
are
upon
it
shall
be
poured
out.
\VS{4}And
when
the
king
had
heard
the
word
of
the
man
of
God,
which
he
had
cried
out
against
the
altar
in
Bethel,
he
stretched
forth
his
hand
from
the
altar,
saying:
Lay
hold
on
him.
And
his
hand
which
he
stretched
forth
against
him
withered:
and
he
was
not
able
to
draw
it
back
again
to
him.
\VS{5}The
altar
also
was rent,
and
the
ashes
were
poured
out
from
the
altar,
according
to
the
sign
which
the
man
of
God
had
given
before
in
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And
the
king
said
to
the
man
of
God:
Entreat
the
face
of
the
Lord thy
God,
and
pray
for
me,
that
my
hand
may
be
restored
to
me.
And
the
man
of
God besought
the
face
of
the
Lord,
and
the
king’s
hand
was
restored
to
him,
and
it
became
as
it
was
before.
\VS{7}And
the
king
said
to
the
man
of
God:
Come
home
with
me
to dine,
and
I
will
make thee presents.
\VS{8}And
the
man
of
God
answered
the
king:
If thou wouldst
give
me
half thy
house
I
will
not
go
with thee,
nor
eat
bread,
nor
drink
water
in
this
place:
\VS{9}For
so
it
was enjoined
me
by
the
word
of
the
Lord
commanding
me: Thou shalt
not
eat
bread
nor
drink
water,
nor
return
by
the
same
way
that thou camest.
\VS{10}So
he
departed
by
another
way,
and
returned
not
by
the
way
that
he
came
into
Bethel.
\VS{11}Now
a
certain
old
prophet
dwelt
in
Bethel,
and
his
sons
came
to
him
and
told
him
all
the
works
that
the
man
of
God
had
done
that
day
in
Bethel:
and
they
told
their
father
the
words
which
he
had
spoken
to
the
king.
\VS{12}And
their
father
said
to
them:
What
way
went
he?
His
sons shewed
him
the
way
by
which
the
man
of
God
went,
who
came
out
of Juda.
\VS{13}And
he
said
to
his
sons:
Saddle
me
the ass.
And
when
they
had
saddled
him,
he got
up,
\VS{14}And
went
after
the
man
of
God,
and
found
him
sitting
under
a turpentine tree:
and
he
said
to
him: Art thou
the
man
of
God
that camest
from Juda?
He
answered:
I
am.
\VS{15}And
he
said
to
him: Come
home
with
me,
to
eat
bread.
\VS{16}But
he
said:
I
must
not
return,
nor
go
with thee,
neither
will
I
eat
bread,
nor
drink
water
in
this
place:
\VS{17}Because
the
Lord
spoke
to
me
in
the
word
of
the
Lord,
saying: Thou shalt
not
eat
bread,
and thou shalt
not
drink
water
there,
nor
return
by
the
way thou wentest.
\VS{18}He
said
to
him:
I
also
am
a
prophet
like unto thee:
and
an
angel
spoke
to
me
in
the
word
of
the
Lord,
saying:
Bring
him
back
with thee
into thy
house,
that
he
may
eat
bread,
and
drink
water.
He
deceived
him,
\VS{19}And
brought
him
back
with
him:
so
he
ate
bread
and
drank
water
in
his
house.
\VS{20}And
as
they
sat
at
table,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
the
prophet
that
brought
him
back:
\VS{21}And
he
cried
out
to
the
man
of
God
who
came
out
of Juda,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Because thou hast
not
been obedient
to
the
Lord,
and hast
not
kept
the
commandment
which
the
Lord thy
God
commanded thee,
\VS{22}And hast
returned
and
eaten
bread,
and
drunk
water
in
the
place
wherein
he
commanded thee
that thou shouldst
not
eat
bread,
nor
drink
water, thy
dead
body
shall
not
be
brought
into
the sepulchre
of thy
fathers.
\VS{23}And
when
he
had
eaten
and
drunk,
he
saddled
his ass
for
the
prophet,
whom
he
had
brought
back.
\VS{24}And
when he
was
gone,
a
lion
found
him
in
the
way,
and
killed
him,
and
his
body
was
cast
in
the
way:
and
the ass
stood
by
him,
and
the
lion
stood
by
the
dead
body.
\VS{25}And
behold,
men
passing
by
saw
the
dead
body
cast
in
the
way,
and
the
lion
standing
by
the
body.
And
they
came
and
told
it
in
the
city,
wherein
that
old
prophet
dwelt.
\VS{26}And
when
that
prophet,
who
had
brought
him
back
out
of
the
way,
heard
of
it,
he
said:
It
is
the
man
of
God,
that
was
disobedient
to
the
mouth
of
the
Lord,
and
the
Lord hath
delivered
him
to
the
lion,
and
he hath
torn
him,
and
killed
him
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
spoke
to
him.
\VS{27}And
he
said
to
his
sons:
Saddle
me
an ass.
And
when
they
had
saddled
it,
\VS{28}And
he
was
gone,
he
found
the
dead
body
cast
in
the
way,
and
the ass
and
the
lion
standing
by
the
carcass:
the
lion
had
not
eaten
of
the
dead
body,
nor
hurt
the ass.
\VS{29}And
the
prophet
took
up
the
body
of
the
man
of
God,
and
laid
it
upon
the ass,
and
going
back
brought
it
into
the
city
of
the
old
prophet,
to
mourn
for
him.
\VS{30}And
he laid
his
dead
body
in
his own sepulchre:
and
they
mourned
over
him, saying:
Alas!
alas!
my
brother.
\VS{31}And
when
they
had mourned
over
him,
he
said
to
his
sons:
When
I
am
dead,
bury
me
in
the sepulchre
wherein
the
man
of
God
is
buried:
lay
my
bones
beside
his
bones.
\VS{32}For assuredly
the
word
shall
come
to
pass
which
he hath foretold
in
the
word
of
the
Lord
against
the
altar
that
is
in
Bethel:
and
against
all
the
temples
of
the
high
places,
that
are
in
the
cities
of
Samaria.
\VS{33}After
these
words
Jeroboam
came
not
back
from
his
wicked
way:
but
on
the contrary
he
made
of
the meanest
of
the
people
priests
of
the
high
places: whosoever
would,
he
filled
his
hand,
and
he
was
made
a
priest
of
the
high
places.
\VS{34}And
for
this
cause did
the
house
of
Jeroboam
sin,
and
was
cut
off
and
destroyed
from
the
face
of
the
earth.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}At
that
time Abia
the
son
of
Jeroboam fell
sick.
\VS{2}And
Jeroboam
said
to
his
wife:
Arise,
and change thy dress,
that thou
be
not
known
to
be
the
wife
of
Jeroboam,
and
go
to Silo,
where Ahias
the
prophet
is,
who
told
me,
that
I
should reign
over
this
people.
\VS{3}Take
also
with thee
ten leaves,
and cracknels,
and
a pot
of
honey,
and
go
to
him:
for
he
will
tell thee
what
shall
become
of
this
child.
\VS{4}Jeroboam’s
wife
did
as
he
told
her:
and
rising
up
went
to Silo,
and
came
to
the
house
of Ahias:
but
he
could
not
see,
for
his
eyes
were
dim
by
reason
of
his
age.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord
said
to Ahias:
Behold
the
wife
of
Jeroboam cometh
in,
to
consult thee
concerning
her
son
that
is
sick:
thus
and
thus shalt thou
speak
to
her.
So
when
she
was
coming
in,
and
made
as
if
she
were
another
woman,
\VS{6}Ahias
heard
the
sound
of
her
feet
coming
in
at
the
door,
and
said:
Come
in, thou
wife
of
Jeroboam:
why dost thou feign thyself
to
be
another?
But
I
am
sent
to thee
with heavy tidings.
\VS{7}Go,
and
tell
Jeroboam:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
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
to thee,
and thou hast
not
been
as
my
servant
David,
who
kept
my
commandments,
and
followed
me
with
all
his
heart,
doing
that
which
was
well pleasing
in
my
sight:
\VS{9}But hast
done
evil
above
all
that
were
before thee,
and hast
made thee strange
gods
and molten
gods,
to
provoke
me
to
anger,
and hast
cast
me
behind thy
back:
\VS{10}Therefore
behold
I
will
bring evils
upon
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
and
will
cut
of
from
Jeroboam
him
that pisseth
against
the
wall,
and
him
that
is
shut
up,
and
the last
in
Israel:
and
I
will sweep
away
the remnant
of
the
house
of
Jeroboam,
as
dung
is
swept
away
till
all
be clean.
\VS{11}Them
that
shall
die
of
Jeroboam
in
the
city,
the
dogs
shall
eat:
and
them
that
shall
die
in
the
field,
the
birds
of
the air
shall
devour:
for
the
Lord hath
spoken
it.
\VS{12}Arise thou
therefore,
and
go
to thy
house:
and
when thy
feet
shall
be
entering
into
the
city,
the
child
shall
die,
\VS{13}And
all
Israel
shall
mourn
for
him,
and
shall
bury
him:
for
he
only
of
Jeroboam
shall
be
laid
in
a sepulchre,
because
in
his
regard
there
is
found
a
good
word
from
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
in
the
house
of
Jeroboam.
\VS{14}And
the
Lord hath appointed
himself
a
king
over
Israel,
who
shall
cut
off
the
house
of
Jeroboam
in
this
day,
and
in
this
time:
\VS{15}And
the
Lord
God
shall
strike
Israel
as
a
reed
is
shaken
in
the
water:
and
he
shall
root
up
Israel
out
of
this
good
land,
which
he
gave
to
their
fathers,
and
shall
scatter
them
beyond
the
river:
because
they
have
made
to
themselves groves,
to
provoke
the
Lord.
\VS{16}And
the Lord
shall
give
up
Israel
for
the
sins
of
Jeroboam,
who hath
sinned,
and
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{17}And
the
wife
of
Jeroboam
arose,
and
departed,
and
came
to Thersa:
and
when
she
was
coming
in
to
the threshold
of
the
house,
the
child
died;
\VS{18}And
they
buried
him.
And
all
Israel
mourned
for
him
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
spoke
by
the
hand
of
his
servant Ahias
the
prophet.
\VS{19}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Jeroboam,
how
he
fought,
and
how
he
reigned,
behold
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{20}And
the
days
that
Jeroboam
reigned,
were
two
and
twenty
years:
and
he
slept
with
his
fathers:
and
Nadab
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{21}And Roboam
the
son
of
Solomon
reigned
in Juda: Roboam
was
one
and
forty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign:
and
he
reigned
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem
the
city,
which
the
Lord
chose
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
put
his
name
there.
And
his
mother’s
name wee Naama
an
Ammonitess.
\VS{22}And Juda
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
provoked
him above
all
that
their
fathers
had
done,
in
their
sins
which
they
committed.
\VS{23}For
they
also
built
them altars,
and statues,
and groves
upon
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree:
\VS{24}There
were
also
the effeminate
in
the
land,
and
they
did according
to
all
the
abominations
of
the
people
whom
the
Lord
had destroyed
before
the
face
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{25}And
in
the
fifth
year
of
the reign
of Roboam, Sesac
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
he
took
away
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
king’s
treasures,
and
carried
all
off:
as
also
the
shields
of
gold
which
Solomon
had
made.
\VS{27}And Roboam
made
shields
of
brass
instead
of
them,
and
delivered
them
into
the.
hand
of
the
captains
of
the shieldbearers,
and
of
them
that
kept
watch
before
the
gate
of
the
king’s
house.
\VS{28}And
when
the
king
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
they whose office
it
was
to
go
before
him,
carried
them:
and afterwards
they
brought
them
back
to
the armoury
of
the shieldbearers.
\VS{29}Now
the
rest
of
the sets
of Roboam,
and
all
that
he
did,
behold
they
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of Juda.
\VS{30}And
there
was
war
between Roboam
and
Jeroboam
always.
\VS{31}And Roboam
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
them
in
the
city
of
David:
and
his
mother’s
name
was Naama
an
Ammonitess:
and Abiam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
reign
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat, Abiam
reigned
over Juda.
\VS{2}He
reigned
three
years
in
Jerusalem:
the
name
of
his
mother
was Maacha
the
daughter
of Abessalom.
\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
the
Lord
his
God,
as
was
the
heart
of
David
his
father.
\VS{4}But
for
David’s
sake
the
Lord
his
God
gave
him
a
lamp
in
Jerusalem,
to
set
up
his
son
after
him,
and
to
establish
Jerusalem:
\VS{5}Because
David
had
done
that
which
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
and
had
not
turned
aside
from
any
thing
that
he
commanded
him,
all
the
days
of
his
life,
except
the
matter
of Urias
the Hethite.
\VS{6}But
there
was
war
between Roboam
and
Jeroboam
all
the
time
of
his
life.
\VS{7}And
the
rest
of
the
words
of Abiam,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of Juda?
And
there
was
war
between Abiam
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{8}And Abiam
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David,
and
Asa
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{9}So
in
the
twentieth
year
of
Jeroboam
king
of
Israel,
reigned
Asa
king
of Juda,
\VS{10}And
he
reigned
one
and
forty
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother’s
name
was Maacha,
the
daughter
of Abessalom.
\VS{11}And
Asa
did
that
which
was
right
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
as
did
David
his
father:
\VS{12}And
he
took
away
the effeminate
out
of
the
land,
and
he
removed
all
the filth
of
the
idols,
which
his
fathers
had
made.
\VS{13}Moreover
he
also
removed
his
mother Maacha,
from
being
the princess
in
the sacrifices
of Priapus,
and
in
the grove
which
she
had consecrated
to
him:
and
he
destroyed
her den,
and broke
in pieces
the filthy idol,
and
burnt
it
by
the torrent Cedron:
\VS{14}But
the
high
places
he
did
not
take
away. Nevertheless
the
heart
of
Asa
was
perfect
with
the
Lord
all
his
days:
\VS{15}And
he
brought
in
the
things
which
his
father
had
dedicated,
and
he
had
vowed,
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
silver
and
gold,
and
vessels.
\VS{16}And
there
was
war
between
Asa,
and Baasa
king
of
Israel
all
their
days.
\VS{17}And Baasa
king
of
Israel
went
up
against Juda,
and
built Rama,
that
no man
might
go
out
or
come
in,
of
the side
of
Asa
king
of Juda.
\VS{18}Then
Asa
took
all
the
silver
and
gold
that
remained
in
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house,
and
delivered
it
into
the
hands
of
his
servants:
and
sent
them
to Benadad
son
of Tabremon
the
son
of
Hezion,
king
of
Syria,
who
dwelt
in
Damascus,
saying:
\VS{19}There
is
a
league
between
me
and thee,
and
between
my
father
and thy
father:
therefore
I
have
sent thee presents
of
silver
and
gold:
and
I desire thee
to
come,
and
break thy
league
with Baasa
king
of
Israel,
that
he
may
depart
from
me.
\VS{20}Benadad hearkening
to
king
Asa,
sent
the
captains
of
his
army
against
the
cities
of
Israel,
and
they
smote Ahion,
and
Dan,
and Abeldomum Maacha,
and
all Cenneroth,
that
is
all
the
land
of Nephtali.
\VS{21}And
when Baasa
had
heard this,
he
left
off
building Rama,
and returned
into Thersa.
\VS{22}But
king
Asa sent word
into
all Juda, saying: Let
no
man
be excused:
and
they
took
away
the
stones
from Rama,
and
the
timber thereof wherewith Baasa
had
been
building,
and
with
them
Asa
built Gabaa
of
Benjamin,
and Maspha.
\VS{23}But
the
rest
of
all
the
acts
of
Asa,
and
all
his
strength,
and
all
that
he
did
and
the
cities
that
he
built,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of Juda?
But
in
the
time
of
his
old
age
he
was diseased
in
his
feet.
\VS{24}And
he
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
them
in
the
city
of
David
his
father.
And Josaphat
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{25}But
Nadab
the
son
of
Jeroboam
reigned
over
Israel
the
second
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda:
and
he
reigned
over
Israel
two
years.
\VS{26}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and walked
in
the
ways
of
his
father,
and
in
his
sins, wherewith
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{27}And Baasa
the
son
of Ahias
of
the
house
of
Issachar,
conspired
against
him,
and
slew
him
in Gebbethon,
which
is
a city
of
the
Philistines:
for
Nadab
and
all
Israel besieged Gebbethon.
\VS{28}So Baasa slew
him
in
the
third
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda,
and
reigned
in
his
place.
\VS{29}And
when
he
was
king
he cut
off
all
the
house
of
Jeroboam:
he
left
not
so
much
as
one soul
of
his seed,
till
he
had
utterly
destroyed
him,
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
spoken
in
the
hand
of Ahias
the Silonite:
\VS{30}Because
of
the
sin
of
Jeroboam,
which
he
had
sinned,
and wherewith
he
had
made
Israel
to
sin,
and
for
the offence, wherewith
he
provoked
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{31}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Nadab,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{32}And
there
was
war
between
Asa
and Baasa
the
king
of
Israel
all
their
days.
\VS{33}In
the
third
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda, Baasa
the
son
of Ahias
reigned
over
all
Israel,
in Thersa,
four
and
twenty
years.
\VS{34}And
he
did
evil
before
the
Lord,
and walked
in
the
ways
of
Jeroboam,
and
in
his
sins, wherewith
he
made
Israel
to
sin.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani
against Baasa,
saying:
\VS{2}Forasmuch
as
I
have
exalted thee
out
of
the
dust,
and
made thee
prince
over
my
people
Israel,
and thou hast walked
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam,
and hast
made
my
people
Israel
to
sin,
to
provoke
me
to
anger
with
their
sins:
\VS{3}Behold,
I
will cut
down
the posterity
of Baasa,
and
the posterity
of
his
house,
and
I
will
make thy
house
as
the
house
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat.
\VS{4}Him
that dieth
of Baasa
in
the
city,
the
dogs
shall
eat:
and
him
that dieth
of
his
in
the
country,
the fowls
of
the air
shall
devour.
\VS{5}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Baasa
and
all
that
he
did,
and
his battles,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{6}So Baasa
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in Thersa:
and Ela
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{7}And
when
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
in
the
hand
of
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani
the
prophet,
against Baasa,
and
against
his
house,
and
against
all
the
evil
that
he
had
done
before
the
Lord,
to
provoke
him
to
anger
by
the
works
of
his
hands,
to
become
as
the
house
of
Jeroboam:
for
this
cause
he
slew
him,
that
is
to
say,
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani,
the
prophet.
\VS{8}In
the
six
and
twentieth
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda, Ela
the
son
of Baasa
reigned
over
Israel
in Thersa two
years.
\VS{9}And
his
servant Zambri,
who
was
captain
of
half
the horsemen, rebelled
against
him: now Ela
was
drinking
in Thersa,
and
drunk
in
the
house
of Arsa
the
governor
of Thersa.
\VS{10}And Zambri rushing
in,
struck
him
and
slew
him
in
the
seven
and
twentieth
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda,
and
he
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{11}And
when
he
was
king
and
sat
upon
his
throne,
he
slew
all
the
house
of Baasa,
and
he
left
not
one thereof
to piss
against
a
wall,
and
all
his kinsfolks
and
friends.
\VS{12}And Zambri
destroyed
all
the
house
of Baasa,
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
that
he
had
spoken
to Baasa
in
the
hand
of
Jehu
the
prophet,
\VS{13}For
all
the
sins
of Baasa,
and
the
sins
of Ela
his
son,
who
sinned,
and
made
Israel
to
sin,
provoking
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
with
their
vanities.
\VS{14}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Ela,
and
all
that
he
did,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{15}In
the
seven
and
twentieth
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda, Zambri
reigned
seven
days
in Thersa:
now
the
army
was
besieging Gebbethon
a city
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{16}And
when
they
heard
that Zambri
had rebelled,
and
slain
the
king,
all
Israel
made Amri
their
king,
who
was
general
over
Israel
in
the
camp
that
day.
\VS{17}And Amri
went
up,
and
all
Israel
with
him
from Gebbethon,
and
they besieged Thersa.
\VS{18}And Zambri
seeing
that
the
city
was
about
to
be
taken,
went
into
the
palace
and
burnt
himself
with
the
king’s
house:
and
he
died
\VS{19}In
his
sins,
which
he
had
sinned,
doing
evil
before
the
Lord,
and walking
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam,
and
in
his
sin, wherewith
he
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{20}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Zambri,
and
of
his
conspiracy
and tyranny,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{21}Then
were
the
people
of
Israel
divided
into
two
parts:
one
half
of
the
people
followed Thebni
the
son
of Gineth,
to make
him
king:
and
one
half
followed Amri.
\VS{22}But
the
people
that
were
with Amri,
prevailed
over
the
people
that
followed Thebni
the
son
of Gineth:
and Thebni
died,
and Amri
reigned.
\VS{23}In
the
one
and
thirtieth
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda, Amri
reigned
over
Israel
twelve
years:
in Thersa
he
reigned
six
years.
\VS{24}And
he
bought
the
hill
of
Samaria
of Semer
for two
talents
of
silver:
and
he
built
upon
it,
and
he
called
the
city
which
he
built
Samaria,
after
the
name
of Semer
the
owner
of
the
hill.
\VS{25}And Amri
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
acted
wickedly
above
all
that
were
before
him.
\VS{26}And
he walked
in
all
the
way
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat,
and
in
his
sins wherewith
he
made
Israel
to
sin:
to
provoke
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
to
anger
with
their
vanities.
\VS{27}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Amri,
and
the battles
he fought,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{28}And Amri
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
Samaria,
and Achab
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{29}Now Achab
the
son
of Amri
reigned
over
Israel
in
the
eight
and
thirtieth
year
of
Asa
king
of Juda.
And Achab
the
son
of Amri
reigned
over
Israel
in
Samaria
two
and
twenty
years.
\VS{30}And Achab
the
son
of Amri
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
above
all
that
were
before
him.
\VS{31}Nor
was
it enough
for
him
to walk
in
the
sins
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat:
but
he
also
took
to
wife Jezabel
daughter
of
Ethbaal
king
of
the
Sidonians.
And
he
went,
and
served
Baal,
and adored
him.
\VS{32}And
he
set
up
an
altar
for
Baal
in
the
temple
of
Baal,
which
he
had
built
in
Samaria,
\VS{33}And
he planted
a grove:
and Achab
did
more
to
provoke
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
than
all
the
kings
of
Israel
that
were
before
him.
\VS{34}In
his
days
Hiel
of Bethel
built
Jericho:
in
Abiram
his
firstborn
he
laid
its
foundations:
and
in
his
youngest
son
Segub
he
set
up
the
gates thereof:
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
spoke
in
the
hand
of Josue
the
son
of
Nun.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Elias
the Thesbite
of
the inhabitants
of Galaad
said
to Achab:
As
the
Lord liveth
the
God
of
Israel,
in
whose
sight
I
stand,
there
shall
not
be
dew
nor
rain
these
years,
but
according
to
the
words
of
my
mouth.
\VS{2}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
him,
saying:
\VS{3}Get thee hence,
and go towards
the
east
and
hide thyself
by
the torrent
of Carith,
which
is
over
against
the
Jordan,
\VS{4}And
there thou shalt
drink
of
the torrent:
and
I
have
commanded
the
ravens
to feed thee
there.
\VS{5}So
he
went,
and
did
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord:
and going,
he
dwelt
by
the torrent Carith,
which
is
over
against
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 tile torrent.
\VS{7}But
after
some
time
the torrent
was
dried
up,
for
it
had
not rained
upon
the
earth.
\VS{8}Then
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
him,
saying:
\VS{9}Arise,
and
go
to Sarephta
of
the Sidonians,
and
dwell
there:
for
I
have
commanded
a
widow
woman
there
to feed thee.
\VS{10}He
arose,
and
went
to Sarephta.
And
when
he
was
come
to
the
gate
of
the
city,
he
saw
the
widow
woman
gathering
sticks,
and
he
called
her,
and
said
to
her:
Give
me
a
little
water
in
a
vessel,
that
I
may
drink.
\VS{11}And
when
she
was going
to fetch
it
he
called
after
her,
saying:
Bring
me also,
I
beseech thee,
a
morsel
of
bread
in thy
hand.
\VS{12}And
she
answered:
As
the
Lord thy
God liveth,
I
have
no
bread,
but
only
a handful
of
meal
in
a pot,
and
a
little
oil
in
a cruse:
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 Elias
said
to
her:
Fear
not,
but
go,
and
do
as thou hast
said:
but
first
make
for
me
of
the
same meal
a
little hearth
cake,
and
bring
it
to
me:
and
after
make
for thyself
and thy
son.
\VS{14}For
thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
The pot
of
meal
shall
not
waste,
nor
the cruse
of
oil
be diminished,
until
the
day wherein
the
Lord
will
give
rain
upon
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{15}She
went
and
did according
to
the
word
of Elias:
and
he
ate,
and
she,
and
her
house:
and
from
that
day
\VS{16}The pot
of
meal wasted
not,
and
the cruse
of
oil
was
not diminished,
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
spoke
in
the
hand
of Elias.
\VS{17}And
it
came
to
pass
after
this
that
the
son
of
the
woman,
the
mistress
of
the
house,
fell
sick,
and
the
sickness
was
very grievous,
so
that
there
was
no
breath
left
in
him.
\VS{18}And
she
said
to Elias:
What
have
I
to
do
with thee, thou
man
of
God? art thou
come
to
me
that
my
iniquities
should
be
remembered,
and
that thou shouldst
kill
my
son?
\VS{19}And Elias
said
to
her:
Give
me thy
son.
And
he
took
him
out
of
her
bosom,
and
carried
him
into
the
upper
chamber
where
he
abode,
and
laid
him
upon
his own
bed.
\VS{20}And
he
cried
to
the
Lord,
and
said:
O
Lord
my
God, hast thou
afflicted
also
the
widow,
with
whom
I
am
after
a
so maintained,
so
as
to
kill
her
son?
\VS{21}And
he
stretched,
and
measured
himself
upon
the
child
three
times,
and
cried
to
the
Lord,
and
said:
O
Lord
my
God,
let
the
soul
of
this
child,
I
beseech thee,
return
into
his
body.
\VS{22}And
the
Lord
heard
the
voice
of Elias:
and
the
soul
of
the
child
returned
into
him,
and
he
revived.
\VS{23}And Elias
took
the
child,
and
brought
him
down
from
the
upper
chamber
to
the
house
below,
and
delivered
him
to
his
mother,
and
said
to
her:
Behold thy
son liveth.
\VS{24}And
the
woman
said
to Elias:
Now,
by
this
I
know
that thou art
a
man
of
God,
and
the
word
of
the
Lord
in thy
mouth
is
true.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
many
days
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Elias,
in
the
third
year,
saying:
Go
and shew thyself
to Achab,
that
I
may
give
rain
upon
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{2}And Elias
went
to shew
himself
to Achab,
and there
was
a grievous
famine
in
Samaria.
\VS{3}And Achab
called Abdias
the governor
of
his
house:
now Abdias feared
the
Lord
very
much.
\VS{4}For
when Jezabel killed
the
prophets
of
the
Lord,
he
took
a
hundred
prophets
and
hid
them
by
fifty
and
fifty
in
caves,
and fed
them
with
bread
and
water.
\VS{5}And Achab
said
to Abdias: Go
into
the
land unto
all
fountains
of
waters,
and
into
all
valleys,
to see
if
we
can
find
grass,
and save
the
horses
and
mules,
that
the
beasts
may
not utterly
perish.
\VS{6}And
they
divided
the
countries
between
them,
that
they might
go round
about
them: Achab
went
one
way,
and Abdias
another
way
by
himself.
\VS{7}And
as Abdias
was
in
the
way, Elias
met
him:
and
he knew
him,
and
fell
on
his
face,
and
said: Art thou
my
lord Elias?
\VS{8}And
he
answered:
I
am.
Go,
and
tell thy
master: Elias
is
here.
\VS{9}And
he
said:
What
have
I
sinned,
that thou wouldst
deliver
me thy
servant
into
the
hand
of Achab,
that
he
should
kill
me?
\VS{10}As
the
Lord thy
God liveth,
there
is
no
nation
or
kingdom, whither
my
lord hath
not
sent
to
seek thee:
and
when all
answered:
He
is
not
here:
he
took
an
oath
of
every
kingdom
and
nation,
because thou wast
not
found.
\VS{11}And
now thou sayest
to
me:
Go,
and
tell thy
master: Elias
is
here.
\VS{12}And
when
I
am
gone
from thee,
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
will
carry thee
into
a
place
that
I
know
not:
and
I
shall
go
in
and
tell Achab,
and
he
not
finding thee,
will
kill
me:
but thy
servant feareth
the
Lord
from
his infancy.
\VS{13}Hath
it
not
been
told thee,
my
lord,
what
I
did
when Jezabel
killed
the
prophets
of
the
Lord,
how
I
hid
a
hundred
men
of
the
prophets
of
the
Lord,
by
fifty
and
fifty
in
caves,
and fed
them
with
bread
and
water?
\VS{14}And
now thou sayest:
Go,
and
tell thy
master: Elias
is
here:
that
he may
kill
me.
\VS{15}And Elias
said:
As
the
Lord
of
hosts liveth,
before
whose
face
I
stand,
this
day
I
will shew myself unto
him.
\VS{16}Abdias therefore
went
to
meet Achab,
and
told
him:
and Achab came
to
meet Elias.
\VS{17}And
when
he
had
seen
him,
he
said: Art thou
he
that troublest
Israel?
\VS{18}And
he
said:
I
have
not
troubled
Israel,
but thou
and thy
father’s
house,
who
have forsaken
the
commandments
of
the
Lord,
and
have
followed Baalim.
\VS{19}Nevertheless
send
now,
and
gather unto
me
all
Israel, unto
mount
Carmel,
and
the
prophets
of
Baal
four
hundred
and
fifty,
and
the
prophets
of
the groves
four
hundred,
who
eat
at Jezabel’s
table.
\VS{20}Achab
sent
to
all
the
children
of
Israel,
and
gathered
together
the
prophets unto
mount
Carmel.
\VS{21}And Elias
coming
to
all
the
people,
said:
How
long
do
you halt
between
two sides?
if
the
Lord
be
God,
follow
him:
but
if
Baal,
then
follow
him.
And
the
people
did
not
answer
him
a
word.
\VS{22}And Elias
said again
to
the
people:
I
only
remain
a
prophet
of
the
Lord:
but
the
prophets
of
Baal
are
four
hundred
and
fifty
men.
\VS{23}Let
two bullocks
be
given
us,
and
let
them
choose
one bullock
for
themselves,
and
cut
it
in
pieces
and
lay
it
upon
wood,
but
put
no
fire
under:
and
I
will dress
the
other bullock,
and
lay
it
on
wood,
and
put
no
fire
under
it.
\VS{24}Call ye
on
the
names
of
your
gods,
and
I
will
call
on
the
name
of
my
Lord:
and
the
God
that
shall
answer
by
fire,
let
him
be
God.
And
all
the
people answering
said:
A very
good
proposal.
\VS{25}Then Elias
said
to
the
prophets
of
Baal:
Choose
you
one bullock
and dress
it
first,
because
you
are
many:
and
call
on
the
names
of
your
gods,
but
put
no
fire under.
\VS{26}And
they
took
the bullock
which
he
gave
them,
and dressed
it:
and
they
called
on
the
name
of
Baal
from
morning
even
till
noon,
saying:
O
Baal,
hear
us.
But
there
was
no
voice,
nor
any
that
answered:
and
they leaped
over
the
altar
that
they
had
made.
\VS{27}And
when
it
was
now
noon, Elias jested
at
them,
saying:
Cry
with
a
louder
voice:
for
he
is
a
God,
and
perhaps
he
is talking,
or
is
in
an inn,
or
on
a
journey,
or
perhaps
he
is
asleep,
and must
be awaked.
\VS{28}So
they
cried
with
a
loud
voice,
and
cut
themselves
after
their
manner
with
knives
and lancets,
till
they
were
all covered
with
blood.
\VS{29}And
after midday
was past,
and
while
they
were
prophesying,
the
time
was
come
of
offering
sacrifice,
and
there
was
no
voice
heard,
nor did
any
one
answer,
nor regard
them
as
they prayed:
\VS{30}Elias
said
to
all
the
people:
Come ye unto
me.
And
the
people
coming
near unto
him,
he
repaired
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
that
was
broken
down:
\VS{31}And
he
took
twelve
stones
according
to
the
number
of
the
tribes
of
the
sons
of
Jacob,
to
whom
the
word
of
the
Lord
came,
saying:
Israel
shall
be thy
name.
\VS{32}And
he
built
with
the
stones
an
altar
to
the
name
of
the
Lord:
and
he
made
a trench
for water,
of
the breadth
of
two furrows
round
about
the
altar.
\VS{33}And
he
laid
the
wood
in order,
and
cut
the bullock
in
pieces,
and
laid
it
upon
the
wood.
\VS{34}And
he
said:
Fill
four buckets
with
water,
and
pour
it
upon
the
burnt offering,
and
upon
the
wood.
And
again
he
said:
Do
the same
the
second
time.
And
when
they
had done
it
the
second
time,
he
said:
Do
the same also
the
third
time.
And
they
did
so
the
third
time.
\VS{35}And
the
water run
round
about
the
altar,
and
the trench
was
filled
with
water.
\VS{36}And
when
it
was
now
time
to
offer
the holocaust, Elias
the
prophet
came
near
and
said:
O
Lord
God
of
Abraham,
and
Isaac,
and
Israel, shew
this
day
that thou art
the
God
of
Israel,
and
I thy
servant,
and
that according
to thy
commandment
I
have
done
all
these
things.
\VS{37}Hear
me,
O
Lord, hear
me:
that
this
people
may
learn,
that thou art
the
Lord
God,
and
that thou hast
turned
their
heart
again.
\VS{38}Then
the
fire
of
the
Lord
fell,
and
consumed
the holocaust,
and
the
wood,
and
the
stones,
and
the
dust,
and
licked
up
the
water
that
was
in
the trench.
\VS{39}And
when
all
the
people
saw
this,
they
fell
on
their
faces,
and
they
said:
The
Lord
he
is
God,
the
Lord
he
is
God.
\VS{40}And Elias
said
to
them:
Take
the
prophets
of
Baal,
and
let
not
one
of
them
escape.
And
when
they
had
taken
them, Elias
brought
them
down
to
the torrent Cison,
and
killed
them
there.
\VS{41}And Elias
said
to Achab:
Go
up,
eat,
and
drink:
for
there
is
a
sound
of
abundance
of
rain.
\VS{42}Achab
went
up
to
eat
and
drink:
and Elias
went
up
to
the
top
of
Carmel,
and casting
himself
down
upon
the
earth
put
his
face
between
his
knees,
\VS{43}And
he
said
to
his
servant:
Go
up,
and
look
toward
the
sea.
And
he
went
up,
and
looked,
and
said:
There
is
nothing.
And
again
he
said
to
him:
Return
seven
times.
\VS{44}And
at
the
seventh
time,
behold,
a
little
cloud
arose
out
of
the
sea
like
a
man’s foot.
And
he
said:
Go
up
and
say
to Achab:
Prepare thy chariot
and
go
down, lest
the
rain prevent thee.
\VS{45}And
while
he
turned himself
this
way
and
that
way, behold
the
heavens
grew
dark,
with
clouds,
and
wind,
and
there
fell
a
great
rain.
And Achab getting
up
went away
to Jezrahel:
\VS{46}And
the
hand
of
the
Lord
was
upon Elias,
and
he
girded
up
his
loins
and
ran
before Achab,
till
he
came
to Jezrahel.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Achab
told Jezabel
all
that Elias
had
done,
and
how
he
had
slain
all
the
prophets
with
the
sword.
\VS{2}And Jezabel
sent
a
messenger
to Elias,
saying:
Such
and
such
things
may
the
gods
do
to
me,
and
add
still
more,
if
by
this hour
tomorrow
I
make
not thy
life
as
the
life
of
one
of
them.
\VS{3}Then Elias
was afraid,
and
rising
up
he
went whithersoever
he
had
a
mind:
and
he
came
to Bersabee
of Juda,
and
left
his
servant
there,
\VS{4}And
he
went
forward,
one
day’s
journey
into
the
desert.
And
when
he
was
there,
and
sat
under
a
juniper
tree,
he
requested
for
his
soul
that
he
might
die,
and
said:
It
is
enough
for
me,
Lord,
take
away
my
soul:
for
I
am
no
better
than
my
fathers.
\VS{5}And
he
cast himself
down,
and
slept
in
the shadow
of
the
juniper
tree:
and
behold
an
angel
of
the Lord
touched
him,
and
said
to
him:
Arise
and
eat.
\VS{6}He
looked,
and
behold
there
was
at
his
head
a hearth
cake,
and
a vessel
of
water:
and
he
ate
and
drank,
and
he fell asleep
again.
\VS{7}And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
came
again
the
second
time,
and
touched
him,
and
said
to
him:
Arise,
eat:
for thou hast
yet
a
great
way
to
go.
\VS{8}And
he
arose,
and
ate,
and
drank,
and walked
in
the
strength
of
that
food
forty
days
and
forty
nights, unto
the
mount
of
God,
Horeb.
\VS{9}And
when
he
was
come thither,
he abode
in
a
cave:
and
behold
the
word
of
the
Lord
came unto
him,
and
he
said
to
him:
What dost thou
here, Elias?
\VS{10}And
he
answered:
With
zeal
have
I
been
zealous
for
the
Lord
God
of
hosts:
for
the
children
of
Israel
have forsaken thy
covenant:
they
have
thrown
down thy
altars,
they
have
slain thy
prophets
with
the
sword,
and
I
alone
am
left,
and
they
seek
my
life
to
take
it
away.
\VS{11}And
he
said
to
him:
Go
forth,
and
stand
upon
the
mount
before
the
Lord:
and
behold
the
Lord passeth,
and
a
great
and
strong
wind
before
the
Lord
over throwing
the
mountains,
and
breaking
the
rocks
in
pieces:
the
Lord
is
not
in
the
wind,
and
after
the
wind
an
earthquake:
the
Lord
is
not
in
the
earthquake.
\VS{12}And
after
the
earthquake
a
fire:
the
Lord
is
not
in
the
fire,
and
after
the
fire
a whistling
of
a
gentle air.
\VS{13}And
when Elias
heard
it,
he covered
his
face
with
his
mantle,
and
coming
forth
stood
in
the entering
in
of
the
cave,
and
behold
a
voice unto
him,
saying:
What dost thou
here, Elias?
And
he
answered:
\VS{14}With
zeal
have
I
been
zealous
for
the
Lord
God
of
hosts:
because
the
children
of
Israel
have forsaken thy
covenant:
they
have
destroyed thy
altars,
they
have
slain thy
prophets
with
the
sword,
and
I
alone
am
left,
and
they
seek
my
life
to
take
it
away.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
Go,
and
return
on thy
way
through
the
desert
to
Damascus:
and
when thou art
come thither, thou shalt
anoint
Hazael
to
be
king
over
Syria.
\VS{16}And thou shalt
anoint
Jehu
the
son
of Namsi
to
be
king
over
Israel:
and Eliseus
the
son
of Saphat,
of Abelmeula, thou shalt
anoint
to
be
prophet
in thy room.
\VS{17}And
it
shall
come
to
pass,
that whosoever
shall
escape
the
sword
of
Hazael,
shall
be slain
by
Jehu:
and whosoever
shall
escape
the
sword
of
Jehu,
shall
be slain
by Eliseus.
\VS{18}And
I
will
leave
me
seven
thousand
men
in
Israel,
whose
knees
have
not
been
bowed
before
Baal,
and
every
mouth
that hath
not worshipped
him kissing
the hands.
\VS{19}And Elias departing
from thence,
found Eliseus
the
son
of Saphat, ploughing
with
twelve
yoke
of oxen:
and
he
was
one
of
them
that
were ploughing
with
twelve
yoke
of oxen:
and
when Elias
came
up
to
him,
he
cast
his
mantle
upon
him.
\VS{20}And
he forthwith
left
the
oxen
and
ran
after Elias,
and
said:
Let
me,
I
pray thee, kiss
my
father
and
my
mother,
and
then
I
will
follow thee.
And
he
said
to
him:
Go,
and
return
back:
for
that
which
was
my part,
I
have
done
to thee.
\VS{21}And
returning
back
from
him,
he
took
a
yoke
of
oxen,
and killed
them,
and
boiled
the
flesh
with
the plough
of
the
oxen,
and
gave
to
the
people,
and
they
ate:
and
rising
up
he
went
away,
and
followed Elias,
and
ministered
to
him.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Benadad,
king
of
Syria,
gathered
together
all
his
host,
and
there
were
two
and
thirty
kings
with
him,
and
horses,
and
chariots:
and
going
up,
he
fought
against
Samaria,
and besieged
it.
\VS{2}And,
sending
messengers
to Achab
king
of
Israel
into
the
city,
\VS{3}He
said:
Thus saith Benadad: Thy
silver,
and thy
gold
is mine:
and thy
wives,
and thy goodliest
children
are mine.
\VS{4}And
the
king
of
Israel
answered: According
to thy
word,
my
lord
O
king,
I
am thine,
and
all
that
I
have.
\VS{5}And
the
messengers
came
again,
and
said:
Thus saith Benadad,
who
sent
us unto thee: Thy
silver,
and thy
gold,
and thy
wives,
and thy
children thou shalt
deliver
up
to
me.
\VS{6}Tomorrow
therefore
at
this
same hour
I
will
send
my
servants
to thee,
and
they
shall
search thy
house,
and
the
houses
of thy
servants:
and
all
that pleaseth
them,
they
shall
put
in
their
hands,
and
take
away.
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Israel
called
all
the ancients
of
the
land,
and
said: Mark,
and
see
that
he layeth snares
for
us.
For
he
sent
to
me
for
my
wives,
and
for
my
children,
and
for
my
silver
and
gold:
and
I
said
not nay.
\VS{8}And
all
the ancients,
and
all
the
people
said
to
him: Hearken
not
to
him,
nor
consent
to
him.
\VS{9}Wherefore
he
answered
the
messengers
of Benadad:
Tell
my
lord
the
king:
All
that thou didst
send
for
to
me thy
servant
at
first,
I
will
do:
but
this
thing
I
cannot
do.
\VS{10}And
the messengers returning
brought
him
word.
And
he
sent
again
and
said:
Such
and
such
things
may
the
gods
do
to
me,
and
more
may
they
add,
if
the
dust
of
Samaria
shall suffice
for
handfuls
for
all
the
people
that
follow
me.
\VS{11}And
the
king
of
Israel answering,
said:
Tell
him:
Let
not
the
girded
boast himself
as
the ungirded.
\VS{12}And
it
came
to
pass,
when Benadad
heard
this
word,
that
he
and
the
kings
were
drinking
in pavilions,
and
he
said
to
his
servants: Beset
the
city.
And
they beset
it.
\VS{13}And
behold
a
prophet
coming
to Achab
king
of
Israel,
said
to
him:
Thus saith
the
Lord: Hast thou
seen
all
this exceeding
great
multitude,
behold
I
will
deliver
them
into thy
hand
this
day:
that thou mayest
know
that
I
am
the
Lord.
\VS{14}And Achab
said:
By
whom?
And
he
said
to
him:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
By
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces.
And
he
said:
Who
shall
begin
to
fight?
And
he
said: Thou.
\VS{15}So
he
mustered
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces,
and
he found
the
number
of
two
hundred
and thirty-two:
and
he
mustered
after
them
the
people,
all
the
children
of
Israel,
seven
thousand:
\VS{16}And
they
went
out
at
noon.
But Benadad
was
drinking
himself
drunk
in
his
pavilion,
and
the
two
and
thirty
kings
with
him,
who
were
come
to
help
him.
\VS{17}And
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces
went
out
first.
And Benadad
sent.
And
they
told
him,
saying: There
are
men
come
out
of
Samaria.
\VS{18}And
he
said:
Whether
they
come
for
peace,
take
them
alive:
or
whether
they
come
to
fight,
take
them
alive.
\VS{19}So
the
servants
of
the
princes
of
the
provinces
went
out,
and
the rest
of
the
army
followed:
\VS{20}And
every
one
slew
the
man
that
came
against
him:
and
the Syrians
fled,
and
Israel
pursued
after
them.
And Benadad
king
of
Syria
fled
away
on
horseback
with
his
horsemen.
\VS{21}But
the
king
of
Israel
going
out overthrew
the
horses
and
chariots,
and
slew
the Syrians
with
a
great
slaughter.
\VS{22}(And
a
prophet
coming
to
the
king
of
Israel,
said
to
him:
Go,
and
strengthen thyself,
and
know,
and
see
what thou dost:
for
the
next
year
the
king
of
Syria
will
come
up
against thee.)
\VS{23}But
the
servants
of
the
king
of
Syria
said
to
him:
Their
gods
are
gods
of
the
hills,
therefore
they
have
overcome
us:
but
it
is
better
that
we
should
fight
against
them
in
the
plains,
and
we
shall
overcome
them.
\VS{24}Do thou therefore
this
thing:
Remove
all
the
kings
from thy army,
and
put
captains
in
their
stead:
\VS{25}And
make
up
the
number
of
soldiers
that
have
been slain
of thine,
and
horses according
to
the former
horses,
and
chariots according
to
the
chariots which thou hadst
before:
and
we
will
fight
against
them
in
the
plains,
and thou shalt
see
that
we
shall
overcome
them.
He believed
their counsel
and
did
so.
\VS{26}Wherefore
at
the
return
of
the
year, Benadad
mustered
the Syrians, ancient
up
to Aphec,
to
fight
against
Israel.
\VS{27}And
the
children
of
Israel
were
mustered,
and taking victuals
went
out
on
the
other
side,
and
camped
over
against
them,
like
two
little hocks
of
goats: but
the Syrians
filled
the
land.
\VS{28}(And
a
man
of
God
coming,
said
to
the
king
of
Israel:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Because
the Syrians
have
said:
The
Lord
is
God
of
the
hills,
but
is
not
God
of
the
valleys:
I
will
deliver
all
this
great
multitude
into thy
hand,
and
you
shall
know
that
I
am
the
Lord.)
\VS{29}And
both sides set
their armies
in
array
one
against
the
other
seven
days,
and
on
the
seventh
day
the
battle
was fought:
and
the
children
of
Israel
slew
of
the Syrians
a
hundred
thousand
footmen
in
one
day.
\VS{30}And
they
that
remained
fled
to Aphec,
into
the
city:
and
the
wall
fell
upon
seven
and
twenty
thousand
men,
that
were
left.
And Benadad
fleeing
went
into
the
city,
into
a
chamber
that
was
within
a
chamber.
\VS{31}And
his
servants
said
to
him:
Behold,
we
have
heard
that
the
kings
of
the
house
of
Israel
are merciful:
so
let
us
put
sackcloth
on
our
loins,
and
ropes
on
our
heads,
and
go
out
to
the
king
of
Israel:
perhaps
he
will
save
our
lives.
\VS{32}So
they
girded
sackcloth
on
their
loins,
and
put
ropes
on
their
heads,
and
came
to
the
king
of
Israel,
and
said
to
him: Thy
servant Benadad saith:
I
beseech thee
let
me
have
my
life.
And
he
said:
If
he
be
yet
alive
he
is
my
brother.
\VS{33}The
men
took
this
for
a sign:
and
in
haste
caught
the
word
out
of
his mouth,
and
said: Thy
brother Benadad.
And
he
said
to
them:
Go,
and
bring
him
to
me.
Then Benadad
came
out
to
him,
and
he
lifted
him
up
into
his
chariot.
\VS{34}And
he
said
to
him:
The
cities
which
my
father
took
from thy
father,
I
will
restore:
and
do thou
make thee
streets
in
Damascus,
as
my
father
made
in
Samaria,
and having
made
a
league
I
will depart
from thee.
So
he
made
a
league
with
him,
and
let
him
go.
\VS{35}Then
a
certain
man
of
the
sons
of
the
prophets
said
to
his
companion
in
the
word
of
the
Lord:
Strike
me.
But
he
would
not
strike.
\VS{36}Then
he
said
to
him:
Because thou wouldst
not hearken
to
the
word
of
the
Lord,
behold
then shalt
depart
from
me,
and
a
lion
shall
slay thee.
And
when
he
was
gone
a little
from
him,
a
lion
found
him,
and
slew
him.
\VS{37}Then
he
found
another
man,
and
said
to
him:
Strike
me.
And
he
struck
him,
and
wounded
him.
\VS{38}So
the
prophet went,
and met
the
king
in
the
way,
and
disguised himself
by sprinkling dust
on
his
face
and
his
eyes.
\VS{39}And
as
the
king
passed
by,
he
cried
to
the
king,
and
said: Thy
servant
went
out
to
fight hand
to hand:
and
when
a
certain
man
was run
away,
one
brought
him
to
me,
and
said:
Keep
this
man:
and
if
he
shall slip
away, thy
life
shall
be
for
his
life,
or thou shalt
pay
a
talent
of
silver.
\VS{40}And whilst
I
in
a hurry
turned
this
way
and
that,
on
a sudden
he
was
not
to
be seen.
And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
him:
This
is thy
judgment,
which thyself hast
decreed.
\VS{41}But
he forthwith wiped
off
the dust
from
his
face,
and
the
king
of
Israel knew
him,
that
he
was
one
of
the
prophets.
\VS{42}And
he
said
to
him:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
Because thou hast
let
go
out
of thy
hand
a mall worthy
of
death, thy
life
shall
be
for
his
life,
and thy
people
for
his
people.
\VS{43}And
the
king
of
Israel
returned
to
his
house, slighting
to hear,
and raging
came
into
Samaria.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
after
these
things,
Naboth
the Jezrahelite,
who
was
in Jezrahel,
had
at
that
time
a
vineyard
near
the
palace
of Achab
king
of
Samaria.
\VS{2}And Achab
spoke
to
Naboth,
saying:
Give
me thy
vineyard,
that
I
may
make
me
a
garden
of herbs,
because
it
is nigh,
and adjoining
to
my
house,
and
I
will
give thee
for
it
a
better
vineyard:
or
if thou
think
it
more convenient
for thee,
I
will
give thee
the worth
of
it
in
money.
\VS{3}Naboth
answered
him:
The
Lord
be merciful
to
me,
and not
let
me
give thee
the
inheritance
of
my
fathers.
\VS{4}And Achab
came
into
his
house angry
and fretting,
because
of
the
word
that
Naboth
the Jezrahelite
had
spoken
to
him,
saying:
I
will
not
give thee
the
inheritance
of
my
fathers.
And casting
himself
upon
his
bed,
he
turned
away
his
face
to
the wall,
and
would
eat
no
bread.
\VS{5}And Jezabel
his
wife
went
in
to
him,
and
said
to
him:
What
is
the matter
that thy soul
is
so grieved?
and
why eatest thou
no
bread?
\VS{6}And
he
answered
her:
I
spoke
to
Naboth
the Jezrahelite,
and
said
to
him:
Give
me thy
vineyard,
and
take
money
for
it:
or
if
it please thee,
I
will
give thee
a better
vineyard
for
it.
And
he
said:
I
will
not
give thee
my
vineyard.
\VS{7}Then Jezabel
his
wife
said
to
him: Thou art
of great
authority
indeed,
and governest
well
the
kingdom
of
Israel.
Arise,
and
eat
bread,
and
be
of
good
cheer,
I
will
give thee
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
the Jezrahelite.
\VS{8}So
she
wrote letter’s
in Achab’s
name,
and
sealed
them
with
his ring,
and
sent
them
to
the ancients,
and
the chief
men
that
were
in
his
city,
and
that
dwelt
with
Naboth.
\VS{9}And this
was
the tenor
of
the
letters:
Proclaim
a
fast,
and
make
Naboth
sit
among
the
chief
of
the
people,
\VS{10}And suborn
two
men,
sons
of Belial
against
him,
and let
them bear false witness:
that
he hath blasphemed
God
and
the
king:
and
then
carry
him
out,
and
stone
him,
and
so let
him
die.
\VS{11}And
the
men
of
his
city,
the ancients
and
nobles,
that
dwelt
with
him
in
the
city,
did
as Jezabel
had commanded
them,
and
as
it
was
written
in
the
letters
which
she
had
sent
to
them:
\VS{12}They
proclaimed
a
fast,
and
made
Naboth
sit
among
the
chief
of
the
people.
\VS{13}And
bringing
two
men,
sons
of
the devil,
they made
them
sit
against
him:
and
they,
like
men
of
the devil, bore witness
against
him
before
the
people,
saying:
Naboth hath blasphemed
God
and
the
king: wherefore
they
brought
him
forth without
the
city,
and
stoned
him
to
death.
\VS{14}And
they
sent
to Jezabel,
saying:
Naboth
is
stoned,
and
is
dead.
\VS{15}And
it
came
to
pass
when Jezabel
heard
that
Naboth
was
stoned,
and
dead,
that
she
said
to Achab:
Arise
and
take
possession
of
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
the Jezrahelite,
who
would
not
agree
with thee,
and
give
it thee
for
money:
for
Naboth
is
not
alive,
but
dead.
\VS{16}And
when Achab
heard
this,
to wit,
that
Naboth
was
dead,
he
arose,
and
went
down
to
the
vineyard
of
Naboth
the Jezrahelite,
to
take
possession
of
it.
\VS{17}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Elias
the Thesbite,
saying:
\VS{18}Arise,
and
go
down
to
meet Achab
king
of
Israel,
who
is
in
Samaria:
behold
he
is
going
down
to
the
vineyard
of
Naboth,
to
take
possession
of
it:
\VS{19}And thou shalt
speak
to
him,
saying:
Thus saith
the
Lord: Thou hast slain,
moreover
also thou hast
taken
possession.
And
after
these words thou shalt add:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
In
this
place,
wherein
the
dogs
have
licked
the
blood
of
Naboth,
they
shall
lick thy
blood
also.
\VS{20}And Achab
said
to Elias: Hast thou
found
me thy
enemy?
He
said:
I
have
found thee,
because thou art
sold,
to
do
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord.
\VS{21}Behold
I
will
bring
evil
upon thee,
and
I
will
cut
down thy posterity,
and
I
will
kill
of Achab
him
that pisseth
against
the
wall,
and
him
that
is
shut
up,
and
the last
in
Israel.
\VS{22}And
I
will
make thy
house
like
the
house
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat,
and
like
the
house
of Baasa
the
son
of Ahias:
for
what thou hast
done,
to
provoke
me
to
anger,
and
for
making
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{23}And
of Jezabel
also
the
Lord
spoke,
saying:
The
dogs
shall
eat Jezabel
in
the field
of Jezrahel.
\VS{24}If Achab
die
in
the
city,
the
dogs
shall
eat
him:
but if
he
die
in
the
field,
the
birds
of
the air
shall
eat
him.
\VS{25}Now
there
was
not
such
another
as Achab,
who
was
sold
to
do
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord:
for
his
wife Jezabel
set
him
on,
\VS{26}And
he became
abominable, insomuch
that
he
followed
the
idols
which
the Amorrhites
had
made,
whom
the
Lord destroyed
before
the
face
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{27}And
when Achab
had
heard
these
words,
he rent
his
garments,
and
put haircloth
upon
his
flesh,
and
fasted
and
slept
in
sackcloth,
and
walked
with
his head cast
down.
\VS{28}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Elias
the Thesbite,
saying:
\VS{29}Hast thou
not
seen Achab
humbled
before
me?
therefore,
because
he hath
humbled
himself
for
my
sake,
I
will
not
bring
the
evil
in
his
days,
but
in
his
son’s
days
will
I
bring
the
evil
upon
his
house.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
there
passed
three
years
without
war
between
Syria
and
Israel.
\VS{2}And
in
the
third
year, Josaphat
king
of Juda
came
down
to
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{3}(And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to
his
servants:
Know ye not-that
Ramoth Galaad
is ours,
and
we neglect
to
take
it
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Syria?)
\VS{4}And
he
said
to Josaphat: Wilt thou come
with
me
to
battle
to
Ramoth Galaad?
\VS{5}And Josaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel:
As
I
am,
so art thou:
my people
and thy people
are
one:
and
my horsemen, thy horsemen.
And Josaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel:
Inquire,
I
beseech thee,
this
day,
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}Then
the
king
of
Israel
assembled
the
prophets,
about
four
hundred
men,
and
he
said
to
them:
Shall
I
go
to
Ramoth Galaad
to
fight,
or
shall
I forbear?
They
answered:
Go
up,
and
the
Lord
will
deliver
it
into
the
hand
of
the
king.
\VS{7}And Josaphat
said:
Is
there
not
here some
prophet
of
the
Lord,
that we
may
inquire
by
him?
\VS{8}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat:
There
is
one
man
left,
by
whom
we
may
inquire
of
the
Lord: Micheas
the
son
of Jemla;
but
I
hate
him,
for
he doth
not
prophesy
good
to
me,
but
evil.
And Josaphat
said:
Speak
not
so,
O
king.
\VS{9}Then
the
king
of
Israel
called
an
eunuch,
and
said
to
him:
Make
haste,
and
bring hither Micheas
the
son
of Jemla.
\VS{10}Then
the
king
of
Israel,
and Josaphat
king
of Juda,
sat
each
on
his
throne
clothed
with
royal
robes,
in
a
court
by
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
Samaria,
and
all
the
prophets
prophesied
before
them.
\VS{11}And Sedecias
the
son
of Chanaana
made himself
horns
of
iron,
and
said:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
With
these shalt thou
push
Syria,
till thou
destroy
it.
\VS{12}And
all
the
prophets
prophesied
in
like
manner,
saying:
Go
up
to
Ramoth Galaad,
and
prosper,
for
the
Lord
will
deliver
it
into
the
king’s
hands.
\VS{13}And
the
messenger,
that
went
to
call Micheas,
spoke
to
him,
saying:
Behold
the
words
of
the
prophets
with
one month
declare
good
things
to
the
king:
let thy
word
therefore
be
like
to
theirs,
and
speak
that
which
is
good.
\VS{14}But Micheas
said
to
him:
As
the
Lord liveth, whatsoever
the
Lord
shall
say
to
me,
that
will
I
speak.
\VS{15}So
he
came
to
the
king,
and
the
king
said
to
him: Micheas,
shall
we
go
to
Ramoth Galaad
to
battle,
or
shall
we forbear?
He
answered
him:
Go
up,
and
prosper,
and
the
Lord
shall
deliver
it
into
the
king’s
hands.
\VS{16}But
the
king
said
to
him:
I
adjure thee
again
and
again,
that thou
tell
me
nothing
but
that
which
is
true
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And
he
said:
I
saw
all
Israel
scattered
upon
the
hills,
like
sheep
that
have
no
shepherd:
and
the
Lord
said:
These
have
no
master:
let
every
man
of
them
return
to
his
house
in
peace.
\VS{18}(Then
the
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat:
Did
I
not
tell thee,
that
he prophesieth
no
good
to
me,
but always
evil?)
\VS{19}And
he
added
and
said:
Hear thou
therefore
the
word
of
the
Lord:
I
saw
the
Lord
sitting
on
his
throne,
and
all
the
army
of
heaven
standing
by
him
on
the
right
hand
and
on
the
left:
\VS{20}And
the
Lord
said:
Who
shall deceive Achab king
of Israel,
that
he
may
go
up,
and
fall
at
Ramoth Galaad?
And
one
spoke words
of
this manner,
and
another otherwise.
\VS{21}And
there
came
forth
a
spirit,
and
stood
before
the
Lord,
and
said:
I
will deceive
him.
And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
By what means?
\VS{22}And
he
said:
I
will
go
forth,
and
be
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.
And
the Lord
said: Thou shalt deceive
him,
and shalt
prevail:
a
go
forth,
and
do
so.
\VS{23}Now
therefore
behold
the
Lord hath
given
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all thy
prophets
that
are
here,
and
the
Lord hath
spoken
evil
against thee.
\VS{24}And Sedecias
the
son
of Chanaana
came,
and
struck Micheas
on
the
cheek,
and
said: Hath
then
the
spirit
of
the
Lord left
me,
and
spoken
to thee?
\VS{25}And Micheas
said: Thou shalt
see
in
the
day
when thou shalt
go
into
a
chamber
within
a
chamber
to
hide thyself.
\VS{26}And
the
king
of
Israel
said:
Take Micheas,
and let
him abide
with Ammon
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
with Joas
the
son
of Amalech.
\VS{27}And
tell
them:
Thus saith
the
king:
Put
this man
in
prison,
and
feed
him
with
bread
of affliction,
and
water
of distress,
till
I
return
in
peace.
\VS{28}And Micheas
said:
If thou
return
in
peace,
the
Lord hath
not
spoken
by
me.
And
he
said:
Hear,
all ye
people.
\VS{29}So
the
king
of
Israel,
and Josaphat
king
of Juda
went
up
to
Ramoth Galaad.
\VS{30}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat:
Take armour,
and
go
into
the
battle,
and
put
on thy own
garments.
But
the
king
of
Israel changed
his
dress,
and
went
into
the
battle.
\VS{31}And
the
king
of
Syria
had
commanded
the
two
and
thirty
captains
of
the
chariots,
saying:
You
shall
not
fight
against
any,
small
or
great,
but
against
the
king
of
Israel
only.
\VS{32}So
when
the
captains
of
the
chariots
saw Josaphat,
they suspected
that
he
was
the
king
of
Israel,
and making
a violent assault
they
fought
against
him:
and Josaphat
cried
out.
\VS{33}And
the
captains
of
the
chariots
perceived
that
he
was
not
the
king
of
and
they
turned
away
from
him.
\VS{34}And
a
certain
man bent
his
bow, shooting
at
a venture,
and chanced
to
strike
the
king
of
Israel
between
the lungs
and
the stomach.
But
he
said
to
the
driver
of
his
chariot:
Turn thy
hand,
and
carry
me
out
of
the
army,
for
I am grievously
wounded.
\VS{35}And
the
battle
was fought
that
day,
and
the
king
of
Israel
stood
in
his
chariot
against
the Syrians,
and
he
died
in
the
evening:
and
the
blood
ran
out
of
the
wound
into
the midst
of
the
chariot.
\VS{36}And
the herald proclaimed
through
all
the
army
before
the
sun
set,
saying: Let
every
man
return
to
his
own
city,
and
to
his
own
country.
\VS{37}And
the
king
died,
and
was
carried
into
Samaria:
and
they
buried
the
king
in
Samaria.
\VS{38}And
they
washed
his
chariot
in
the
pool
of
Samaria,
and
the
dogs
licked
up
his
blood,
and
they
washed
the reins,
according
to
the
word
of
the
Lord
which
he
had
spoken.
\VS{39}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Achab,
and
all
that
he
did,
and
the
house
of
ivory
that
he
made,
and
all
the
cities
that
he
built,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of
Israel?
\VS{40}So Achab
slept
with
his
fathers,
and Ochozias
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{41}But Josaphat
the
son
of
Asa began
to
reign
over Juda
in
the
fourth
year
of Achab
king
of
Israel.
\VS{42}He
was
five
and
thirty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
five
and
twenty
years
in
Jerusalem:
the
name
of
his
mother
was Azuba
the
daughter
of Salai.
\VS{43}And
he walked
in
all
the
way
of
Asa
his
father,
and
he declined
not
from
it:
and
he
did
that
which
was
right
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord.
\VS{44}Nevertheless
he
took
not
away
the
high
places:
for
as Set
the
people
offered
sacrifices
and
burnt
incense
in
the
high
places.
\VS{45}And Josaphat
had peace
with
the
king
of
Israel.
\VS{46}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Josaphat,
and
his
works
which
he
did,
and
his batties,
are
they
not
written
in
the
book
of
the
words
of
the
days
of
the
kings
of Juda?
\VS{47}And
the
remnant
also
of
the effeminate,
who
remained
in
the
days
of
Asa
his
father,
he took
out
of
the
land.
\VS{48}And
there
was
then
no
king appointed
in
Edom.
\VS{49}But king Josaphat
made navies
on
the
sea,
to sail
into
Ophir
for
gold:
but
they could
not
go,
for
the
ships
were
broken
in Asiongaber.
\VS{50}Then Ochozias
the ton
of Achab
said
to Josaphat:
Let
my
servants go
with thy
servants
in
the
ships.
And Josaphat
would
not.
\VS{51}And Josaphat
slept
with
his
fathers.
and
was
buried
with
them
in
the
city
of
David
his
father:
and
Joram
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{52}And Ochozias
the
son
of Achab began
to
reign
over
Israel
in
Samaria,
in
the seventeenth gear
of Josaphat
king
of Juda,
and
he
reigned
over
Israel two
years,
\VS{53}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and walked
in
the
way
of
his
father
and
his
mother,
and
in
the
way
of
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat,
who
made
Israel
to
sin.
\VS{54}He
served
also
Baal,
and worshipped
him,
and
provoked
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel, according
to
all
that
his
father
had
done.
\par }