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king james study

1KI-1:1 Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him
with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1KI-1:2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord
the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her
cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

1KI-1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel,
and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1KI-1:4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and
ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
1KI-1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be
king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before
him.
1KI-1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast
thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his mother] bare him
after Absalom.
1KI-1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the
priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].
1KI-1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the
prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which [belonged] to David,
were not with Adonijah.
1KI-1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of
Zoheleth, which [is] by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons,
and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
1KI-1:10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon
his brother, he called not.
1KI-1:11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying,
Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our
lord knoweth [it] not?
1KI-1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that
thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
1KI-1:13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not
thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon
thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth
Adonijah reign?
1KI-1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come
in after thee, and confirm thy words.
1KI-1:15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king
was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
1KI-1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king
said, What wouldest thou?
1KI-1:17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God
unto thine handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne.
1KI-1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou
knowest [it] not:
1KI-1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and
hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the
captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
1KI-1:20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are] upon thee,
that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king
after him.
1KI-1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep
with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1KI-1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also
came in.
1KI-1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when
he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face
to the ground.
1KI-1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall
reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
1KI-1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and
sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of
the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him,
and say, God save king Adonijah.
1KI-1:26 But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
1KI-1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed
[it] unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after
him?
1KI-1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came
into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
1KI-1:29 And the king sware, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that hath
redeemed my soul out of all distress,
1KI-1:30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my
throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
1KI-1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence
to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
1KI-1:32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.
1KI-1:33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your
lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down
to Gihon:
1KI-1:34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there
king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king
Solomon.
1KI-1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my
throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler
over Israel and over Judah.
1KI-1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen:
the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].
1KI-1:37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with
Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
1KI-1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused
Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1KI-1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and
anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save
king Solomon.
1KI-1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with
pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of
them.
1KI-1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with him heard [it] as
they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet,
he said, Wherefore [is this] noise of the city being in an uproar?
1KI-1:42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the
priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou [art] a valiant
man, and bringest good tidings.
1KI-1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king
David hath made Solomon king.
1KI-1:44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:
1KI-1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king
in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang
again. This [is] the noise that ye have heard.
1KI-1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
1KI-1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David,
saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne
greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
1KI-1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel,
which hath given [one] to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing
[it].
1KI-1:49 And all the guests that [were] with Adonijah were afraid, and rose
up, and went every man his way.
1KI-1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and
caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1KI-1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king
Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let
king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the
sword.
1KI-1:52 And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall
not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him,
he shall die.
1KI-1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And
he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to
thine house.
1KI-2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
Solomon his son, saying,
1KI-2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show
thyself a man;
1KI-2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep
his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as
it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou
doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
1KI-2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me,
saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth
with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said
he) a man on the throne of Israel.
1KI-2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me,
[and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the
son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood
of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that [was] about his
loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.
1KI-2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go
down to the grave in peace.
1KI-2:7 But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let
them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled
because of Absalom thy brother.
1KI-2:8 And, behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I
went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by
the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1KI-2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise man, and
knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down
to the grave with blood.
1KI-2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David.
1KI-2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty years:
seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in
Jerusalem.
1KI-2:12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his
kingdom was established greatly.
1KI-2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of
Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
1KI-2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said,
Say on.
1KI-2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and [that] all
Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is
turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
1KI-2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto
him, Say on.
1KI-2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will
not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
1KI-2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
1KI-2:19 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for
Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and
sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and
she sat on his right hand.
1KI-2:20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; [I pray thee],
say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not
say thee nay.
1KI-2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy
brother to wife.
1KI-2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost
thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also;
for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and
for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
1KI-2:23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and
more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
1KI-2:24 Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and
set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he
promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
1KI-2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada;
and he fell upon him that he died.
1KI-2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth,
unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will not at this
time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before
David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father
was afflicted.
1KI-2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that
he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of
Eli in Shiloh.
1KI-2:28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah,
though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the
LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1KI-2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle
of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
1KI-2:30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him,
Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And
Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he
answered me.
1KI-2:31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him,
and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed,
from me, and from the house of my father.
1KI-2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon
two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my
father David not knowing [thereof, to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of
the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

1KI-2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon
the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his
house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
1KI-2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew
him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
1KI-2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the
host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
1KI-2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build
thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any
whither.
1KI-2:37 For it shall be, [that] on the day thou goest out, and passest over
the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy
blood shall be upon thine own head.
1KI-2:38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying [is] good: as my lord the
king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many
days.
1KI-2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the
servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they
told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants [be] in Gath.
1KI-2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to
seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
1KI-2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath,
and was come again.
1KI-2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I
not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for
a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that
thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word [that] I have heard
[is] good.
1KI-2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
commandment that I have charged thee with?
1KI-2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness
which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore
the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
1KI-2:45 And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of David shall
be established before the LORD for ever.
1KI-2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out,
and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand
of Solomon.
1KI-3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made
an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of
Jerusalem round about.
1KI-3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house
built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1KI-3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his
father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
1KI-3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that
altar.
1KI-3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God
said, Ask what I shall give thee.
1KI-3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father
great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in
righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for
him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne,
as [it is] this day.
1KI-3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of
David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or
come in.
1KI-3:8 And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou hast
chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
1KI-3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy
people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this
thy so great a people?
1KI-3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1KI-3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast
not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor
hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding
to discern judgment;
1KI-3:12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a
wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee,
neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
1KI-3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both
riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto
thee all thy days.
1KI-3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
1KI-3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] a dream. And he came to
Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered
up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his
servants.
1KI-3:16 Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto the king, and
stood before him.
1KI-3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one
house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
1KI-3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that
this woman was delivered also: and we [were] together; [there was] no stranger
with us in the house, save we two in the house.
1KI-3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
1KI-3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while
thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my
bosom.
1KI-3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was
dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son,
which I did bear.
1KI-3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living [is] my son, and the
dead [is] thy son. And this said, No; but the dead [is] thy son, and the
living [is] my son. Thus they spake before the king.
1KI-3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son that liveth, and
thy son [is] the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son [is] the dead,
and my son [is] the living.
1KI-3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before
the king.
1KI-3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to
the one, and half to the other.
1KI-3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto the king, for
her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living
child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor
thine, [but] divide [it].
1KI-3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in
no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
1KI-3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and
they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to do
judgment.
1KI-4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
1KI-4:2 And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok
the priest,
1KI-4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud, the recorder.
1KI-4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and Zadok and
Abiathar [were] the priests:
1KI-4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers; and Zabud the
son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king's friend:
1KI-4:6 And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda
[was] over the tribute.
1KI-4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided
victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made
provision.
1KI-4:8 And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
1KI-4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and
Elonbethhanan:
1KI-4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the
land of Hepher:
1KI-4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the
daughter of Solomon to wife:
1KI-4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and
all Bethshean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to
Abelmeholah, [even] unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam:
1KI-4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the towns of
Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the
region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and
brazen bars:
1KI-4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:
1KI-4:15 Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of
Solomon to wife:
1KI-4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:
1KI-4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
1KI-4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
1KI-4:19 Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in] the
country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and [he was]
the only officer which [was] in the land.
1KI-4:20 Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
1KI-4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land
of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and
served Solomon all the days of his life.
1KI-4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
flour, and threescore measures of meal,
1KI-4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred
sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1KI-4:24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river,
from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he
had peace on all sides round about him.
1KI-4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and
under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
1KI-4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen.
1KI-4:27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all
that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked
nothing.
1KI-4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they
unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.
1KI-4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
1KI-4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the
east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1KI-4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman,
and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations
round about.
1KI-4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
and five.
1KI-4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even
unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and
of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1KI-4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all
kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
1KI-5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had
heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was
ever a lover of David.
1KI-5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1KI-5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto
the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side,
until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1KI-5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, [so that
there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
1KI-5:5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my
God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set
upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
1KI-5:6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give
hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou
knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like
unto the Sidonians.
1KI-5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day, which hath given
unto David a wise son over this great people.
1KI-5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which
thou sentest to me for: [and] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of
cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
1KI-5:9 My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I
will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me,
and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive [them]: and
thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
1KI-5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all
his desire.
1KI-5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food
to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram
year by year.
1KI-5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was
peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
1KI-5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was
thirty thousand men.
1KI-5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a
month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and Adoniram [was] over
the levy.
1KI-5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and
fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
1KI-5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which [were] over the work,
three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in
the work.
1KI-5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly
stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
1KI-5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them], and the
stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
1KI-6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month,
that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1KI-6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and
the height thereof thirty cubits.
1KI-6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the
length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was]
the breadth thereof before the house.
1KI-6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
1KI-6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,
[against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the
oracle: and he made chambers round about:
1KI-6:6 The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was]
six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the
wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should
not be fastened in the walls of the house.
1KI-6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready
before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax [nor]
any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1KI-6:8 The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house:
and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the
middle into the third.
1KI-6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with
beams and boards of cedar.
1KI-6:10 And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits
high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.
1KI-6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
1KI-6:12 [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt
walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to
walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David
thy father:
1KI-6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake
my people Israel.
1KI-6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1KI-6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar,
both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: [and] he covered
[them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks
of fir.
1KI-6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor
and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even]
for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].
1KI-6:17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits
[long].
1KI-6:18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open
flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
1KI-6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark
of the covenant of the LORD.
1KI-6:20 And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he
overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar.
1KI-6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a
partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with
gold.
1KI-6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all
the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with
gold.
1KI-6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive tree, [each]
ten cubits high.
1KI-6:24 And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits
the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the
uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits.
1KI-6:25 And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims [were] of
one measure and one size.
1KI-6:26 The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of
the other cherub.
1KI-6:27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched
forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the
[one] wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their
wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
1KI-6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
1KI-6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
1KI-6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and
without.
1KI-6:31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors [of] olive tree:
the lintel [and] side posts [were] a fifth part [of the wall].
1KI-6:32 The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them
carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them]
with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
1KI-6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of] olive tree, a
fourth part [of the wall].
1KI-6:34 And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door
[were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding.
1KI-6:35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers:
and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
1KI-6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a
row of cedar beams.
1KI-6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid,
in the month Zif:
1KI-6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the eighth
month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according
to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1KI-7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house.
1KI-7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof
[was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height
thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon
the pillars.
1KI-7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on
forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
1KI-7:4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] against
light [in] three ranks.
1KI-7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and
light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
1KI-7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty
cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before
them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.
1KI-7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the
porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor
to the other.
1KI-7:8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch,
[which] was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's
daughter, whom he had taken [to wife], like unto this porch.
1KI-7:9 All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed
stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the
coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.
1KI-7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones, stones
of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1KI-7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones,
and cedars.
1KI-7:12 And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed
stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the
LORD, and for the porch of the house.
1KI-7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1KI-7:14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father
[was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king
Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1KI-7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece:
and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
1KI-7:16 And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of
the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height
of the other chapiter [was] five cubits:
1KI-7:17 [And] nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the
chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one
chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
1KI-7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one
network, to cover the chapiters that [were] upon the top, with pomegranates:
and so did he for the other chapiter.
1KI-7:19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of
lily work in the porch, four cubits.
1KI-7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars [had pomegranates] also
above, over against the belly which [was] by the network: and the pomegranates
[were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
1KI-7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up
the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left
pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
1KI-7:22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of
the pillars finished.
1KI-7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other:
[it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round about.
1KI-7:24 And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops compassing
it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in
two rows, when it was cast.
1KI-7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking
toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder
parts [were] inward.
1KI-7:26 And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought
like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand
baths.
1KI-7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one
base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
1KI-7:28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had borders,
and the borders [were] between the ledges:
1KI-7:29 And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions,
oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath
the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work.
1KI-7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the
four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were] undersetters
molten, at the side of every addition.
1KI-7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but
the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and an
half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their borders,
foursquare, not round.
1KI-7:32 And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees of the
wheels [were joined] to the base: and the height of a wheel [was] a cubit and
half a cubit.
1KI-7:33 And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot wheel:
their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, [were]
all molten.
1KI-7:34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of one base:
[and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself.
1KI-7:35 And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of half a
cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders
thereof [were] of the same.
1KI-7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof,
he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of
every one, and additions round about.
1KI-7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one
casting, one measure, [and] one size.
1KI-7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths:
[and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one
laver.
1KI-7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on
the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house
eastward over against the south.
1KI-7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram
made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of
the LORD:
1KI-7:41 The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the chapiters that [were] on
the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of
the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars;
1KI-7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, [even] two rows
of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that
[were] upon the pillars;
1KI-7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
1KI-7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
1KI-7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these
vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of]
bright brass.
1KI-7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
between Succoth and Zarthan.
1KI-7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were
exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
1KI-7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of
the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the showbread
[was],
1KI-7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right [side], and
five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the
tongs [of] gold,
1KI-7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and
the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of
the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the house, [to
wit], of the temple.
1KI-7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of
the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among
the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1KI-8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon
in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out
of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
1KI-8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at
the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.
1KI-8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
1KI-8:4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, even
those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
1KI-8:5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled unto him, [were] with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and
oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
1KI-8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto
his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place, even] under
the wings of the cherubims.
1KI-8:7 For the cherubims spread forth [their] two wings over the place of
the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
1KI-8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen
out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and
there they are unto this day.
1KI-8:9 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which
Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of
Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1KI-8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
[place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
1KI-8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the
cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
1KI-8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness.
1KI-8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for
thee to abide in for ever.
1KI-8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation
of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
1KI-8:15 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which spake with
his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled [it], saying,

1KI-8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I
chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name
might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
1KI-8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel.
1KI-8:18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine
heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine
heart.
1KI-8:19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall
come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
1KI-8:20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen
up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the
LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

1KI-8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein [is] the covenant
of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the
land of Egypt.
1KI-8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of
all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
1KI-8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee, in
heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy
servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
1KI-8:24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst
him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it] with thine
hand, as [it is] this day.
1KI-8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my
sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their
way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1KI-8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified,
which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
1KI-8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and
heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have
builded?
1KI-8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which
thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
1KI-8:29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even]
toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou
mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

1KI-8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy
people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven
thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
1KI-8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon
him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

1KI-8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning
the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to
give him according to his righteousness.
1KI-8:33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because
they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy
name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1KI-8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
1KI-8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and
turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
1KI-8:36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and
of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should
walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an
inheritance.
1KI-8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in
the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];
1KI-8:38 What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by any man, [or] by
all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart,
and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1KI-8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do,
and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for
thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
1KI-8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land
which thou gavest unto our fathers.
1KI-8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel,
but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
1KI-8:42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and
of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
1KI-8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that
the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy
name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may know that
this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
1KI-8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou
hast chosen, and [toward] the house that I have built for thy name:
1KI-8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause.
1KI-8:46 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,)
and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
1KI-8:47 [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were
carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of
them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done
perversely, we have committed wickedness;
1KI-8:48 And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their
soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto
thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which
thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
1KI-8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
1KI-8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their
transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them
compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion
on them:
1KI-8:51 For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
1KI-8:52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant,
and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all
that they call for unto thee.
1KI-8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth,
[to be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant,
when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
1KI-8:54 And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an end of praying all
this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of
the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
1KI-8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud
voice, saying,
1KI-8:56 Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his
good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
1KI-8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not
leave us, nor forsake us:
1KI-8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways,
and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he
commanded our fathers.
1KI-8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before
the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the
cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the
matter shall require:
1KI-8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD [is] God,
[and that there is] none else.
1KI-8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk
in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
1KI-8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the
LORD.
1KI-8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered
unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty
thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house
of the LORD.
1KI-8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that [was]
before the house of the LORD for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that
[was] before the LORD [was] too little to receive the burnt offerings, and
meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
1KI-8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a
great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt,
before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen days.
1KI-8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the
king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness
that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
1KI-9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the
house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was
pleased to do,
1KI-9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared
unto him at Gibeon.
1KI-9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which
thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart
shall be there perpetually.
1KI-9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
1KI-9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever,
as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
upon the throne of Israel.
1KI-9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children,
and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before
you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
1KI-9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them;
and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my
sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
1KI-9:8 And at this house, [which] is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD
done thus unto this land, and to this house?
1KI-9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon
other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD
brought upon them all this evil.
1KI-9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had
built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
1KI-9:11 ([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king
Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
1KI-9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him; and they pleased him not.
1KI-9:13 And he said, What cities [are] these which thou hast given me, my
brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
1KI-9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1KI-9:15 And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for
to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of
Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1KI-9:16 [For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt
it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it
[for] a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1KI-9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
1KI-9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
1KI-9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his
chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build
in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
1KI-9:20 [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the children of
Israel,
1KI-9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
1KI-9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they
[were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and
rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
1KI-9:23 These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over Solomon's
work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in
the work.
1KI-9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her
house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
1KI-9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and
peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt
incense upon the altar that [was] before the LORD. So he finished the house.
1KI-9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which [is]
beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
1KI-9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge
of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1KI-9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred
and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.
1KI-10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
1KI-10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that
bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to
Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
1KI-10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any] thing
hid from the king, which he told her not.
1KI-10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the
house that he had built,
1KI-10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his
ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more
spirit in her.
1KI-10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine
own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
1KI-10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had
seen [it]: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity
exceedeth the fame which I heard.
1KI-10:8 Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom.
1KI-10:9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on
the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made
he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
1KI-10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of
spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such
abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1KI-10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought
in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
1KI-10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there
came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
1KI-10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
1KI-10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
1KI-10:15 Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the
spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the
country.
1KI-10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six
hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.
1KI-10:17 And [he made] three hundred shields [of] beaten gold; three pound
of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest
of Lebanon.
1KI-10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it
with the best gold.
1KI-10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was] round
behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the place of the seat, and
two lions stood beside the stays.
1KI-10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon
the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
1KI-10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were
of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
1KI-10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram:
once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver,
ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1KI-10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and
for wisdom.
1KI-10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God
had put in his heart.
1KI-10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
1KI-10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he
bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
1KI-10:27 And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance.
1KI-10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
1KI-10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
[shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the
kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out
by their means.
1KI-11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians,
[and] Hittites;
1KI-11:2 Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD said unto the children of
Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: [for]
surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto
these in love.
1KI-11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
1KI-11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned
away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD
his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.
1KI-11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and
after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1KI-11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully
after the LORD, as [did] David his father.
1KI-11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of
Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination
of the children of Ammon.
1KI-11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense
and sacrificed unto their gods.
1KI-11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned
from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
1KI-11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
1KI-11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of
thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to
thy servant.
1KI-11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
sake: [but] I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
1KI-11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one
tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I
have chosen.
1KI-11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in Edom.
1KI-11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain
of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in
Edom;
1KI-11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had
cut off every male in Edom:)
1KI-11:17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants
with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child.
1KI-11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt;
which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
1KI-11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he
gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

1KI-11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the
sons of Pharaoh.
1KI-11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,
and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me
depart, that I may go to mine own country.
1KI-11:22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me,
that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered,
Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
1KI-11:23 And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son of
Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1KI-11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when
David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and
reigned in Damascus.
1KI-11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside
the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

1KI-11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's
servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up
[his] hand against the king.
1KI-11:27 And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the
king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David
his father.
1KI-11:28 And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and Solomon
seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the
charge of the house of Joseph.
1KI-11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he
had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in the field:
1KI-11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it
[in] twelve pieces:
1KI-11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of
Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
1KI-11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel:)
1KI-11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth
the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the
god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do [that
which is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as
[did] David his father.
1KI-11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I
will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,
whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
1KI-11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
unto thee, [even] ten tribes.
1KI-11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to
put my name there.
1KI-11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that
thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
1KI-11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee,
and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my
statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with
thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel
unto thee.
1KI-11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
1KI-11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death
of Solomon.
1KI-11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his
wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
1KI-11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
[was] forty years.
1KI-11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to
make him king.
1KI-12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in
Egypt, heard [of it], (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and
Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
1KI-12:3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation
of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
1KI-12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the
grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us,
lighter, and we will serve thee.
1KI-12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days, then come again
to me. And the people departed.
1KI-12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may
answer this people?
1KI-12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this
people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to
them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
1KI-12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, [and] which
stood before him:
1KI-12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this
people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put
upon us lighter?
1KI-12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him,
saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying,
Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter unto us; thus shalt
thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's
loins.
1KI-12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will
add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.
1KI-12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as
the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
1KI-12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's
counsel that they gave him;
1KI-12:14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My
father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father [also]
chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1KI-12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was
from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by
Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1KI-12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the
people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have
we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine
own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
1KI-12:17 But [as for] the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of
Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1KI-12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the tribute; and all
Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made
speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
1KI-12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1KI-12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come
again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king
over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the
tribe of Judah only.
1KI-12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen
men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
1KI-12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
1KI-12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto
all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

1KI-12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing
is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to
depart, according to the word of the LORD.
1KI-12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein;
and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
1KI-12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the
house of David:
1KI-12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord,
[even] unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to
Rehoboam king of Judah.
1KI-12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves [of] gold, and
said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods,
O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
1KI-12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
1KI-12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship]
before the one, [even] unto Dan.
1KI-12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest
of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
1KI-12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Judah, and he offered upon
the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made:
and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
1KI-12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of
his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he
offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
1KI-13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the
LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
1KI-13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O
altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the
house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of
the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt
upon thee.
1KI-13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which
the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that
[are] upon it shall be poured out.
1KI-13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man
of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his
hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth
against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
1KI-13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
1KI-13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the
face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me
again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored
him again, and became as [it was] before.
1KI-13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and
refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
1KI-13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half
thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink
water in this place:
1KI-13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no
bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
1KI-13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
Bethel.
1KI-13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and
told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the
words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
1KI-13:12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had
seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
1KI-13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him
the ass: and he rode thereon,
1KI-13:14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak:
and he said unto him, [Art] thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he
said, I [am].
1KI-13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
1KI-13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:
neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1KI-13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no
bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

1KI-13:18 He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and an angel
spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into
thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
1KI-13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank
water.
1KI-13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
1KI-13:21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and
hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
1KI-13:22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place,
of the which [the LORD] did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy
carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1KI-13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, [to wit], for the prophet whom he had
brought back.
1KI-13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and
his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood
by the carcase.
1KI-13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way,
and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told [it] in the city
where the old prophet dwelt.
1KI-13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
[thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word
of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath
torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake
unto him.
1KI-13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
saddled [him].
1KI-13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and
the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn
the ass.
1KI-13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it
upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to
mourn and to bury him.
1KI-13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over
him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
1KI-13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of
God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
1KI-13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the
altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which [are] in
the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
1KI-13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made
again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would,
he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.
1KI-13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut
[it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the earth.
1KI-14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1KI-14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to
Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should
be] king over this people.
1KI-14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey,
and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
1KI-14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
reason of his age.
1KI-14:5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh
to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou
say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign
herself [to be] another [woman].
1KI-14:6 And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why
feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy
[tidings].
1KI-14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people
Israel,
1KI-14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee:
and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments,
and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in
mine eyes;
1KI-14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast
gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and
hast cast me behind thy back:
1KI-14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, [and] him
that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the
house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
1KI-14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath
spoken [it].
1KI-14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and] when thy
feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1KI-14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found [some] good
thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
1KI-14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall
cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
1KI-14:15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water,
and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their
fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their
groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
1KI-14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who
did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
1KI-14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and]
when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
1KI-14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to
the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
prophet.
1KI-14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel.
1KI-14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years:
and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was]
forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years
in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an
Ammonitess.
1KI-14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him
to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their
fathers had done.
1KI-14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on
every high hill, and under every green tree.
1KI-14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according
to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel.
1KI-14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that]
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
1KI-14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the
shields of gold which Solomon had made.
1KI-14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed
[them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the
king's house.
1KI-14:28 And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the LORD,
that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
1KI-14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1KI-14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days.
1KI-14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an
Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned
Abijam over Judah.
1KI-15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1KI-15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart
of David his father.
1KI-15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp
in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
1KI-15:5 Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD,
and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of
his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1KI-15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his
life.
1KI-15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was
war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1KI-15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city
of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa
over Judah.
1KI-15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1KI-15:11 And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, as
[did] David his father.
1KI-15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made.
1KI-15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from [being]
queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol,
and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.
1KI-15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
perfect with the LORD all his days.
1KI-15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and
the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver,
and gold, and vessels.
1KI-15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days.
1KI-15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
1KI-15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold [that were] left in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and
delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to
Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at
Damascus, saying,
1KI-15:19 [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my father
and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold;
come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from
me.
1KI-15:20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the
hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and
Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1KI-15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [thereof], that he left off
building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
1KI-15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none [was]
exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof,
wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin,
and Mizpah.
1KI-15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he
did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he
was diseased in his feet.
1KI-15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
1KI-15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1KI-15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the
Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
1KI-15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him,
and reigned in his stead.
1KI-15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote all the house
of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed
him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
Ahijah the Shilonite:
1KI-15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made
Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to
anger.
1KI-15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1KI-15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days.
1KI-15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
1KI-15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1KI-16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against
Baasha, saying,
1KI-16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince
over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast
made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
1KI-16:3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity
of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
1KI-16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
1KI-16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1KI-16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah
his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the
word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil
that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work
of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
1KI-16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son
of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
1KI-16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired
against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza
steward of [his] house in Tirzah.
1KI-16:10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and
seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
1KI-16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on
his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that
pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
1KI-16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
1KI-16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which
they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God
of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1KI-16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1KI-16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign
seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped against Gibbethon, which
[belonged] to the Philistines.
1KI-16:16 And the people [that were] encamped heard say, Zimri hath
conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the
captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
1KI-16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they
besieged Tirzah.
1KI-16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that
he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over
him with fire, and died,
1KI-16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the
LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make
Israel to sin.
1KI-16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1KI-16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the
people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed
Omri.
1KI-16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that
followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
1KI-16:23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to
reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
1KI-16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver,
and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after
the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
1KI-16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than
all that [were] before him.
1KI-16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in
his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to
anger with their vanities.
1KI-16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that
he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
1KI-16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab
his son reigned in his stead.
1KI-16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab
the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over
Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
1KI-16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above
all that [were] before him.
1KI-16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to
walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel
the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and
worshipped him.
1KI-16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he
had built in Samaria.
1KI-16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of
Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
1KI-16:34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in
his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by
Joshua the son of Nun.
1KI-17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead,
said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there
shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
1KI-17:2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
1KI-17:3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the
brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
1KI-17:4 And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
1KI-17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went
and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
1KI-17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread
and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
1KI-17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because
there had been no rain in the land.
1KI-17:8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
1KI-17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell
there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
1KI-17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of
the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks: and he
called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel,
that I may drink.
1KI-17:11 And as she was going to fetch [it], he called to her, and said,
Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
1KI-17:12 And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but
an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I
[am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son,
that we may eat it, and die.
1KI-17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou hast said:
but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after
make for thee and for thy son.
1KI-17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD
sendeth rain upon the earth.
1KI-17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she,
and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
1KI-17:16 [And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil
fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
1KI-17:17 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of the
woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore,
that there was no breath left in him.
1KI-17:18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man
of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my
son?
1KI-17:19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her
bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his
own bed.
1KI-17:20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also
brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
1KI-17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto
the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come
into him again.
1KI-17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child
came into him again, and he revived.
1KI-17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy
son liveth.
1KI-17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou [art] a
man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is] truth.
1KI-18:1 And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD
came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I
will send rain upon the earth.
1KI-18:2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And [there was] a sore
famine in Samaria.
1KI-18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his] house.
(Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
1KI-18:4 For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that
Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed
them with bread and water.)
1KI-18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of
water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses
and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
1KI-18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab
went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1KI-18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew
him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah?
1KI-18:8 And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is
here].
1KI-18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy
servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
1KI-18:10 [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,
whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not
[there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
1KI-18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
1KI-18:12 And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from thee, that
the spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I
come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy
servant fear the LORD from my youth.
1KI-18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets
of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1KI-18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]:
and he shall slay me.
1KI-18:15 And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.
1KI-18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet
Elijah.
1KI-18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
[Art] thou he that troubleth Israel?
1KI-18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy
father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and
thou hast followed Baalim.
1KI-18:19 Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Israel unto mount
Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of
the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
1KI-18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
prophets together unto mount Carmel.
1KI-18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
between two opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow him: but if Baal, [then]
follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
1KI-18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain a
prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets [are] four hundred and fifty men.
1KI-18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one
bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on wood, and put no
fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay [it] on wood, and
put no fire [under]:
1KI-18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name
of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the
people answered and said, It is well spoken.
1KI-18:25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock
for yourselves, and dress [it] first; for ye [are] many; and call on the name
of your gods, but put no fire [under].
1KI-18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed
[it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O
Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered. And they
leaped upon the altar which was made.
1KI-18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry
aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in
a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
1KI-18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with
knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
1KI-18:29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied
until the [time] of the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that [there was]
neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
1KI-18:30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the
people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD [that was]
broken down.
1KI-18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the
tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying,
Israel shall be thy name:
1KI-18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and
he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of
seed.
1KI-18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and
laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour [it]
on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
1KI-18:34 And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did [it] the second
time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they did [it] the third time.
1KI-18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
also with water.
1KI-18:36 And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening]
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham,
Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art] God in Israel,
and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy
word.
1KI-18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art]
the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again.
1KI-18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was]
in the trench.
1KI-18:39 And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their faces: and
they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.
1KI-18:40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one
of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook
Kishon, and slew them there.
1KI-18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for [there
is] a sound of abundance of rain.
1KI-18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top
of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between
his knees,
1KI-18:43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he
went up, and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go again seven
times.
1KI-18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said,
Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot], and get thee down, that the rain
stop thee not.
1KI-18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black
with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
Jezreel.
1KI-18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins,
and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
1KI-19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he
had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1KI-19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods
do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them
by to morrow about this time.
1KI-19:3 And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life, and came to
Beersheba, which [belongeth] to Judah, and left his servant there.
1KI-19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came
and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might
die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not
better than my fathers.
1KI-19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel
touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.
1KI-19:6 And he looked, and, behold, [there was] a cake baken on the coals,
and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down
again.
1KI-19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched
him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great for thee.
1KI-19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of
that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
1KI-19:9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the
word of the LORD [came] to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here,
Elijah?
1KI-19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts:
for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left;
and they seek my life, to take it away.
1KI-19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.
And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was]
not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in
the earthquake:
1KI-19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the
fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1KI-19:13 And it was [so], when Elijah heard [it] that he wrapped his face in
his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And,
behold, [there came] a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

1KI-19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts:
because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left;
and they seek my life, to take it away.
1KI-19:15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness
of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael [to be] king over Syria:
1KI-19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king over
Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint [to be]
prophet in thy room.
1KI-19:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the sword of
Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall
Elisha slay.
1KI-19:18 Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which
have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
1KI-19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who
[was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the
twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
1KI-19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I
pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow thee. And he
said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
1KI-19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew
them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto
the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and
ministered unto him.
1KI-20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and
[there were] thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he
went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
1KI-20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and
said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
1KI-20:3 Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy children,
[even] the goodliest, [are] mine.
1KI-20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according
to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.
1KI-20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad,
saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy
silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
1KI-20:6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and
they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall
be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put [it] in their
hand, and take [it] away.
1KI-20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said,
Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me
for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I
denied him not.
1KI-20:8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not
[unto him], nor consent.
1KI-20:9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the
king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but
this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word
again.
1KI-20:10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and
more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the
people that follow me.
1KI-20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let not him
that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that putteth it off.
1KI-20:12 And it came to pass, when [Benhadad] heard this message, as he
[was] drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his
servants, Set [yourselves in array]. And they set [themselves in array]
against the city.
1KI-20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying,
Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will
deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.

1KI-20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, [Even] by
the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order
the battle? And he answered, Thou.
1KI-20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and
they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the
people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven thousand.
1KI-20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad [was] drinking himself
drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped
him.
1KI-20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first;
and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of
Samaria.
1KI-20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive;
or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
1KI-20:19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the
city, and the army which followed them.
1KI-20:20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel
pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the
horsemen.
1KI-20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots,
and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1KI-20:22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go,
strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of
the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
1KI-20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods
[are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us
fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
1KI-20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place,
and put captains in their rooms:
1KI-20:25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse
for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the
plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto
their voice, and did so.
1KI-20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad
numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1KI-20:27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and
went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two
little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
1KI-20:28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and
said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of
the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all
this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
1KI-20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And [so] it
was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel
slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1KI-20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and [there] a wall fell
upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left. And Benhadad fled,
and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
1KI-20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the
kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put
sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of
Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
1KI-20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I
pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother.
1KI-20:33 Now the men did diligently observe whether [any thing would come]
from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad.
Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused
him to come up into the chariot.
1KI-20:34 And [Benhadad] said unto him, The cities, which my father took from
thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus,
as my father made in Samaria. Then [said Ahab], I will send thee away with
this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
1KI-20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his
neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused
to smite him.
1KI-20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of
the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay
thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

1KI-20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the
man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded [him].
1KI-20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and
disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
1KI-20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy
servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned
aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he
be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a
talent of silver.
1KI-20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the
king of Israel said unto him, So [shall] thy judgment [be]; thyself hast
decided [it].
1KI-20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king
of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets.
1KI-20:42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go
out of [thy] hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy
life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
1KI-20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and
came to Samaria.
1KI-21:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the Jezreelite
had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of
Samaria.
1KI-21:2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may
have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will
give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I
will give thee the worth of it in money.
1KI-21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give
the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
1KI-21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the
word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will
not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his
bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
1KI-21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy
spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
1KI-21:6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite,
and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee,
I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give
thee my vineyard.
1KI-21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom
of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give
thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
1KI-21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed [them] with his
seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that [were] in
his city, dwelling with Naboth.
1KI-21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set
Naboth on high among the people:
1KI-21:10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness
against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And [then] carry
him out, and stone him, that he may die.
1KI-21:11 And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were
the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it
[was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
1KI-21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1KI-21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him:
and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the
presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then
they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he
died.
1KI-21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
1KI-21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and
was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is
not alive, but dead.
1KI-21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that
Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take
possession of it.
1KI-21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1KI-21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which [is] in Samaria:
behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess
it.
1KI-21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast
thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying,
Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall
dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
1KI-21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he
answered, I have found [thee]; because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in
the sight of the LORD.
1KI-21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and
him that is shut up and left in Israel,
1KI-21:22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation
wherewith thou hast provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel to sin.
1KI-21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat
Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
1KI-21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that
dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
1KI-21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
1KI-21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all
[things] as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of
Israel.
1KI-21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his
clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth,
and went softly.
1KI-21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1KI-21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth
himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son's
days will I bring the evil upon his house.
1KI-22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

1KI-22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1KI-22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth
in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of
the king of Syria?
1KI-22:4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to
Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I [am] as thou
[art], my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
1KI-22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee,
at the word of the LORD to day.
1KI-22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four
hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or
shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into
the hand of the king.
1KI-22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD
besides, that we might inquire of him?
1KI-22:8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one
man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate
him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat
said, Let not the king say so.
1KI-22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten [hither]
Micaiah the son of Imlah.
1KI-22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each
on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of
the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
1KI-22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he
said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou
have consumed them.
1KI-22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead,
and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the king's hand.
1KI-22:13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him,
saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king
with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them,
and speak [that which is] good.
1KI-22:14 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto
me, that will I speak.
1KI-22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall
we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered
him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the
king.
1KI-22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that
thou tell me nothing but [that which is] true in the name of the LORD?
1KI-22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep
that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them
return every man to his house in peace.
1KI-22:18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
1KI-22:19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the
LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his
right hand and on his left.
1KI-22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and
fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that
manner.
1KI-22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said,
I will persuade him.
1KI-22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he
said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
1KI-22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning
thee.
1KI-22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on
the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak
unto thee?
1KI-22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou
shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
1KI-22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto
Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
1KI-22:27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and
feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come
in peace.
1KI-22:28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not
spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
1KI-22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to
Ramothgilead.
1KI-22:30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of
Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1KI-22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that
had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save
only with the king of Israel.
1KI-22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel. And they
turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
1KI-22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived
that it [was] not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

1KI-22:34 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of
his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
1KI-22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in
his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of
the wound into the midst of the chariot.
1KI-22:36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going
down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own
country.
1KI-22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the
king in Samaria.
1KI-22:38 And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of
the LORD which he spake.
1KI-22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the
ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1KI-22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
stead.
1KI-22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the
fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
1KI-22:42 Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1KI-22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not
aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD:
nevertheless the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and
burnt incense yet in the high places.
1KI-22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
1KI-22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
showed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1KI-22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his
father Asa, he took out of the land.
1KI-22:47 [There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.
1KI-22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but
they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
1KI-22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants
go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
1KI-22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his
stead.
1KI-22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the
seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over
Israel.
1KI-22:52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
1KI-22:53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the
LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.



  
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