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Kings: Greatest Verses Of The Bible.
--Sermon by Dr. Bob Benchoff January 8, 2004.
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1 Kings
Chapter 1:
1 ¶ Now, King David, was old, advanced in days,-and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
2 Wherefore his servants said unto him-Let there be sought for my lord the king, a young woman-a virgin, so shall she stand before the king, that she may become his companion,-and she shall lie in thy bosom, and my lord the king shall get, heat.
3 So they sought a fair young woman, throughout all the bounds of Israel,-and found Abishag, the Shunammite, and brought her in, unto the king.
4 Now, the young woman, was exceeding fair,-so she became unto the king a companion, and ministered unto him, but, the king, knew her not.
5 ¶ And, Adonijah son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying-I, will be king. Therefore prepared he for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6 Now his father had not displeased him all his days, by saying-Why, thus, hast thou done? Moreover also, he, was of exceeding handsome appearance, and, him, did his mother bear, after Absolom.
7 So then he had speech with Joab, son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest,-and they gave help, following Adonijah.
8 But, Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
9 And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and heifers, near the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel,-and invited all his brethren, sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, servants of the king;
10 but, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he invited not.
11 ¶ Then spake Nathan unto Bath-sheba mother of Solomon, saying-Hast thou not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith hath become king, and, our lord David, knoweth it not?
12 Now, therefore, come; let me give thee counsel, I pray thee,-so shalt thou rescue thine own life, and the life of thy son, Solomon.
13 Go, and get thee in unto King David, and thou shalt say unto him-Didst not, thou thyself, my lord O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying-Solomon thy son, shall become king after me, yea, he, shall sit upon my throne? Why, then, hath, Adonijah, become king?
14 Lo! while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I also, will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
15 So Bath-sheba went in unto the king, into the chamber, now, the king, was very old,-and Abishag the Shunammite, was ministering unto the king.
16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did homage unto the king,-and the king said-What aileth thee?
17 And she said unto him-My lord, thou thyself, didst swear by Yahweh thy God, unto thy handmaid, Assuredly, Solomon thy son, shall become king after me,-yea, he, shall sit upon my throne.
18 But, now, lo! Adonijah, hath become king; now, therefore, my lord, O king, thou knowest it not:
19 and he hath sacrificed oxen and heifers and sheep, in abundance, and hath invited all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab general of the army,-but, Solomon thy servant, hath he not invited.
20 Thou, therefore, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel, are upon thee,-to tell them, who shall sit upon the throne of my lord the king, after him.
21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, then shall I and my son Solomon be counted, offenders.
22 And lo! while yet she was speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet, came in.
23 So they told the king, saying, Lo! Nathan the prophet! And, when he had come in before the king, he bowed himself down to the king with his face to the ground.
24 Then said Nathan-My lord, O king, hast, thou, said, Adonijah, shall become king after me,-yea, he, shall sit upon my throne?
25 For he hath gone down to-day, and hath sacrificed oxen and heifers and sheep, in abundance, and hath invited all the sons of the king, and the generals of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and, there they are-eating and drinking before him,-and they have said-Long live King Adonijah!
26 But, me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Solomon thy servant, hath he not invited.
27 If, of my lord the king, this thing had been brought to pass, then wouldest thou not have made known unto thy servant, who should sit upon the throne of my lord the king, after him?
28 Then responded King David, and said, Call me Bath-sheba. So she came in before the king, and stood before the king.
29 And the king sware, and said,-By the life of Yahweh, who hath redeemed my life out of every strait,
30 even as I sware unto thee by Yahweh, God of Israel, saying, Assuredly, Solomon thy son, shall become king after me, yea, he, shall sit upon my throne, in my stead, even so, will I do this day.
31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did homage unto the king,-and said-Let my lord, King David, live to times age-abiding!
32 ¶ Then said King David-Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada. And they came in before the king.
33 Then said the king unto them-Take ye with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon the mule which pertaineth unto myself,-and bring him down unto Gihon;
34 then shall Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel,-and ye shall blow with the horn, and say-Long live King Solomon!
35 Then shall ye come up after him, and he shall enter, and sit upon my throne, yea, he, shall become king in my stead; even, him, have I charged to become leader, over Israel, and over Judah.
36 Then did Benaiah son of Jehoiada make response unto the king, and say-Amen! so, say Yahweh, God of my lord the king.
37 As Yahweh hath been with my lord the king, so, let him he with Solomon,-and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord, King David.
38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, with the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon the mule of King David,-and they escorted him to Gihon.
39 Then took Zadok the priest, the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon,-and they blew with a ram’s horn, and all the people said, Long live King Solomon!
40 And all the people came up after him, the people themselves also, playing with flutes, and rejoicing with great joy,-so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
41 ¶ And Adonijah, and all the guests who were with him, heard it, just as, they, had made an end of eating,-and, when Joab heard the sound of a horn, he said-Wherefore the noise of the city, in tumult?
42 While yet he was speaking, lo! Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest, came in,-and Adonijah said-Come in, for, a worthy man, thou art, and, good tidings, dost thou bring.
43 But Jonathan responded and said to Adonijah,-Of a truth, our lord, King David, hath made, Solomon, king.
44 And the king hath sent with him-Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, with the Cherethites, and the Pelethites,-and they have caused him to ride upon the mule of the king;
45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king, in Gihon, and they went up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again,-That, is the noise ye have heard.
46 Moreover also, Solomon hath taken his seat upon the throne of the kingdom.
47 Moreover also, the servants of the king have been in, to bless our lord King David, saying-Thy God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne,-And the king bowed himself upon his bed.
48 Moreover also, thus and thus, hath said the king,-Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, who hath given, to-day, one to sit upon my throne, mine own eyes also beholding it.
49 Then trembled and rose up, all Adonijah’s guests,-and departed, every man his own way.
50 Adonijah also, feared because of Solomon,-and rose and went, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Lo! Adonijah, feareth King Solomon,-lo! therefore, he hath laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon swear unto me at once that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.
52 Then said Solomon, If he will be a man of worth, there shall not one hair of him fall to the earth,-but, if mischief be found in him, then shall he die.
53 So King Solomon sent, and brought him down from the altar, and he came in, and bowed himself down to King Solomon,-and Solomon said unto him-Go to thine own house.
1 Kings Chapter 2:
1 ¶ And, when the days of David drew near that he must die, he charged Solomon his son, saying:-
2 I, am going the way of all the earth,-thou must be strong, therefore, and show thyself a man;
3 and keep the observances of Yahweh thy God, by walking in his ways, by keeping his statutes, his commandments, and his regulations and his testimonies, as written in the law of Moses,-to the end thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;
4 to the end that Yahweh may establish his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy sons will take heed to their way, by walking before me, in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, (then, said he) there shall not be cut off to thee a man, from off the throne of Israel.
5 Moreover also, thou, knowest what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with two generals of the armies of Israel-with Abner son of Ner, and with Amasa son of Jether-both of whom he slew, shedding the blood of war in peace,-and putting the blood of war upon his girdle that was on his loins, and upon his sandals, that were on his feet.
6 Thou, therefore, must do according to thy wisdom,-but will not let his grey hair go down in peace, to hades.
7 But, with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, thou wilt deal in lovingkindness, and they will be among them who eat at thy table,-for, so, drew they near unto me, when I fled from Absolom thy brother.
8 Lo! also, there is with thee-Shimei son of Gera a Benjamite, of Behurim, well, he, it was who cursed me with a grievous curse; on the day I journeyed to Mahanaim,-but he, came down to meet me, at the Jordan, and so I sware to him by Yahweh, saying-I will not put thee to death, with the sword.
9 Now, therefore do not hold him guiltless, for, a wise man, thou art, and wilt know how thou oughtest to deal with him, and wilt suffer his grey hairs to go down with blood, to hades.
10 So then David slept with his fathers,-and was buried in the city of David.
11 Now, the days that David reigned over Israel, were forty years,-in Hebron, reigned he seven years, and, in Jerusalem, reigned he thirty and three years.
12 ¶ But, when, Solomon, took his seat upon the throne of David his father, then was the kingdom firmly established.
13 And Adonijah son of Haggith came in unto Bath-sheba, mother of Solomon: And she said-Peaceably, comest thou? And he said-Peaceably.
14 Then said he-I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said-Say on.
15 And he said-Thou, knowest that, mine, was the kingdom, and, on me, had all Israel set their faces, that I should become king,-howbeit the kingdom, hath turned about, and become my brother’s, for, from Yahweh, became it, his.
16 Now, therefore, one request, have I to ask of thee, do not turn away my face.
17 And she said unto him-Say on. And he said-Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, for he will not turn away thy face,-that he give me Abishag the Shunammite, to wife.
18 And Bath-sheba said: Good! I myself, will speak for thee, unto the king.
19 So Bath-sheba went in unto King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah,-and the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself down to her, and sat down upon his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the mother of the king, and she sat on his right hand.
20 Then said she-One small request, am I asking of thee, do not turn away my face. And the king said to her-Ask on, my mother, for I will not turn away thy face.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother, to wife.
22 Then answered King Solomon, and said to his mother-Wherefore, then, art thou asking Abishag the Shunammite, for Adonijah? ask, then, for him the kingdom, because he is mine elder brother,-even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab, son of Zeruiah.
23 Then swore King Solomon by Yahweh, saying,-So, let God do to me, and, so, let him add, if, at the cost of his life, Adonijah hath not spoken this word.
24 Now, therefore, by the life of Yahweh, who hath established me, and seated me upon the throne of David my father, and who hath made for me a household, as he had spoken, surely, to-day, shall Adonijah be put to death!
25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah son of Jehoiada,-and he fell upon him, that he died.
26 ¶ Also, unto Abiathar the priest, said the king-To Anathoth, get thee unto thine own fields, for, death-doomed, thou art,-but, this day, will I not put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of My Lord, Yahweh, before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto Yahweh,-to fulfil the word of Yahweh which he spake concerning the household of Eli, in Shiloh.
28 And, the report, came unto Joab, for, Joab, had inclined after Adonijah, although, after Solomon, he had not inclined,-so then Joab fled into the Tent of Yahweh, and laid hold of the horns of the altar.
29 And it was told King Solomon-Joab hath fled into the Tent of Yahweh, and, there he is, beside the altar. So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying-Go fall upon him!
30 And Benaiah came into the Tent of Yahweh, and said unto him-Thus, saith the king, Come forth! And he said-Nay! but, here, will I die! So Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus, spake Joab, and, thus, he answered me.
31 And the king said to him-Do as he hath spoken, fall, then, upon him, and bury him,-and so put away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from off me, and from off the house of my father;
32 thus will Yahweh bring back his blood upon his own head, in that he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing it,-even Abner son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, general of the army of Judah;
33 thus shall their blood come back upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed unto times age-abiding,-but, David and his seed, and his house, and his throne, shall have peace, unto times age-abiding, from Yahweh.
34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and put him to death,-and he was buried in his own house, in the wilderness.
35 ¶ And the king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada, in his stead, over the army,-and, Zadok the priest, did the king put in the stead of Abiathar.
36 And the king sent, and called for Shimei, and said to him-Build thee a house, in Jerusalem, so shalt thou dwell there,-and shalt not go forth from thence, hither or thither;
37 but it shall be that, on the day thou goest forth, and passest over the Kidron ravine, know, that thou shalt, die,-thy blood, shall be, upon thine own head.
38 And Shimei said to the king-Good, is the word, as my lord the king hath spoken, so, will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
39 But it came to pass, at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei fled unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath,-and they told Shimei, saying-Lo! thy servants are in Gath.
40 So Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath, unto Achish, to seek his servants-and Shimei went and brought in his servants, from Gath.
41 And it was told Solomon-Shimei hath been out of Jerusalem to Gath, and returned.
42 Then sent the king and called for Shimei, and said unto him-Did I not put thee on oath by Yahweh, and adjure thee, saying-On the day thou goest forth and takest thy journey hither or thither, know, that thou shalt, die. Then saidst thou unto me-Good, is the word I have heard.
43 Why then, hast thou not kept the oath of Yahweh,-and the charge which I laid upon thee?
44 Then said the king unto Shimei-Thou, knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, which thou didst unto David my father,-therefore shall Yahweh bring back thy wickedness, upon thine own head.
45 But, King Solomon, shall be blessed,-and, the throne of David, shall be established before Yahweh, unto times age-abiding.
46 So the king charged Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, that he died,-and, the kingdom, was established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings Chapter 3:
1 ¶ And Solomon contracted an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt,-and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem, round about.
2 Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places,-because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days,
3 Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father,-save only, that, in the high places, he himself, was sacrificing and offering incense.
4 So then the king went to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for, that, was the great high place,-a thousand ascending-sacrifices, did Solomon offer up on that altar.
5 ¶ In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared unto Solomon, in a dream by night,-and God said, Ask, what I shall give thee.
6 Then said Solomon-Thou, didst deal, with thy servant David my father, in great lovingkindness, 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 lovingkindness, that thou hast given unto him a son, to sit upon his throne, as it is this day.
7 Now, therefore, O Yahweh 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 and come in.
8 And, thy servant, is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen,-a numerous people, that cannot be numbered or summed up, for multitude.
9 Wilt thou, then, give unto thy servant, a heart that hearkeneth, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad,-for who is able to judge this thine honoured people?
10 And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord,-that Solomon had asked this thing;
11 And God said unto him-Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself many days, nor asked for thyself riches, nor asked the lives of thine enemies,-but hast asked for thyself discernment, in hearing a cause,
12 lo! I have done according to thy word,-lo! I have given unto thee a wise and discerning heart, so that, like thee, hath been none, before thee, and, after thee, shall rise up none, like thee.
13 Moreover also, what thou hast not asked, have I given unto thee, both riches and honour,-so that there hath been none, like thee, among the kings, all thy days.
14 And, if thou wilt walk in my ways, by keeping my statutes, and my commandments, as, David thy father, walked, then will I lengthen out thy days.
15 And Solomon awoke, and lo! it was a dream. So he entered into Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and caused to go up ascending-sacrifices and offered peace-offerings, and made a banquet for all his servants.
16 ¶ Then, came there in two unchaste women, unto the king,-and stood before him.
17 And the one woman said-Pardon, my lord! I and this woman, dwell in one house,-and I gave birth to a child near her, in the house.
18 And it came to pass, the third day after I bare, that, this woman also, gave birth to a child,-we two, being together, there was no stranger with us in the house, none but we two in the house.
19 And this woman’s son died in the night,-because she overlaid it.
20 Then arose she, in the middle of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid was sleeping, and laid it in her own besom,-but, her dead son, laid she in, my, bosom.
21 And, when I arose in the morning, to give suck unto my child, lo! it was dead! but, when I looked at it narrowly in the morning, lo! it was not, my son that I had borne.
22 Then said the other woman-Nay! but, my son, is the, living, and, thy son, the, dead. But, this, one kept on saying-Nay, verily! but, thy son, is the, dead, and, my son, the, living. Thus spake they before the king.
23 Then said the king, The one woman, is saying, This, is, my son, the one that liveth, and, thy son, is, the one that is dead,-and, the other, is saying, Nay! but, thy son, is, the dead one, and, my son, the, living.
24 And the king said-Bring me a sword! So they brought a sword before the king.
25 Then said the king, Divide the living child, in twain,-and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26 Then spake the woman, whose was the living child, unto the king-for tender became her compassions over her son-so she said-Pardon, my lord! Give, her, the living child, and do not, kill, it. But the other kept on saying-Neither mine, nor thine, shall it be, divide it.
27 Then responded the king, and said-Give, her, the living child, ye shall not, kill, it,-she, is its mother.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had delivered, and they stood in awe before the king,-for they saw, that, the wisdom of God, was in him, to execute justice.
1 Kings Chapter 4:
1 ¶ And so it came to pass, that, King Solomon, was king, over all Israel.
2 Now, these, were his chief officers of state,-Azariah son of Zadok, the priest;
3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha, scribes,-Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, the recorder;
4 And Benaiah son of Jehoiada, over the army,-and Zadok and Abiathar priests;
5 And Azariah son of Nathan, over the governors,-and Zabud son of Nathan, minister, king’s friend;
6 And Ahishar, over the household,-and Adoniram son of Abda, over the tribute.
7 And, Solomon, had twelve governors over all Israel, who used to sustain the king and his household,-for a month in the year, was it appointed unto each one, to find sustenance.
8 And, these, are their names, Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
9 Ben-deker, in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh,-and Elon-beth-hanan;
10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth,-to him, pertaineth Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;
11 Ben-abinadab, all the height of Dor,-Taphath daughter of Solomon, had he to wife;
12 Baana son of Ahilud, in Taanach, and Megiddo,-and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean as far as Abel-meholah, as far as over against Jokmeam;
13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead,-to him, belonged the towns of Jair, son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, his, was the region of Argob which is in Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls and with bars of bronze;
14 Ahinadab son of Iddo, towards Mahanaim;
15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali,-moreover, he, took Basemath daughter of Solomon, to wife;
16 Banna son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth;
17 Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;
18 Shimei son of Ela, in Benjamin;
19 Geber son of Uri, in the land of Gilead,-the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, being, the one governor, that was in the land.
20 ¶ Judah and Israel, were many, as the sand that is by the sea, for multitude,-eating and drinking, and rejoicing.
21 And, Solomon, became ruler over all the kingdoms, from the River even unto the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt,-and these were bringing presents, and serving Solomon, all the days of his life.
22 And it came to pass, that Solomon’s provision for one day was,-thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal;
23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep,-besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.
24 For, he, had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even as far as Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River,-and he had, peace, on all sides of him, round about.
25 And Judah and Israel dwelt securely, every man under his own vine, and under his own fig-tree, from Dan even unto Beer-sheba,-all the days of Solomon.
26 And it came to pass that, Solomon, had forty thousand stalls of horses, for his chariots,-and twelve thousand horsemen.
27 And these governors provided sustenance for King Solomon, and for all that drew near unto the table of King Solomon, every 28 Barley also and crushed straw, for the horses and for the swift beasts, brought they in unto the place where it should be, every man according to his charge.
29 ¶ And God gave wisdom unto Solomon, and discernment, and very great largeness of heart,-like the sand that is on the shore of the sea:
30 so that, the wisdom of Solomon, excelled, the wisdom of all the sons of the East,-and all the wisdom of the Egyptians,
31 so that he was wiser than any man-than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, sons of Mahol,-and it came to pass that, his name, was throughout all the nations round about.
32 And he spake three thousand proverbs,-and it came to pass that, his songs, were a thousand and five.
33 And he discoursed of trees-from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop, that springeth out in the wall,-and he discoursed of beasts and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
34 And there came in, of all the peoples, to hear the wisdom of Solomon-of all the kings of the earth, who heard his wisdom.
1 Kings Chapter 5:
1 ¶ And Hiram King of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon, for he had heard that, him, had they anointed king, in the room of his father,-for, Hiram, was, a lover, of, David continually.
2 So Solomon sent unto Hiram, saying:-
3 Thou, knewest David my father, how that he could not build a house unto the Name of Yahweh his God, because of the wars that were about him on every side,-until Yahweh should put them under the soles of his feet;
4 but, now, Yahweh my God hath given me rest on every side,-there is neither adversary nor incident of evil.
5 Behold me! then, purposing to build a house for the Name of Yahweh my God-even as Yahweh spake unto David my father, saying-Thy son, whom I will set in thy stead, upon thy throne, he, shall build the house for my Name.
6 Now, therefore, command thou that they fell me cedars, out of Lebanon, and, my servants, shall be, with thy servants, and, the hire of thy servants, will I give thee, according to all that thou shalt say,-for, thou, knowest, that, none amongst us, hath skill to fell timber, like the Zidonians.
7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly,-and said: Blessed, be Yahweh, to-day, who hath given unto David a wise son, over this great people!
8 And Hiram sent unto Solomon, saying, I have heard that which thou hast sent unto me,-I, will do all thy desire, as to timber of cedar, and timber of fir.
9 My servants, shall bring them down out of Lebanon unto the sea, and, I, will put them in rafts on the sea, unto the place of which thou shalt send me word, and will cause them to be discharged there, and, thou, shalt receive them, and, thou, shalt do my desire, by giving food for my household.
10 ¶ So then Hiram began giving unto Solomon timber of cedar, and timber of fir, even all his desire,
11 and, Solomon, gave unto Hiram, twenty thousand measures of wheat, as food for his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil,-thus, used Solomon on to give unto Hiram, year by year.
12 And, Yahweh, gave wisdom unto Solomon, as he promised him,-and it came to pass that there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and, they two, solemnised a covenant.
13 And King Solomon raised a labour-band, out of all Israel,-and it came to pass that, the labour-band, was thirty thousand men.
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, by courses, a month, were they in Lebanon, two months, at home,-and, Adoniram, was over the levy.
15 And it came to pass that, Solomon, had seventy thousand bearers of burdens,-and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain;
16 besides the chiefs of Solomon’s officers, who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred,-who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
17 And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to found the house with hewn stones.
18 And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders with the Gebalites wrought them,-thus made they ready the timber and the stones, for building the house.
1 Kings Chapter 6:
1 ¶ And so it came to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year, by the coming forth of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year (in the month of Zif, the same, being the second month) of the reign of Solomon over Israel, that he began to build the house unto Yahweh.
2 Now, the house which King Solomon built unto Yahweh, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth,-and thirty cubits in height.
3 And, the porch in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, according to the breadth of the house,-ten cubits in breadth, in front of the house.
4 And he made to the house windows, with closed bars.
5 And he built-by the wall of the house-a gallery, round about, against the walls of the house, round about, both to the temple, and to the shrine,-and he made side chambers round about.
6 The, lowest gallery, was five cubits broad, and, the middle, six cubits broad, and, the third, seven cubits broad,-for he put, ledges, against the house round about, on the outer side, so as not to make fastenings in the walls of the house.
7 Now, the house, when it was in building, with whole quarry-stones, was built,-neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tools of iron, was heard in the house, when it was in building.
8 The entrance of the lowest story, was on the right side of the house,-and, by winding stairs, went they up unto the middle story, and, out of the middle, into, the third.
9 So he built the house, and finished it,-and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar;
10 and built the gallery against all the house, five cubits in height,-and so fastened the house, with timber of cedar.
11 ¶ Then came the word of Yahweh unto Solomon, saying:
12 Concerning this house, which thou art building, If thou wilt walk in my statutes, and, my regulations, wilt practise, and so observe all my commandments, by walking in them, Then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father;
13 and will make my habitation in the midst of the sons of Israel,-and will not forsake my people Israel.
14 Thus Solomon built the house, and finished it;
15 ¶ and he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house, unto the cross-beams of the ceiling, he overlaid it with wood, on the inside,-and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.
16 And he built twenty cubits, at the hinder part of the house, with boards of cedar, from the floor as far as the cross-beams,-and he built it within, for a shrine, even for the holy of holies;
17 but, forty cubits, was the house itself,-the same, was the temple, before the oracle.
18 And, the cedar for the house within, was carved with colocynths, and with festoons of flowers,-the whole, was cedar, there was no stone to be seen.
19 And, the shrine in the midst of the house within, made he ready,-for placing there, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
20 And, the interior of the shrine, was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it, with pure gold,-and overlaid the altar with cedar.
21 Thus then did Solomon overlay the house within, with pure gold,-and he drew chains of gold across the front of the shrine, and overlaid it with gold;
22 yea, all the house, overlaid he with gold, until he had made all the house into one whole,-even all the altar that was by the shrine, overlaid he with gold.
23 And he made, within the shrine, two cherubim of wild olive wood,-ten cubits in height;
24 and, five cubits, was the one wing of the cherub, and, five cubits, the second wing of the cherub,-ten cubits, from the one end of his wings unto the other end of his wings.
25 Ten cubits, also was the second cherub,-of one size and one shape, were the two cherubim.
26 The height of the one cherub, was ten cubits,-and, so, of the second cherub.
27 And he placed the cherubim in the midst of the inner house, and the cherubim stretched forth their wings,-so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub, was touching the other wall,-and, their wings in the midst of the house, were touching, wing to wing.
28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 And, all the walls of the house round about, carved he with figures of cherubim, and palm-trees, and festoons of flowers,-within and without.
30 Even the floor of the house, overlaid he with gold,-within and without.
31 And, the entrance of the shrine, made he with doors, of wild olive-wood, the pillars and posts being a fifth.
32 The two doors, also were of olive-wood, and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim, and palm-trees, and festoons of flowers, and overlaid them with gold,-yea he spread out, over the cherubim and over the palm-trees, the gold.
33 So, also, made he for the entrance of the temple, with posts of wild olive-wood,-a fourth part.
34 And, the two doors, were of fir wood,-the two leaves of the one door, were folding, and, the two leaves of the other door, were folding.
35 And he carved cherubim, and palm-trees, and festoons of flowers, and overlaid them with gold, smoothed out on the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court, with three rows of hewn stone,-and a row of beams of cedar.
37 In the fourth year, was laid the foundation of the house of Yahweh,-in the month Zif;
38 and, in the eleventh year, in the month Bul-the same, is the eighth month, was the house finished, as to all the particulars thereof, and as to all the appointments thereof,-so then he built it in seven years.
1 Kings Chapter 7:
1 ¶ But, his own house, was Solomon thirteen years in building,-so he finished all his house. (Note: The House for God is similar in greatness to the House of Solomon, as Solomon serves God (including indirectly:) via serving for the people of Israel of God via heading for those people as king: see similar "house" discussion in 1 Kings Chapter 7 verse 51. The 2 houses are also in 1 Kings 9.10.).
2 Yea he built the house of the forest of Lebanon, a hundred cubits, the length thereof, and, fifty cubits, the breadth thereof, and, thirty cubits, the height thereof,-upon four rows of pillars of cedar, with beams of cedar, upon the pillars;
3 and it was covered with cedar above upon the joists, that were on forty-five pillars,-fifteen in a row.
4 And there were, window spaces, in three rows,-and light over against light, three times.
5 And, all the openings and the posts, were square in their frame,-and light was over against light, three times.
6 And, a porch of pillars, made he, fifty cubits, in length, and, thirty cubits, in breadth,-and, a porch, was on the one front of them, and pillars and threshold, were on the other front of them.
7 And, a porch for the throne, where he should judge, even the porch of judgment, made he, and it was wainscotted with cedar, from floor to ceiling (Note: "wainscotted" Rotherham Version = "covered" RSV).
8 And, his own house where he should dwell, in the other court within the porch, was, of like workmanship unto this,-a house also, made he, for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken to wife, in a similar porch.
9 All these, were of costly stones, after the dimensions of hewn stones, sawn with saws, within and without,-even from the foundation, unto the coping, and without as far as the great court.
10 And, the foundation, was of costly stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And, above, were costly stones, after the dimensions of hewn stone, and cedar.
12 And, the great court round about, was of three rows of hewn stone, and a row of beams of cedar,-both to the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and to the porch of the house.
13 ¶ And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram, out of Tyre:
14 son of a widow woman, was he of the tribe of Naphtali, but, his father, was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze, and he was filled with wisdom, and discernment, and knowledge, for executing all manner of work in bronze,-so he came unto King Solomon, and executed all his work.
15 And he cast two pillars of bronze,-eighteen cubits, the height of each pillar, and, a line of twelve cubits, would surround the second pillar.
16 And, two capitals, made he, to set upon the tops of the pillars, of molten bronze,-five cubits, was the height of the one capital, and, five cubits, the height of the other capital;
17 with a frame of checker work, wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars,-seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
18 So he made the pillars,-and, two rows round about, upon the one frame of checker work, covering the capitals which were upon the top with pomegranates, thus also, did he for the other capital.
19 And, the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work, in span, four cubits.
20 And there were capitals upon the two pillars, above also, close by the belly, which was beside the checker work,-and there were two hundred pomegranates, in rows round about, upon either capital.
21 So he reared the pillars for the porch of the temple,-yea he reared the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin, and reared the left pillar, and called the name thereof, Boaz.
22 And, upon the top of the pillars, was lily work,-which gave finish to the work of the pillars.
23 And he made a molten sea,-ten cubits from the one brim to the other, it was round all about, and, five cubits, was the height thereof, and, a line of thirty cubits, would encompass it round about.
24 And, colocynths, were under the brim thereof round about, encompassing it, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea, round about,-two rows of colocynths, made in the casting thereof:
25 standing upon twelve oxen, three looking northward, and three looking westward, and three looking southward, and three looking eastward, the sea, being upon them above,-all their hinder parts, being, inward.
26 And, the thickness thereof, was a hand breadth, and, the brim thereof, was like the brim-work of a cup, of lily-blossoms,-two thousand baths, did it contain.
27 And he made ten stands of bronze,-four cubits, the length of each stand, and, four cubits, the breadth thereof, and, three cubits, the height thereof.
28 And, this, was the work of the stand, there were, side walls, to them,-and, the side-walls, were between joining ledges;
29 and, upon the side-walls which were between the ledges, were lions, oxen, and cherubim, and, upon the ledges, was a pedestal above, and, beneath the lions and oxen, a wreath of hanging work.
30 And, four wheels of bronze, had each stand, with axles of bronze, and, the four steps thereof, had shoulder pieces,-under the laver, were the molten shoulder-pieces, over against each wreath.
31 And, the mouth thereof, within the capital and upwards, was a cubit, and, the mouth thereof, was round, of pedestal work, a cubit and a half,-moreover also, upon the mouth thereof, were gravings, with their side-walls four-square, not round.
32 And, four wheels, were beneath the side-walls, the axletrees of the wheels, being in the stands,-and, the height of each wheel, was a cubit and a half:
33 and, the work of the wheels, was like the work of a chariot-wheel; and, their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, the whole, were molten.
34 And there were, four shoulder-pieces, at the four corners of each stand, of the stand itself, were the shoulder-pieces thereof.
35 And, in the top of the stand, half a cubit in height, was a circular piece round about,-and, on the top of the stand, the tenons thereof, and, the side-walls thereof, were of the same.
36 Then carved he, upon the plates of the tenons thereof, and upon the side-walls thereof, cherubim, lions, and palm-trees,-according to the open space of each with a wreath round about.
37 Thus, made he the ten stands,-one mould, one measure, one shape, had they, all.
38 Then made he ten lavers of bronze,-forty baths, would each laver contain, four cubits, was each laver, one laver, was on each of, the ten stands.
39 And he set the stands, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house,-but, the sea, he set on the right side of the house eastward, over against the south.
40 And Hiram made lavers, and shovels, and bowls,-and Hiram ended the doing of all the work which he wrought for King Solomon, for the house of Yahweh:
41 two pillars,-and the bowls of the capitals which were upon the top of the two pillars,-and the two frames of checker-work, covering the two bowls of the capitals, which were upon the top of the pillars;
42 and the four hundred pomegranates, for the two frames of checker-work,-two rows of pomegranates to each frame, for covering the two bowls of the capitals, which were on the face of the pillars;
43 and the ten stands,-with the ten lavers upon the stands;
44 and the one sea,-with the twelve oxen under the sea;
45 and the pans, and the shovels, and the tossing bowls, and, all these vessels which Hiram made King Solomon, for the house of Yahweh, were of burnished bronze.
46 In the circuit of the Jordan, did the king cast them, in the clay ground,-between Succoth and Zarethan.
47 And Solomon let all the vessels be, because of their exceeding great multitude,-the weight of the bronze was not found out.
48 ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh,-the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereon was the presence-bread;
49 and the lamp-holders-five on the right and five on the left, before the shrine, of pure gold,-with the blossoms, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
50 and the bowls, and the snuffers, and the tossing bowls, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold,-and the hinge-holes, for the doors of the inner house, the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house itself, the temple, of, gold.
51 So was completed all the work which King Solomon made for the house of Yahweh, and Solomon brought in the hallowed things of David his father-the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh. (Note: For "house of Yahweh" compare "his own house" [Solomon] in 1 Kings Chapter 7 verse 1.).
1 Kings Chapter 8:
1 ¶ Then, did Solomon call together the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, chiefs of the fathers of the sons of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem,-that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, out of the city of David, the same is Zion (Note: This "city" was previously the Jebusite City on the rock, and later the entire City of Jerusalem was called Zion, the eternal city, 1 Kings 9.3. This may seem or may be one and the same with New Jerusalem, 3 Nephi 20.22, yet in further detail, the end of this age there is no room for any temple save in the midst of heaven there is only room for God Almighty and the Lamb, Revelation 21.22.).
2 So all the men of Israel came together unto King Solomon, in the month of steady flowings, at the festival,-the same is the seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came in,-and the priests took up the ark;
4 and they brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the hallowed vessels that were in the tent,-yea, the priests and the Levites, did bring them up.
5 And, King Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel who had assembled themselves unto him, were with him, before the ark,-sacrificing sheep and oxen, which could neither be recorded nor counted, for multitude.
6 So the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh into its place, into the shrine of the house, into the holy of holies,-under the wings of the cherubim.
7 For, the cherubim, were spreading forth their two wings, over the place of the ark,-and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and over the staves thereof, above.
8 And they drew out the staves, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place, in front of the shrine, although they were not seen on the outside,-and they have remained there until this day.
9 There was nothing in the ark, save the two tables of stone, which Moses deposited there in Horeb,-the tables of the covenant which Yahweh solemnised with the sons of Israel, when they came forth out of the land of Egypt. (Note: So save for God coming in person to you personally, the most revered of God for the people of Israel is the Holy Word, particularly those recorded on these great "two tables", also called "two tablets" by many.).
10 And so it was, when the priests came forth out of the holy place, that, a cloud, filled the house of Yahweh;
11 so that the priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloud,-for, the glory of Yahweh, filled, the house of Yahweh.
12 ¶ Then, said Solomon,-Yahweh, said, that he would make his habitation in thick gloom:
13 I have, built, a house as a high abode for thee,-A settled place for thee to abide in, for ages.
14 And the king turned about his face, and blessed all the convocation of Israel,-while all the convocation of Israel was standing;
15 and he said-Blessed, be Yahweh, God of Israel, who spake with his mouth, unto David my father,-that which with his hand he hath fulfilled, saying:-
16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel, out of Egypt, I had chosen no city, out of all the tribes of Israel, for building a house, where my Name might be,-but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my Name should be there, and I have chosen David, to be over my people Israel:
17 And so it came to pass, that it was near the heart of David my father,-to build a house for the Name of Yahweh, God of Israel.
18 Then said Yahweh unto David my father, Because it was near thy heart to build a house for my Name, thou didst well that it was near thy heart;
19 Only, thou thyself, must not build the house,-but, thine own son who hath proceeded out of thy loins, he, shall build the house, for my Name.
20 So then Yahweh hath established his word which he spake,-and I have been raised up in the room of David my father, and have taken my seat upon the throne of Israel, as spake Yahweh, and have built the house for the Name of Yahweh, God of Israel;
21 and have appointed there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Yahweh,-which he solemnised with our fathers, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.
22 ¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh, in the presence of all the convocation of Israel,-and spread forth his hands towards the heavens;
23 and said-O Yahweh, God of Israel! Not like thee, is there a God, in the heavens above, or upon the earth beneath,-keeping Covenant and Lovingkindness for thy servants who are walking before thee, with all their heart;
24 who hast kept for thy servant David my father, that which thou didst promise him,-in that thou didst promise with thy mouth, and, with thy hand, hast fulfilled, as it is this day. (Note: Through following great God, the past revealed with this great verse that God accomplished for the people of Israel as promised in the Word of God; and in the Word of God the future is revealed that as the people of Israel of God follow in word and deed the divine word of God, the people of Israel all speak the same language of God and therefore accomplish all they imagine to do: Genesis 11.6.).
25 Now, therefore, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep thou for thy servant David my father, that which thou didst promise him, saying, There shall not be cut off to thee a man from before me, to sit upon the throne of Israel,-if only, thy sons take heed to their way, by walking before me, as thou hast walked before me.
26 Now, therefore, O God of Israel,-verified be thy word, I pray thee, which thou didst speak to thy servant, David my father.
27 But, in very deed, will God dwell, upon the earth? Lo! the heaven, yea the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
28 Yet wilt thou turn unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Yahweh my God,-to hearken unto the cry, and unto the prayer, wherewith thy servant doth pray before thee to-day;
29 that thine eye may be opened toward this house, night and day, toward the place of which thou hast said, My Name shall be, there; hearkening unto the prayer which thy servant shall offer toward this place.
30 Wilt, thou, therefore, hearken unto the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, whensoever they shall pray toward this place,-yea wilt, thou thyself, hear, in thine own dwelling-place, in the heavens, and, when thou hearest, then wilt thou forgive?
31 When a man shall sin against his neighbour, and there shall be taken up against him an oath, to put him on oath,-and he shall come in and swear before thine altar, in this house,
32 then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the lawless, by setting his way upon his own head,-and justifying the righteous, by giving to him, according to his righteousness?
33 When thy people Israel are smitten before an enemy, because they have been sinning against thee,-and they turn again unto thee, and confess thy Name, and pray and make supplication unto thee, in this house,
34 then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back unto the soil, which thou gavest unto their fathers?
35 When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have been sinning against thee,-and they shall pray toward this place, and confess thy Name, and, from their sin, shall return, because thou hast been afflicting them,
36 then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou mayest teach them the good way, wherein they should walk,-and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people, for an inheritance?
37 When there shall be, famine, in the land, when there shall be, pestilence, when there shall be, blasting, mildew locust, caterpillar, when their enemy shall besiege them in one of their own gates,-whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness;
38 any prayer, any supplication which, any son of earth, may have, of all thy people Israel,-who will certainly know every man the plague of his own heart, and so he shall spread abroad his hands towards this house,
39 then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, in the settled place of thine abode, and forgive and act, and give unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou wilt know,-for, thou thyself alone, knowest the heart of all the sons of men;
40 to the end they may revere thee, all the days which they do live, upon the face of the soil,-which thou gavest unto our fathers?
41 Moreover also, unto the stranger, who is, not of thy people Israel,-but hath come in out of a far country, for the sake of thy Name,-
42 (for they will certainly hear of thy great Name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched-out arm,-and so will come in and pray towards this house),
43 wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, and act, according to all for which, the stranger, shall cry unto thee,-to the end that all the peoples of the earth may truly know thy Name, so as to revere thee, like thy people Israel, and to know that, thine own Name, hath been given unto this house, which I have built?
44 When thy people go forth to war against their enemy, whithersoever thou mayest send them,-and shall pray unto Yahweh, in the direction of the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy Name,
45 then wilt thou hear, in the heavens, their prayer and their supplication,-and maintain their cause?
46 When they sin against thee-for there is, no son of earth, that sinneth not, and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver them up before an enemy,-who shall carry them away as their captives, into the land of the enemy, far or near;
47 and they come back to their right mind, in the land whither they have been taken captive,-and so turn and make supplication unto thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely, we have been lawless;
48 and so they turn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have carried them away captive,-and pray unto thee in the direction of their own land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy Name,
49 then wilt thou hearken in the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, unto their prayer, and unto their supplication,-and maintain their cause;
50 and grant forgiveness to thy people, who have sinned against thee, even as to all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee,-and grant them compassion before their captors, so that they may have compassion upon them;
51 because, thy people and thine inheritance, they are,-whom thou didst bring forth out of Egypt, out of the midst of the smelting-pot of iron;
52 that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel,-to hearken unto them, in all their crying unto thee;
53 because, thou thyself, didst separate them unto thee, for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth,-as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest forth our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.
54 ¶ And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying unto Yahweh all this prayer and supplication, that he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees, with his hands outspread to the heavens;
55 and stood and blessed all the convocation of Israel,-with a loud voice, saying:
56 Blessed, be Yahweh, who hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised,-there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
57 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers,-let him not leave us, nor forsake us;
58 but bow our heart unto himself,-to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his regulations, which he commanded our fathers.
59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near unto Yahweh our God, day and night,-that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as any need ariseth:
60 To the end that all the peoples of the earth may know, that, Yahweh, is God,-there is none else.
61 So shall your heart be sound with Yahweh our God,-to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 ¶ And, the king, and all Israel with him, were offering sacrifice before Yahweh.
63 So Solomon offered as a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered unto Yahweh-Oxen, two and twenty thousand, and Sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand,-Thus did, the king and all the sons of Israel, dedicate the house of Yahweh.
64 On that day, did the king hallow the middle of the court, that was before the house of Yahweh,-for he offered there the ascending-sacrifice, and the meal-offering, and the fat portions of the peace-offerings, because, the altar of bronze that was before Yahweh, was too small to receive the ascending-sacrifice and the meal-offering, and the fat portions of the peace-offerings.
65 And Solomon made, at that time, a festival-and all Israel with him-a great convocation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the ravine of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days, and seven days,-fourteen days.
66 And on the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king,-and departed to their homes, rejoicing and glad of heart, over all the goodness which Yahweh had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
1 Kings Chapter 9:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of building the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king, and everything that Solomon desired, which he was pleased to make,
2 then appeared Yahweh unto Solomon, a second time,-as he appeared unto him, in Gibeon.
3 And Yahweh said unto him-I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, wherewith thou hast made supplication before me, I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my Name there unto times age-abiding,-and mine eyes and my heart shall be there, continually:
4 As for thee, therefore, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, with a whole heart and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee,-and, my statutes and my regulations, wilt keep,
5 then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel, unto times age-abiding,-as I promised unto David thy father, saying, There shall not be cut off to thee a man, from off the throne of Israel.
6 If ye, turn back, ye or your sons, from following me, and keep not my commandments, my statutes, which I have set before you,-but depart and serve other gods, and bow yourselves down to them,
7 then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me,-and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples;
8 and, this house which had been renowned, shall be desolate, every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and shall whistle,-and men shall say-For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land, and unto this house?
9 And men will answer-Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and bowed themselves down to them, and served them, for this cause, hath Yahweh brought in upon them all this ruin.
10 ¶ And it came to pass, at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses,-the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king;
11 Hiram king of Tyre having supplied Solomon with timber of cedar, and with timber of fir, and with gold, according to all his desire, that, then, King Solomon gave unto Hiram twenty cities, in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to view the cities which, Solomon, had given him,-and they were not pleasing in his eyes.
13 So he said-What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them, Unfruitful Land, as they are called unto this day.
14 Now Hiram had sent to the king,-a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15 ¶ Now, the following, is an account of the tax which King Solomon raised, for building the house of Yahweh and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem,-and Hazor and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 Pharaoh king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer, and burned it with fire, the Canaanites also who were dwelling in the city, had he slain,-and had given it as a dowry, to his daughter, wife of Solomon.
17 So then Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon, the nether,
18 and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land;
19 also all the store cities, which Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen,-and the desire of Solomon that he was pleased to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land that he ruled over.
20 All the people that were left, of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were, not of the sons of Israel;
21 their sons, who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were not able to devote to destruction, Solomon levied them for a toiling labour-band which remaineth unto this day.
22 But, of the sons of Israel, Solomon devoted none to bond-service,-but, they, were men of war, and his servants, and his generals, and his heroes, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These, were the chiefs of the officers, who were over the work, for Solomon, five hundred and fifty,-who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
24 Scarcely had Pharaoh’s daughter come up out of the city of David, into her own house, which he had built for her, when he built Millo.
25 And Solomon used to offer, three times a year, ascending-sacrifices and peace-offerings, upon the altar which he had built unto Yahweh, and to offer incense at the altar which was before Yahweh,-thus Solomon gave completeness unto the house.
26 A fleet also, did King Solomon build in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, seamen, having knowledge of the sea,-with the servants of Solomon;
28 and they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence, gold, four hundred and twenty talents,-and brought it to King Solomon.
1 Kings Chapter 10:
1 ¶ And, when, the queen of Sheba, heard the report of Solomon, as pertaining to the Name of Yahweh, she came to prove him, with abstruse questions.
2 Yea she came to Jerusalem with a very heavily-laden train, of camels bearing spices, and gold in great abundance, and precious stones,-and, when she was come to Solomon, she spake unto him all that was near her heart;
3 and Solomon answered her all her questions,-there was nothing hidden from the king, which he told her not.
4 And, when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon,-and the house which he had built;
5 and the food of his table, and the seated assembly of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers with their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he ascended unto the house of Yahweh, there was in her no more spirit.
6 And she said unto the king, True, was the word which I heard in mine own land,-concerning thine affairs, and concerning thy wisdom.
7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until that I had come and mine own eyes had seen, and lo! there had not been told me, the half,-thou dost exceed, in wisdom and prosperity, even the report which I heard! (Note: Greater blessings are for those who use logic faithfully.).
8 How happy, are thy wives, how happy, are these thy servants,-who do stand before thee continually, who hear thy wisdom!
9 Yahweh thy God be blessed, who delighted in thee, to set thee upon the throne of Israel,-because Yahweh loveth Israel unto times age-abiding, therefore hath he appointed thee to be king, to execute justice and righteousness.
10 And she gave unto the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones,-there came in no more, such spice for abundance, as that which the queen of Sheba gave unto King Solomon.
11 Moreover also, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in, from Ophir sandal-wood in great abundance, and precious stones.
12 So the king made of the sandal-wood a footpath to the house of Yahweh, and to the house of the king, lyres also and harps, for the singers,-there hath neither come in such sandal-wood, nor been seen, unto this day.
13 And, when, King Solomon, had given unto the queen of Sheba, all her desire, which she asked, besides that which he gave her as the bounty of King Solomon, she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
14 ¶ And it came to pass that, the weight of the gold which came in unto Solomon in one year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold;
15 besides the tribute of the subjugated, and of the travelling merchants,-and of all the kings of Arabia, and the pashas of the land.
16 And King Solomon made two hundred shields, of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold, laid he upon one shield;
17 and three hundred bucklers, of beaten gold, one hundred and fifty shekels of gold, laid he upon one buckler,-and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
18 And the king made a great throne of ivory,-and overlaid it with gold from Uphaz.
19 There were, six steps, to the throne, and there was, a circular top, to the throne, behind it, and there were supports on this side and on that, unto the place of the seat,-with two lions standing beside the supports;
20 and, twelve lions, were standing there, upon the six steps, on this side and on that,-there had never been made the like, for any of the kingdoms.
21 And, all the drinking vessels of King Solomon, were of gold, and, all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon, were of pure gold,-none was of silver, it was accounted in the days of Solomon, as nothing.
22 For, a fleet of Tarshish, had the king, at sea, with the fleet of Hiram,-once in three years, came in the fleet of Tarshish, 23 So King Solomon became greater than any of the kings of the earth,-for riches and for wisdom.
24 And, all the earth, did seek the face of Solomon,-to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25 And, they, did bring every man his present-vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses and mules,-a rate of a year in a year.
26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and so it was that he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,-for whom he found place in the chariot cities, and near the king, in Jerusalem.
27 And the king caused silver in Jerusalem to be as stones,-cedars also, caused he to be as the sycamores that are in the lowlands, for abundance.
28 And the horses that Solomon had were, an export, out of Egypt,-and, a company of the merchants of the king, used to fetch, a drove, at a price,
29 And a chariot came up and forth out of Egypt, for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for a hundred and fifty,-and, so, for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means, came they forth.
1 Kings Chapter 11:
1 ¶ But, King Solomon, loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,-women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites:
2 out of the nations concerning whom Yahweh had said unto the sons of Israel-Ye shall not go in unto them, and, they, shall not come in unto you, surely they will turn aside your heart after their gods. Unto these, did Solomon cleave in love.
3 So it came to pass that he had seven hundred wives who were princesses, and three hundred concubines,-and, his wives, turned aside, his heart.
4 Yea it came to pass, in the old age of Solomon, that, his wives, turned aside his heart after other gods,-his heart therefore was not sound with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 Thus Solomon did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and went not fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
7 Then, did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem,-and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon;
8 and, thus, did he for all his foreign wives,-who burned incense and offered sacrifices unto their gods.
9 ¶ Therefore did Yahweh shew himself angry with Solomon,-because his heart had turned aside from Yahweh God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice;
10 and had been giving command to him concerning this thing, that he should not go away after other gods,-but he had not taken heed unto that which Yahweh had commanded.
11 Wherefore Yahweh said unto Solomon-Forasmuch as this hath come to pass with thee, and thou hast not heeded my covenant and my statutes, which I charged upon thee, I will, rend, the kingdom away from thee, and will give it unto a servant of thine.
12 Notwithstanding, in thine own days, will I not do it, for the sake of David thy father,-out of the hand of thy son, will I rend it.
13 Howbeit, all the kingdom, will I not rend away, one tribe, will I give unto thy son,-for the sake of David my servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.
14 ¶ And Yahweh raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite,-of the seed of the king, was he, in Edom.
15 And it came to pass, when David was dealing with Edom, and Joab general of the army went up to bury the slain,-and had smitten every male in Edom,-
16 for, six months, did Joab remain there, with all Israel,-until he had cut off every male in Edom,
17 that Hadad fled, he and certain men of Edom of the servants of his father, with him, to go into Egypt,-Hadad being a little boy.
18 So they arose out of Midian, and came into Paran,-and took certain men with them out of Paran, and came into Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and, food, appointed him, and, land, did give unto him.
19 And Hadad found great favour in the eyes of Pharaoh,-so that he gave him to wife, the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare to him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaned him, in the house of Pharaoh,-and so it came about, that Genubath was of the household of Pharaoh, among the sons of Pharaoh.
21 And, when, Hadad, heard in Egypt, that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab general of the army was dead, Hadad said unto Pharaoh, Let me go, that I may take my journey unto mine own land.
22 Then said Pharaoh unto him-But what hast thou been lacking with me, that lo! thou art seeking to take thy journey unto thine own land? And he said-Nothing, howbeit, let me go.
23 And God raised up against him an adversary, Rezon son of Eliada,-who had fled from Hadadezer king of Zobah, his lord;
24 and he gathered unto him men, and became captain of a band when David slew them of Zobah,-then went they to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25 Thus became he an adversary unto Israel, all the days of Solomon, this, is the mischief which Hadad did,-so then, he abhorred Israel, when he reigned over Syria.
26 ¶ Jeroboam also, son of Nebat, an Ephrathite from Zeredah, whose, mother’s name, was Zeruah, a widow woman, he being servant to Solomon, lifted up a hand against the king.
27 And, this, was the cause that he lifted up a hand against the king,-Solomon, built Millo, he closed up of the of David his father. the breach city
28 Now, the man Jeroboam, being an able Solomon observed his servant, that he man, was, one to execute a work, so he gave him oversight of all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to pass, at that time, when, Jeroboam, went forth out of Jerusalem, that there met him Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, in the way, he having wrapped himself about with a new mantle; and, they two, were by themselves, in the field.
30 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new mantle, that was upon him,-and rent it into twelve pieces;
31 and said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten places,-for Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel-Behold me! about to rend the kingdom, out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give unto thee ten tribes:
32 Howbeit, one tribe, shall he retain,-for the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen, out of all the tribes of Israel:
33 Because they have forsaken me, and bowed themselves down to Ashtoreth, goddess of the Zidonians, to Chemosh, god of the Moabites, and to Milcom, god of the sons of Ammon,-and have not walked in my ways, by doing what is right in mine eyes, even my statutes and my regulations, like David his father.
34 Yet will I not take all the kingdom out of his hand,-but will suffer him to be, leader, all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose,-who kept my commandments and my statutes.
35 But I will take the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and will give it to thee, even the ten tribes.
36 Nevertheless, go his son, will I give one tribe,-to the end there may remain a lamp unto David my servant always before me, in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself, to put my Name there.
37 But, thee, will I take, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul could desire,-and thou shalt be king over Israel.
38 So shall it be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I shall command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in mine eyes, by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as did David my servant, then will I be with thee, and will build thee an assured house, as I have built for David, and will give unto thee, Israel.
39 Thus will I humiliate the seed of David, because of this; yet not for ever.
40 When therefore Solomon sought to put, Jeroboam, to death, Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt,-and remained in Egypt, until the death of Solomon.
41 ¶ Now, the rest of the story of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are, they, not written in the book of the records of Solomon?
42 Now, the days which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel, were forty years.
43 So then Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father,-and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings Chapter 12:
1 ¶ And Rehoboam went to Shechem,-for, to Shechem, had all Israel come to make him king.
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of it-he being yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the face of Solomon the king, that Jeroboam returned from Egypt;
3 yes they sent, and called him, and Jeroboam and all the convocation of Israel came,-and spake unto Rehoboam, saying:
4 Thy father, made our yoke, grievous,-now, therefore do, thou, lighten the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, that we may serve thee.
5 And he said unto them-Depart ye for yet three days, and then come again unto me. And the people departed.
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who used to stand before Solomon his father, while he yet lived, saying,-How do, ye, advise, that I answer this people?
7 And they spake unto him, saying-If, to-day, thou wilt be servant unto this people, and wilt serve them,-and answer them kindly, and speak unto them good words, then will they be, thy, servants, always.
8 But he declined the counsel of the elders which they gave him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, who were standing before himself;
9 and said unto them-What counsel do, ye, give as to how we shall answer this people who have spoken unto me, saying-Make a lightening of the yoke which thy father put upon us?
10 Then spake unto him the young men who had grown up with him, saying, Thus, shalt thou say to this people that have spoken unto thee, saying-Thy father, made our yoke heavy, thou, therefore lighten it upon us, Thus, shalt thou speak unto them, My little finger, is thicker than my father’s loins;
11 Now, therefore, whereas, my father, laid upon you a heavy yoke, I, will add to your yoke,-My father, did chastise you with whips, but, I, will chastise you with scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came in unto Rehoboam, on the third day,-as the king had bidden, saying-Come again unto me, on the third day.
13 And the king answered the people, harshly,-and declined the counsel of the elders wherewith they had counselled him;
14 and spake unto them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father, made your yoke heavy, but, I, will add unto your yoke,-My father, chastised you, with whips, but, I, will chastise you, with scorpions.
15 Thus the king hearkened not unto the people,-for there had come about a turn from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite, unto Jeroboam, son of Nebat.
16 ¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying-What portion have, we, in, David. Or inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your homes O Israel! Now, see to thine own house, O David! And Israel departed to their homes.
17 But, as for the sons of Israel who were dwelling in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram who was over the tribute, but all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died,-King Rehoboam, therefore, hastily mounted his chariot, to flee unto Jerusalem.
19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David,-unto this day.
20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him into the assembly, and made him king over all Israel,-there were none that followed the house of David, saving the tribe of Judah only.
21 And, when Rehoboam entered Jerusalem, he called together all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin-a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, able to make war,-to fight against the house of Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam, son of Solomon.
22 Then came the word of God unto Shemaiah, the man of God, saying:
23 Speak unto Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah, and Benjamin,-and the remnant of the people, saying:
24 Thus, saith Yahweh-Ye shall not go up, neither shall ye fight with your brethren the sons of Israel,-return ye every man to his own house, for, from me, hath this thing been brought about. So they hearkened unto the word of Yahweh, and turned back to depart, according to the word of Yahweh.
25 ¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein,-and went forth from thence, and built Penuel.
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart,-Now, shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh, in Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people return unto their lord, unto Rehoboam, king of Judah,-and they will slay me, and return unto Rehoboam, king of Judah.
28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,-and said unto them-It is, too much for you, to go up to Jerusalem, Lo! thy gods, O Israel, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt;
29 And he set the one in Bethel,-and, the other, put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin,-and the people went before the one, as far as Dan.
31 And he made a house of high-places,-and made priests from the whole compass of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
32 And Jeroboam made a festival in the eight month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival which was held in Judah, and offered up on the altar, likewise, did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made,-and he kept in attendance in Bethel, the priests of the high-places which he had made.
33 And he offered up on the altar which he had made in Bethel, on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month which he had devised out of his own heart,-thus made he a festival for the sons of Israel, and offered up on the altar, to make a perfume.
1 Kings Chapter 13:
1 ¶ And lo! a man of God, came in out of Judah, by the word of Yahweh, unto Bethel,-as Jeroboam was standing by the altar, to make a perfume.
2 And he made proclamation against the altar, by the word of Yahweh, and said, O altar! altar! Thus, saith Yahweh,-Lo! a son to be born unto the house of David, Josiah his name, who shall sacrifice upon thee the priests of the high-places, who are making a perfume upon thee, and, human bones, shall be burned upon thee;
3 and he shall give, on that day, a sign, saying, This, is the sign of which Yahweh hath spoken,-Lo! the altar, is to be rent, and the ashes that are upon thee shall be, poured out!
4 And it came to pass, when the king heard the word of the man of God which he proclaimed against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam thrust forth his hand, from off the altar, saying-Lay hold of him! and his hand which he had thrust forth against him was dried up, that he could not draw it back to him.
5 Moreover, the altar, 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 Yahweh.
6 Then responded the king and said unto the man of God-Appease, I pray thee, the face of Yahweh thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored unto me. So the man of God appeased the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king was restored unto him, and became as aforetime.
7 Then spake the king unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself,-and let me give thee a present.
8 But the man of God said unto the king-If thou wouldst give me the half of thy house, I would not go in with thee,-neither would I eat bread or drink water, in this place;
9 for, so, he charged me, by the word of Yahweh, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor shalt thou drink water,-neither shalt thou come back by the way thou wentest.
10 So he departed another way,-and went not back by the way by which he came unto Bethel.
11 ¶ But, a certain aged prophet, was dwelling in Bethel,-whose sons came in and related to him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel-and the words which he had spoken unto the king, and they related them to their father.
12 And their father said unto them, Which way then went he? Now his sons had seen the way which the man of God went who had come in out of Judah.
13 So he said unto his sons, Saddle for me, the ass. And they saddled for him the ass, and he rode thereon;
14 and went after the man of God, and found him, sitting under an oak. And he said unto him-Art, thou, the man of God who came in out of Judah? And he said-I am.
15 Then said he unto him, Come home with me,-and eat bread.
16 And he said-I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee,-neither will I eat bread or drink water with thee, in this place;
17 for there came a message unto me by the word of Yahweh, Thou shalt neither eat bread, nor drink water there,-thou shalt not turn back to come by the way by which thou wentest.
18 And he said to him-I also, am a prophet, like unto thee, and, a messenger, hath spoken unto me, by the word of Yahweh, saying-Bring him back with thee, into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him.
19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And so it was, as, they, were sitting at the table, yea, so it was, that the word of Yahweh came unto the prophet who had brought him back;
21 and he cried out unto the man of God who had come in out of Judah, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh,-Forasmuch as thou hast rebelled against the bidding of Yahweh, and hast not kept the commandment which Yahweh thy God commanded thee;
22 but hast returned, and eaten bread and drunk water, in the place of which he said unto thee, Thou mayest neither eat bread nor drink water: thy dead body shall not enter the burying-place of thy fathers.
23 ¶ And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24 And, when he had gone, there met him a lion by the way, and slew him,-and his dead body was cast out in the way, and, the ass, was standing near it, and, the lion, was standing near the dead body.
25 And lo! certain men, passing by, saw the dead body, cast out in the way, and the lion standing near the dead body,-so they came in, and spake of it in the city, wherein, the aged prophet, dwelt.
26 And, when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said-The man of God, it is, who rebelled against the bidding of Yahweh,-therefore did Yahweh deliver him unto the lion, and it hath torn him and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh which he spake unto him.
27 And he spake unto his sons, saying, Saddle for me the ass. And they saddled it.
28 So he went and found his dead body, cast out in the way, with, the ass and the lion, standing near the dead body,-the lion had neither eaten the dead body, nor had it torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the dead body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back,-and the aged prophet came into the city, to make lamentation, and to bury him.
30 And he laid his dead body in his own grave,-and they lamented over him, saying-Alas, my brother!
31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake unto his sons, saying, When I die, then shall ye bury me in the grave wherein the man of God is buried; beside his bones, lay my bones;
32 For the message which he proclaimed, by the ward of Yahweh, against the altar which is in Bethel,-and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
33 After this thing, Jeroboam turned not from his wicked way,-but again made, from the whole compass of the people, priests of high places, whomsoever he would, he installed, and he became priest of high places.
34 And so this thing became the sin of the house of Jeroboam,-that it should be both taken away and destroyed, from off the face of the ground.
1 Kings Chapter 14:
1 ¶ At that time, fell sick, Abijah son of Jeroboam.
2 Then said Jeroboam to his wife-Arise, I pray thee, and feign thyself another, that it be not known, that, thou, art the wife of Jeroboam,-and thou shalt go thy way to Shiloh, lo! there, is Ahijah the prophet, who promised I should be king over this people;
3 and thou shall take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a bottle of honey, and shalt go unto him,-he, will tell thee what shall befall the young man.
4 And the wife of Jeroboam, did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and entered the house of Ahijah,-now, Ahijah, could not see, for his eyes were fixed, by reason of his old age.
5 But, Yahweh, had said unto Ahijah-Lo! the wife of Jeroboam, coming to enquire something of thee, concerning her son, for he is sick, thus and so, shalt thou speak unto her,-though, when she cometh in, she feign to be a stranger-woman.
6 So it came to pass, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she entered the doorway, that he said-Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam,-wherefore, is it that thou art feigning to be a stranger-woman, seeing that, I, am sent unto thee, with something hard to bear?
7 ¶ Go, say to Jeroboam-Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the midst of the people,-and gave thee to be leader over my people Israel;
8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee,-and yet thou hast not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me, with all his heart, to do only that which was right in mine eyes;
9 but hast made wicked thy doings beyond any who were before thee,-and hast gone and made thee ether gods, even molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast, me, behind thy back,
10 therefore, behold me! bringing misfortune against the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off the meanest pertaining to Jeroboam, whether shut up or left at large, in Israel,-and will consume after the house of Jeroboam, as one consumeth dung, till it be all gone:
11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city, shall, the dogs, eat, and, him that dieth in the field, shall, the birds of heaven, eat,-For, Yahweh, hath spoken.
12 Thou, therefore, arise, go to thine own house,-as thy feet are entering the city, the young man shall die.
13 Then shall all Israel lament for him, and bury him, for, this one, pertaining to Jeroboam, shall reach a burying-place,-because there hath been found in him something good toward Yahweh, God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Therefore will Yahweh raise up for himself a king over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam, this day, but why, even now?
15 Therefore will Yahweh smite Israel, as a reed shaketh in water, and will root out Israel, from off this goodly soil, which he gave unto their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River (Euphrates),-because they have made their Sacred Stems, provoking Yahweh to anger:
16 That he may deliver up Israel,-on account of the sin of Jeroboam, which he committed, and which he caused, Israel, to commit.
17 Then arose the wife of Jeroboam, and went her way and entered Tirzah,-as, she, was coming into the entrance hall, the young man died.
18 And, when they buried him, all Israel lamented him,-according to the word of Yahweh, which he spake through his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 Now, the rest of the story of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold them! written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
20 And, the days which Jeroboam reigned, were twenty-two years,-and he slept with his fathers, and, Nadab his son, reigned, in his stead.
21 ¶ And, Rehoboam, son of Solomon, reigned in Judah,-forty-one years old, was Rehoboam when he began to reign, and seventeen years, reigned he in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen to put his Name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and, his mother’s name, was Naamah, the Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and provoked him to jealousy, above all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed.
23 And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems,-upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land,-they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
25 And it came to pass, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;
26 and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king, yea, the whole, took he away,-and took away all the bucklers of gold, which, Solomon, had made.
27 So King Rehoboam made, in their stead, bucklers of bronze,-and committed them unto the hand of the captains of the runners, who kept guard at the entrance of the house of the king.
28 And so it was, whensoever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the runners bare them, and then brought them back into the chamber of the runners.
29 Now, the rest of the story of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
30 And there was, war, between Rehoboam and Jeroboam, continually.
31 So then Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and, the name of his mother, was Naamah the Ammonitess,-and, Abijah his son, reigned, in his stead.
1 Kings Chapter 15:
1 ¶ Now, in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, began Abijah to reign over Judah.
2 Three years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, the name of his mother, was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him,-and his heart was not blameless with Yahweh his God, like the heart of David his father.
4 But, for the sake of David, did Yahweh his God give him a lamp, in Jerusalem,-by raising up a son of his after him, and by suffering Jerusalem to stand;
5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,-and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him, all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was, war, between Rehoboam and Jeroboam, all the days of his life.
7 Now, the rest of the story of Abijah and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was, war, between Abijah and Jeroboam.
8 So then Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David,-and, Asa his son, reigned, in his stead.
9 ¶ Now, in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, began Asa to reign as king of Judah;
10 and, forty-one years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, the name of his mother, was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,-like David his father;
12 and he put away the male devotees out of the land,-and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13 Moreover also, even Maachah his mother, he removed from being queen, because she had made a monstrous thing to the Sacred Stem,-and Asa cut down her monstrous thing and burned it in the Kidron ravine.
14 But, the high places, removed he not,-nevertheless, the heart of Asa, was blameless with Yahweh, all his days.
15 And he brought in the hallowed things of his father, and his own hallowed things, into the house of Yahweh,-silver and gold, and vessels.
16 And there was, war, between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, all their days.
17 And Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah,-so as not to suffer any one to come out or go in unto Asa king of Judah.
18 So Asa took all the silver and the gold, that were left in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king, and delivered them into the hand of his servants,-and King Asa sent them unto Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:
19 Let there be a covenant between me and thee, as between my father and thy father: Lo! I have sent thee a gift, silver and gold, Come break thy covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, that he may go up from against me.
20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto King Asa, and sent the generals of the forces which he had, against the cities of Israel, and smote Iyyohn Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah,-and all Chinneroth, against all the land of Naphtali.
21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, he left off building Ramah,-and returned to Tirzah.
22 And, King Asa, published it unto all Judah, none was exempted, so they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the beams thereof, wherewith Baasha had built,-and King Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23 Now, the rest of all the story 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? Howbeit, in the time of his old age, he was diseased in his feet.
24 So then Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David his father,-and, Jehoshaphat his son, reigned, in his stead.
25 ¶ Now, Nadab son of Jeroboam, began to reign over Israel, in the second year of Asa king of Judah,-and he reigned over Israel, two years.
26 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin, wherewith he caused, Israel, to sin.
27 And Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha smote him in Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines,-Nadab and all Israel being in siege against Gibbethon.
28 And Baasha slew him, in the third year of Asa king of Judah,-and reigned in his stead.
29 And it came to pass, when he became king, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam, he left not remaining any breathing thing pertaining to Jeroboam, until he had destroyed him,-according to the word of Yahweh, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he committed, and which he caused, Israel, to commit,-by his provocation wherewith he provoked to anger Yahweh God of Israel.
31 Now, the rest of the story of Nadab, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
32 And there was, war, between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, all their days.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, began Baasha, son of Ahijah, to reign over all Israel, in Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.
34 And he did that which was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he caused, Israel, to sin.
1 Kings Chapter 16:
1 ¶ Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jehu
2 son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying: Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and gave thee to be leader over my people Israel,-and yet thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and caused, my people Israel, to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,
3 Behold me! consuming after Baasha, and after his house,-and I will deliver up thy house, like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat:
4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city, shall, the dogs, eat, and, him that dieth of his in the field, shall, the birds of heaven, eat.
5 Now, the rest of the story of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah,-and, Elah his son, reigned, in his stead.
7 Moreover also, through Jehu son of Hanani the prophet, the word of Yahweh, came against Baasha and against his house, even because of all the wickedness that he had done in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, becoming like the house of Jeroboam,-notwithstanding that he smote him.
8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, began Elah son of Baasha to reign over Israel, in Tirzah, and he reigned two years.
9 Then conspired against him his servant Zimri, captain of half the chariots,-as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk, in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.
10 And Zimri went in, and smote him and slew him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah,-and reigned in his stead.
11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasha, he left him not even the meanest,-neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha,-according to the word of Yahweh which he spake unto Baasha, through Jehu the prophet;
13 as to all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,-wherewith they sinned, and wherewith they caused, Israel, to sin, provoking to anger Yahweh God of Israel, with their vanities.
14 Now, the rest of the story of Elah, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
15 ¶ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, did Zimri reign, seven days in Tirzah,-but, the people, were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistine.
16 When therefore the people who were encamped, heard say, Zimri hath conspired, moreover also, he hath smitten the king, all Israel made Omri, general of the army, king over Israel, on that day, in the camp.
17 So Omri, and all Israel with him, went up from Gibbethon,-and laid siege against Tirzah.
18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was captured, that he entered into the citadel of the house of the king,-and burned over him the house of the king, with fire, and died:
19 because of his sins which he committed by doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-by walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he committed, by causing, Israel, to sin.
20 Now, the rest of the story of Zimri, and his conspiracy wherein he conspired, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
21 Then, were the people of Israel divided,-half the people, were following Tibni son of Ginath, to make him king, and, half, following Omri.
22 But, the people that followed Omri, prevailed against, the people that followed Tibni son of Ginath; so that, Tibni, died, and, Omri, reigned.
23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, began Omri to reign over Israel and he reigned twelve years: in Tirzah, reigned he six years.
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 lord of the hill-Samaria.
25 And Omri did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and did more wickedly than all who were before him;
26 yea he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he caused, Israel, to sin,-provoking to anger Yahweh, God of Israel, with their vanities.
27 Now, the rest of the story of Omri, what he did, and his might that he shewed, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria,-and, Ahab his son, reigned, in his stead.
29 ¶ Now, Ahab son of Omri, began to reign over Israel, in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah,-and Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel, in Samaria, twenty-two years.
30 And Ahab son of Omri did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and did more wickedly than all that were before him.
31 And it come to pass, as though it had been too light a thing that he should walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and bowed down to him.
32 And he reared an altar unto Baal,-in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made the Sacred Stem,-and Ahab did yet more to provoke to anger Yahweh God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
34 In his days, did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho,-At the price of Abiram his firstborn, he laid its foundation, and, at the price of Segub his youngest, he set up its doors, according to the word of Yahweh which he spake through Joshua son of Nun.
1 Kings Chapter 17:
1 ¶ Then said Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, unto Ahab, By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not, these two years, be either dew or rain,-save at the bidding of my word.
2 Then came the word of Yahweh unto him, saying:
3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward,-and hide thyself in the ravine of Cherith, which faceth the Jordan;
4 and it shall be that, of the torrent, shalt thou drink,-and, the ravens, have I commanded to sustain thee, there.
5 So he went and did, according to the word of Yahweh,-yea he went and dwelt in the ravine of Cherith, which faceth the Jordan.
6 And, the ravens, used to bring him bread and flesh, in the morning, and bread and flesh, in the evening,-and, of the torrent, used he to drink. (Note: "torrent" Rotherham = "Jordan" RSV. The birds brought food to Elijah, and God created this ahead of the event, see verse 4 above.).
7 But it came to pass, at the end of certain days, that the torrent dried up,-because there had been no rain in the land.
8 ¶ Then came the word of Yahweh unto him, saying-
9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there,-Lo! I have commanded, there, a widow woman, to sustain thee.
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath, and, when he came to the entrance of the city, lo! there, a widow woman gathering sticks,-and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11 And, as she went to fetch it, he called to her and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread, in thy hand.
12 And she said-By the life of Yahweh, thy God, verily I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse,-and lo! I have been gathering a couple of sticks, so I shall go in and make it ready for me and for my son, that we may eat it-and die!
13 And Elijah said unto her-Do not fear, go in-make ready according to thy word,-howbeit, make me thereof a little cake, first, and bring it out to me, and, for thyself and thy son, make ready, afterwards.
14 For, thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, The jar of meal, shall not waste, and, the cruse of oil, shall not fail,-until the day that Yahweh giveth rain upon the face of the ground.
15 So she went and made ready, according to the word of Elijah,-and did eat, she, and he, and her house, certain days:
16 The jar of meal, did not waste,-and, the cruse of oil, did not fail,-according to the word of Yahweh, which he spake through Elijah.
17 ¶ And it came to pass, after these things, that the son of the woman, owner of the house, fell sick,-yea it came to pass that his sickness was very severe, until no, breath, was left in him.
18 Then said she unto Elijah, What have I in common with thee, O man of God? Hast thou come unto me, to call to remembrance mine iniquity, and to cause the death of my son?
19 And he said unto her-Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him unto the upper room, where, he, was staying, and laid him upon his own bed.
20 Then cried he unto Yahweh, and said,-O Yahweh, my God! Even upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, hast thou brought misfortune by causing the death of her son?
21 And he stretched himself out upon the boy, three times, and cried unto Yahweh, and said,-O Yahweh, my God! Let the life of this boy, I pray thee, come again within him.
22 And Yahweh hearkened unto the voice of Elijah,-and the life of the boy came again within him, and he lived.
23 Then Elijah took the boy, and carried him down out of the upper room, into the house, and gave him to his mother,-and Elijah said, See! thy son liveth.
24 And the woman said unto Elijah, Now, then I know, that, a man of God, thou art,-and that, the word of Yahweh, is in thy mouth, of a truth.
1 Kings Chapter 18:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, after many days, that, the word of Yahweh, came unto Elijah, in the third year, saying,-Go, shew thyself unto Ahab, that I may send rain upon the face of the ground.
2 And Elijah went, to show himself unto Ahab. Now, the famine, was severe in Samaria.
3 And Ahab had called for Obadiah, who was over his house. Now, Obadiah, was one who revered Yahweh, exceedingly.
4 And so it came to pass, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in caves, and sustained them, with bread and water.
5 So then Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go, and let us pass throughout the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the ravines, peradventure we may find grass, and save alive horse and mule, and not have more of the beasts cut off.
6 So they divided to them the land, to pass through it,-Ahab, went one way, by himself, and, Obadiah, went another way, by himself.
7 And so it was, as Obadiah was on the road, that lo! Elijah, met him,-and he recognised him, and fell upon his face, and said-Now art, thou, my lord Elijah?
8 And he said to him-I, am! Go, say to thy lord: Here, is, Elijah!
9 And he said-How have I sinned,-that, thou, art delivering thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?
10 By the life of Yahweh thy God, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee, and, when they have said-Nay! he hath taken an oath of the kingdom or the nation, that no one could find thee;
11 and, now, thou, art saying,-Go say to thy lord, Here, is, Elijah;
12 so shall it come to pass, as soon as, I, go from thee, that, the spirit of Yahweh, shall carry thee away-whither I know not, and so, when I go in to tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, then will he slay me,-and yet, thy servant, hath revered Yahweh, from my youth.
13 Was it not told my lord, what I did when Jezebel was slaying the prophets of Yahweh,-how I hid, of the prophets of Yahweh, a hundred men-by fifties-in caves, and sustained them with bread and water?
14 and yet, now, thou, art saying, Go, tell thy lord-Here, is, Elijah; and so he will slay me!
15 Then said Elijah-By the life of Yahweh of hosts, before whom I stand, to-day, will I show myself unto him.
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him,-and, Ahab, went to meet, Elijah.
17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Now, art, thou, troubling Israel?
18 And he said-I have not troubled Israel, but, thou and the house of thy father,-in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and followed Baal.
19 Now, therefore, send, gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel,-and the prophets of Baal, four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Sacred Stem, four hundred, who do eat at the table of Jezebel.
20 So Ahab sent among all the sons of Israel,-and gathered the prophets unto Mount Carmel.
21 ¶ And Elijah drew near unto all the people, and said-How long are ye limping on the two divided opinions? If, Yahweh, be GOD, follow, him, but, if, Baal, follow, him. But the people answered him, not a word.
22 Then said Elijah unto the people-I, am left, Yahweh’s, only, prophet,-but, the prophets of Baal, are four hundred and fifty men.
23 Let there be given us, therefore, two bullocks, and let them choose for themselves one bullock, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon the wood, but, fire, shall they not put,-then, I, will make ready the other bullock, and place upon the wood, but, fire, will I not put.
24 Then shall ye call on the name of your god, and, I, will call on the name of Yahweh, and it shall be, the God that respondeth by fire, he, is GOD. And all the people responded-Well spoken!
25 Then said Elijah to the prophets of Baal-Choose for yourselves one bullock, and make ye ready, first, for, ye, are many,-and call ye on the name of your god, but, fire, shall ye not put.
26 So they took the bullock which was given them, and made ready, and called on the name of Baal-from the morning even until the noon, saying-O Baal! answer us. But them was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped about by the altar which had been made.
27 And it came to pass, at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said-Cry with a loud voice, for, a god, he is, either he hath, a meditation, or an occasion to retire, or he hath, a journey,-peradventure, he, sleepeth, and must be awaked.
28 And they cried, with a loud voice, and cut themselves, after their custom, with swords, and with lances,-until the blood gushed out upon them.
29 And so it was, when noon was passed, that although they prophesied until the offering up of the evening gift, yet was there no voice nor any that answered, nor any that hearkened.
30 Then said Elijah unto all the people: Draw near unto, me. And all the people drew near unto, him. Then repaired he the broken-down altar of Yahweh; yea Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob,-
31 unto whom the word of Yahweh came, saying-Israel, shall be thy name;
32 and built, with the stones, an altar, in the name of Yahweh,-and he made a trench, as large as would contain two measures of seed, round about the altar;
33 and he put in order the wood,-and cut in pieces the bullock, and laid upon the wood. Then said he-Fill four pitchers with water, and pour out upon the ascending-sacrifice, and upon the wood. And they did so.
34 And he said-Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said-Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35 And the water ran round about the altar,-moreover also, the trench, filled he with water.
36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the gift, that Elijah the prophet drew near, and said, O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! To-day, let it be known-That, thou, art God in Israel, and that, I, am thy servant,-and that, by thy word, have I done all these things.
37 Answer me, O Yahweh! answer me, That this people may know, that, thou-Yahweh, art GOD,-so shalt, thou thyself, have turned their heart back again.
38 Then fell fire from Yahweh, and consumed the ascending-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust,-even the water that was in the trench, it licked up.
39 And, when all the people saw it, they fell upon their faces,-and said, Yahweh, he, is GOD, Yahweh, he, is GOD.
40 And Elijah said unto them-Seize ye the prophets of Baal-let not, a man, of them escape. So they seized them. And Elijah took them down unto the ravine of Kishon, and slaughtered them there.
41 ¶ Then said Elijah unto Ahab, Go up, eat and drink,-for there is a sound of a downpour of rain.
42 So Ahab went up, to eat and to drink,-but, Elijah, went up to the top of Carmel, and bowed himself to the earth, and put his face between his knees.
43 Then said he unto his young man-Go up, I pray thee, and look about in the direction of the sea. So he went up, and looked about, and said-There is, nothing whatever. Then said he-Go again, seven times.
44 And it came to pass, at the seventh time, that he said, Lo! a little cloud, like a man’s hand coming up from the sea. Then he said-Go up, say unto Ahab-Harness, and get thee down, lest the rain shut thee in.
45 And it came to pass, meanwhile, that, the heavens, had enshrouded themselves with clouds and wind, and there came a great rain, and Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel;
46 but, the hand of Yahweh, came upon Elijah, so he girded his loins,-and ran before Ahab, until thou enterest Jezreel.
1 Kings Chapter 19:
1 ¶ And Ahab told Jezebel, all that Elijah had done,-and withal, how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then sent Jezebel a messenger unto Elijah, saying,-So, let the gods do, and, so, let them add, if, by this time to-morrow, I make not thy life as the life of one of them.
3 And, when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah,-and left his servant there.
4 But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub,-and asked for his life, that he might die, and said-Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.
5 And, as he lay, and slept, under a certain shrub, lo! a messenger, touching him, who said to him-Rise, eat.
6 So he looked about, and lo! at his head, a cake baked on hot stones, and a cruse of water,-and he did eat and drink, and then went back and lay down.
7 And the messenger of Yahweh came again a second time, and touched him, and said-Rise, eat,-because, too much for thee, is the journey.
8 So he arose, and did eat and drink,-and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God-Horeb.
9 ¶ And he entered, there, into a cave, and lodged there,-and lo! the word of Yahweh came unto him, and said to him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said-Very jealous, have I been, for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thine altars, have they thrown down, thy prophets, also have they slain with the sword,-and, I alone, am left, and they have sought my life, to take it.
11 And he said-Go forth to-morrow, and stand in the mountain, before Yahweh. And lo! Yahweh, passing by, and a great and strong wind-rending the mountains, and breaking in pieces the crags, before Yahweh, Not, in the wind, was, Yahweh,-And, after the wind, an, earthquake, Not, in the earthquake, was, Yahweh;
12 And, after the earthquake, a, fire, Not, in the fire, was, Yahweh,-And, after the fire, the voice of a gentle whisper.
13 And it came to pass, when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went forth, and stood at the entrance of the cave,-and lo! unto him, a voice; and it said-What doest thou here, Elijah?
14 And he said-Very jealous, have I been, for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thine altars, have they thrown down, thy prophets also, have they slain with the sword,-and, I alone, am left, and they rove sought my life, to take it.
15 And Yahweh said unto him, Go, return to thy way, towards the wilderness of Damascus,-and, when thou enterest, then shalt thou anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
16 And, Jehu son of Minshi, shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel,-and, Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy stead:
17 Then shall it come to pass, that-him that escapeth the sword of Hazael, shall, Jehu, slay,-and, him that escapeth the sword of Jehu, shall, Elisha, slay;
18 Yet will I leave remaining in Israel, seven thousand,-all knees which have not bowed to Baal, and all mouths which have not kissed to him.
19 ¶ So he departed from thence, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, as he was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, he being with the twelfth,-so Elijah crossed over unto him, and cast his mantle towards him;
20 and he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said-Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, that I may follow thee. And he said unto him,-Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?
21 So he turned back from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and sacrificed them, and, with the implements of the oxen, boiled their flesh, and gave unto the people, and they did eat,-then he arose, and followed Elijah, and ministered unto him.
1 Kings Chapter 20:
1 ¶ Now, Ben-hadad, king of Syria, had gathered together all his forces, and, thirty-two kings, were with him, and horses and chariots,-then came he up, and laid siege to Samaria, and made war against it.
2 And he sent messengers unto Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him,-Thus, saith Ben-hadad,
3 Thy silver and thy gold, are, mine, and, thy wives and thy sons, the goodliest, are, mine.
4 Then responded the king of Israel, and said, According to thy word, my lord O king! thine, am I, and all that I have.
5 And the messengers came back again, and said, Thus, speaketh Ben-hadad, saying,-Because I sent unto thee, saying, Thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy sons, to me, shalt thou give,
6 Therefore, about this time to-morrow, will I send my servants unto thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants,-and it shall be, that, all the delight of thine eyes, shall they put in their hand, and take away.
7 Then called the king of Israel, for all the elders of the land, and said-Mark, I pray you, and see, how this man is seeking, mischief,-for he had sent unto me, for my wives, and for my sons, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I refused him not.
8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him,-Do not thou hearken, neither do thou consent.
9 So he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad-Say ye to my lord the king,-All that thou didst send for, to thy servant at the first, will I do, but, this thing, I cannot do. And the messengers departed, and took him back word.
10 Then Ben-hadad sent unto him and said,-So, let the gods do to me, and, so, let them add,-if the dust of Samaria suffice by handfuls, for all the people who are at my feet.
11 And the king of Israel responded and said: Tell him,-Let not, him that girdeth, boast himself like him, that looseneth.
12 ¶ And it came to pass, when he heard this message, as, he, was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants-Make ready! So they made ready, against the city.
13 And lo! a certain prophet, drew near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said,-Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold me! delivering it into thy hand, to-day, so shalt thou know that, I, am, Yahweh.
14 And Ahab said-By whom? And he said-Thus, saith Yahweh, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then said he-Who shall begin the war? And he said-Thou!
15 Then numbered he the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were found to be, two hundred and thirty-two,-and, after them, he numbered all the people all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.
16 And they went forth at noon. Now, Ben-hadad, was drinking himself drunk, in the pavilions, he and the thirty-two kings helping him.
17 Then went forth the young men of the princes of the provinces, first,-and, when Ben-hadad sent, they told him, saying-Men, have come forth, out of Samaria.
18 And he said-If, peaceably, they have come, take them alive,-or, if, fighting, they have come, alive, take ye them.
19 Now, when, these, had come forth out of the city, even the young men of the princes of the provinces,-with the force which was following them,
20 then smote they every one his man, and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them,-but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on horse, with horsemen.
21 And the king of Israel went forth, and took the horses and the chariots,-and he went on smiting the Syrians, with a great smiting.
22 ¶ Then drew near the prophet, unto the king of Israel, and said unto him-Go strengthen thyself, and mark and see, what thou wilt do,-for, at the return of the year, is, the king of Syria, coming up against thee.
23 And, the servants of the king of Syria, said unto him,-Gods of the mountains, are their gods, for this cause, prevailed they against us,-but, only let us fight with them in the plain, and verily we shall prevail against them.
24 But, this thing, do,-set aside the kings, every man out of his place, and put governors in their stead;
25 and, thou, must number thee a force, like the force which thou hast lost, both horse for horse and chariot for chariot, and, if we fight with them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
26 And so it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians,-and came up to Aphek, to fight with Israel;
27 and, the sons of Israel, were numbered, and provisioned, and went to meet them,-and the sons of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, whereas, the Syrians, filled the land.
28 Then approached the man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said-Thus, saith Yahweh-Because the Syrians have said-A god of the mountains, is Yahweh, but, not a god of the vales, is he, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude, into thy hand, so shalt thou know, that, I, am Yahweh.
29 So they encamped, these, over against, those, seven days,-and it came to pass, on the seventh day, that the battle was joined, and the sons of Israel smote the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen, in one day.
30 And they who were left fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men who were left,-and, Ben-hadad, fled, and came into the city, into a chamber within a chamber.
31 ¶ And his servants said unto him, Lo! we pray thee, we have heard, of the kings of the house of Israel, that, kings known for lovingkindness, they are. Let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth upon our loins, and ropes about our head, and let us go forth unto the king of Israel, peradventure he will save alive thy soul.
32 So they girded sackcloth upon their loins, and put ropes about their heads, and came in unto the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant, Ben-hadad, saith,-Let my soul live, I pray thee. And he said,-Is he yet alive? My brother, he is.
33 Now, the men, could divine, so they hastened to let him confirm the word of his own accord, and they said,-Thy brother, is Ben-hadad! He said therefore,-Go fetch him. So Ben-hadad came forth unto him, and he made him come up unto him on his chariot.
34 And he said unto him-The cities which my father took from thy father, will I restore, and, bazaars, shalt thou make thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. So then, I, with this covenant, will let thee go. So he solemnised with him a covenant, and let him go.
35 And, a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said unto his neighbour, by the word of Yahweh-Smite me, I pray thee. But the man refused to smite him.
36 So he said to him-Because thou hast not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh, lo! when thou art departing from me, there shall smite thee a lion. And when he departed from beside him, a lion found him, and smote him.
37 Then found he another man, and said,-Smite me, I pray thee. So the man smote him-kept on smiting and wounding.
38 Then the prophet departed, and waited for the king, by the way,-and disguised himself with his turban over his eyes.
39 And so it was, when, the king, was passing, he, cried out unto the king,-and said-Thy servant, went out in the midst of the battle, and lo! a man, turned aside and brought unto me a man, and said-Keep this man, if he be, missing, then shall, thy life, go for, his life, or, a talent of silver, shalt thou weigh out.
40 And so it was, as thy servant was busy here and there, that, he, was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him-Such, is thy judgment, thou thyself, hast decided it.
41 Then hastened he, and removed the turban from over his eyes,-and the king of Israel knew him, that, of the prophets, was, he.
42 And he said unto him-Thus, saith Yahweh, Because thou hast let go the man whom I had devoted, out of thy hand, therefore shall, thy life, be instead of, his life, and, thy people, instead of, his people.
43 And the king of Israel departed unto his house, sullen and disturbed,-and entered Samaria.
1 Kings Chapter 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.
2 Ahab, therefore, spake unto Naboth, saying-Come! give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, for, the same, is near by my house, and let me give thee, instead thereof, a vineyard better than it,-if it be good in thine eyes, I will give thee silver to the value of this.
3 And Naboth said unto Ahab,-Far be it from me, of Yahweh! that I should give up the inheritance of my fathers, unto thee!
4 So Ahab came into his house, sullen and disturbed, because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken unto him, that he should have said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. So he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and did eat no food.
5 ¶ Then came unto him Jezebel his wife,-and said unto him-Why is it, that thy spirit is sullen, that thou art, not eating food?
6 And he said unto her-Because I spake unto Naboth, the Jezreelite, and said unto him-Come! give me thy vineyard for silver, or, if thou wouldst prefer, I will give thee a vineyard, in its stead; and he said-I will not give thee my vineyard.
7 Then Jezebel his wife said unto him: Art, thou, still, going to carry on the kingdom over Israel? Rise! eat food, and let thy heart be merry, I, will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite!
8 So she wrote letters, in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with his signet-ring,-and sent the letters unto the elders, and unto the nobles who were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
9 Now she wrote in the letters, saying,-Proclaim ye a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people;
10 then let two reckless men take their seats before him, that they may bear witness against him, saying, Thou hast reviled God and king! then shall ye carry him forth and stone him, that he die.
11 So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did just as Jezebel had sent unto them,-as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them:
12 they proclaimed a fast,-and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people.
13 Then came in the two reckless men, and sat before him, and the men bare witness against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, Naboth hath reviled God and king! So they carried him forth, outside the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
14 Then sent they unto Jezebel, saying,-Naboth is stoned and is dead.
15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said unto Ahab-Rise! take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for silver, for Naboth is not alive, but dead!
16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab arose, to go down unto the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession thereof.
17 ¶ Then came the word of Yahweh unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying:
18 Arise! go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria,-lo! he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he hath gone down, to take possession thereof.
19 Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying-Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou committed murder, and also taken possession? Then shalt thou speak unto him, saying: Thus, saith Yahweh, In the place where the dogs have lapped up the blood of Naboth, shall the dogs lap up thy blood, even thine.
20 Then said Ahab unto Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he said: I have found thee! Because thou hast sold thyself to do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,
21 Behold me! saith he bringing in upon thee, calamity, and I will consume after thee,-and cut off of Ahab, even the meanest, whether shut up or left at large in Israel;
22 and will deliver up thy house-Like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah,-for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked, and caused, Israel, to sin.
23 Moreover also, concerning Jezebel, hath Yahweh spoken, saying,-The dogs, shall eat Jezebel, in the town-land of Jezreel:
24 Him that dieth, of Ahab, in the city, shall, the dogs, eat,-and, him that dieth in the field, shall, the birds of heaven, eat.
25 But indeed, there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-whom Jezebel his wife goaded on;
26 so that he did very abominably, in going after the manufactured gods,-according to all which the Amorites had done, whom Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted,-and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
28 Then came the word of Yahweh unto Elijah the Tishbite, saying:
29 Hast thou seen that Allah hath humbled himself, before me? Because he hath humbled himself before me, I will not bring in the calamity in his days, In the days of his son, will I bring in the calamity upon his house.
1 Kings Chapter 22:
1 ¶ And there continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2 But it came to pass, in the third year, that Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down unto the king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that, ours, is Ramoth-gilead,-yet, we, are too idle to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to make war upon Ramoth-gilead?
5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people are us thy people, my horses as thy horses.
6 Then said Jehoshaphat unto the king of Israel,-Seek, I pray thee, at once, the word of Yahweh. So the king of Israel gathered together the prophets, about four hundred men, and said unto them-Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead, to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said-Go up, that the Lord may deliver it into the hand of the king.
7 Then said Jehoshaphat, Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh, besides,-that we may seek, from him?
8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Besides, is a certain man, by whom we might seek Yahweh, but, I, hate him, for he is never moved to prophesy concerning me anything good, only evil, Micaiah, son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
9 Then the king of Israel called a certain courtier,-and said, Hasten Micaiah son of Imlah.
10 Now, the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, were sitting-each man upon his throne, having put on robes, in a level place, at the entrance of the gate of Samaria,-and, all the prophets, were being moved to prophesy before them;
11 when Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron,-and said-Thus, saith Yahweh,-With these, shalt thou push down the Syrians, until thou hast consumed them.
12 And, all the prophets, were being moved to prophesy, in like manner, saying,-Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and thou shelf prosper, and Yahweh will deliver it, into the hand of the king.
13 Now, the messenger who went to call Micaiah, spake unto him, saying, Behold, I pray thee, the words of the prophets, with one mouth, are good, as touching the king, let thy word, I pray thee, be as the word of one of them, so wilt thou speak that which is good.
14 And Micaiah said,-By the life of Yahweh, what Yahweh saith unto me, that, will I, speak.
15 ¶ So he came unto the king, and the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he said unto him-Go up and prosper, and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
16 And the king said unto him, How many times must, I, adjure thee,-that thou speak unto me nothing but truth, in the name of Yahweh?
17 And he said-I saw all Israel, scattered among the mountains, like sheep that have no shepherd,-so Yahweh said, These have, no masters, let them return every man unto his own house, in peace.
18 Then said the king of Israel, unto Jehoshaphat,-Did I not say unto thee, He will not be moved to prophesy concerning me anything good, only calamity.
19 Then he said, Therefore, hear thou the word of Yahweh,-I saw Yahweh, sitting upon his throne, and all the host of the heavens, standing by him, on his right hand, and on his left.
20 And Yahweh said, Who will persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall, at Ramoth-gilead? And, one, said in this manner, and, another, said in that manner.
21 Then came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said-I, will persuade him.
22 And Yahweh said unto him-Wherewith? And he said-I will go forth, and become a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets,-So he said,-Thou mayest persuade, yea and prevail, go forth, and do so.
23 Now, therefore, lo! Yahweh hath suffered a spirit of falsehood to be put into the mouth of all these thy prophets. But, Yahweh himself, hath spoken concerning thee, calamity.
24 Then drew near Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, and smote Micaiah on the cheek,-and said-Where then passed the Spirit of Yahweh, from me, to speak unto thee?
25 Then said Micaiah, Lo! thou art about to see, on that day,-when thou enterest a chamber within a chamber, to hide thyself.
26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon captain of the city,-and unto Joash son of the king;
27 and thou shalt say-Thus, saith the king, Put this man into the prison,-and let him eat the bread of oppression, with the water of oppression, until I enter in peace.
28 Then said Micaiah, If thou, return, in peace, Yahweh hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you!
29 ¶ So the king of Israel went up, with Jehoshaphat king of Judah, unto Ramoth-gilead.
30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat-I am about to disguise myself, and enter into the battle, thou, therefore, put on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself, and entered into the battle.
31 Now, the king of Syria, had commanded the captains of chariots which he had, thirty and two, saying, Ye shall not fight with small or great,-save with the king of Israel alone.
32 And it came to pass, when the chariot-captains saw Jehoshaphat, that, they, said: Surely it is, the king of Israel! But, when they turned aside against him to fight, Jehoshaphat cried out.
33 And it came to pass, when the chariot-captains saw that it was, not the king of Israel, that they turned back, from pursuing him.
34 But, a certain man, drawing a bow in his innocence, smote the king of Israel, between the shoulder-joints and the coat of mail,-wherefore he said to his charioteer-Turn thy hand, and convey me out of the host, for I am sore wounded.
35 But the battle increased that day, and, the king, was propped up in the chariot, before the Syrians,-and died in the evening, and so the blood of the wound ran out into the hollow of the chariot.
36 And a loud cry went through the host, at the going in of the sun, saying-Every man to his own city! and every man to his own land!
37 So the king died, and was brought into Samaria,-and they buried the king, in Samaria.
38 And, when the chariot was washed out at the pool of Samaria, the dogs lapped up his blood, also, the harlots, bathed there,-according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken.
39 Now, the rest of the story of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all the cities that he built, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers,-and, Ahaziah his son, reigned, in his stead.
41 ¶ Now, Jehoshaphat son of Asa, began to reign over Judah,-in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel.
42 Jehoshaphat, was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and, twenty-five years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, the name of his mother, was Azubah, daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father, he turned not aside therefrom,-doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: nevertheless, the high places, were not taken away,-still were the people offering sacrifices and burning incense in the high places.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Now, the rest of the story of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 Moreover, the rest of the male devotees who remained in the days of Asa his father, he consumed out of the land.
47 And, king, was there none in Edom, a prefect, was king.
48 Jehoshaphat, made ships of Tarshish, to go to Ophir, for gold; but they went not,-for ships had been broken to pieces in Ezion-geber.
49 Then, said Ahaziah son of Ahab, unto Jehoshaphat, Let, my servants, go with, thy servants, in the ships,-but Jehoshaphat did not consent.
50 So Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David his father,-and, Jehoram his son, reigned, in his stead.
51 Ahaziah son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,-and reigned over Israel, two years.
52 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and went in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused, Israel, to sin.
53 Yea he served Baal, and bowed down to him,-and provoked to anger Yahweh, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
2 Kings Chapter 1:
1 ¶ Then Moab revolted against Israel, after the death of Ahab.
2 And Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber, which was in Samaria, and became sick,-so he sent messengers, and said unto them-Go enquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.
3 But, the messenger of Yahweh, spake unto Elijah the Tishbite, Rise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria,-and say unto them-Is it, because there is no God in Israel, that, ye, are going to enquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron?
4 Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, From the bed whereunto thou hast gone up, shalt thou not come down, for thou shalt, surely die. And Elijah departed.
5 And, when the messengers returned unto him, he said unto them-How is it that ye have returned?
6 And they said unto him-A man, came up to meet us, and said unto us-Go, return unto the king who sent you, and ye shall say unto him, Thus, saith Yahweh-Is it, because there is no God in Israel, that, thou, art sending to enquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron? Therefore, from the bed whereunto thou hast gone up, shalt thou not come down, for thou shalt, surely die.
7 And he said unto them, What was the manner of the man who came up to meet you,-and spake unto you these words?
8 And they said unto him-A hairy man, with a leathern girdle girt about his loins. And he said-Elijah the Tishbite, it was.
9 ¶ Then sent he unto him a captain of fifty, with his fifty, and he went up unto him, and lo! he abode on the top of the mountain, and he said unto him, O man of God! the king, hath said, Come down!
10 And Elijah responded and said unto the captain of fifty, If, then, a man of God, I am, let fire come down out of the heavens, and devour thee and thy fifty. So there came down fire out of the heavens, and devoured him and his fifty.
11 Then he again sent unto him another captain of fifty, with his fifty. And he also spake and said unto him, O man of God! thus, saith the king, Haste thee, come down!
12 And Elijah responded and said unto them-If, a man of God, I am, let fire come down out of the heavens, and devour thee and thy fifty. And there came down a fire of God, out of the heavens, and devoured him and his fifty.
13 Then he again sent a third captain of fifty, with his fifty,-and the third captain of fifty ascended and came near, and bowed down upon his knees before Elijah, and made supplication unto him, and said unto him, O man of God! let my life, I pray thee, and the lives of these thy fifty servants, be precious in thine eyes.
14 Lo! there hath come down fire out of the heavens, and devoured the captains of the former fifties, with their fifties,-now, therefore, let my life be precious in thine eyes.
15 And the messenger of Yahweh said unto Elijah, Go down with him, do not fear because of him, So he arose, and went down with him, unto the king;
16 and said unto him-Thus, saith Yahweh-For that thou didst send messengers to enquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron, was it because there was no God in Israel, for whose word thou couldst enquire? Therefore, from the bed whereunto thou hast gone up, shalt thou not come down, for thou shalt, surely die.
17 And he died, according to the word of Yahweh which, Elijah, had spoken, and Jehoram reigned in his stead, in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,-because he had no son.
18 Now, the rest of the story of Ahaziah, the things that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
2 Kings Chapter 2:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when Yahweh was about to take up Elijah in a storm into the heavens, that Elijah departed, with Elisha, from Gilgal.
2 Then said Elijah unto Elisha-Tarry here, I pray thee, for, Yahweh, hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, By the life of Yahweh and by the life of thine own soul, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
3 And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came forth unto Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that, to-day, Yahweh is taking away thy lord, from thy head? And he said-I also, know, be silent.
4 Then Elijah said to him-Elisha, I pray thee, tarry here, for, Yahweh, hath sent me to Jericho. And he said-By the life of Yahweh and by the life of thine own soul, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
5 Then drew near the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, unto Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that, to-day, Yahweh is taking away thy lord from thy head? And he said-I also, know; be silent.
6 And Elijah said to him-Tarry here, I pray thee, for, Yahweh, hath sent me to the Jordan. And he said-By the life of Yahweh and by the life of thine own soul, I will not leave thee. So they two, went on.
7 But, fifty men of the sons of the prophets, came, and stood over against them, afar off,-and, they two, stood by the Jordan.
8 Then Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided, hither and thither,-so that they two, passed over, on dry ground.
9 ¶ And it came to pass, as they went over, that, Elijah, said unto Elisha-Ask, what I shall do for thee, ere yet I be taken from thee. And Elisha said, Let there be, I pray thee, a double portion of thy spirit upon me.
10 And he said-Thou hast asked a hard thing,-if thou see me when taken from thee, thou shall have it, so, but, if not, thou shalt not have it.
11 And it came to pass, as they were going on and on and talking, that lo! there was a chariot of fire, with horses of fire, which parted, those two, asunder,-and Elijah went up in a storm, into the heavens.
12 And, as soon as Elisha saw it, he, began crying out-My father! my father! The chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! But, when he could see him no longer, he took hold of his clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
13 ¶ Then took he up the mantle of Elijah, which had fallen from him,-and returned and stood, on the brink of the Jordan;
14 and took the mantle of Elijah which had fallen from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah? And, when, he also, smote the waters, they were divided, hither and thither, and Elisha, passed over.
15 And, when the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho, over against him, saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah, resteth, on Elisha. So they came to meet him, and bowed themselves down to him, to the ground.
16 Then said they unto him-Lo! we pray thee, there are with thy servants fifty men, sons of valour-let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy lord, lest the Spirit of Yahweh have borne him away, and cast him on one of the mountains, or into one of the valleys. And he said-Ye shall not send.
17 But, when they urged him until he was ashamed, he said-Send. So they sent fifty men, and made search three days, but found him not.
18 And, when they came back unto him, he, having tarried at Jericho, he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Do not go?
19 ¶ And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Lo! we pray thee, the situation of the city, is good, as, my lord, seeth,-but, the waters, are bad, and, the land, apt to miscarry.
20 And he said-Bring me a new bowl, and put therein, salt. So they brought it unto him;
21 and he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast therein, saith,-and said-Thus, saith Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall come from thence, no longer, death or aptness to miscarry.
22 So the waters were healed, as they remain unto this day,-according to the word of Elisha which he spake.
23 And he went up from thence, to Bethel,-and, as he was going up on the way, some lads, came forth, out of the city, and made mockery of him, and said to him, Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!
24 And, when he turned round and saw them, he cursed them, in the name of Yahweh,-and there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare, of them, forty-two youths.
25 And he went from thence, unto Mount Carmel,-and, from thence, he returned, to Samaria.
2 Kings Chapter 3:
1 ¶ Now, Jehoram son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah,-and he reigned twelve years.
2 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, only, not like his father, nor like his mother,-but he put away the pillars of Baal which, his father, had made;
3 nevertheless, unto the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat which he caused Israel to commit, he did cleave,-he turned not away therefrom
4 Now, Mesha king of Moab, was a sheep-master,-and used to render to the king of Israel, the wool of hundred thousand fat sheep, and of a hundred thousand rams.
5 And it came to pass, when Ahab died, that the king of Moab revolted against the king of Israel.
6 ¶ So King Jehoram went forth, on that day, out of Samaria, and numbered all Israel.
7 And he departed, and sent unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying-The king of Moab, hath revolted against me, wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said-I will go up, I am as thou art, my people are as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
8 And he said-Which way, then, shall we go up? And he said-The way of the wilderness of Edom.
9 Then departed the king of Israel, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom, and went round, a journey of seven days,-and there was no water for the host, nor for the cattle that went with them.
10 Then said the king of Israel-Alas! for Yahweh hath called these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
11 So Jehoshaphat said-Is there not, here, a prophet of Yahweh, that we may enquire of Yahweh, from him? Then answered one of the servants of the king of Israel, and said, Here, is Elisha son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.
12 Then said Jehoshaphat, The word of Yahweh, is with him. So the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, went down unto him.
13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel-What have I and thou in common? get thee unto the prophets of thy father, and unto the prophets of thy mother. But the king of Israel said to him-Nay! for Yahweh hath called together these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
14 Then said Elisha-By the life of Yahweh of hosts, before whom I stand, were it not that, the countenance of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would lift up, I would neither look at thee, nor see thee.
15 But, now, bring me one that can touch the strings. For it used to be, when the player touched the strings, then would, the hand of Yahweh, be upon him.
16 Then said he, Thus, saith Yahweh, Make, in this torrent-bed, pits, pits!
17 For, thus, saith Yahweh-Ye shall not see wind, and ye shall not see rain, yet, that torrent-bed, shall be filled with water,-And ye shall drink, ye, and your cattle, and your beasts;
18 And, this being a small thing in the eyes of Yahweh, he will deliver Moab into your hand;
19 And ye shall smite every strong city, and every choice city, and, every goodly tree, shall ye fell, and, all fountains water, shall ye close up,-and, every goodly heritage, shall ye mar with stones.
20 ¶ And it came to pass, in the morning, when the offering ascended, that lo! waters, were coming in from the way of Edom,-and the land was filled with the water.
21 Now, all Moab, had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them,-so they came together, from all who could gird on a girdle and upwards, and took their stand at the border.
22 And, when they rose early in the morning, the sun, shone forth upon the waters,-and so the Moabites beheld over against them, the waters, red as blood.
23 They said therefore-Blood,-this! Destroyed! The kings have destroyed each other! Yea they have smitten every man his neighbour,-Now, then, to the spoil, O Moab!
24 And, when they came into the camp of Israel, Israel arose and smote Moab, and they fled from before them,-so they entered thereinto, yea still farther entered Moab;
25 And, the cities, they pulled down, and, on every goodly heritage, they cast every man his stone, and filled it, and, all fountains of waters, they closed up, and, every goodly tree, they felled, and, though they left the stones thereof in Kir-haraseth, yet the slingers surrounded and smote it.
26 And, when the king of Moab saw that, the battle, prevailed against him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through against the king of Edom, but they could not.
27 So he took his firstborn son who was to have reigned in his stead, and offered him up as an ascending-sacrifice upon the wall. And so it came to pass that there was great indignation against Israel. And they brake up from against him, and returned to their own land.
2 Kings Chapter 4:
1 ¶ Now, a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets, made outcry unto Elisha, saying-Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and, thou, knowest that, thy servant, was one who revered Yahweh,-now, the creditor, hath come to take my two boys to himself as bondmen.
2 And Elisha said unto her-What shall I do for thee? tell me what thou, hast, in the house. And she said-Thy maid-servant hath, nothing at all, in the house, save a flask of oil.
3 And he said-Go, ask thee vessels, from without, of all thy neighbours,-empty vessels, let them not be few.
4 And, when thou hast come in, then shalt thou shut the door behind thee and behind thy sons, and shalt pour out into all these vessels,-and, that which is full, shalt thou set aside.
5 So she went out from his presence, and shut the door behind her, and behind her sons,-they bringing near to her, and she pouring out.
6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son-Bring me a vessel more. And he said unto her-There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
7 Then came she in, and told the man of God, and he said-Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor,-and, thou and thy sons, shall live of the rest.
8 ¶ And so it was, on a day, that Elisha passed over unto Shunem, where was a woman of position, and she constrained him to eat bread,-and so it came about, whensoever he passed that way, that he turned aside thither, to eat bread.
9 Then said she unto her husband, Lo! I pray thee-I perceive that, a holy man of God, he is,-passing our way continually.
10 I pray thee, let us make a little upper chamber on the wall and set for him there-a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand,-so shall it be, when he cometh to us, that he can turn in thither.
11 And it came to pass, on a day, that he came thither,-so he turned aside into the upper chamber, and slept there.
12 Then said he unto Gehazi, his young man, Call this Shunammitess. And he called her, and she stood before him.
13 And he said to him-I pray thee, say unto her-Lo! thou hast cared for us with all this anxious care, what can be done for thee? Is it, that we should speak for thee, unto the king, or unto the general of the army? But she said, In the midst of mine own people, do, I, dwell.
14 So he said, What then can be done for thee? And Gehazi said, Verily, she hath no, son, and, her husband, is, old.
15 And he said-Call her. So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.
16 Then said he-At this season, about the time of spring, thou, shalt be embracing a son. And she said-Nay! my lord, thou man of God, do not delude thy maid-servant.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son, at this season, about the time of spring, when Elisha, had spoken unto her.
18 ¶ And, when the child was grown, it came to pass, on a certain day, that he went out unto his father, unto the reapers;
19 and he said unto his father-My head! my head! So he said unto the young man, Carry him to his mother.
20 And, when he had carried him, and brought him in unto his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God,-and shut him in, and then went out.
22 And she called unto her husband, and said-Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses,-that I may run unto the man of God, and return!
23 And he said-Wherefore art thou going unto him, to-day, neither new moon nor sabbath? And she said-Peace!
24 Then saddled she the ass, and said unto her young man-Lead on, and go forward,-do not slacken, for my sake, the riding, except I have bidden thee.
25 So she went her way, and came unto the man of God, unto Mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her, opposite, that he said unto Gehazi young man, Lo! this Shunammitess!
26 Now, run, I pray thee, to meet her, and say to her-Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she said, Well!
27 But, when she came unto the man of God, on the mount, she caught hold of his feet,-and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away, when the man of God said-Let her alone! for, her life, is embittered to her, howbeit, Yahweh, hath hidden it from me, and hath not told me.
28 Then said she, Did I ask a son, of my lord? Said I not, Thou must not mislead me?
29 And he said to Gehazi-Gird thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way, if thou meet with any man, thou must not bless him, and, if any man bless thee, thou must not respond to him,-then shalt thou lay my staff upon the face of the boy.
30 But the mother of the boy said, By the life of Yahweh and by the life of thine own soul, I will not leave thee. So he arose and followed her.
31 Now, Gehazi, had passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the boy, but there was neither voice, nor attention,-so he returned to meet him, and told him, saying-The boy hath not awaked.
32 And, when Elisha had come into the house, lo! the boy, was dead, laid upon his bed.
33 So he went in, and shut the door upon them two,-and prayed unto Yahweh.
34 Then gat he up, and lay upon the child, and put his own mouth upon his mouth, and his own eyes upon his eyes, and his own hands upon his hands, and bowed himself upon him,-and the flesh of the child, waxed warm.
35 Then retraced he, and walked in the house-once to and fro, and then went up and bowed himself upon him,-and the boy sneezed as many as seven times, and the boy opened his eyes.
36 Then called he Gehazi, and said-Call this Shunammitess. So he called her, and, when she was come in unto him, he said-Take up thy son.
37 So she came in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground,-and took up her son, and went forth.
38 ¶ Now, Elisha, returned to Gilgal, and there was, a famine, in the land, and, the sons of the prophets, being seated before him, he said to his young man-Put on the large pot, and boil a mess of food, for the sons of the prophets.
39 And one went out into the field, to gather herbs, and found a vine in the field, and gathered thereof wild gourds, his lap full, and came in, and sliced them into the pot; for they knew them not.
40 So they poured out for the men to eat,-and it came so pass, as they were eating of the mess, that, they, made outcry and said-Death in the pot, O man of God! And they could not eat.
41 And he said-Then fetch meal. And he cast it into the pot,-and then said-Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
42 And, a man, came in from Baal-Shalisha, and brought for the man of God firstfruit bread, twenty barley loaves, and garden grain in the husk thereof. And he said-Give to the people, that they may eat.
43 But his attendant said-How can I set this before a hundred men? And he said-Give to the people, that they may eat, for, Thus, saith Yahweh, They are about to eat and to leave remaining.
44 So he set before them, and they did eat and left remaining, according to the word of Yahweh.
2 Kings Chapter 5:
1 ¶ Now, Naaman, general of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man in presence of his lord, and held in honour, because, by him, had Yahweh given deliverance to Syria,-and, the man, was a hero of valour-but, a leper.
2 Now, the Syrians, had gone out in companies, and had brought back out of the land of Israel, a little maiden,-who became an attendant on the wife of Naaman.
3 And she said unto her mistress, Ah! would that my lord were before the prophet, who is in Samaria! then, would he set him free from his leprosy.
4 And he went in and told his lord, saying,-Thus and thus, hath spoken the maiden who is of the land of Israel!
5 And the king of Syria said-Go, get in, that I may send a letter unto the king of Israel. So he went, and took in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
6 And he brought in the letter unto the king of Israel, saying, Now, therefore, when this letter cometh in unto thee, lo! I have sent unto thee, Naaman my servant, and thou shalt set him free from his leprosy.
7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am, I, God, to kill and to make alive, that, this, man is sending unto me, to set one free from his leprosy,-but, of a truth, just mark, I pray you, and see, that he, is seeking an occasion, against me.
8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent unto the king, saying-Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come, I pray thee, unto me, that he may get to know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9 ¶ So Naaman came, with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the entrance of the house of Elisha;
10 and Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying,-Go and bathe seven times in the Jordan, so shall thy flesh come back to thee, and be thou clean.
11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away,-and said-Lo! I thought, Unto me, will he, come right out, and take his stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand towards the spot, and so set free the leper.
12 Are not, Abanah and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not bathe, in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage.
13 Then drew near his servants, and spake unto him, and said-My father! if, some great thing, the prophet had commanded thee, wouldst thou not have done it? then, how much rather, when he hath said unto thee, Bathe and be clean?
14 Then went he down, and dipped himself in the Jordan, seven times, according to the word of the man of God: and his flesh came back, as the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15 ¶ And he returned unto the man of God, he and all his company; and came, and took his stand before him, and said-Lo! I pray thee-I know that there is no God in all the earth, save in Israel,-now, therefore, I pray thee, accept a blessing from thy servant.
16 But he said-By the life of Yahweh, before whom I stand, I will not accept one. And, though he urged him to accept it, yet did he refuse.
17 Then said Naaman, Shall there not, then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant, two mules’ burden of earth? For thy servant will henceforth offer neither ascending-offering nor sacrifice to other gods, save only to Yahweh.
18 In this thing, Yahweh grant forgiveness to thy servant,-When my lord entereth the house of Rimmon, to bow down therein, he leaning upon my hand, and so I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when he boweth down in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh, I pray, grant forgiveness to thy servant, in this thing.
19 And he said unto him-Go and prosper! But, when he had gone from him some distance,
20 ¶ Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said-Lo! my lord, hath restrained, this Naaman the Syrian, by not taking at his hand that which he brought! By the life of Yahweh, verily, I will runs after him, and accept of him, something.
21 So Gehazi hastened after Naaman. And, when Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from his chariot to meet him, and said,-Is all well?
22 And he said, All is well. My lord, hath sent me to say, Lo! just now, have come unto me, two young men out of the hill country of Ephraim, of the sons of the prophets,-give for them, I pray thee, a talent, of silver, and two changes of raiment.
23 And Naaman said, Be content, accept two talents. So he urged him, and bound up two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his young men, and they bare them before him.
24 And, when he came to the hill-tower, he took them from their hand, and put them in charge within,-and let the men go, and they departed.
25 Now, when, he, came in and stood before his lord, Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said,-Thy servant hath been neither hither nor thither.
26 Then he said unto him-My heart, had not gone with thee, when someone turned again from off his chariot, to meet thee! Is it a time to accept silver, or to accept raiment, or oliveyards, or vineyards, or flocks or herds, or men-servants, or maid-servants?
27 The leprosy of Naaman, therefore, shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed, to times age-abiding. And he went forth from before him-a leper-like snow.
2 Kings Chapter 6:
1 ¶ And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha,-See, we pray thee, the place wherein we sit before thee, is too strait for us.
2 Let us go, we pray thee, as far as the Jordan, and fetch from thence every man a single beam, and let us make us a place wherein we may sit. And he said-Go ye.
3 Then said one-Be content, we pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he said-I myself, will go.
4 So he went with them,-and, when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 And it came to pass, as one was felling a branch, that, the axe-head, fell into the water, so he made outcry and said-Alas! my lord, for, it, was borrowed!
6 And the man of God said-Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a piece of wood and cast it in thither, and the iron did swim.
7 And he said-Take it up to thee. So he put forth his hand, and took it.
8 ¶ Now, the king of Syria, was making war against Israel,-so he took counsel with his servants, saying-In such and such a place, shall be my encampment.
9 The man of God, therefore, sent unto the king of Israel, saying-Beware of passing by this place,-for, thither, are the Syrians coming down.
10 So the king of Israel sent unto the place whereof the man of God had spoken to him and warned him, and was on his guard there,-not once nor twice
11 Then was the heart of the king of Syria disquieted concerning this thing,-and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not tell me, who of our men are for the king of Israel?
12 Then said one of his servants, None, my lord O king,-but, Elisha, the prophet, who is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words which thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.
13 ¶ And he said-Go, and see where he is, that I may send and take him. And it was told him, saying-Lo! in Dothan.
14 Therefore sent he thither-horses and chariots, and a strong force,-and they came in by night, and encompassed the city.
15 And, when the attendant of the man of God arose early and went forth, lo! a force surrounding the city, with horses and chariots. Then said his young man unto him-Alas! my lord, what shall we do?
16 And he said-Do not fear,-for, more, are, they who are with us, than, they who are with them.
17 Then prayed Elisha, and said, O Yahweh! open, I beseech thee, his eyes, that he may see. And Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and lo! the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire, round about Elisha.
18 And, when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Yahweh, and said-Smite, I beseech thee, this people, with sudden blindness. And he smote them with sudden blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
19 Then Elisha said unto them-This, is not the way, neither is, this, the city, follow me, that I may lead you unto the man, whom ye would secure! So he led them to Samaria.
20 And it came to pass, when they had entered Samaria, that Elisha said, O Yahweh! open the eyes of these men, that they may see! And Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw, and lo! they were in the midst of Samaria!
21 Then said the king of Israel unto Elisha, when he saw them,-Shall I smite-shall I smite, my father?
22 And he said-Thou shalt not smite. Them whom thou hadst taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow, wouldst, thou, have been smiting? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go their way unto their lord.
23 And he made for them a great feast, and, when they had eaten and drunk, he let them go, and they went their way unto their lord. So then, troops of Syrians came again, no more, into the land of Israel.
24 ¶ But it came to pass, after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered together all his host,-and came up and laid siege against Samaria.
25 And there came to be, a great famine, in Samaria, and lo! they continued the siege against it,-until an ass’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and one pint of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
26 And so it was that, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman, made outcry unto him, saying-Save, my lord, O king!
27 And he said-If Yahweh do not save thee, whence should I save thee? out of the threshing-floor or out of the wine-press?
28 And the king said to her-What aileth thee? And she said-This woman, said unto me-Give thy son, that we may eat him, to-day, and, my son, will we eat to-morrow.
29 So we cooked my son, and did eat him,-and I said unto her, on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; But she had hid her son.
30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes, while yet he was passing by upon the wall,-so the people looked, and lo! sackcloth upon his flesh, within.
31 And he said-So, let God do to me, and, so, let him add,-if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remain on him, to-day!
32 Now, Elisha, being seated in his house, and, the elders, seated with him,-when he had sent a man from before him, ere yet the messenger could come in unto him, he himself, said unto the elders-Do ye see how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? See! when the messenger is coming in, close ye the door, and press him back with the door, is not the sound of his lord’s feet behind him?
33 While yet he was speaking with them, lo! the messenger, coming down unto him,-and he said,-Lo! this, is a calamity from Yahweh, why should I wait for Yahweh, any longer?
2 Kings Chapter 7:
1 ¶ Then said Elisha-Hear ye the word of Yahweh,-Thus, saith Yahweh-About this time to-morrow, a measure of fine meal for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then the officer on whose hand the king leaned responded to the man of God, and said, Even if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could this thing, come to pass? And he said-Lo! thou, art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat!
3 ¶ Now there were, four men, lepers, at the entrance of the gate,-and they said one to another-Why are, we, sitting here until we are dead?
4 If we say-Let us enter into the city, Then, the famine, is in the city, and we shall die there, and, if we remain here, then shall we die. Now, therefore, let us fall away unto the camp of the Syrians, if they save us alive, we shall live, and, if they put us to death, we shall die.
5 So they rose up in the twilight, to enter into the camp of the Syrians,-and, when they entered the outskirts of the camp of the Syrians, lo! there was not there, a man.
6 Now, the Lord, had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, noise of horses, a noise of a great host,-and they said one to another-Lo! the king of Israel hath hired against us-the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come against us.
7 So they arose, and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses,-the camp, just as it was,-and fled for their lives.
8 When, therefore, these lepers came in as far as the outskirts of the camp, they entered into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried from thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went away and hid them,-and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried from thence-and went and hid them.
9 Then said they one to another-Not a right thing, are, we, doing. This day, is, a day of good tidings, and, we, are holding our peace, if we tarry until the light of the morning, there will come upon us, some misfortune,-Now, therefore, come and let us go in, and tell the household of the king.
10 So they came in and called unto the gate of the city, and told them, saying, We entered into the camp of the Syrians, and lo! there was not there, a man, nor sound of human being,-only horses tied, and asses tied, and their tents, just as they were!
11 And the watchers of the gate called and told it to the household of the king, within.
12 ¶ Then arose the king by night, and said unto his servants, Let me tell you, I pray you, what the Syrians have done to us,-they knew that we were, famished, so they have gone forth out of the camp, to hide in the field, saying, When they come forth out of the city, then shall we take them alive, and, into the city, will we enter.
13 Then responded one of his servants, and said-Let there be taken, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which have been left therein, there they are, according to all the multitude of Israel who have been left therein, there they are, according to all the multitude of Israel, who have been consumed,-and let us send and see!
14 So they took two chariots and horses,-and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see!
15 And they followed them as far as the Jordan, and lo! all the way, was full of garments, and utensils, which the Syrians had cast away in their fright,-and the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 Then went the people forth and spoiled the camp of the Syrians,-and so there came to be-a measure of fine meal for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.
17 Now, the king, had set the officer on whose hand he leaned, in charge over the gate, and the people trode upon him in the gate, that he died,-as spake the man of God, who said it when the messenger came down to him.
18 Yea it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken unto the messenger, saying,-Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, shall there be about this time to-morrow, in the gate of Samaria:
19 And when the officer responded to the man of God, and said, Lo! then, if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could it be according to this word? And he said,-Lo! thou art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat.
20 Yea it fell out to him, thus,-and the people trode upon him in the gate, that he died.
2 Kings Chapter 8:
1 ¶ Now, Elisha, had spoken unto the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying-Arise, and take thy journey, thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn, for Yahweh hath called for a famine, moreover also, it is coming upon the land seven years.
2 So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God,-and took her journey, she and her household, and she sojourned in the land of the Philistines, seven years.
3 And it came to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines,-and she went forth to make outcry unto the king, concerning her house and concerning her field.
4 Now, the king, was speaking unto Gehazi, servant of the man of God, saying, Do recount unto me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
5 And so it was, just as he was recounting to the king how he had restored the dead to life, lo! the woman whose son he had restored to life, began making outcry unto the king, for her house and for her field. Then said Gehazi, My lord, O king! this, is the woman, and, this, her son, whom, Elisha, restored to life.
6 So the king asked the woman, and she recounted it to him,-the king, therefore, appointed her a certain officer, saying-Restore all that was hers, and all the increase of the field, from the day she left the land, even until now.
7 ¶ And Elisha came into Damascus, when Ben-hadad king of Syria, was sick,-and it was told him, saying, The man of God hath come as far as this place.
8 So the king said unto Hazael-Take in thy hand a present, and go to meet the man of God,-so shalt thou enquire of Yahweh, from him, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness?
9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present in his hand, even every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden,-and came, and stood before him, and said-Thy son, Ben-hadad king of Syria, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness?
10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say to him, Thou shalt, recover; And yet Yahweh hath shown me, that he will, die.
11 And he settled his countenance, and fixed it until he turned pale,-and the man of God, wept.
12 Then said Hazael, Why, is my lord, weeping? And he said-Because I know what thou wilt do to the sons of Israel, by way of harm-Their fortresses, thou wilt set on fire, and, their choice young men, with the sword, thou wilt slay, and, their children, thou wilt dash in pieces, and, their women with child, thou wilt rip up.
13 And Hazael said, But what is thy servant-the dog-that he should do this great thing? And Elisha said, Yahweh hath shown thee unto me, as king over Syria.
14 So he departed from Elisha, and came in unto his lord, who said to him, What said, Elisha, unto thee? And he said. He told me thou wouldst, recover.
15 But it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face, that he died,-and, Hazael, reigned, in his stead.
16 ¶ Now, in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, having been king of Judah, Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, began to reign.
17 Thirty-two years old, was he when he began to reign, and, eight years, reigned, he in Jerusalem.
18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as did the house of Ahab, for, a daughter of Ahab, became his wife,-and he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.
19 Yet was not Yahweh willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant,-even as he promised him to give him a lamp for his sons all the days.
20 In his days, did Edom revolt from under the hand of Judah,-and they set over them a king.
21 So Joram passed over to Zair, and all the chariots with him,-and it came to pass that, he, arising by night, smote the Edomites that were round about unto him, and the captains of the chariots, and the people fled to their homes,
22 Yet did Edom revolt from under the hand of Judah, unto this day,-then, revolted Libnah, at the same time.
23 Now, the rest of the story of Joram, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David,-and, Ahaziah his son, reigned, in his stead.
25 ¶ In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, did Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah, begin to reign.
26 Two and twenty years old, was Ahaziah when he began to reign,-and, one year, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Athaliah, daughter of Omri, king of Israel;
27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, like the house of Ahab,-for, son-in-law of the house of Ahab, was, he.
28 And he went with Joram son of Ahab, to make war against Hazael king of Syria, in Ramoth-gilead,-and the Syrians wounded Joram.
29 So Joram the king returned to get healed in Jezreel, from the wounds wherewith the Syrians had wounded him in Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria,-and, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he, was sick.
2 Kings Chapter 9:
1 ¶ Now, Elisha the prophet, called one of the sons of the prophets,-and said to him-Gird up thy loins, and take this flask of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead;
2 and, when thou art come in thither, then look thee out, there, Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi; and thou shalt enter and get him to rise up out of the midst of his brethren, and take him into an inner chamber;
3 then shalt thou take the flask of oil, and pour out upon his head, and say-Thus, saith Yahweh, I have anointed thee to be king unto Israel! Then shalt thou open the door and flee, and not tarry.
4 So the young man went his way-the young man the prophet-unto Ramoth-gilead.
5 And, when he came up, lo! the captains of the force, sitting, and he said-A word, have I, for thee, O captain! And Jehu said-For which, of us all? And he said,-For thee, O captain!
6 Then rose he up and went inside, and poured out the oil upon his head, and said unto him-Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, I have anointed thee to be king unto the people of Yahweh, unto Israel;
7 and thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy lord,-so will I avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel;
8 so shall perish all the house of Ahab,-and I will cut off to Ahab the meanest, both him that is shut up and him that is left at large, in Israel.
9 Yea I will deliver up the house of Ahab, like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat,-and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah:
10 And, as for Jezebel, the dogs shall eat her, in the town-land of Jezreel, there being none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
11 ¶ Then, Jehu, came forth unto the servants of his lord, and one said to him-Is all well? why came this madman unto thee? And he said unto them, Ye, know, the man and his message.
12 And they said-False! pray tell, us. And he said,-Thus and thus, spake he unto me, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh, I have anointed thee to be king unto Israel.
13 Then hasted they, and took, every man his garment, and put it under him, upon the very steps,-and blew with a horn, and said, Jehu, is king!
14 Thus did Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspire against Joram,-when, Joram, was watching Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
15 But Jehoram the king had returned to get himself healed in Jezreel, of the wounds wherewith the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. Then said Jehu-If such is your mind, let no fugitive get forth out of the city, to go and tell it in Jezreel.
16 ¶ So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went towards Jezreel, for, Joram, was lying there,-and, Ahaziah king of Judah, had come down to see Joram.
17 Now, the watchman, was standing upon the tower, in Jezreel, so he saw the great company of Jehu, when he came, and said-A great company, can I see! Then said Jehoram-Take a horseman and send to meet them, that he may say-Is it peace?
18 So the horseman went to meet him, and said-Thus, saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said-What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came up to them, but hath not turned back.
19 Then sent he a second horseman, and he came up to them and said, Thus, saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said-What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
20 And the watchman told, saying, He came up to them, but hath not turned back,-and, the driving, is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi; for, with mad haste, doth he drive.
21 Then said Jehoram, Harness! So one harnessed his chariot,-and Jehoram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went forth, each man in his chariot, yea they went forth to meet Jehu, and came upon him in the heritage of Naboth the Jezreelite.
22 And it came to pass, when Jehoram saw Jehu, that he said-Is it peace, Jehu? And he said-What can be the peace, while thy mother Jezebel’s harlotries and her incantations do so abound?
23 Then Jehoram turned his hands, and fled,-and said unto Ahaziah-Treachery! O Ahaziah!
24 And, Jehu, bent his bow, and smote Jehoram, between his arms,-and the arrow came out at his heart,-and he sank down in his chariot.
25 Then said he unto Bidkar his officer, Take him up, and cast him forth, into the field-portion of Naboth the Jezreelite,-for remember, when I and thou were riding as a couple together after Ahab his father, that, Yahweh, laid upon him this doom:
26 Surely, the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, have I lately seen, declareth Yahweh, therefore will I requite thee in this portion, declareth Yahweh. Now, therefore, take him up, and cast him forth into the portion, according to the word of Yahweh.
27 And, Ahaziah king of Judah, saw it, and fled by the way of the garden house,-and Jehu pursued him, and said-Him also! smite him in the chariot! It was in the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Mepidgo, and died there.
28 And his servants conveyed him in a chariot and brought him into Jerusalem,-and buried him in his sepulchre, with his fathers, in the city of David.
29 Now it was, in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, that Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
30 ¶ Now, when Jehu entered Jezreel and, Jezebel, heard of it, she set her eyes in stibium, and ornamented her head, and looked forth through the lattice.
31 So, when, Jehu, had entered in at the gate, she said, Was it peace, when Zimri slew his lord?
32 And he lifted up his face unto the lattice, and said-Who, is with me? Who? And there looked out unto him, two or three eunuchs.
33 And he said-Hurl her down. And they hurled her down,-and there was sprinkled of her blood-upon the wall, and upon the horses, and they trode upon her.
34 And, when he had entered and eaten and drunk, he said-Look, I pray you, after this accursed woman, and bury her, for the daughter of a king, she is.
35 So they went to bury her,-but found not of her-save the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.
36 Then came they back, and told him, and he said-The word of Yahweh, it is, which he spake by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying-In the town-land of Jezreel, shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel!
37 So shall the carcass of Jezebel become like heaps of dung on the face of the field, in the town-land of Jezreel: So that they cannot say, This, is Jezebel!
2 Kings Chapter 10:
1 ¶ Now, Ahab, had seventy sons in Samaria,-so Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel-the elders, and unto them who had been foster-parents for Ahab, saying:
2 Now, therefore, when this letter cometh in unto you, there being, with you, the sons of your lord,-and, with you, the chariots and the homes, and a fortified city, and the armour,
3 ye shall look out the goodliest and fittest of the sons of your lord, and set on the throne of his father, and ye shall do battle for the house of your lord.
4 Then feared they very greatly, and said, Lo! two kings, stood not before him; how then, should, we, stand?
5 So he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, and the elders, and the foster-parents sent unto Jehu, saying-Thy servants, we are! and, all that thou shalt say unto us, will we do,-we will make no man king, whatsoever is good in thine own eyes, do!
6 Then wrote he unto them a second letter, saying-If, mine, ye are, and, unto my voice, ye intend to hearken, take ye the heads of the men who are sons of your lord, and come in unto me about this time to-morrow, in Jezreel. Now, the sons of the king, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who had been bringing them up.
7 And it came to pass, when the letter reached them, that they took the sons of the king, and slew them, seventy persons,-and put their heads in baskets, and sent unto him to Jezreel.
8 And there came in a messenger and told him, saying, They have brought in the heads of the sons of the king. And he said-Lay ye them in two heaps, at the entrance of the gate, until the morning.
9 And it came to pass, in the morning, that he went out and took his stand, and said unto all the people, Righteous, are, ye! Lo! I, conspired against my lord, and slew him, but, who, smote, all these?
10 Know ye, then, that there shall fall nought of the word of Yahweh, to the ground, which Yahweh spake concerning the house of Ahab,-but, Yahweh, hath done that which he spake through his servant Elijah.
11 Then Jehu smote all that were left remaining unto the house of Ahab, in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his acquaintances and his priests,-until there was not left remaining to him, a survivor.
12 Then arose he, and came in, and departed for Samaria,-the sheep-shearing house itself being on the road;
13 so, Jehu, lighted upon the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are, ye? And they said-Brethren of Ahaziah, are, we; so we came down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.
14 Then said he,-Take them alive. So they took them alive, and slew them casting them into the pit of the shearing house,-forty-two men, neither left he remaining a man of them.
15 ¶ Then departed he from thence, and lighted on Jehonadab son of Rechab coming to meet him, and he blessed him, and said unto him-Is thy heart, right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab said-It is. Then, if it is, give me thy hand. So he gave him his hand. And he took him up to him, into the chariot;
16 and said-Do come with me, and see my jealousy for Yahweh. So he made him ride in his chariot.
17 And, when he came into Samaria, he smote all that were left remaining unto Ahab, in Samaria, until he had destroyed him,-according to the word of Yahweh, which he had spoken unto Elijah.
18 Then Jehu gathered together all the people, and said unto them,-Ahab, served Baal, a little,-Jehu, will serve him, much.
19 Now, therefore, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests, call ye for me; do not let, a man, be missing; for, a great sacrifice, have I, to Baal, no one that is missing, shall live. But, Jehu, acted, craftily, to the end he might destroy the servants of Baal.
20 And Jehu said-Hallow ye a solemn festival unto Baal. And they made proclamation.
21 And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the servants of Baal came in, so that there was not left remaining a man, who had not come in,-and they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled, from door to door.
22 Then said he to him who was over the wardrobe chamber, Bring forth vestments for all the servants of Baal. And he brought forth for them the vestments.
23 Then entered Jehu, with Jehonadab son of Rechab, into the house of Baal,-and he said unto the servants of Baal-Search ye and see, that there be not here, with you, any of the servants of Yahweh, none but the servants of Baal, alone.
24 And, when they entered to offer sacrifices and ascending-offerings, Jehu, set him, outside, eighty men, and said-The man who shall escape, of the men whom I am bringing into your power, his own life, shall be for, his life.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the ascending-sacrifice, that Jehu said to the runners and to the officers-Enter, smite them, let not, a man, get out. So they smote them, with the edge of the sword,-and the runners and the officers cast them out, and then went as far as the city of the house of Baal,
26 and brought forth the idolatrous pillars that were in the house of Baal, and then burned it;
27 and they brake down the pillars of Baal,-and brake down the house of Baal, and appointed it for a sewer-house-until this day.
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29 ¶ Nevertheless, as for the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit, Jehu turned not away from following them,-the calves of gold, one being in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
30 And Yahweh said unto Jehu: Because thou hast done well, by doing that which was right in mine eyes-according to all that was in my heart, hast done to the house of Ahab, sons, of thine, unto the fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of Israel.
31 But, Jehu, took not heed to walk in the law of Yahweh God of Israel, with all his heart,-he turned not away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he caused, Israel, to commit.
32 In those days, began Yahweh to make inroads in Israel,-and Hazael smote them in all the boundaries of Israel;
33 from the Jordan, towards sunrise, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites,-from Aroer, which is by the torrent of Arnon, both Gilead and Bashan.
34 Now, the rest of the story of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
35 And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria,-and, Jehoahaz his son, reigned, in his stead.
36 Now, the days that Jehu reigned over Israel, were twenty-eight years, in Samaria.
2 Kings Chapter 11:
1 ¶ Now, when, Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
2 But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were being slain-him and his nurse, into the bedchamber,-so she hid him from the face of Athaliah, that he was not slain.
3 And he was with her, in the house of Yahweh, hiding himself, six years,-while, Athaliah, was reigning over the land.
4 ¶ But, in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent and took the captains over hundreds, of the Carian body-guard, and of the runners, and brought them unto him, in the house of Yahweh,-and, when he had solemnised a Covenant with them, and put them on oath, in the house of Yahweh, then shewed he them the king’s son;
5 and commanded them, saying-This, is the thing which ye must do,-A third part of you, will be coming in on the sabbath, and keeping the watch of the house of the king;
6 and, a third, in the side-gate; and, a third, in the gate behind the runners,-so shall ye keep the watch of the house, by turns.
7 And, two parts of you, are all that are going out on the sabbath,-so shall ye keep the watch of the house of Yahweh, as touching the king.
8 Thus shall ye encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand, and, he that cometh within the ranks, let him be slain,-so be ye with the king, when he cometh out and when he goeth in.
9 And the captains of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they took every man his men who were coming in on the sabbath, with them who were going out on the sabbath,-and came unto Jehoiada the priest.
10 And the priest gave unto the captains of hundreds the spears and the shields which belonged to King David,-which were in the house of Yahweh.
11 And the runners stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right corner of the house, as far as the left corner of the house, by the altar and the house,-near the king, round about.
12 Then brought he forth the king’s son, and set upon him the crown, and the testimony, and they made him king, and anointed him,-and clapped their hands, and said-May the king live!
13 ¶ And, when Athaliah heard the noise of the runners, the people, then came she in unto the people, in the house of Yahweh,
14 and looked, and lo! the king, standing by the pillar, as the custom was, and the captains and the trumpeters, by the king, and, all the people of the land, rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets,-so Athaliah rent her garments, and cried out-Conspiracy! conspiracy!
15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds-officers of the force, and said unto them-Take her forth into the inside of the ranks, and, he that cometh in after her, ye are to slay with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be slain, in the house of Yahweh.
16 So they made way for her, and she entered the road by which the horses approached the house of the king, and was slain there.
17 ¶ And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant between Yahweh, and the king, and the people, that they should become a people unto Yahweh,-also between the king and the people.
18 And all the people of the land entered the house of Baal, and brake it down, his altars and his images, brake they in pieces, utterly, and, Mattan the priest of Baal, they slew before the altars,-and the priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
19 And he took the captains of hundreds and the Carian bodyguard, and the runners, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king out of the house of Yahweh, and they came, by way of the gate of the runners, into the house of the king,-and he took his seat on the throne of the kings;
20 and all the people of the land rejoiced, and, the city, had rest,-when they had put, Athaliah, to death with the sword, in the house of the king.
21 Seven years old, was Jehoash, when he began to reign.
2 Kings Chapter 12:
1 ¶ In the seventh year of Jehu, began Jehoash to reign, and, forty years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, the name of his mother, was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days,-whereunto, Jehoiada the priest, instructed him:
3 save only, that, the high places, took they not away,-still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
4 ¶ And Jehoash said unto the priests,-All the silver of the hallowed things, that is brought into the house of Yahweh-the silver of one who transgresseth, the silver of their persons by the estimate of, each one,-all the silver which it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,
5 let the priests take to them, every one from his acquaintance,-and let, them, repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever there may be found a breach.
6 But it came to pass, that, in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
7 So King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them-Why are ye not repairing the breaches of the house? Now, therefore, do not take silver from your acquaintances, for, to repair the breaches of the house, ought ye to have given it?
8 The priests therefore consented, not to take silver from the people, and not to repair the breaches of the house.
9 Then took Jehoiada a certain chest, and bored a hole in the door thereof,-and set it beside the altar, on the right as one entereth into the house of Yahweh, and the priests that kept the entrance-hall, used to put therein-all the silver that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
10 And it came to pass, when they saw that there was much silver in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and brought together and counted the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh;
11 then used they to give the silver that had been weighed out, into the hands of the doers of the work, who had oversight of the house of Yahweh,-and they brought it forth, to the carpenters, and to the builders, who were working upon the house of Yahweh;
12 and to the masons, and to the hewers of stone, and to buy timber, and hewn stone, for repairing the breaches of the house of Yahweh,-and to every one that went out upon the house, to repair it.
13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of Yahweh, bowls of silver, snuffers, dashing basins, trumpets, any vessel of gold, or any vessel of silver,-out of the silver that was brought into the house of Yahweh;
14 for, to the doers of the work, used they to give it; and so they repaired, therewith, the house of Yahweh.
15 And they used not to reckon with the men into whose hands they gave the silver, to give it to the doers of the work, because, with faithfulness, were, they, dealing.
16 Silver for guilt-offerings and silver for sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh,-to the priests, they belonged.
17 ¶ Then, came up Hazael, king of Syria, and fought against Gath, and captured it,-so Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.
18 Therefore did Jehoash, king of Judah, take all the hallowed things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had hallowed, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,-and sent to Hazael king of Syria, so he went up from against Jerusalem.
19 Now, the rest of the story of Joash, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20 And his servants arose and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash, in the house of Millo which teeth down to Silla.
21 Yea, Jozabar son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, that he died, and he was buried with his fathers, in the city of David,-and, Amaziah his son, reigned in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 13:
1 ¶ In the twenty-third year of Joash son of Ahaziah king of Judah, began Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, to reign over Israel, in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.
2 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-and went after the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat which he caused, Israel, to commit, he departed not therefrom.
3 Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh against Israel-and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad son of Hazael, continually.
4 And Jehoahaz appeased the face of Yahweh,-and Yahweh hearkened unto him, because he had seen the oppression of Israel, for that, the king of Syria, oppressed them.
5 So Yahweh gave unto Israel a saviour, and they went forth from under the hand of Syria,-and the sons of Israel dwelt in their own homes, as aforetime.
6 Howbeit they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam which he caused, Israel, to commit, therein, they walked,-moreover also, the Sacred Stem, still stood in Samaria.
7 For he had not left remaining unto Jehoahaz a people, save only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen,-for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like dust in threshing.
8 Now, the rest of the story of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
9 So then Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria,-and, Joash his son, reigned, in his stead.
10 ¶ In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, began Jehoash son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel, in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.
11 And he did that which was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-he turned not away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit, therein, he walked.
12 Now, the rest of the story of Joash, and all that he did, and his might, wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
13 So then Joash slept with his fathers, and, Jeroboam, took his seat on his throne,-and Joash was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel.
14 Now, Elisha, had fallen sick of his sickness whereof he was about to die,-so then Joash king of Israel came down unto him, and wept upon his face, and said, My father! my father! The chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. So he took unto him bow and arrows.
16 Then said he unto the king of Israel, Let thy hand rest upon the bow. So he let his hand rest thereon. Then Elisha put his own hands upon the hands of the king;
17 and said-Open the lattice eastward. And he opened it. Then said Elisha-Shoot! And he shot. Then he said,-The arrow of victory by Yahweh, yea the arrow of victory over Syria, therefore shalt thou smite Syria in Aphek, till it be consumed.
18 And he said-Take the arrows. So he took them. Then said he unto the king of Israel-Smite unto the ground. So he smote three times, and then stayed.
19 Then was the man of God wroth against him, and said-Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times, then, hadst thou smitten Syria, until it had been consumed; But, now, three times, shalt thou smite Syria.
20 ¶ And Elisha died, and they buried him,-now, troops of Moabites, used to enter the land, at the coming in of the year;
21 and it came to pass, as, they, were burying a man, that, lo! they saw a troop, so they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha,-and, as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he came to life again, and rose up on his feet.
22 And, Hazael king of Syria, had oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
23 Then was Yahweh gracious unto them, and had compassion upon them, and turned unto them, for the sake of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,-and was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them off from his presence, as yet.
24 So then Hazael king of Syria died; and, Ben-hadad his son, reigned, in his stead.
25 And Jehoash son of Jehoahaz again took the cities out of the hand of Ben-hadad son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father, in war,-three times, did Joash smite him, and recover the cities of Israel.
2 Kings Chapter 14:
1 ¶ In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, began Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
2 Twenty-five years old, was he when he began to reign, and twenty-nine years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only, not like David his father: according to all that Joash his father did, so he did;
4 only, the high places, took they not away,-still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
5 And it came to pass that, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he smote his servants who smote the king his father;
6 but, the sons of them that smote him, slew he not,-as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh commanded, saying-Fathers, shall not be put to death, for sons, nor shall, sons, be put to death, for fathers, but every man, for his own sin, shall be put to death.
7 He, smote Edom, in the valley of salt, ten thousand, and seized Sela, in the war,-and called the name thereof Joktheel, as it is until this day.
8 ¶ Then, sent Amaziah messengers unto Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying,-Come now, let us look one another in the face.
9 And Jehoash king of Israel sent unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, A thistle that was in Lebanon, sent unto a cedar that was in Lebanon, saying-Give thy daughter to my son to wife,-and there passed by a beast of the field that was in Lebanon, and trampled down the thistle:
10 Thou hast, smitten, Edom, and, thy heart, would lift thee up,-Glory, and stay at home! Wherefore, then, shouldest thou contend with misfortune, and fall, thou, and Judah with thee?
11 But Amaziah hearkened not. So then Jehoash king of Israel came up, and they looked one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah,-in Beth-shemesh, which belongeth unto Judah.
12 Then was Judah defeated before Israel,-and they fled, every man to his own home;
13 and, upon Amaziah, king of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, did Jehoash king of Israel, seize, in Beth-shemesh,-and entered Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, at the gate of Ephraim, as far as the corner gate, four hundred cubits;
14 and took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasuries of the house of the king, and hostages,-and returned to Samaria.
15 ¶ Now, the rest of the story of Jehoash, what he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel,-and, Jeroboam his son, reigned, in his stead.
17 And Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, lived, after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, fifteen years.
18 Now, the rest of the story of Amaziah, is, it, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
19 And, when they made against him a conspiracy in Jerusalem, he fled to Lachish,-but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him, there.
20 And they bare him on horses,-and he was buried in Jerusalem, with his fathers, in the city of David.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, he, being sixteen yearn old,-and made, him, king instead of his father Amaziah.
22 He, built Elath, and restored it to Judah,-after the king slept with his fathers.
23 ¶ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, began Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of a Israel, to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
24 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-he turned not away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit.
25 He, restored the boundary of Israel, from the entering in of Hamath, unto the sea of the waste plain,-according to the word of Yahweh, God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
26 For Yahweh saw the humiliation of Israel, that it was bitter, indeed,-and that there was no one shut up, nor any one left at large, no one indeed to help Israel.
27 Neither had Yahweh spoken, to wipe out the name of Israel from under the heavens,-so he saved them, by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.
28 Now, the rest of the story of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might when he warred, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel,-and, Zechariah his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 15:
1 ¶ In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Sixteen years old, was he when he began to reign, and, fifty-two years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, the name of his mother, was Jecholiah, of Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,-according to all that, Amaziah his father, had done.
4 Only, the high places, took they not away,-still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
5 And Yahweh smote the king, so that he became a leper, until the day of his death, and dwelt in a lazar-house,-and, Jotham, son of the king, was over the house, judging the people of the land.
6 Now, the rest of the story of Azariah, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
7 And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers, in the city of David,-and, Jotham his son, reigned, in his stead.
8 ¶ In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, began Zechariah son of Jeroboam to reign over Israel, in Samaria, and he reigned six months.
9 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, as did his fathers,-he turned not away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit.
10 Then conspired against him, Shallum son of Jabesh, and smote him before the people, and slew him,-and reigned in his stead.
11 Now, the rest of the story of Zechariah, behold it! written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
12 That, was the word of Yahweh, which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons, to four generations, shall sit on the throne of Israel. And it was so!
13 Shallum the son of Jabesh, began to reign, in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah,-for the space of a month in Samaria.
14 Then came up Menahem son of Gadi, from Tirzah, and entered Samaria, and smote Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria,-and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15 Now, the rest of the story of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold them! written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel!
16 Then, Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the boundaries thereof, from Tirzah, because they opened not, therefore he smote them,-all the women therein that were with child, he ripped up.
17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, began Menahem son of Gadi to reign over Israel, ten years reigned he, in Samaria.
18 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-he turned not away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit, all his days.
19 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, so Menahem gave unto Pul, a thousand talents of silver,-that his hands might be with him, to confirm the kingdom, in his hand.
20 And Menahem exacted the silver of Israel, of all the mighty men of wealth, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver, of each man,-so the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there, in the land.
21 Now, the rest of the story of Menahem, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
22 And Menahem slept with his fathers,-and, Pekahiah his son, reigned in his stead.
23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, began Pekahiah son of Menahem to reign over Israel, in Samaria, and he reigned two years.
24 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-he turned not away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit.
25 And there conspired against him-Pekah son of Remaliah, a hero of his, and smote him in Samaria, in the citadel of the house of a king, with Argob and with Arieh, and, with him, fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites,-and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
26 Now, the rest of the story of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold them! written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel!
27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, began Pekah son of Remaliah to reign over Israel, in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.
28 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-he turned not away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused, Israel, to commit.
29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, came Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali-and carried them away captive to Assyria.
30 And Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah, son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead,-in the twentieth year of Jotham, son of Uzziah.
31 Now, the rest of the story of Pekah, and all that he did, behold them! written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel!
32 ¶ In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, began Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
33 Twenty-five years old, was he, when he began to reign, and, sixteen years, reigned he, in Jerusalem,-and, the name of his mother, was Jerusha, daughter of Zadok.
34 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,-according to all that Uzziah his father had done.
35 Only, the high places, took they not away, still were the people offering sacrifice and burning incense in the high places,-he, built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
36 Now, the rest of the story of Jotham, what he did, is, it, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
37 In those days, began Yahweh to send against Judah, Rezin, king of Syria,-and Pekah son of Remaliah.
38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David his father,-and, Ahaz his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 16:
1 ¶ In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, began Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah to reign.
2 Twenty years old, was Ahaz when he began to reign, and, sixteen years, reigned he in Jerusalem. And he did not that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David his father;
3 but walked in the way of the kings of Israel,-moreover also, me made, his son, pass through the fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations, whom Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel;
4 and he offered sacrifice and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills,-and under every green tree.
5 ¶ then, came up Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to make war,-and they laid siege against Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
6 At that time, Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath, to Syria, and wholly cleared out the Jews from Eloth,-and, the Syrians, entered Elath, and have dwelt there, unto this day.
7 So Ahaz sent messengers unto Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, Thy servant and thy son, I am,-Come up and save me, out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.
8 And Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasuries of the house of the king,-and sent them to the king of Assyria, as a bribe.
9 So the king of Assyria hearkened unto him, and the king of Assyria came up unto Damascus, and seized it, and carried away the people thereof captive to Kir,-and put Rezin, to death.
10 ¶ So then King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, in Damascus, and saw the altar which was in Damascus,-and King Ahaz, sent unto Urijah the priest, a likeness of the altar, and a model thereof, according to all the workmanship thereof;
11 and Urijah the priest built an altar,-according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus, so, did Urijah the priest make it, by the time King Ahaz came from Damascus.
12 And, when the king came from Damascus, then the king saw the altar,-so the king drew near unto the altar, and caused offerings to ascend thereupon.
13 And he made perfume with his ascending-sacrifice, and with his meal-offering, and poured out his drink-offering,-and dashed the blood of the peace-offerings which he had, upon the altar.
14 And, the altar of bronze which was before Yahweh, he brought away from the forefront of the house, from between the altar, and the house of Yahweh,-and put it at the side of the altar northward.
15 And King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying-Upon the great altar, make thou perfume with the ascending-sacrifice of the morning, and with the meal-offering of the evening, and with the ascending-sacrifice of the king and with his meal-offering, and with the ascending-sacrifice of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering and their drink-offering, and, all the blood of the ascending-offering, and all the blood of the peace offering, thereupon, shalt thou dash,-but, the altar of bronze, shall be for me to inquire into.
16 So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
17 ¶ And King Ahaz cut off the side walls of the stands, and took away from off them the laver, and, the sea, took he down from off the oxen of bronze, which were under it,-and set it on a pavement of stones.
18 Also, the covered walk for the Sabbath, which they had built in the house, and the outer entrance for the king, he changed in the house of Yahweh,-because of the king of Assyria.
19 Now, the rest of the story of Ahaz, what he did, is, it, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David,-and, Hezekiah his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 17:
1 ¶ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, began Hosea son of Elah to reign in Samaria, over Israel, and he reigned nine years.
2 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-only, not like the kings of Israel who were before him.
3 Against him, came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria,-and Hoshea became his servant, and rendered him a present.
4 Then found the king of Assyria, in Hosea, a conspiracy, in that he had sent messengers unto So king of Egypt, and had not brought up a present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year,-therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
5 And the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,-yea he came up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, did the king of Assyria capture Samaria, and carried Israel away captive to Assyria,-and settled them in Halah, and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and the mountains of Media.
7 ¶ And thus it came to pass that Israel sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt,-yea they did reverence to other gods;
8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel,-and in the statutes of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the sons of Israel did, secretly, things which were not right, against Yahweh their God,-and built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchmen’s tower, to the fortified city.
10 And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
11 and burned incense there, in all the high places, like the nations whom Yahweh drave out from before them,-and did things that were wicked, so as to provoke Yahweh to anger;
12 and they served the manufactured gods, as to which Yahweh had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13 And Yahweh testified against Israel and against Judah, through all his prophets-every one who had a vision, saying-Turn ye from your wicked ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers; and which I sent unto you through my servants the prophets.
14 Howbeit they hearkened not,-but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who trusted not in Yahweh their God;
15 but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them,-and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.
16 But they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made for themselves something molten-two calves, and made a Sacred Stem, and bowed themselves down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal;
17 and made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and used divinations and enchantments, and sold themselves to do the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him to wrath.
18 So Yahweh shewed himself exceeding angry with Israel, and removed them from his presence,-there was none left, save the tribe of Judah, alone.
19 Even Judah, kept not the commandments of Yahweh their God,-but walked in the statutes of Israel, which they had made.
20 So Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and humiliated them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,-until he had cast them out from his presence;
21 for he rent Israel away from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat, king,-and Jeroboam thrust away Israel from following Yahweh, and caused them to commit a great sin.
22 And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he had committed,-they turned not away therefrom;
23 until that Yahweh removed Israel from his presence, according as he spake through all his servants the prophets,-and so Israel was driven away from off their own soil, to Assyria, until this day.
24 ¶ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avvah, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and caused them to dwell in the cities of Samaria, instead of the sons of Israel,-so they took possession of Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
25 And so it was, that, when they first dwelt there, they revered not Yahweh,-therefore Yahweh sent among them, lions, which were slaying them.
26 Therefore spake they unto the king of Assyria, saying, The nations whom thou hast removed and settled in the cities of Samaria, know not the custom of the God of the land,-and he hath sent among them lions, and lo! they are slaying them, because they know not the custom of the God of the land.
27 So the king of Assyria commanded, saying-Carry thither, one of the priests, whom ye brought away captive from thence, that they may go, and dwell there,-and teach them the custom of the God of the land.
28 Then came one of the priests whom they had carried away captive from Samaria, and dwelt in Bethel,-and he began teaching them how they should do reverence unto Yahweh.
29 Howbeit the nations severally were making their own gods,-and did put them in the houses of the high places, which, the Samaritans, had made, each several nation, in their cities wherein, they, were dwelling.
30 So then, the men of Babylon, made Succoth-benoth, and, the men of Cuth, made Nergal, and, the men of Hamath, made Ashima:
31 and, the Avvites, made Nibhaz and Tartak, and, the Sepharvites, did consume their sons in the fire, to Adrammelech and Anammelech gods of Sepharvaim.
32 Thus became they reverers of Yahweh,-and yet made for themselves, from the whole compass of them, priests of high places, who became offerers for them in the house of the high places.
33 Yahweh, were they revering,-and yet, their own gods, were they serving, according to the custom of the nations from whence they had brought them away captive.
34 Unto this day, are they offering according to the former customs,-they are not revering Yahweh, neither are they offering after their own statutes, or their own custom, nor yet after the law and the commandment which Yahweh commanded the sons of Jacob, whose name he made to be Israel:
35 With, whom, Yahweh solemnised a covenant, and commanded them saying-Ye shall not revere other gods,-nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;
36 But, Yahweh-who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, with great might, and with arm outstretched, him, shall ye revere,-and to him, shall ye bow down, and to him, shall ye sacrifice;
37 And, the statutes and the regulations, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, shall ye surely observe to do, continually,-So shall ye not revere other gods;
38 But, the covenant which I have solemnised with you, shall ye not forget,-So shall ye not revere other gods;
39 But, Yahweh your God, shall ye revere,-then will, he, deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
40 Howbeit they hearkened not,-but, according to their own former custom, were they offering.
41 Thus were these nations doing reverence unto Yahweh, and yet, unto their own carved images, were they rendering service,-yea, their sons and their son’s sons, as the fathers offered, so are, they, offering until this day.
2 Kings Chapter 18:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty-five years old, was he when he began to reign, and, twenty-nine years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Abi, daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,-according to all that, David his father, did.
4 He, removed the high places, and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stem,-and beat in pieces the serpent of bronze that, Moses, had made, because, until those days, had the sons of Israel been burning incense thereunto, so he called it Nehushtan.
5 In Yahweh, God of Israel, did he trust,-so that, after him, was none like him, among all the kings of Judah, nor that were before him;
6 and he did cleave unto Yahweh, he turned not away from following him,-but kept his commandments, which, Yahweh, commanded, Moses.
7 So Yahweh was with him, whithersoever he went forth, he prospered,-and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He, smote the Philistines, as far as Gazah, and her boundaries,-from the watchmen’s tower even to the fortified city.
9 ¶ And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Hezekiah-the same, was the seventh year of Hosea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and laid siege against it;
10 and he captured it at the end of three years, in the sixth year of Hezekiah,-the same, is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, was Samaria captured.
11 So the king of Assyria drave away Israel to Assyria,-and settled them in Halah, and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and the mountains of Media:
12 because they hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded,-they neither hearkened nor performed.
13 And, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, came up Sennacherib king of Assyria, against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
14 Then sent Hezekiah king of Judah unto the king of Assyria, to Lachish, saying-I have sinned, Return from me, What thou shalt lay upon me, I will bear. So the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah, three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah delivered up all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasuries of the house of the king.
16 At that time, Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and the columns, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid,-and gave them unto the king of Assyria.
17 ¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh, from Lachish unto King Hezekiah, with a heavy force to Jerusalem,-so they came up and drew near to Jerusalem, and took their stand by the upper channel of the pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 Then called they for the king, and there went out unto them Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,-and Shebnah, the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder.
19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them-Pray you, say unto Hezekiah,-Thus, saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What trust is this wherewith thou dost trust?
20 Thou hast said-they are only words of the lips!-Counsel and might have I for the war. Now, in whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?
21 Now, lo! thou dost trust thyself on the support of this bruised cane, on Egypt, whereon, if a man lean, it will enter his hand and lay it open,-so, is Pharaoh king of Egypt, to all who trust upon him.
22 But, if ye should say unto me, In Yahweh our God, do we trust, Then is that not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath removed, and said unto Judah, and unto Jerusalem-Before this altar, shall ye bow down, in Jerusalem?
23 Now, therefore, pledge thyself, I pray thee, with my lord, the king of Assyria,-that I supply thee with two thousand horses, if thou, on thy part, be able to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn back the face of one pasha of the least of my lord’s servants? Or hast thou, on thy part, trusted to Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Now, is it, without Yahweh, that I have come up against this place, to destroy it? Yahweh himself, said unto me, Go thou up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh: Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants in the, Syrian, language, for, we, can, understand, it,-and do not speak with us in, the Jews’, language, in the ears of the people who are upon the wall.
27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them-Is it, concerning thy lord, and concerning thee, that my lord hath sent me to speak these things? Is it not concerning the men who are tarrying upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own water with you?
28 So then Rab-shakeh took his stand, and cried out with a loud voice, in, the Jews’, language,-and spake, and said, Hear ye the message of the great king, the king of Assyria:-
29 Thus, saith the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not he able to deliver you out of his hand;
30 Neither let Hezekiah cause you to trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh, will, certainly deliver, us,-this city, therefore, shall not be given over into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Do not hearken unto Hezekiah,-for, thus, saith the king of Assyria, Deal with me thankfully, and come out unto me, then shall ye eat-every one of his own vine, and every one of his own fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern;
32 Until I come and take you, into a land like your own land-A land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and honey, so shall ye live, and not die,-But do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for he would persuade you, saying, Yahweh, will deliver us!
33 Have, the gods of the nations, at all delivered, any one of them, his country, out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Yea, did they deliver Samaria out of my hand?
35 Who are they, among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country, out of my hand,-that, Yahweh, should deliver, Jerusalem, out of my hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word,-for, the command of the king, it was, saying-Ye must not answer him.
37 Then came in Eliakim son of Hilkiah who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, unto Hezekiah, with rent clothes,-and they told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
2 Kings Chapter 19:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard, that he rent his clothes,-and covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh;
2 and sent Eliakim who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,-unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz;
3 and they said unto him-Thus, saith Hezekiah, A day of trouble, and rebuke, and reviling, is this day,-for children are come to the birth, and, strength, is there none to bring forth!
4 It may be that Yahweh thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his lord hath sent, to reproach a Living God, and will rebuke the words, which Yahweh thy God hath heard,-Wherefore lift thou up a prayer, for the remnant that remaineth.
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came unto Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus, shall ye, say, unto your lord,-Thus, saith Yahweh-Be not thou afraid, because of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled, me:
7 Behold me! about to let go against him, a blast, and, when he heareth the report, then will he return to his own country,-and I will cause him to fall by the sword, in his own land.
8 ¶ So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah,-for he had heard that he had broken up from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, saying, Lo! he hath come forth to fight with thee,-then he again sent messengers unto Hezekiah, saying-
10 Thus, shall ye, speak, unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying-Let not thy God in whom thou art trusting beguile thee, saying,-Jerusalem shall not be given over, into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Lo! thou thyself, hast heard, what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, in devoting them to destruction,-and shalt, thou, be delivered?
12 Did the gods of the nations, deliver them, whom my fathers destroyed, Gozan, and Haran,-and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were in Telassar?
13 Where are the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,-of Hena, and Ivvah?
14 And, when Hezekiah had received the letter at the hand of the messengers, and had read it, then went he up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before Yahweh.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, O Yahweh, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubim, thou thyself, art GOD, alone, for all the kingdoms of the earth,-thou, didst make the heavens and the earth.
16 Bow down, O Yahweh, thine ear, and hear, Open, O Yahweh, thine eyes, and see,-yea hear thou the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent-To reproach a Living God!
17 Of a truth, O Yahweh,-the kings of Assyria have devoted to destruction the nations and their lands;
18 and have put their gods in the fire,-for, no-gods, were, they, but the work of the hands of men-wood and stone, and so they destroyed them.
19 Now, therefore, O Yahweh our God, save us we pray thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that, thou, Yahweh, art God, alone!
20 ¶ Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying,-Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, What thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.
21 This, is the word that Yahweh hath spoken concerning him,-The virgin daughter of Zion, laugheth thee to scorn, mocketh thee, The daughter of Jerusalem, after thee, doth wag her head.
22 Whom, hast thou reproached, and insulted? and, against whom, hast thou lifted high thy voice? yea thou hast proudly raised thine eyes, against the Holy One of Israel.
23 Through thy messengers, thou hast reproached My Lord, and hast said-With my multitude of chariots, have I ascended the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon,-and have cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest firs, and have entered the shelter of its summit, its thick garden forests.
24 I, have digged, and have drunk foreign waters,-and have dried up, with the soles of my feet, all the streams of besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard-that, long ago, that, is what I appointed, and, from days of old, devised it? Now, have I brought it to pass, that thou mightest serve to lay waste, in desolate ruins, fortified cities;
26 And, their inhabitants, being powerless, were overthrown and put to shame,-they became grass of the field, and young herbage, grass on housetops, and seed withered before it came up.
27 Howbeit, thine abode, and thy coming out and thy going in, I know,-and thy raging against me.
28 Because, thy raging against me, and thy contempt, have come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my ring in thy nose, and my bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
29 And, this unto thee, is the sign-Eating, this year, the growth of scattered seeds, and, in the second year, that which groweth after,-then, in the third year, sow ye and reap, plant ye vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof;
30 Then shall the escaped of the house of Judah that remain, again-take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
31 For, out of Jerusalem, shall go forth a remnant, and that which hath escaped-out of Mount Zion,-the jealousy of Yahweh of hosts, will perform this.
32 Therefore-Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not enter this city, nor shoot there, an arrow,-nor attack it with shield, nor cast up against it, a mound;
33 By the way that he cometh in, by the same, shall he return,-and, into this city, shall he not enter, declareth Yahweh!
34 Thus will I throw a covering over this city, to save it,-for mine own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
35 ¶ And it came to pass, during that night, that the messenger of Yahweh went forth, and smote, in the camp of the Assyrians, a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And, when men arose early in the morning, lo! they were all, dead bodies!
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria brake up, and went his way, and returned,-and remained in Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was bowing down in the house of Nisroch his god, that, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons, smote him with the sword, howbeit, they, escaped into the land of Ararat,-and Esarhaddon his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 20:
1 ¶ In those days, was Hezekiah sick, unto death,-and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came unto him, and said unto him-Thus, saith Yahweh Set in order thy house, for, about to die, thou, art, and shalt not recover.
2 Then he turned his face unto the wall,-and prayed unto Yahweh, saying:
3 I beseech thee, O Yahweh, remember, I pray thee, how I have walked before thee, in truth, and with a whole heart, and, that which is good in thine eyes, have I done! And Hezekiah wept aloud.
4 And it came to pass that Isaiah, had not gone out into the middle court, when the word of Yahweh came unto him, saying:
5 Return, and thou shalt say unto Hezekiah the leader of my people-Thus, saith Yahweh, God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears,-Behold me! about to heal thee, On the third day, shalt thou go up unto the house of Yahweh;
6 And I will add unto thy days, fifteen years, and, out of the hand of the king of Assyria, will I deliver thee, and this city,-and will throw a covering over this city, for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
7 And Isaiah said-Take ye a cake of figs. So they took and laid it upon the boil, and he recovered,
8 Now Hezekiah had said unto Isaiah, What sign is there, that Yahweh will heal me,-and that I shall go up on the third day, to the house of Yahweh?
9 And Isaiah said,-This unto thee, is the sign from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing which he hath spoken, The shadow hath gone forward ten steps, shall it return ten steps?
10 And Hezekiah said-It is, a light thing, for the shadow, to decline ten steps,-Nay, but let the shadow go back ten steps.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Yahweh, and he caused the shadow on the steps by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz to go back, ten steps.
12 ¶ At that time, Berodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present, unto Hezekiah,-for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all his house of precious things-the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and his armoury, and all that was found among his treasures,-there was, nothing, that Hezekiah shewed them not, in his house or in all his dominion.
14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto King Hezekiah,-and said unto him-What said these men, and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, From a land far off, came they-from Babylon.
15 And he said-What have they seen in thy house? Then said Hezekiah-All that is in my house, have they seen, there was, nothing, that I shewed them not, among my treasures.
16 Then said Isaiah unto Hezekiah,-Hear thou the word of Yahweh:
17 Lo! days are coming, when all that is in thine house, and that thy fathers have treasured up, unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon,-nothing shall be left, saith Yahweh;
18 and, of thy sons who shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away,-and they shall become eunuchs, in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah-Good, is the word of Yahweh, which thou hast spoken. And he said-Is it not, that, peace and stability, there shall be in my days?
20 Now, the rest of the story of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool and an aqueduct, and brought water into the city, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21 So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and, Manasseh his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 21:
1 ¶ Twelve years old, was Manasseh when he began to reign, and, fifty-five years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and the name of his mother was Hephzibah.
2 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-after the abominable practices of the nations, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
3 He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,-and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them.
4 And he used to build altars in the house of Yahweh,-concerning which Yahweh had said,-In Jerusalem, will I put my Name.
5 And he built altars to all the army of the heavens,-in the two courts of the house of Yahweh;
6 and caused his son to pass through the fire, and practiced hidden arts and used divination, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards,-he exceeded in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him to anger;
7 and he set the image of the Sacred Stem which he had made,-in the house, of which Yahweh had said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name, unto times age-abiding;
8 and I will not again let the foot of Israel wander away from the soil which I gave unto their fathers. Only if they take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, even to the extent of all the law which, my servant Moses, commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not,-and Manasseh led them astray to do the thing that was wicked, more than the nations which Yahweh destroyed from before the sons of Israel.
10 ¶ Yahweh therefore spake through his servants the prophets saying-
11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath made these abominations-hath done that which is wicked, more than all which the Amorites did who were before him, and hath caused, even Judah, to sin with his manufactured gods,
12 therefore-Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Behold me! bringing in calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah,-that, whosoever heareth thereof, both his ears, will tingle;
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem, the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab,-and will wipe out Jerusalem, as one wipeth out a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down;
14 And will abandon the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies,-and they shall become a prey and a plunder, to all their enemies:
15 Because they have done the thing that is wicked in mine eyes, and have become such as to provoke me to anger,-from the day when their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even until this day.
16 Moreover also, innocent blood, did Manasseh shed in great abundance, till he had filled Jerusalem, from one end to the other, besides his committing the sins which he caused, Judah, to commit, in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.
17 Now, the rest of the story of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he committed, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza,-and, Amon his son, reigned, in his stead.
19 ¶ Twenty-two years old, was Amon when he began to reign, and, two years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz, of Jotbah.
20 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-as did Manasseh his father;
21 yea he walked in all the way wherein, his father, had walked,-and served the manufactured gods that, his father, had served, and bowed down to them;
22 and forsook Yahweh the God of his fathers,-and walked not in the way of Yahweh.
23 And the servants of Amon, conspired against him,-and slew the king in his own house.
24 Then the people of the land smote all who had conspired against King Amon,-and the people of the land made, Josiah his son, king, in his stead.
25 Now, the rest of the story of Amon, what he did, is, it, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
26 And he was buried in his grave, in the garden of Uzza,-and, Josiah his son, reigned, in his stead.
2 Kings Chapter 22:
1 ¶ Eight years old, was Josiah when he began to reign, and, thirty-one years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, this mother’s name, was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah, of Bozkath.
2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,-and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside, to the right hand or to the left.
3 And it came to pass, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan son of Azaliah son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying-
4 Go up unto Hilkiah, the high priest, that he pour out the silver that hath been brought into the house of Yahweh,-which the keepers of the entrance-hall have gathered from the people,
5 that they may give it into the hand of the doers of the work, who have oversight of the house of Yahweh, that they may give it to the doers of the work, who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house;
6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons,-and to buy timber, and hewn stones, for repairing the house.
7 Howbeit there used to be no reckoning made with them, as to the silver that was given into their hand,-because, with faithfulness, were they dealing.
8 Then said Hilkiah the high priest, unto Shaphan the scribe-The book of the law, have I found, in the house of Yahweh. So Hilkiah delivered the book unto Shaphan, and he read it.
9 Then came Shaphan the scribe unto the king, and brought the king word again,-and said-Thy servants have poured out the silver that was found in the house, and have delivered it unto the hand of the doers of the work, who have oversight of the house of Yahweh.
10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying-A book, hath Hilkiah the priest delivered unto me. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Achbor son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying:
13 Go ye-enquire of Yahweh, for me and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which hath been found,-for, great, is the wrath of Yahweh, in that it hath fired up against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according to all which is written concerning us.
14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas keeper of the vestments, she having her dwelling in Jerusalem, in the new city,-and they spake unto her.
15 And she said unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Say ye unto the man who hath sent you unto me:
16 Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! about to bring calamity upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,-all the words of the book, which, the king of Judah, hath read:
17 Because they have forsaken me, and burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger, with all the workmanship of their hands; and so my wrath shall fire up against this place, and shall not be quenched:
18 But, unto the king of Judah, who hath sent you to enquire of Yahweh, thus, shall ye say unto him,-Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard:
19 Because, tender, was thy heart, and thou didst humble thyself before Yahweh when thou heardest what I had spoken against this place and against the inhabitants thereof-that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me, therefore also, I, have hearkened-declareth Yahweh.
20 For this cause, behold me! about to gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy graves, in peace, and so thine eyes shall not look upon all the misfortune which I am about to bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
2 Kings Chapter 23:
1 ¶ Then the king sent,-and there were gathered unto him, all the elders of Judah, and Jerusalem;
2 and the king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great,-and he read in their ears, all the words of the book of the covenant, which had been found in the house of Yahweh.
3 And the king took his stand by the pillar, and solemnised a covenant before Yahweh-to follow Yahweh, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all their heart and with all their soul, to confirm the words of this covenant, written in this book. And all the people took their stand in the covenant.
4 ¶ Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the entrance-hall, to bring forth, out of the temple of Yahweh, all the vessels that had been made for Baal and for the Sacred Stem, and for all the army of the heavens,-and he burned them up outside Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel;
5 and he put down the idol-priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed, so that incense might be burned in the high places, in the cities of Judah, and round about Jerusalem,-them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the army of the heavens;
6 and he brought forth the Sacred Stem out of the house of Yahweh, outside Jerusalem, into the Kidron ravine, and burned it in the Kidron ravine, and crushed it to powder,-and cast the powder upon the graves of the sons of the people;
7 and he brake down the houses of the male devotees, which were in the house of Yahweh,-where the women did weave houses to the Sacred Stem;
8 and be brought in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where, the priests, had burned incense, from Geba unto Beer-sheba,-and brake down the high places of the gates, that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on one’s left hand, in the gate of the city;
9 howbeit, the priests of the high places came not up unto the altar of Yahweh, in Jerusalem, save only that they did eat unleavened bread in the midst of their brethren;
10 and he defiled Topheth, which was in the valley of the son of Hinnom,-so that no man might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire unto Molech;
11 and he did away with the horses, which the kings of Judah had devoted to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, near the chamber of Nathan-melech the courtier, which was in the suburbs, also, the chariots of the sun, burned he with fire;
12 and, the altars which were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, also the altars which Manasseh had made, in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down,-and hurried away from thence, and cast out the powder of them into the Kidron ravine;
13 and, the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built unto Ashtoreth-the abomination of the Zidonians, and unto Chemosh-the abomination of the Moabites, and unto Milcom-the disgusting thing of the sons of Ammon, did the king defile;
14 and he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stems,-and filled their place with human bones:
15 moreover also, the altar that was in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam son of Nebat made, wherewith he caused, Israel, to sin,-even that altar, and the high place, brake he down,-and burned the high place, crushing it to powder, and burned a Sacred Stem.
16 And, when Josiah turned, and saw the graves which were there, in the mount, he sent and took the bones out of the graves, and burned upon the altar, and defiled it,-according to the word of Yahweh, which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
17 Then said he-What is yonder erection, which I do see? And the men of the city said unto him-The grave of the man of God, who came in out of Judah, and proclaimed these things, which thou hast done, concerning the altar of Bethel.
18 And he said-Let him rest, let, no man, disturb his bones. So they let his bones rest, with the bones of the prophet who came in out of Samaria.
19 Moreover also, all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made, so as to provoke Yahweh to anger, did Josiah remove,-and he did to them according to all the doings which he had done in Bethel;
20 and he sacrificed all the priests of the high places, who were there, by the altars, and burned human bones thereupon,-and returned to Jerusalem.
21 Then did the king command all the people, saying, Keep ye a passover unto Yahweh, your God,-such as is written in this book of the covenant.
22 Surely there had not been held such a passover as this, from the days of the Judges who judged Israel,-nor all the days of the kings of Israel, and the kings of Judah;
23 save only, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, when this passover was held unto Yahweh, in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover also, them who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the household gods, and the manufactured gods, and the abominations which were to be seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, did Josiah consume,-that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Yahweh.
25 ¶ And, like him, was no king, before him, who turned unto Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses,-neither, after him, arose one, like him.
26 Howbeit, Yahweh turned not away from the glow of his great anger, wherewith his anger glowed against Judah-because of all the provocations wherewith, Manasseh, had provoked him.
27 So Yahweh said: Even Judah, will I remove from my presence, as I have removed Israel,-and will reject this city, which I had chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house as to which I had said, My Name, shall be, there.
28 Now, the rest of the story of Josiah, and all that he did, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
29 In his days, came up Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt, against the king of Assyria, unto the river Euphrates,-and, when King Josiah went against him, he slew him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
30 And his servants conveyed him in a chariot, dead, from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre,-and the people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made, him, king, in his father’s stead.
31 ¶ Twenty-three years old, was Jehoahaz when he began to reign, and, three months, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, of Libnah.
32 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his, fathers, had done.
33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah, in the hind of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem,-and he laid a fine upon the land, a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim son of Josiah king, instead of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,-and, Jehoahaz, took he away, so he entered Egypt, and died there.
35 And, the silver and the gold, did Jehoiakim give unto Pharaoh, howbeit he assessed the land, that he might give the silver at the bidding of Pharaoh,-every man, according to his assessment, exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, that he might give it to Pharaoh-necoh.
36 Twenty-five years old, was Jehoiakim when he began to reign, and, eleven years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Zebudah daughter of Pedaiah, of Rumah.
37 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-according to all that, his fathers, had done.
2 Kings Chapter 24:
1 ¶ In his days, came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,-and Jehoiakim became his servant three years, then turned he and rebelled against him.
2 And Yahweh sent against him troops of Chaldeans, and troops of Syrians, and troops of Moabites, and troops of the sons of Ammon, yea he sent them against Judah, to destroy him,-according to the word of Yahweh, which he spake through his servants the prophets.
3 Surely, it was, because of the anger of Yahweh, that this came upon Judah, to remove them from his presence,-for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done:
4 moreover also, for the innocent blood that he had shed, so that he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,-which Yahweh was not willing to pardon.
5 Now, the rest of the story of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers,-and, Jehoiachin his son, reigned, in his stead.
7 And the king of Egypt came no more again out of his land,-for the king of Babylon had taken-from the ravine of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates, all that had belonged to the king of Egypt.
8 ¶ Eighteen years old, was Jehoiachin when he began to reign, and, three months, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.
9 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-according to all that, his father, had done.
10 At that time, came up the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem,-and the city came into the siege.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants were about to besiege it.
12 Then came out Jehoiachin king of Judah, unto the king of Babylon, he and his mother, and his servants, and his generals, and his courtiers,-and the king of Babylon took him, in the eighth year of his reign.
13 And he carried forth from thence, all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king,-and he cut off all the fittings of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, according to all that, Yahweh, had spoken.
14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the generals, and all the mighty men of valour, ten thousand becoming captives, and all the artificers and the smiths,-none remained save the poorest of the people of the land.
15 And he carried away captive Jehoiachin, to Babylon,-and, the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his courtiers, and the nobles of the land, took he away captive, from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16 And, all the men of might-seven thousand, and artificers and smiths-a thousand, all who were valiant and ready to make war, the king of Babylon brought them captive to Babylon.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his relative, king in his stead,-and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18 Twenty-one years old, was Zedekiah when he began to reign, and, eleven years, reigned he in Jerusalem,-and, his mother’s name, was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,-according to all that, Jehoiakim, had done.
20 For, it was because the anger of Yahweh had come against Jerusalem, and against Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled, against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings Chapter 25:
1 ¶ And it came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came-he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it,-and they built against it a siege wall, round about.
2 And the city came into the siege,-until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city,-and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,
4 then was the city broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which is by the garden of the king, the Chaldeans being near the city round about,-and he went the way of the Waste Plain;
5 and the force of the Chaldeans, pursued, the king, and overtook him in the Waste Plains of Jericho,-and, all his force, was scattered from him.
6 So they seized the king, and brought him up unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah,-and they pronounced upon him sentence of judgment.
7 And, the sons of Zedekiah, they slew before his eyes,-and, the eyes of Zedekiah, put they out, and then bound him with fetters of bronze, and brought him into Babylon.
8 ¶ And, in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, the same, was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, chief of the royal executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem;
9 and burned the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king,-yea, all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great man’s house, burned he with fire.
10 And, the walls of Jerusalem round about, did all the force of the Chaldeans who were with the chief of the royal executioners, break down.
11 And, the residue of the people who were left in the city, and the disheartened who fell away unto the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan, chief of the royal executioners, carry away captive.
12 But, of the poorest of the land, did the chief of the royal executioners, leave, for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.
13 And, the pillars of bronze that were in the house of Yahweh, and the stands, and the sea of bronze which was in the house of Yahweh, the Chaldeans brake in pieces, and they carried away the bronze of them to Babylon;
14 and, the caldrons, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, even all the utensils of bronze wherewith ministration used to be made, did they take away;
15 and, the sprinkling pans and the dashing bowls which were of gold, in gold, and which were of silver, in silver, did, the chief of the royal executions, take away.
16 As for the two pillars the one sea and the stands which Solomon made for the house of Yahweh, without weight, was the bronze of all these things.
17 Eighteen cubits, was the height of each pillar, and, the capital thereupon was of bronze, and, the height of the capital, was three cubits, and, the lattice-work and pomegranates upon the capital round about, the whole, was of bronze; and, like these, had the second pillar, upon the lattice-work.
18 And the chief of the royal executioners took Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest,-and the three keepers of the entrance hall;
19 and, out of the city, took he one courtier who himself was set over the men of war, and five men of them who were wont to see the face of the king, who were found in the city, and the scribe-general of the army, who used to muster the people of the land,-and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city;
20 and Nebuzaradan, chief of the royal executioners, took them,-and brought them unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah;
21 and the king of Babylon smote them and slew them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath,-and thus Judah disappeared from off their own soil.
22 ¶ But, as for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left remaining, he set over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam son of Shaphan.
23 And, when all the generals of the forces, they and the men, heard that the king of Babylon had given oversight unto Gedaliah, then came they in unto Gedaliah, at Mizpah,-even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of a Maacathite, they and their men.
24 And Gedaliah sware unto them, and to their men, and said to them, Do not fear because of the servants of the Chaldeans,-dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
25 And it came to pass, in the seventh month, that Ishmael son of Nethaniah a son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died,-and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
26 Then arose all the people, both small and great, and the generals of the forces, and came into Egypt,-for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27 And it came to pass, in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month,-that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of prison;
28 and he spake with him kind words,-and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon;
29 and changed his prison garments,-and he did eat bread continually before him, all the days of his life.
30 And, as his allowance, a continual portion, was given him, from the king, the provision of a day upon its own day,-all the days of his life.
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