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1:1	Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothesgarments, but he could not keep warm.
1:2	So his servants said to him, “LetHave them seeksearch for a young virgin for my lord the king, and lethave her attend the king and become his nurse; and lethave her lie inon your bosomchest, so that my lord the king may keep warm.”
1:3	So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1:4	The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not cohabitbecome intimate with her.
1:5	Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, with fifty men to run before him.
1:6	HisAnd his father had never crossedrebuked him at any time by asking, “Why have you done so?” And he was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom.
1:7	HeNow he had conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and followingthey Adonijahallied theythemselves helpedwith himAdonijah.
1:9	Adonijah sacrificed sheep, and oxen, and fatlingsfattened steers by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.
1:10	But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, andor Solomon his brother Solomon.
1:12	So now come, please let me give you counseladvice, and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.
1:13	Go at once to King David and say to him, ‘Have you not, my lord, Othe king, sworn to your maidservantservant, saying, “Surely Solomon your son certainly shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
1:15	So Bathsheba wententered in to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministeringserving to the king.
1:16	Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself before the king. And the king said, “What dois youon wishyour mind?”
1:17	SheSo she said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to your maidservantservant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘SurelyYour your son Solomon certainly shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’
1:18	NowBut now, behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the king, you do not know it.
1:19	He has sacrificed oxen and fatlingsfattened steers and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
1:20	AsAnd as for you now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are onupon you, to tellannounce to them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
1:21	Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleepslies down with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders.”
1:22	BeholdAnd behold, while she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
1:23	They toldinformed the king, saying, “Here is Nathan the prophet is here.” And when he came ininto before the king’s presence, he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1:24	Then Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you yourself said, ‘Adonijah shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?
1:25	For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen and fatlingsfattened steers and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons, and the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and behold, they are eating and drinking beforein himhis presence; and they say, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’
1:26	But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not invited.
1:27	Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not shownlet to your servants know who shouldshall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
1:28	Then King David responded and said, “CallSummon Bathsheba to me.” And she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.
1:29	TheThen the king vowed and said, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
1:30	surelycertainly as I vowed to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Your son Solomon certainly shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place’; I will indeed do so this day.”
1:32	Then King David said, “CallSummon to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” And they came into the king’s presence.
1:33	TheAnd the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
1:34	LetAnd have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
1:35	Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he shall be king in my place; for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”
1:36	Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, “Amen! ThusMay may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say the same.
1:37	AsJust as the Lord has been with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David!”
1:39	And Zadok the priest then took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
1:40	AllAnd all the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.
1:41	Now Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard itthis as they finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is the city making such an uproar?”
1:42	While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Then Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a valiant man and you bring good news.”
1:43	But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, “NoOn the contrary! Our lord King David has made Solomon king.!
1:44	The king has also sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites; and they have mademounted him ride on the king’s mule.
1:45	Furthermore, Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is ingoing an uproarwild. This is the noise which you have heard.
1:47	Moreover, the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.
1:48	The king has also said thus,this: ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has granted one to sit on my throne today while my own eyes see it.’ ”
1:49	Then all the guests of Adonijah weretrembled terrified; and theygot aroseup, and each went on his way.
1:50	And Adonijah also was afraid of Solomon, and he arosegot up, and went, and took hold of the horns of the altar.
1:51	Now it was toldreported to Solomon, saying, “Behold, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, for behold, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘LetMay King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’ ”
1:52	And Solomon said, “If he is a worthy man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he will die.”
1:53	So King Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”
2:1	As David’s time to die drew near, he chargedcommanded Solomon his son Solomon, saying,
2:2	“I am going the way of all the earth. BeSo be strong, therefore, and showprove yourself a man.
2:3	KeepDo theyour chargeduty ofto the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,
2:4	so that the Lord may carryfulfill out His promise which He spoke concerningregarding me, saying, ‘If your sons are careful ofabout their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lackbe deprived of a man onto occupy the throne of Israel.’
2:5	“Now you yourself also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt aboutthat was on his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet.
2:6	So act accordingas to your wisdom dictates, and do not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.
2:7	ButHowever, show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for they assisted me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
2:8	BeholdAnd behold, thereyou ishave with you Shimei the son of Gera the BenjamiteBenjaminite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violentpainful curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
2:9	NowBut therefore,now do not letleave him go unpunished, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you will bring his gray hair down to Sheol with blood.”
2:10	Then David sleptlay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David.
2:11	TheNow the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: sevenin yearsHebron he reigned infor Hebronseven years, and thirty-threein yearsJerusalem he reigned infor Jerusalemthirty-three years.
2:12	AndThen Solomon sat on the throne of David his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.
2:13	Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. AndSo she said, “Do you come peacefully?” And he said, “Peacefully.”
2:15	So he said, “You yourself know that the kingdom was mine and that all Israel expectedintended for me to be king; however, the kingdom has turned aboutaround and become my brother’s, for it was his from the Lord.
2:16	NowSo now I am making one request of you; do not refuse me.” And she said to him, “Speak.”
2:17	Then he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king, —for he will not refuse you, —that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”
2:18	And Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak to the king for you.”
2:19	So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arosestood to meet her, bowed beforeto her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set up for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.
2:22	But King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you askingrequesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? AskRequest for him also the kingdom as well—forsince he is my older brother—even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!”
2:23	Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more alsoso, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.!
2:24	Now thereforethen, as the Lord lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house just as He promised, surely Adonijah certainly shall be put to death today.”!”
2:25	SoThen King Solomon sent the order by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fellstruck upon him so that he died.
2:27	So Solomon dismissed Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord, which He had spoken concerningregarding the house of Eli in Shiloh.
2:28	Now the news came to Joab, forbecause Joab had followed Adonijah, althoughthough he had not followed Absalom. AndSo Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.
2:29	ItAnd it was toldreported to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord, and behold,was he is beside the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fallexecute upon him.”
2:30	So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “ThusThis is what the king has said,: ‘Come out.’ ” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” AndSo Benaiah brought back word to the king word again, saying, “ThusThis spokeis what Joab spoke, and thusso he answered me.”
2:31	TheAnd the king said to him, “Do just as he has spoken, and fallexecute upon him and bury him, so that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without causejustification.
2:32	The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fellstruck upon two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know about it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
2:33	So shall their blood shall return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever; but tofor David and his descendants, and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord forever.”
2:34	Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fellstruck upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house in the wilderness.
2:35	TheAnd the king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in his place, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
2:36	Now the king sent men and calledsummoned for Shimei, and said to him, “Build for yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, and do not goleave out from there tofor any other place.
2:37	For on the day you goleave out and cross over the brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you shallwill surelyassuredly die; your blood shallwill be on your own head.”
2:38	Shimei then said to the king, “The word is good. AsJust as my lord the king has saidspoken, so your servant willshall do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for many days.
2:39	But it came about at the end of three years, that two of theShimei’s servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And theyothers told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your servants are in Gath.”
2:40	Then Shimei arosegot up and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to looksearch for his servants. And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.
2:41	ItAnd it was toldreported to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.
2:42	So the king sent men and calledsummoned for Shimei, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the Lord, and solemnly warn you, saying, ‘YouKnow will know for certain that on the day you depart and go anywhere, you shall surelyassuredly die’? And you said to me, ‘The word which I have heard is good.’
2:43	Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the command which I haveimposed laid on you?”
2:44	The king also said to Shimei, “You yourself know all the evil whichthat you acknowledge in your heart, which you did to my father David; therefore the Lord shallwill return your evil on your own head.
2:45	But King Solomon shallwill be blessed, and the throne of David shallwill be established before the Lord forever.”
2:46	So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fellstruck upon him so that he died. ThusAnd the kingdom was established in the hands of Solomon.
3:1	ThenNow Solomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.
3:3	Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificedwas sacrificing and burnedburning incense on the high places.
3:4	TheAnd the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, forbecause that was the great high place; Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
3:6	Then Solomon said, “You have shown great lovingkindnessfaithfulness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth, and righteousness, and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindnessfaithfulness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
3:7	NowAnd now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am butlike a little childboy; I do not know how to go out or come in.
3:8	And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whichwhom You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
3:9	So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil. For who is ablecapable toof judgejudging this great people of Yours?”
3:10	ItNow it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
3:11	And God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself a long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the lifelives of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,
3:14	IfAnd if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”
3:15	Then 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 burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and madeheld a feast for all his servants.
3:16	Then two women who were harlotsprostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
3:17	The one woman said, “OhPardon me, my lord,: this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.
3:18	ItAnd it happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.
3:19	ThisThen this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on ithim.
3:20	So she arosegot up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservantservant sleptwas asleep, and she laid him inat her bosombreast, and laid her dead son inat my bosombreast.
3:21	When I rosegot up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead;! butBut when I lookedexamined at him carefullyclosely in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne.”!”
3:22	Then the other woman said, “No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman said, “No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” ThusSo they spoke before the king.
3:24	TheAnd the king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
3:25	TheAnd the king said, “DivideCut the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”
3:26	ThenBut the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son, and she said, “OhPardon me, my lord,! giveGive her the living child, and by no means kill him.”!” But the other saidwoman was saying, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; dividecut him!”
3:27	Then the king saidreplied, “Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”
3:28	When all Israel heard ofabout the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, forbecause they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
4:3	Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretariesscribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recordersecretary;
4:5	and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s friendconfidant;
4:6	and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
4:7	Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each mandeputy had to provide food for a month in the year.
4:8	TheseAnd arethese were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
4:9	Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;
4:10	Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);
4:11	Ben-abinadab, in all the heighthills of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
4:12	Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
4:13	Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the townsvillages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);
4:14	Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
4:15	Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon);
4:16	Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
4:17	Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
4:18	Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
4:19	Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.
4:20	Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating, and drinking, and rejoicing.
4:21	Now Solomon ruledwas ruling over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
4:23	ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowlgeese.
4:24	For he hadwas dominionruling over everything west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides aroundsurrounding about him.
4:25	So Judah and Israel lived in safetysecurely, everyeveryone man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
4:26	Solomon had 40,000forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000twelve thousand horsemen.
4:27	ThoseAnd those deputies provided food for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they leftallowed nothing to be lacking.
4:28	They also brought barley and straw for the war horses and swiftbaggage steedshorses to the place where it shouldwas berequired, each deputy according to his chargeduty.
4:30	Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sonspeople of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
4:31	For he was wiser than all menother people, more than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
4:32	He also spoketold 3,000three thousand proverbs, and his songs werenumbered 1,005.
4:33	He spoketold of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoketold also of animals, and birds, andcrawling creeping things, and fish.
4:34	MenPeople came from all peoplesthe nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
5:1	Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
5:4	But now the Lord my God has givensecured me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.
5:5	BeholdSo behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, just as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will setput on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.’
5:6	Now thereforethen, commandissue orders that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants accordingin toaccordance with all that you say, for you yourself know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
5:7	When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he greatly rejoiced; greatly and he said, “Blessed be the Lord today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.”
5:8	So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent me; I will do whateverything you desirewish concerning the cedar and cypressjuniper timber.
5:9	My servants will bring themthe timbers down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will makehave them made into rafts to go by sea to the place where you direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shallwill carry them away. Then you shall accomplishdo mywhat desireI wish, by giving food to my household.”
5:10	So Hiram gave Solomon asall muchthat as he desiredwished of the cedar and cypressjuniper timber.
5:11	Solomon then gave Hiram 20,000twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of beatenpure oil; thusthis is what Solomon would give Hiram year by year.
5:12	TheAnd the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant.
5:13	Now King Solomon leviedconscripted forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000thirty thousand men.
5:14	HeThen he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000ten thousand a month in relaysshifts; they were in Lebanon for a month, and two months at home. And Adoniram was overin charge of the forced laborers.
5:15	Now Solomon had 70,000seventy transportersthousand porters, and 80,000eighty hewersthousand ofstonemasons stone in the mountains,
5:16	besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were overin charge of the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.
5:17	Then the king commandedissued orders, and they quarried greatlarge stones, costlyvaluable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.
5:18	So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut themthe stones, and they prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.
6:1	Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, whichthat is, the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
6:2	AsAnd for the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits andin its widthlength, and twenty cubits in its width, and its height was thirty cubits.
6:3	The porch in front of the navemain room of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its depthwidth along the front of the house was ten cubits.
6:5	Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the navemain room and the inner sanctuary; thusso he made side chambers all around.
6:6	The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around inso order that the beams would not be inserted ininto the walls of the house.
6:7	The house, while it was being built, was built of stone preparedfinished at the quarry, and there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.
6:8	The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by a winding stairsstaircase to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
6:10	He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastenedattached to the house with timbers of cedar.
6:11	Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
6:12	“ConcerningAs for this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carryfulfill out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.
6:13	And I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsakeabandon My people Israel.”
6:15	ThenHe he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaidpaneled the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaidpaneled the floor of the house with boards of cypressjuniper.
6:16	He also built twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, even as the mostMost holyHoly placePlace.
6:17	The house, that is, the navemain room in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
6:18	There was cedar oninside the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; alleverything was cedar, there was no stone seenvisible.
6:19	Then he prepared an inner sanctuary withininside the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
6:20	The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height,; and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaidpaneled the altar with cedar.
6:21	So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. And he drewextended chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
6:22	He overlaid the wholeentire house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the wholeentire altar which was by the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
6:23	AlsoAnd in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
6:24	FiveThe cubits was the one wing of the first cherub andwas five cubits, and the other wing of the first cherub was five cubits; from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing were ten cubits.
6:25	The othersecond cherub was ten cubits; both of the cherubim were of the same measuremeasurement and the same form.
6:26	The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
6:27	He placed the cherubim in the midst of the inner house, and the wings of the cherubim were spread out, so that the wing of the one was touching the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall. SoAnd their wings were touching eachend otherto end in the center of the house.
6:29	Then he carved all the surrounding walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, for the inner and outer sanctuaries.
6:30	HeAnd he overlaid the floor of the house with gold, for the inner and outer sanctuaries.
6:31	ForAnd for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel, and five-sided doorposts.
6:32	So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spreadoverlaid the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees with gold.
6:33	So alsotoo he made for the entrance of the navemain room four-sided doorposts of olive wood,
6:34	and two doors of cypressjuniper wood; the two leaves of the one door turned on pivots, and the two leaves of the other door turned on pivots.
6:35	He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenlyplated applied on the engravedcarved work.
6:36	HeAnd he built the inner courtcourtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.
6:38	InAnd in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, whichthat is, the eighth month, the house was finished throughoutin all its parts and accordingin toaccordance with all its plans. So he was seven years in building it.
7:1	Now Solomon wasbuilt building his own house over the course of thirteen years, and he finished all of his house.
7:2	He built the house of the foresttimber offrom Lebanon; its length was 100a hundred cubits, and its width 50fifty cubits, and its height 30thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.
7:3	ItAnd it was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45forty-five pillars, 15fifteen in each row.
7:4	There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window inat three ranksintervals.
7:5	AllAnd all the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window inat three ranksintervals.
7:6	Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50fifty cubits and its width 30thirty cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them.
7:7	HeAnd he made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.
7:8	HisAnd his house where he was to live, the other courtcourtyard inward from the hall, was of thethis same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom Solomon had married.
7:9	All of these were made of costlyvaluable stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and sofrom on the outside to the greatlarge courtcourtyard.
7:10	TheAnd the foundation was of costlyvaluable stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
7:11	And above were costlyvaluable stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.
7:12	So the greatlarge courtcourtyard all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams evenas well as the inner courtcourtyard of the house of the Lord, and the porch of the house.
7:13	Now King Solomon sent word and broughthad Hiram brought from Tyre.
7:14	He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, aan workerartisan in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom, andskill, understanding and skillknowledge for doing any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work.
7:15	He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of oneeach pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.
7:16	He also made two capitals of moltencast bronze to setput on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
7:17	There were netslattices of networklatticework and twistedwreaths threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.
7:18	So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one networklattice to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital.
7:19	The capitals which were on the toptops of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
7:20	ThereSo there were capitals on the two pillars, evenalso above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the networklattice; and the pomegranates numberedtotaled two hundred in rows around both capitals.
7:21	ThusAnd he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave;main androom: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.
7:22	On the top of the pillars was the lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished.
7:23	NowHe also he made the seaSea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in formshape, and its height was five cubits, and it was thirty cubits in circumference.
7:24	Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the seaSea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest.
7:25	It stoodwas standing on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the seaSea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.
7:26	ItAnd it was a handbreadthhand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, aslike a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths.
7:27	Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits, and its width four cubits, and its height was three cubits.
7:28	This was the design of the stands: they had borders, eventhat is, borders between the framescrossbars,
7:29	and on the borders which were between the framescrossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the framescrossbars there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
7:31	ItsAnd its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening also there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round.
7:35	OnAnd on the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it.
7:36	HeAnd he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palm trees, accordingas tothere thewas clear space on each, with wreaths all around.
7:37	He made the ten stands like this: all of them had onethe same casting, onesame measure, and onesame form.
7:38	HeAnd he made ten basins of bronze, oneeach basinholding held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin.
7:39	Then he setplaced the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the seaSea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south.
7:41	the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networkslattices to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
7:42	and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networkslattices, two rows of pomegranates for each networklattice to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars;
7:44	and the one seaSea and the twelve oxen under the seaSea;
7:45	and the pailsbuckets, and the shovels, and the bowls; evenindeed, all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the Lord were of polished bronze.
7:46	InThe king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
7:47	However, Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertaineddetermined.
7:48	Solomon also made all the furniture whichthat was in the house of the Lord: the golden altar and the golden table on which was set the bread of the Presence;
7:49	and the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
7:50	andalso the cups, and the snuffersshears, and the bowls, and the spoonsladles, and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the mostMost holyHoly placePlace, and for the doors of the house, that is, offor the navemain room, of gold.
7:51	ThusSo all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the thingsofferings dedicatedvowed by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
8:1	Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David, whichthat is, Zion.
8:2	AllSo all the men of Israel assembled themselves tobefore King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, whichthat is, the seventh month.
8:4	TheyAnd they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy utensils, which were in the tent,; and the priests and the Levites brought them up.
8:5	And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembledgathered together to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
8:6	Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the mostMost holyHoly placePlace, under the wings of the cherubim.
8:7	For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its carrying poles from above.
8:8	But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place beforein front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; they are there to this day.
8:10	ItAnd it happened that when the priests came from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
8:12	Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that He would dwell in the thick clouddarkness.
8:13	I have surelytruly built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever.”
8:14	Then the king facedturned aboutaround and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.
8:15	He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David, and has fulfilled it with His handhands, saying,
8:16	‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house so that My name mightwould be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’
8:20	Now the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
8:21	ThereAnd there I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with our fathers when He brought them fromout of the land of Egypt.”
8:22	Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands toward heaven.
8:23	HeAnd he said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping the covenant and showing lovingkindnessfaithfulness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,
8:24	You who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
8:25	Now thereforethen, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lackbe deprived of a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons takeare heedcareful toabout their way, to walk before Me as you have walked.’
8:26	Now thereforethen, O God of Israel, let Your wordwords, I prayplease, be confirmed, which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.
8:28	YetNevertheless, haveturn regardYour attention to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplicationplea, O Lord, my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today;,
8:29	so that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shallwill pray toward this place.
8:30	ListenAnd listen to the supplicationplea of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive.!
8:31	“If a manperson sins against his neighbor and is madecompelled to take an oath of innocence, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,
8:32	then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head, and justifyingacquitting the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.
8:33	“When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and makeimplore supplicationYour tofavor You in this house,
8:34	then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
8:35	“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confesspraise Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
8:36	then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel,; indeed, teach them the good way in which they shouldare to walk. And sendprovide rain on Your land, which You have given to Your people foras an inheritance.
8:37	“If there is a famine in the land, if there is pestilencea plague, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besiegesharasses them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
8:38	whatever prayer or supplicationplea is madeoffered by any manperson or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;
8:39	then hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive and act, and rendergive to each accordingin toaccordance with all his ways, whose heart You know, —for You alone know the hearts of all themankind— sons of men,
8:40	so that they maywill fear You all the days that they live inon the land which You have given to our fathers.
8:41	“Also concerningregarding the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country foron account of Your name’s sake
8:43	hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and doact accordingin toaccordance with all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name.
8:44	“When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,
8:45	then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplicationpleading, and maintain their cause.
8:46	“When they sin against You (for there is no manperson who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliverturn them over to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, fardistant off or near;
8:47	if they take thoughtit to heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and makeimplore supplicationYour tofavor You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and havedone committed iniquitywrong, we have acted wickedly’;
8:49	then hear their prayer and their supplicationpleading in heaven, Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
8:50	and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressionswrongdoings which they have transgressedcommitted against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, so that they maywill have compassion on them
8:51	(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forthout fromof Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace),
8:52	so that Your eyes may be open to the supplicationpleading of Your servant and to the supplicationpleading of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.
8:53	For You have separatedsingled them out from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, just as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forthout fromof Egypt, O Lord God.”
8:54	When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplicationplea to the Lord, he arosestood up from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.
8:56	“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant.
8:57	May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us ornor forsake us,
8:58	so that He may inclineguide our hearts totoward Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.
8:59	And may these words of mine, with which I have madeimplored supplicationthe beforefavor of the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, so that He maywill maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires,
8:61	LetYour yourhearts heart therefore shall be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”
8:62	NowThen the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice before the Lord.
8:63	And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, 22,000twenty-two thousand oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
8:64	On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtcourtyard that was beforein front of the house of the Lord, because there he offered the burnt offering, and the grain offering, and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to hold the burnt offering, and the grain offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
8:65	So Solomon observedheld the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, for seven days and seven more days, eventhat is, fourteen days.
8:66	On the eighth day he sentdismissed the people, away and they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents joyful and gladwith ofhappy hearthearts for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David His servant, and to Israel His people.
9:1	Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that Solomon desired to do,
9:3	TheAnd the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication,plea which you have madeoffered before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetuallyalways.
9:4	As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightnesshonesty, doingacting accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that I have commanded you, and willif you keep My statutes and My ordinances,
9:5	then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lackbe deprived of a man on the throne of Israel.’
9:6	“But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have setplaced before you, andbut you go and serve other gods and worship them,
9:7	then I will cut Israel off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will castexpel outfrom of My sight. So Israel will become a proverbsaying and aan bywordobject of derision among all peoples.
9:8	And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be astonishedappalled and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thussuch a thing to this land and to this house?’
9:9	And they will say, ‘Because they forsookabandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, thereforefor that reason the Lord has brought all this adversity on them.’ ”
9:10	ItNow it came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house
9:11	(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypressjuniper timber and gold, accordingsatisfying to all his desire), thenthat King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
9:12	So Hiram cameleft out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.
9:13	HeAnd he said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So they werehave been called the land of Cabul to this day.
9:15	Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon leviedconscripted to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
9:16	For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and capturedoverthrown Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city,; and he had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
9:17	So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon,
9:19	and all the storage cities which Solomon had, eventhat is, the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and alleverything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.
9:20	As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,
9:21	their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroycompletely utterlyeliminate, from them Solomon leviedconscripted forced laborers, evenas they are to this day.
9:22	But Solomon did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princescommanders, his captainscharioteers, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.
9:23	These were the chief officers who were overin charge of Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty550, who ruled over the people doing the work.
9:24	As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, he then he built the Millo.
9:25	Now three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built tofor the Lord, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the Lord. So he finished the house.
9:28	TheyAnd they went to Ophir and tookreceived four420 hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
10:1	Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerningin relation to the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questionsriddles.
10:2	So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinueentourage, with camels carrying spicesbalsam oil and a very muchlarge quantity of gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she spoke withto him about alleverything that was in her heart.
10:3	And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was hiddenconcealed from the king which he did not explain to her.
10:4	When the queen of Sheba perceivedsaw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
10:5	and the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendanceservice of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairwayburnt byofferings which he wentoffered upat to the house of the Lord, thereshe was no more spirit in herbreathless.
10:6	Then she said to the king, “It was a true reportstory whichthat I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.
10:7	NeverthelessBut I did not believe the reports,stories until I came and my own eyes hadsaw seenit itall. And behold, the half of it was not toldreported to me. You exceedhave exceeded in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard.
10:8	HowBlessed blessed are your men, howand blessed are these your servants of yours who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.!
10:9	Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you to setput you on the throne of Israel; because the Lord lovedloves Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
10:10	SheThen she gave the king a120 hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very greatlarge amount of spicesbalsam oil and precious stones. Never again did such abundancea large quantity of spicesbalsam oil come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
10:11	AlsoAnd the ships of Hiram as well, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones.
10:12	The king made offrom the almug trees supports for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, alsoand lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again, nor have they been seen to this day.
10:13	And King Solomon gavegranted to the queen of Sheba alleverything hershe desiredesired, whichwhatever she requested, besides what he gave her accordingin proportion to his royal bounty. Then she turneddeparted and went to her own land together with her servants.
10:14	Now the weight of gold whichthat came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
10:15	besides that from the traders, and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.
10:16	King Solomon made 200two hundred large shields of beaten gold, using 600six hundred shekels of gold on each large shield.
10:17	HeAnd he made 300three hundred small shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield,; and the king put them in the house of the foresttimber of Lebanon.
10:18	Moreover, the king made a greatlarge throne of ivory and overlaid it with refinedfine gold.
10:19	There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rearback, and armsarmrests on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armsarmrests.
10:21	AllNow all King Solomon’s drinking vesselsutensils were of gold, and all the vesselsutensils of the house of the foresttimber of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuableas amounting to anything in the days of Solomon.
10:22	For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish at sea with theHiram’s ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish camewould bringingcome carrying gold and silver, ivory, andmonkeys, apes and peacocks.
10:23	So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in richeswealth and in wisdom.
10:24	AllAnd all the earth was seeking the presenceattention of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
10:25	TheyAnd broughtthey everywere manbringing, hiseveryone, a gift,: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spicesbalsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
10:26	Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000twelve thousand horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
10:27	TheAnd the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
10:28	Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s merchants procuredacquired them from Kue for a price.
10:29	A chariot was imported from Egypt for 600six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and by the same means they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.
11:2	from the nations concerningof which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you,; for they will surelycertainly turn your heart away afterto follow their gods.” Solomon heldclung fast to these in love.
11:3	He had seven hundred wives, who were princesses, and three hundred concubines,; and his wives turned his heart away.
11:4	For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away afterto follow other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father David had been.
11:5	For Solomon wentbecame aftera follower of Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and afterof Milcom the detestableabhorrent idol of the Ammonites.
11:6	So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father David had done.
11:7	Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestableabhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain whichthat is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the detestableabhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon.
11:8	ThusHe also he did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
11:9	Now the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart washad turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
11:10	and had commanded him concerningregarding this thing, that he shouldwas not goto afterfollow other gods; but he did not observecomply with what the Lord had commanded.
11:11	So the Lord said to Solomon, “BecauseSince you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surelycertainly tear the kingdom away from you, and will give it to your servant.
11:12	NeverthelessHowever, I will not do it in your days, only for the sake of your father David,; but I will tear it outaway offrom the hand of your son.
11:13	However,Yet I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
11:14	Then the Lord raised up an adversary toagainst Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal line in Edom.
11:15	For it came about, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury thethose slainkilled in battle, and had struck downand killed every male in Edom
11:16	(for Joab and all Israel stayed there for six months, until he had cuteliminated off every male in Edom),
11:18	They aroseset out from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land.
11:19	Now Hadad found great favor beforein the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
11:20	TheAnd the sister of Tahpenes boregave birth to his son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21	But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David sleptlay down with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “SendLet me awaygo, so that I may go to my own country.”
11:22	ThenHowever, Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you are seekinghere, requesting to go to your own country?” And he answered, “Nothing; nevertheless you must surely let me go.”
11:23	God also raised up another adversary toagainst him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lordmaster Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
11:24	HeAnd he gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, after David slewkilled themthose of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed there, and reigned in Damascus.
11:25	So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the evilharm that Hadad didinflicted; and he abhorredfelt disgust for Israel and reigned over Aram.
11:29	ItAnd it came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field.
11:31	HeAnd he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thusthis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I willam going to tear the kingdom outaway offrom the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes
11:32	(but he willshall have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel),
11:33	because they have forsakenabandoned Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observingkeeping My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.
11:34	Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observedkept My commandments and My statutes;
11:35	but I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you; that is, even ten tribes.
11:36	But to his son I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may always have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
11:37	However I will take you, and you shall reign over whateverall that you desire, and you shall be king over Israel.
11:38	Then it willshall be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observingkeeping My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
11:39	ThusSo I will afflictoppress the descendants of David for this, but not always.’ ”
11:40	Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam aroseset out and fled to Egypt to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
11:41	Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the bookBook of the actsActs of Solomon?
11:42	ThusSo the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
11:43	AndThen Solomon sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
12:1	Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, forbecause all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
12:2	Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard ofabout itthis, he was living in Egypt (for he was yetstill in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon).
12:3	Then they sent word and calledsummoned him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
12:4	“Your father made our yoke hard; but now, therefore lighten the hard servicelabor ofimposed by your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”
12:6	And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you counseladvise me to answer this people?”
12:7	Then they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their petitionrequest, and speak goodpleasant words to them, then they will be your servants foreveralways.”
12:8	But he forsookignored the counseladvice of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grewhad grown up with him and served him.
12:9	SoHe he said to them, “What counseladvice do you give, so that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”
12:10	TheAnd the young men who grewhad grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “ThusThis is what you shallshould say to this people who spoke to you, saying,: ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ ButYou youshould shall speak this way to them,: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loinswaist!
12:11	WhereasNow then, my father loaded you with a heavy yoke,; yet I will add to your yoke;. myMy father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’!’ ”
12:12	Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had directed, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”
12:13	TheAnd the king answered the people harshly, for he forsookignored the advice of the elders which they had given him,
12:14	and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”!”
12:15	So the king did not listen to the people; forbecause it was a turn of events from the Lord, thatin Heorder mightto establish His word, which the Lord spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
12:16	When all Israel saw that the king didhad not listenlistened to them, the people answeredreplied to the king, saying, “What portionshare do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; To your tents, O Israel! Now look after your own house, David!” So Israel departedwent away to their tents.
12:18	Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was overin charge of the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam madehurried haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
12:19	So Israel has beenbroken inwith rebellion against the house of David to this day.
12:20	ItAnd it came about, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent word and called him to the assembly, and made him king over all Israel. None butexcept the tribe of Judah alone followed the house of David.
12:21	Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
12:23	“SpeakTell to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
12:24	‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “You mustshall not go up andnor fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return, every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me.” ’ ” So they listened to the word of the Lord, and returned andto wentgo their way accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord.
12:26	And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
12:27	If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord atin Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
12:28	So the king consulted, and he made two golden calves,; and he said to themthe people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
12:29	HeAnd he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
12:31	And he made houses on high places, and madeappointed priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.
12:32	Jeroboam also instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast whichthat is in Judah, and he went up to the altar;. thusSo he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
12:33	Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month whichthat he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
13:1	Now behold, there came a man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord, while Jeroboam was standing byat the altar to burn incense.
13:2	HeAnd he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altarAltar, altar, thusthis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall beburn burned on you.’ ”
13:3	Then he gave a sign on the same day, saying, “This is the sign which the Lord has spoken,: ‘Behold, the altar shall be splittorn apartto pieces and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.’ ”
13:4	Now when the king heard the sayingstatement of the man of God, which he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.”!” But his hand which he had stretched out againsttoward him dried up, soand that he could not draw it back to himself.
13:5	The altar also was splittorn apartto pieces and the ashes were poured out from the altar, accordingin toaccordance with the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
13:6	TheAnd the king responded and said to the man of God, “Please entreatappease the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God entreatedappeased the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
13:7	Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a rewardgift.”
13:8	But the man of God said to the king, “If you were to give me half your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
13:9	For so it was commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall not eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way whichthat you came.’ ”
13:10	So he went another way and did not return by the way whichthat he camehad come to Bethel.
13:11	Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they relatedreported to their father.
13:12	TheirAnd their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen the way whichthat the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
13:16	HeBut he said, “I cannot return with you, nor gocome with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
13:17	For a command came to me by the word of the Lord,: ‘You shall not eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way whichthat you came.’ ”
13:18	HeThen he said to him, “I alsotoo am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he lied to him.
13:21	and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Because you have disobeyed the command of the Lord, and have not observedkept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,
13:22	but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “EatYou noare not to eat bread andnor drink no water”; your dead body shallwill not come to the grave of your fathers.’ ”
13:25	And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told about it in the city where the old prophet had lived.
13:26	Now when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard about it, he said, “It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke to him.”
13:28	HeThen he went and found his body thrown on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten the body nor tornharmed the donkey.
13:29	So the prophet tookpicked up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back,; and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.
13:30	He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, “AlasOh, my brother!”
13:31	AfterAnd after he had buried him, he spoketalked to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
13:32	For the thing shallwill surelycertainly come to pass which he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar that is in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria.”
13:33	After this event, Jeroboam did not returnabandon from his evil way, but he again heappointed made priests of the high places from among all the people; anyanyone who wouldwanted, he ordained, toand behe became one of the priests of the high places.
13:34	This event also became a sin toof the house of Jeroboam, even to blotwipe it out and destroyeliminate it from off the face of the earth.
14:2	And Jeroboam said to his wife, “AriseNow now,arise and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh;. beholdBehold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spokesaid concerningregarding me that I would be king over this people.
14:3	Take ten loaves with you, some cakespastries, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
14:4	And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and aroseset out and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, forbecause his eyes were dimglossy becausefrom of his old age.
14:5	Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerningabout her son, forbecause he is sick. You shall say thussuch and thussuch to her, for it will be when she arrives, that she willis pretendgoing to bemake anotherherself womanunrecognizable.”
14:6	WhenSo when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam,; why do you pretendmake toyourself be another womanunrecognizable? ForNevertheless, I am sent to you with a harsh message.
14:7	Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,
14:8	and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight;
14:9	you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and moltencast metal images to provoke Me to anger, and have castthrown Me behind your back—
14:10	therefore behold, I am bringing calamitydisaster on the house of Jeroboam, and I will cuteliminate off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, just as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
14:11	Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city, the dogs will eat. And heanyone who dies in the field, the birds of the heavenssky will eat; for the Lord has spoken it.” ’
14:13	AllThen all Israel shallwill mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14:14	Moreover, the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cuteliminate off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.
14:15	“For the Lord will strike Israel, just as a reed issways shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
14:16	He will give up Israel onbecause account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he mademisled Israel tointo sin.”
14:17	Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.
14:18	AllThen all Israel buried him and mourned for him, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which He spokehad spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
14:19	Now as for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
14:20	TheAnd the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he sleptlay down with his fathers, and Nadab his son Nadab reigned in his place.
14:21	Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
14:22	And the people of Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.
14:23	For they, alsotoo, built for themselves high places, andmemorial sacredstones, pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneathunder every luxuriant tree.
14:24	There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They didcommitted according to all the same abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
14:25	Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt camemarched up against Jerusalem.
14:26	HeAnd he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he took everything,; he even takingtook all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
14:27	So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committedentrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.
14:28	ThenAnd it happened as often as the king entered the house of the Lord, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards’ room.
14:29	Now as for 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	ThereAnd there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
14:31	And Rehoboam sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son Abijam became king in his place.
15:2	He reigned for three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
15:4	But for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;,
15:5	because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and haddid not turneddeviate aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
15:6	ThereAnd there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
15:7	Now as for 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 sleptlay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son Asa became king in his place.
15:10	He reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
15:11	Now Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father David.
15:12	He also putremoved away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
15:13	HeAnd alsoeven removedhis mother Maacah, hishe motheralso removed her from beingthe position of queen mother, because she had made aan horridabominable image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horridabominable image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
15:14	But the high places were not taken awayeliminated; nevertheless theAsa’s heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.
15:15	HeAnd he brought into the house of the Lord the dedicatedholy thingsgifts of his father and his own dedicatedholy thingsgifts: silver, and gold, and valuable utensils.
15:17	Baasha king of Israel wentmarched up against Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.
15:18	Then Asa took all the silver and the gold whichthat werewas left in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the treasuries of the king’s house, and deliveredhanded themit intoover theto hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,
15:19	“Let’s theremake be a treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you a presentgift of silver and gold; go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”
15:20	So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali.
15:21	When Baasha heard ofabout it, he ceasedstopped fortifying Ramah and remained in Tirzah.
15:22	Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah—noneno one was exempt—and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had built fortifications. And King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
15:23	Now as for 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? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
15:24	And Asa sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father David; and Jehoshaphat his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.
15:25	Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.
15:26	He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and in his sin into which he mademisled Israel sin.
15:27	Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck and killed him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
15:28	So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
15:29	ItAnd came about as soon as he was king, he struck downand killed all the household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam any persons alive, but kept killing until he had destroyedeliminated them, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
15:30	and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinnedcommitted, and into which he mademisled Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
15:31	Now as for 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	ThereAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
15:33	In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned for twenty-four years.
15:34	HeAnd he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin into which he mademisled Israel sin.
16:2	“InasmuchSince as I exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have mademisled My people Israel into sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,
16:3	behold, I willam consumegoing to burn Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16:4	Anyone ofbelonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will eat,; and anyone ofbelonging histo him who dies in the field, the birds of the heavenssky will eat.”
16:5	Now as for 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	And Baasha sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son Elah became king in his place.
16:7	Moreover, the word of the Lord through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil whichthat he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, inby being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck it.
16:8	In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned for two years.
16:9	HisAnd his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now heElah was atin Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was overin charge of the household atin Tirzah.
16:10	Then Zimri wentcame in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he became king in his place.
16:11	ItAnd came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male alive, neithereither of his relatives noror of his friends.
16:12	ThusSo Zimri destroyedeliminated all the household of Baasha, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord, which He spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet,
16:13	for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son Elah, which they sinnedcommitted and into which they mademisled Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
16:14	Now as for 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-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days atin Tirzah. Now the people were camped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
16:16	TheAnd the people who were camped heard it being said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck downand killed the king.”!” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
16:18	When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over himhimself with fire, and died,
16:19	because of his sins which he sinnedcommitted, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he didcommitted, makingmisleading Israel into sin.
16:20	Now as for the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
16:23	In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reigned for twelve years; he reigned for six years at Tirzah.
16:24	HeAnd boughthe purchased the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
16:25	Now Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
16:26	For he walked entirely in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins into which he mademisled Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
16:27	Now as for the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he showeddisplayed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
16:28	SoAnd Omri sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son Ahab became king in his place.
16:29	Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years.
16:31	ItAnd came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went toand serveserved Baal, and worshiped him.
16:32	So he erected an altar for Baal inat the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
16:33	Ahab also made the Asherah. ThusSo Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
16:34	In his days Hiel the Bethelite builtrebuilt Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
17:1	Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall certainly be neither dew nor rain during these years, except by my word.”
17:2	TheThen the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
17:4	ItAnd it shall be that you will drink offrom the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide food for you there.”
17:5	So he went and did everything according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
17:6	TheAnd the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.
17:7	ItBut it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
17:9	“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide food for you.”
17:10	So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gateentrance of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jarcup, so that I may drink.”
17:12	But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no breadfood, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
17:13	ThenHowever, Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said,. butJust make me a little bread cakeloaf from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.
17:14	For thusthis saysis what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The bowl of flour shall not be exhaustedused up, nor shall the jar of oil bebecome empty, until the day that the Lord sendsprovides rain on the face of the earth.’ ”
17:15	So she went and did accordingeverything toin accordance with the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days.
17:16	The bowl of flour was not exhaustedused up, nor did the jar of oil become empty, accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke through Elijah.
17:17	Now it camehappened about after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sicknesscondition wasbecame sovery severegrave, thatuntil thereat the end he was no breathlonger left in himbreathing.
17:18	So she said to Elijah, “WhatWhy dois Imy havebusiness toany doof withyours, you, O man of God? YouYet you have come to me to bring my iniquitywrongdoing to remembrance, and to put my son to death!”
17:19	HeBut he said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosomarms and carried him up to the upperupstairs room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.
17:20	HeAnd he called to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, have You also brought calamitycatastrophe toupon the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?”
17:21	Then he stretched himself uponout over the childboy three times, and called to the Lord and said, “O Lord, my God, I pray Youplease, let this childboy’s life return to him.”
17:22	TheAnd the Lord heardlistened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the childboy returned to him and he revived.
17:23	Elijah then took the childboy and brought him down from the upperupstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.”
17:24	Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.”
18:1	Now it happened after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, showpresent yourself to Ahab, and I will sendprovide rain on the face of the earth.”
18:2	So Elijah went to showpresent himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
18:3	Ahab calledsummoned Obadiah, who was overin charge of the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly;
18:4	for when Jezebel destroyedkilled the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
18:5	Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the river valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle.”
18:6	So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
18:7	Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is thisit you, Elijah my master?”
18:8	HeAnd he said to him, “It is I. Go, say to your master, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.’ ”
18:9	HeBut he said, “What sin have I committed, that you are givinghanding your servant intoover theto hand of Ahab, to put me to death?
18:10	As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom whereto which my master has not sent word to search for you; and whenwhenever they saidsay, ‘He is not here,’ he mademakes the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.
18:11	AndYet now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here.”!” ’
18:12	ItAnd it will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to where I do not know; so when I come and tellinform Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, althoughthough I, your servant, have feared the Lord from my youth.
18:13	Has it not been toldreported to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred prophets of the Lord by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
18:14	AndYet now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here” ’; he will then kill me.”!”
18:15	Then Elijah said, “As surely as the Lord of hostsarmies lives, before whom I stand, I will surelycertainly showpresent myself to him today.”
18:16	So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and toldinformed him; andthen Ahab went to meet Elijah.
18:17	When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is this you, youthe troublercause of disaster to Israel?”
18:18	He said, “I have not troubledbrought disaster to Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsakenabandoned the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.
18:19	Now then, send orders and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400four hundred prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
18:20	So Ahab sent aorders message among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel.
18:21	Then Elijah cameapproached near to all the people and said, “How long willare you hesitategoing betweento struggle with the two opinionschoices? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him so much as a word.
18:22	Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left as a prophet of the Lord, butwhile Baal’s prophets are 450 men.
18:23	Now lethave them give us two oxen; and lethave them choose the one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire under it.
18:24	Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord,; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.” And all the people saidreplied, “That is a good idea.”
18:25	So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose the one ox for yourselves and prepare it first, forsince youthere are many of you, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under itthe ox.”
18:26	Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it, and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us.”!” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leapedlimped about the altar which they had made.
18:27	ItAnd came about at noon, that Elijah mockedridiculed them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, forsince he is a god; eitherundoubtedly he is occupiedattending to business, or goneis asideon the way, or is on a journey,. orPerhaps perhaps he is asleep, and needswill to be awakenedawaken.”
18:28	So they cried out with a loud voice, and cut themselves according to their custom with swords and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
18:30	Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come nearforward to me.” So all the people came nearforward to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord which had been torn down.
18:31	Then Elijah took twelve stones, accordingcorresponding to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
18:32	SoAnd with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord,; and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed.
18:33	Then he arrangedlaid out the wood, and he cut the ox in pieces and laidplaced it on the wood.
18:34	And he said, “Fill four pitcherslarge jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time,” andso they did it a second time. AndThen he said, “Do it a third time,” andso they did it a third time.
18:35	The water flowed around the altar, and he also filled the trench with water.
18:36	AtThen at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet cameapproached near and said, “O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word.
18:37	Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so that this people may know that You, O Lord, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again.”
18:38	Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood, and the stones and the dust,; and it licked up the water that was in the trench.
18:39	When all the people saw itthis, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God; the Lord, He is God.”!”
18:40	Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slewslaughtered them there.
18:42	So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouchedbent down onto the earth and put his face between his knees.
18:43	HeAnd he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, andbut he said, “There is nothing.” AndYet heElijah said, “Go back” seven times.
18:44	ItAnd camewhen abouthe atreturned the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a manperson’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And heElijah said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘PrepareHarness your chariot horses and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.’ ”
18:45	InMeanwhile a little while the sky grewbecame blackdark with clouds and wind came up, and there was a heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
18:46	Then the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girdedbelted uphis cloak around his loinswaist and outran Ahab to Jezreel.
19:1	Now Ahab told Jezebel alleverything that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
19:2	Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and evenmore moreso, if by about this time tomorrow I do not make your life aslike the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
19:3	And he was afraid, and arosegot up and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah,; and he left his servant there.
19:4	But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniperbroom tree; and he requestedasked for himself thatto he might die, and said, “ItEnough! is enough; nowNow, O Lord, take my life, for I am notno better than my fathers.”
19:5	HeThen he lay down and sleptfell asleep under a juniperbroom tree; andbut behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”!”
19:6	ThenAnd he looked, and behold, there was at his head a round loaf of bread cake baked on hot stonescoals, and a jarpitcher of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.
19:7	TheBut the angel of the Lord came againback a second time and touched him, and said, “Arise, eat,; because the journey is too greatlong for you.”
19:8	So he arose and ate and drank, and wenthe journeyed in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
19:9	Then he came there to a cave and lodgedspent the night there; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
19:10	HeAnd he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hostsarmies; for the sons of Israel have forsakenabandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seekhave mysought life, to take itmy awaylife.”
19:11	So He said, “Go forthout and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strongpowerful wind was rendingtearing out the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
19:12	AfterAnd after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire, a sound of a gentle blowing.
19:13	When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantlecloak and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
19:14	Then he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hostsarmies; for the sons of Israel have forsakenabandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seekhave mysought life, to take itmy awaylife.”
19:15	The Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus,; and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram;.
19:16	andYou shall also anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.
19:17	ItAnd it shall come about, that the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death.
19:18	Yet I will leave 7,000seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
19:19	So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing, with twelve pairsyoke of oxen beforein front of him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passedcame over to him and threw his mantlecloak on him.
19:20	HeThen he left the oxen behind and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”
19:21	So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them, and boiledcooked their fleshmeat with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arosegot up and followed Elijah and ministeredserved to him.
20:1	Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army, and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
20:2	Then he sent messengers to the city to Ahab, king of Israel, and said to him, “ThusThis saysis what Ben-hadad, says:
20:4	TheAnd the king of Israel replied, “ItAs isyou according to your wordsay, my lord, O king; I am yours, andas well as all that I have.”
20:5	Then the messengers returned and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad, says this: ‘Surely, I sentdid indeed send word to you, saying, “You shall give me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children,””;
20:6	but about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants; and whateverthey iswill desirabletake in yourtheir eyes,hands theyeverything willthat takeis inpleasing theirto handyour eyes, and carrytake it all away.’ ”
20:7	Then the king of Israel calledsummoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please observebe aware and see howthat this man is looking for trouble; for he sent to me his demand for my wives, and my children, and my silver, and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”
20:8	AllThen all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen ornor consent.”
20:9	So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘AllEverything that you sent foras a demand to your servant at the first, I will do,; but this thing I cannot do.’ ” AndThen the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
20:10	Ben-hadad sent word to him and said, “May the gods do so to me and more alsoso, if the dust of Samaria will sufficebe enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
20:11	Then the king of Israel replied, “Tell him, ‘LetHe not him who girdsstraps on his armorweapons had better not boast like himone who takes itthem off.’ ”
20:12	WhenAnd when Ben-hadad heard this message, aswhile he was drinking with the kings in the temporary shelters, he said to his servants, “StationTake yourselvesyour positions.” So they stationedtook themselvestheir positions against the city.
20:13	Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, and said, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I willam delivergoing to hand them intoover yourto handyou today, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”
20:14	But Ahab said, “By whom?” So he said, “ThusThe Lord says thethis: Lord, ‘By the young men of the rulersleaders of the provinces.’ ” Then he said, “Who shallwill begin the battle?” And he answeredsaid, “You will.”
20:15	ThenSo he mustered the young men of the rulersleaders of the provinces, and there were 232; and after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel,: 7,000seven thousand.
20:16	They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helpedwere helping him.
20:17	The young men of the rulersleaders of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they toldreported to him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria.”
20:18	Then he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive as well.”
20:19	So these men went out from the city, the young men of the rulersleaders of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
20:20	TheyAnd they killed, each one, his man; and the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen.
20:21	The king of Israel also went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans within a great slaughter.
20:22	Then the prophet cameapproached near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthenshow yourself courageous and observebe aware and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will comemarch up against you.”
20:23	Now the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the mountains,; thereforefor that reason they were stronger than we;. butBut rather let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will certainly be stronger than they.
20:24	DoCarry out this thingplan: remove the kings, each from his place, and put captainsgovernors in their place,
20:25	and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will certainly be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.
20:26	AtSo at the turn of the year, Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
20:27	TheAnd the sons of Israel were mustered and weregiven provisionedprovisions, and they went to meet them; and the sons of Israel camped beforeopposite them like two little flocks of goats, butwhile the Arameans filled the country.
20:28	Then a man of God cameapproached near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘BecauseSince the Arameans have said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains, but He is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will givehand over to you all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ ”
20:29	So they camped, one overopposite against the other, for seven days. And on the seventh day the battle was joined, and the sons of Israel killed of the Arameans 100,000a hundred thousand foot soldiers in onea single day.
20:30	But the rest fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell on 27,000twenty-seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city, intogoing anfrom one inner chamberroom to another.
20:31	HisBut his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings,. pleasePlease let’s us put sackcloth onaround our loinswaists and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will savelet youryou lifelive.”
20:32	So they girdedput sackcloth onaround their loinswaists and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’ ” And heAhab said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
20:33	Now the men took this as ana good omen, and quickly catchingaccepting hisit wordfrom him, they said, “Your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he tookhad him upmount into the chariot.
20:34	And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore, and you shallcan make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” Ahab said, “And I will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
20:35	Now a certain man offrom the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of the Lord, “Please strike me.” But the man refused to strike him.
20:36	Then he said to him, “Because you have not listened to the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you haveleave departed from me, a lion will kill you.” And as soon as he hadleft departed from him a lion found him and killed him.
20:37	Then he found another man and said, “Please strike me.” And the man struck him, woundinginjuring him.
20:38	So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the wayroad, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.
20:39	AsAnd as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he isgoes missing, then your life shall be forforfeited in place of his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
20:40	WhileNow while your servant was busy here and there, he was gonedisappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself havedetermined decided it.”
20:41	Then he hastilyquickly took the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was one of the prophets.
20:42	HeAnd the prophet said to him, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘BecauseSince you have let go outfrom of your hand the man whom I had devoteddesignated tofor destruction, therefore your life shall gobe forforfeited in place of his life, and your people forin place of his people.’ ”
20:43	So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexedfurious, and came to Samaria.
21:1	Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab, the king of Samaria.
21:2	And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard thanin itplace inof its placeit; if you likeprefer, I will give you thewhat priceit ofis itworth in money.”
21:3	But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid me that I shouldwould give you the inheritance of my fathers.”!”
21:4	So Ahab cameentered into his house sullen and vexedfurious because of the wordanswer whichthat Naboth the Jezreelite had spokengiven to him;, forsince he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face away, and ate no food.
21:6	So he said to her, “BecauseIt is because I spokewas speaking to Naboth the Jezreelite and saidsaying to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in itsplace placeof it.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’ ”
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 who were living with Naboth in his city.
21:9	Now she wrotehad written in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people;
21:10	and seat two worthless men beforeopposite him, and lethave them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
21:11	So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did just as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.
21:12	They proclaimed a fast, and seated Naboth at the head of the people.
21:13	Then the two worthless men came in and sat beforeopposite him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
21:15	WhenAnd when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
21:16	When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arosegot up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
21:18	“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.
21:19	YouAnd you shall speak to him, saying, ‘ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘ThusThe Lord says thethis: Lord, “In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick up your blood, evenyours yoursas well.” ’ ”
21:20	Then Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, Oenemy myof enemymine?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have soldgiven yourself over to do evil in the sight of the Lord.
21:21	Behold, I willam bringbringing evildisaster upon you, and I will utterly sweep you away, and will cuteliminate off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel;
21:22	and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have mademisled Israel into sin.
21:23	OfThe JezebelLord has also hasspoken theof Lord spokenJezebel, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the districtterritory of Jezreel.’
21:24	The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat,; and the one who dies in the field, the birds of heaventhe sky will eat.”
21:25	SurelyThere therecertainly was no one like Ahab who soldgave himself over to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him.
21:26	He also acted very abominablydespicably in following idols, accordingconforming to alleverything that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord castdrove out beforefrom the sons of Israel.
21:27	ItYet it came about, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
21:29	“Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evildisaster in his days,; but I will bring the evildisaster upon his house in his son’s days.”
22:1	ThreeNow three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
22:2	In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
22:3	Now the king of Israel said to his servants, “DoAre you knowaware that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, andyet we are stillhesitant doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?”
22:4	AndSo he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go to battle with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “IConsider amme as you areyours, my people asyours, yourand people, my horses asyours!” your horses.”
22:5	MoreoverHowever, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquirerequest first for the word of the Lord first.”
22:6	ThenSo the king of Israel gatheredassembled the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “ShallShould I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shallshould I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will givehand it intoover theto hand of the king.”
22:7	But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there notno yetlonger a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of him?”
22:8	TheAnd the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yetstill one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy anything good concerningregarding me, but evilonly bad. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “LetMay not the king not say so.”
22:9	Then the king of Israel calledsummoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah son of Imlah quickly.”
22:10	Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting, each on his throne, arrayeddressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
22:11	Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “ThusThis saysis what the Lord, says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.’destroyed!’ ”
22:12	All the prophets were prophesying thusthis as well, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prospersucceed, for the Lord will givehand it intoover theto hand of the king.”
22:13	Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, “Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformlyunanimously favorable to the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”
22:14	But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatwhatever the Lord says to me, that I shall speak it.”
22:15	When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shallshould we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shallshould we refrain?” And he answered himsaid, “Go up and succeed, andfor the Lord will givehand it intoover theto hand of the king.”!”
22:16	Then the king said to him, “How many times must I adjuremake you toswear speakthat toyou will tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”
22:17	So he said, “I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep whichthat have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. LetEach each of them is to return to his house in peace.’ ”
22:18	Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy anything good concerningregarding me, but evilonly bad?”
22:19	And Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the hostangels of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
22:20	TheAnd the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one spirit said this, while another said that.
22:21	Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
22:22	TheAnd the Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouthmouths of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You areshall to entice him, and you will also prevail. Go and do so.’
22:23	Now thereforethen, behold, the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these yourprophets prophetsof yours; and the Lord has proclaimeddeclared disaster against you.”
22:24	Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah cameapproached near and struck Micaiah on the cheek; and he said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”
22:25	And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shallare going to see how on that day when you entergo anfrom one inner room to another trying to hide yourself.”
22:26	Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
22:27	and say, ‘ThusThis saysis what the king, says: “Put this man in prison, and feed him sparinglyenough with bread and water to survive until I return safely.” ’ ”
22:28	But Micaiah said, “If you indeedactually return safely, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Listen, all you people.”!”
22:30	TheAnd the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle.
22:31	Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captainscommanders of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with the small or great, but only with the king of Israel alone.”
22:32	So when the captainscommanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely ithe is the king of Israel,”!” andAnd they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out.
22:33	WhenThen, when the captainscommanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
22:34	Now aone certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight;battle, for I am severely wounded.”
22:35	The battle raged on that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and he died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot.
22:36	Then athe cryword passed throughout the army close to sunset, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country.”!”
22:38	They washed out the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (nowit was there that the harlotsprostitutes bathed themselves there), accordingin toaccordance with the word of the Lord which He spokehad spoken.
22:39	Now as for the rest of the acts of Ahab and alleverything that he did, and the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
22:40	So Ahab sleptlay down with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
22:42	Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
22:43	He walked entirely in all the way of Asa his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burntburned incense on the high places.
22:45	Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warredmade war, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
22:46	TheAnd the remnant of the sodomitescult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelledeliminated from the land.
22:47	Now there was no king in Edom; a deputygovernor wasserved as king.
22:48	Jehoshaphat madebuilt ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, forbecause the ships were brokendestroyed at Ezion-geber.
22:50	And Jehoshaphat sleptlay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son Jehoram became king in his place.
22:51	Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years over Israel.
22:52	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 causedmisled Israel tointo sin.
22:53	So he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.