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1:1 Now king David was old [and] advanced in years; and they
 covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
1:2 Wherefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for
 my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the
 king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom,
 that my lord the king may get heat.
1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders
 of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunamite, and brought her to
 the king.
1:4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and
 ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I
 will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and
 fifty men to run before him.
1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying,
 Why hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man];
 and [his mother] bore him after Absalom.
1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with
 Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah, helped [him].
1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
 Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who
 [belonged] to David, were not with Adonijah.
1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep, and oxen, and fat cattle, by the
 stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by En-rogel, and called all his
 brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's
 servants:
1:10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men,
 and Solomon his brother, he called not.
1:11 Wherefore Nathan spoke to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon,
 saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith
 doth reign, and David our lord knoweth [it] not?
1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel,
 that thou mayest save thy own life, and the life of thy son
 Solomon.
1:13 Go, and enter in to king David, and say to him, Didst not
 thou, my lord, O king, swear to thy handmaid, saying, Assuredly
 Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my
 throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
1:14 Behold, while thou art yet talking there with the king, I
 will also come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
1:15 And Bath-sheba went to the king into the chamber: and the
 king was very old; and Abishag the Shunamite ministered to the
 king.
1:16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And
 the king said, What wouldst thou?
1:17 And she said to him, My lord, thou didst swear by the LORD
 thy God to thy handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon thy son
 shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the
 king, thou knowest [it] not:
1:19 And he hath slain oxen, and fat cattle, and sheep in
 abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and
 Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but
 Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
1:20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are]
 upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them who shall sit on the
 throne of my lord the king after him.
1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king
 shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall
 be counted offenders.
1:22 And lo, while she was yet talking with the king, Nathan the
 prophet also came in.
1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet.
 And when he had come in before the king, he bowed himself
 before the king with his face to the ground.
1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah
 shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
1:25 For he hath gone down this day, and hath slain oxen, and
 fat cattle, and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the
 king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the
 priest; and behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God
 save king Adonijah.
1:26 But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and
 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he
 not called.
1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not
 shown [it] to thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my
 lord the king after him?
1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And
 she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
1:29 And the king swore, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that
 hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
1:30 Even as I swore to thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying,
 Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall
 sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do
 this day.
1:31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did
 reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live
 for ever.
1:32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan
 the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came
 before the king.
1:33 The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of
 your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon my own mule,
 and bring him down to Gihon:
1:34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
 there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say,
 God save king Solomon.
1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit
 upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have
 appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and
 said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].
1:37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so let
 him be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the
 throne of my lord king David.
1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah
 the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites,
 went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule,
 and brought him to Gihon.
1:39 And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the
 tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet;
 and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped
 with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent
 with the sound of them.
1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with him heard
 [it] as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the
 sound of the trumpet, he said, Why [is this] noise of the city
 being in an uproar?
1:42 And while he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of
 Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said to him, Come in;
 for thou [art] a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord
 king David hath made Solomon king.
1:44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and
 Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the
 Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to
 ride upon the king's mule:
1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed
 him king in Gihon: and they have come from thence rejoicing, so
 that the city resounded. This [is] the noise that ye have
 heard.
1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord
 king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than
 thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the
 king bowed himself upon the bed.
1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed [be] the LORD God of
 Israel, who hath given [one] to sit on my throne this day, my
 eyes even seeing [it].
1:49 And all the guests that [were] with Adonijah were afraid,
 and arose, and went every man his way.
1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and
 went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth
 king Solomon: for lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the
 altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me to-day that he will
 not slay his servant with the sword.
1:52 And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man,
 there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth: but if
 wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the
 altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and
 Solomon said to him, Go to thy house.
2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he
 charged Solomon his son, saying,
2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and
 show thyself a man;
2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his
 ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
 judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of
 Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and
 whithersoever thou turnest thyself.
2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke
 concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way,
 to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all
 their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the
 throne of Israel.
2:5 Moreover, thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did
 to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the armies of
 Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of
 Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and
 put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his
 loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.
2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary
 head go down to the grave in peace.
2:7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite,
 and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they
 came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
2:8 And behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
 Benjaminite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in
 the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at
 Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put
 thee to death with the sword.
2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise
 man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do to him; but his hoary
 head do thou bring down to the grave with blood.
2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
 of David.
2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty
 years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three
 years reigned he in Jerusalem.
2:12 Then Solomon was seated upon the throne of David his
 father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the
 mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? and he
 said, Peaceably.
2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say to thee. And she
 said, Say on.
2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and
 [that] all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign:
 but the kingdom is turned about, and hath become my brother's:
 for it was his from the LORD.
2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she
 said to him, Say on.
2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, to Solomon the king, (for
 he will not say to thee no,) that he give me Abishag the
 Shunamite for a wife.
2:18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee to the
 king.
2:19 Bath-sheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him
 for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed
 himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat
 to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
2:20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; [I pray
 thee], deny me not. And the king said to her, Ask on, my
 mother: for I will not deny thee.
2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunamite be given to
 Adonijah thy brother for a wife.
2:22 And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why
 dost thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah? ask for him
 the kingdom also; for he [is] my elder brother; even for him,
 and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
2:23 Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to
 me, and more also, if Adonijah hath not spoken this word
 against his own life.
2:24 Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth, who hath established
 me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath
 made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death
 this day.
2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of
 Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
2:26 And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Depart to
 Anathoth, to thy own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death:
 but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou
 didst bear the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and
 because thou hast been afflicted in all in which my father was
 afflicted.
2:27 So Solomon removed Abiathar from being priest to the LORD;
 that he might fulfill the word of the LORD, which he spoke
 concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
2:28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after
 Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled to
 the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the
 altar.
2:29 And it was told to king Solomon that Joab had fled to the
 tabernacle of the LORD; and behold, [he is] by the altar. Then
 Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon
 him.
2:30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said to
 him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, No; but I
 will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying,
 Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
2:31 And the king said to him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon
 him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent
 blood which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my
 father.
2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who
 fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew
 them with the sword, my father David not knowing [of it], [to
 wit], Abner the son of Ner captain of the host of Israel, and
 Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab,
 and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and
 upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall
 there be peace forever from the LORD.
2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went, and fell upon him, and
 slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room
 over the army: and Zadok the priest the king put in the room of
 Abiathar.
2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him,
 Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not
 forth thence to any place whatever.
2:37 For it shall be, [that] on the day thou shalt go out, and
 pass over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that
 thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thy own head.
2:38 And Shimei said to the king, The saying [is] good: as my
 lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei
 dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of
 the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maachah king
 of Gath: and they told Shimei, saying, behold, thy servants are
 in Gath.
2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to
 Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went and brought his
 servants from Gath.
2:41 And it was told to Solomon that Shimei had gone from
 Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.
2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him,
 Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protest to thee,
 saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and
 walkest any where abroad, that thou shalt surely die? and thou
 saidst to me, The word [that] I have heard [is] good.
2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
 commandment that I have charged thee with?
2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the
 wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to
 David my father: therefore the LORD will return thy wickedness
 upon thy own head;
2:45 And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of
 David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; who went
 out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was
 established in the hand of Solomon.
3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
 took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of
 David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and
 the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem on every side.
3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was
 no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days.
3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David
 his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high
 places.
3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that
 [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did
 Solomon offer upon that altar.
3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:
 and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shown to thy servant David my
 father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in
 truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with
 thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou
 hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day.
3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king
 instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I
 know not how to go out or come in.
3:8 And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou
 hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor
 counted for multitude.
3:9 Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart to
 judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for
 who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
3:10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked
 this thing.
3:11 And God said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing,
 and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked
 riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thy enemies: but
 hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
3:12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have
 given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there
 hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall
 any arise like to thee.
3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked,
 both riches, and honor: so that there shall not be any among
 the kings like to thee all thy days,
3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and
 my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will
 lengthen thy days.
3:15 And Solomon awoke; and behold, [it was] a dream. And he
 came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of
 the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered
 peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
3:16 Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, to the
 king, and stood before him.
3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell
 in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the
 house.
3:18 And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered,
 that this woman was delivered also: and we [were] together;
 [there was] no stranger with us in the house, save us two in
 the house.
3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she
 overlaid it.
3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
 while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid
 her dead child in my bosom.
3:21 And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold,
 it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning,
 behold, it was not my son, which I bore.
3:22 And the other woman said, No; but the living [is] my son,
 and the dead [is] thy son. And this said, No; but the dead [is]
 thy son, and the living [is] my son. Thus they spoke before the
 king.
3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son that
 liveth, and thy son [is] the dead; and the other saith, No; but
 thy son [is] the dead, and my son [is] the living.
3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a
 sword before the king.
3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give
 half to the one, and half to the other.
3:26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child [was] to the
 king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my
 lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But
 the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, [but] divide
 [it].
3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child,
 and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother of it.
3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
 judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom
 of God [was] in him, to do judgment.
4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
4:2 And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son
 of Zadok the priest,
4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehosaphat
 the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the army: and
 Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests:
4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers: and
 Zabud the son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the
 king's friend:
4:6 And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son
 of Abda [was] over the tribute.
4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who
 provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his
 month in a year made provision.
4:8 And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount
 Ephraim:
4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and
 Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh,
 and all the land of Hepher:
4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; who had
 Taphath the daughter of Solomon for a wife:
4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and
 Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath
 Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, [even] to [the place
 that is] beyond Jokneam:
4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him [pertained] the
 towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to
 him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan,
 sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars:
4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:
4:15 Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the
 daughter of Solomon for a wife:
4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:
4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
4:19 Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in]
 the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of
 Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who [was] in the land.
4:20 Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the
 sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the
 land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they
 brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of
 fine flour, and sixty measures of meal.
4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a
 hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow-deer,
 and fatted fowls.
4:24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the
 river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this
 side of the river: and he had peace on all sides around him.
4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine
 and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the
 days of Solomon.
4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
 chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
4:27 And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and
 for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his
 month: they lacked nothing.
4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries they
 brought to the place where [the officers] were, every man
 according to his charge.
4:29 And God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and
 largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the
 sea-shore.
4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
 children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
 Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame
 was in all the surrounding nations.
4:32 And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
 thousand and five.
4:33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in
 Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he
 spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals,
 and of fishes.
4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
 from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he
 had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his
 father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a
 house to the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were
 about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the
 soles of his feet.
5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side,
 [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
5:5 And behold, I purpose to build a house to the name of the
 LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Thy
 son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall
 build a house to my name.
5:6 Now therefore command thou, that they hew me cedar trees out
 of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and to
 thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that
 thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among
 us any that is skilled in hewing timber like the Sidonians.
5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon,
 that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this
 day, who hath given to David a wise son over this great people.
5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the
 things which thou sentest to me for: [and] I will perform all
 thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of
 fir.
5:9 My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon to the sea:
 and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that thou
 shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there,
 and thou shalt receive [them]: and thou shalt accomplish my
 desire, in giving food for my household.
5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according
 to] all his desire.
5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat
 [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil:
 thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and
 there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a
 league together.
5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the
 levy was thirty thousand men.
5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by
 courses; a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at
 home. And Adoniram [was] over the levy.
5:15 And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and
 eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;
5:16 Besides the chief of Solomon's officers who [were] over the
 work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the
 people that wrought in the work.
5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,
 costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the
 house.
5:18 And Solomon's builders, and Hiram's builders did hew
 [them], and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and
 stones to build the house.
6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year
 after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt,
 in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month
 of Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the
 house of the LORD.
6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the
 length of it [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty
 [cubits], and the hight of it thirty cubits.
6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits
 [was] the length of it, according to the breadth of the house;
 [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth of it, before the house.
6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round
 about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of
 the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
6:6 The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the
 middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits
 broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed
 rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in
 the walls of the house.
6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone
 made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was
 neither hammer nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the
 house, while it was in building.
6:8 The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of
 the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle
 [chamber], and out of the middle into the third;
6:9 So he built the house and finished it; and covered the house
 with beams and boards of cedar.
6:10 And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five
 cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
6:12 [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou
 wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep
 all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my
 word with thee, which I spoke to David thy father:
6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not
 forsake my people Israel.
6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of
 cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the
 ceiling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and
 covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both
 the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built
 [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the
 most holy [place].
6:17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty
 cubits [long].
6:18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knobs
 and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set
 there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
6:20 And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in
 length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the
 hight of it, and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so]
 covered the altar [which was of] cedar.
6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he
 made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and
 he overlaid it with gold.
6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had
 finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the
 oracle he overlaid with gold.
6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubim [of] olive tree,
 [each] ten cubits high.
6:24 And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five
 cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of
 the one wing to the uttermost part of the other [were] ten
 cubits.
6:25 And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubim
 [were] of one measure and one size.
6:26 The hight of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was
 it] of the other cherub.
6:27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house: and they
 stretched forth the wings of the cherubim, so that the wing of
 the one touched the [one] wall, and the wing of the other
 cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one
 another in the midst of the house.
6:28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house around with carved
 figures of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, within
 and without.
6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within
 and without.
6:31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors [of] olive
 tree: the lintel [and] side-posts [were] a fifth part [of the
 wall].
6:32 The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon
 them carvings of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers,
 and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the
 cherubim, and upon the palm trees.
6:33 So also he made for the door of the temple posts [of] olive
 tree a fourth part [of the wall].
6:34 And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the
 one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door
 [were] folding.
6:35 And he carved [thereon] cherubim, and palm trees, and open
 flowers; and covered [them] with gold, fitted upon the carved
 work.
6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone,
 and a row of cedar beams.
6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the
 LORD laid, in the month Zif:
6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul (which [is] the
 eighth month) was the house finished throughout all its parts,
 and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years
 in building it.
7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and
 he finished all his house.
7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length
 [was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its
 hight thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with
 cedar beams upon the pillars.
7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that
 [lay] on forty-five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
7:4 And [there were] windows in three rows, and light [was]
 against light [in] three ranks.
7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows:
 and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; its length [was] fifty
 cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits: and the porch [was]
 before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beams [were]
 before them.
7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge,
 [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar
 from one side of the floor to the other.
7:8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the
 porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also a house
 for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married, like to this
 porch.
7:9 All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures
 of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from
 the foundation to the coping, and [so] on the outside towards
 the great court.
7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great
 stones; stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewn
 stones, and cedars.
7:12 And the great court around [was] with three rows of hewn
 stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of
 the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
7:13 And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
7:14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his
 father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was
 filled with wisdom, and understanding, and ingenious to work
 all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought
 all his work.
7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, each of eighteen cubits
 high: and a line of twelve cubits did encompass each of them.
7:16 And he made two capitals [of] molten brass, to set upon the
 tops of the pillars: the hight of the one capital [was] five
 cubits, and the hight of the other capital [was] five cubits:
7:17 [And] nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for
 the capitals which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven
 for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows around upon the one
 net-work, to cover the capitals that [were] upon the top, with
 pomegranates: and so he did for the other capital.
7:19 And the capitals that [were] upon the top of the pillars
 [were] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits.
7:20 And the capitals upon the two pillars [had pomegranates]
 also above, over against the belly which [was] by the net-work:
 and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows around upon the
 other capital.
7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and
 he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin: and he
 set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.
7:22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily-work: so was the
 work of the pillars finished.
7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
 the other: [it was] entirely round, and its hight [was] five
 cubits: and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it.
7:24 And under the brim of it around [there were] knobs
 compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea around: the
 knobs [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.
7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking towards the north,
 and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards
 the south, and three looking towards the east: and the sea [was
 set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.
7:26 And it [was] a hand-breadth thick, and its brim was wrought
 like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained
 two thousand baths.
7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the
 length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and
 three cubits the hight of it.
7:28 And the work of the bases [was] in this [manner]: They had
 borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:
7:29 And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were]
 lions, oxen, and cherubim: and upon the ledges [there was] a
 base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain
 additions made of thin work.
7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass:
 and the four corners of it had undersetters: under the laver
 [were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
7:31 And the mouth of it within the capital and above [was] a
 cubit: but the mouth of it [was] round [after] the work of the
 base, a cubit and a half: and also upon the mouth of it [were]
 gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
7:32 And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees
 of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the hight of a
 wheel [was] a cubit and half a cubit.
7:33 And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot
 wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their fellies, and
 their spokes, [were] all molten.
7:34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of
 one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base
 itself.
7:35 And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of
 half a cubit high: and on the top of the base its ledges and
 its borders [were] of the same.
7:36 For on the plates of its ledges, and on its borders, he
 graved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the
 proportion of every one, and additions around.
7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had
 one casting, one measure, [and] one size.
7:38 Then he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
 baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one
 of the ten bases one laver.
7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and
 five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the
 right side of the house eastward over against the south.
7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins.
 So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he executed for
 king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
7:41 The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the capitals that
 [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two net-works, to
 cover the two bowls of the capitals which [were] upon the top
 of the pillars;
7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two net-works, [even]
 two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover the two
 bowls of the capitals that [were] upon the pillars;
7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all
 these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of
 the LORD, [were of] bright brass.
7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
 ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they
 were very numerous: neither was the weight of the brass
 ascertained.
7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] to the
 house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold,
 upon which [was] the show-bread,
7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right
 [side], and five on the left, before the oracle, with the
 flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs [of] gold,
7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the
 spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of]
 gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house, the most holy
 [place], [and] for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the
 temple.
7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the
 house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which
 David his father had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the
 gold, and the vessels, he placed among the treasures of the
 house of the LORD.
8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
 heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children
 of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring
 the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David,
 which [is] Zion.
8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king
 Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the
 seventh month.
8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up
 the ark.
8:4 And they brought the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of
 the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the
 tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring.
8:5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that
 were assembled to him, [were] with him before the ark,
 sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered
 for multitude.
8:6 And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD
 to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy
 [place], [even] under the wings of the cherubim.
8:7 For the cherubim spread forth [their] two wings over the
 place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the
 staffs thereof above.
8:8 And they drew out the staffs, that the ends of the staffs
 were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they
 were not seen without: and there they are to this day.
8:9 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone,
 which Moses deposited there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a
 covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of
 the land of Egypt.
8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests had come out of the
 holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of
 the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of
 the LORD.
8:12 Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in
 the thick darkness.
8:13 I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled
 place for thee to abide in for ever.
8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the
 congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel were
 standing.
8:15 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who spoke
 with his mouth to David my father, and hath with his hand
 fulfilled [it], saying,
8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel from
 Egypt, I have chosen no city out of all the tribes of Israel to
 build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David
 to be over my people Israel.
8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house
 for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
8:18 And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy
 heart to build a house to my name, thou didst well that it was
 in thy heart.
8:19 Nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
 that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the
 house to my name.
8:20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spoke, and I
 have risen in the room of David my father, and sit on the
 throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house
 for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, in which [is] the
 covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he
 brought them from the land of Egypt.
8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the
 presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth
 his hands towards Heaven:
8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like
 thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest
 covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with
 all their heart.
8:24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which
 thou didst promise him: thou didst speak also with thy mouth,
 and hast fulfilled [it] with thy hand, as [it is] this day.
8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
 David my father that which thou didst promise him, saying,
 There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the
 throne of Israel; provided thy children take heed to their way,
 that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be
 verified, which thou didst speak to thy servant David my
 father.
8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven
 and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this
 house that I have built?
8:28 Yet have thou respect to the prayer of thy servant, and to
 his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken to the cry and to
 the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:
8:29 That thy eyes may be open towards this house night and day,
 [even] towards the place of which thou hast said, My name shall
 be there: that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy
 servant shall make towards this place.
8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of
 thy people Israel, when they shall pray towards this place: and
 hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place: and when thou hearest,
 forgive.
8:31 If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath
 be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come
 before thy altar in this house:
8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
 condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and
 justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
 righteousness.
8:33 When thy people Israel shall be smitten before the enemy,
 because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to
 thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication to
 thee in this house:
8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
 Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to
 their fathers.
8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
 have sinned against thee; if they pray towards this place, and
 confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest
 them:
8:36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
 servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou mayest teach them
 the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon thy
 land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
8:37 If there shall be in the land famine, if there shall be
 pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there shall be
 caterpillar; if their enemy shall besiege them in the land of
 their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness [there shall
 be];
8:38 Whatever prayer and supplication shall be [made] by any
 man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man
 the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands towards
 this house:
8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive,
 and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose
 heart thou knowest; (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest the
 hearts of all the children of men;)
8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
 land which thou gavest to our fathers.
8:41 Moreover, concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy
 people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's
 sake;
8:42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong
 hand, and of thy out-stretched arm;) when he shall come and
 pray towards this house;
8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to
 all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of
 the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people
 Israel; and that they may know that this house which I have
 built is called by thy name.
8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
 whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray to the LORD
 towards the city which thou hast chosen, and [towards] the
 house that I have built for thy name:
8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
 supplication, and maintain their cause.
8:46 If they shall sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that
 sinneth not,) and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver
 them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the
 land of the enemy, far or near;
8:47 [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither
 they were carried captives, and repent and make supplication to
 thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We
 have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed
 wickedness;
8:48 And [so] return to thee with all their heart, and with all
 their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away
 captive, and pray to thee towards their land, which thou gavest
 to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the
 house which I have built for thy name:
8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in
 heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause,
8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and
 all their transgressions in which they have transgressed
 against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried
 them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
8:51 For they [are] thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou
 broughtest out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
8:52 That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy
 servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, to
 hearken to them in all their supplications to thee.
8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of
 the earth, [to be] thy inheritance, as thou didst speak by the
 hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out
 of Egypt, O LORD God.
8:54 And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an end of
 praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose
 from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees,
 with his hands spread up to heaven.
8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel
 with a loud voice, saying,
8:56 Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest to his people
 Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not
 failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by
 the hand of Moses his servant.
8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:
 let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
8:58 That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his
 ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his
 judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
8:59 And let these my words with which I have made supplication
 before the LORD, be nigh to the LORD our God day and night,
 that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of
 his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
8:60 That all the people of the earth may know, that the LORD
 [is] God, [and that there is] none else.
8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God,
 to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at
 this day.
8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice
 before the LORD.
8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which
 he offered to the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a
 hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
 children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
8:64 The same day did the king consecrate the middle of the
 court that [was] before the house of the LORD: for there he
 offered burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, and the fat of the
 peace-offerings: because the brazen altar that [was] before the
 LORD [was] too little to receive the burnt-offerings, and
 meat-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings.
8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with
 him, a great congregation, from the entrance into Hamath to the
 river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven
 days, [even] fourteen days.
8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed
 the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for
 all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant,
 and for Israel his people.
9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building
 of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all
 Solomon's desire which he was pleased to perform,
9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
 appeared to him at Gibeon.
9:3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
 supplication that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed
 this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for
 ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked,
 in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to
 all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and
 my judgments:
9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel
 for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There
 shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
 children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes
 which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and
 worship them:
9:7 Then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given
 them; and this house which I have hallowed for my name, will I
 cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a
 by-word among all people:
9:8 And at this house [which] is high, every one that passeth by
 it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why
 hath the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their
 God, who brought forth their fathers from the land of Egypt,
 and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshiped them,
 and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all
 this evil.
9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when
 Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and
 the king's house,
9:11 ([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with
 cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his
 desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the
 land of Galilee.
9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
 Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
9:13 And he said, What cities [are] these which thou hast given
 me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this
 day.
9:14 And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents
 of gold.
9:15 And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon
 raised, to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and
 Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and
 Gezer.
9:16 [For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer,
 and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in
 the city, and given it [for] a present to his daughter,
 Solomon's wife.
9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities
 for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which
 Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in
 all the land of his dominion.
9:20 [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites,
 Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who [were] not of
 the children of Israel,
9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom
 the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy,
 upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond-service to this
 day.
9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bond-men:
 but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes,
 and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
9:23 These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over
 Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the
 people that wrought in the work.
9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to
 her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then he built
 Millo.
9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings
 and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD,
 and he burnt incense upon the altar that [was] before the LORD.
 So he finished the house.
9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which
 [is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of
 Edom.
9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had
 knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
9:28 And they came to Ophir, and imported from thence gold, four
 hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.
10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
 concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with
 hard questions.
10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with
 camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious
 stones: and when she had come to Solomon, she communed with him
 of all that was in her heart.
10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any]
 thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom,
 and the house that he had built,
10:5 And the provisions of his table, and the sitting of his
 servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their
 apparel, and his cup-bearers, and his ascent by which he went
 up to the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard
 in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
10:7 Howbeit, I believed not the words, until I came, and my
 eyes had seen [it]: and behold, the half was not told me: thy
 wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
10:8 Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants, who
 stand continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom.
10:9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee, to set
 thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for
 ever, therefore he made thee king, to do judgment and justice.
10:10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of
 gold, and of spices a very great quantity, and precious stones:
 there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the
 queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir,
 brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious
 stones.
10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house
 of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and
 psalteries for singers: there came no such almug-trees, nor
 have they been seen to this day.
10:13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her
 desire, whatever she asked, besides [that] which Solomon gave
 her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own
 country, she and her servants.
10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year
 was six hundred and sixty six talents of gold,
10:15 Besides [what he had] of the merchants, and of the traffic
 of the spice-merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of
 the governors of the country.
10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten
 gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.
10:17 And [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three
 pounds of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the
 house of the forest of Lebanon.
10:18 Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and
 overlaid it with the best gold.
10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was]
 round behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the
 place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the
 other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any
 kingdom.
10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels [were of] gold,
 and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were
 of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted
 of in the days of Solomon.
10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy
 of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish,
 bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for
 riches and for wisdom.
10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
 which God had put in his heart.
10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,
 and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices,
 horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
10:26 And Solomon collected chariots and horsemen: and he had a
 thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
 horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with
 the king at Jerusalem.
10:27 And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones,
 and cedars he made [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in
 the vale, for abundance.
10:28 And Solomon had horses brought from Egypt, and linen yarn:
 the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six
 hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and
 fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the
 kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their means.
11:1 But king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with
 the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites,
 Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;
11:2 Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD said to the
 children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall
 they come in to you: [for] surely they will turn away your
 heart after their gods: Solomon cleaved to these in love.
11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
 hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives
 turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not
 perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his
 father.
11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
 Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not
 fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father.
11:7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the
 abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem,
 and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
11:8 And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt
 incense and sacrificed to their gods.
11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was
 turned from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him
 twice,
11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he
 should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the
 LORD commanded.
11:11 Wherefore the LORD said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is
 done by thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my
 statutes which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the
 kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
11:12 Notwithstanding, in thy days, I will not do it, for David
 thy father's sake: [but] I will rend it out of the hand of thy
 son.
11:13 Yet, I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give
 one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for
 Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the
 Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in Edom.
11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the
 captain of the host had gone up to bury the slain, after he had
 smitten every male in Edom;
11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel,
 until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
11:17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's
 servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little
 child.
11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they
 took men with them from Paran, and they came to Egypt, to
 Pharaoh king of Egypt; who gave him a house, and appointed him
 victuals, and gave him land.
11:19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so
 that he gave him for a wife the sister of his own wife, the
 sister of Tahpenes the queen.
11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom
 Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in
 Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his
 fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad
 said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own
 country.
11:22 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what hast thou lacked with
 me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own country? And he
 answered, Nothing: yet, in any wise let me go.
11:23 And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son
 of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
11:24 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a
 band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to
 Damascus, and dwelt in it, and reigned in Damascus.
11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
 besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel,
 and reigned over Syria.
11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
 Solomon's servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow
 woman, even he raised [his] hand against the king.
11:27 And this [was] the cause why he raised [his] hand against
 the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of
 the city of David his father.
11:28 And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valor: and
 Solomon, seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made
 him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
 Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in
 the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they
 two [were] alone in the field:
11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and
 rent it [in] twelve pieces:
11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus
 saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the
 kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to
 thee:
11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake,
 and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of
 all the tribes of Israel:)
11:33 Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped
 Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the
 Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have
 not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in my eyes,
 and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] David his
 father.
11:34 Yet I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but
 I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my
 servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments
 and my statutes:
11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and
 will give it to thee, [even] ten tribes.
11:36 And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my
 servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the
 city which I have chosen for me to put my name there.
11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to
 all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken to all that I
 command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do right in my
 sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my
 servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure
 house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to thee.
11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for
 ever.
11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam
 arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was
 in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,
 and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts
 of Solomon?
11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
 Israel [was] forty years.
11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
 city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his
 stead.
12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel had come to
 Shechem to make him king.
12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
 was yet in Egypt, heard [of it], (for he had fled from the
 presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
12:3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the
 congregation of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou
 the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he
 put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
12:5 And he said to them, Depart yet [for] three days, then come
 again to me. And the people departed.
12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood
 before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do
 ye advise that I may answer this people?
12:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant to
 this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and
 speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for
 ever.
12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had
 given him, and consulted with the young men that had grown up
 with him, [and] who stood before him:
12:9 And he said to them, What counsel give ye that we may
 answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the
 yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
12:10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him,
 saying, Thus shalt thou speak to this people who spoke to thee,
 saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it]
 lighter to us; thus shalt thou say to them, My little [finger]
 shall be thicker than my father's loins.
12:11 And now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke,
 I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with
 whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third
 day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the
 third day.
12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the
 old men's counsel that they gave him;
12:14 And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men,
 saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your
 yoke: my father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will
 chastise you with scorpions.
12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not to the people; for the
 cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying,
 which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the
 son of Nebat.
12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to
 them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have
 we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse:
 to your tents, O Israel: now see to thy own house, David. So
 Israel departed to their tents.
12:17 But [as for] the children of Israel who dwelt in the
 cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the
 tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.
 Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to enter his chariot, to
 flee to Jerusalem.
12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
12:20 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam
 had come again, that they sent and called him to the
 congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none
 that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
12:21 And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all
 the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and
 eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against
 the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the
 son of Solomon.
12:22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God,
 saying,
12:23 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah, and to
 all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the
 people, saying,
12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against
 your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his
 house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to
 the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the
 word of the LORD.
12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt in
 it, and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom
 return to the house of David:
12:27 If this people go up to perform sacrifice in the house of
 the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn
 again to their lord, [even] to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they
 shall kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
12:28 Upon which the king took counsel, and made two calves [of]
 gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to
 Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of
 the land of Egypt.
12:29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other he placed in
 Dan.
12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to
 worship] before the one, [even] to Dan.
12:31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of
 the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
 fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that [is] in Judah,
 and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el,
 sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in
 Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el
 the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month
 which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast to
 the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and
 burnt incense.
13:1 And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the
 word of the LORD to Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to
 burn incense.
13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and
 said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child
 shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon
 thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn
 incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign
 which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent,
 and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out.
13:4 And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the saying of
 the man of God, who had cried against the altar in Beth-el,
 that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on
 him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so
 that he could not draw it to him again.
13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the
 altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by
 the word of the LORD.
13:6 And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat
 now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand
 may be restored to me again. And the man of God besought the
 LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him again, and became
 as [it was] before.
13:7 And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and
 refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
13:8 And the man of God said to the king, If thou wilt give me
 half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat
 bread nor drink water in this place:
13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying,
 Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way
 that thou camest.
13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
 he came to Beth-el.
13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons
 came and told him all the works that the man of God had done
 that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken to the king,
 them they told also to their father.
13:12 And their father said to them, What way went he? for his
 sons had seen what way the man of God went, who came from
 Judah.
13:13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
 saddled him the ass: and he rode upon it.
13:14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under
 an oak: and he said to him, [Art] thou the man of God that
 camest from Judah? And he said, I [am].
13:15 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with
 thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in
 this place:
13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt
 eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the
 way that thou camest.
13:18 He said to him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and
 an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him
 back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink
 water. [But] he lied to him.
13:19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and
 drank water.
13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the
 word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back:
13:21 And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah,
 saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed
 the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which
 the LORD thy God commanded thee,
13:22 But hast returned, and hast eaten bread and drank water in
 the place, of which [the LORD] said to thee, Eat no bread, and
 drink no water; thy carcass shall not come to the sepulcher of
 thy fathers.
13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after
 he had drank, that he saddled for him the ass, [to wit], for
 the prophet whom he had brought back.
13:24 And when he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew
 him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by
 it, the lion also stood by the carcass.
13:25 And behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the
 way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came and
 told [it] in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way
 heard [of it], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was
 disobedient to the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath
 delivered him to the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him,
 according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to him.
13:27 And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And
 they saddled [him].
13:28 And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the
 ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not
 eaten the carcass, nor torn the ass.
13:29 And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God, and
 laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet
 came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
13:30 And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned
 over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he
 spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the
 sepulcher in which the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones
 beside his bones:
13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD
 against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the
 high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria, shall surely
 come to pass.
13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way,
 but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high
 places: whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one]
 of the priests of the high places.
13:34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even
 to cut [it off], and to destroy [it] from the face of the
 earth.
14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
 disguise thyself, that thou mayest not be known to be the wife
 of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the
 prophet, who told me that [I should be] king over this people.
14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse
 of honey, and go to him: he will tell thee what shall become of
 the child.
14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh,
 and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for
 his eyes were set by reason of his age.
14:5 And the LORD said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
 cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick:
 thus and thus shalt thou say to her: for it shall be, when she
 cometh in, that she will feign herself [to be] another [woman].
14:6 And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet,
 as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of
 Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am]
 sent to thee [with] heavy [tidings].
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
 Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made
 thee prince over my people Israel,
14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave
 it to thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David,
 who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his
 heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in my eyes;
14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for
 thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to
 provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
14:10 Therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of
 Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam the males, [and] him
 that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the
 remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung,
 till it is all gone.
14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat;
 and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat:
 for the LORD hath spoken [it].
14:12 Arise thou therefore, depart to thy own house: [and] when
 thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he
 only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there
 is found [some] good thing towards the LORD God of Israel in
 the house of Jeroboam.
14:14 Moreover, the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel,
 who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what?
 even now.
14:15 For the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
 water, and he will root up Israel out of this good land, which
 he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the
 river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD
 to anger.
14:16 And he will give up Israel because of the sins of
 Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin.
14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to
 Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshhold of the door, the
 child died;
14:18 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 Ahijah the prophet.
14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and
 how he reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel.
14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty
 years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned
 in his stead.
14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam
 [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD
 chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.
 And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.
14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they
 provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had
 committed, above all that their fathers had done.
14:23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images
 and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did
 according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD
 cast out before the children of Israel.
14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
 [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD,
 and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all;
 and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had
 made.
14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and
 committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, who
 kept the door of the king's house.
14:28 And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the
 LORD, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the
 guard chamber.
14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah?
14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
 [their] days.
14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with
 his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was]
 Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of
 Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
15:2 Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
 [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
15:3 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 the heart of David his father.
15:4 Nevertheless, 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:
15:5 Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the
 LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded
 him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah
 the Hittite.
15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the
 days of his life.
15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
 the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel
 reigned Asa over Judah.
15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
 mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
15:11 And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the
 LORD, as [did] David his father.
15:12 And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed
 all the idols that his fathers had made.
15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from
 [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa
 destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.
15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's
 heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
15:15 And he brought the things which his father had dedicated,
 and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of
 the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
 all their days.
15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built
 Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa
 king of Judah.
15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that were] left
 in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
 the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his
 servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of
 Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at
 Damascus, saying,
15:19 [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my
 father and thy father: behold, I have sent to thee a present of
 silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of
 Israel, that he may depart from me.
15:20 So Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains
 of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel, and
 smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth,
 with all the land of Naphtali.
15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [of it], that he
 left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah;
 none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah,
 and its timber, with which Baasha had built it; and king Asa
 built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and
 all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his
 feet.
15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
 fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his
 son reigned in his stead.
15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel
 in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over
 Israel two years.
15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
 the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel
 to sin.
15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
 conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which
 [belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid
 siege to Gibbethon.
15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha
 slay him, and reigned in his stead.
15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote all
 the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that
 breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying
 of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the
 Shilonite:
15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which
 he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked
 the LORD God of Israel to anger.
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Israel?
15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
 all their days.
15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the
 son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and
 four years.
15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
 the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel
 to sin.
16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani
 against Baasha, saying,
16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee from 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;
16:3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the
 posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house
 of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat;
 and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the
 air eat.
16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and
 his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles
 of the kings of Israel?
16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah:
 and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani
 came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his
 house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the
 LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in
 being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began
 Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two
 years.
16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots,
 conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself
 drunk in the house of Arza steward of [his] house in Tirzah.
16:10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the
 twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in
 his stead.
16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he
 sat on his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he
 left him not one male, neither of his kinsman, nor of his
 friends.
16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according
 to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha, by Jehu
 the prophet,
16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,
 by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in
 provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did,
 [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Israel?
16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did
 Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were]
 encamped against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the
 Philistines.
16:16 And the people [that were] encamped heard it said, Zimri
 hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all
 Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel
 that day in the camp.
16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,
 and they besieged Tirzah.
16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was
 taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and
 burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of
 the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin
 which he did, to make Israel to sin.
16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he
 wrought, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles
 of the kings of Israel?
16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts:
 half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make
 him king; and half followed Omri.
16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the
 people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died,
 and Omri reigned.
16:23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began
 Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he
 in Tirzah.
16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents
 of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the
 city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the
 hill, Samaria.
16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did
 worse than all that [were] before him.
16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
 and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke the
 LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his
 might that he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria:
 and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah
 began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the
 son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two
 years.
16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD
 above all that [were] before him.
16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for
 him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he
 took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the
 Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
16:32 And he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal,
 which he had built in Samaria.
16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the
 LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that
 were before him.
16:34 In his days Hiel the Beth-elite built Jericho: he laid the
 foundation of it in Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates
 of it in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the
 LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite [who was] of the inhabitants of
 Gilead, said to Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth,
 before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these
 years, but according to my word.
17:2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
17:3 Depart hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by
 the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
17:4 And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and
 I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
17:5 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for
 he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before
 Jordan.
17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,
 and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,
 because there had been no rain in the land.
17:8 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
17:9 Arise, go to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and
 dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to
 sustain thee.
17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the
 gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering
 sticks: and he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee,
 a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
17:11 And as she was going to bring [it], he called to her, and
 said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
17:12 And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a
 cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a
 cruse: and behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go
 in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
17:13 And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast
 said: but make me of it a little cake first, and bring [it] to
 me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.
17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal
 shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the
 day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah:
 and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
17:16 [And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse
 of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke
 by Elijah.
17:17 And it came to pass after these things [that] the son of
 the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his
 sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.
17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O
 thou man of God? art thou come to me to call my sin to
 remembrance, and to slay my son?
17:19 And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out
 of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode,
 and laid him upon his own bed.
17:20 And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast
 thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by
 slaying her son?
17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and
 cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let
 this child's soul come into him again.
17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of
 the child came into him again, and he revived.
17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the
 chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother: and
 Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou
 [art] a man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy
 mouth [is] truth.
18:1 And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the
 LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself
 to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And [there was] a
 grievous famine in Samaria.
18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah who [was] the governor of [his]
 house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
18:4 For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the
 LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by
 fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
18:5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all
 fountains of water, and to all brooks: it may be we may find
 grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all
 the beasts.
18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout
 it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way
 by himself.
18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and
 he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my
 lord Elijah?
18:8 And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold,
 Elijah [is here].
18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver
 thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay me?
18:10 [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation nor
 kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when
 they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom
 and nation, that they found thee not.
18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is
 here].
18:12 And it will come to pass, [as soon as] I have gone from
 thee, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry thee whither I
 know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot
 find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD
 from my youth.
18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the
 prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S
 prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is
 here]: and he will slay me.
18:15 And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before
 whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him to-day.
18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went
 to meet Elijah.
18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said
 to him, [Art] thou he that troubleth Israel?
18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and
 thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments
 of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
18:19 Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Israel to mount
 Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and
 the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's
 table.
18:20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered
 the prophets to mount Carmel.
18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt
 ye between two opinions? if the LORD [is] God, follow him: but
 if Baal, [then] follow him. And the people answered him not a
 word.
18:22 Then said Elijah to the people, I [even] I only, remain a
 prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophet's [are] four hundred
 and fifty men.
18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them
 choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and
 lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]: and I will dress the
 other bullock, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]:
18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on
 the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let
 him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well
 spoken.
18:25 And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one
 bullock for yourselves, and dress [it] first; for ye [are]
 many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire
 [under].
18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they
 dressed [it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even
 until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice,
 nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was
 made.
18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and
 said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he
 is pursuing, or he is on a journey, [or] perhaps he sleepeth,
 and must be awaked.
18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their
 manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon
 them.
18:29 And it came to pass, when mid-day was past, and they
 prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the [evening]
 sacrifice, that [there was] neither voice, nor any to answer,
 nor any that regarded.
18:30 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And
 all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of
 the LORD [that was] broken down.
18:31 And Elijah 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:
18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the
 LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would
 contain two measures of seed.
18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in
 pieces, and laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels
 with water, and pour [it] on the burnt-sacrifice, and on the
 wood.
18:34 And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did [it]
 the second time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they
 did [it] the third time.
18:35 And the water ran around the altar; and he filled the
 trench also with water.
18:36 And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the
 [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and
 said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be
 known this day that thou [art] God in Israel, and [that] I [am]
 thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy
 word.
18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that
 thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their
 heart back again.
18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the
 burnt-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust,
 and licked up the water that [was] in the trench.
18:39 And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their
 faces: and they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he
 [is] the God.
18:40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let
 not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought
 them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
18:41 And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, eat and drink; for [there
 is] a sound of abundance of rain.
18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to
 the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and
 put his face between his knees,
18:43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look towards the sea.
 And he went up and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he
 said, Go again seven times.
18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said,
 Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a
 man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare [thy
 chariot], and go down, that the rain may not hinder thee.
18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was
 black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And
 Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded his
 loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he
 had slain all the prophets with the sword.
19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the
 gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the
 life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.
19:3 And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life,
 and came to Beer-sheba, which [belongeth] to Judah, and left
 his servant there.
19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
 and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested
 for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O
 LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold, then
 an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise [and] eat.
19:6 And he looked, and behold, [there was] a cake baked on the
 coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank,
 and laid himself down again.
19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and
 touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat, because the journey
 [is] too great for thee.
19:8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength
 of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of
 God.
19:9 And he came thither to a cave, and lodged there; and
 behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, and he said to him,
 What doest thou here, Elijah?
19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
 hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
 thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword;
 and I, I only, am left; and they seek my life to take it away.
19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
 LORD. And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong
 wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before
 the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] not in the wind: and after the
 wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake:
19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not
 in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
19:13 And it was [so], when Elijah heard [it], that he wrapped
 his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance
 of the cave. And behold, [there came] a voice to him, and said,
 What doest thou here, Elijah?
19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
 hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
 covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with
 the sword; and I, I only, am left; and they seek my life, to
 take it away.
19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on thy way to the
 wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael [to
 be] king over Syria:
19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king
 over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah
 shalt thou anoint [to be] prophet in thy room.
19:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the
 sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the
 sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
19:18 Yet I have left to [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the
 knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which hath
 not kissed him.
19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
 Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before
 him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and
 cast his mantle upon him.
19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let
 me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I
 will follow thee. And he said to him, Go back again: for what
 have I done to thee?
19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen,
 and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of
 the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose,
 and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
20:1 And Ben-hadad the king of Syria collected all his army: and
 [there were] thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and
 chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred
 against it.
20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the
 city, and said to him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
20:3 Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy
 children, [even] the most comely, [are] mine.
20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,
 according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.
20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh
 Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent to thee, saying, Thou
 shalt deliver to me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives,
 and thy children;
20:6 Yet I will send my servants to thee to-morrow about this
 time, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy
 servants; and it shall be, [that] whatever is pleasant in thy
 eyes, they shall take [it] in their hand, and carry [it] away.
20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land,
 and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh
 mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children,
 and for my silver, and for my gold, and I denied him not.
20:8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken
 not [to him], nor consent.
20:9 Wherefore he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my
 lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at
 the first, I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the
 messengers departed, and brought him word again.
20:10 And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me,
 and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for
 handfuls for all the people that follow me.
20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let
 not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that
 putteth it off.
20:12 And it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this message
 as he [was] drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that
 he said to his servants, Set [yourselves in array]. And they
 set [themselves in array] against the city.
20:13 And behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel,
 saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great
 multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day;
 and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD,
 [Even] by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then
 he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the
 provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after
 them he numbered all the people, [even] all the children of
 Israel, [being] seven thousand.
20:16 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad [was] drinking
 himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty
 and two kings that helped him.
20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out
 first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There
 are men come out of Samaria.
20:18 And he said, Whether they have come out for peace, take
 them alive; or whether they have come out for war, take them
 alive.
20:19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came
 out of the city, and the army which followed them.
20:20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and
 Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on
 a horse with the horsemen.
20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and
 chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
20:22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said to
 him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest:
 for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up
 against thee.
20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their
 gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than
 we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we
 shall be stronger than they.
20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of
 his place, and put captains in their rooms:
20:25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast
 lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will
 fight against them in the plain, [and] surely we shall be
 stronger than they. And he hearkened to their voice, and did
 so.
20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that
 Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight
 against Israel.
20:27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all
 present, and went against them: and the children of Israel
 encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the
 Syrians filled the country.
20:28 And there came a man of God, and spoke to the king of
 Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have
 said, The LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of
 the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude
 into thy hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
20:29 And they encamped one over against the other seven days.
 And [so] it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined:
 and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred
 thousand footmen in one day.
20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and [there] a
 wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were]
 left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner
 chamber.
20:31 And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard
 that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let
 us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our
 heads, and go out to the king of Israel: it may be he will save
 thy life.
20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes
 on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy
 servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said,
 [Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother.
20:33 Now the men diligently observed whether [any thing would
 come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy
 brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then
 Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into
 the chariot.
20:34 And [Ben-hadad] said to him, The cities, which my father
 took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make
 streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.
 Then [said Ahab], I will send thee away with this covenant. So
 he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his
 neighbor in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And
 the man refused to smite him.
20:36 Then said he to him, Because thou hast not obeyed the
 voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou hast departed from
 me, a lion will slay thee. And as soon as he had departed from
 him, a lion found him, and slew him.
20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray
 thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded
 [him].
20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the
 way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king: and he
 said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and
 behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said,
 Keep this man: if by any means he shall be missing, then shall
 thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of
 silver.
20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
 And the king of Israel said to him, So [shall] thy judgment
 [be]; thyself hast decided [it].
20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and
 the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets.
20:42 And he said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast
 let go out of [thy] hand a man whom I appointed to utter
 destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy
 people for his people.
20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and
 displeased, and came to Samaria.
21:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the
 Jezreelite had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel, hard by the
 palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
21:2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard,
 that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near
 to my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than
 it; [or] if it seemeth good to thee, I will give thee the worth
 of it in money.
21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I
 should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee.
21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, because
 of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for
 he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my
 fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and turned away
 his face, and would eat no bread.
21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is
 thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
21:6 And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the
 Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or
 else, if it pleaseth thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard
 for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
21:7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now govern the
 kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thy heart be
 merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed [them] with
 his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles
 that [were] in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and
 set Naboth on high among the people:
21:10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear
 witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the
 king. And [then] carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
21:11 And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles
 who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent
 to them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had
 sent to them.
21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
 people.
21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat
 before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even]
 against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth
 blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of
 the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and
 is dead.
21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
 stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take
 possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he
 refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but
 dead.
21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,
 that Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the
 Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,
 saying,
21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who [is] in
 Samaria: behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he
 is gone down to possess it.
21:19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the LORD,
 Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt
 speak to him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where
 dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even
 thine.
21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy?
 And he answered, I have found [thee]: because thou hast sold
 thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away
 thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab the males, and him
 that is shut up and left in Israel,
21:22 And will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son
 of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for
 the provocation with which thou hast provoked [me] to anger,
 and made Israel to sin.
21:23 And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying, the dogs shall
 eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and
 him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
21:25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work
 wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife
 instigated.
21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according
 to all [things] as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out
 before the children of Israel.
21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he
 rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted,
 and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,
 saying,
21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he
 humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his
 days: [but] in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his
 house.
22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria
 and Israel.
22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the
 king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know ye that
 Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [are] still, [and] take it
 not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
22:4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle
 to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I
 [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, my horses as thy
 horses.
22:5 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray
 thee, at the word of the LORD to-day.
22:6 Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four
 hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead
 to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the
 LORD will deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the
 LORD besides, that we may inquire of him?
22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet
 one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of
 the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good
 concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king
 say so.
22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten
 [hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah.
22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
 sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void
 place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the
 prophets prophesied before them.
22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron:
 and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push
 the Syrians, until thou hast consumed them.
22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
 Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD will deliver [it] into
 the king's hand.
22:13 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah, spoke to him,
 saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to
 the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the
 word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good.
22:14 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD
 saith to me, that will I speak.
22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said to him, Micaiah,
 shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we
 forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD
 will deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
22:16 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure
 thee that thou tell me nothing but [that which is] true in the
 name of the LORD?
22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as
 sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have
 no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
22:18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
 thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
22:19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I
 saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven
 standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go
 up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said in this manner, and
 another said in that manner.
22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD,
 and said, I will persuade him.
22:22 And the LORD said to him, With what? And he said, I will
 go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
 prophets? And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail
 also: go forth, and do so.
22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in
 the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken
 evil concerning thee.
22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote
 Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of
 the LORD from me to speak to thee?
22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when
 thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him
 back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's
 son;
22:27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [man] in the
 prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and with water
 of affliction, until I come in peace.
22:28 And Micaiah said, If thou shalt return at all in peace,
 the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people,
 every one of you.
22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
 went up to Ramoth-gilead.
22:30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will
 disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy
 robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into
 the battle.
22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two
 captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither
 with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
 Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel.
 And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat
 cried out.
22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots
 perceived that it [was] not the king of Israel, that they
 turned back from pursuing him.
22:34 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the
 king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he
 said to the driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand, and carry me
 out of the host; for I am wounded.
22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed
 up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at evening: and
 the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
22:36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about
 the setting of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and
 every man to his own country.
22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they
 buried the king in Samaria.
22:38 And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and
 the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armor;
 according to the word of the LORD which he spoke.
22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and
 the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he
 built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of
 the kings of Israel?
22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son
 reigned in his stead.
22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah
 in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
22:42 Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began
 to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.
 And his mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned
 not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of
 the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away;
 [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high
 places.
22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might
 that he showed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in
 the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the
 days of his father Asa, he removed from the land.
22:47 [There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.
22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for
 gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at
 Ezion-geber.
22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my
 servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat
 would not.
22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried
 with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram
 his son reigned in his stead.
22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
 Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and
 reigned two years over Israel.
22:52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
 the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the
 way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
22:53 For he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to
 anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father
 had done.