KI1 1:1  Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him
 with clothes, but he gat no heat.

KI1 1:2  Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord
 the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her
 cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get
 heat.

KI1 1:3  So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of
 Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

KI1 1:4  And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered
 to him: but the king knew her not.

KI1 1:5  Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be
 king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before
 him.

KI1 1:6  And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast
 thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him
 after Absalom.

KI1 1:7  And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the
 priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

KI1 1:8  But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the
 prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David,
 were not with Adonijah.

KI1 1:9  And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of
 Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons,
 and all the men of Judah the king's servants:

KI1 1:10  But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon
 his brother, he called not.

KI1 1:11  Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying,
 Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David
 our lord knoweth it not?

KI1 1:12  Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou
 mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

KI1 1:13  Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou,
 my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son
 shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah
 reign?

KI1 1:14  Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come
 in after thee, and confirm thy words.

KI1 1:15  And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king
 was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.

KI1 1:16  And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king
 said, What wouldest thou?

KI1 1:17  And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto
 thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and
 he shall sit upon my throne.

KI1 1:18  And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou
 knowest it not:

KI1 1:19  And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and
 hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the
 captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

KI1 1:20  And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that
 thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king
 after him.

KI1 1:21  Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep
 with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

KI1 1:22  And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also
 came in.

KI1 1:23  And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when
 he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his
 face to the ground.

KI1 1:24  And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall
 reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?

KI1 1:25  For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and
 sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains
 of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before
 him, and say, God save king Adonijah.

KI1 1:26  But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the
 son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

KI1 1:27  Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it
 unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

KI1 1:28  Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came
 into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

KI1 1:29  And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed
 my soul out of all distress,

KI1 1:30  Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying,
 Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my
 throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

KI1 1:31  Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence
 to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

KI1 1:32  And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
 prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

KI1 1:33  The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your
 lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down
 to Gihon:

KI1 1:34  And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king
 over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.

KI1 1:35  Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my
 throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be
 ruler over Israel and over Judah.

KI1 1:36  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen:
 the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.

KI1 1:37  As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with
 Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

KI1 1:38  So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of
 Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused
 Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

KI1 1:39  And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and
 anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God
 save king Solomon.

KI1 1:40  And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with
 pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound
 of them.

KI1 1:41  And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they
 had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he
 said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

KI1 1:42  And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the
 priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant
 man, and bringest good tidings.

KI1 1:43  And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king
 David hath made Solomon king.

KI1 1:44  And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
 prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the
 Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:

KI1 1:45  And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in
 Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang
 again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

KI1 1:46  And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

KI1 1:47  And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David,
 saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his
 throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

KI1 1:48  And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which
 hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

KI1 1:49  And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose
 up, and went every man his way.

KI1 1:50  And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and
 caught hold on the horns of the altar.

KI1 1:51  And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king
 Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let
 king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the
 sword.

KI1 1:52  And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall
 not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in
 him, he shall die.

KI1 1:53  So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And
 he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to
 thine house.

KI1 2:1  Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
 Solomon his son, saying,

KI1 2:2  I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew
 thyself a man;

KI1 2:3  And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep
 his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies,
 as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that
 thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

KI1 2:4  That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me,
 saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth
 with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said
 he) a man on the throne of Israel.

KI1 2:5  Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and
 what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of
 Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of
 war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his
 loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

KI1 2:6  Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go
 down to the grave in peace.

KI1 2:7  But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let
 them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled
 because of Absalom thy brother.

KI1 2:8  And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite
 of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to
 Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the
 LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

KI1 2:9  Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and
 knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down
 to the grave with blood.

KI1 2:10  So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

KI1 2:11  And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven
 years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in
 Jerusalem.

KI1 2:12  Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom
 was established greatly.

KI1 2:13  And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of
 Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

KI1 2:14  He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say
 on.

KI1 2:15  And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all
 Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is
 turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.

KI1 2:16  And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto
 him, Say on.

KI1 2:17  And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will
 not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

KI1 2:18  And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

KI1 2:19  Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for
 Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and
 sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother;
 and she sat on his right hand.

KI1 2:20  Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say
 me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say
 thee nay.

KI1 2:21  And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy
 brother to wife.

KI1 2:22  And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou
 ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he
 is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for
 Joab the son of Zeruiah.

KI1 2:23  Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and
 more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

KI1 2:24  Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set
 me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he
 promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

KI1 2:25  And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and
 he fell upon him that he died.

KI1 2:26  And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth,
 unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this
 time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before
 David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my
 father was afflicted.

KI1 2:27  So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that
 he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of
 Eli in Shiloh.

KI1 2:28  Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though
 he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the
 LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

KI1 2:29  And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle
 of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the
 son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

KI1 2:30  And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him,
 Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And
 Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he
 answered me.

KI1 2:31  And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon
 him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab
 shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

KI1 2:32  And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon
 two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my
 father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain
 of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of
 Judah.

KI1 2:33  Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon
 the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon
 his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

KI1 2:34  So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew
 him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

KI1 2:35  And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the
 host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

KI1 2:36  And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build
 thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any
 whither.

KI1 2:37  For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the
 brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy
 blood shall be upon thine own head.

KI1 2:38  And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the
 king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many
 days.

KI1 2:39  And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the
 servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they
 told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

KI1 2:40  And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to
 seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

KI1 2:41  And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to
 Gath, and was come again.

KI1 2:42  And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not
 make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a
 certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou
 shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is
 good.

KI1 2:43  Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment
 that I have charged thee with?

KI1 2:44  The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness
 which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore
 the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

KI1 2:45  And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be
 established before the LORD for ever.

KI1 2:46  So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went
 out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the
 hand of Solomon.

KI1 3:1  And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
 Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made
 an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of
 Jerusalem round about.

KI1 3:2  Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house
 built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

KI1 3:3  And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his
 father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

KI1 3:4  And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great
 high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

KI1 3:5  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God
 said, Ask what I shall give thee.

KI1 3:6  And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father
 great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in
 righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for
 him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne,
 as it is this day.

KI1 3:7  And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of
 David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or
 come in.

KI1 3:8  And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen,
 a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

KI1 3:9  Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people,
 that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so
 great a people?

KI1 3:10  And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.

KI1 3:11  And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast
 not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor
 hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself
 understanding to discern judgment;

KI1 3:12  Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a
 wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before
 thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

KI1 3:13  And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both
 riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto
 thee all thy days.

KI1 3:14  And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
 commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

KI1 3:15  And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to
 Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered
 up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his
 servants.

KI1 3:16  Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and
 stood before him.

KI1 3:17  And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one
 house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

KI1 3:18  And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that
 this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger
 with us in the house, save we two in the house.

KI1 3:19  And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

KI1 3:20  And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while
 thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my
 bosom.

KI1 3:21  And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was
 dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son,
 which I did bear.

KI1 3:22  And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead
 is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my
 son. Thus they spake before the king.

KI1 3:23  Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and
 thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and
 my son is the living.

KI1 3:24  And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before
 the king.

KI1 3:25  And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half
 to the one, and half to the other.

KI1 3:26  Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for
 her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living
 child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor
 thine, but divide it.

KI1 3:27  Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no
 wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

KI1 3:28  And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and
 they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do
 judgment.

KI1 4:1  So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

KI1 4:2  And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the
 priest,

KI1 4:3  Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son
 of Ahilud, the recorder.

KI1 4:4  And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and
 Abiathar were the priests:

KI1 4:5  And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son
 of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:

KI1 4:6  And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was
 over the tribute.

KI1 4:7  And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided
 victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made
 provision.

KI1 4:8  And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

KI1 4:9  The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and
 Elonbethhanan:

KI1 4:10  The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the
 land of Hepher:

KI1 4:11  The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the
 daughter of Solomon to wife:

KI1 4:12  Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and
 all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to
 Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:

KI1 4:13  The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair
 the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of
 Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen
 bars:

KI1 4:14  Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:

KI1 4:15  Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon
 to wife:

KI1 4:16  Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

KI1 4:17  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

KI1 4:18  Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

KI1 4:19  Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of
 Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only
 officer which was in the land.

KI1 4:20  Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in
 multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

KI1 4:21  And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land
 of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and
 served Solomon all the days of his life.

KI1 4:22  And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
 flour, and threescore measures of meal,

KI1 4:23  Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred
 sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

KI1 4:24  For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from
 Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had
 peace on all sides round about him.

KI1 4:25  And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under
 his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

KI1 4:26  And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and
 twelve thousand horsemen.

KI1 4:27  And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all
 that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked
 nothing.

KI1 4:28  Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they
 unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

KI1 4:29  And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
 largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

KI1 4:30  And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the
 east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

KI1 4:31  For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
 Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all
 nations round about.

KI1 4:32  And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
 and five.

KI1 4:33  And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even
 unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and
 of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

KI1 4:34  And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all
 kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

KI1 5:1  And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had
 heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram
 was ever a lover of David.

KI1 5:2  And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

KI1 5:3  Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto
 the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side,
 until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

KI1 5:4  But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that
 there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

KI1 5:5  And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my
 God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set
 upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.

KI1 5:6  Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
 Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I
 give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou
 knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto
 the Sidonians.

KI1 5:7  And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
 rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given
 unto David a wise son over this great people.

KI1 5:8  And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which
 thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of
 cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

KI1 5:9  My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I
 will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint
 me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them:
 and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

KI1 5:10  So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his
 desire.

KI1 5:11  And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to
 his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram
 year by year.

KI1 5:12  And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was
 peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

KI1 5:13  And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was
 thirty thousand men.

KI1 5:14  And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month
 they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.

KI1 5:15  And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and
 fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

KI1 5:16  Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work,
 three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought
 in the work.

KI1 5:17  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly
 stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

KI1 5:18  And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the
 stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

KI1 6:1  And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
 children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of
 Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month,
 that he began to build the house of the LORD.

KI1 6:2  And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
 thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the
 height thereof thirty cubits.

KI1 6:3  And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the
 length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the
 breadth thereof before the house.

KI1 6:4  And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

KI1 6:5  And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,
 against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the
 oracle: and he made chambers round about:

KI1 6:6  The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six
 cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall
 of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be
 fastened in the walls of the house.

KI1 6:7  And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready
 before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor
 any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

KI1 6:8  The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house:
 and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the
 middle into the third.

KI1 6:9  So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with
 beams and boards of cedar.

KI1 6:10  And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high:
 and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

KI1 6:11  And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

KI1 6:12  Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk
 in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to
 walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David
 thy father:

KI1 6:13  And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake
 my people Israel.

KI1 6:14  So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

KI1 6:15  And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both
 the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on
 the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

KI1 6:16  And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor
 and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even
 for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

KI1 6:17  And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

KI1 6:18  And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open
 flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

KI1 6:19  And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark
 of the covenant of the LORD.

KI1 6:20  And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and
 twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he
 overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

KI1 6:21  So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a
 partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with
 gold.

KI1 6:22  And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all
 the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

KI1 6:23  And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten
 cubits high.

KI1 6:24  And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the
 other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the
 uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

KI1 6:25  And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one
 measure and one size.

KI1 6:26  The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the
 other cherub.

KI1 6:27  And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched
 forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one
 wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their
 wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

KI1 6:28  And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

KI1 6:29  And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
 figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

KI1 6:30  And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and
 without.

KI1 6:31  And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the
 lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.

KI1 6:32  The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them
 carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with
 gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.

KI1 6:33  So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a
 fourth part of the wall.

KI1 6:34  And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door
 were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

KI1 6:35  And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and
 covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

KI1 6:36  And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a
 row of cedar beams.

KI1 6:37  In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid,
 in the month Zif:

KI1 6:38  And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth
 month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according
 to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

KI1 7:1  But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished
 all his house.

KI1 7:2  He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof
 was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height
 thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon
 the pillars.

KI1 7:3  And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty
 five pillars, fifteen in a row.

KI1 7:4  And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in
 three ranks.

KI1 7:5  And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light
 was against light in three ranks.

KI1 7:6  And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits,
 and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the
 other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

KI1 7:7  Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the
 porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor
 to the other.

KI1 7:8  And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which
 was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom
 he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

KI1 7:9  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed
 stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto
 the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

KI1 7:10  And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of
 ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

KI1 7:11  And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and
 cedars.

KI1 7:12  And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed
 stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house
 of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

KI1 7:13  And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

KI1 7:14  He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a
 man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
 understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king
 Solomon, and wrought all his work.

KI1 7:15  For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and
 a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

KI1 7:16  And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops
 of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the
 height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

KI1 7:17  And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the
 chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one
 chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

KI1 7:18  And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one
 network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates:
 and so did he for the other chapiter.

KI1 7:19  And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily
 work in the porch, four cubits.

KI1 7:20  And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above,
 over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were
 two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

KI1 7:21  And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up
 the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left
 pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

KI1 7:22  And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the
 pillars finished.

KI1 7:23  And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other:
 it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty
 cubits did compass it round about.

KI1 7:24  And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it,
 ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two
 rows, when it was cast.

KI1 7:25  It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
 looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three
 looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their
 hinder parts were inward.

KI1 7:26  And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought
 like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand
 baths.

KI1 7:27  And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one
 base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

KI1 7:28  And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and
 the borders were between the ledges:

KI1 7:29  And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
 cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions
 and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

KI1 7:30  And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the
 four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters
 molten, at the side of every addition.

KI1 7:31  And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but
 the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half:
 and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare,
 not round.

KI1 7:32  And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the
 wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and
 half a cubit.

KI1 7:33  And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel:
 their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were
 all molten.

KI1 7:34  And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and
 the undersetters were of the very base itself.

KI1 7:35  And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit
 high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof
 were of the same.

KI1 7:36  For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof,
 he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of
 every one, and additions round about.

KI1 7:37  After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting,
 one measure, and one size.

KI1 7:38  Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths:
 and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one
 laver.

KI1 7:39  And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the
 left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house
 eastward over against the south.

KI1 7:40  And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram
 made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house
 of the LORD:

KI1 7:41  The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the
 top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the
 chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;

KI1 7:42  And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of
 pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that
 were upon the pillars;

KI1 7:43  And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

KI1 7:44  And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

KI1 7:45  And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels,
 which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright
 brass.

KI1 7:46  In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
 between Succoth and Zarthan.

KI1 7:47  And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were
 exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

KI1 7:48  And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the
 LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

KI1 7:49  And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five
 on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the
 tongs of gold,

KI1 7:50  And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and
 the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the
 inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit,
 of the temple.

KI1 7:51  So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the
 LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated;
 even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the
 treasures of the house of the LORD.

KI1 8:1  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
 tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon
 in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD
 out of the city of David, which is Zion.

KI1 8:2  And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at
 the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

KI1 8:3  And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

KI1 8:4  And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the
 congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even
 those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

KI1 8:5  And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
 assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen,
 that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

KI1 8:6  And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto
 his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under
 the wings of the cherubims.

KI1 8:7  For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the
 ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

KI1 8:8  And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen
 out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and
 there they are unto this day.

KI1 8:9  There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses
 put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of
 Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

KI1 8:10  And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
 place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

KI1 8:11  So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:
 for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

KI1 8:12  Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick
 darkness.

KI1 8:13  I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for
 thee to abide in for ever.

KI1 8:14  And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation
 of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)

KI1 8:15  And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his
 mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

KI1 8:16  Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I
 chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name
 might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

KI1 8:17  And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the
 name of the LORD God of Israel.

KI1 8:18  And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart
 to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

KI1 8:19  Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall
 come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

KI1 8:20  And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up
 in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
 promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

KI1 8:21  And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant
 of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the
 land of Egypt.

KI1 8:22  And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all
 the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

KI1 8:23  And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven
 above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants
 that walk before thee with all their heart:

KI1 8:24  Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst
 him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand,
 as it is this day.

KI1 8:25  Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
 father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in
 my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed
 to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

KI1 8:26  And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified,
 which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

KI1 8:27  But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven
 of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

KI1 8:28  Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
 supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which
 thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

KI1 8:29  That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even
 toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou
 mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this
 place.

KI1 8:30  And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy
 people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in
 heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

KI1 8:31  If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon
 him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this
 house:

KI1 8:32  Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning
 the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to
 give him according to his righteousness.

KI1 8:33  When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they
 have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy
 name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

KI1 8:34  Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
 Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
 fathers.

KI1 8:35  When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
 sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
 name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

KI1 8:36  Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of
 thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should
 walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an
 inheritance.

KI1 8:37  If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
 mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them
 in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

KI1 8:38  What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy
 people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and
 spread forth his hands toward this house:

KI1 8:39  Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and
 give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou,
 even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

KI1 8:40  That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which
 thou gavest unto our fathers.

KI1 8:41  Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but
 cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;

KI1 8:42  (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and
 of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

KI1 8:43  Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that
 the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy
 name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this
 house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

KI1 8:44  If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
 thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou
 hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

KI1 8:45  Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
 maintain their cause.

KI1 8:46  If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and
 thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
 them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

KI1 8:47  Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were
 carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land
 of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done
 perversely, we have committed wickedness;

KI1 8:48  And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their
 soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray
 unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city
 which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

KI1 8:49  Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
 dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

KI1 8:50  And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their
 transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them
 compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have
 compassion on them:

KI1 8:51  For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
 forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

KI1 8:52  That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and
 unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that
 they call for unto thee.

KI1 8:53  For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth,
 to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant,
 when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God.

KI1 8:54  And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this
 prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the
 LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

KI1 8:55  And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud
 voice, saying,

KI1 8:56  Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel,
 according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his
 good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

KI1 8:57  The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not
 leave us, nor forsake us:

KI1 8:58  That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and
 to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he
 commanded our fathers.

KI1 8:59  And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the
 LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause
 of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the
 matter shall require:

KI1 8:60  That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and
 that there is none else.

KI1 8:61  Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in
 his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

KI1 8:62  And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the
 LORD.

KI1 8:63  And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered
 unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty
 thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the
 house of the LORD.

KI1 8:64  The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was
 before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat
 offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that
 was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat
 offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

KI1 8:65  And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a
 great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt,
 before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

KI1 8:66  On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the
 king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness
 that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

KI1 9:1  And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the
 house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he
 was pleased to do,

KI1 9:2  That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared
 unto him at Gibeon.

KI1 9:3  And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
 supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house,
 which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine
 heart shall be there perpetually.

KI1 9:4  And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
 integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
 commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

KI1 9:5  Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever,
 as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
 upon the throne of Israel.

KI1 9:6  But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
 children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set
 before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

KI1 9:7  Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them;
 and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my
 sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

KI1 9:8  And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall
 be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done
 thus unto this land, and to this house?

KI1 9:9  And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
 brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold
 upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath
 the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

KI1 9:10  And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had
 built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,

KI1 9:11  (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
 and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king
 Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

KI1 9:12  And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
 given him; and they pleased him not.

KI1 9:13  And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my
 brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

KI1 9:14  And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

KI1 9:15  And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to
 build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of
 Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

KI1 9:16  For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it
 with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for
 a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

KI1 9:17  And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,

KI1 9:18  And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

KI1 9:19  And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his
 chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to
 build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

KI1 9:20  And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
 Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

KI1 9:21  Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
 children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
 Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

KI1 9:22  But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they
 were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and
 rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

KI1 9:23  These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work,
 five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the
 work.

KI1 9:24  But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her
 house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

KI1 9:25  And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace
 offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense
 upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

KI1 9:26  And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside
 Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.

KI1 9:27  And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge
 of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

KI1 9:28  And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred
 and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

KI1 10:1  And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
 the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

KI1 10:2  And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that
 bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come
 to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

KI1 10:3  And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid
 from the king, which he told her not.

KI1 10:4  And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the
 house that he had built,

KI1 10:5  And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
 attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his
 ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more
 spirit in her.

KI1 10:6  And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine
 own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

KI1 10:7  Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had
 seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity
 exceedeth the fame which I heard.

KI1 10:8  Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
 continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

KI1 10:9  Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on
 the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made
 he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

KI1 10:10  And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of
 spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such
 abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

KI1 10:11  And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in
 from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

KI1 10:12  And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
 LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there
 came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

KI1 10:13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
 whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.
 So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

KI1 10:14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
 hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

KI1 10:15  Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the
 spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the
 country.

KI1 10:16  And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
 hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

KI1 10:17  And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of
 gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of
 Lebanon.

KI1 10:18  Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
 the best gold.

KI1 10:19  The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round
 behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two
 lions stood beside the stays.

KI1 10:20  And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon
 the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

KI1 10:21  And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
 vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of
 silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

KI1 10:22  For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram:
 once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver,
 ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

KI1 10:23  So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and
 for wisdom.

KI1 10:24  And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God
 had put in his heart.

KI1 10:25  And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
 vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a
 rate year by year.

KI1 10:26  And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a
 thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he
 bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

KI1 10:27  And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
 made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

KI1 10:28  And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
 king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

KI1 10:29  And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels
 of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings
 of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their
 means.

KI1 11:1  But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter
 of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and
 Hittites:

KI1 11:2  Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of
 Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for
 surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto
 these in love.

KI1 11:3  And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
 concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

KI1 11:4  For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away
 his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his
 God, as was the heart of David his father.

KI1 11:5  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and
 after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

KI1 11:6  And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully
 after the LORD, as did David his father.

KI1 11:7  Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of
 Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination
 of the children of Ammon.

KI1 11:8  And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense
 and sacrificed unto their gods.

KI1 11:9  And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned
 from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

KI1 11:10  And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
 after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.

KI1 11:11  Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done
 of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
 commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to
 thy servant.

KI1 11:12  Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
 sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

KI1 11:13  Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one
 tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which
 I have chosen.

KI1 11:14  And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
 Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

KI1 11:15  For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain
 of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in
 Edom;

KI1 11:16  (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had
 cut off every male in Edom:)

KI1 11:17  That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants
 with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

KI1 11:18  And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men
 with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt;
 which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

KI1 11:19  And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he
 gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the
 queen.

KI1 11:20  And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
 weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the
 sons of Pharaoh.

KI1 11:21  And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
 that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me
 depart, that I may go to mine own country.

KI1 11:22  Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that,
 behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing:
 howbeit let me go in any wise.

KI1 11:23  And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
 which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:

KI1 11:24  And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when
 David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and
 reigned in Damascus.

KI1 11:25  And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside
 the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

KI1 11:26  And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's
 servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his
 hand against the king.

KI1 11:27  And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king:
 Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his
 father.

KI1 11:28  And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing
 the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge
 of the house of Joseph.

KI1 11:29  And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
 Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he
 had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

KI1 11:30  And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in
 twelve pieces:

KI1 11:31  And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
 LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of
 Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

KI1 11:32  (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
 Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
 Israel:)

KI1 11:33  Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth
 the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the
 god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that
 which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did
 David his father.

KI1 11:34  Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I
 will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,
 whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

KI1 11:35  But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
 unto thee, even ten tribes.

KI1 11:36  And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
 have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to
 put my name there.

KI1 11:37  And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
 soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

KI1 11:38  And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command
 thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my
 statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with
 thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel
 unto thee.

KI1 11:39  And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

KI1 11:40  Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
 fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death
 of Solomon.

KI1 11:41  And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his
 wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

KI1 11:42  And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
 forty years.

KI1 11:43  And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
 David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 12:1  And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to
 make him king.

KI1 12:2  And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in
 Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and
 Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)

KI1 12:3  That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation
 of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,

KI1 12:4  Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the
 grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us,
 lighter, and we will serve thee.

KI1 12:5  And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to
 me. And the people departed.

KI1 12:6  And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before
 Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may
 answer this people?

KI1 12:7  And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this
 people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words
 to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

KI1 12:8  But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given
 him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which
 stood before him:

KI1 12:9  And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this
 people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put
 upon us lighter?

KI1 12:10  And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him,
 saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying,
 Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt
 thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

KI1 12:11  And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add
 to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
 you with scorpions.

KI1 12:12  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as
 the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

KI1 12:13  And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's
 counsel that they gave him;

KI1 12:14  And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My
 father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also
 chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

KI1 12:15  Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was
 from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by
 Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

KI1 12:16  So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the
 people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have
 we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine
 own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

KI1 12:17  But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of
 Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

KI1 12:18  Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all
 Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made
 speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

KI1 12:19  So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

KI1 12:20  And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come
 again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king
 over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the
 tribe of Judah only.

KI1 12:21  And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
 of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand
 chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to
 bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

KI1 12:22  But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

KI1 12:23  Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all
 the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

KI1 12:24  Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
 brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this
 thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and
 returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

KI1 12:25  Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and
 went out from thence, and built Penuel.

KI1 12:26  And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the
 house of David:

KI1 12:27  If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at
 Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord,
 even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to
 Rehoboam king of Judah.

KI1 12:28  Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and
 said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy
 gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

KI1 12:29  And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

KI1 12:30  And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before
 the one, even unto Dan.

KI1 12:31  And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest
 of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

KI1 12:32  And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
 day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon
 the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made:
 and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

KI1 12:33  So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
 fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of
 his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he
 offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

KI1 13:1  And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the
 LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

KI1 13:2  And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O
 altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the
 house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests
 of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be
 burnt upon thee.

KI1 13:3  And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the
 LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are
 upon it shall be poured out.

KI1 13:4  And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man
 of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his
 hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put
 forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

KI1 13:5  The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
 according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

KI1 13:6  And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the
 face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me
 again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored
 him again, and became as it was before.

KI1 13:7  And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
 thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

KI1 13:8  And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half
 thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink
 water in this place:

KI1 13:9  For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no
 bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

KI1 13:10  So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
 Bethel.

KI1 13:11  Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told
 him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words
 which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

KI1 13:12  And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had
 seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

KI1 13:13  And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him
 the ass: and he rode thereon,

KI1 13:14  And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak:
 and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he
 said, I am.

KI1 13:15  Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

KI1 13:16  And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:
 neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

KI1 13:17  For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no
 bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou
 camest.

KI1 13:18  He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel
 spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into
 thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

KI1 13:19  So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank
 water.

KI1 13:20  And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
 LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:

KI1 13:21  And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus
 saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and
 hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

KI1 13:22  But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place,
 of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy
 carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

KI1 13:23  And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
 drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had
 brought back.

KI1 13:24  And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and
 his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood
 by the carcase.

KI1 13:25  And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and
 the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where
 the old prophet dwelt.

KI1 13:26  And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
 thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word
 of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath
 torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake
 unto him.

KI1 13:27  And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
 saddled him.

KI1 13:28  And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and
 the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor
 torn the ass.

KI1 13:29  And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it
 upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to
 mourn and to bury him.

KI1 13:30  And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
 saying, Alas, my brother!

KI1 13:31  And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
 sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man
 of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

KI1 13:32  For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the
 altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are
 in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

KI1 13:33  After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made
 again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever
 would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high
 places.

KI1 13:34  And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it
 off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

KI1 14:1  At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

KI1 14:2  And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
 thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to
 Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be
 king over this people.

KI1 14:3  And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of
 honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

KI1 14:4  And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
 to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
 reason of his age.

KI1 14:5  And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
 ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say
 unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself
 to be another woman.

KI1 14:6  And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came
 in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest
 thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

KI1 14:7  Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
 exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people
 Israel,

KI1 14:8  And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee:
 and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and
 who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine
 eyes;

KI1 14:9  But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast
 gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and
 hast cast me behind thy back:

KI1 14:10  Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and
 will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is
 shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of
 Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

KI1 14:11  Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
 that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath
 spoken it.

KI1 14:12  Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet
 enter into the city, the child shall die.

KI1 14:13  And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
 Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good
 thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

KI1 14:14  Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall
 cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

KI1 14:15  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the
 water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave
 to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have
 made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

KI1 14:16  And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did
 sin, and who made Israel to sin.

KI1 14:17  And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and
 when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

KI1 14:18  And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according
 to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
 prophet.

KI1 14:19  And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
 reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
 of Israel.

KI1 14:20  And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and
 he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 14:21  And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty
 and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
 Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of
 Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an
 Ammonitess.

KI1 14:22  And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him
 to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their
 fathers had done.

KI1 14:23  For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on
 every high hill, and under every green tree.

KI1 14:24  And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to
 all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the
 children of Israel.

KI1 14:25  And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
 king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

KI1 14:26  And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
 treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all
 the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

KI1 14:27  And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed
 them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the
 king's house.

KI1 14:28  And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that
 the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

KI1 14:29  Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

KI1 14:30  And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

KI1 14:31  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
 in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And
 Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 15:1  Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned
 Abijam over Judah.

KI1 15:2  Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was
 Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

KI1 15:3  And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before
 him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of
 David his father.

KI1 15:4  Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in
 Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

KI1 15:5  Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and
 turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his
 life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

KI1 15:6  And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his
 life.

KI1 15:7  Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was
 war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

KI1 15:8  And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of
 David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 15:9  And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over
 Judah.

KI1 15:10  And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
 name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

KI1 15:11  And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did
 David his father.

KI1 15:12  And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
 idols that his fathers had made.

KI1 15:13  And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen,
 because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and
 burnt it by the brook Kidron.

KI1 15:14  But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
 perfect with the LORD all his days.

KI1 15:15  And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the
 things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and
 gold, and vessels.

KI1 15:16  And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
 days.

KI1 15:17  And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
 that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

KI1 15:18  Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the
 treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's
 house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent
 them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that
 dwelt at Damascus, saying,

KI1 15:19  There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy
 father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and
 break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

KI1 15:20  So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the
 hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and
 Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

KI1 15:21  And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off
 building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

KI1 15:22  Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was
 exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof,
 wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of
 Benjamin, and Mizpah.

KI1 15:23  The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he
 did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he
 was diseased in his feet.

KI1 15:24  And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
 in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his
 stead.

KI1 15:25  And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
 second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.

KI1 15:26  And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
 his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

KI1 15:27  And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
 against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the
 Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

KI1 15:28  Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and
 reigned in his stead.

KI1 15:29  And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of
 Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed
 him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
 Ahijah the Shilonite:

KI1 15:30  Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made
 Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel
 to anger.

KI1 15:31  Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI1 15:32  And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
 days.

KI1 15:33  In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of
 Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

KI1 15:34  And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
 Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

KI1 16:1  Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against
 Baasha, saying,

KI1 16:2  Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince
 over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast
 made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

KI1 16:3  Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity
 of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
 Nebat.

KI1 16:4  Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that
 dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

KI1 16:5  Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might,
 are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI1 16:6  So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah
 his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 16:7  And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the
 word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil
 that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work
 of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.

KI1 16:8  In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son
 of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

KI1 16:9  And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired
 against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza
 steward of his house in Tirzah.

KI1 16:10  And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and
 seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

KI1 16:11  And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on
 his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that
 pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

KI1 16:12  Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the
 word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet.

KI1 16:13  For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which
 they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God
 of Israel to anger with their vanities.

KI1 16:14  Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI1 16:15  In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign
 seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which
 belonged to the Philistines.

KI1 16:16  And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath
 conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the
 captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

KI1 16:17  And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they
 besieged Tirzah.

KI1 16:18  And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he
 went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him
 with fire, and died.

KI1 16:19  For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD,
 in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make
 Israel to sin.

KI1 16:20  Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought,
 are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI1 16:21  Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the
 people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed
 Omri.

KI1 16:22  But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that
 followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

KI1 16:23  In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to
 reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.

KI1 16:24  And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of
 silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he
 built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

KI1 16:25  But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than
 all that were before him.

KI1 16:26  For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in
 his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to
 anger with their vanities.

KI1 16:27  Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he
 shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?

KI1 16:28  So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab
 his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 16:29  And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab
 the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over
 Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

KI1 16:30  And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all
 that were before him.

KI1 16:31  And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk
 in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the
 daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and
 worshipped him.

KI1 16:32  And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he
 had built in Samaria.

KI1 16:33  And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of
 Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

KI1 16:34  In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
 foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in
 his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by
 Joshua the son of Nun.

KI1 17:1  And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said
 unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall
 not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

KI1 17:2  And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

KI1 17:3  Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
 Cherith, that is before Jordan.

KI1 17:4  And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
 commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

KI1 17:5  So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went
 and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

KI1 17:6  And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread
 and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

KI1 17:7  And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because
 there had been no rain in the land.

KI1 17:8  And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,

KI1 17:9  Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell
 there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

KI1 17:10  So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate
 of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he
 called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel,
 that I may drink.

KI1 17:11  And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring
 me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

KI1 17:12  And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an
 handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am
 gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that
 we may eat it, and die.

KI1 17:13  And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but
 make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for
 thee and for thy son.

KI1 17:14  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
 waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD
 sendeth rain upon the earth.

KI1 17:15  And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and
 he, and her house, did eat many days.

KI1 17:16  And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil
 fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

KI1 17:17  And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the
 woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore,
 that there was no breath left in him.

KI1 17:18  And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of
 God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

KI1 17:19  And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her
 bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his
 own bed.

KI1 17:20  And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also
 brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

KI1 17:21  And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto
 the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come
 into him again.

KI1 17:22  And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child
 came into him again, and he revived.

KI1 17:23  And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
 into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy
 son liveth.

KI1 17:24  And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man
 of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.

KI1 18:1  And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came
 to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will
 send rain upon the earth.

KI1 18:2  And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore
 famine in Samaria.

KI1 18:3  And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now
 Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:

KI1 18:4  For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that
 Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed
 them with bread and water.)

KI1 18:5  And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of
 water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses
 and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

KI1 18:6  So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab
 went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

KI1 18:7  And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew
 him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

KI1 18:8  And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

KI1 18:9  And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy
 servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

KI1 18:10  As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither
 my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he
 took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.

KI1 18:11  And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

KI1 18:12  And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the
 Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come
 and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant
 fear the LORD from my youth.

KI1 18:13  Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets
 of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a
 cave, and fed them with bread and water?

KI1 18:14  And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and
 he shall slay me.

KI1 18:15  And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I
 will surely shew myself unto him to day.

KI1 18:16  So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet
 Elijah.

KI1 18:17  And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
 Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

KI1 18:18  And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy
 father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and
 thou hast followed Baalim.

KI1 18:19  Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount
 Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets
 of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.

KI1 18:20  So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
 prophets together unto mount Carmel.

KI1 18:21  And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
 between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then
 follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

KI1 18:22  Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet
 of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

KI1 18:23  Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one
 bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no
 fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put
 no fire under:

KI1 18:24  And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name
 of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the
 people answered and said, It is well spoken.

KI1 18:25  And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock
 for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of
 your gods, but put no fire under.

KI1 18:26  And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed
 it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O
 Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped
 upon the altar which was made.

KI1 18:27  And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry
 aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in
 a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

KI1 18:28  And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with
 knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

KI1 18:29  And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until
 the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither
 voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

KI1 18:30  And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the
 people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was
 broken down.

KI1 18:31  And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes
 of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel
 shall be thy name:

KI1 18:32  And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and
 he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of
 seed.

KI1 18:33  And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and
 laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on
 the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

KI1 18:34  And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time.
 And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

KI1 18:35  And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
 also with water.

KI1 18:36  And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening
 sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham,
 Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in
 Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at
 thy word.

KI1 18:37  Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art
 the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

KI1 18:38  Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt
 sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the
 water that was in the trench.

KI1 18:39  And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they
 said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.

KI1 18:40  And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one
 of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook
 Kishon, and slew them there.

KI1 18:41  And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is
 a sound of abundance of rain.

KI1 18:42  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top
 of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between
 his knees,

KI1 18:43  And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went
 up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven
 times.

KI1 18:44  And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there
 ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up,
 say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee
 not.

KI1 18:45  And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black
 with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
 Jezreel.

KI1 18:46  And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins,
 and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

KI1 19:1  And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had
 slain all the prophets with the sword.

KI1 19:2  Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do
 to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to
 morrow about this time.

KI1 19:3  And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to
 Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

KI1 19:4  But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and
 sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might
 die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not
 better than my fathers.

KI1 19:5  And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel
 touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

KI1 19:6  And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and
 a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down
 again.

KI1 19:7  And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched
 him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.

KI1 19:8  And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that
 meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

KI1 19:9  And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the
 word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here,
 Elijah?

KI1 19:10  And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for
 the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars,
 and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they
 seek my life, to take it away.

KI1 19:11  And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.
 And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
 mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was
 not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not
 in the earthquake:

KI1 19:12  And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire:
 and after the fire a still small voice.

KI1 19:13  And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his
 mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And,
 behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

KI1 19:14  And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts:
 because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
 altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left;
 and they seek my life, to take it away.

KI1 19:15  And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness
 of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

KI1 19:16  And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel:
 and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet
 in thy room.

KI1 19:17  And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of
 Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall
 Elisha slay.

KI1 19:18  Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which
 have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

KI1 19:19  So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was
 plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and
 Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

KI1 19:20  And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray
 thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said
 unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

KI1 19:21  And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew
 them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto
 the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and
 ministered unto him.

KI1 20:1  And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and
 there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots; and he
 went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

KI1 20:2  And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said
 unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

KI1 20:3  Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children,
 even the goodliest, are mine.

KI1 20:4  And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according
 to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.

KI1 20:5  And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad,
 saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy
 silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

KI1 20:6  Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and
 they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall
 be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their
 hand, and take it away.

KI1 20:7  Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said,
 Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me
 for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I
 denied him not.

KI1 20:8  And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto
 him, nor consent.

KI1 20:9  Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the
 king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but
 this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word
 again.

KI1 20:10  And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and
 more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the
 people that follow me.

KI1 20:11  And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that
 girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

KI1 20:12  And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was
 drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants,
 Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.

KI1 20:13  And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying,
 Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will
 deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

KI1 20:14  And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by
 the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order
 the battle? And he answered, Thou.

KI1 20:15  Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and
 they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the
 people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

KI1 20:16  And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk
 in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

KI1 20:17  And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first;
 and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of
 Samaria.

KI1 20:18  And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or
 whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

KI1 20:19  So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the
 city, and the army which followed them.

KI1 20:20  And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel
 pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the
 horsemen.

KI1 20:21  And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots,
 and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

KI1 20:22  And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go,
 strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return
 of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

KI1 20:23  And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are
 gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight
 against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

KI1 20:24  And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his
 place, and put captains in their rooms:

KI1 20:25  And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse
 for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the
 plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their
 voice, and did so.

KI1 20:26  And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad
 numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

KI1 20:27  And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and
 went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two
 little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

KI1 20:28  And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and
 said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God
 of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all
 this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

KI1 20:29  And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it
 was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of
 Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

KI1 20:30  But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell
 upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad
 fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

KI1 20:31  And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the
 kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put
 sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of
 Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

KI1 20:32  So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their
 heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith,
 I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

KI1 20:33  Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from
 him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he
 said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to
 come up into the chariot.

KI1 20:34  And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from
 thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus,
 as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this
 covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

KI1 20:35  And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his
 neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused
 to smite him.

KI1 20:36  Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the
 LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee.
 And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

KI1 20:37  Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the
 man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

KI1 20:38  So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and
 disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

KI1 20:39  And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy
 servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned
 aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he
 be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a
 talent of silver.

KI1 20:40  And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the
 king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided
 it.

KI1 20:41  And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king
 of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

KI1 20:42  And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go
 out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy
 life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

KI1 20:43  And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and
 came to Samaria.

KI1 21:1  And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite
 had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of
 Samaria.

KI1 21:2  And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may
 have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will
 give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I
 will give thee the worth of it in money.

KI1 21:3  And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give
 the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

KI1 21:4  And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word
 which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not
 give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his
 bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

KI1 21:5  But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy
 spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

KI1 21:6  And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and
 said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I
 will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee
 my vineyard.

KI1 21:7  And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom
 of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give
 thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

KI1 21:8  So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his
 seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his
 city, dwelling with Naboth.

KI1 21:9  And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth
 on high among the people:

KI1 21:10  And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against
 him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him
 out, and stone him, that he may die.

KI1 21:11  And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the
 inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was
 written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

KI1 21:12  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

KI1 21:13  And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him:
 and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the
 presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then
 they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he
 died.

KI1 21:14  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

KI1 21:15  And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and
 was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard
 of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth
 is not alive, but dead.

KI1 21:16  And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab
 rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take
 possession of it.

KI1 21:17  And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

KI1 21:18  Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria:
 behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess
 it.

KI1 21:19  And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast
 thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him,
 saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of
 Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

KI1 21:20  And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he
 answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil
 in the sight of the LORD.

KI1 21:21  Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy
 posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and
 him that is shut up and left in Israel,

KI1 21:22  And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
 Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation
 wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

KI1 21:23  And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat
 Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

KI1 21:24  Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that
 dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

KI1 21:25  But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
 wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

KI1 21:26  And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all
 things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of
 Israel.

KI1 21:27  And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his
 clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
 sackcloth, and went softly.

KI1 21:28  And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

KI1 21:29  Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth
 himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's
 days will I bring the evil upon his house.

KI1 22:1  And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

KI1 22:2  And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of
 Judah came down to the king of Israel.

KI1 22:3  And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in
 Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king
 of Syria?

KI1 22:4  And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to
 Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art,
 my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

KI1 22:5  And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee,
 at the word of the LORD to day.

KI1 22:6  Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four
 hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle,
 or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into
 the hand of the king.

KI1 22:7  And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
 besides, that we might enquire of him?

KI1 22:8  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man,
 Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him;
 for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said,
 Let not the king say so.

KI1 22:9  Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither
 Micaiah the son of Imlah.

KI1 22:10  And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on
 his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the
 gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

KI1 22:11  And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he
 said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou
 have consumed them.

KI1 22:12  And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
 Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king's
 hand.

KI1 22:13  And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him,
 saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with
 one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and
 speak that which is good.

KI1 22:14  And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me,
 that will I speak.

KI1 22:15  So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall
 we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered
 him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the
 king.

KI1 22:16  And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that
 thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?

KI1 22:17  And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep
 that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them
 return every man to his house in peace.

KI1 22:18  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee
 that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

KI1 22:19  And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the
 LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his
 right hand and on his left.

KI1 22:20  And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and
 fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that
 manner.

KI1 22:21  And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said,
 I will persuade him.

KI1 22:22  And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
 forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he
 said, Thou shalt persude him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

KI1 22:23  Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth
 of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

KI1 22:24  But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on
 the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak
 unto thee?

KI1 22:25  And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou
 shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

KI1 22:26  And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto
 Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

KI1 22:27  And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and
 feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come
 in peace.

KI1 22:28  And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not
 spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.

KI1 22:29  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to
 Ramothgilead.

KI1 22:30  And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
 myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of
 Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

KI1 22:31  But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had
 rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only
 with the king of Israel.

KI1 22:32  And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
 Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned
 aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

KI1 22:33  And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived
 that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

KI1 22:34  And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of
 Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver
 of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am
 wounded.

KI1 22:35  And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his
 chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the
 wound into the midst of the chariot.

KI1 22:36  And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going
 down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own
 country.

KI1 22:37  So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the
 king in Samaria.

KI1 22:38  And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
 licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word
 of the LORD which he spake.

KI1 22:39  Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory
 house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KI1 22:40  So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
 stead.

KI1 22:41  And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the
 fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

KI1 22:42  Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign;
 and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
 Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

KI1 22:43  And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside
 from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the
 high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet
 in the high places.

KI1 22:44  And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

KI1 22:45  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
 shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
 of the kings of Judah?

KI1 22:46  And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his
 father Asa, he took out of the land.

KI1 22:47  There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

KI1 22:48  Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but
 they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

KI1 22:49  Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants
 go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

KI1 22:50  And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
 fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his
 stead.

KI1 22:51  Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the
 seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over
 Israel.

KI1 22:52  And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
 his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son
 of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:

KI1 22:53  For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the
 LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

