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