king james study

1KI 01:01  Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they

covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

1KI 01:02  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 01:03  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 01:04  And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king,

and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

1KI 01:05  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 01:06  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 01:07  And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with

Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].

1KI 01:08  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 01:09  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 01:10  But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men,

and Solomon his brother, he called not.

1KI 01:11  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 01:12  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 01:13  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 01:14  Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I

also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

1KI 01:15  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 01:16  And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And

the king said, What wouldest thou?

1KI 01:17  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 01:18  And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the

king, thou knowest [it] not:

1KI 01:19  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 01:20  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 01:21  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 01:22  And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the

prophet also came in.

1KI 01:23  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 01:24  And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said,

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

1KI 01:25  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 01:26  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 01:27  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 01:28  Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And

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

1KI 01:29  And the king sware, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that

hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,

1KI 01:30  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 01:31  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 01:32  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 01:33  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 01:34  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 01:35  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 01:36  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and

said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].

1KI 01:37  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 01:38  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 01:39  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 01:40  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 01:41  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 01:42  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 01:43  And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our

lord king David hath made Solomon king.

1KI 01:44  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 01:45  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 01:46  And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

1KI 01:47  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 01:48  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 01:49  And all the guests that [were] with Adonijah were afraid,

and rose up, and went every man his way.

1KI 01:50  And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and

went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1KI 01:51  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 01:52  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 01:53  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 02:01  Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and

he charged Solomon his son, saying,

1KI 02:02  I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore,

and show thyself a man;

1KI 02:03  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 02:04  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 02:05  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 02:06  Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his

hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

1KI 02:07  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 02:08  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 02:09  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 02:10  So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the

city of David.

1KI 02:11  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 02:12  Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and

his kingdom was established greatly.

1KI 02:13  And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the

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

Peaceably.

1KI 02:14  He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And

she said, Say on.

1KI 02:15  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 02:16  And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she

said unto him, Say on.

1KI 02:17  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 02:18  And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the

king.

1KI 02:19  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 02:20  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 02:21  And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to

Adonijah thy brother to wife.

1KI 02:22  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 02:23  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 02:24  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 02:25  And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of

Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

1KI 02:26  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 02:27  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 02:28  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 02:29  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 02:30  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 02:31  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 02:32  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 02:33  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 02:34  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 02:35  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 02:36  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 02:37  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 02:38  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 02:39  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 02:40  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 02:41  And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from

Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

1KI 02:42  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 02:43  Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the

commandment that I have charged thee with?

1KI 02:44  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 02:45  And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of

David shall be established before the LORD for ever.

1KI 02:46  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 03:01  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 03:02  Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there

was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

1KI 03:03  And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of

David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high

places.

1KI 03:04  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 03:05  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by

night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

1KI 03:06  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 03:07  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 03:08  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 03:09  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 03:10  And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked

this thing.

1KI 03:11  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 03:12  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 03:13  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 03:14  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 03:15  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 03:16  Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto the

king, and stood before him.

1KI 03:17  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 03:18  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 03:19  And this woman's child died in the night; because she

overlaid it.

1KI 03:20  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 03:21  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 03:22  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 03:23  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 03:24  And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a

sword before the king.

1KI 03:25  And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and

give half to the one, and half to the other.

1KI 03:26  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 03:27  Then the king answered and said, Give her the living

child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.

1KI 03:28  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 04:01  So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

1KI 04:02  And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the

son of Zadok the priest,

1KI 04:03  Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;

Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.

1KI 04:04  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and

Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests:

1KI 04:05  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 04:06  And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the

son of Abda [was] over the tribute.

1KI 04:07  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 04:08  And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount

Ephraim:

1KI 04:09  The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and

Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:

1KI 04:10  The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh,

and all the land of Hepher:

1KI 04:11  The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had

Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

1KI 04:12  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 04:13  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 04:14  Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:

1KI 04:15  Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the

daughter of Solomon to wife:

1KI 04:16  Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:

1KI 04:17  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

1KI 04:18  Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

1KI 04:19  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 04:20  Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by

the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

1KI 04:21  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 04:22  And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures

of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

1KI 04:23  Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an

hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and

fatted fowl.

1KI 04:24  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 04:25  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 04:26  And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his

chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1KI 04:27  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 04:28  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 04:29  And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding

much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea

shore.

1KI 04:30  And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the

children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1KI 04:31  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 04:32  And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were

a thousand and five.

1KI 04:33  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 04:34  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 05:01  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 05:02  And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

1KI 05:03  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 05:04  But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side,

[so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

1KI 05:05  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 05:06  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 05:07  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 05:08  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 05:09  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 05:10  So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees

[according to] all his desire.

1KI 05:11  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 05:12  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 05:13  And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the

levy was thirty thousand men.

1KI 05:14  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 05:15  And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare

burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

1KI 05:16  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 05:17  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,

costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the

house.

1KI 05:18  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 06:01  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 06:02  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 06:03  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 06:04  And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

1KI 06:05  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 06:06  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 06:07  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 06:08  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 06:09  So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the

house with beams and boards of cedar.

1KI 06:10  And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five

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

1KI 06:11  And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

1KI 06:12  [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 06:13  And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will

not forsake my people Israel.

1KI 06:14  So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

1KI 06:15  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 06:16  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 06:17  And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty

cubits [long].

1KI 06:18  And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops

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

1KI 06:19  And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set

there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

1KI 06:20  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 06:21  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 06:22  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 06:23  And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive

tree, [each] ten cubits high.

1KI 06:24  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 06:25  And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims

[were] of one measure and one size.

1KI 06:26  The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so

[was it] of the other cherub.

1KI 06:27  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 06:28  And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

1KI 06:29  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 06:30  And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within

and without.

1KI 06:31  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 06:32  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 06:33  So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of]

olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall].

1KI 06:34  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 06:35  And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open

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

1KI 06:36  And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed

stone, and a row of cedar beams.

1KI 06:37  In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the

LORD laid, in the month Zif:

1KI 06:38  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 07:01  But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,

and he finished all his house.

1KI 07:02  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 07:03  And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams,

that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.

1KI 07:04  And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was]

against light [in] three ranks.

1KI 07:05  And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the

windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

1KI 07:06  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 07:07  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 07:08  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 07:09  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 07:10  And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great

stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1KI 07:11  And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of

hewed stones, and cedars.

1KI 07:12  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 07:13  And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

1KI 07:14  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 07:15  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 07:16  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 07:17  [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 07:18  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 07:19  And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars

[were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

1KI 07:20  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 07:21  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 07:22  And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was

the work of the pillars finished.

1KI 07:23  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 07:24  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 07:25  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 07:26  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 07:27  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 07:28  And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they

had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:

1KI 07:29  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 07:30  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 07:31  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 07:32  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 07:33  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 07:34  And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of

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

1KI 07:35  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 07:36  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 07:37  After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them

had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.

1KI 07:38  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 07:39  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 07:40  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 07:41  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 07:42  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 07:43  And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

1KI 07:44  And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

1KI 07:45  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 07:46  In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the

clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

1KI 07:47  And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because

they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found

out.

1KI 07:48  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 07:49  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 07:50  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 07:51  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 08:01  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 08:02  And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king

Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh

month.

1KI 08:03  And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took

up the ark.

1KI 08:04  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 08:05  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 08:06  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 08:07  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 08:08  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 08:09  [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 08:10  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 08:11  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 08:12  Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in

the thick darkness.

1KI 08:13  I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled

place for thee to abide in for ever.

1KI 08:14  And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the

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

1KI 08:15  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 08:16  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 08:17  And it was in the heart of David my father to build an

house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

1KI 08:18  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 08:19  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 08:20  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 08:21  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 08:22  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 08:23  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 08:24  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 08:25  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 08:26  And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be

verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

1KI 08:27  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 08:28  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 08:29  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 08:30  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 08:31  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 08:32  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 08:33  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 08:34  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 08:35  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 08:36  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 08:37  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 08:38  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 08:39  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 08:40  That they may fear thee all the days that they live in

the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

1KI 08:41  Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy

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

1KI 08:42  (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 08:43  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 08:44  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 08:45  Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their

supplication, and maintain their cause.

1KI 08:46  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 08:47  [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 08:48  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 08:49  Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in

heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1KI 08:50  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 08:51  For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which

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

iron:

1KI 08:52  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 08:53  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 08:54  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 08:55  And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel

with a loud voice, saying,

1KI 08:56  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 08:57  The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:

let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

1KI 08:58  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 08:59  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 08:60  That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD

[is] God, [and that there is] none else.

1KI 08:61  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 08:62  And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice

before the LORD.

1KI 08:63  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 08:64  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 08:65  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 08:66  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 09:01  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 09:02  That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he

had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

1KI 09:03  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 09:04  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 09:05  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 09:06  [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 09:07  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 09:08  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 09:09  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 09:10  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 09:11  ([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 09:12  And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which

Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

1KI 09:13  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 09:14  And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

1KI 09:15  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 09:16  [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 09:17  And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,

1KI 09:18  And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

1KI 09:19  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 09:20  [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites,

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

the children of Israel,

1KI 09:21  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 09:22  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 09:23  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 09:24  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 09:25  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 09:26  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 09:27  And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had

knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1KI 09:28  And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold,

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

1KI 10:01  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 10:02  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 10:03  And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not

[any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

1KI 10:04  And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's

wisdom, and the house that he had built,

1KI 10:05  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 10:06  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 10:07  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 10:08  Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants,

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

1KI 10:09  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 11:01  But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with

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

Zidonians, [and] Hittites;

1KI 11:02  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 11:03  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three

hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

1KI 11:04  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 11:05  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the

Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1KI 11:06  And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went

not fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father.

1KI 11:07  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 11:08  And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which

burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

1KI 11:09  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 12:01  And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to

Shechem to make him king.

1KI 12:02  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 12:03  That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the

congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,

1KI 12:04  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 12:05  And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days, then

come again to me. And the people departed.

1KI 12:06  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 12:07  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 12:08  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 12:09  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 13:01  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 13:02  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 13:03  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 13:04  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 13:05  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 13:06  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 13:07  And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me,

and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

1KI 13:08  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 13:09  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 14:01  At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1KI 14:02  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 14:03  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 14:04  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 14:05  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 14:06  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 14:07  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 14:08  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 14:09  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

an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1KI 15:01  Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of

Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

1KI 15:02  Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's

name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1KI 15:03  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 15:04  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 15:05  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 15:06  And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the

days of his life.

1KI 15:07  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 15:08  And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in

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

1KI 15:09  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 16:01  Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani

against Baasha, saying,

1KI 16:02  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 16:03  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 16:04  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 16:05  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 16:06  So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in

Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

1KI 16:07  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 16:08  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 16:09  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 17:01  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 17:02  And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

1KI 17:03  Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself

by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.

1KI 17:04  And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook;

and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

1KI 17:05  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 17:06  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 17:07  And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried

up, because there had been no rain in the land.

1KI 17:08  And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

1KI 17:09  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 18:01  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 18:02  And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And [there

was] a sore famine in Samaria.

1KI 18:03  And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of

[his] house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:

1KI 18:04  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 18:05  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 18:06  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 18:07  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 18:08  And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold,

Elijah [is here].

1KI 18:09  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 19:01  And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and

withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1KI 19:02  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 19:03  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 19:04  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 19:05  And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold,

then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.

1KI 19:06  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 19:07  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 19:08  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 19:09  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 20:01  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 20:02  And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the

city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

1KI 20:03  Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy

children, [even] the goodliest, [are] mine.

1KI 20:04  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 20:05  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 20:06  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 20:07  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 20:08  And all the elders and all the people said unto him,

Hearken not [unto him], nor consent.

1KI 20:09  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 21:01  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 21:02  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 21:03  And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I

should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

1KI 21:04  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 21:05  But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why

is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

1KI 21:06  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 21:07  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 21:08  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 21:09  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 22:01  And they continued three years without war between Syria

and Israel.

1KI 22:02  And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat

the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

1KI 22:03  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 22:04  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 22:05  And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I

pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

1KI 22:06  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 22:07  And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of

the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?

1KI 22:08  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 22:09  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.