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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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king james study

1KI-1:1 Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and

they covered him

with clothes, but he gat no heat.

1KI-1:2 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.

1KI-1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the

coasts of Israel,

and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1KI-1:4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king,

and

ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

1KI-1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself,

saying, I will be

king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men

to run before

him.

1KI-1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in

saying, Why hast

thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his

mother] bare him

after Absalom.

1KI-1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with

Abiathar the

priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].

1KI-1:8 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.

1KI-1:9 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:

1KI-1:10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty

men, and Solomon

his brother, he called not.

1KI-1:11 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?

1KI-1:12 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.

1KI-1:13 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?

1KI-1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I

also will come

in after thee, and confirm thy words.

1KI-1:15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber:

and the king

was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the

king.

1KI-1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king.

And the king

said, What wouldest thou?

1KI-1:17 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.

1KI-1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord

the king, thou

knowest [it] not:

1KI-1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in

abundance, and

hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest,

and Joab the

captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

1KI-1:20 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.

1KI-1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king

shall sleep

with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted

offenders.

1KI-1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan

the prophet also

came in.

1KI-1:23 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.

1KI-1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said,

Adonijah shall

reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?

1KI-1:25 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.

1KI-1:26 But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest,

and Benaiah the

son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

1KI-1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast

not showed

[it] unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord

the king after

him?

1KI-1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba.

And she came

into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

1KI-1:29 And the king sware, and said, [As] the LORD liveth,

that hath

redeemed my soul out of all distress,

1KI-1:30 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.

1KI-1:31 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.

1KI-1:32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and

Nathan the

prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before

the king.

1KI-1:33 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:

1KI-1:34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint

him there

king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God

save king

Solomon.

1KI-1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and

sit upon my

throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed

him to be ruler

over Israel and over Judah.

1KI-1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and

said, Amen:

the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].

1KI-1:37 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.

1KI-1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and

Benaiah the son of

Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down,

and caused

Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

1KI-1:39 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.

1KI-1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people

piped with

pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with

the sound of

them.

1KI-1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with him

heard [it] as

they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of

the trumpet,

he said, Wherefore [is this] noise of the city being in an

uproar?

1KI-1:42 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.

1KI-1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our

lord king

David hath made Solomon king.

1KI-1:44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and

Nathan the

prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites,

and the

Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's

mule:

1KI-1:45 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.

1KI-1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

1KI-1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our

lord king David,

saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and

make his throne

greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

1KI-1:48 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].

1KI-1:49 And all the guests that [were] with Adonijah were

afraid, and rose

up, and went every man his way.

1KI-1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and

went, and

caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1KI-1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah

feareth king

Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar,

saying, Let

king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his

servant with the

sword.

1KI-1:52 And Solomon said, If he will show 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.

1KI-1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from

the altar. And

he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto

him, Go to

thine house.

1KI-2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and

he charged

Solomon his son, saying,

1KI-2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore,

and show

thyself a man;

1KI-2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his

ways, to keep

his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his

testimonies, as

it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in

all that thou

doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

1KI-2:4 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.

1KI-2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah

did to me,

[and] what he did to the two captains of the 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.

1KI-2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his

hoar head go

down to the grave in peace.

1KI-2:7 But show 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.

1KI-2:8 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.

1KI-2:9 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.

1KI-2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the

city of

David.

1KI-2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel [were]

forty years:

seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years

reigned he in

Jerusalem.

1KI-2:12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father;

and his

kingdom was established greatly.

1KI-2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the

mother of

Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said,

Peaceably.

1KI-2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee.

And she said,

Say on.

1KI-2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine,

and [that] all

Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the

kingdom is

turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from

the LORD.

1KI-2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And

she said unto

him, Say on.

1KI-2:17 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.

1KI-2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto

the king.

1KI-2:19 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.

1KI-2:20 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.

1KI-2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to

Adonijah thy

brother to wife.

1KI-2:22 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.

1KI-2:23 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.

1KI-2:24 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.

1KI-2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son

of Jehoiada;

and he fell upon him that he died.

1KI-2:26 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.

1KI-2:27 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.

1KI-2:28 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.

1KI-2:29 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.

1KI-2:30 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.

1KI-2:31 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.

1KI-2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head,

who fell upon

two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with

the sword, my

father David not knowing [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.

1KI-2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of

Joab, and upon

the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed,

and upon his

house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from

the LORD.

1KI-2:34 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.

1KI-2:35 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.

1KI-2:36 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.

1KI-2:37 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.

1KI-2:38 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.

1KI-2:39 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.

1KI-2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to

Gath to Achish to

seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants

from Gath.

1KI-2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from

Jerusalem to Gath,

and was come again.

1KI-2:42 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.

1KI-2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and

the

commandment that I have charged thee with?

1KI-2:44 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;

1KI-2:45 And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of

David shall

be established before the LORD for ever.

1KI-2:46 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.

1KI-3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt,

and took

Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David,

until he had made

an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and

the wall of

Jerusalem round about.

1KI-3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because

there was no house

built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

1KI-3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of

David his

father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

1KI-3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for

that [was] the

great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer

upon that

altar.

1KI-3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by

night: and God

said, Ask what I shall give thee.

1KI-3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed 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.

1KI-3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king

instead of

David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how]

to go out or

come in.

1KI-3:8 And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which

thou hast

chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for

multitude.

1KI-3:9 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?

1KI-3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had

asked this thing.

1KI-3:11 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;

1KI-3:12 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.

1KI-3:13 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.

1KI-3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes

and my

commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen

thy days.

1KI-3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] a dream. And

he came to

Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD,

and offered

up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a

feast to all his

servants.

1KI-3:16 Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto

the king, and

stood before him.

1KI-3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman

dwell in one

house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

1KI-3:18 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.

1KI-3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she

overlaid it.

1KI-3:20 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.

1KI-3:21 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.

1KI-3:22 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.

1KI-3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son

that liveth, and

thy son [is] the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son

[is] the dead,

and my son [is] the living.

1KI-3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought

a sword before

the king.

1KI-3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and

give half to

the one, and half to the other.

1KI-3:26 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].

1KI-3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living

child, and in

no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.

1KI-3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king

had judged; and

they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was]

in him, to do

judgment.

1KI-4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

1KI-4:2 And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the

son of Zadok

the priest,

1KI-4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;

Jehoshaphat the son

of Ahilud, the recorder.

1KI-4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host:

and Zadok and

Abiathar [were] the priests:

1KI-4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers;

and Zabud the

son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king's friend:

1KI-4:6 And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the

son of Abda

[was] over the tribute.

1KI-4:7 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.

1KI-4:8 And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount

Ephraim:

1KI-4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and

Bethshemesh, and

Elonbethhanan:

1KI-4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained]

Sochoh, and all the

land of Hepher:

1KI-4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which

had Taphath the

daughter of Solomon to wife:

1KI-4:12 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:

1KI-4:13 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

brazen bars:

1KI-4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:

1KI-4:15 Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the

daughter of

Solomon to wife:

1KI-4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:

1KI-4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

1KI-4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

1KI-4:19 Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead,

[in] the

country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan;

and [he was]

the only officer which [was] in the land.

1KI-4:20 Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is]

by the sea in

multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

1KI-4:21 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.

1KI-4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty

measures of fine

flour, and threescore measures of meal,

1KI-4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and

an hundred

sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted

fowl.

1KI-4:24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side

the river,

from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the

river: and he

had peace on all sides round about him.

1KI-4:25 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.

1KI-4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for

his chariots,

and twelve thousand horsemen.

1KI-4:27 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.

1KI-4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries

brought they

unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according to

his charge.

1KI-4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding

exceeding much, and

largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.

1KI-4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the

children of the

east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1KI-4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite,

and Heman,

and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in

all nations

round about.

1KI-4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs

were a thousand

and five.

1KI-4:33 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.

1KI-4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of

Solomon, from all

kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

1KI-5:1 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.

1KI-5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

1KI-5:3 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.

1KI-5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every

side, [so that

there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

1KI-5:5 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.

1KI-5:6 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.

1KI-5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of

Solomon, that he

rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day,

which hath given

unto David a wise son over this great people.

1KI-5:8 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.

1KI-5:9 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.

1KI-5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees

[according to] all

his desire.

1KI-5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of

wheat [for] food

to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave

Solomon to Hiram

year by year.

1KI-5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him:

and there was

peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league

together.

1KI-5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and

the levy was

thirty thousand men.

1KI-5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by

courses: a

month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and

Adoniram [was] over

the levy.

1KI-5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare

burdens, and

fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

1KI-5:16 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.

1KI-5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,

costly

stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

1KI-5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew

[them], and the

stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the

house.

1KI-6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth

year after the

children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the

fourth year of

Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the

second month,

that he began to build the house of the LORD.

1KI-6:2 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.

1KI-6:3 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.

1KI-6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

1KI-6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers

round about,

[against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the

temple and of the

oracle: and he made chambers round about:

1KI-6:6 The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the

middle [was]

six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for

without [in the

wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the

beams] should

not be fastened in the walls of the house.

1KI-6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of

stone made ready

before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer

nor ax [nor]

any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

1KI-6:8 The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side

of the house:

and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber],

and out of the

middle into the third.

1KI-6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the

house with

beams and boards of cedar.

1KI-6:10 And [then] he built chambers against all the house,

five cubits

high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.

1KI-6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

1KI-6:12 [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if

thou wilt

walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my

commandments to

walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I

spake unto David

thy father:

1KI-6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and

will not forsake

my people Israel.

1KI-6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

1KI-6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards

of cedar,

both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: [and]

he covered

[them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the

house with planks

of fir.

1KI-6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house,

both the floor

and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it

within, [even]

for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].

1KI-6:17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was

forty cubits

[long].

1KI-6:18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with

knops and open

flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.

1KI-6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set

there the ark

of the covenant of the LORD.

1KI-6:20 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.

1KI-6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold:

and he made a

partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he

overlaid it with

gold.

1KI-6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he

had finished all

the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he

overlaid with

gold.

1KI-6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive

tree, [each]

ten cubits high.

1KI-6:24 And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and

five cubits

the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one

wing unto the

uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits.

1KI-6:25 And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the

cherubims [were] of

one measure and one size.

1KI-6:26 The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so

[was it] of

the other cherub.

1KI-6:27 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.

1KI-6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

1KI-6:29 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.

1KI-6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold,

within and

without.

1KI-6:31 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].

1KI-6:32 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.

1KI-6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of]

olive tree, a

fourth part [of the wall].

1KI-6:34 And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves

of the one door

[were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were]

folding.

1KI-6:35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and

open flowers:

and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.

1KI-6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed

stone, and a

row of cedar beams.

1KI-6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of

the LORD laid,

in the month Zif:

1KI-6:38 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.

1KI-7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,

and he

finished all his house.

1KI-7:2 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.

1KI-7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams,

that [lay] on

forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.

1KI-7:4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light

[was] against

light [in] three ranks.

1KI-7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the

windows: and

light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

1KI-7:6 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.

1KI-7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might

judge, [even] the

porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side

of the floor

to the other.

1KI-7:8 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.

1KI-7:9 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.

1KI-7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great

stones, stones

of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1KI-7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of

hewed stones,

and cedars.

1KI-7:12 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.

1KI-7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

1KI-7:14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and

his father

[was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with

wisdom, and

understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he

came to king

Solomon, and wrought all his work.

1KI-7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits

high apiece:

and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

1KI-7:16 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:

1KI-7:17 [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.

1KI-7:18 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.

1KI-7:19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the

pillars [were] of

lily work in the porch, four cubits.

1KI-7:20 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.

1KI-7:21 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.

1KI-7:22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so

was the work of

the pillars finished.

1KI-7:23 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.

1KI-7:24 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.

1KI-7:25 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.

1KI-7:26 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.

1KI-7:27 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.

1KI-7:28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they

had borders,

and the borders [were] between the ledges:

1KI-7:29 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.

1KI-7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of

brass: and the

four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were]

undersetters

molten, at the side of every addition.

1KI-7:31 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.

1KI-7:32 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.

1KI-7:33 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.

1KI-7:34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners

of one base:

[and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself.

1KI-7:35 And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass

of half a

cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and

the borders

thereof [were] of the same.

1KI-7:36 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.

1KI-7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them

had one

casting, one measure, [and] one size.

1KI-7:38 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.

1KI-7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house,

and five on

the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side

of the house

eastward over against the south.

1KI-7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the

basins. So Hiram

made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for

the house of

the LORD:

1KI-7:41 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;

1KI-7:42 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;

1KI-7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

1KI-7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

1KI-7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all

these

vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the

LORD, [were of]

bright brass.

1KI-7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the

clay ground

between Succoth and Zarthan.

1KI-7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because

they were

exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

1KI-7:48 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 showbread

[was],

1KI-7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right

[side], and

five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the

lamps, and the

tongs [of] gold,

1KI-7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and

the spoons, and

the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for

the doors of

the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the

house, [to

wit], of the temple.

1KI-7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for

the house of

the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his

father had

dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did

he put among

the treasures of the house of the LORD.

1KI-8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all

the heads of the

tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, 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.

1KI-8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto

king Solomon at

the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.

1KI-8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took

up the ark.

1KI-8:4 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.

1KI-8:5 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.

1KI-8:6 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.

1KI-8:7 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.

1KI-8:8 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.

1KI-8:9 [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.

1KI-8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of

the holy

[place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

1KI-8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister

because of the

cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the

LORD.

1KI-8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell

in the thick

darkness.

1KI-8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a

settled place for

thee to abide in for ever.

1KI-8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all

the congregation

of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)

1KI-8:15 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,

1KI-8:16 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.

1KI-8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the

name of the LORD God of Israel.

1KI-8:18 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.

1KI-8:19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy

son that shall

come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my

name.

1KI-8:20 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.

1KI-8:21 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.

1KI-8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the

presence of

all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands

toward heaven:

1KI-8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God

like thee, in

heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and

mercy with thy

servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

1KI-8:24 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.

1KI-8:25 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.

1KI-8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee,

be verified,

which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

1KI-8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the

heaven and

heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house

that I have

builded?

1KI-8:28 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:

1KI-8:29 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.

1KI-8:30 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.

1KI-8:31 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:

1KI-8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy

servants, condemning

the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the

righteous, to

give him according to his righteousness.

1KI-8:33 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:

1KI-8:34 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.

1KI-8:35 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:

1KI-8:36 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.

1KI-8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,

blasting,

mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpillar; if their enemy

besiege them in

the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness

[there be];

1KI-8:38 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:

1KI-8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and

forgive, and do,

and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou

knowest; (for

thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children

of men;)

1KI-8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in

the land

which thou gavest unto our fathers.

1KI-8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy

people Israel,

but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;

1KI-8:42 (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;

1KI-8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do

according to all that

the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth

may know thy

name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may

know that

this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

1KI-8:44 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:

1KI-8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their

supplication, and

maintain their cause.

1KI-8:46 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;

1KI-8:47 [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;

1KI-8:48 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:

1KI-8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in

heaven thy

dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1KI-8:50 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:

1KI-8:51 For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which

thou

broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of

iron:

1KI-8:52 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.

1KI-8:53 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.

1KI-8:54 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.

1KI-8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of

Israel with a loud

voice, saying,

1KI-8:56 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.

1KI-8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our

fathers: let him not

leave us, nor forsake us:

1KI-8:58 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.

1KI-8:59 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:

1KI-8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the

LORD [is] God,

[and that there is] none else.

1KI-8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our

God, to walk

in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

1KI-8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered

sacrifice before the

LORD.

1KI-8:63 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.

1KI-8:64 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

brazen altar that

[was] before the LORD [was] too little to receive the burnt

offerings, and

meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

1KI-8:65 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.

1KI-8:66 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.

1KI-9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the

building of the

house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's

desire which he was

pleased to do,

1KI-9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as

he had appeared

unto him at Gibeon.

1KI-9:3 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.

1KI-9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father

walked, in

integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all

that I have

commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

1KI-9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon

Israel for ever,

as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail

thee a man

upon the throne of Israel.

1KI-9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or

your children,

and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have

set before

you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

1KI-9:7 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:

1KI-9:8 And at this house, [which] is high, every one that

passeth by it

shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why

hath the LORD

done thus unto this land, and to this house?

1KI-9:9 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.

1KI-9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when

Solomon had

built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's

house,

1KI-9:11 ([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon

with cedar trees

and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that

then king

Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1KI-9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which

Solomon had

given him; and they pleased him not.

1KI-9:13 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.

1KI-9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

1KI-9:15 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.

1KI-9:16 [For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken

Gezer, and burnt

it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city,

and given it

[for] a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

1KI-9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,

1KI-9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

1KI-9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and

cities for his

chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon

desired to build

in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his

dominion.

1KI-9:20 [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites,

Hittites,

Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the

children of

Israel,

1KI-9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land,

whom the

children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon

those did

Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

1KI-9:22 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.

1KI-9:23 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.

1KI-9:24 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.

1KI-9:25 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.

1KI-9:26 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.

1KI-9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that

had knowledge

of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1KI-9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold,

four hundred

and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.

1KI-10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of

Solomon concerning

the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

1KI-10:2 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.

1KI-10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not

[any] thing

hid from the king, which he told her not.

1KI-10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's

wisdom, and the

house that he had built,

1KI-10:5 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.

1KI-10:6 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.

1KI-10:7 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.

1KI-10:8 Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants,

which stand

continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom.

1KI-10:9 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.

1KI-10:10 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.

1KI-10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from

Ophir, brought

in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

1KI-10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the

house of the

LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for

singers: there

came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

1KI-10:13 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.

1KI-10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one

year was six

hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

1KI-10:15 Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the

traffic of the

spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the

governors of the

country.

1KI-10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten

gold: six

hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.

1KI-10:17 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.

1KI-10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and

overlaid it

with the best gold.

1KI-10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne

[was] round

behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the place of

the seat, and

two lions stood beside the stays.

1KI-10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on

the other upon

the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

1KI-10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels [were of]

gold, and all the

vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure

gold; none [were

of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

1KI-10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the

navy of Hiram:

once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold,

and silver,

ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

1KI-10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth

for riches and

for wisdom.

1KI-10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his

wisdom, which God

had put in his heart.

1KI-10:25 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.

1KI-10:26 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.

1KI-10:27 And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as

stones, and cedars

made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale,

for abundance.

1KI-10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and

linen yarn: the

king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

1KI-10:29 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.

1KI-11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together

with the

daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,

Zidonians,

[and] Hittites;

1KI-11:2 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.

1KI-11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three

hundred

concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

1KI-11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his

wives turned

away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect

with the LORD

his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

1KI-11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the

Zidonians, and

after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1KI-11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and

went not fully

after the LORD, as [did] David his father.

1KI-11:7 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.

1KI-11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which

burnt incense

and sacrificed unto their gods.

1KI-11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart

was turned

from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

1KI-11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he

should not go

after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.

1KI-11:11 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.

1KI-11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for

David thy father's

sake: [but] I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

1KI-11:13 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.

1KI-11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon,

Hadad the

Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in Edom.

1KI-11:15 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;

1KI-11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel,

until he had

cut off every male in Edom:)

1KI-11:17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his

father's servants

with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child.

1KI-11:18 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.

1KI-11:19 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.

1KI-11:20 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.

1KI-11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with

his fathers,

and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to

Pharaoh, Let me

depart, that I may go to mine own country.

1KI-11:22 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.

1KI-11:23 And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the

son of

Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:

1KI-11:24 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.

1KI-11:25 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.

1KI-11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of

Zereda, Solomon's

servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman, even

he lifted up

[his] hand against the king.

1KI-11:27 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.

1KI-11:28 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.

1KI-11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went

out of

Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in

the way; and he

had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone

in the field:

1KI-11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him,

and rent it

[in] twelve pieces:

1KI-11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for

thus saith the

LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of

the hand of

Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

1KI-11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's

sake, and for

Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the

tribes of

Israel:)

1KI-11:33 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.

1KI-11:34 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:

1KI-11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand,

and will give it

unto thee, [even] ten tribes.

1KI-11:36 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.

1KI-11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according

to all that

thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

1KI-11:38 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.

1KI-11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but

not for ever.

1KI-11:40 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.

1KI-11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he

did, and his

wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts of

Solomon?

1KI-11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over

all Israel

[was] forty years.

1KI-11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in

the city of

David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

1KI-12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come

to Shechem to

make him king.

1KI-12:2 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;)

1KI-12:3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all

the congregation

of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,

1KI-12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make

thou the

grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put

upon us,

lighter, and we will serve thee.

1KI-12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days,

then come again

to me. And the people departed.

1KI-12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that

stood before

Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye

advise that I may

answer this people?

1KI-12:7 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.

1KI-12:8 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:

1KI-12:9 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?

1KI-12:10 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.

1KI-12:11 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.

1KI-12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the

third day, as

the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

1KI-12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook

the old men's

counsel that they gave him;

1KI-12:14 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.

1KI-12:15 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.

1KI-12:16 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.

1KI-12:17 But [as for] the children of Israel which dwelt in

the cities of

Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1KI-12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the

tribute; and all

Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king

Rehoboam made

speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

1KI-12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto

this day.

1KI-12:20 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.

1KI-12:21 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.

1KI-12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God,

saying,

1KI-12:23 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,

1KI-12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight

against your

brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house;

for this thing

is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD,

and returned to

depart, according to the word of the LORD.

1KI-12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and

dwelt therein;

and went out from thence, and built Penuel.

1KI-12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom

return to the

house of David:

1KI-12:27 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.

1KI-12:28 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.

1KI-12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in

Dan.

1KI-12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to

worship]

before the one, [even] unto Dan.

1KI-12:31 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.

1KI-12:32 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.

1KI-12:33 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.

1KI-13:1 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.

1KI-13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD,

and said, O

altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born

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.

1KI-13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the

sign which

the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the

ashes that

[are] upon it shall be poured out.

1KI-13:4 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.

1KI-13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from

the altar,

according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word

of the LORD.

1KI-13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God,

Entreat 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.

1KI-13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with

me, and

refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

1KI-13:8 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:

1KI-13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD,

saying, Eat no

bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou

camest.

1KI-13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way

that he came to

Bethel.

1KI-13:11 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.

1KI-13:12 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.

1KI-13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they

saddled him

the ass: and he rode thereon,

1KI-13:14 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].

1KI-13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat

bread.

1KI-13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in

with thee:

neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

1KI-13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou

shalt eat no

bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way

that thou camest.

1KI-13:18 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.

1KI-13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his

house, and drank

water.

1KI-13:20 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:

1KI-13:21 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,

1KI-13:22 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.

1KI-13:23 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.

1KI-13:24 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.

1KI-13:25 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.

1KI-13:26 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.

1KI-13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass.

And they

saddled [him].

1KI-13:28 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.

1KI-13:29 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.

1KI-13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they

mourned over

him, [saying], Alas, my brother!

1KI-13:31 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:

1KI-13:32 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.

1KI-13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil

way, but made

again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:

whosoever would,

he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the

high places.

1KI-13:34 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.

1KI-14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1KI-14:2 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.

1KI-14:3 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.

1KI-14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to

Shiloh, and came

to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes

were set by

reason of his age.

1KI-14:5 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].

1KI-14:6 And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her

feet, as she

came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of

Jeroboam; why

feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee

[with] heavy

[tidings].

1KI-14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,

Forasmuch as I

exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my

people

Israel,

1KI-14:8 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;

1KI-14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee:

for thou hast

gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me

to anger, and

hast cast me behind thy back:

1KI-14:10 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.

1KI-14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs

eat; and him

that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the

LORD hath

spoken [it].

1KI-14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house:

[and] when thy

feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

1KI-14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for

he only of

Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found

[some] good

thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

1KI-14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over

Israel, who shall

cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

1KI-14:15 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.

1KI-14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of

Jeroboam, who

did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

1KI-14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to

Tirzah: [and]

when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

1KI-14:18 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.

1KI-14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred,

and how he

reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings

of Israel.

1KI-14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and

twenty years:

and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his

stead.

1KI-14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.

Rehoboam [was]

forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned

seventeen years

in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the

tribes of

Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was]

Naamah an

Ammonitess.

1KI-14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they

provoked him

to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all

that their

fathers had done.

1KI-14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and

groves, on

every high hill, and under every green tree.

1KI-14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they

did according

to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out

before the

children of Israel.

1KI-14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king

Rehoboam, [that]

Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

1KI-14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the

LORD, and the

treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he

took away all the

shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1KI-14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields,

and committed

[them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the

door of the

king's house.

1KI-14:28 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.

1KI-14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he

did, [are]

they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Judah?

1KI-14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all

[their] days.

1KI-14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried

with his

fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah

Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1KI-15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of

Nebat reigned

Abijam over Judah.

1KI-15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was]

Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1KI-15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he

had done

before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God,

as the heart

of David his father.

1KI-15:4 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:

1KI-15:5 Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes

of the LORD,

and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all

the days of

his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1KI-15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all

the days of his

life.

1KI-15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he

did, [are] they

not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And there was

war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1KI-15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him

in the city

of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

1KI-15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel

reigned Asa

over Judah.

1KI-15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And

his mother's

name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1KI-15:11 And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the

LORD, as

[did] David his father.

1KI-15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and

removed all the

idols that his fathers had made.

1KI-15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from

[being]

queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa

destroyed her idol,

and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.

1KI-15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless

Asa's heart was

perfect with the LORD all his days.

1KI-15:15 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.

1KI-15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of

Israel all their

days.

1KI-15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and

built Ramah,

that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of

Judah.

1KI-15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that were]

left in the

treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the

king's house, and

delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent

them to

Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria,

that dwelt at

Damascus, saying,

1KI-15:19 [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.

1KI-15:20 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.

1KI-15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [thereof],

that he left off

building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

1KI-15:22 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.

1KI-15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might,

and all that he

did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in

the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of

his old age he

was diseased in his feet.

1KI-15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with

his fathers in

the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in

his stead.

1KI-15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over

Israel in the

second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two

years.

1KI-15:26 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.

1KI-15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of

Issachar, conspired

against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged]

to the

Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

1KI-15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did

Baasha slay him,

and reigned in his stead.

1KI-15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote

all the house

of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he

had destroyed

him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by

his servant

Ahijah the Shilonite:

1KI-15:30 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.

1KI-15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he

did, [are] they

not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel?

1KI-15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of

Israel all their

days.

1KI-15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha

the son of

Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

1KI-15:34 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.

1KI-16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of

Hanani against

Baasha, saying,

1KI-16:2 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;

1KI-16:3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and

the posterity

of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam

the son of

Nebat.

1KI-16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs

eat; and him

that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

1KI-16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did,

and his might,

[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel?

1KI-16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in

Tirzah: and Elah

his son reigned in his stead.

1KI-16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of

Hanani came the

word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for

all the evil

that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger

with the work

of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because

he killed him.

1KI-16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah

began Elah the son

of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

1KI-16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots,

conspired

against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the

house of Arza

steward of [his] house in Tirzah.

1KI-16:10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in

the twenty and

seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

1KI-16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon

as he sat on

his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him

not one that

pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his

friends.

1KI-16:12 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,

1KI-16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his

son, by which

they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking

the LORD God

of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1KI-16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did,

[are] they

not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel?

1KI-16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah

did Zimri reign

seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped against

Gibbethon, which

[belonged] to the Philistines.

1KI-16:16 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.

1KI-16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with

him, and they

besieged Tirzah.

1KI-16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was

taken, that

he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the

king's house over

him with fire, and died,

1KI-16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the

sight of the

LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he

did, to make

Israel to sin.

1KI-16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason

that he wrought,

[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the

kings of Israel?

1KI-16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts:

half of the

people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and

half followed

Omri.

1KI-16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against

the people that

followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri

reigned.

1KI-16:23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah

began Omri to

reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.

1KI-16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two

talents of silver,

and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he

built, after

the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

1KI-16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and

did worse than

all that [were] before him.

1KI-16:26 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.

1KI-16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and

his might that

he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles

of the kings

of Israel?

1KI-16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in

Samaria: and Ahab

his son reigned in his stead.

1KI-16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of

Judah began Ahab

the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri

reigned over

Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

1KI-16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the

LORD above

all that [were] before him.

1KI-16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing

for him to

walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to

wife Jezebel

the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and

served Baal, and

worshipped him.

1KI-16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of

Baal, which he

had built in Samaria.

1KI-16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke

the LORD God of

Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before

him.

1KI-16:34 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.

1KI-17:1 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.

1KI-17:2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

1KI-17:3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide

thyself by the

brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.

1KI-17:4 And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook;

and I have

commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

1KI-17:5 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.

1KI-17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the

morning, and bread

and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

1KI-17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook

dried up, because

there had been no rain in the land.

1KI-17:8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

1KI-17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to

Zidon, and dwell

there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain

thee.

1KI-17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came

to the gate of

the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of

sticks: and he

called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water

in a vessel,

that I may drink.

1KI-17:11 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.

1KI-17:12 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.

1KI-17:13 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.

1KI-17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of

meal shall not

waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that]

the LORD

sendeth rain upon the earth.

1KI-17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of

Elijah: and she,

and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.

1KI-17:16 [And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the

cruse of oil

fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by

Elijah.

1KI-17:17 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the

son of the

woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness

was so sore,

that there was no breath left in him.

1KI-17:18 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?

1KI-17:19 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.

1KI-17:20 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?

1KI-17:21 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.

1KI-17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul

of the child

came into him again, and he revived.

1KI-17:23 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.

1KI-17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that

thou [art] a

man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is]

truth.

1KI-18:1 And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word

of the LORD

came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto

Ahab; and I

will send rain upon the earth.

1KI-18:2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And [there

was] a sore

famine in Samaria.

1KI-18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of

[his] house.

(Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:

1KI-18:4 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.)

1KI-18:5 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.

1KI-18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass

throughout it: Ahab

went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

1KI-18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him:

and he knew

him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord

Elijah?

1KI-18:8 And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold,

Elijah [is

here].

1KI-18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest

deliver thy

servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

1KI-18:10 [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.

1KI-18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,

Elijah [is here].

1KI-18:12 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.

1KI-18:13 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?

1KI-18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,

Elijah [is here]:

and he shall slay me.

1KI-18:15 And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth,

before whom I

stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.

1KI-18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab

went to meet

Elijah.

1KI-18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab

said unto him,

[Art] thou he that troubleth Israel?

1KI-18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou,

and thy

father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the

LORD, and

thou hast followed Baalim.

1KI-18:19 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.

1KI-18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and

gathered the

prophets together unto mount Carmel.

1KI-18:21 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.

1KI-18:22 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.

1KI-18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them

choose one

bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on

wood, and put no

fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay [it]

on wood, and

put no fire [under]:

1KI-18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call

on the name

of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.

And all the

people answered and said, It is well spoken.

1KI-18:25 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].

1KI-18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and

they dressed

[it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even until

noon, saying, O

Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered.

And they

leaped upon the altar which was made.

1KI-18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them,

and said, Cry

aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is

pursuing, or he is in

a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

1KI-18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their

manner with

knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

1KI-18:29 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.

1KI-18:30 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.

1KI-18:31 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:

1KI-18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of

the LORD: and

he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two

measures of

seed.

1KI-18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in

pieces, and

laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water,

and pour [it]

on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

1KI-18:34 And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did

[it] the second

time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they did [it] the

third time.

1KI-18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he

filled the trench

also with water.

1KI-18:36 And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of

the [evening]

sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God

of Abraham,

Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art]

God in Israel,

and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these

things at thy

word.

1KI-18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know

that thou [art]

the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again.

1KI-18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the

burnt sacrifice,

and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the

water that [was]

in the trench.

1KI-18:39 And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their

faces: and

they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.

1KI-18:40 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.

1KI-18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink;

for [there

is] a sound of abundance of rain.

1KI-18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went

up to the top

of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his

face between

his knees,

1KI-18:43 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.

1KI-18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said,

Behold,

there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.

And he said,

Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot], and get thee down,

that the rain

stop thee not.

1KI-18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the

heaven was black

with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode,

and went to

Jezreel.

1KI-18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded

up his loins,

and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1KI-19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and

withal how he

had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1KI-19:2 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.

1KI-19:3 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.

1KI-19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the

wilderness, and came

and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself

that he might

die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for

I [am] not

better than my fathers.

1KI-19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold,

then an angel

touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.

1KI-19:6 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.

1KI-19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time,

and touched

him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too

great for thee.

1KI-19:8 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.

1KI-19:9 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?

1KI-19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD

God of hosts:

for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown

down 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.

1KI-19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount

before the LORD.

And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind

rent the

mountains, and 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:

1KI-19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was]

not in the

fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

1KI-19:13 And it was [so], when Elijah heard [it] that he

wrapped his face in

his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the

cave. And,

behold, [there came] a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou

here, Elijah?

1KI-19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD

God of hosts:

because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,

thrown down 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.

1KI-19:15 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:

1KI-19:16 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.

1KI-19:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth

the sword of

Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of

Jehu shall

Elisha slay.

1KI-19:18 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.

1KI-19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of

Shaphat, who

[was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he

with the

twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

1KI-19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said,

Let me, I

pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will

follow thee. And he

said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

1KI-19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of

oxen, and slew

them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen,

and gave unto

the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after

Elijah, and

ministered unto him.

1KI-20:1 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.

1KI-20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the

city, and

said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

1KI-20:3 Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and

thy children,

[even] the goodliest, [are] mine.

1KI-20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O

king, according

to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.

1KI-20:5 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;

1KI-20:6 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.

1KI-20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the

land, and said,

Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for

he sent unto me

for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my

gold; and I

denied him not.

1KI-20:8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him,

Hearken not

[unto him], nor consent.

1KI-20:9 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.

1KI-20:10 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.

1KI-20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him],

Let not him

that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that putteth

it off.

1KI-20:12 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.

1KI-20:13 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.

1KI-20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the

LORD, [Even] by

the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who

shall order

the battle? And he answered, Thou.

1KI-20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the

provinces, and

they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered

all the

people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven

thousand.

1KI-20:16 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.

1KI-20:17 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.

1KI-20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take

them alive;

or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

1KI-20:19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces

came out of the

city, and the army which followed them.

1KI-20:20 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.

1KI-20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses

and chariots,

and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

1KI-20:22 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.

1KI-20:23 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.

1KI-20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out

of his place,

and put captains in their rooms:

1KI-20:25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast

lost, horse

for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against

them in the

plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they. And he

hearkened unto

their voice, and did so.

1KI-20:26 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.

1KI-20:27 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.

1KI-20:28 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.

1KI-20:29 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.

1KI-20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and

[there] a wall fell

upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left. And

Benhadad fled,

and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

1KI-20:31 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.

1KI-20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put]

ropes on their

heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant

Benhadad saith, I

pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he [is]

my brother.

1KI-20:33 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.

1KI-20:34 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.

1KI-20:35 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.

1KI-20:36 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.

1KI-20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray

thee. And the

man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded [him].

1KI-20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by

the way, and

disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

1KI-20:39 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.

1KI-20:40 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].

1KI-20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face;

and the king

of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets.

1KI-20:42 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.

1KI-20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and

displeased, and

came to Samaria.

1KI-21:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth

the Jezreelite

had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel, hard by the palace of

Ahab king of

Samaria.

1KI-21:2 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.

1KI-21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I

should give

the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

1KI-21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased

because of the

word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had

said, I will

not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him

down upon his

bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

1KI-21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him,

Why is thy

spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

1KI-21:6 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.

1KI-21:7 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.

1KI-21:8 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.

1KI-21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast,

and set

Naboth on high among the people:

1KI-21:10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear

witness

against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And

[then] carry

him out, and stone him, that he may die.

1KI-21:11 And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the

nobles who were

the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,

[and] as it

[was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

1KI-21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among

the people.

1KI-21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and

sat before him:

and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against

Naboth, in the

presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the

king. Then

they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with

stones, that he

died.

1KI-21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned,

and is dead.

1KI-21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth

was stoned, and

was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of

the vineyard of

Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money:

for Naboth is

not alive, but dead.

1KI-21:16 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.

1KI-21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,

saying,

1KI-21:18 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.

1KI-21:19 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.

1KI-21:20 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.

1KI-21:21 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,

1KI-21:22 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.

1KI-21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs

shall eat

Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

1KI-21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat;

and him that

dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

1KI-21:25 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.

1KI-21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols,

according to all

[things] as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the

children of

Israel.

1KI-21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words,

that he rent his

clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay

in sackcloth,

and went softly.

1KI-21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,

saying,

1KI-21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me?

because he humbleth

himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but]

in his son's

days will I bring the evil upon his house.

1KI-22:1 And they continued three years without war between

Syria and Israel.

1KI-22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that

Jehoshaphat the king of

Judah came down to the king of Israel.

1KI-22:3 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?

1KI-22:4 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.

1KI-22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire,

I pray thee,

at the word of the LORD to day.

1KI-22:6 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.

1KI-22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD

besides, that we might inquire of him?

1KI-22:8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There

is] yet one

man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the

LORD: but I hate

him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And

Jehoshaphat

said, Let not the king say so.

1KI-22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said,

Hasten [hither]

Micaiah the son of Imlah.

1KI-22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of

Judah sat each

on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the

entrance of

the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

1KI-22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of

iron: and he

said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the

Syrians, until thou

have consumed them.

1KI-22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to

Ramothgilead,

and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the king's

hand.

1KI-22:13 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.

1KI-22:14 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD

saith unto

me, that will I speak.

1KI-22:15 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.

1KI-22:16 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?

1KI-22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the

hills, as sheep

that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no

master: let them

return every man to his house in peace.

1KI-22:18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I

not tell thee

that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

1KI-22:19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD:

I saw the

LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing

by him on his

right hand and on his left.

1KI-22:20 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.

1KI-22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the

LORD, and said,

I will persuade him.

1KI-22:22 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.

1KI-22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying

spirit in the

mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil

concerning

thee.

1KI-22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and

smote Micaiah on

the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from

me to speak

unto thee?

1KI-22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day,

when thou

shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

1KI-22:26 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;

1KI-22:27 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.

1KI-22:28 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.

1KI-22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of

Judah went up to

Ramothgilead.

1KI-22:30 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.

1KI-22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two

captains that

had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor

great, save

only with the king of Israel.

1KI-22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the

chariots saw

Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel.

And they

turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

1KI-22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the

chariots perceived

that it [was] not the king of Israel, that they turned back from

pursuing him.

1KI-22:34 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and

smote the king of

Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto

the driver of

his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for

I am wounded.

1KI-22:35 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.

1KI-22:36 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.

1KI-22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and

they buried the

king in Samaria.

1KI-22:38 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.

1KI-22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did,

and the

ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built,

[are] they not

written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1KI-22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son

reigned in his

stead.

1KI-22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over

Judah in the

fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

1KI-22:42 Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he

began to reign;

and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his

mother's name [was]

Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

1KI-22:43 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.

1KI-22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

1KI-22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his

might that he

showed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in the book of

the

chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1KI-22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in

the days of his

father Asa, he took out of the land.

1KI-22:47 [There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.

1KI-22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir

for gold: but

they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

1KI-22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat,

Let my servants

go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

1KI-22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was

buried with his

fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son

reigned in his

stead.

1KI-22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in

Samaria the

seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two

years over

Israel.

1KI-22:52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked

in the way of

his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of

Jeroboam the son

of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:

1KI-22:53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked

to anger the

LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.