1 When King David was old and advanced in days, they covered him with clothing, but he was not warm.
2 Therefore his servants said to him, Find for my lord the king a young virgin, so that she may stand before the king and shelter him, and sleep beside her, and my lord the king will be warm.
3 And they searched for a beautiful young woman throughout the land of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunammite, and they brought her to the king.
4 And the young woman was beautiful; and she sheltered the king, and served him; but the king never met her.
5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith rebelled, saying, I will reign. And he got chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6 And his father had never grieved him in all his days by saying, Why do you do this? Furthermore, this one was very beautiful in appearance; and he was born after Absalom.
7 And he had agreed with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who were helping Adonijah.
8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and all the great men of David, did not follow Adonijah.
9 And when Adonijah killed sheep and cattle and fat animals by the rock of Zohelet, which is near the fountain of Rogel, he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants. ;
10 But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, nor Benaiah, nor the great men, nor Solomon his brother.
11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba, mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord does not know it?
12 Come now, therefore, and take my advice, that you may preserve your life, and that of your son Solomon.
13 Go and go in to King David, and say to him, My lord, King, did you not swear to your handmaid, saying, Solomon your son will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?
14 And while you are still speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your reasons.
15 Then Bathsheba entered the king’s chamber; and the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite served him.
16 And Bathsheba bowed down and bowed down to the king. And the king said: What have you?
17 And she answered him, My Lord, you swore to your servant by the Lord your God, saying, Solomon your son will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.
18 And behold, now Adonijah reigns, and you, my lord king, do not know until now.
19 He has killed oxen, and fat animals, and many sheep, and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab general of the army; but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
20 Meanwhile, my lord king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, so that you may declare to them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21 Otherwise it will come to pass that when my lord the king sleeps with his parents, I and my son Solomon will be held guilty.
22 While she was still speaking with the king, behold, Nathan the prophet came.
23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet; who, when he entered to the king, prostrated himself before the king, bowing his face to the ground.
24And Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne?
25 For he has come down today, and has killed oxen and fat animals and many sheep, and has invited all the king’s sons, and the captains of the army, and also Abiathar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and have said, Long live king Adonijah!
26 But he has not invited me your servant, nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.
27 Is this matter ordered by my lord the king, without having declared to your servants who would sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
28 Then King David answered and said, Call Bathsheba for me. And she entered into the presence of the king, and she stood before the king.
29 And the king swore, saying, As the Lord lives, he has redeemed my soul from all trouble,
30 As I have sworn to you by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place; That’s how I will do it today.
31 Then Bathsheba bowed down before the king, with her face to the ground, and bowing to the king, she said, “Long live my lord King David forever.”
32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they entered into the presence of the king.
33 And the king said to them, Take with you your master’s servants, and mount Solomon my son on my mule, and carry him to Gihon;
34 And there Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint him king over Israel, and you will blow the trumpet, saying, Long live King Solomon!
35 Then you will go after him, and he will come and sit on my throne, and he will reign for me; for I have chosen him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
36 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, Amen. So says Jehovah, the God of my lord the king.
37 As the LORD has been with my lord the king, so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.
38 And Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
39 And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon; and they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, Long live King Solomon!
40 Then all the people went up after him, and the people sang with flutes, and made such great joy, that it seemed as if the earth was sinking with their cry.
41 And Adonijah heard it, and all the guests who were with him, when they had finished eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why does the city riot with a noise?
42 While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest came, to whom Adonijah said, Come in, for you are a mighty man, and will bring good news.
43 Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Surely our lord king David has made Solomon king;
44 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and also the Cerethites and the Pelethites, who set him on the king’s mule;
45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they have gone up from there with joy, and the city is full of noise. This is the uproar you have heard.
46 Solomon also sat on the throne of the kingdom,
47 and even the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, May God make Solomon’s name more good than your name, and make his throne greater than yours. And the king loved the bed.
48 Moreover the king has said thus: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has given this day one to sit on my throne, with my eyes seeing him.
49 Then they trembled, and all the guests who were with Adonijah arose, and each one went his way.
50 But Adonijah, fearing the presence of Solomon, arose and went away, and took hold of the horns of the altar.
51And they told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, for he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.
52 And Solomon said, If he be a good man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die.
53 And King Solomon sent, and they brought him from the altar; and he came and bowed down before King Solomon. And Solomon said to him, Go home.
1 The days came when David would die, and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,
2 I follow the way of everyone on the earth; strive, and be a man.
3 Keep the precepts of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his statutes and commandments, his decrees and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in everything you do and in everything what you undertake;
4 that the Lord may confirm the word that he spoke to me, saying: If your children will keep my way, walking before me in truth, with all their heart and with all their soul, never, he says, will you lack a man on the throne of Israel .
5 You know what Joab the son of Zeruiah has done to me, what he did to two generals of the army of Israel, Abner the son of Ner and Amasa the son of Jeter, whom he killed, shedding the blood of war, and putting war blood on the belt that was on his loins, and on the shoes that were on his feet.
6 You therefore shall do according to your wisdom; You will not let their gray hairs go down to Sheol in peace.
7 But you will show mercy to the children of Barzillai the Gileadite, that they may be among those invited to your table; for they came to me in this way, when I was fleeing from Absalom your brother.
8 You also have with you Shimei son of Gera, son of Benjamin, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a strong curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But he himself came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not kill you with the sword.
9 But now you will not absolve him; for you are a wise man, and you know what you should do with him; and you will bring down their gray hairs with blood to Sheol.
10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in his city.
11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; He reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.
12 And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was very established.
13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon; and she said to him: Is your coming of peace? He answered: Yes, of peace.
14 Immediately he said: I have a word to say to you. And she said: Say.
15 He said: You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel had set their face on me so that I might reign; but the kingdom was transferred, and became my brother’s, because by the Lord it was his.
16 Now I make a request of you; don’t deny it to me. And she said to him: Speak.
17 Then he said, I pray you, speak to King Solomon (for he will not deny you), so that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.
18 And Bathsheba said, Good; I will speak for you to the king.
19 Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed before her, and sat down again on her throne, and had a chair brought for her mother, and she sat at her right hand.
20 And she said: I have a small request from you; don’t deny it to me. And the king said to her: Ask, my mother, for I will not deny it to you.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be your brother Adonijah as a wife.
22 King Solomon answered and said to his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? He also demands the kingdom for himself; for he is my elder brother, and he also has Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Zeruiah.
23 And King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, because Adonijah has spoken these words against his life.
24 Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has confirmed me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he had told me, Adonijah will die today.
25 Then King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, who attacked him, and he died.
26 And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to your fields, for you are worthy of death; But I will not kill you today, because you have carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and have also been afflicted in all the things in which my father was afflicted.
27 So Solomon expelled Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD, that the word of the LORD which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh might be fulfilled.
28 And the news came to Joab; for Joab also had adhered to Adonijah, although he had not adhered to Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold of the horns of the altar.
29 And it was told to Solomon that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and that he was standing by the altar. Then Solomon sent to Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go and attack him.
30 And Benaiah entered into the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, The king has said, Come out. And he said: No, but here I will die. And Benaiah returned with this answer to the king, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
31 And the king said to him, Do as he has said; Kill him and bury him, and remove from me and from my father’s house the blood that Joab has unjustly shed.
32 And the LORD will return his blood upon his head; For he has killed two men more righteous and better than himself, whom he killed with the sword without my father David knowing anything: Abner the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jeter, general of the army. of Judah.
33 Their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his descendants forever; but upon David, and upon his descendants, and upon his house, and upon his throne, there shall be peace forever from the LORD.
34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and attacked him, and killed him; and he was buried in his house in the wilderness.
35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king made Zadok priest in place of Abiathar.
36 Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to one place or another;
37 For know for a fact that on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, you will surely die, and your blood will be on your head.
38 And Shimei said to the king, The word is good; As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
39 But after three years, two of Shimei’s servants fled to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath.
40 Then Shimei got up and saddled his donkey and went to Achish in Gath to look for his servants. So Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.
41 Then it was told to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and that he had returned.
42Then the king sent and summoned Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you swear by the Lord, and protest to you, saying, In the day that you go out and go here or there, know for a fact that you will die? And you told me: The word is good, I obey it.
43 Why then did you not keep the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I gave you?
44 The king also said to Shimei: You know all the evil, which your heart knows well, that you committed against my father David; So the Lord has brought back evil upon your head.
45 And King Solomon will be blessed, and the throne of David will be established forever before the Lord.
46 Then the king sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who went out and struck him, and he died. And the kingdom was confirmed in the hand of Solomon.
1 Solomon became related to Pharaoh king of Egypt, for he took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the city of David, while he had finished building his house, and the house of the Lord, and the walls of Jerusalem around it.
2 Until then the people sacrificed in the high places; for there was no house built in the name of Jehovah until those times.
3 But Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David; He only sacrificed and burned incense in high places.
4 And the king went to Gibeon, for that was the chief high place, and he sacrificed there; Solomon sacrificed a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
5 And the LORD appeared to Solomon in Gibeon one night in a dream, and God said to him, Ask for whatever you want me to give you.
6 And Solomon said, You showed great mercy to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have reserved this great mercy for him, in that you gave him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
7 Now therefore, Jehovah my God, you have made me your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am young, and I don’t know how to get in or out.
8 And your servant is among your people whom you chose; a large town, which cannot be counted or numbered because of its multitude.
9 Therefore give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, and to discern between good and evil; Because who can govern this great town of yours?
10 And it pleased the Lord that Solomon asked this.
11 And God said to him, Because you have asked for this, and have not asked for many days for yourself, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment,
12 behold, I have done it according to to your words; Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so much so that there was no one like you before you, nor will there arise another like you after you.
13 And I have also given you the things you did not ask for, riches and glory, so that among kings there will be none like you throughout your days.
14 And if you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, I will lengthen your days.
15 When Solomon woke up, he saw that it was a dream; and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and sacrificed burnt offerings and offered peace offerings, and also made a feast for all his servants.
16 At that time two harlot women came to the king and stood before him.
17 And one of them said: Ah, my lord! I and this woman lived in the same house, and I gave birth to her while I was with her in her house.
18 On the third day after I gave birth, she also gave birth, and we lived together; No one from outside was at home, but the two of us were in the house.
19 And one night this woman’s son died, because she lay on him.
20 And she arose at midnight, and she took my son from me, while I was your maid sleeping, and she laid him beside him, and she laid his dead son beside me.
21 And when I rose early in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; But I looked at him in the morning, and I saw that he was not my son, the one I had given birth to.
22 Then the other woman said, No; My son is the living one, and your son is the dead one. And the other said again: No; Your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one. Thus they spoke before the king.
23 The king then said: This says: My son is the living one, and your son is the dead one; and the other says: No, but yours is the dead one, and my son is the living one.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought the king a sword.
25 Immediately the king said, Divide the living child in half, and give half to the one, and the other half to the other.
26 Then the woman whose living son was, spoke to the king (for her heart was moved because of her son), and said, Ah, my lord! Give her the living child, and do not kill him. But the other said: Neither to me nor to you; break it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living son, and do not kill him; She is his mother.
28 And all Israel heard that judgment that the king had given; and they feared the king, because they saw that there was wisdom from God in him to judge.
1 So King Solomon reigned over all Israel.
2 And these were the leaders he had: Azariah the son of Zadok the priest;
3 Elihoref and Ahijah, sons of Shisa, secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, chancellor;
4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army; Zadok and Abiathar, the priests;
5 Azariah son of Nathan, over the governors; Zabud son of Nathan, chief minister and friend of the king;
6 Ahisar, steward; and Adoniram son of Abda, over the tribute.
7 Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who maintained the king and his house. Each of them was obliged to supply it for one month in the year.
8 And these are their names: the son of Hur in Mount Ephraim;
9 the son of Dechar in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, in Elon, and in Beth-hanan;
10 the son of Hezed in Aruboth; He also had Soco and all the land of Hepher;
11 the son of Abinadab in all the territories of Dor; He had Tafat daughter of Solomon as his wife;
12 Baana the son of Ahilud in Taanach and Megiddo, in all Beth-shean, which is near Zarethan, below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, and to the other side of Jochmeam;
13 the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; He also had the cities of Jair the son of Manasseh, which were in Gilead; He also had the province of Argob which was in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and locks of bronze;
14 Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;
15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali; He also took Basemath daughter of Solomon to wife.
16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Alot;
17 Jehoshaphat son of Parua, in Issachar;
18 Shimei son of Elah, 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; This was the only governor in that land.
20 Judah and Israel were many, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.
21 And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and the border with Egypt; and they brought gifts, and served Solomon all the days that he lived.
22 And Solomon’s provision for each day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
23 ten fat oxen, twenty pasture oxen, and a hundred sheep; without the deer, gazelles, roe deer and fat birds.
24For he ruled over all the region west of the Euphrates, from Tiphsa to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates; and he had peace all around.
25 And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, each under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
26 In addition to this, Solomon had forty thousand horses in his stables for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
27 And these governors provided for King Solomon, and for all those who came to King Solomon’s table, each one for a month, and made sure that nothing was lacking.
28 They also brought barley and straw for the horses and beasts of burden to the place where he was, each one according to his turn.
29 And God gave Solomon very great wisdom and prudence, and a heart as broad as the sand that is on the seashore.
30 Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the easterners, and than all the wisdom of the Egyptians.
31 Even he was wiser than all men, more than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he was known among all the nations around.
32 And he composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five.
33 He also spoke about the trees, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on the wall. He also discoursed on animals, on birds, on reptiles and on fish.
34 And to hear the wisdom of Solomon they came from all the peoples and from all the kings of the earth, whither the fame of his wisdom had reached.
1 Hiram king of Tire also sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that he had been anointed king in place of his father; because Hiram had always loved David.
2 Then Solomon sent to Hiram and said,
3 You know that my father David could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars that surrounded him, until the Lord put his enemies under the soles of his feet. of the.
4 Now the Lord my God has given me peace everywhere; for there are no adversaries, no evil to fear.
5 I therefore now determine to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, according to what the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Your son, whom I will place in your place on your throne, he will build a house for my name. .
6 Now command that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me; and my servants will be with yours, and I will give you for your servants the salary that you say; for you know well that there is none among us who knows how to work wood like the Sidonians.
7 When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he was very glad, and said, Blessed be the Lord today, who gave David a wise son over this great people.
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard what you commanded me to say; I will do whatever you please about cedar wood and cypress wood.
9 My servants will carry it from Lebanon to the sea, and I will send it on rafts by sea to the place that you show me, and there it will be loosed, and you will take it; and you will fulfill my wish by feeding my family.
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar wood and cypress wood, as much as he wanted.
11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for the sustenance of his family, and twenty corses of pure oil; This is what Solomon gave to Hiram every year.
12 So the LORD gave Solomon wisdom as he had told him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made a covenant between them.
13 And King Solomon decreed a levy throughout all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men,
14 which he sent to Lebanon ten thousand at a time, each month in turn, spending one month in Lebanon, and two months in their homes; and Adoniram was in charge of that levy. .
15 Solomon also had seventy thousand who carried the loads, and eighty thousand cutters on the mountain;
16 without Solomon’s chief officers who were in charge of the work, three thousand three hundred, who were in charge of the people who did the work.
17 And the king commanded that large stones be brought, costly stones, for the foundations of the house, and hewn stones.
18 And the builders of Solomon and Hiram, and the men of Gebal, cut and prepared the wood and the stone to build the house.
1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel left Egypt, the fourth year of the beginning of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziph, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
2 The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide, and thirty cubits high.
3 And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long along the width of the house, and the width before the house was ten cubits.
4 And he made windows for the house that were wide on the inside and narrow on the outside.
5 He also built rooms around the wall of the house, against the walls of the house around the temple and the most holy place; and made side chambers around it.
6 The bottom room was five cubits wide, the middle room six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; because on the outside he had made reductions around the house, so as not to embed the beams in the walls of the house.
7 And when the house was built, they made it of stones that they had already finished, in such a way that when they were building it, neither hammers nor axes were heard in the house, nor any other iron implement.
8 The door to the middle room was on the right side of the house; and one went up by a spiral staircase to the middle room, and from the middle room to the third room.
9 So he worked the house and finished it; and he covered it with paneling of cedar.
10 He also built the room around the entire house, five cubits high, which rested on the house with cedar wood.
11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
12 Concerning this house which you build, if you will walk in my statutes and do my decrees, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill with you my word which I spoke to your David. father;
13 and I will dwell there among the children of Israel, and I will not leave my people Israel.
14 So Solomon built the house and finished it.
15 And he covered the walls of the house with cedar boards, lining it with wood inside, from the floor of the house to the beams of the roof; He also covered the pavement with cypress wood.
16 He also made at the end of the house a building of twenty cubits, of cedar boards from the ground to the top; So he made a room in the house, which is the most holy place.
17 The house, that is, the front temple, was forty cubits.
18And the house was covered with cedar inside, and had carvings of wild gourds and flower buds. Everything was cedar; no stone was seen.
19 And he decorated the most holy place inside in the middle of the house, to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20 The most holy place was inside, which was twenty cubits long, twenty wide, and twenty cubits high; and he covered it with purest gold; Likewise he covered the cedar altar with gold.
21 So Solomon covered the house inside with pure gold, and closed the entrance of the sanctuary with chains of gold, and covered it with gold.
22 So he covered the whole house with gold from top to bottom, and he also covered the entire altar that was in front of the most holy place with gold.
23 He also made in the most holy place two cherubs of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24 One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits; so there were ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
25 Likewise the other cherub had ten cubits; because both cherubs were of the same size and of the same make.
26 The height of one was ten cubits, and likewise that of the other.
27 He placed these cherubim inside the house in the most holy place, which spread out their wings, so that the wing of one touched one wall, and the wing of the other touched the other wall, and the other two wings touched one another. the other in the middle of the house.
28 And he covered the cherubim with gold.
29 And he carved all the walls of the house around various figures, cherubs, palm trees, and flower buds, inside and out.
30 And he covered the floor of the house with gold, inside and out.
31 At the entrance to the sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; and the threshold and the posts were five-cornered.
32 The two doors were of olive wood; and he carved in them figures of cherubs, palm trees, and flower buds, and covered them with gold; He also covered the cherubs and the palm trees with gold.
33 Likewise he made square posts of olive wood for the temple gate.
34 But the two doors were of cypress wood; and the two leaves of one door turned, and the other two leaves of the other door also turned.
35 And he carved in them cherubs and palm trees and flower buds, and covered them with gold fitted to the carvings.
36 And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stones, and of one row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year, in the month Ziph, the foundations of the house of the LORD were laid.
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished with all its rooms, and with everything necessary. So he built it in seven years.
1 Then Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and finished it all.
2 He also built the house in the forest of Lebanon, which was one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar boards above on the beams, which rested on forty-five columns; each row had fifteen columns.
4 And there were three rows of windows, one window against the other in three rows.
5 All the gates and posts were square; and some windows faced the others in three rows.
6 He also made a portico of pillars, which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide; and this porch was in front of the first, with its corresponding columns and beams.
7 He also made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, the porch of judgment, and covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.
8 And the house in which he dwelt, in another court within the porch, was of similar construction to this one. Solomon also built for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, a house similar in workmanship to that of the porch.
9 All those works were made of expensive stones, cut and adjusted with saws according to measurements, both inside and outside, from the foundation to the tops, and also outside to the great court.
10 The foundation was of expensive stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
11 From there upwards there were also costly stones, hewn according to their measurements, and cedar wood.
12 And in the great court all around were three rows of hewn stones, and one row of cedar beams; and so also the inner court of the house of the Lord, and the court of the house.
13 And King Solomon sent and brought from Tire Hiram,
14 the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali. His father, who worked in bronze, was from Tyre; and Hiram was full of wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge in every work of bronze. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15 And he emptied two pillars of bronze; The height of each was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits surrounded each.
16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze, to be placed on the heads of the columns; The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was also five cubits.
17 There were braids like a net, and cords like chains, for the capitals that were to be placed on the heads of the columns; seven for each capital.
18 He also made two rows of pomegranates around the net, to cover the capitals that were at the heads of the columns with the pomegranates; and he did the same in the other capital.
19 The capitals that were on the columns in the porch were shaped like lilies and were four cubits long.
20 The capitals of the two columns also had two hundred pomegranates in two rows around each capital, on top of their globe, which was surrounded by the net.
21 These pillars he set up in the porch of the temple; and when he had set up the pillar on the right side, he called it Jachin, and having set up the pillar on the left side, he called its name Boaz.
22 And he placed carvings in the shape of lilies on the heads of the columns, and thus the work of the columns was finished.
23 He also melted a sea measuring ten cubits from one side to the other, perfectly round; Its height was five cubits, and a cord of thirty cubits girded it around.
24 And around the sea there were balls like gourds, ten in each cubit, surrounding the sea around it in two rows, which had been melted when the sea was melted.
25 And he rested on twelve oxen; three looked north, three looked west, three looked south, and three looked east; The sea rested on these, and their haunches were towards the inside.
26 The thickness of the sea was a hand’s breadth, and the edge was carved like the edge of a chalice or fleur-de-lis; and two thousand baths fit in it.
27 He also made ten bases of bronze, the length of each base being four cubits, and the width four cubits, and the height three cubits.
28 The work of the bases was this: they had some boards, which were between moldings;
29 and on those boards that were between the moldings, there were figures of lions, oxen and cherubs; and on the moldings of the base, as well as above and below the lions and oxen, there were some low-relief additions.
30 Each base had four bronze wheels, with bronze axles, and at its four corners there were cast iron shelves projecting from the festoons, to come under the fountain.
31 And the mouth of the fountain entered one cubit into the top that protruded upward from the base; and the mouth was round, of the same shape as the top, and the top was a cubit and a half. There were also notches with their boards over the mouth, which were square, not round.
32 The four wheels were under the boards, and the axles of the wheels sprang from the same base. The height of each wheel was one and a half cubits.
33 And the shape of the wheels was like that of the wheels of a chariot; Its axles, its spokes, its hubs and its straps, everything was made of cast iron.
34 Likewise the four shelves at the four corners of each base; and the shelves were part of the same base.
35 And on the top of the base was a round piece half a cubit high, and on top of the base its moldings and boards, which came out of itself.
36 And he made in the boards of the moldings, and in the panels, carvings of cherubim, of lions, and of palm trees, with proportion in the space of each one, and other ornaments around it.
37 In this way he made ten bases, cast in the same way, of the same measure and of the same notch.
38 He also made ten bronze lavers; Each fountain contained forty baths, and each one was four cubits; and he placed a laver on each of the ten bases.
39 And he put five bases on the right hand of the house, and the other five on the left hand; and she placed the sea on the right side of the house, on the east, toward the south.
40 Likewise Hiram made dishes, and tongs, and bowls. So he finished all the work that he did for Solomon for the house of the Lord:
41 two columns, and the round capitals that were on the top of the two columns; and two nets that covered the two round capitals that were above the heads of the columns;
42 four hundred pomegranates for the two nets, two rows of pomegranates in each net, to cover the two round capitals that were on the heads of the columns;
43 the ten bases, and the ten wells on the bases;
44 a sea, with twelve oxen under the sea;
45 and cauldrons, trowels, bowls, and all the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, of polished bronze.
46The king melted everything in the plain of the Jordan, in clay land, between Sukkot and Zaretan.
47 And Solomon did not inquire the weight of the bronze of all the utensils, because of the great number of them.
48 Then Solomon made all the furnishings that belonged to the house of the Lord: an altar of gold, and a table also of gold, on which were the shewbread;
49 five lampstands of purest gold on the right hand, and another five on the left, in front of the most holy place; with flowers, lamps and golden tongs.
50 Likewise the pitchers, snuffers, cups, spoons and censers, of the purest gold; Also of gold are the handles of the doors of the inner house, of the most holy place, and those of the doors of the temple.
51 Thus all the work that King Solomon planned to do for the house of Jehovah was completed. And Solomon brought in what David his father had dedicated, silver, gold, and utensils; and he deposited everything in the treasuries of the house of the Lord
1 Then Solomon gathered before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes, and the chiefs of the families of the children of Israel, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David, which It’s Zion.
2 And all the men of Israel gathered to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month, on the day of the solemn feast.
3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took the ark.
4 And they carried up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the sacred vessels that were in the tabernacle, which the priests and Levites carried.
5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that had gathered to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, which because of the multitude could not be counted or numbered.
6 And the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the sanctuary of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.
7 For the cherubim had their wings spread over the place of the ark, and so the cherubim covered the ark and its staffs above.
8 And they took out the staves, so that their ends could be seen from the holy place, which is in front of the most holy place, but they could not be seen from outside; and that is how they remained until today.
9 In the ark there was nothing except the two tables of stone that Moses had placed there in Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
10 And when the priests left the sanctuary, the cloud filled the house of the Lord.
11 And the priests could not remain to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord
12 Then Solomon said, The Lord has said that he would dwell in darkness.
13 I have built a house for you to dwell in, a place where you may dwell forever.
14 And the king turning his face to him, he blessed the whole congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel stood.
15 And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke to David my father what he accomplished with his hand, saying,
16 Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in which my name would be, although I chose David to preside over my people Israel.
17 And David my father had it in his heart to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
18 But the LORD said to David my father: Since you have had it in your heart to build a house for my name, you have done well to have such a desire.
19 But you will not build the house, but your son who will come from your loins will build a house for my name.
20 And the LORD has fulfilled his word which he had spoken; for I have risen in the place of David my father, and have sat on the throne of Israel, as the LORD had said, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
21 And I have placed in it a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD, in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his hands toward heaven,
23 and said, “Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, neither in heaven above nor in heaven beneath.” earth, who keep the covenant and mercy to your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
24 that you have fulfilled to your servant David my father what you promised him; You said it with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled it, as it happens on this day.
25 Now therefore, Jehovah God of Israel, fulfill to your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, You will not lack a man before me to sit on the throne of Israel, provided that your sons keep my way and walk before me as you have walked before me.
26 Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, let the word come true which you spoke to your servant David my father.
27 But is it true that God will dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, the heavens of heavens, cannot contain you; How much less this house that I have built?
28 Nevertheless, you will attend to the prayer of your servant, and to his prayer, O Lord my God, hearing the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you today;
29May your eyes be open night and day on this house, on this place of which you have said: My name will be there; and may you hear the prayer that your servant makes in this place.
30 Hear therefore the prayer of your servant, and of your people Israel; When they pray in this place, you also will hear it in your dwelling place in heaven; listen and forgive.
31 If anyone sins against his neighbor, and they take an oath from him, making him swear, and the oath comes before your altar in this house;
32 You will hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the wicked and putting his actions on his head, and justifying the righteous to give him according to his righteousness.
33 If your people Israel are defeated before their enemies because they have sinned against you, and they turn to you and confess your name, and pray and beseech you and make supplication in this house,
34 you will hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you will return them to the land that you gave to their fathers.
35 If heaven is closed and it does not rain, because they have sinned against you, and they pray to you in this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
36 you will hear in heaven, and you will forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, teaching them the good way in which they walk; and you will give rain on your land, which you gave to your people for an inheritance.
37 If there be famine, pestilence, blight, blight, locust or aphid in the land; if their enemies besiege them in the land where they live; any pest or disease whatsoever;
38 Every prayer and supplication that any man, or all your people Israel, makes, when anyone feels the plague in his heart, and stretches out his hands to this house,
39 You will hear in heaven, in your dwelling place, and you will forgive, and you will act, and you will give to everyone according to his ways, whose heart you know (for you alone know the hearts of all the sons of men);
40 so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our fathers.
41 Likewise the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, who comes from a far country because of your name
42 (for they will hear of your great name, of your strong hand and of your outstretched arm), and comes to pray in this house
43 You will hear in heaven, in your dwelling place, and you will do according to everything for which the foreigner has cried to you, so that all the people of the earth may know your name and fear you, like your people Israel . , and understand that your name is called upon this house that I built.
44 If your people go out to battle against their enemies in the way that you command them, and pray to the Lord with their faces towards the city that you have chosen, and towards the house that I have built for your name,
45 you will hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and you will do them justice.
46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who does not sin), and you are angry with them, and you hand them over to the enemy, to be taken captive and carried away to the enemy’s land, whether far or near,
47 and they come to their senses in the land where they were captives; if they turn and pray to you in the land of those who captivated them, and say, We have sinned, we have done evil, we have committed ungodliness;
48 And if they turn to you with all their heart and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who had taken them captive, and pray to you with their faces towards their land which you gave to their fathers, and towards the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
49 you will hear in heaven, in your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplication, and you will do justice to them.
50 And you will forgive your people who had sinned against you, and all their transgressions by which they have rebelled against you, and you will have mercy on them who had taken them captive;
51 For they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of the midst of the iron furnace.
52 Let your eyes therefore be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your people Israel, to hear them in everything for which they call upon you;
53 For you set them apart for yourself as an inheritance from all the people of the earth, as you said through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.
54When Solomon had finished making all this prayer and supplication to Jehovah, he rose from kneeling before the altar of Jehovah with his hands extended to heaven;
55 And standing up, he blessed the whole congregation of Israel, saying with a loud voice:
56 Blessed be the Lord, who has given peace to his people Israel, according to all that he had spoken; Not a single word of all his promises, which he expressed through Moses his servant, has been missing.
57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and he will not forsake us or leave us.
58 Incline our hearts toward him, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
59 And these my words with which I have prayed before the Lord, may they be near the Lord our God day and night, that he may protect the cause of his servant and his people Israel, each in its season;
60 so that all the people of the earth may know that Jehovah is God, and that there is no other.
61 Let your heart therefore be perfect toward the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.
62 Then the king, and all Israel with him, sacrificed victims before the Lord.
63 And Solomon offered peace sacrifices, which he offered to the Lord: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
64 That same day the king sanctified the middle of the court, which was before the house of the Lord; for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar that was before the Lord was small, and the burnt offerings and the fat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings did not fit on it.
65 At that time Solomon, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from where they entered Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, for seven days and for another seven days, that is, for fourteen days.
66 And on the eighth day he dismissed the people; And they, blessing the king, went to their dwellings glad and rejoicing in heart, for all the benefits that Jehovah had bestowed upon David his servant and upon his people his Israel.
1 When Solomon had finished the work of the house of the Lord, and the royal house, and all that Solomon wanted to do,
2 the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, just as he had appeared to him in Gibeon.
3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication which you have made before me. I have sanctified this house that you have built, to put my name in it forever; and my eyes and my heart will be on her every day.
4 And if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in equity, doing all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my decrees,
5 I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke to David your father, saying, There shall not fail a man of your descendants on the throne of Israel.
6 But if you and your children stubbornly turn away from me, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them;
7 I will cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them; and this house which I have sanctified for my name, I will cast out from before me, and Israel will be a proverb and proverb to all peoples;
8 And this house, which was esteemed, everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will mock, and say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?
9 And they will say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods, and worshiped them and served them; That is why Jehovah has brought all this evil upon them.
10 It came to pass after twenty years, when Solomon had already built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the royal house,
11 for which Hiram king of Tire had brought to Solomon cedar wood and cypress wood, and as much gold as he wanted, that King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram went out from Tire to see the cities that Solomon had given him, and he did not like them.
13 And he said, What cities are these that you have given me, brother? And he named them the land of Cabul, a name that he has to this day.
14 And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15 This is the reason for the levy that King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Milo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer:
16 Pharaoh the king of Egypt had gone up and He took Gezer, burned it, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17 So Solomon restored Gezer and lower Beth-horon,
18 Baalat, and Tadmor in the land of the wilderness;
19 also all the cities where Solomon had provisions, and the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and everything that Solomon wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 To all the people that remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
21 Solomon made their children who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel could not destroy, serve with tribute until today.
22 But Solomon did not impose service on any of the children of Israel, but they were men of war, or his servants, his princes, his captains, commanders of his chariots, or his horsemen.
23 And those whom Solomon had made leaders and watchmen over the works were five hundred and fifty, who were over the people who worked on that work.
24 And Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her; then he built Milo.
25 And Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings three times a year on the altar which he built to the Lord, and burned incense on it that was before the Lord, after the house was finished.
26 King Solomon also made ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in them his servants, sailors and seamen, with Solomon’s servants,
28 who went to Ophir and took gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame that Solomon had achieved for the name of Jehovah, she came to test him with difficult questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels loaded with spices, and gold in great abundance, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she explained to him everything that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon answered all her questions, and there was nothing that the king did not answer.
4 And when the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
5 also the food at his table, the habitations of his officials, the state and clothing of those who served him, his servants, and his burnt offerings that he offered in the house of Jehovah, she was amazed.
6 And she said to the king: True is what I heard in my land about your things and your wisdom;
7 But I did not believe it, until I came, and my eyes saw that the half was not even told to me; Your wisdom and goodness is greater than the fame I had heard.
8 Blessed are your men, blessed are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom.
9 Blessed be the Lord your God, who was pleased with you to put you on the throne of Israel; Because the Lord has always loved Israel, he has made you king, to do justice and justice.
10 And she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and much spices, and precious stones; Never did so great a quantity of spices come, as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
11 Hiram’s fleet, which had brought the gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir much sandalwood and precious stones.
12 And of sandalwood the king made balusters for the house of the Lord and for the royal houses, also harps and psalteries for the singers; Such sandalwood never came, nor has it been seen until today.
13 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she wanted, and all that she asked, besides what Solomon gave her. And she returned, and she went to her land with her servants.
14 The weight of gold that Solomon had as income each year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold;
15 without that of the merchants, and that of the trading of spices, and that of all the kings of Arabia, and of the rulers of the land.
16 King Solomon also made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold he spent on each shield.
17 He also made three hundred shields of beaten gold, on each of which he spent three pounds of gold; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
18 The king also made a great throne of ivory, which he covered with purest gold.
19 The throne had six steps, and the upper part was round at the back; and on either side it had arms near the seat, next to which two lions were placed.
20 There were also twelve lions placed there on the six steps, on one side and on the other; In no other kingdom had such a throne been made.
21 And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and also all the dishes in the house of the forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; no silver, because in Solomon’s time it was not appreciated.
22 For the king had a fleet of ships from Tarshish in the sea, with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet from Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys and peacocks.
23 Thus King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
24 The whole earth sought to see the face of Solomon, to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
25 And every year they all brought him his gifts: gold and silver jewelry, clothing, weapons, spices, horses and mules.
26 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had fourteen hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.
27 And the king made the silver in Jerusalem become like stones, and the cedars like goat figs of Shephelah in abundance.
28 And they brought horses and linens to Solomon from Egypt; for the king’s company of merchants bought horses and linens.
29 And he came and went out of Egypt, the chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and the horse for one hundred and fifty; and thus all the kings of the Hittites and Syria acquired them by their hand.
1 But king Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter; to those of Moab, to those of Ammon, to those of Edom, to those of Sidon, and to the Hittites;
2 nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel: You shall not approach them, nor shall they approach you; for they will certainly make your hearts incline after their gods. To these, then, Solomon joined in love.
3 And he had seven hundred queen wives and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
4 And when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.
5 For Solomon followed Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, abominable idol of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father did.
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abominable idol of Moab, on the mountain opposite Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abominable idol of the children of Ammon.
8 Thus he did for all his foreign women, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to his gods.
9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
10 and had commanded him concerning this, that he should not follow other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord commanded him.
11 And the LORD said to Solomon, Because this has been in you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded you, I will break the kingdom from you, and give it to your servant.
12 However, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; I will break it from your son’s hand.
13 But I will not break up the whole kingdom, but will give a tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.
14 And the LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite, of royal blood, who was in Edom.
15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the general of the army went up to bury the dead, and slew all the men of Edom
16 (for six months Joab and all Israel dwelt there, until he had destroyed all the male sex in Edom),
17 Hadad fled, and with him some Edomite men of his father’s servants, and went to Egypt; Hadad was then a little boy.
18 And they arose from Midian, and came to Paran; and taking with them men from Paran, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave them a house and appointed them food, and even gave them land.
19And Hadad found great favor with Pharaoh, who gave him to wife the sister of his wife, the sister of Queen Tahpenes.
20 And Tahpenes’ sister bore him her son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; And Genubat was in Pharaoh’s house among Pharaoh’s sons.
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his parents, and that Joab, general of the army, was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me go to my land.
22 Pharaoh answered him: Why? What are you missing with me, that you are trying to go to your country? He answered: Nothing; Still, I beg you to let me go.
23 God also raised up Rezon son of Eliada as an adversary against Solomon, who had fled from his master Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
24 And he had gathered men against him, and had become captain of a company, when David defeated those of Zobah. Then they went to Damascus and lived there, and they made him king in Damascus.
25 And he was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon; and it was another evil with that of Hadad, because he hated Israel, and reigned over Syria.
26 Also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Sereda, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zerua, who was a widow, raised his hand against the king.
27 The reason why he raised his hand against the king was this: Solomon, building up Milo, closed the gate of the city of David his father.
28 And this man Jeroboam was brave and mighty; And Solomon seeing the young man that he was an active man, he entrusted him with all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29 So it came to pass at that time that Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road, and he was covered with a new cloak; and they were alone in the field.
30 And Ahijah took the new cloak that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces,
31 and said to Jeroboam, Take the ten pieces for yourself; For thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will break the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes;
32 and he will have a tribe for the sake of David my servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel;
33 because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, god of Moab, and Molech, god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight, and my statutes, and my decrees, as David his father did.
34 But I will not take anything of the kingdom out of his hands, but will retain him as king all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose, and who kept my commandments and my statutes.
35 But I will take the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and give it to you, the ten tribes.
36 And to his son I will give a tribe, so that my servant David may have a lamp before me every day in Jerusalem, the city that I chose for myself to put my name on.
37 Therefore I will take you, and you will reign in all that your soul desires, and you will be king over Israel.
38 And if you will listen to all that I command you, and walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, then I will be with you and will build you a firm house, as I built it for David, and I will give you to Israel.
39 And I will afflict the descendants of David because of this, but not forever.
40 For this reason Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
41Los demás hechos de Salomón, y todo lo que hizo, y su sabiduría, ¿no está escrito en el libro de los hechos de Salomón?
42Los días que Salomón reinó en Jerusalén sobre todo Israel fueron cuarenta años.
43Y durmió Salomón con sus padres, y fue sepultado en la ciudad de su padre David; y reinó en su lugar Roboam su hijo.
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, whither he had fled from before King Solomon, and dwelt in Egypt, heard of it,
3 They sent for him. So Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
4 Your father made our yoke heavy, but now you lighten some of your father’s hard bondage and the heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.
5 And he said to them, Go, and in three days return to me. And the people departed.
6 Then king Rehoboam sought counsel from the elders who had been before Solomon his father when he was alive, and said, How do you advise that I should respond to this people?
7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you are a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them in return, they will serve you forever.
8 But he left the advice that the elders had given him, and asked advice from the young men who had grown up with him, and were before him.
9 And he said to them: How do you advise us to respond to this people, who have spoken to me, saying: Lighten some of the yoke that your father put on us?
10 Then the young men who had grown up with him answered him, saying, Thus you shall speak to this people who spoke these words to you: Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten us somewhat; This is how you will speak to them: The smallest finger of mine is thicker than my father’s loins.
11 Now therefore my father has burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; My father punished you with stripes, but I will punish you with scorpions.
12 On the third day Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam, as the king had commanded, saying, Return to me on the third day.
13 And the king answered the people harshly, abandoning the advice that the elders had given him;
14 And he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; My father punished you with stripes, but I will punish you with scorpions.
15 And the king did not listen to the people; for it was the plan of the LORD to confirm the word which the LORD had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16 When all the people saw that the king had not heard them, he answered them these words, saying, What part have we with David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, to your tents! Provide now in your home, David! Then Israel went to his tents.
17 But Rehoboam reigned over the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.
18 And king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the taxes; but all Israel stoned him, and he died. Then King Rehoboam hurriedly got into a chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
19 Thus Israel departed from the house of David until this day.
20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent for him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel, so that there was no tribe left to follow the house of David, but only the tribe of Judah.
21 And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he gathered together the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand men, chosen warriors, to make war against the house of Israel, and to return the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
22 But the word of the jehovah came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
23 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
24 Thus says the LORD: Do not go or fight against your brothers the children of Israel; Return each one to his house, for I have done this. And they heard the word of God, and they returned and departed, according to the word of the Lord.
25 Then Jeroboam rebuilt Shechem on Mount Ephraim, and dwelt there; and leaving there, he rebuilt Penuel.
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David,
27 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; for the heart of this people will turn to their lord Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me, and they will return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
28 And when they had taken counsel, the king made two golden calves, and said to the people, You have gone up enough to Jerusalem; Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
29 And he put one in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
30 And this was a cause of sin; for the people were going to worship before one until Dan.
31 He also made houses on the high places, and made priests from among the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
32 Then Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast that was celebrated in Judah; and he sacrificed on an altar. Thus he did in Bethel, offering sacrifices to the calves that he had made. He also ordained priests in Bethel for the high places that he had made.
33 So he sacrificed on the altar which he had made in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month which he had invented from his own heart; and he made a feast to the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.
1 Behold, a man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord; And as Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense,
2 he cried against the altar at the word of the Lord and said, Altar, altar, thus says the Lord: Behold, to the house of David a son will be born, named Josiah, who will sacrifice on you to the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.
3 And that same day he gave a sign, saying, This is the sign of which the Lord has spoken: behold, the altar will be broken, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.
4 When King Jeroboam heard the word of the man of God, who had cried out against the altar of Bethel, stretching out his hand from the altar, he said, “Seize him!” But the hand that he had stretched out against him was withered, and he could not straighten it.
5 And the altar was broken, and the ashes of the altar were poured out, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
6 Then the king answered and said to the man of God, I beseech you before the presence of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored unto me. And the man of God prayed to the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and he became as he was before.
7 And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and eat, and I will give you a present.
8 But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
9 For thus it is commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by any way.
10 So he returned another way, and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
11 Then there was an old prophet living in Bethel, to whom his son came and told him everything that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; They also told his father the words he had spoken to the king.
12 And his father said to them, By what way did he go? And his sons showed him the way by which the man of God who had come from Judah had returned.
13 And he said to his sons, Saddle my donkey. And they saddled the donkey for him, and he sat on it.
14 And going after the man of God, he found him sitting under an oak, and said unto him, Art thou the man of God that came from Judah? He said: I am.
15 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
16 But he said, I will not be able to return to you, nor will I go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
17 For by the word of God it has been said to me: Do not eat bread or drink water there, nor return by the road wherever you go.
18And the other said to him, lying to him: I also am a prophet like you, and an angel has spoken to me by the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.
19 Then she returned to him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And it came to pass, while they were at table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.
21 And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD: Because you have rebelled against the command of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
22 but you returned and ate bread and drank water in the place where the Lord had told you not to eat bread or drink water, your body will not enter the tomb of your fathers.
23 When he had eaten bread and drunk, he who had brought him back saddled his donkey.
24 And as he was going, he met a lion on the way, and it killed him; and his body was lying on the road, and the donkey next to it, and the lion also next to the body.
25 And behold, some passed by, and saw the body lying on the road, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
26 When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, This is the man of God, who rebelled against the commandment of the Lord; Therefore the LORD gave him over to the lion, which broke him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke to him.
27 And he spoke to his sons, and said to them, Saddle me a donkey. And they saddled him.
28 And he went and found the body lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion lying by the body; The lion had not eaten the body, nor harmed the donkey.
29 Then the prophet took the body of the man of God, and put it on the donkey and carried it away. And the old prophet came to the city to mourn him and bury him.
30 And he put the body in his tomb; and they mourned him, saying: Alas, my brother!
31 And after they had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, When I die, bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; put my bones next to his.
32 For what he shouted by the word of the LORD will surely come against the altar that is in Bethel, and against all the things in the high places that are in the cities of Samaria.
33 With all this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil path, but he again made priests of the high places from among the people, and whomever he wanted he consecrated so that he might be one of the priests of the high places.
34 And this was a sin to the house of Jeroboam, so that it was cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.
1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell ill.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise now and disguise yourself, that they may not know that you are Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh; because there is the prophet Ahijah, the one who told me that I would be king over this people.
3 And take in your hand ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him, that he may declare to you what shall become of this child.
4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so; and she arose and went to Shiloh, and she came to Ahijah’s house. And she could no longer see Ahijah, because his eyes had darkened because of his old age.
5 But the LORD had said to Ahijah, Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to consult you about her son, who is sick; Thus and thus you will answer her, for when she comes, she will come disguised as her.
6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she entered the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? Behold, I am sent to you with hard revelation.
7 Go and tell Jeroboam: Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Because I raised you up from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
8 and I broke the kingdom of the house of David and gave it to you ; and you have not been like David my servant, who kept my commandments and walked after me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes,
9 but you did evil to all who were before you, for you went and made yourself other gods and molten images to anger me, and you cast me behind your back;
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will destroy every male from Jeroboam, both the bond and the free in Israel; and I will sweep away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung, until it is finished.
11 Whoever dies of Jeroboam’s people in the city will be eaten by dogs, and whoever dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air; because the Lord has said so.
12 And you get up and go to your house; and when you set foot in the city, the child will die.
13 And all Israel will mourn him, and bury him; For of Jeroboam’s people only he will be buried, because something good has been found in him before the Lord God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14 And the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who will destroy the house of Jeroboam on this day; and he will do it right now.
15 The Lord will shake Israel as a reed shakes the waters; and he will uproot Israel from this good land which he had given to his fathers, and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah images, angering the Lord.
16And he will hand Israel over for the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and made Israel sin.
17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and left, and came to Tirzah; and as she entered through the threshold of the house, the child died.
18 And they buried him, and all Israel mourned him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, the wars that he waged, and how he reigned, are all written in the book of the histories of the kings of Israel.
20 The reign of Jeroboam was twenty-two years; and having slept with his parents, Nadab his son reigned in his place.
21 Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, a city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they angered him more than all that his fathers had done in their sins which they committed.
23 For they also built themselves high places, statues, and Asherah images, on every high hill and under every green tree.
24 There were also sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem,
26 and took the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the royal house, and plundered everything; He also took all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
27 And in their place king Rehoboam made shields of bronze, and he gave them to the captains of the guard, who guarded the door of the royal house.
28 When the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards led them away; and they put them in the guard’s chamber.
29 The rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam every day.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his parents, and was buried with his parents in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.
1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah,
2 and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah, daughter of Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins that his father had committed before him; and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David was his father.
4 But for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, raising up his son after him, and supporting Jerusalem;
5 because David had done what was right in the sight of the LORD, and had departed from nothing that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his parents, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place.
9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
10 And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; His mother’s name was Maacah, daughter of Abishalom.
11 Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like his father David.
12 For he removed the sodomites from the country, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13 He also deprived his mother Maacah of being queen mother, because she had made an Asherah idol. Furthermore, Asa broke down the idol of his mother and burned it by the Kidron brook.
14 However, the high places were not removed. Yet Asa’s heart was perfect toward Jehovah all his life.
15 He also brought into the house of the Lord what his father had dedicated, and what he dedicated: gold, silver, and jewelry.
16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, all the time of both of them.
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, so as not to let anyone go out or enter Asa king of Judah.
18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the royal house, and gave them to his servants, and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimon, son of Hezion, king of Syria, who resided in Damascus, saying:
19 Let there be an alliance between us, as between my father and yours. Behold, I send you a present of silver and gold; Go and break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, so that he may depart from me.
20 And Ben-hadad consented to king Asa, and sent the princes of the armies that he had against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ihon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Cinereth, with all the land of Naphtali.
21 When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.
22 Then King Asa summoned all Judah, not one excepting one; and they removed from Ramah the stone and the wood with which Baasha built, and king Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
23 The rest of the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the days of his old age he became ill with his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
25 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 evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of his father, and in the sins with which he caused Israel to sin.
27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, who was of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha smote him in Gibbethon, which was of the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel had Gibethon besieged.
28 So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
29 And when he came into the kingdom, he slew all the house of Jeroboam, leaving no living soul of Jeroboam’s people, until he destroyed them, according to the word which the Lord spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
30 for the sins that Jeroboam had committed, and with which he caused Israel to sin; and for his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah God of Israel to anger.
31 The rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not all 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 the time of both of them.
33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah; and he reigned twenty-four years.
34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he caused Israel to sin.
1 And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
2 Because I raised you up out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have caused my people to sin. Israel, provoking me to anger with your sins;
3 Behold, I will wipe out the seed of Baasha, and the seed of his house; and I will make his house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
4 Whoever of Baasha is killed in the city, the dogs will eat; and whoever is killed in the field, the birds of the air will eat.
5 The rest of the acts of Baasha, and the things that he did, and his might, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6 And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place.
7 But the word of the LORD through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani had been against Baasha and also against his house, because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the works of his hands, so that he would be made like the house of Jeroboam; and because he had destroyed it.
8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah; and he reigned two years.
9 And his servant Zimri, commander of half the chariots, conspired against him. And while he was in Tirzah, drinking and drunk in the house of Arsa, his steward in Tirzah,
10 Zimri came and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned in his place.
11 And when he became king and sat on his throne, he slew all the house of Baasha, leaving no man, relatives or friends in it.
12 So Zimri destroyed the entire house of Baasha, according to the word that the Lord had spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu,
13 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, with which they sinned and caused them to sin. Israel, provoking Jehovah God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
14 The rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri began to reign, and he reigned seven days in Tirzah; and the people had encamped against Gibbethon, the city of the Philistines.
16 And the people who were in the camp heard it said, Zimri has conspired, and has put the king to death. Then that same day all Israel made Omri, general of the army, king over Israel on the battlefield.
17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and besieged Tirzah.
18 But when Zimri saw the city taken, he entered the palace of the royal house, and set fire to the house with him; and so he died,
19 for the sins which he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, and walking in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he committed, causing Israel to sin.
20 The rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni son of Ginath to make him king, and the other half followed Omri.
22 But the people who followed Omri were stronger than those who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; and Tibni died, and Omri was king.
23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned twelve years; He reigned in Tirzah six years.
24 And Omri bought the mountain of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the mountain; and he called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, who was the owner of that mountain.
25 And Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did worse than all those who reigned before him;
26 For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sin wherewith he caused Israel to sin, provoking the jehovah God of Israel to anger with his idols.
27 The rest of the acts of Omri, and all that he did, and the bravery that he performed, are they not all written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
28 And Omri slept with his parents, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
29 Ahab son of Omri began to reign over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah.
30 And Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all those who reigned before him.
31 For it was a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and he took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Eth-baal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
32 And he made an altar to Baal, in the temple of Baal which he built in Samaria.
33 Ahab also made an Asherah image, so that Ahab did more than all the kings of Israel who reigned before him, to provoke the wrath of the Lord God of Israel.
34 In his time Gail of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. At the price of the life of Abiram, his firstborn, he laid the foundation, and at the price of the life of Segub, his youngest son, he laid its gates, according to the word which the Lord had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Then Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither rain nor dew in these years, except by my word.
2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
3 Depart from here, and turn toward the east, and hide yourself in the brook Cherith, which is before the Jordan.
4 You will drink from the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
5 And he went and did according to the word of the Lord; So he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is across from the Jordan.
6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the stream.
7 After a few days the stream dried up, because there had been no rain on the land.
8 Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
9 Arise, go to Zarephath of Sidon, and dwell there; Behold, I have commanded a widow there to support you.
10 Then he got up and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow woman was there gathering wood; and he called her and said to her, Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.
11 And she went to bring it to him, and he called her again, and said unto her, I pray thee, also bring me a morsel of bread in thy hand.
12 And she answered, As the Lord your God lives, I have no baked bread; I have only a handful of flour in the jar, and a little oil in a vessel; and now he was gathering two logs to go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we could eat it and let ourselves die.
13 Elijah said to him: Do not be afraid; Go, do as you have said; But first make me a small cake baked under the ashes, and bring it to me; and then you will do for yourself and for your son.
14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: The flour in the jar will not fail, nor will the oil in the jar diminish, until the day when the Lord sends rain on the face of the earth.
15 So she went and did as Elijah told her; and he, and she, and her house ate many days.
16 And the flour in the jar did not fail, nor did the oil in the jar decrease, according to the word which the Lord had spoken through Elijah.
17 After these things it happened that the son of the mistress of the house fell ill; and the illness was so serious that there was no breath left in him.
18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to me to remember my iniquities, and to put my son to death?
19 He said to him: Give me your son here. Then he took it from her lap, and brought it to the room where he was, and laid it on her bed.
20 And crying to the Lord, she said, Lord my God, have you afflicted even the widow in whose house I am staying, causing her son to die?
21 And she lay down on the child three times, and she cried to the LORD and said, “Lord my God, please return the soul of this child to him.”
22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child returned to him, and he revived.
23 Then Elijah took the child, and brought him from the room to the house, and gave him to his mother, and Elijah said to her, See, your son lives.
24 Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord is true in your mouth.
1Pasados muchos días, vino palabra de Jehová a Elías en el tercer año, diciendo: Ve, muéstrate a Acab, y yo haré llover sobre la faz de la tierra.
2Fue, pues, Elías a mostrarse a Acab. Y el hambre era grave en Samaria.
3Y Acab llamó a Abdías su mayordomo. Abdías era en gran manera temeroso de Jehová.
4Porque cuando Jezabel destruía a los profetas de Jehová, Abdías tomó a cien profetas y los escondió de cincuenta en cincuenta en cuevas, y los sustentó con pan y agua.
5Dijo, pues, Acab a Abdías: Ve por el país a todas las fuentes de aguas, y a todos los arroyos, a ver si acaso hallaremos hierba con que conservemos la vida a los caballos y a las mulas, para que no nos quedemos sin bestias.
6Y dividieron entre sí el país para recorrerlo; Acab fue por un camino, y Abdías fue separadamente por otro.
7Y yendo Abdías por el camino, se encontró con Elías; y cuando lo reconoció, se postró sobre su rostro y dijo: ¿No eres tú mi señor Elías?
8Y él respondió: Yo soy; ve, di a tu amo: Aquí está Elías.
9Pero él dijo: ¿En qué he pecado, para que entregues a tu siervo en mano de Acab para que me mate?
10Vive Jehová tu Dios, que no ha habido nación ni reino adonde mi señor no haya enviado a buscarte, y todos han respondido: No está aquí; y a reinos y a naciones él ha hecho jurar que no te han hallado.
11¿Y ahora tú dices: Ve, di a tu amo: Aquí está Elías?
12Acontecerá que luego que yo me haya ido, el Espíritu de Jehová te llevará adonde yo no sepa, y al venir yo y dar las nuevas a Acab, al no hallarte él, me matará; y tu siervo teme a Jehová desde su juventud.
13¿No ha sido dicho a mi señor lo que hice, cuando Jezabel mataba a los profetas de Jehová; que escondí a cien varones de los profetas de Jehová de cincuenta en cincuenta en cuevas, y los mantuve con pan y agua?
14¿Y ahora dices tú: Ve, di a tu amo: Aquí está Elías; para que él me mate?
15Y le dijo Elías: Vive Jehová de los ejércitos, en cuya presencia estoy, que hoy me mostraré a él.
16Entonces Abdías fue a encontrarse con Acab, y le dio el aviso; y Acab vino a encontrarse con Elías.
17Cuando Acab vio a Elías, le dijo: ¿Eres tú el que turbas a Israel?
18Y él respondió: Yo no he turbado a Israel, sino tú y la casa de tu padre, dejando los mandamientos de Jehová, y siguiendo a los baales.
19Envía, pues, ahora y congrégame a todo Israel en el monte Carmelo, y los cuatrocientos cincuenta profetas de Baal, y los cuatrocientos profetas de Asera, que comen de la mesa de Jezabel.
20 Then Ahab called together all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets to Mount Carmel.
21 And Elijah approached all the people and said, How long will you hesitate between two thoughts? If Jehovah is God, follow him; and if Baal, go after him. And the people did not respond a word.
22 And Elijah said again to the people, I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; but of the prophets of Baal there are four hundred and fifty men.
23 So give us two oxen, and let them choose one, and cut it into pieces, and put it on wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox, and will lay it on wood, and will put no fire under it.
24 Then call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, that is God. And all the people answered, saying, Well said.
25 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal: Choose an ox for you, and prepare it yourselves first, since you are the most; and call on the name of your gods, but do not put fire under it.
26 And they took the ox that was given them and prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, Baal, answer us! But there was no voice, nor anyone to answer; Meanwhile, they were jumping around near the altar they had made.
27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, saying, Cry aloud, for he is a god; Maybe he is meditating, or he has some work, or he is on the way; Maybe he is sleeping, and we have to wake him up.
28 And they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves with knives and lancets according to their custom, until the blood flowed on them.
29 Noon passed, and they continued shouting frantically until the time of offering the sacrifice, but there was no voice, no one to answer or listen.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came to him; and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was ruined.
31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had been given, saying, Israel shall be your name,
32 and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord; Then he made a trench around the altar to hold two measures of grain.
33 Then he prepared the wood, and cut the ox into pieces, and laid it on the wood.
34 And he said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood. And he said: Do it again; and again they did it. He further said: Do it the third time; And they did it the third time,
35 so that the water was running around the altar, and the ditch was also filled with water.
36 When the time came for the offering of the burnt offering, Elijah the prophet came and said, “Jehovah God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that by command Yours I have made all these things.
37 Answer me, Jehovah, answer me, so that this people may know that you, O Jehovah, are God, and that you turn their hearts back to you.
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and even licked up the water that was in the ditch.
39 When all the people saw it, they fell down and said, “The Lord is God, the Lord is God!”
40 Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal, so that none may escape.” And they seized them; and Elijah took them to the brook Kishon, and there he slaughtered them.
41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; because a big rain is heard.
42 Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and prostrated himself on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
43 And he said to his servant, Go up now, and look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said to him again: Come back seven times.
44 At the seventh time he said: I see a small cloud like the palm of a man’s hand rising from the sea. And he said, Go, and say unto Ahab, Harness thy chariot, and go down, that the rain may not bind thee.
45 And it came to pass, while he was doing this, that the heavens were darkened with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went up, and he came to Jezreel.
46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded his loins, and he ran before Ahab until he came to Jezreel.
1 Ahab told Jezebel of all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, May the gods do so to me, and even more, unless by this time tomorrow I have not made your person like that of one of them.
3 So seeing the danger, he arose and went to save his life, and came to Beersheba, which is in Judah, and left his servant there.
4 And he went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and wishing to die, he said: It is enough, O Jehovah, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
5 And he lay down under the juniper tree, and fell asleep; and behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise, eat.
6 Then he looked, and behold, at his head a cake baked on coals, and a vessel of water; and he ate and drank, and fell asleep again.
7 And the angel of the Lord returned the second time, and touched him, saying, Arise and eat, for you have a long way to go.
8 So he arose and ate and drank; and strengthened with that food he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
9 And there he went into a cave, where he spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?
10 He answered: I have felt a burning zeal for Jehovah God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, they have torn down your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword; and only I am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.
11 He said to him, Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and powerful wind broke the mountains and broke the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake.
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire a still small voice.
13 And when Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and went out, and stood at the door of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?
14 He answered: I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, they have torn down your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword; and only I am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.
15 And the Lord said to him, Go, return on your way, through the wilderness of Damascus; and you will come and anoint Hazael king of Syria.
16 You shall anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel; and Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel-mehola, you shall anoint so that he may be a prophet in your place.
17 And whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill him; and whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill him.
18 And I will cause seven thousand to remain in Israel, whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and whose mouths have not kissed him.
19 He left there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke before him, and he had the last one. And Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle over him.
20 Then he leaving the oxen, came running after Elijah, and said, Please let me kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him: Go, return; what have I done to you?
21 And he returned, and took a pair of oxen, and killed them, and with the oxen’s plow he boiled the meat, and gave it to the people to eat. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and served him.
1 Then Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and with him thirty-two kings, with horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
2 And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, saying,
3 Thus says Ben-hadad: Your silver and your gold are mine, and your wives and your beautiful children are mine.
4 And the king of Israel answered and said, As you say, my lord king, I am yours, and all that I have.
5 The messengers returned again and said, Thus said Ben-hadad: I sent you to say: Your silver and your gold, and your wives and your children, you will give me.
6 Furthermore, at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, who will search your house and the houses of your servants; and they will take and carry away everything precious that you have.
7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said to them, Understand, and see now how this man seeks nothing but evil; for he has sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and for my gold, and I have not withheld it from him.
8 And all the elders and all the people answered him, Do not obey him, nor do what he asks of you.
9 Then he answered the ambassadors of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king: I will do all that you commanded your servant at the beginning; but I cannot do this. And the ambassadors went and gave him the answer.
10 And Ben-hadad again sent to him saying, May the gods do so to me, and more also, that the dust of Samaria will not be sufficient for the fists of all the people who follow me.
11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him that he who puts on his armor should not boast as much as he who takes it off.
12 And when he heard this word, while he was drinking with the kings in the tents, he said to his servants, Prepare yourselves. And they arrayed themselves against the city.
13 And, behold, a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD: Have you seen this great multitude? Behold, I will give it to you today into your hand, so that you may know that I am Jehovah.
14 And Ahab said, By whose hand? He said, Thus says the Lord: By the hand of the servants of the princes of the provinces. And Ahab said: Who will begin the battle? And he answered: You.
15 Then he reviewed the servants of the princes of the provinces, who were two hundred and thirty-two. Then he reviewed all the people, all the children of Israel, who were seven thousand.
16 And they left at noon. And Ben-hadad was drinking and getting drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who had come to his aid.
17And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Ben-hadad had sent who told him, saying, Men have come out of Samaria.
18 He then said: If they have gone out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out to fight, take them alive.
19 So the servants of the princes of the provinces left the city, and the army followed them.
20 And each one killed him that came against him; and the Syrians fled, and the Israelites followed them. And the king of Syria, Ben-hadad, escaped on a horse with some cavalry.
21 And the king of Israel went out, and struck down the horsemen and chariots, and destroyed the Syrians, causing great destruction to them.
22 Then the prophet came to the king of Israel and said to him, Go, be strong, and consider and see what you do; for after a year, the king of Syria will come against you.
23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him: His gods are gods of the mountains, that is why they have defeated us; But if we fight with them on the plain, it will be seen if we do not defeat them.
24 Therefore do this: Remove each king from his position, and appoint captains in their place.
25 And you form another army like the army that you lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; Then we will fight with them in the open field, and see if we don’t defeat them. And he gave ear to them, and did so.
26 After a year, Ben-hadad reviewed the army of the Syrians, and came to Aphek to fight against Israel.
27 The children of Israel were also inspected, and taking provisions they went to meet them; And the children of Israel camped before them like two flocks of goats, and the Syrians filled the land.
28 Then the man of God came to the king of Israel, and spoke to him, saying, Thus says the LORD: Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is the God of the mountains, and not the God of the valleys, I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, that you may know that I am Jehovah.
29 Seven days they camped against each other, and on the seventh day the battle took place; And the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand foot soldiers of the Syrians in one day.
30 The rest fled to Aphek, to the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Benhadad also came fleeing into the city, and hid from room to room.
31 Then his servants said to him, Behold, we have heard of the kings of the house of Israel, that they are merciful kings; Let us now put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes around our necks, and let us go out to the king of Israel, to see if by chance he will save your life.
32 So they girded their loins with sackcloth, and ropes around their necks, and came to the king of Israel and said to him, Your servant Ben-hadad says, I pray you, may my soul live. And he answered: If he still lives, he is my brother.
33 These men took this as a good omen, and they hastened to take the word from his mouth, and said, Your brother Ben-hadad lives. And he said, Go and fetch him. Ben-hadad then presented himself to Ahab, and he made him ride into a chariot.
34 And Ben-hadad said to him, The cities which my father took from yours, I will restore; and make places in Damascus for yourself, as my father made them in Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let you go with this agreement. So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
35 Then a man of the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of God, Smite me now. But the other did not want to hurt him.
36 He said to him, Because you have not obeyed the word of the Lord, behold, when you depart from me, a lion will strike you. And when he left him, a lion found him and killed him.
37 Then he met another man, and said to him, Smite me now. And the man struck him, and made him a wound.
38 And the prophet went away, and stood before the king in the way, and disguised himself, putting a blindfold over his eyes.
39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a soldier came to me and brought me a man, saying to me: Guard this man, and if he should flee, your life will be his, or you will pay a talent of silver.
40 And while your servant was busy with one thing and another, the man disappeared. Then the king of Israel said to him, “This will be your sentence; you have pronounced it.
41But he suddenly took off the blindfold from his eyes, and the king of Israel knew that he was of the prophets.
42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD: Because thou hast loosed the man of my accursed hand from the hand, thy life shall be his, and thy people his people.
43 And the king of Israel went to his house sad and angry with him, and came to Samaria.
1 After these things had passed, it came to pass that Naboth of Jezreel had a vineyard there by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you another vineyard for it, better than this; or if it seems better to you, I will pay you its value in money.
3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid that I give you the inheritance of my fathers.
4 And Ahab came to his house sad and angry with him, because of the word that Naboth of Jezreel had answered him, saying, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and turned his face away from him, and did not eat.
5 His wife, Jezebel, came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so depressed, and you do not eat?”
6 He answered: Because I spoke to Naboth of Jezreel, and I told him to give me his vineyard for money, or that if he wanted more, I would give him another vineyard for it; and he said, I will not give you my vineyard.
7 And his wife Jezebel said to him, Are you now king over Israel? Arise, and eat and be glad; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth of Jezreel.
8 Then she wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and sealed them with her ring, and sent them to the elders and rulers who lived in the city with Naboth.
9 And the letters that she wrote said thus: Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth before the people;
10 and set two wicked men before him, who will testify against him and say, You have blasphemed God and the king. And then take it out, and stone it to die.
11 And those of her city, the elders and the rulers who lived in her city, did as Jezebel commanded them, according to what was written in the letters that she had sent to them.
12 And they declared a fast, and set Naboth before the people.
13 Then two wicked men came and sat down before him; And those wicked men testified against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth has blasphemed God and the king. And they took him out of the city and stoned him, and he died.
14 Then they sent word to Jezebel: Naboth was stoned and died.
15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and killed, she said to Ahab, Arise and take the vineyard of Naboth of Jezreel, for he would not give it to you for money; for Naboth does not live, but he has died.
16 And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth of Jezreel, to take possession of it.
17 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:
18Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, to which he has gone down to take possession of it.
19 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord: Have you not killed, and have you also plundered? And you shall speak to him again, saying, Thus says the Lord: In the same place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood, your very blood.
20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered: I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil before the Lord.
21 Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and I will sweep away your seed and destroy every last man of the house of Ahab, both bond and free in Israel.
22 And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the rebellion with which you provoked me to anger, and with which you caused Israel to sin.
23 The Lord has also spoken of Jezebel, saying: The dogs will eat Jezebel on the wall of Jezreel.
24 Whoever is killed by Ahab in the city, the dogs will eat, and whoever is killed in the field, the birds of the air will eat.
25 (Indeed, no one was like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him.
26 He was very abominable, walking after idols, according to all that
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and walked in humiliation.
28 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
29 Have you not seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? For because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring evil in his days; In the days of his son I will bring evil upon his house.
1 Three years passed without war between the Syrians and Israel.
2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to the king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we have done nothing to take it from the hand of the king of Syria?
4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you come with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am like you, and my people like your people, and my horses like your horses.
5 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I pray you, consult the word of the Lord today.
6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, to whom he said, Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I leave it? And they said, Go up, for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there still here any prophet of the LORD, by whom we may inquire?
8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man about whom we might inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, because he never prophecies good to me, but only evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king speak thus.
9 Then the king of Israel called an officer and said to him, Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each in his seat, dressed in their royal robes, in the square by the entrance to the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made himself horns of iron, and said, Thus says the Lord: With these you will gore the Syrians until you destroy them.
12 And all the prophets prophesied in the same way, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and you will prosper; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
13 And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets with one voice announce good things to the king; Now let your word be according to the word of one of them, and also announce good success.
14 And Micaiah answered, As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord speaks to me, that is what I will say.
15 So he came to the king, and the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to fight against Ramoth-gilead, or shall we leave it? He said to him, Go up, and you will prosper, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
16 And the king said to him, How many times must I require you to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?
17 Then he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd; and the LORD said, These have no master; Let everyone return to his house in peace.
18And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Had I not told you? He will prophesy no good thing about me, but only evil.
19 Then he said, Hear therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him, on his right hand and on his left.
20 And the LORD said, Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said one way, and another said another.
21 And a spirit came out and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said to him: In what way?
22 He said: I will go out, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and yet thou shalt succeed; So go and do it like this.
23 And now, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all your prophets, and the LORD has decreed evil against you.
24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaana came and struck Micaiah on the cheek, saying, Where did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?
25 And Micaiah answered, Behold, you will see it on that day, when you will go from room to room to hide yourself.
26 Then the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and bring him to Ammon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;
27 and you will say, Thus says the king: Throw this one into prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
28 And Micaiah said, If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken for me. Immediately he said: Listen, all you people.
29 So the king of Israel went up with Jehoshaphat king of Judah to Ramoth Gilead.
30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into battle; and you put on your clothes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and entered into battle.
31 But the king of Syria had commanded his thirty-two chariot captains, saying, Fight neither with great nor with small, but only against the king of Israel.
32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Surely this is the king of Israel; and they came against him to fight with him; but king Jehoshaphat cried out.
33 Then the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, and they departed from him.
34 And a man shot his bow at random and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor, so he said to his charioteer, Turn around and carry me out of the field, for I am wounded.
35 But the battle had raged that day, and the king was in his chariot before the Syrians, and in the evening he died; and the blood from the wound ran down the bottom of the car.
36 And at sunset a proclamation went out throughout the camp, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his land!
37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
38 And they washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up its blood (and the harlots also washed there), according to the word that the Lord had spoken.
39 The rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house 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 And Ahab slept with his parents, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
41 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 he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azuba daughter of Silhi.
43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father, not deviating from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not removed; for the people still sacrificed, and burned incense on them.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his exploits, and the wars that he waged, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
46 He also swept out of the land the rest of the sodomites who were left in the time of his father Asa.
47 Then there was no king in Edom; there was a governor instead of a king.
48 Jehoshaphat had made ships from Tarshish, which were to go to Ophir for gold; but they did not go, because they were broken at Ezion-geber.
49 Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat did not want to.
50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father; and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
51 Ahaziah son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin;
53 For he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
