1.1
And king David [was] old and advanced in days, and they covered him
with clothes, and he was not warmed.
1.2 And his servants said, Let them seek for
the king a young virgin, and she shall wait on the king, and cherish
him, and lie with him, and my lord the king shall be warmed.
1.3 So they sought for a fair damsel out of all
the coasts of Israel; and they found Abisag the Somanite, and they
brought her to the king.
1.4 And the damsel was extremely beautiful, and
she cherished the king, and ministered to him, but the king knew her
not.
1.5 And Adonias the son of Aggit exalted
himself, saying, I will be king; and he prepared for himself chariots
and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
1.6 And his father never at any time checked
him, saying, Why hast thou done [thus]? and he was also very handsome
in appearance, and his mother bore him after Abessalom.
1.7 And he conferred with Joab the son of
Saruia, and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed after Adonias.
1.8 But Sadoc the priest, and Banaeas the son
of Jodae, and Nathan the prophet, and Semei, and Resi, and the mighty
men of David, did not follow Adonias.
1.9 And Adonias sacrificed sheep and calves and
lambs by the stone of Zoelethi, which was near Rogel: and he called all
his brethren, and all the adult [men] of Juda, servants of the king.
1.10 But Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas, and the mighty [men], and Solomon his brother, he did not call.
1.11 And Nathan spoke to Bersabee the mother of
Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonias the son of Aggith
reigns, and our lord David knows it not?
1.12 And now come, let me, I pray, give thee counsel,
and thou shalt rescue thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
1.13 Haste, and go in to king David, and thou shalt
speak to him, saying, Hast not thou, my lord, O king, sworn to thine
handmaid, saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall
sit upon my throne? why then does Adonias reign?
1.14 And behold, while thou art still speaking there
with the king, I also will come in after thee, and will confirm thy
words.
1.15 So Bersabee went in to the king into the
chamber: and the king was very old, and Abisag the Somanite was
ministering to the king.
1.16 And Bersabee bowed, and did obeisance to the king; and the king said, What is thy request?
1.17 And she said, My lord, thou didst swear by the
Lord thy God to thine handmaid, saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign
after me, and shall sit upon my throne.
1.18 And now, behold, Adonias reigns, and thou, my lord, O king, knowest [it] not.
1.19 And he has sacrificed calves and lambs and sheep
in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and Abiathar the
priest and Joab the commander-in-chief of the host; but Solomon thy
servant he has not called.
1.20 And thou, my lord, O king,-- the eyes of all
Israel [are] upon thee, to tell them who shall sit upon the throne of
my lord the king after him.
1.21 And it shall come to pass, when my lord the king
shall sleep with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son shall be
offenders.
1.22 And behold, while she was yet talking with the
king, Nathan the prophet came. And it was reported to the king,
1.23 Behold, Nathan the prophet [is here]: and he
came in to the king's presence, and did obeisance to the king with his
face to the ground.
1.24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, didst thou
say, Adonias shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
1.25 For he has gone down to-day, and has sacrificed
calves and lambs and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's
sons, and the chiefs of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold,
they are eating and drinking before him, and they said, [Long] live
king Adonias.
1.26 But he has not invited me thy servant, and Sadoc
the priest, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and Solomon thy servant.
1.27 Has this matter happened by the authority of my
lord the king, and hast thou not made known to thy servant who shall
sit upon the throne of my lord the king after him?
1.28 And king David answered and said, Call me
Bersabee: and she came in before the king, and stood before him.
1.29 And the king swore, and said, [As] the Lord lives who redeemed my soul out of all affliction,
1.30 as I swore to thee by the Lord God of Israel,
saying, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my
throne in my stead, so will I do this day.
1.31 And Bersabee bowed with her face to the ground,
and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live
for ever.
1.32 And king David said, Call me Sadoc the priest,
and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae: and they came in
before the king.
1.33 And the king said t them, Take the servants of
your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon upon my own mule, and
bring him down to Gion.
1.34 And there let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the
prophet anoint him to be king over Israel, and do ye sound the trumpet,
and ye shall say, Let king Solomon live.
1.35 And he shall sit upon my throne, and reign in my
stead: and I have given charge that he should be for a prince over
Israel and Juda.
1.36 And Banaeas the son of Jodae answered the king
and said, So let it be: may the Lord God of my lord the king confirm
[it].
1.37 As the Lord was with my lord the king, so let
him be with Solomon, and let him exalt his throne beyond the throne of
my lord king David.
1.38 And Sadoc the priest went down, and Nathan the
prophet, and Banaeas son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the
Phelethite, and they mounted Solomon upon the mule of king David, and
led him away to Geon.
1.39 And Sadoc the priest took the horn of oil out of
the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon, and blew the trumpet; and all the
people said, Let king Solomon live.
1.40 And all the people went up after him, and they
danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth quaked
with their voice.
1.41 And Adonias and all his guests heard, and they
had [just] left off eating: and Joab heard the sound of the trumpet,
and said, What [means] the voice of the city in tumult?
1.42 While he was yet speaking, behold, Jonathan the
son of Abiathar the priest came in: and Adonias said, Come in, for thou
art a mighty man, and [thou comest] to bring glad tidings.
1.43 And Jonathan answered and said, Verily our lord king David has made Solomon king:
1.44 and the king has sent with him Sadoc the priest,
and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and the
Cherethite, and the Phelethite, and they have mounted him on the king's
mule;
1.45 and Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet have
anointed him in Geon, and have gone up thence rejoicing, and the city
resounded: this [is] the sound which ye have heard.
1.46 And Solomon is seated upon the throne of the kingdom.
1.47 And the servants of the king have gone in 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 worshipped upon his bed.
1.48 Moreover thus said the king, Blessed [be] the
Lord God of Israel, who has this day appointed one of my seed sitting
on my throne, and my eyes see it.
1.49 And all the guests of Adonias were dismayed, and every man went his way.
1.50 And Adonias feared because of Solomon, and arose, and departed, and laid hold on the horns of the altar.
1.51 And it was reported to Solomon, saying, Behold,
Adonias fears king Solomon, and holds the horns of the altar, saying,
Let Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not slay his servant
with the sword.
1.52 And Solomon said, If he should be a valiant man,
there shall not a hair of his fall to the ground; but if evil be found
in him, he shall die.
1.53 And king Solomon sent, and they brought him away
from the altar; and he went in and did obeisance to king Solomon: and
Solomon said to him, Go to thy house.
2.1
And the days of David drew near that he should die: and he addressed
his son Solomon, saying, I go the way of all the earth:
2.2 but be thou strong, and shew thyself a man;
2.3 and keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to
walk in his ways, to keep the commandments and the ordinances and the
judgements which are written in the law of Moses; that thou mayest
understand what thou shalt do in all things that I command thee:
2.4 that the Lord may confirm his word which he
spoke, saying, If thy children shall take heed to their way to walk
before me in truth with all their heart, [I promise thee], saying,
there shall not fail thee a man on the throne of Israel.
2.5 Moreover thou knowest all that Joab the son
of Saruia did to me, what he did to the two captains of the forces of
Israel, to Abenner the son of Ner, and to Amessai the son of Jether,
that he slew them, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put innocent
blood on hi girdle that was about his loins, and on his sandal that was
on his foot.
2.6 Therefore thou shalt deal [with him]
according to thy wisdom, and thou shalt not bring down his grey hairs
in peace to the grave.
2.7 But thou shalt deal kindly with the sons of
Berzelli the Galaadite, and they shall be among those that eat at thy
table; for thus they drew nigh to me when I fled from the face of thy
brother Abessalom.
2.8 And, behold, [there is] with thee Semei the
son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he cursed me with a grievous
curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he came down to Jordan
to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee
to death with the sword.
2.9 But thou shalt by no means hold him
guiltless, for thou art a wise man, and wilt know what thou shalt do to
him, and shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
2.10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
2.11 And the days which David reigned over Israel
[were] forty years; he reigned seven years in Chebron, and thirty-three
years in Jerusalem.
2.12 And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was established greatly.
2.13 And Adonias the son of Aggith came in to
Bersabee the mother of Solomon, and did obeisance to her: and she said,
Dost thou enter peaceably? and he said, Peaceably:
2.14 I have business with thee. And she said to him, Say on.
2.15 And he said to her, Thou knowest that the
kingdom was mine, and all Israel turned their face toward me for a
king; but the kingdom was turned [from me] and became my brother's: for
it was [appointed] to him from the Lord.
2.16 And now I make one request of thee, do not turn away thy face. And Bersabee said to him, Speak [on].
2.17 And he said to her, Speak, I pray thee, to king
Solomon, for he will not turn away his face from thee, and let him give
me Abisag the Somanite for a wife.
2.18 And Bersabee said, Well; I will speak for thee to the king.
2.19 And Bersabee went in to king Solomon to speak to
him concerning Adonias; and the king rose up to meet her, and kissed
her, and sat on the throne, and a throne was set for the mother of the
king, and she sat on his right hand.
2.20 And she said to him, I ask of thee one little
request; turn not away my face from thee. And the king said to her,
Ask, my mother, and I will not reject thee.
2.21 And she said, Let, I pray thee, Abisag the Somanite be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.
2.22 And king Solomon answered and said to his
mother, And why hast thou asked Abisag for Adonias? ask for him the
kingdom also; for he [is] my elder brother, and he has for his
companion Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Saruia the
commander-in-chief.
2.23 And king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God
do so to me, and more also, [if it be not] that Adonias has spoken this
word against his own life.
2.24 And now [as] the Lord lives who has established
me, and set me on the throne of my father David, and he has made me a
house, as the Lord spoke, this day shall Adonias be put to death.
2.25 So king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaeas the
son of Jodae, and he slew him, and Adonias died in that day.
2.26 And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart
thou quickly to Anathoth to thy farm, for thou art worthy of death this
day; but I will not slay thee, because thou hast borne the ark of the
covenant of the Lord before my father, and because thou was afflicted
in all things wherein my father was afflicted.
2.27 And Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest
of the Lord, that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he
spoke concerning the house of Heli in Selom.
2.28 And the report came to Joab son of Saruia; for
Joab had turned after Adonias, and he went not after Solomon: and Joab
fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold of the horns of the
altar.
2.29 And it was told Solomon, saying, Joab has fled
to the tabernacle of the Lord, and lo! he has hold of the horns of the
altar. And king Solomon sent to Joab, saying, What ails thee, that thou
hast fled to the altar and Joab said, Because I was afraid of thee, and
fled for refuge to the Lord. And Solomon sent Banaeas son of Jodae,
saying, Go and slay him, and bury him.
2.30 And Banaeas son of Jodae came to Joab to the
tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come
forth. And Joab said, I will not come forth, for I will die here. And
Banaeas son of Jodae returned and spoke to the king, saying, Thus has
Joab spoken, and thus has he answered me.
2.31 And the king said to him, Go, and do to him as
he has spoken, and kill him: and thou shalt bury him, and thou shalt
remove this day the blood which he shed without cause, from me and from
the house of my father.
2.32 And the Lord has returned upon his own head the
blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more
righteous and better than himself, and slew them with the sword, and my
father David knew not of their blood, [even] Abenner the son of Ner the
commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amessa the son of Jether the
commander-in-chief of Juda.
2.33 And their blood is returned upon his head, and
upon the head of his seed for ever: but to David, and his seed, and his
house, and his throne, may there be peace for ever from the Lord.
2.34 So Banaeas son of Jodae went up, and attacked
him, and slew him, and buried him in his house in the wilderness.
2.35 And the king appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in
his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem;
and [as for] Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest
in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel
and Juda in Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and
very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.
2.36 And the king called Semei, and said to him,
Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go
out thence any whither.
2.37 And it shall come to pass in the day that thou
shalt go forth and cross over the brook Kedron, know assuredly that
thou shalt certainly die: thy blood shall be upon thine head. And the
king caused him to swear in that day.
2.38 And Semei said to the king, Good [is] the word
that thou hast spoken, my lord O king: thus will thy servant do. And
Semei dwelt in Jerusalem three years.
2.39 And it came to pass after the three years, that
two servants of Semei ran away to Anchus son of Maacha king of Geth:
and it was told Semei, saying, Behold, thy servants [are] in Geth.
2.40 And Semei rose up, and saddled his ass, and went
to Geth to Anchus to seek out his servants: and Semei went, and brought
his servants out of Geth.
2.41 And it was told Solomon, saying, Semei is gone
out of Jerusalem to Geth, and has brought back his servants.
2.42 And the king sent and called Semei, and said to
him, Did I not adjure thee by the Lord, and testify to thee, saying, In
whatsoever day thou shalt go out of Jerusalem, and go to the right or
left, know certainly that thou shalt assuredly die?
2.43 And why hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded thee?
2.44 And the king said to Semei, Thou knowest all thy
mischief which thy heart knows, which thou didst to David my father:
and the Lord has recompensed thy mischief on thine [own] head.
2.45 And king Solomon [is] blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
2.46 And Solomon commanded Banaeas the son of Jodae,
and he went forth and slew him. And king Solomon was very prudent and
wise: and Juda and Israel [were] very many, as the sand which is by the
sea for multitude, eating, and drinking, and rejoicing: and Solomon was
chief in all the kingdoms, and they brought gifts, and served Solomon
all the days of his life. And Solomon began to open the domains of
Libanus, and he built Thermae in the wilderness. And this was the daily
provision of Solomon, thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures
of ground meal, ten choice calves, and twenty oxen from the pastures,
and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and does, and choice fed birds. For
he ruled in all the country on this side the river, from Raphi unto
Gaza, over all the kings on this side the river: and he was at peace on
all sides round about; and Juda and Israel dwelt safely, every one
under his vine and under his fig tree, eating and drinking and
feasting, from Dan even to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon. And these
[were] the princes of Solomon; Azariu son of Sadoc the priest, and
Orniu son of Nathan chief of the officers, and he went to his house;
and Suba the scribe, and Basa son of Achithalam recorder, and Abi son
of Joab commander-in-chief, and Achire son of Edrai [was] over the
levies, and Banaeas son of Jodae over the household and over the
brickwork, and Cachur the son of Nathan [was] counsellor.
3.1
And Solomon had forty thousand brood mares for his chariots, and twelve
thousand horses. And he reigned over all the kings from the river and
to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt: so Solomon
the son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem.
3.2 Nevertheless the people burnt incense on
the high places, because a house had not yet been built to the Lord.
3.3 And Solomon loved the Lord, [so as] to walk
in the ordinances of David his father; only he sacrificed and burnt
incense on the high places.
3.4 And he arose and went to Gabaon to
sacrifice there, for that [was] the highest place, and great: Solomon
offered a whole-burnt-offering of a thousand [victims] on the altar in
Gabaon.
3.5 And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream
by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for thyself.
3.6 And Solomon said, Thou hast dealt very
mercifully with thy servant David my father 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 mercy, to set his son
upon his throne, as [it is] this day.
3.7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast appointed
thy servant in the room of David my father; and I am a little child,
and know not my going out an my coming in.
3.8 But thy servant [is] in the midst of thy
people whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered.
3.9 Thou shalt give therefore to thy servant a
heart to hear and to judge thy people justly, and to discern between
good and evil: for who will be able to judge this thy great people?
3.10 And it was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon asked this thing.
3.11 And the Lord said to him, Because thou hast
asked this thing of me, and hast not asked for thyself long life, and
hast not asked wealth, nor hast asked the lives of thine enemies, but
hast asked for thyself understanding to hear judgement;
3.12 behold, I have done according to thy word:
behold, I have given thee an understanding and wise heart: there has
not been [any one] like thee before thee, and after thee there shall
not arise one like thee.
3.13 And I have given thee what thou hast not asked,
wealth and glory, so that there has not been any one like thee among
kings.
3.14 And if thou wilt walk in my way, to keep my
commandments and my ordinances, as David thy father walked, then will I
multiply thy days.
3.15 And Solomon awoke, and, behold, [it was] a
dream: and he arose and came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar
that was in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Sion: and
he offered whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings, and
made a great banquet for himself and all his servants.
3.16 Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him.
3.17 And the one woman said, Hear me, [my] lord; I
and this woman dwelt in one house, and we were delivered in the house.
3.18 And it came to pass on the third day after I was
delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we [were] together; and
there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house.
3.19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
3.20 and she arose in the middle of the night, and
took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead
son in my bosom.
3.21 and I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and
he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold,
it was not my son whom I bore.
3.22 And the other woman said, No, but the living
[is] my son, and the dead [is] thy son. So they spoke before the king.
3.23 and the king said to them, Thou sayest, This
[is] my son, [even] the living [one], and this woman's son [is] the
dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living [is] my son, and the dead
[is] thy son.
3.24 And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
3.25 And the king said, Divide the live child, the
suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the
other.
3.26 And the woman whose the living child was,
answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son)
and she said, I pray thee, [my] lord, give her the child, and in nowise
slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide
[it].
3.27 Then the king answered and said, Give the child
to her that said, 'Give it to her, and by no means slay it:' she [is]
its mother.
3.28 and all Israel heard this judgement which the
king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the
wisdom of God [was] in him, to execute judgement.
4.1 And king Solomon reigned over Israel.
4.2 And these [are] the princes which he had; Azarias son of Sadoc.
4.3 Eliaph, and Achia son of Seba, scribes; and Josaphat son of Achilud, recorder.
4.4 And Banaeas son of Jodae over the host; and Sadoc and Abiathar [were] priests.
4.5 And Ornia the son of Nathan [was] over the
officers; and Zabuth son of Nathan [was] the king's friend.
4.6 And Achisar was steward, and Eliac the
[chief] steward; and Eliab the son of Saph [was] over the family: and
Adoniram the son of Audon over the tribute.
4.7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all
Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one's turn came
to supply for a month in the year.
4.8 And these [were] their names: Been the son of Or in the mount of Ephraim, one.
4.9 The son of Dacar, in Makes, and in Salabin, and Baethsamys, and Elon as far as Bethana, one.
4.10 The son of Esdi in Araboth; his [was] Socho, and all the land of Opher.
4.11 All Nephthador [belonged to] the son of Aminadab, Tephath daughter of Solomon was his wife, one.
4.12 Bana son of Achiluth [had] Ithaanach, and
Mageddo, and [his was] the whole house of San which was by Sesathan
below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber
Lucam, one.
4.13 The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him [fell]
the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen
bars, one.
4.14 Achinadab son of Saddo, [had] Maanaim.
4.15 Achimaas [was] in Nephthalim, and he took Basemmath daughter of Solomon to wife, one.
4.16 Baana son of Chusi, in Aser and in Baaloth, one,
4.17 Josaphat son of Phuasud [was] in Issachar.
4.18 Semei son of Ela, in Benjamin.
4.19 Gaber son of Adai in the land of Gad, [the land]
of Seon king of Esebon, and of Og king of Basan, and one officer in the
land of Juda.
4.20 [vide]
4.21 [vide]
4.22 And these [were] the requisite supplies for
Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures
of fine pounded meal,
4.23 and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen,
and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
4.24 For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.
4.25 [vide]
4.26 [vide]
4.27 And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and
[they execute] every one in his month all the orders for the table of
the king, they omit nothing.
4.28 And they carried the barley and the straw for
the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each
according to his charge.
4.29 And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and
very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.
4.30 And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.
4.31 And he was wiser than all [other] men: and he
was wiser than Gaethan the Zarite, and [than] Aenan, and [than] Chalcad
and Darala the son of Mal.
4.32 And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
4.33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus
even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of
cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes.
4.34 And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, and [ambassadors] from all the kings of the earth, as many as
heard of his wisdom. And Solomon took to himself the daughter of Pharao
to wife, and brought her into the city of David until he had finished
the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem.
Then went up Pharao the king of Egypt, and took Gazer, and burnt it and
the Chananite dwelling in Mergab; and Pharao gave them as a dowry to
his daughter the wife of Solomon: and Solomon rebuilt Gazer.
5.1
And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room
of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.
5.2 And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,
5.3 Thou knewest my father David, that he could
not build a house to the name of the Lord my God because of the wars
that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the soles of
his feet.
5.4 And now the Lord my God has given me rest
round about; there is no one plotting against [me], and there is no
evil trespass [against me].
5.5 And, behold, I intend to build a house to
the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord God spoke to my father David,
saying, Thy son whom I will set on thy throne in thy place, he shall
build a house to my name.
5.6 And now command, and let [men] cut wood for
me out of Libanus: and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy
servants, and I will give thee the wages of thy service, according to
all that thou shalt say, because thou knowest that we have no one
skilled in cutting timber like the Sidonians.
5.7 And it came to pass, as soon as Chiram
heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed
[be] God to-day, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous
people.
5.8 And he sent to Solomon, saying, I have
listened concerning all that thou hast sent to me for I will do all thy
will: [as for] timber of cedar and fir,
5.9 my servants shall bring them down from
Libanus to the sea: I will form them [into] rafts, [and bring them] to
the place which thou shalt send to me [about]; and I will land them
there, and thou shalt take [them] up: and thou shalt do my will, in
giving bread to my household.
5.10 So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and fir trees, and all his desire.
5.11 And Solomon gave to Chiram twenty thousand
measures of wheat as food for his house, and twenty thousand baths of
beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram yearly.
5.12 And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon as he
promised him; and there was peace between Chiram and Solomon, and they
made a covenant between them.
5.13 And the king raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.
5.14 And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand taking
turn every month: they were a month in Libanus and two months at home:
and Adoniram [was] over the levy.
5.15 And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;
5.16 besides the rulers that were appointed over the
works of Solomon, [there were] three thousand six hundred masters who
wrought in the works.
5.17 [vide]
5.18 And they prepared the stones and the timber [during] three years.
6.1
And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the
departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year
and second month of the reign of king Solomon over Israel, that the
king commanded that they should take great [and] costly stones for the
foundation of the house, and hewn stones. And the men of Solomon, and
the men of Chiram hewed [the stones], and laid them [for a foundation].
In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in
the month Ziu, even in the second month. In the eleventh year, in the
month Baal, this [is] the eighth month, the house was completed
according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.
6.2 And the house which the king built t the
Lord [was] forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and
its height five and twenty cubits.
6.3 And the porch in front of the temple--
twenty cubits [was] its length according to the breadth of the house in
front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.
6.4 And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward.
6.5 And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.
6.6 The under side [was] five cubits broad, and
the middle [part] six, and the third [was] seven cubits broad; for he
formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that
they might not touch the walls of the house.
6.7 And the house was built in the construction
of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in
the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.
6.8 And the porch of the under side [was] below
the right wing of the house, and [there was] a winding ascent into the
middle [chamber], and from the middle to the third story.
6.9 So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.
6.10 And he made the partitions through all the
house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar
boards.
6.11 [vide]
6.12 [vide]
6.13 [vide]
6.14 [vide]
6.15 And he framed the walls of the house within with
cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the inner walls and
to the beams: he lined the parts enclosed with boards within, and
compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.
6.16 And he built the twenty cubits from the top of
the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the
oracle to the most holy place.
6.17 And the temple was forty cubits [in extent],
6.18 [vide]
6.19 in front of the oracle in the midst of the house
within, [in order] to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
6.20 The length [was] twenty cubits, and the breadth
[was] twenty cubits, and the height of it was twenty cubits. And he
covered it with perfect gold, and he made an altar in front of the
oracle, and covered it with gold.
6.21 And he covered the whole house with gold, till he had finished [gilding] the whole house.
6.22 [vide]
6.23 And he made in the oracle two cherubs of ten cubits measured size.
6.24 And the wing of one cherub was five cubits, and
his other wing was five cubits; ten cubits from the tip of one wing to
the tip of the other wing.
6.25 Thus it was with the other cherub, both were alike finished with one measure.
6.26 And the height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] with the second cherub.
6.27 And both the cherubs [were] in the midst of the
innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one
wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the
other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each
other.
6.28 And he covered the cherubs with gold.
6.29 He graved all the walls of the house round about
with the graving of cherubs, and [he sculptured] palm trees within and
without [the house].
6.30 And he covered the floor of the house within and without with gold.
6.31 And for the door-way of the oracle he made doors
of juniper wood, [there were] porches in a four-fold way.
6.32 [vide]
6.33 [vide]
6.34 In both the doors [were] planks of fir; the one
door had two leaves and their hinges, and the other door had two leaves
and turned [on hinges],
6.35 being carved with cherubs, and [there were]
palm-trees and open flower-leaves, and it [was] overlaid with gold gilt
upon the engraving.
6.36 And he built the inner court, three rows of hewn
stones, and a row of wrought cedar round about, and he made the curtain
of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the temple.
6.37 [vide]
6.38 [vide]
7.1 And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years.
7.2 And he built the house with the wood of
Libanus; its length [was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth [was] fifty
cubits, and its height [was] of thirty cubits, and [it was made] with
three rows of cedar pillars, and the pillars had side-pieces of cedar.
7.3 And he formed the house with chambers above
on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars [was each]
row forty and five,
7.4 and [there were] three chambers, and space against space in three rows.
7.5 And all the doors and spaces formed like
chambers [were] square, and from door to door [was a correspondence] in
three rows.
7.6 And [he made] the porch of the pillars,
[they were] fifty [cubits] long and fifty broad, the porch joining them
in front; and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] in front of
the house by the porches.
7.7 And [there was] the Porch of seats where he would judge, the porch of judgement.
7.8 And their house where he would dwell, [had]
one court communicating with these according to this work; and [he
built] the house for the daughter of Pharao whom Solomon had taken,
according to this porch.
7.9 All these [were] of costly stones,
sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the
top, and outward to the great court,
7.10 founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits [long].
7.11 And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars.
7.12 [There were] three rows of hewn [stones] round
about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar: and Solomon
finished all his house.
7.13 And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre,
7.14 the son of a widow woman; and he [was] of the
tribe of Nephthalim, and his father [was] a Tyrian; a worker in brass,
and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in
brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the
works.
7.15 And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the
house: eighteen cubits [was] the height of [each] pillar, and a
circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of
the pillar: the flutings [were] four fingers [wide], and thus [was] the
other pillar [formed].
7.16 And he made two molten chapiters to put on the
heads of the pillars: five cubits [was] the height of one chapiter, and
five cubits [was] the height of the other chapiter
7.17 And he made two ornaments of net-work to cover
the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net
for the other chapiter.
7.18 And hanging work, two rows of brazen
pomegranates, formed with net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and
thus he framed [the ornaments] for the second chapiter.
7.19 And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,
7.20 and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition [equal to] the chamber in width.
7.21 And he set up the pillars of the porch of the
temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and
he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz.
7.22 [vide]
7.23 And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to
the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height
[was] five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.
7.24 And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;
7.25 And [there were] twelve oxen under the sea:
three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three
looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their
hinder parts [were] inward, and the sea [was] above upon them.
7.26 and its rim [was] as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it [was] a span.
7.27 And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits [was]
the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its
height [was] six cubits.
7.28 And this work of the bases [was] formed with a
border the them, and [there was] a border between the ledges.
7.29 And upon their borders between the projection
[were] lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so
above, and also below [were] the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.
7.30 And [there were] four brazen wheels to one base;
and [there were] brazen bases, and their four sides [answering to
them], side pieces under the bases.
7.31 And [there were] axles in the wheels under the base.
7.32 And the height of one wheel [was] a cubit and a half.
7.33 And the work of the wheels [was] as the work of
chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and [the rest of] their
work, [were] all molten.
7.34 The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders [were formed] of the base.
7.35 And on the top of the base half a cubit [was]
the size of it, [there was] a circle on the top of the base, and [there
was] the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top
of its spaces.
7.36 And its borders [were] cherubs, and lions, and
palm-trees, upright, each [was] joined in front [and] within and round
about.
7.37 According to the same form he made all the ten bases, [even] one order and one measure to all.
7.38 And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver
containing forty baths, [and] measuring four cubits, each laver
[placed] on a several base throughout the ten bases.
7.39 And he put five bases on the right side of the
house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed
on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.
7.40 And Chiram made the caldrons, and the pans, and
the bowls; and Chiram finished making all the works that he wrought for
king Solomon in the house of the Lord:
7.41 two pillars and the wreathen works of the
pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two net-works to cover
both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars.
7.42 The four hundred pomegranates for both the
net-works, two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover both the
wreathen works of the bases belonging to both pillars.
7.43 And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases.
7.44 And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.
7.45 And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls, and all
the furniture, which Chiram made for king Solomon for the house of the
Lord: and [there were] eight and forty pillars of the house of the king
and of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Chiram
made were entirely of brass.
7.46 In the country round about Jordan did he cast them, in the clay land between Socchoth and Sira.
7.47 There was no reckoning of the brass of which he
made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end
of the weight of the brass.
7.48 And king Solomon took the furniture which
[Chiram] made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the
golden table of shewbread.
7.49 And [he put] the five candlesticks on the left,
and five on the right in front of the oracle, [being] of pure gold, and
the lamp-stands, and the lamps, and the snuffers of gold.
7.50 And [there were made] the porches, and the
nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, of pure
gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house,
[even] the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.
7.51 So the work of the house of the Lord which
Solomon wrought was finished; and Solomon brought in the holy things of
David his father, and all the holy things of Solomon; he put the
silver, and the gold, and the furniture, into the treasures of the
house of the Lord.
8.1
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the
Lord and his own house after twenty years, then king Solomon assembled
all the elders of Israel in Sion, to bring the ark of the covenant of
the Lord out of the city of David, this is Sion,
8.2 in the month of Athanin.
8.3 And the priests took up the ark,
8.4 and the tabernacle of testimony, and the holy furniture that was in the tabernacle of testimony.
8.5 And the king and all Israel [were occupied]
before the ark, sacrificing sheep [and] oxen, without number.
8.6 And the priests bring in the ark into its
place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies,
under the wings of the cherubs.
8.7 For the cherubs spread out their wings over
the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy
things above.
8.8 And the holy staves projected, and the ends
of the holy staves appeared out of the holy places in front of the
oracle, and were not seen without.
8.9 There was nothing in the ark except the two
tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Moses put [there] in
Choreb, which [tables] the Lord made [as a covenant] with the children
of Israel in their going forth from the land of Egypt.
8.10 And it came to pass when the priests departed out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house.
8.11 And the priests could not stand to minister
because of the cloud, because the glory of the Lord filled the house.
8.12 [vide]
8.13 [vide]
8.14 And the king turned his face, and the king blessed all Israel, (and the whole assembly of Israel stood:)
8.15 and he said, Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel
to-day, who spoke by his mouth concerning David my father, and has
fulfilled it with his hands, saying,
8.16 From the day that I brought out my people Israel
out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in [any] one tribe of Israel to
build a house, so that my name should be there: but I chose Jerusalem
that my name should be there, and I chose David to be over my people
Israel.
8.17 And it was in the heart of my father to build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.
8.18 And the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch
as it came into thine heart to build a house to my name, thou didst
well that it came upon thine heart.
8.19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but
thy son that has proceeded out of thy bowels, he shall build the house
to my name.
8.20 And the Lord has confirmed the word that he
spoke, and I am risen up in the place of my father David, and I have
sat down on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and I have built
the house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.
8.21 And I have set there a place for the ark, in
which is the covenant of the Lord, which the Lord made with our
fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
8.22 And Solomon stood up in front of the altar
before all the congregation of Israel; and he spread out his hands
toward heaven:
8.23 and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God
like thee in heaven above and on the earth beneath, keeping covenant
and mercy with thy servant who walks before thee with all his heart;
8.24 which thou hast kept toward thy servant David my
father: for thou hast spoken by thy mouth and thou hast fulfilled it
with thine hands, as [at] this day.
8.25 And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for thy
servant David my father, [the promises] which thou hast spoken to him,
saying, There shall not be taken from thee a man sitting before me on
the throne of Israel, provided only thy children shall take heed to
their ways, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
8.26 And now, O Lord God of Israel, let, I pray thee, thy word to David my father be confirmed.
8.27 But will God indeed dwell with men upon the
earth? if the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice thee, how
much less even this house which I have built to thy name?
8.28 Yet, O Lord God of Israel, thou shalt look upon
my petition, to hear the prayer which thy servant prays to thee in thy
presence this day,
8.29 that thine eyes may be open toward this house
day and night, even toward the place which thou saidst, My name shall
be there, to hear the prayer which thy servant prays at this place day
and night.
8.30 And thou shalt hearken to the prayer of thy
servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall pray toward this
place; and thou shalt hear in thy dwelling-place in heaven, and thou
shalt do and be gracious.
8.31 Whatsoever trespasses any [one] shall commit
against his neighbor,-- and if he shall take upon him an oath so that
he should swear, and he shall come and make confession before thine
altar in this house,
8.32 then shalt thou hear from heaven, and do, and
thou shalt judge thy people Israel, that the wicked should be
condemned, to recompense his way upon his head; and to justify the
righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.
8.33 When thy people Israel falls before enemies,
because they shall sin against thee, and they shall return and confess
to thy name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house,
8.34 then shalt thou hear from heaven, and be
gracious to the sins of thy people Israel, and thou shalt restore them
to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.
8.35 When the heaven is restrained, and there is no
rain, because they shall sin against thee, and the shall pray toward
this place, and they shall make confession to thy name, and shall turn
from their sins when thou shalt have humbled them,
8.36 then thou shalt hear from heaven, and be
merciful to the sins of thy servant and of thy people Israel; for thou
shalt shew them the good way to walk in it, and thou shalt give rain
upon the earth which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
8.37 If there should be famine, if there should be
death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew,
and if their enemy oppress them in [any] one of their cities, [with
regard to] every calamity, every trouble,
8.38 every prayer, every supplication whatever shall
be made by any man, as they shall know each the plague of his heart,
and shall spread abroad his hands to this house,
8.39 then shalt thou hearken from heaven, out of
thine established dwelling-place, and shalt be merciful, and shalt do,
and recompense to [every] man according to his ways, as thou shalt know
his heart, for thou alone knowest the heart of all the children of men:
8.40 that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.
8.41 And for the stranger who is not of thy people,
8.42 when they shall come and pray toward this place,
8.43 then shalt thou hear [them] from heaven, out of
thine established dwelling-place, and thou shalt do according to all
that the stranger shall call upon thee for, that all the nations may
know thy name, and fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel, and may know
that thy name has been called on this house which I have builded.
8.44 [If it be] that thy people shall go forth to war
against their enemies in the way by which thou shalt turn them, and
pray in the name of the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen,
and the house which I have built to thy name,
8.45 then shalt thou hear from heaven their
supplication and their prayer, and shalt execute judgment for them.
8.46 [If it be] that they shall sin against thee,
(for there is not a man who will not sin,) and thou shalt bring them
and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take [them]
captive shall carry [them] to a land far or near,
8.47 and they shall turn their hearts in the land
whither they have been carried captives, and turn in the land of their
sojourning, and supplicate thee, saying, We have sinned, we have done
unjustly, we have transgressed,
8.48 and they shall turn to thee with all their
heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies whither
thou hast carried them captives, and shall pray to thee toward their
land which thou hast given to their fathers, and the city which thou
hast chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name:
8.49 then shalt thou hear from heaven thine established dwelling-place,
8.50 and thou shalt be merciful to their
unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against thee, and
according to all their transgressions wherewith they have transgressed
against thee, and thou shalt cause them to be pitied before them that
carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on them:
8.51 for [they are] thy people and thine inheritance,
whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, out of the midst of the
furnace of iron.
8.52 And let thine eyes and thine ears be opened to
the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people
Israel, to hearken to them in all things for which they shall call upon
thee.
8.53 Because thou hast set them apart for an
inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth, as thou
spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, when thou broughtest our
fathers out of the land of Egypt, O Lord God.-- Then spoke Solomon
concerning the house, when he had finished building it-- He manifested
the sun in the heaven: the Lord said he would dwell in darkness: build
thou my house, a beautiful house for thyself to dwell in anew. Behold,
is not this written in the book of the song?
8.54 And it came to pass when Solomon had finished
praying to the Lord all this prayer and supplication, that he rose up
from before the altar of the Lord, [after] having knelt upon his knees,
and his hands [were] spread out towards heaven.
8.55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
8.56 Blessed [be] the Lord this day, who has given
rest to his people Israel, according to all that he said: there has not
failed one word among all his good words which he spoke by the hand of
his servant Moses.
8.57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not desert us nor turn from us,
8.58 that he may turn our hearts toward him to walk
in all his ways, and to keep all his commandments, and his ordinances
which he commanded our fathers.
8.59 And let these words, which I have prayed before
the Lord our God, [be] near to the Lord our God day and night, to
maintain the cause of thy servant, and the cause of thy people Israel
for ever.
8.60 that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God, he [is] God, and there is none beside.
8.61 And let our hearts be perfect toward the Lord
our God, to walk also holily in his ordinances, and to keep his
commandments, as at this day.
8.62 And the king and all the children of Israel offered sacrifice before the Lord.
8.63 And king Solomon offered for the sacrifices of
peace-offering which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand
oxen, and hundred and twenty thousand sheep: and the king and all the
children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
8.64 In that day the king consecrated the middle of
the court in the front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered
the whole-burnt-offering, and the sacrifices, and the fat of the
peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which was before the Lord
[was too] little to bear the whole-burnt-offering and the sacrifices of
peace-offerings.
8.65 And Solomon kept he feast in that day, and all
Israel with him, even a great assembly from the entering in of Hemath
to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God in the house which he
built, eating and drinking, and rejoicing before the Lord our God seven
days.
8.66 And on the eighth day he sent away the people:
and they blessed the king, and each departed to his tabernacle
rejoicing, and [their] heart [was] glad because of the good things
which the Lord had done to his servant David, and to Israel his people.
9.1
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the
Lord, and the king's house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he
wished to perform,
9.2 that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared in Gabaon.
9.3 And the Lord said to him, I have heard the
voice of thy prayer, and thy supplication which thou madest before me:
I have done for thee according to all thy prayer: I have hallowed this
house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever, and mine
eyes and my heart shall be there always.
9.4 And if thou wilt walk before me as David
thy father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to
do according to all that I commanded him, and shalt keep my ordinances
and my commandments:
9.5 then will I establish the throne of thy
kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David thy father, saying,
There shall not fail thee a man to rule in Israel.
9.6 But if ye or your children do in any wise
revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances,
which Moses set before you, and ye go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
9.7 then will I cut off Israel from the land
which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my
name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and
a by-word to all nations.
9.8 And this house, which is high, shall be [so
that] every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and
they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to
this house?
9.9 And [men] shall say, Because they forsook
the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of
the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and
worshipped them, and served them: therefore the Lord has brought this
evil upon them.
9.10 [During] twenty years in which Solomon was
building the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the house of the
king,
9.11 Chiram king of Tyre helped Solomon with cedar
wood, and fir wood, and with gold, and all that he wished for: then the
king gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
9.12 So Chiram departed from Tyre, and went into
Galilee to see the cities which Solomon gave to him; and they pleased
him not. And he said,
9.13 What [are] these cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them Boundary until this day.
9.14 And Chiram brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
9.15 This was the arrangement of the provision which
king Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of
the king, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the
city of David, and Assur, and Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the
upper, and Jethermath, and all the cities of the chariots, and all the
cities of the horsemen, and the fortification of Solomon which he
purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all the land,
9.16 [vide]
9.17 [vide]
9.18 [vide]
9.19 [vide]
9.20 so that none of the people should rule over him
that was left of the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and
the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite, who
were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who had been left
with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly
destroy; and Solomon made them tributaries until this day.
9.21 [vide]
9.22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made
nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and
captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his
horsemen.
9.23 [vide]
9.24 Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharao
out of the city of David into his house which he built for himself in
those days,
9.25 [vide]
9.26 even that for which king Solomon built a ship in
Gasion Gaber near Aelath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in
the land of Edom.
9.27 And Chiram sent in the ship together with the
servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men
acquainted with the sea.
9.28 And they came to Sophira, and took thence a
hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
10.1
And the queen of Saba heard of the name of Solomon, and the name of the
Lord, and she came to try him with riddles.
10.2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great
train; and [there came] camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and
precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was
in her heart.
10.3 And Solomon answered all her questions: and
there was not a question overlooked by the king which he did not answer
her.
10.4 And the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built,
10.5 and the provision of Solomon and the sitting of
his attendants, and the standing of his servants, and his raiment, and
his cup-bearers, and his whole-burnt-offering which he offered in the
house of the Lord, and she was utterly amazed.
10.6 And she said to king Solomon, [It was] a true
report which I heard in my land of thy words and thy wisdom.
10.7 But I believed not them that told me, until I
came and my eyes saw: and, behold, the words as they reported to me are
not the half: thou hast exceeded in goodness all the report which I
heard in my land.
10.8 Blessed [are] thy wives, blessed [are] these thy
servants who stand before thee continually, who hear all thy wisdom.
10.9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, who has taken
pleasure in thee, to set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the
Lord loved Israel to establish [him] for ever; and he has made thee
king over them, to execute judgment with justice, and in their causes.
10.10 And she gave to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents
of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones: there hd not come
any other spices so abundant as those which the queen of Saba gave to
king Solomon.
10.11 And the ship of Chiram which brought the gold from Suphir, brought very much hewn timber and precious stones.
10.12 And the king made the hewn timber [into] buttresses
of the house of the Lord and the king's house, and lyres and harps for
singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been
seen anywhere until this day.
10.13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that
she desired, whatsoever she asked, besides all that he had given her by
the hand of king Solomon: and she returned, and came into her own land,
she and her servants.
10.14 And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold.
10.15 Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both
merchants and all the kings of the [country] beyond [the river], and of
the princess of the land.
10.16 And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.
10.17 And three hundred shields of beaten gold: and three
pounds of gold were in one shield: and the king put them in the house
of the forest of Lebanon.
10.18 And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.
10.19 The throne [had] six steps, and calves in bold relief
to the throne behind it, and side-pieces on either hand of the place of
the seat, and two lions standing by the side-pieces,
10.20 and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done in any [other] kingdom.
10.21 And all the vessels made by Solomon [were] of gold,
and the lavers [were] golden, and all the vessels of the house of the
forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; there was no silver, for it was
not accounted of in the days of Solomon.
10.22 For Solomon had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the
ships of Chiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of
Tharsis, [laden with] gold and silver, and wrought stones, and hewn
stones. This was the arrangement of the provision which king Solomon
fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and
the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David,
and Assur, and Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and
Jethermath, and all the cities of the chariots, and all the cities of
the horsemen, and the fortification of Solomon which he purposed to
build in Jerusalem and in all the land, so that none of the people
should rule over him that was left of the Chettite and the Amorite, and
the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and
the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel, their
descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the children
of Israel could not utterly destroy; and Solomon made them tributaries
until this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for
they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of
the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
10.23 And Solomon increased beyond all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.
10.24 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom which the Lord [had] put into his heart.
10.25 And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of
gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
10.26 And Solomon had four thousand mares for his chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen: and he put them in the cities of his
chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem: and he ruled over all the
kings from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders
of Egypt.
10.27 And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as
stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for multitude.
10.28 And the goings forth of Solomon's horsemen [was] also
out of Egypt, and the king's merchants [were] of Thecue; and they
received them out of Thecue at a price.
10.29 And that which proceeded out of Egypt went up [thus,
even] a chariot for a hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse fr fifty
[shekels] of silver: and thus for all the kings of the Chettians, and
the kings of Syria, they came out by sea.
11.1
And king Solomon was a lover of women. And he took strange women, as
well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish, Ammanitish women, Syrians
and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites;
11.2 of the nations concerning whom the Lord forbade
the children of Israel, [saying], Ye shall not go in to them, and they
shall not come in to you, lest they turn away your hearts after their
idols: Solomon clave to these in love.
11.3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and
three hundred concubines. And the strange women turned away his heart
after their gods.
11.4 And it came to pass in the time of the old age
of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as
[was] the heart of David his father.
11.5 and to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians.
11.6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight
of the Lord: he went not after the Lord, as David his father.
11.7 Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the
idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon,
11.8 And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.
11.9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because he
turned away his heart from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared
twice to him,
11.10 and charged him concerning this matter, by no means
to go after other gods, but to take heed to do what the Lord God
commanded him; neither was his heart perfect with the Lord, according
to the heart of David his father.
11.11 And the Lord said to Solomon, Because it has been
thus with thee, and thou hast not kept my commandments and my
ordinances which I commanded thee, I will surely rend thy kingdom out
of thy hand, and give it to thy servant.
11.12 Only in thy days I will not do it for David thy
father's sake: [but] I will take it out of the hand of thy son.
11.13 Only I will not take away the whole kingdom: I will
give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for the sake
of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.
11.14 And the Lord raised up and enemy to Solomon, Ader the
Idumaean, and Esrom son of Eliadae who [dwelt] in Raama, [and] Adadezer
king of Suba his master; (and men gathered to him, and he was head of
the conspiracy, and he seized on Damasec,) and they were adversaries to
Israel all the days of Solomon: and Ader the Idumaean [was] of the seed
royal in Idumaea.
11.15 And it happened, that while David was utterly
destroying Edom, while Joab captain of the host was going to bury the
dead, when they slew every male in Idumaea;
11.16 (for Joab and all Israel abode there six months in Idumaea, until he utterly destroyed every male in Idumaea;)
11.17 that Ader ran away, he and all the Idumaeans of the
servants of his father with him; and they went into Egypt; and Ader
[was then] a little child.
11.18 And there rise up men out of the city of Madiam, and
they come to Pharan, and take men with them, and come to Pharao king of
Egypt: and Ader went in to Pharao, and he gave him a house, and
appointed him provision.
11.19 And Ader found great favour in the sight of Pharao,
and he gave him his wife's sister in marriage, the elder sister of
Thekemina.
11.20 And the sister of Thekemina bore to him, [even] to
Ader, Ganebath her son; and Thekemina brought him up in the midst of
the sons of Pharao, and Ganebath was in the midst of the sons of Pharao.
11.21 And Ader heard in Egypt that David slept with his
fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and Ader said
to Pharao, Let me go, and I will return to my country.
11.22 And Pharao said to Ader, What lackest thou with me?
that lo! thou seekest to depart to thy country? and Ader said to him,
By all means let me go.
11.23 [vide]
11.24 [vide]
11.25 So Ader returned to his country; this [is] the
mischief which Ader did, and he was a bitter enemy of Israel, and he
reigned in the land of Edom.
11.26 And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the Ephrathite of Sarira, the son of a widow, [was] servant of Solomon.
11.27 And this [was the occasion of his lifting up [his]
hands against king Solomon: now king Solomon built the citadel, he
completed the fortification of the city of David his father.
11.28 And the man Jeroboam was very strong; and Solomon saw
the young man that he was active, and he set him over the levies of the
house of Joseph.
11.29 And it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went
forth from Jerusalem, and Achia the Selonite the prophet found him in
the way, and caused him to turn aside out of the way: and Achia was
clad with a new garment, and they two [were] alone in the field.
11.30 And Achia laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it [into] twelve pieces:
11.31 and he said to Jeroboam, Take to thyself ten pieces,
for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I rend the kingdom out
of the hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.
11.32 Yet he shall have two tribes, for my servant David's
sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out
of all the tribes of Israel.
11.33 Because he forsook me, and sacrificed to Astarte the
abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, and to the idols of Moab,
and to their king the abomination of the children of Ammon, and he
walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David
his father [did].
11.34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his
hand, (for I will certainly resist him all the days of his life,) for
David my servant's sake, whom I have chosen.
11.35 But I will take the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and give thee ten tribes.
11.36 But to his son I will give the two [remaining]
tribes, that my servant David may have an establishment continually
before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put
my name there.
11.37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign as thy soul desires, and thou shalt be king over Israel.
11.38 And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt keep all the
commandments that I shall give thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do
that which is right before me, to keep my ordinances and my
commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with thee, and
will build thee a sure house, as I built to David.
11.39 [vide]
11.40 And Solomon sought to slay Jeroboam: but he arose and
fled into Egypt, to Susakim king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until
Solomon died.
11.41 And the rest of the history of Solomon, and all that
he did, and all his wisdom, behold are not these things written in the
book of the life of Solomon?
11.42 And the days [during] which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [were] forty years.
11.43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried
him in the city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam
son of Nabat heard [of it], even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled
from the face of Solomon and dwelt in Egypt, he straightway comes into
his own city, into the land of Sarira in the mount of Ephraim. And king
Solomon slept with his fathers, and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.
12.1 And king Roboam goes to Sikima;
12.2 for all Israel were coming to Sikima to make him king.
12.3 And the people spoke to king Roboam, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy;
12.4 but do thou now lighten somewhat of the hard
service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and
we will serve thee.
12.5 And he said to them, Depart for three days, and return to me. And they departed.
12.6 And the king referred [the matter] to the
elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living,
saying, How do ye advise that I should answer this people?
12.7 And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt this
day be a servant to this people, and wilt serve them, and wilt speak to
them good words, then will they be thy servants continually.
12.8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which
they gave him, and consulted with the young men who were brought up
with him, who stood in his presence.
12.9 And he said to them, What counsel do ye give?
And what shall I answer to this people who speak to me, saying, Lighten
somewhat of the yoke which hy father has put upon us?
12.10 And the young men who had been brought up with him,
who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt thou say to
this people who have spoken to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke
heavy, and do thou now lighten it from off us: thus shalt say to them,
My little [finger shall be] thicker than my father's loins.
12.11 And whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke,
I also will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scorpions.
12.12 And all Israel came to king Roboam on the third day,
as the king spoke to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.
12.13 And the king answered the people harshly; and Roboam
forsook the counsel of the old men which they counseled him.
12.14 And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the
young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to
your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you
with scorpions.
12.15 And the king hearkened not to the people, because the
change was from the Lord, that he might establish his word which he
spoke by Achia the Selonite concerning Jeroboam the son of Nabat.
12.16 And all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to
them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in
David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae. Depart, O
Israel, to thy tents: now feed thine own house, David.
12.17 So Israel departed to his tents.
12.18 And the king sent Adoniram who was over the tribute;
and they stoned him with stones, and he died: and king Roboam made
haste to rise to flee to Jerusalem.
12.19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day.
12.20 And it came to pass when all Israel heard that
Jeroboam had returned out of Egypt, that they sent and called him to
the assembly, and they made him king over Israel: and none followed the
house of David except the tribe of Juda and Benjamin only.
12.21 And Roboam went into Jerusalem, and he assembled the
congregation of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and twenty
thousand young men, warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to
recover the kingdom to Roboam the son of Solomon.
12.22 And the word of the Lord came to Samaia the man of God, saying,
12.23 Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon, king of Juda, and
to all the house of Juda and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the
people, saying,
12.24 Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, neither
shall ye fight with your brethren the sons of Israel: return each man
to his own home; for this thing is from me; and they hearkened to the
word of the Lord, and they ceased from going up, according to the word
of the Lord. So king Solomon sleeps with his fathers, and is buried
with his fathers in the city of David; and Roboam his son reigned in
his stead in Jerusalem, being sixteen years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned twelve years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was]
Naanan, daughter of Ana son of Naas king of the children of Ammon. And
he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked not in
the way of David his father. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, a
servant to Solomon, and his name [was] Jeroboam; and the name of his
mother [was] Sarira, a harlot; and Solomon made him head of the levies
of the house of Joseph: and he built for Solomon Sarira in mount
Ephraim; and he had three hundred chariots of horses: he built the
citadel with the levies of the house of Ephraim; he fortified the city
of David, and aspired to the kingdom. And Solomon sought to kill him;
and he was afraid, and escaped to Susakim king of Egypt, and was with
him until Solomon died. And Jeroboam heard in Egypt that Solomon was
dead; and he spoke in the ears of Susakim king of Egypt, saying, Let me
go, and I will depart into my land; and Susakim said to him, Ask any
request, and I will grant it thee. And Susakim gave to Jeroboam Ano the
eldest sister of Thekemina his wife, to be his wife: she was great
among the daughters of the king, and she bore to Jeroboam Abia his son:
and Jeroboa said to Susakim, Let me indeed go, and I will depart. And
Jeroboam departed out of Egypt, and came into the land of Sarira that
was in mount Ephraim, and thither the whole tribe of Ephraim assembles,
and Jeroboam built a fortress there. And his young child was sick with
a very severe sickness; and Jeroboam went to enquire concerning the
child: and he said to Ano his wife, Arise, go, enquire of God
concerning the child, whether he shall recover from his sickness. Now
there was a man in Selom, and his name [was] Achia: and he was sixty
years old, and the word of the Lord [was] with him. And Jeroboam said
to his wife, Arise, and take in thine hand loaves for the man of God,
and cakes for his children, and grapes and a pot of honey. And the
woman arose, and took in her hand bread, and two cakes, and grapes, and
a pot of honey, for Achia: and the man [was] old, and his eyes were
dim, so that he could not see. And she arose up from Sarira and went;
and it came to pass when she had come into the city of Achia the
Selonite, that Achia said to his servant, Go out now to meet Ano the
wife of Jeroboam, and thou shalt say to her, Come in, and stand not
[still]: for thus saith the Lord, I send grievous tidings to thee. And
Ano went in to the man of God; and Achia said to her, Why hast thou
brought me bread and grapes, and cakes, and a pot of honey? Thus saith
the Lord, Behold, thou shalt depart from me, and it shall come to pass
when thou hast entered into the city, [even] into Sarira, that thy
maidens shall come out to meet thee, and shall say to thee, The child
is dead: for thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will destroy every male of
Jeroboam, and there shall be the dead of Jeroboam in the city, [them]
the dogs shall eat, and him that has died in the field shall the birds
of the air eat, and he shall lament for the child, [saying], Woe is
[me], Lord! for there has been found in him some good thing touching
the Lord. And the woman departed, when she heard this: and it came to
pass as she entered into Sarira, that the child did; and there came
forth a wailing to meet [her]. And Jeroboam went to Sikima in mount
Ephraim, and assembled there the tribes of Israel; and Roboam the son
of Solomon went up thither. And the word of the Lord came to Samaias
son of Enlami, saying, Take to thyself a new garment which has not gone
into the water, and rend it [into] twelve pieces; and thou shalt give
[some] to Jeroboam, and shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Take to
thyself ten pieces to cover thee: and Jeroboam took [them]: and Samaias
said, Thus saith the Lord concerning the ten tribes of Israel. And the
people said to Roboam the son of Solomon, Thy father made his yoke
heavy upon us, and made the meat of his table heavy; and now thou shalt
lighten them upon us, and we will serve thee. And Roboam said to the
people, Wait three days, and I will return an answer: and Roboam said,
Bring in to me the elders, and I will take counsel with them what I
shall answer to the people on the third day. So Roboam spoke in their
ears, as the people sent to him to [say]: and the elders of the people
said, Thus the people have spoken to thee. And Roboam rejected their
counsel, and it pleased him not: and he sent and brought in those who
had been brought up with him; and he said to them, Thus and thus has
the people sent to me to say: and they that had been brought up with
him said, Thus shalt thou speak to the people, saying, My little
[finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins; my father scourged
you with whips, but I will rule you with scorpions. And the saying
pleased Roboam, and he answered the people as the young men, they that
were brought up with him, counseled him: and all the people spoke as
one man, every one to his neighbor, and they cried out all together,
saying, We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jessae:
to thy tents, O Israel, every one; for this man [is] not for a prince
or a ruler over us. And all the people was dispersed from Sikima, and
they departed every one to his tent: and Roboam strengthened himself
and departed, and mounted his chariot, and entered into Jerusalem: and
there follow him the whole tribe of Juda, and the whole tribe of
Benjamin. And it came to pass at the beginning of the year, that Roboam
gathered all the men of Juda and Benjamin, and went up to fight with
Jeroboam at Sikima. And the word of the Lord came to Samaeas the man of
God, saying, Speak to Roboam king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda
and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, Thus saith the
Lord, Ye shall not go up, neither shall ye fight with your brethren the
sons of Israel: return every man to his house, for this thing is from
me. And they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and forbore to go up,
according to the word of the Lord.
12.25 And Jeroboam built Sikima in mount Ephraim and dwelt in it, and went forth thence and built Phanuel.
12.26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Behold, now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
12.27 If this people shall go up to offer sacrifice in the
house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of the people will
return to the Lord, and to their master, to Roboam king of Juda, and
they will slay me.
12.28 And the king took counsel, and went, and made two
golden heifers, and said to the people, Let it suffice you to have gone
[hitherto] to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
12.29 And he put one in Bethel, and he put the other in Dan.
12.30 And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.
12.31 And he made houses on the high places, and made
priests of any part of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
12.32 And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land
of Juda;
12.33 and went up to the altar which he made in Baethel to
sacrifice to the heifers which he made, and he placed in Baethel the
priests of the high places which he had made. And he went up to the
altar which he had made, on the fifteenth dy in the eighth month, at
the feast which he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast to
the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to sacrifice.
13.1
And behold, there came a man of God out of Juda by the word of the Lord
to Baethel, and Jeroboam stood at the altar to sacrifice.
13.2 And he cried against the altar by the word of
the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Behold, a son
is [to be] born to the house of David, Josias by name; and he shall
offer upon thee the priests of the high places, [even] of them that
sacrifice upon thee, and [he] shall burn men's bones upon thee.
13.3 And in that day one shall give a sign, saying,
This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken, saying, Behold, the altar
is rent, and the fatness upon it shall be poured out.
13.4 And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the
words of the man of God who called on the altar that was in Baethel,
that the king stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Take
hold of him. And, behold, his hand, which he stretched forth against
him, withered, and he could not draw it back to himself.
13.5 And the altar was rent, and the fatness was
poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God
gave by the word of the Lord.
13.6 And king Jeroboam said to the man of God,
Intreat the Lord thy God, and let my hand be restored to me. And the
man of God intreated the Lord, and he restored the king's hand to him,
and it became as before.
13.7 And the king said to the man of God, Enter with me into the house, and dine, and I will give thee a gift.
13.8 And the man of God said to the king, If thou
shouldest give me the half of thine house, I would not go in with thee,
neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water in this place; for
thus the Lord charged me by [his] word, saying,
13.9 Eat no bread, and drink no water, and return not by the way by which thou camest.
13.10 So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way by which he came to Baethel.
13.11 And there dwelt an old prophet in Baethel; and his
sons came and told him all the works that the man of God did on that
day in Baethel, and the words which he spoke to the king: and they
turned the face of their father.
13.12 And their father spoke to them, saying, Which way
went he? and his sons shew him the way by which the man of God who came
out of Juda went up.
13.13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass: and they saddled him the ass, and he mounted it,
13.14 and went after the man of God, and found him sitting
under an oak: and he said to him, Art thou the man of God that came out
of Juda? And he said to him, I [am].
13.15 And he said to him, Come with me, and eat bread.
13.16 And he said, I shall not by any means be able to
return with thee, neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water
in this place.
13.17 For thus the Lord commanded me by word, saying, Eat
not bread there, and drink not water, and return not thither by the way
by which thou camest.
13.18 And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou
[art]; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring
him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink water:
but he lied to him.
13.19 And he brought him back, and he ate bread and drank water in his house.
13.20 And it came to pass while they were sitting at the
table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him
back;
13.21 and he spoke to the man of God that came out of Juda,
saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast resisted the word of the
Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God
commanded thee,
13.22 but hast returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in
the place of which he spoke to thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread,
and shalt not drink water; [therefore] thy body shall in nowise enter
into the sepulchre of thy fathers.
13.23 And it came to pass after he had eaten bread and
drunk water, that he saddled the ass for him, and he turned and
departed.
13.24 And a lion found him in the way, and slew him; and
his body was cast out in the was, and the ass was standing by it, and
the lion [also] was standing by the body.
13.25 And, behold, men [were] passing by, and saw the
carcase cast in the way, and the lion was standing near the carcase:
and they went in and spoke [of it] in the city where the old prophet
dwelt.
13.26 And [the prophet] that turned him back out of the way
heard, and said, This is the man of God who rebelled against the word
of the Lord.
13.27 {vide]
13.28 And he went and found the body cast in the way, and
the ass and the lion were standing by the body: and the lion had not
devoured the body of the man of God, and had not torn the ass.
13.29 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God,
and laid it on his ass; and the prophet brought him back to his city,
to bury him in his own tomb,
13.30 and they bewailed him, [saying], Alas, brother.
13.31 And it came to pass after he had lamented him, that
he spoke to his sons, saying, Whenever I die, bury me in this tomb
wherein the man of God is buried; lay me by his bones, that my bones
may be preserved with his bones.
13.32 For the word will surely come to pass which he spoke
by the word of the Lord against the altar in Baethel, and against the
high houses in Samaria.
13.33 And after this Jeroboam turned not from his sin, but
he turned and made of part of the people priests of the [high places]:
whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became a priest for the high
places.
13.34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam,
even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.
14.1 [vide]
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14.21 And Roboam son of Solomon ruled over Juda. Roboam was
forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his
name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother's name [was]
Naama the Ammonitess.
14.22 And Roboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he
provoked him in al the things which their fathers did in their sins
which they sinned.
14.23 And they built for themselves high places, and
pillars, and [planted] groves on every high hill, and under every shady
tree.
14.24 And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did
according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed
from before the children of Israel.
14.25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
14.26 and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord,
and the treasures of the king's house, and the golden spears which
David took out of the hand of the sons of Adrazaar king of Suba, and
brought them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, [and] the golden
shields which Solomon had made, [[and carried them away into Egypt.]]
14.27 And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them;
and the chiefs of the body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the
king, were placed in charge over them.
14.28 And it came to pass when the king went into the house
of the Lord, that the body guard took them up, and fixed them in the
chamber of the body guard.
14.29 And the rest of the history of Roboam, and all that
he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Juda?
14.30 And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam continually.
14.31 And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and Abiu his son reigned in his
stead.
15.1 And in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nabat, Abiu son of Roboam reigns over Juda.
15.2 And he reigned three years over Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Maacha, daughter of Abessalom.
15.3 And he walked in the sins of his father which he
wrought in his presence, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord
his God, as [was] the heart of his father [David].
15.4 Howbeit for David's sake the Lord gave him a
remnant, that he might establish his children after him, and might
establish Jerusalem.
15.5 Forasmuch as David did that which was right in
the sight of the Lord: he turned not from any thing that he commanded
him all the days of his life.
15.6 [vide]
15.7 And the rest of the history of Abiu, and all
that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiu and
Jeroboam.
15.8 And Abiu slept with his fathers in the
twenty-fourth year of Jeroboam; and he is buried with his fathers in
the city of David: And Asa his son reigns in his stead.
15.9 In the four and twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa begins to reign over Juda.
15.10 And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Ana, daughter of Abessalom.
15.11 And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as David his father.
15.12 And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
15.13 And he removed Ana his mother from being queen,
forasmuch as she gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her
retreats, and burnt them with fire in the brook of Kedron.
15.14 But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.
15.15 And he brought in the pillars of his father, he even
brought in his gold and silver pillars into the house of the Lord, and
[his] vessels.
15.16 And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.
15.17 And Baasa king of Israel went up against Juda, and
built Rama, so that no one should go out or come in for Asa king of
Juda.
15.18 And Asa took all the silver and the gold that was
found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures
of the king's house, and gave them into the hands of his servants; and
king Asa sent them out to the son of Ader, the son of Taberema son of
Azin king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,
15.19 Make a covenant between me and thee, and between my
father and thy father: lo! I have sent forth to thee gold and silver
[for] gifts: come, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he
may go up from me.
15.20 And the son of Ader hearkened to king Asa, and sent
the chiefs of his forces to the cities of Israel; and they smote Ain,
Dan, and Abel of the house of Maacha, and all Chennereth, as far as the
whole land of Nephthali.
15.21 And it came to pass when Baasa heard it, that he left off building Rama, and returned to Thersa.
15.22 And king Asa charged all Juda without exception: and
they take up the stones of Rama and its timbers [with] which Baasa was
building; and king Asa built with them upon the whole hill of Benjamin,
and the watch-tower.
15.23 And the rest of the history of Asa, and all his
mighty deeds which he wrought, and the cities which he built, behold,
are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Juda? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his
feet.
15.24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David his father: and Josaphat his son
reigns in his stead.
15.25 And Nabat son of Jeroboam reigns over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned two years in Israel.
15.26 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sins wherein he
caused Israel to sin.
15.27 And Baasa son of Achia, [who was] over the house of
Belaan son of Achia, conspired against him, and smote him in Gabathon
of the Philistines; for Nabat and all Israel were besieging Gabathon.
15.28 And Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa son of Asa king of Juda; and reigned in his stead.
15.29 And it came to pass when he reigned, that he smote
the whole house of Jeroboam, and left none that breathed of Jeroboam,
until he has destroyed him utterly, according to the word of the Lord
which he spoke by his servant Achia the Selonite,
15.30 for the sins of Jeroboam, who led Israel into sin,
even by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel.
15.31 And the rest of the history of Nabat, and all that he
did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
15.32 [vide]
15.33 And in the third year of Asa king of Juda, Baasa the
son of Achia begins to reign over Israel in Thersa, twenty and four
years.
15.34 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his
sins, as he caused Israel to sin.
16.1 And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Ju son of Anani to Baasa, [saying],
16.2 Forasmuch as I lifted thee up from the earth,
and made thee ruler over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the
way of Jeroboam, and hast caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me
with their vanities;
16.3 Behold, I raise up [enemies] after Baasa, and
after his house; and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam son
of Nabat.
16.4 Him the dies of Baasa in the city the dogs shall
devour, and him that dies of his in the field the birds of the sky
shall devour.
16.5 Now the rest of the history of Baasa, and all
that he did, and his mighty acts, behold, are not these written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16.6 And Baasa slept with his fathers, and they bury him in Thersa; and Ela his son reigns in his stead.
16.7 And the Lord spoke by Ju the son of Anani
against Baasa, and against his house, [even] all the evil which he
wrought before the Lord to provoke him to anger by the works of his
hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he smote him.
16.8 And Ela son of Baasa reigned over Israel two years in Thersa.
16.9 And Zambri, captain of half his cavalry,
conspired against him, while he was in Thersa, drinking himself drunk
in the house of Osa the steward at Thersa.
16.10 And Zambri went in and smote him and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
16.11 And it came to pass when he reigned, when he sat upon his throne,
16.12 that he smote all the house of Baasa, according to
the word which the Lord spoke against the house of Baasa, and to Ju the
prophet,
16.13 for all the sins of Baasa and Ela his son, as he led
Israel astray to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel with their
vanities.
16.14 And the rest of the deeds of Ela which he did,
behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
16.15 And Zambri reigned in Thersa seven days: and the army
of Israel [was] encamped against Gabathon of the Philistines.
16.16 And the people heard in the army, saying, Zambri has
conspired and smitten the king: and the people of Israel made Ambri the
captain of the host king in that day in the camp over Israel.
16.17 And Ambri went up, and all Israel with him, out of Gabathon; and they besieged Thersa.
16.18 And it came to pass when Zambri saw that his city was
taken, that he goes into the inner chamber of the house of the king,
and burnt the king's house over him, and died.
16.19 Because of his sins which he committed, doing that
which was evil in the sight of the Lord, so as to walk in the way of
Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his sins wherein he caused Israel to
sin.
16.20 And the rest of the history of Zambri, and his
conspiracies wherein he conspired, behold, are not these written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16.21 Then the people of Israel divides; half the people
goes after Thamni the son of Gonath to make him king; and half the
people goes after Ambri.
16.22 The people that followed Ambri overpowered the people
that followed Thamni son of Gonath; and Thamni died and Joram his
brother at that time, and Ambri reigned after Thamni.
16.23 In the thirty-first year of king Asa, Ambri begins to
reign over Israel twelve years: he reigns six years in Thersa.
16.24 And Ambri bought the mount Semeron of Semer the lord
of the mountain for two talents of silver; and he built [upon] the
mountain, and they called the name of the mountain [on] which he built,
after the name of Semer the lord of the mount, Semeron.
16.25 And Ambri did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord, and wrought wickedly beyond all that were before him.
16.26 And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son f
Nabat, and in his sins wherewith he caused Israel to sin, to provoke
the Lord God of Israel by their vanities.
16.27 And the rest of the acts of Ambri, and all that he
did, and all his might, behold, [are] not these things written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16.28 And Ambri slept with his fathers, and is buried in
Samaria; and Achaab his son reigns in his stead. And in the eleventh
year of Ambri Josaphat the son of Asa reigns, [being] thirty-five years
old in the beginning of his reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Gazuba, daughter of Seli. And he
walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not from it, [even]
from doing right in the eyes of the Lord: only they removed not [any]
of the high places; they sacrificed and burnt incense on the high
places. Now the engagements which Josaphat made with the king of
Israel, and all his mighty deeds which he performed, and the enemies
whom he fought against, behold, [are] not these written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Juda? and the remains of the
prostitution which they practiced in the days of Asa his father, he
removed out of the land: and there was no king in Syria, [but] a
deputy. Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat, I will send forth thy
servants and my servants in the ship: but Josaphat would not. And
Josaphat slept with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the
city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.
16.29 In the second year of Josaphat king of Juda, Achaab
son of Ambri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
16.30 And Achaab did that which was evil in the sight of
the Lord, and did more wickedly than all that were before him.
16.31 And it was not enough for him to walk in the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nabat, but he took to wife, Jezabel the daughter of
Jethebaal king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal, and
worshiped him.
16.32 And he set up an alter to Baal, in the house of his abominations, which he built in Samaria.
16.33 And Achaab made a grove; and Achaab did yet more
abominably, to provoke the Lord God of Israel, and [to sin against] his
own life so that he should be destroyed: he did evil above all the
kings of Israel that were before him.
16.34 And in his days Achiel the Baethelite built Jericho:
he laid the foundation of it in Abiron his first-born, and he set up
the doors of it in Segub his younger son, according to the word of the
Lord which he spoke by Joshua the son of Naue.
17.1
And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to
Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom
I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the
word of my mouth.
17.2 And the word of the Lord came to Eliu, [saying],
17.3 Depart hence eastward, and hide thee by the brook of Chorrath, that is before Jordan.
17.4 And it shall be [that] thou shalt drink water of
the brook, and I will charge the ravens to feed thee there.
17.5 And Eliu did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the brook of Chorrath before Jordan.
17.6 And the ravens brought him loaves in the
morning, and flesh in the evening and he drank water of the brook.
17.7 And it came to pass after some time, that the
brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.
17.8 And the word of the Lord came to Eliu, [saying],
17.9 Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian [land]:
behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain thee.
17.10 And he arose and went to Sarepta, and came to the
gate of the city: and, behold, a widow-woman was there gathering
sticks; and Eliu cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray
thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
17.11 And she went to fetch it; and Eliu cried after her,
and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of the bread that is in thy
hand.
17.12 And the woman said, [As] the Lord thy God lives, I
have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a
little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks,
and I hall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall
eat it and die.
17.13 And Eliu said to her, Be of good courage, go in and
do according to thy word: but make me thereof a little cake, and thou
shalt bring [it] out to me first, and thou shalt make [some] for
thyself and thy children last.
17.14 For thus saith the Lord, The pitcher of meal shall
not fail, and the cruse of oil shall not diminish, until the day that
the Lord gives rain upon the earth.
17.15 And the woman went and did [so], and did eat, she, and he, and her children.
17.16 And the pitcher of meal failed not, and the cruse of
oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord which he
spoke by the hand of Eliu.
17.17 And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the
woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very
severe, until there was no breath left in him.
17.18 And she said to Eliu, What have I to do with thee, O
man of God? hast thou come in to me to bring my sins to remembrance,
and to slay my son?
17.19 And Eliu said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he
took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he
himself lodged, and laid him on the bed.
17.20 And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the
witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, thou hast wrought evil [for
her] in slaying her son.
17.21 And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on
the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray thee, the soul of this
child return to him.
17.22 And it was so, and the child cried out,
17.23 and he brought him down from the upper chamber into
the house, and gave him to his mother; and Eliu said, See, thy son
lives.
17.24 And the woman said to Eliu, Behold, I know that thou
[art] a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth [is] true.
18.1
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to
Eliu in the third year, saying, Go, and appear before Achaab, and I
will bring rain upon the face of the earth.
18.2 And Eliu went to appear before Achaab: and the famine [as] severe in Samaria.
18.3 And Achaab called Abdiu the steward. Now Abdiu feared the Lord greatly.
18.4 And it came to pass when Jezabel smote the
prophets of the Lord, that Abdiu took a hundred prophets, and hid them
by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.
18.5 And Achaab said to Abdiu, Come, and let us go
through the land, and to the fountains of water, and to the brooks, if
by any means we may find grass, and may save the horses and mules, and
so they will not perish from the tents.
18.6 And they made a division of the way between them
to pass through it: Achaab went one way, and Abdiu went by another way
alone.
18.7 And Abdiu was alone in the way; and Eliu came
alone to meet him: and Abdiu hasted, and fell upon his face, and said,
My lord Eliu, art thou [indeed] he?
18.8 And Eliu said to him, I [am]: go say to thy master, Behold, Eliu [is here].
18.9 And Abdiu said, What sin have I committed, that
thou givest thy servant into the hand of Achaab to slay me?
18.10 [As] the Lord thy God lives, there is not a nation or
kingdom, whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and if they said,
He is not [here], then has he set fire to the kingdom and its
territories, because he has not found thee.
18.11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliu [is here].
18.12 And it shall come to pass when I shall have departed
from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee to a land which
I know not, and I shall go in to tell the matter to Achaab, and he will
not find thee and will slay me: yet thy servant fears the Lord from his
youth.
18.13 Has it not been told to thee my lord, what I did when
Jezabel slew the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred men of the
prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and
water?
18.14 And now thou sayest to me, Go, say to thy master, Behold, Eliu [is here]: and he shall slay me.
18.15 And Eliu said, [As] the Lord of Hosts before whom I stand lives, to-day I will appear before him.
18.16 And Abdiu went to meet Achaab, and told him: an Achaab hasted forth, and went to meet Eliu.
18.17 And it came to pass when Achaab saw Eliu, that Achaab said to Eliu, Art thou he that perverts Israel?
18.18 And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is
thou and thy father's house, in that ye forsake the Lord your God, and
thou hast gone after Baalim.
18.19 And now send, gather to me all Israel to mount
Carmel, and the prophets of shame four hundred and fifty, and the
prophets of the groves four hundred, that eat [at] Jezabel's table.
18.20 And Achaab sent to all Israel, and gathered all the prophets to mount Carmel.
18.21 And Eliu drew near to them all: and Eliu said to
them, How long wilt ye halt on both feet? if the Lord be God, follow
him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.
18.22 And Eliu said to the people, I am left, the only one
prophet of the Lord; and the prophets of Baal [are] four hundred and
fifty men, and the prophets of the groves four hundred.
18.23 Let them give us two oxen, and let them choose one
for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put
no fire [on] the wood: and I will dress the other bullock, and put on
no fire.
18.24 And do ye call loudly on the name of your gods, and I
will call on the name of the Lord my God, and it shall come to pass
that the God who shall answer by fire, he [is] God. And all the people
answered and said, The word which thou hast spoken [is] good.
18.25 And Eliu said to the prophets of shame, Choose to
yourselves one calf, and dress it first, for ye [are] many; and call ye
on the name of your god; but apply no fire.
18.26 And they took the calf and drest it, and called on
the name of Baal from morning till noon, and said, hear us, O Baal,
hear us. And there was no voice, neither was there hearing, and they
ran up and down on the alter which they [had] made.
18.27 And it was noon, and Eliu the Thesbite mocked them,
and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is
meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is
asleep, and I to be awaked.
18.28 And they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves
according to their custom with knives and lancets until the blood
gushed out upon them.
18.29 And they prophesied until the evening came; and it
came to pass as it was the time of the offering of the sacrifice, that
Eliu the Thesbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations, saying,
Stand by for the present, and I will offer my sacrifice. And they stood
aside and departed.
18.30 And Eliu said to the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him.
18.31 And Eliu took twelve stones, according to the number
of the tribes of Israel, as the Lord spoke to him, saying, Israel shall
be thy name.
18.32 And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord,
and repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a trench
that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.
18.33 And he piled the cleft wood on the altar which he
[had] made, and divided the whole-burnt-offering, and laid [it] on the
wood, and laid [it] in order on the altar, and said, Fetch me four
pitchers of water, and pour [it] on the whole-burnt-offering, and on
the wood. And they did so.
18.34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it
the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the
third time.
18.35 And the water ran round about the altar, and they filled the trench with water.
18.36 And Eliu cried aloud to the heaven, and said, Lord
God of Abraam, and Isaac, and Israel, answer me, O Lord, answer me this
day by fire, and let all this people know that thou art the Lord, the
God of Israel, and I [am] thy servant, and for thy sake I have wrought
these works.
18.37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, and let this people know
that thou art the Lord God, and thou hast turned back the heart of this
people.
18.38 Then fire fell from the Lord out of heaven, and
devoured the whole-burnt-offerings, and the wood and the water that was
in the trench, and the fire licked up the stones and the earth.
18.39 And all the people fell upon their faces, and said, Truly the Lord [is] God; he [is] God.
18.40 And Eliu said to the people, Take the prophets of
Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Eliu brings
them down to the brook Kisson, and he slew them there.
18.41 And Eliu said to Achaab, Go up, and eat and drink, for [there is] a sound of the coming of rain.
18.42 And Achaab went up to eat and to drink; and Eliu went
up to Carmel, and stooped to the ground, and put his face between his
knees,
18.43 and said to his servant, Go up, and look toward the
sea. And the servant looked, and said, There is nothing: and Eliu said,
Do thou then go again seven times.
18.44 And the servant went again seven times: and it came
to pass at the seventh time, that, behold, a little cloud like the sole
of a man's foot brought water; and he said, Go up, and say to Achaab,
make ready thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain overtake thee.
18.45 And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven
grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Achaab
wept, and went to Jezrael.
18.46 And the hand of the Lord [was] upon Eliu, and he girt up his loins, and ran before Achaab to Jezrael.
19.1
And Achaab told Jezabel his wife all that Eliu [had] done, and how he
[had] slain the prophets with the sword.
19.2 And Jezabel sent to Eliu, and said, If thou art
Eliu and I am Jezabel, God do so to me, and more also, if I do not make
thy life by this time to-morrow as the life of one of them.
19.3 And Eliu feared, and rose, and departed for his
life: and he comes to Bersabee [to] the land of Juda, and he left his
servant there.
19.4 And he himself went a day's journey in the
wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning
his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord,
take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.
19.5 And he lay down and slept there under a tree;
and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
19.6 And Eliu looked, and, behold, at his head there
was a cake of meal and a cruse of water; and he arose, and ate and
drank, and returned and lay down.
19.7 And the angel of the Lord returned again, and
touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey [is] far
from thee.
19.8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the
strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.
19.9 And he entered there into a cave, and rested
there; and, behold, the word of the Lord [came] to him, and he said,
What [doest] thou here, Eliu?
19.10 And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord
Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thee: they have
digged down thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.
19.11 And he said, Thou shalt go forth to-morrow, and shalt
stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And,
behold, a great [and] strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing
the rocks before the Lord; [but] the Lord [was] not in the wind; and
after the wind an earthquake; [but] the Lord [was] not in the
earthquake:
19.12 and after the earthquake a fire; [but] the Lord [was]
not in the fire: and after the fire the voice of a gentle breeze.
19.13 And it came to pass when Eliu heard, that he wrapped
his face in his mantle, and went forth and stood in the cave: and,
behold, a voice [came] to him and said, What [doest] thou here, Eliu?
19.14 And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord
Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and
they have overthrown thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the
sword! and I am left entirely alone, and they seek my life to take it.
19.15 And the Lord said to him, Go, return, and thou shalt
come into the way of the wilderness of Damascus: and thou shalt go and
anoint Azael to be king over Syria.
19.16 And Ju the son of Namessi shalt thou anoint to be
king over Israel; and Elisaie the son of Saphat shalt thou anoint to be
prophet in thy room.
19.17 And it shall come to pass that him that escapes from
the sword of Azael, Ju shall slay; and him that escapes from the sword
of Ju, Elisaie shall slay.
19.18 And thou shalt leave in Israel seven thousand men,
all the knees which had not bowed themselves to Baal, and every mouth
which had not worshipped him.
19.19 And he departed thence, and finds Elisaie the son of
Saphat, and he was ploughing with oxen; [there were] twelve yoke before
him, and he with the twelve, and he passed by to him, and cast his
mantle upon him.
19.20 And Elisaie left the cattle, and ran after Eliu and
said, I will kiss my father, and follow after thee. And Eliu said,
Return, for I have done [a work] for thee.
19.21 And he returned from following him, and took a yoke
of oxen, and slew them, and boiled them with the instruments of the
oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and he arose, and went
after Eliu, and ministered to him.
20.1
And the son of Ader gathered all his forces, and went up and besieged
Samaria, [he] and thirty-two kings with him, and all [his] horse and
chariots: and they went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
20.2 And he sent into the city to Achaab king of Israel, and said to him, Thus says the son of Ader,
20.3 Thy silver and thy gold are mine, and thy wives and thy children are mine.
20.4 And the king of Israel answered and said, As
thou hast said, my lord, O king, I am thine, and all mine [also].
20.5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus
says the son of Ader, I sent to thee, saying, Thou shalt give me thy
silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy children.
20.6 For at this time to-morrow I will send my
servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of
thy servants, and it shall be that all the desirable objects of their
eyes on which they shall lay their hands, they shall even take [them].
20.7 And the king of Israel called all the elders of
the land, and said, Take notice now and consider, that this man seeks
mischief: for he has sent to me concerning my wives, and concerning my
sons an concerning my daughters: I have not kept back from him my
silver and my gold.
20.8 And the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken not, and consent not.
20.9 And he said to the messengers of the son of
Ader, Say to your master, All things that thou hast sent to thy servant
about at first I will do; but this thing I shall not be able to do. And
the men departed, and carried back the answer to him.
20.10 And the son of Ader sent to him, saying, So do God to
me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for foxes to
all the people, even my infantry.
20.11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Let it be
sufficient; let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright.
20.12 And it came to pass when he returned him this answer,
he and all the kings with him were drinking in tents: and he said to
his servants, Form a trench. And they made a trench against the city.
20.13 And, behold, a prophet came to Achaab king of Israel,
and said, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen this great multitude?
behold, I give it this day into thine hands; and thou shalt know that I
[am] the Lord.
20.14 And Achaab said, Whereby? And he said, Thus saith the
Lord, by the young men of the heads of the districts. And Achaab said,
Who shall begin the battle? and he said, Thou.
20.15 And Achaab numbered the young men the heads of the
districts, and they were two hundred and thirty: and afterwards he
numbered the people, [even] every man fit for war, seven thousand.
20.16 And he went forth at noon, an the son of Ader was
drinking [and] getting drunk in Socchoth, he and the kings, [even]
thirty and two kings, his allies.
20.17 And the young men the heads of the districts went
forth first; and they send and report to the king of Syria, saying,
There are men come forth out of Samaria.
20.18 And he said to them, If they come forth peaceably,
take them alive; and if they come forth to war, take them alive:
20.19 and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them
20.20 smote each one the man next to him; and each one a
second time smote the man next to him: and Syria fled, and Israel
pursued them; and the son of Ader, [even] the king of Syria, escapes on
the horse of a horseman.
20.21 And the king of Israel went forth, and took all the
horses and the chariots, and smote [the enemy] with a great slaughter
in Syria.
20.22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said,
Strengthen thyself, and observe, and see what thou shalt do; for at the
return of the year the son of Ader king of Syria comes up against thee.
20.23 And the servants of the king of Syria, even they
said, The God of Israel [is] a God of mountains, and not a God of
valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight
against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them.
20.24 And do thou this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead.
20.25 And we will give thee [another] army according to the
army that was destroyed, and cavalry according to the cavalry, and
chariots according to the chariots, and we will fight against them in
the plain, and we shall prevail against them. And he hearkened to their
voice, and did so.
20.26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that
the son of Ader reviewed Syria, and went up to Apheca to war against
Israel.
20.27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to
meet them: and Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of
goats, but Syria filled the land.
20.28 And there came the man of God, and said to the king
of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Because Syria has said, The Lord God of
Israel [is] a God of the hills, and he [is] not a God of the valleys,
therefore will I give this great army into thy hand, and thou shalt
know that I [am] the Lord.
20.29 And they encamp one over against the other before
them seven days. And it came to pass on the seventh day that the battle
drew on, and Israel smote Syria, [even] a hundred thousand footmen in
one day.
20.30 And the est fled to Apheca, into the city; and the
wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left: and the son of
Ader fled, and entered into an inner chamber, into a closet.
20.31 And he said to his servants, I know that the kings of
Israel are merciful kings: let us now put sackcloth upon our loins, and
ropes upon our heads, and let us go forth to the king of Israel, if by
any means he will save our souls alive.
20.32 So they girt sackcloth upon their loins, and put
ropes upon their heads, and said to the king of Israel, Thy servant the
son of Ader says, Let our souls live, I pray thee. And he said, Does he
yet live? He is my brother.
20.33 And the men divined, and offered drink-offerings; and
they caught the word out of his mouth, and said, Thy brother the son of
Ader. And he said, Go ye in and fetch him. And the son of Ader went out
to him, and they cause him to go up to him into the chariot.
20.34 And he said to him, The cities which my father took
from thy father I will restore to thee; and thou shalt make streets for
thyself in Damascus, as my father made streets in Samaria; and I will
let thee go with a covenant. And he made a covenant with him, and let
him go.
20.35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to
his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray, And the man
would not smite him.
20.36 And he said to him, Because thou hast not hearkened
to the voice of the Lord, therefore, behold, as thou departest from me,
a lion shall smite thee: and he departed from him, and a lion found
him, and smote him.
20.37 And he finds another man, and says, Smite me, I pray
thee. And the man smote him, and in smiting wounded [him].
20.38 And the prophet went and stood before the king of Israel by the way, and bound his eyes with a bandage.
20.39 And it came to pass as the king passed by, that he
cried aloud to the king, and said, Thy servant went out to war, and,
behold, a man brought [another] man to me, and said to me, Keep his
man; and if he should by any means escape, then thy life shall go for
his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
20.40 And it came to pass, that thy servant looked round
this way and that way, and the man was gone. And the king of Israel
said to him, Behold, thou hast also destroyed snares [set] for me.
20.41 And he hasted, and took away the bandage from his
eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was one of the
prophets.
20.42 And he said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou
hast suffered to escape out of thine hand a man appointed to
destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people
for his people.
20.43 And the king of Israel departed confounded and discouraged, and came to Samaria.
21.1 And Nabuthai the Jezraelite had a vineyard, near the threshingfloor of Achaab king of Samaria.
21.2 And Achaab spoke to Nabuthai, saying, Give me
thy vineyard, and I will have it for a garden of herbs, for it [is]
near my house: and I will give thee another vineyard better than it; or
if it please thee, I will give thee money, the price of this thy
vineyard, and I will have it for a garden of herbs.
21.3 And Nabuthai said to Achaab, My God forbid me that I should give thee the inheritance of my fathers.
21.4 And the spirit of Achaab was troubled, and he
lay down upon his bed, and covered his face, and ate no bread.
21.5 And Jezabel his wife went in to him, and spoke
to him, [saying], Why [is] thy spirit troubled, and [why] dost thou eat
no bread?
21.6 And he said to her, Because I spoke to Nabuthai
the Jezraelite, saying, Give me thy vineyard for money; or if thou
wilt, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he said, I will not
give thee the inheritance of my fathers.
21.7 And Jezabel his wife said to him, Dost thou now
thus act the king over Israel? arise, and eat bread, and be thine own
[master], and I will give thee the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite.
21.8 And she wrote a letter in the name of Achaab,
and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders, and to
the freemen who dwelt with Nabuthai
21.9 And it was written in the letters, saying, Keep a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.
21.10 And set two men, sons of transgressors, before him,
and let them testify against him, saying, He blessed God and the king:
and let them lead him forth, and stone him, and let them die.
21.11 And the men of his city, the elders, and the nobles
who dwelt in his city, did as Jezabel sent to them, and as it had been
written in the letters which she sent to them.
21.12 And they proclaimed a fast, and set Nebuthai in a chief place among the people.
21.13 And two men, sons of transgressors, came in, and sat
opposite him, and bore witness against him, saying, Thou hast blessed
God and the king. And they led him forth out of the city, and stoned
him with stones, and he died.
21.14 And they sent to Jezabel, saying, Nabuthai is stoned, and is dead.
21.15 And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard [it], that
she said to Achaab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Nabuthai
the Jezraelite, who would not sell it to thee: for Nebuthai is not
alive, for he is dead.
21.16 And it came to pass, when Achaab heard that Nabuthai
the Jezraelite was dead, that he rent his garments, and put on
sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Achaab arose and went
down to the vineyard of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, to take possession of
it.
21.17 And the Lord spoke to Eliu the Thesbite, saying,
21.18 Arise, and go down to meet Achaab king of Israel, who
is in Samaria, for he [is] in the vineyard of Nabuthai, for he has gone
down thither to take possession of it.
21.19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the
Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast slain and taken possession, therefore thus
saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked
the blood of Nabuthai, there shall the dogs lick thy blood; and the
harlots shall wash themselves in thy blood.
21.20 And Achaab said to Eliu, Hast thou found me, mine
enemy? and he said, I have found [thee]: because thou hast wickedly
sold thyself t work evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to
anger;
21.21 behold, I bring evil upon thee: and I will kindle a
fire after thee, and I will utterly destroy every male of Achaab, and
him that is shut up and him that is left in Israel.
21.22 And I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nabat, and as the house of Baasa son of Achia, because of
the provocations wherewith thou hast provoked [me], and caused Israel
to sin.
21.23 And the Lord spoke of Jezabel, saying, The dogs shall devour her within the fortification of Jezrael.
21.24 Him that is dead of Achaab in the city shall the dogs
eat, and him that is dead of him in the field shall the birds of the
sky eat.
21.25 But Achaab [did] wickedly, in that he sold himself to
do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his wife Jezabel
led him astray.
21.26 And he did very abominably in following after the
abominations, according to all that the Amorite did, whom the Lord
utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.
21.27 And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with
sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and rent his garment,
and girt sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also
in the day that he smote Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.
21.28 And the word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Eliu concerning Achaab, and the Lord said,
21.29 Hast thou seen how Achaab has been pricked [to the
heart] before me? I will not bring on the evil in his days, but in his
son's days will I bring on the evil.
22.1 And he rested three years, and there was no war between Syria and Israel.
22.2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Josaphat king of Juda went down to the king of Israel.
22.3 And the king of Israel said to his servants,
Know ye that Remmath Galaad [is] ours, and we are slow to take it out
of the hand of the king of Syria?
22.4 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, Wilt thou go up with us to Remmath Galaad to battle?
22.5 And Josaphat said, As I [am], so [art] thou
also; as my people, [so is] thy people; as my horses, [so are] thy
horses. And Josaphat king of Juda said to the king of Israel, Enquire,
I pray thee, of the Lord to-day.
22.6 And the king of Israel gathered all the prophets
together, about four hundred men; and the king said to them, Shall I go
up to Remmath Galaad to battle, or shall I forbear? and they said, Go
up, and the Lord will surely give [it] into the hands of the king.
22.7 And Josaphat said to the king of Israel, Is
there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may enquire of the Lord
by him?
22.8 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat, There
is one man here [for us] to enquire of the Lord by; but I hate him, for
he does not speak good of me, but only evil; Michaias son of Jemblaa.
And Josaphat king of Juda said, Let not the king say so.
22.9 And the king of Israel called a eunuch and said, [Bring hither] quickly Michaias son of Jemblaa.
22.10 And the king of Israel and Josaphat king of Juda sat,
each on his throne, armed in the gates of Samaria; and all the prophets
prophesied before them.
22.11 And Sedekias son of Chanaan made for himself iron
horns, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria,
until it be consumed.
22.12 And all the prophets prophesied in like manner,
saying, Go up to Remmath Galaad, and [the thing] shall prosper, and the
Lord shall deliver it and the king of Syria into thine hands.
22.13 And the messenger that went to call Michaias spoke to
him, saying, Behold now, all the prophets speak with one mouth good
concerning the king, let now thy words be like the words of one of
them, and speak good things.
22.14 And Michaias said, [As] the Lord lives, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.
22.15 And he came to the king: and the king said to him,
Michaias, shall I go up to Remmath Galaad to battle, or shall I
forbear? and he said, Go up, and the Lord shall deliver it into the
hand of the king.
22.16 And the king said to him, How often shall I adjure thee, that thou speak to me truth in the name of the Lord?
22.17 And he said, Not so. I saw all Israel scattered on
the mountains as a flock without a shepherd: and the Lord said, [Is]
not God lord of these? let each one return to his home in peace.
22.18 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda,
Did I not say to thee that this man does not prophesy good to me, for
[he speaks] nothing but evil?
22.19 And Michaias said, Not so, [it is] not I: hear the
word of the Lord; [it is] not so. I saw the God of Israel sitting on
his throne, and all the host of heaven stood about him on his right
hand and on his left.
22.20 And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achaab king of
Israel, that he may go up and fall in Remmath Galaad? and one spoke one
way, and another another way.
22.21 And there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him.
22.22 And the Lord said to him, Whereby? And he said, I
will go forth, and will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And he said, Thou shalt deceive him, yea, and shalt prevail:
go forth, and do so.
22.23 And now, behold, the Lord has put a false spirit in
the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil
against thee.
22.24 And Sedekias the son of Chanaan came near and smote
Michaias on the cheek, and said, What sort of a spirit of the Lord
[has] spoken in thee?
22.25 And Michaias said, Behold, thou shalt see in that
day, when thou shalt go into an innermost chamber to hide thyself there.
22.26 And the king of Israel said, Take Michaias, and convey him away to Semer the keeper of the city;
22.27 and tell Joas the king's son to put this [fellow] in
prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of
affliction until I return in peace.
22.28 And Michaias said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.
22.29 So the king of Israel went up, and Josaphat king of Juda with him to Remmath Galaad.
22.30 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat king of Juda,
I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle, and do thou put on
my raiment.. So the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the
battle.
22.31 And the king of Syria had charged the thirty-two
captains of his chariots, saying, Fight not [against] small or great,
but against the king of Israel only.
22.32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots saw Josaphat king of Juda, that they said, this seems [to be]
the king of Israel. And they compassed him about to fight [against]
him; and Josaphat cried out.
22.33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the
chariots saw that this was not the king of Israel, that they returned
from him.
22.34 And one drew a bow with a good aim, and smote the
king of Israel between the lungs and the breast-plate: and he said to
his charioteer, Turn thine hands, and carry me away out of the battle,
for I am wounded.
22.35 And the war was turned in that day, and the king was
standing on the chariot, against Syria from morning till evening; and
he shed the blood out of his wound, into the bottom of the chariot, and
died at even, and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the
chariot.
22.36 And the herald of the army stood at sunset, saying, Let every man go to his own city and his own land,
22.37 for the king is dead. And they came to Samaria, and buried the king in Samaria.
22.38 And they washed the chariot at the fountain of
Samaria; and the swine and the dogs licked up the blood, and the
harlots washed themselves in the blood, according to the word of the
Lord which he spoke.
22.39 And the rest of the acts of Achaab, and all that he
did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities which he
built, behold, [are] not these things written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22.40 And Achaab slept with his fathers, and Ochozias his son reigned in his stead.
22.41 And Josaphat the son of Asa reigned over Juda: in the
fourth year of Achaab king of Israel began Josaphat to reign.
22.42 Thirty and five years old [was he] when he began to
reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem; and his
mother's name [was] Azuba daughter of Salai.
22.43 (22.43a) And he walked in all the way of Asa his
father: he turned not from it, even from doing that which was right in
the eyes of the Lord.
22.44 (22.43b) Only he took not away [any] of the high
places: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high
places.
22.45 (22.44) And Josaphat was at peace with the king of Israel.
22.46 (22.45) And the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his
mighty deeds, whatever he did, behold, [are] not these things written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?
22.47 (22.46) [vide]
22.48 (22.47) [vide]
22.49 (22.48) [vide]
22.50 (22.49) [vide]
22.51 (22.50) And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was
buried by his fathers in the city of David his father, and Joram his
son reigned in his stead.
22.52 (22.51) And Ochozias son of Achaab reigned over
Israel in Samaria: in the seventeenth year of Josaphat king of Juda,
Ochozias son of Achaab reigned over Israel in Samaria two years.
22.53 (22.52) And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the Lord, and walked in the way of Achaab his father, and in the way
of Jezabel his mother, and in the sins of the house of Jeroboam the son
of Nabat, who caused Israel to sin.
22.54 (22.53) And he served Baalim, and worshipped them,
and provoked the Lord God of Israel, according to all that had been
done before him.