11~1_KINGS 001|001` Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

11~1_KINGS 001|002` Wherefore his servants said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|003` So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

11~1_KINGS 001|004` And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

11~1_KINGS 001|005` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|006` And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast you done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

11~1_KINGS 001|007` And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

11~1_KINGS 001|008` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|009` 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:

11~1_KINGS 001|010` But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.

11~1_KINGS 001|011` Wherefore Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

11~1_KINGS 001|012` Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you mayest save yours own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

11~1_KINGS 001|013` Go and get you in to king David, and say to him, Didst not you, my lord, O king, swear to yours handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

11~1_KINGS 001|014` Behold, while you yet talks there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm thy words.

11~1_KINGS 001|015` And Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the king.

11~1_KINGS 001|016` And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What wouldest you?

11~1_KINGS 001|017` And she said to him, My lord, you swears by the Lord thy God to yours handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

11~1_KINGS 001|018` And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, you knowest it not:

11~1_KINGS 001|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|020` And you, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, that you shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

11~1_KINGS 001|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|022` And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.

11~1_KINGS 001|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|024` And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast you said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?

11~1_KINGS 001|025` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|026` But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

11~1_KINGS 001|027` Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you hast not shewed it to thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

11~1_KINGS 001|028` Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

11~1_KINGS 001|029` And the king sware, and said, As the Lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,

11~1_KINGS 001|030` Even as I sware to you 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|033` The king also said to 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:

11~1_KINGS 001|034` And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow you with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.

11~1_KINGS 001|035` Then you 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|036` And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.

11~1_KINGS 001|037` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|038` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|039` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|040` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|041` 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?

11~1_KINGS 001|042` And while he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said to him, Come in; for you art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.

11~1_KINGS 001|043` And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

11~1_KINGS 001|044` 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:

11~1_KINGS 001|045` And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

11~1_KINGS 001|046` And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

11~1_KINGS 001|047` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|048` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|049` And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.

11~1_KINGS 001|050` And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

11~1_KINGS 001|051` 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 to me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

11~1_KINGS 001|052` 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.

11~1_KINGS 001|053` So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said to him, Go to yours house.

11~1_KINGS 002|001` Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

11~1_KINGS 002|002` I go the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

11~1_KINGS 002|003` 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 you mayest prosper in all that you doest, and whithersoever you turnest thyself:

11~1_KINGS 002|004` That the Lord may continue his word which he spoke 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 you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

11~1_KINGS 002|005` Moreover you knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon h

11~1_KINGS 002|006` Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

11~1_KINGS 002|007` But shew kindness to 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|008` And, behold, you hast with you 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 you to death with the swo

11~1_KINGS 002|009` Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for you art a wise man, and knowest what you oughtest to do to him; but his hoar head bring you down to the grave with blood.

11~1_KINGS 002|010` So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

11~1_KINGS 002|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|012` Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

11~1_KINGS 002|013` And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest you peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

11~1_KINGS 002|014` He said moreover, I have somewhat to say to you. And she said, Say on.

11~1_KINGS 002|015` And he said, You 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|016` And now I ask one petition of you, deny me not. And she said to him, Say on.

11~1_KINGS 002|017` And he said, Speak, I pray you, to Solomon the king, (for he will not say you nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

11~1_KINGS 002|018` And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.

11~1_KINGS 002|019` Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|020` Then she said, I desire one small petition of you; I pray you, say me not nay. And the king said to her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say you nay.

11~1_KINGS 002|021` And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

11~1_KINGS 002|022` And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why dost you 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|025` And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

11~1_KINGS 002|026` And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to yours own fields; for you art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put you to death, because you barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you hast been afflicte

11~1_KINGS 002|027` So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

11~1_KINGS 002|028` Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

11~1_KINGS 002|029` And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled to 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|030` And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|031` And the king said to him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, u<t and bury him; that you mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

11~1_KINGS 002|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|034` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|035` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|036` And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build you an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth there any whither.

11~1_KINGS 002|037` For it shall be, that on the day you goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, you shalt know for certain that you shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon yours own head.

11~1_KINGS 002|038` And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

11~1_KINGS 002|039` And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

11~1_KINGS 002|040` 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.

11~1_KINGS 002|041` And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

11~1_KINGS 002|042` And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you to swear by the Lord, and protested to you, saying, Know for a certain, on the day you goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that you shalt surely die? and you saidst to me, The word that I have heard is good.

11~1_KINGS 002|043` Why then hast you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged you with?

11~1_KINGS 002|044` The king said moreover to Shimei, You knowest all the wickedness which yours heart is privy to, that you didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon yours own head;

11~1_KINGS 002|045` And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.

11~1_KINGS 002|046` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|001` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|002` Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the Lord, until those days.

11~1_KINGS 003|003` And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

11~1_KINGS 003|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|005` In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give you.

11~1_KINGS 003|006` And Solomon said, You hast shewed to thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you hast kept for him this great kindness, that you hast given him a son to sit on hi

11~1_KINGS 003|007` And now, O Lord my God, you 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|008` And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which you hast u<t chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

11~1_KINGS 003|009` 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?

11~1_KINGS 003|010` And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

11~1_KINGS 003|011` And God said to him, Because you hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of yours enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

11~1_KINGS 003|012` Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like to you.

11~1_KINGS 003|013` And I have also given you that which you hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like to you all thy days.

11~1_KINGS 003|014` And if you wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

11~1_KINGS 003|015` And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenient of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

11~1_KINGS 003|016` Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.

11~1_KINGS 003|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|018` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|019` And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

11~1_KINGS 003|020` And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while yours handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

11~1_KINGS 003|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|022` 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 spoke before the king.

11~1_KINGS 003|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 003|024` And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

11~1_KINGS 003|025` And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

11~1_KINGS 003|026` Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to 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 yours, but divide it.

11~1_KINGS 003|027` Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

11~1_KINGS 003|028` 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.

11~1_KINGS 004|001` So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

11~1_KINGS 004|002` And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

11~1_KINGS 004|003` Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.

11~1_KINGS 004|004` And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

11~1_KINGS 004|005` And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:

11~1_KINGS 004|006` And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

11~1_KINGS 004|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 004|008` And these are their names: the son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

11~1_KINGS 004|009` The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:

11~1_KINGS 004|010` The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:

11~1_KINGS 004|011` The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

11~1_KINGS 004|012` 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 to the place that is beyond Jokneam:

11~1_KINGS 004|013` 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:

11~1_KINGS 004|014` Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:

11~1_KINGS 004|015` Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

11~1_KINGS 004|016` Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

11~1_KINGS 004|017` Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

11~1_KINGS 004|018` Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

11~1_KINGS 004|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 004|020` Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

11~1_KINGS 004|021` And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

11~1_KINGS 004|022` And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

11~1_KINGS 004|023` Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

11~1_KINGS 004|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 004|025` And Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

11~1_KINGS 004|026` And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

11~1_KINGS 004|027` And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

11~1_KINGS 004|028` Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

11~1_KINGS 004|029` And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

11~1_KINGS 004|030` And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

11~1_KINGS 004|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 004|032` And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

11~1_KINGS 004|033` And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

11~1_KINGS 004|034` And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

11~1_KINGS 005|001` And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to 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.

11~1_KINGS 005|002` And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

11~1_KINGS 005|003` You knowest how that David my father could not build an house to 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.

11~1_KINGS 005|004` But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

11~1_KINGS 005|005` And, behold, I purpose to build an house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house to my name.

11~1_KINGS 005|006` Now therefore command you that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and to you will I give hire for thy servants according to all that you shalt appoint: for you knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber

11~1_KINGS 005|007` 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 to David a wise son over this great people.

11~1_KINGS 005|008` And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which you sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

11~1_KINGS 005|009` My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that you shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and you shalt receive them: and you shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

11~1_KINGS 005|010` So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.

11~1_KINGS 005|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 005|012` 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.

11~1_KINGS 005|013` And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

11~1_KINGS 005|014` 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.

11~1_KINGS 005|015` And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

11~1_KINGS 005|016` 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.

11~1_KINGS 005|017` And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

11~1_KINGS 005|018` And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

11~1_KINGS 006|001` And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightis 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|002` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|003` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|004` And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

11~1_KINGS 006|005` 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:

11~1_KINGS 006|006` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|007` And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought there: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

11~1_KINGS 006|008` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|009` So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

11~1_KINGS 006|010` And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

11~1_KINGS 006|011` And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

11~1_KINGS 006|012` Concerning this house which you art in building, if you 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 you, which I spoke to David thy father:

11~1_KINGS 006|013` And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

11~1_KINGS 006|014` So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

11~1_KINGS 006|015` And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

11~1_KINGS 006|016` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|017` And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

11~1_KINGS 006|018` And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

11~1_KINGS 006|019` And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenient of the Lord.

11~1_KINGS 006|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|022` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|023` And within the oracle he made two Cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.

11~1_KINGS 006|024` 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 to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

11~1_KINGS 006|025` And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the Cherubims were of one measure and one size.

11~1_KINGS 006|026` The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

11~1_KINGS 006|027` And he set the Cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the Cherubims, so that 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|028` And he overlaid the Cherubims with gold.

11~1_KINGS 006|029` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|030` And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

11~1_KINGS 006|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|033` So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.

11~1_KINGS 006|034` 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.

11~1_KINGS 006|035` And he carved thereon Cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

11~1_KINGS 006|036` And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

11~1_KINGS 006|037` In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:

11~1_KINGS 006|038` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|001` But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

11~1_KINGS 007|002` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|003` And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.

11~1_KINGS 007|004` And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

11~1_KINGS 007|005` And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

11~1_KINGS 007|006` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|008` And his house where he lived 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 to this porch.

11~1_KINGS 007|009` All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

11~1_KINGS 007|010` And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

11~1_KINGS 007|011` And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

11~1_KINGS 007|012` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|013` And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

11~1_KINGS 007|014` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|015` For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

11~1_KINGS 007|016` 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:

11~1_KINGS 007|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|018` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|019` And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

11~1_KINGS 007|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|022` And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

11~1_KINGS 007|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|025` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|027` And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one u<t base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

11~1_KINGS 007|028` And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

11~1_KINGS 007|029` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|030` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|034` And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.

11~1_KINGS 007|035` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|036` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|037` After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

11~1_KINGS 007|038` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|039` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|040` 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:

11~1_KINGS 007|041` 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;

11~1_KINGS 007|042` 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;

11~1_KINGS 007|043` And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

11~1_KINGS 007|044` And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

11~1_KINGS 007|045` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|046` In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

11~1_KINGS 007|047` And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

11~1_KINGS 007|048` And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

11~1_KINGS 007|049` 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,

11~1_KINGS 007|050` 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.

11~1_KINGS 007|051` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|001` Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenient of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

11~1_KINGS 008|002` And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

11~1_KINGS 008|003` And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

11~1_KINGS 008|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|005` And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

11~1_KINGS 008|006` And the priests brought in the ark of the covenient of the Lord to his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the Cherubims.

11~1_KINGS 008|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|008` 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 to this day.

11~1_KINGS 008|009` There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenient with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

11~1_KINGS 008|010` And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

11~1_KINGS 008|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|012` Then spoke Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

11~1_KINGS 008|013` I have surely built you an house to dwell in, a settled place for you to stay in for ever.

11~1_KINGS 008|014` And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)

11~1_KINGS 008|015` And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spoke with his mouth to David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

11~1_KINGS 008|016` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|017` And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

11~1_KINGS 008|018` And the Lord said to David my father, Whereas it was in yours heart to build an house to my name, you didst well that it was in yours heart.

11~1_KINGS 008|019` Nevertheless you shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house to my name.

11~1_KINGS 008|020` And the Lord hath performed his word that he spoke, 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|021` And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenient of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

11~1_KINGS 008|022` 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:

11~1_KINGS 008|023` And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenient and mercy with thy servants that walk before you with all their heart:

11~1_KINGS 008|024` Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that you promisedst him: you spoke also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with yours hand, as it is this day.

11~1_KINGS 008|025` Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that you promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail you 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 you hast walked before me.

11~1_KINGS 008|026` And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to thy servant David my father.

11~1_KINGS 008|027` But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?

11~1_KINGS 008|028` Yet have you respect to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before you to day:

11~1_KINGS 008|029` That yours eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you hast said, My name shall be there: that you mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

11~1_KINGS 008|030` And hearken you to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear you in heaven thy dwelling place: and when you hearest, forgive.

11~1_KINGS 008|031` If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before yours altar in this house:

11~1_KINGS 008|032` Then hear you 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|033` When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:

11~1_KINGS 008|034` Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gavest to their fathers.

11~1_KINGS 008|035` When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when you afflicts them:

11~1_KINGS 008|036` Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which you hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

11~1_KINGS 008|037` 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;

11~1_KINGS 008|038` What prayer and supplication so ever 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:

11~1_KINGS 008|039` Then hear you in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you knowest; (for you, even you only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

11~1_KINGS 008|040` That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gavest to our fathers.

11~1_KINGS 008|041` Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but comes out of a far country for thy name's sake;

11~1_KINGS 008|042` (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;

11~1_KINGS 008|043` Hear you in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger call to you for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear you, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by thy nam

11~1_KINGS 008|044` If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever you shalt send them, and shall pray to the Lord toward the city which you hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

11~1_KINGS 008|045` Then hear you in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

11~1_KINGS 008|046` If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and you be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;

11~1_KINGS 008|047` Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

11~1_KINGS 008|048` And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gavest to their fathers, the city which you hast chosen, and the house which I have built for th

11~1_KINGS 008|049` Then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

11~1_KINGS 008|050` And forgive thy people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

11~1_KINGS 008|051` For they be thy people, and yours inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

11~1_KINGS 008|052` That yours eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken to them in all that they call for to you.

11~1_KINGS 008|053` For you didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be yours inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses thy servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

11~1_KINGS 008|054` And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

11~1_KINGS 008|055` And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

11~1_KINGS 008|056` Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest to 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|057` The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

11~1_KINGS 008|058` That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

11~1_KINGS 008|059` And let these my words, where with I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh to 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:

11~1_KINGS 008|060` That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.

11~1_KINGS 008|061` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|062` And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.

11~1_KINGS 008|063` And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|064` 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.

11~1_KINGS 008|065` And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

11~1_KINGS 008|066` On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went to 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.

11~1_KINGS 009|001` 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,

11~1_KINGS 009|002` That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

11~1_KINGS 009|003` And the Lord said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that you hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

11~1_KINGS 009|004` And if you 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 you, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

11~1_KINGS 009|005` 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 you a man upon the throne of Israel.

11~1_KINGS 009|006` But if you shall at all turn from following me, you 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:

11~1_KINGS 009|007` 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:

11~1_KINGS 009|008` 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 to this land, and to this house?

11~1_KINGS 009|009` 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.

11~1_KINGS 009|010` 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,

11~1_KINGS 009|011` (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.

11~1_KINGS 009|012` And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

11~1_KINGS 009|013` And he said, What cities are these which you hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.

11~1_KINGS 009|014` And Hiram sent to the king six score talents of gold.

11~1_KINGS 009|015` 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.

11~1_KINGS 009|016` For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that lived in the city, and given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

11~1_KINGS 009|017` And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,

11~1_KINGS 009|018` And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

11~1_KINGS 009|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 009|020` And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

11~1_KINGS 009|021` 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 slavery to this day.

11~1_KINGS 009|022` But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no slave: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

11~1_KINGS 009|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 009|024` But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

11~1_KINGS 009|025` And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

11~1_KINGS 009|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 009|027` And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

11~1_KINGS 009|028` And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

11~1_KINGS 010|001` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|002` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|003` And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

11~1_KINGS 010|004` And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,

11~1_KINGS 010|005` And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.

11~1_KINGS 010|006` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|008` Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before you, and that hear thy wisdom.

11~1_KINGS 010|009` Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he you king, to do judgment and justice.

11~1_KINGS 010|010` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|011` And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

11~1_KINGS 010|012` 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 to this day.

11~1_KINGS 010|013` And king Solomon gave to 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|014` Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

11~1_KINGS 010|015` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|016` And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

11~1_KINGS 010|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|018` Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

11~1_KINGS 010|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|022` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|023` So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

11~1_KINGS 010|024` And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

11~1_KINGS 010|025` And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

11~1_KINGS 010|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|027` 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.

11~1_KINGS 010|028` And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

11~1_KINGS 010|029` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|001` But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

11~1_KINGS 011|002` Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave to these in love.

11~1_KINGS 011|003` And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

11~1_KINGS 011|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|005` For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

11~1_KINGS 011|006` And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

11~1_KINGS 011|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|008` And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

11~1_KINGS 011|009` And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared to him twice,

11~1_KINGS 011|010` And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.

11~1_KINGS 011|011` Wherefore the Lord said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of you, and you hast not kept my covenient and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to thy servant.

11~1_KINGS 011|012` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|013` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|014` And the Lord stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

11~1_KINGS 011|015` 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;

11~1_KINGS 011|016` (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

11~1_KINGS 011|017` That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

11~1_KINGS 011|018` And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

11~1_KINGS 011|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|022` Then Pharaoh said to him, But what hast you lacked with me, that, behold, you seeks to go to yours own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

11~1_KINGS 011|023` And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:

11~1_KINGS 011|024` And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.

11~1_KINGS 011|025` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|027` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|028` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|029` 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:

11~1_KINGS 011|030` And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

11~1_KINGS 011|031` And he said to Jeroboam, Take you 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 you:

11~1_KINGS 011|032` (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:)

11~1_KINGS 011|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 011|034` 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:

11~1_KINGS 011|035` But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

11~1_KINGS 011|036` And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

11~1_KINGS 011|037` And I will take you, and you shalt reign according to all that thy soul desires, and shalt be king over Israel.

11~1_KINGS 011|038` And it shall be, if you wilt hearken to all that I command you, 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 you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will giv

11~1_KINGS 011|039` And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

11~1_KINGS 011|040` Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

11~1_KINGS 011|041` 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?

11~1_KINGS 011|042` And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

11~1_KINGS 011|043` And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

11~1_KINGS 012|001` And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

11~1_KINGS 012|002` 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 lived in Egypt;)

11~1_KINGS 012|003` That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

11~1_KINGS 012|004` Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.

11~1_KINGS 012|005` And he said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.

11~1_KINGS 012|006` And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do you advise that I may answer this people?

11~1_KINGS 012|007` And they spoke to him, saying, If you wilt be a servant to 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|008` 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:

11~1_KINGS 012|009` And he said to them, What counsel give you that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

11~1_KINGS 012|010` And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt you speak to this people that spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shalt you say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

11~1_KINGS 012|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|012` 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|013` And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;

11~1_KINGS 012|014` And spoke 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|015` Wherefore the king hearkened not to the people; for the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his saying, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

11~1_KINGS 012|016` So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to 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 yours own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

11~1_KINGS 012|017` But as for the children of Israel which lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

11~1_KINGS 012|018` 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|019` So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

11~1_KINGS 012|020` And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

11~1_KINGS 012|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|022` But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

11~1_KINGS 012|023` Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

11~1_KINGS 012|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|025` Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and lived therein; and went out from there, and built Penuel.

11~1_KINGS 012|026` And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:

11~1_KINGS 012|027` 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 to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

11~1_KINGS 012|028` Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

11~1_KINGS 012|029` And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

11~1_KINGS 012|030` And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.

11~1_KINGS 012|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 012|032` And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like to the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

11~1_KINGS 012|033` 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 to the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

11~1_KINGS 013|001` And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

11~1_KINGS 013|002` 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 to the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon you shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burnt upon you.

11~1_KINGS 013|003` 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|005` 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|006` And the king answered and said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|007` And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give you a reward.

11~1_KINGS 013|008` And the man of God said to the king, If you wilt give me half yours house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:

11~1_KINGS 013|009` 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 you came.

11~1_KINGS 013|010` So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

11~1_KINGS 013|011` Now there lived 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 to the king, them they told also to their father.

11~1_KINGS 013|012` And their father said to them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

11~1_KINGS 013|013` And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

11~1_KINGS 013|014` And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said to him, Art you the man of God that came from Judah? And he said, I am.

11~1_KINGS 013|015` Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

11~1_KINGS 013|016` And he said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:

11~1_KINGS 013|017` For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, You shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.

11~1_KINGS 013|018` He said to him, I am a prophet also as you art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with you into yours house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him.

11~1_KINGS 013|019` So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

11~1_KINGS 013|020` And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:

11~1_KINGS 013|021` And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as you hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded you,

11~1_KINGS 013|022` But came back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy body shall not come to the sepulchre of thy fathers.

11~1_KINGS 013|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|024` And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the body.

11~1_KINGS 013|025` And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

11~1_KINGS 013|026` And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.

11~1_KINGS 013|027` And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.

11~1_KINGS 013|028` And he went and found his body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the ass.

11~1_KINGS 013|029` And the prophet took up the body 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|030` And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

11~1_KINGS 013|031` And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke 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:

11~1_KINGS 013|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 013|034` And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

11~1_KINGS 014|001` At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

11~1_KINGS 014|002` And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise thyself, that you be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

11~1_KINGS 014|003` And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell you what shall become of the child.

11~1_KINGS 014|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|005` And the Lord said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt you say to her: for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

11~1_KINGS 014|006` And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feignest you thyself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy tidings.

11~1_KINGS 014|007` Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

11~1_KINGS 014|008` And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you: and yet you 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;

11~1_KINGS 014|009` But hast done evil above all that were before you: for you hast gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

11~1_KINGS 014|010` 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 takes away dung, till it be all gone.

11~1_KINGS 014|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|012` Arise you therefore, get you to yours own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

11~1_KINGS 014|013` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|014` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|015` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|016` And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

11~1_KINGS 014|017` And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

11~1_KINGS 014|018` And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

11~1_KINGS 014|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|022` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|023` For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

11~1_KINGS 014|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|025` And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

11~1_KINGS 014|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|027` And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

11~1_KINGS 014|028` 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.

11~1_KINGS 014|029` 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?

11~1_KINGS 014|030` And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

11~1_KINGS 014|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|001` Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

11~1_KINGS 015|002` Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11~1_KINGS 015|003` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|004` 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:

11~1_KINGS 015|005` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|006` And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

11~1_KINGS 015|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|008` And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

11~1_KINGS 015|009` And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

11~1_KINGS 015|010` And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

11~1_KINGS 015|011` And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

11~1_KINGS 015|012` And he took away the Sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

11~1_KINGS 015|013` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|014` But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

11~1_KINGS 015|015` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|016` And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

11~1_KINGS 015|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|018` 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 lived at Damascus, saying,

11~1_KINGS 015|019` There is a league between me and you, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

11~1_KINGS 015|020` So Benhadad hearkened to 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|021` And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

11~1_KINGS 015|022` Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, where with Baasha had built; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

11~1_KINGS 015|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|025` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|026` And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.

11~1_KINGS 015|027` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|028` Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

11~1_KINGS 015|029` 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 to the saying of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

11~1_KINGS 015|030` Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation where with he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

11~1_KINGS 015|031` 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?

11~1_KINGS 015|032` And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

11~1_KINGS 015|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 015|034` And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.

11~1_KINGS 016|001` Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

11~1_KINGS 016|002` Forasmuch as I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel; and you hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

11~1_KINGS 016|003` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|005` 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?

11~1_KINGS 016|006` So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

11~1_KINGS 016|007` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|008` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|009` And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

11~1_KINGS 016|010` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|012` Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet.

11~1_KINGS 016|013` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|014` 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?

11~1_KINGS 016|015` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|016` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|017` And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

11~1_KINGS 016|018` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|019` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|020` 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?

11~1_KINGS 016|021` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|022` But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

11~1_KINGS 016|023` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|025` But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.

11~1_KINGS 016|026` For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

11~1_KINGS 016|027` 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?

11~1_KINGS 016|028` So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

11~1_KINGS 016|029` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|030` And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

11~1_KINGS 016|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|032` And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

11~1_KINGS 016|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 016|034` 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 spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

11~1_KINGS 017|001` And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 017|002` And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

11~1_KINGS 017|003` Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

11~1_KINGS 017|004` And it shall be, that you shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.

11~1_KINGS 017|005` So he went and did according to the word of the Lord: for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

11~1_KINGS 017|006` And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

11~1_KINGS 017|007` And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

11~1_KINGS 017|008` And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

11~1_KINGS 017|009` Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you.

11~1_KINGS 017|010` 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 you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

11~1_KINGS 017|011` And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a morsel of bread in yours hand.

11~1_KINGS 017|012` 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.

11~1_KINGS 017|013` And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it to me, and after make for you and for thy son.

11~1_KINGS 017|014` 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 sends rain upon the earth.

11~1_KINGS 017|015` And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

11~1_KINGS 017|016` And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Elijah.

11~1_KINGS 017|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 017|018` And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of God? art you come to me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

11~1_KINGS 017|019` And he said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 017|020` And he cried to the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast you also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

11~1_KINGS 017|021` And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray you, let this child's soul come into him again.

11~1_KINGS 017|022` And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

11~1_KINGS 017|023` And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

11~1_KINGS 017|024` And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that you art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.

11~1_KINGS 018|001` 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 to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

11~1_KINGS 018|002` And Elijah went to shew himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

11~1_KINGS 018|003` And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:

11~1_KINGS 018|004` 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.)

11~1_KINGS 018|005` And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

11~1_KINGS 018|006` So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

11~1_KINGS 018|007` And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art you that my lord Elijah?

11~1_KINGS 018|008` And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

11~1_KINGS 018|009` And he said, What have I sinned, that you wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

11~1_KINGS 018|010` As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found you not.

11~1_KINGS 018|011` And now you sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

11~1_KINGS 018|012` And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.

11~1_KINGS 018|013` 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?

11~1_KINGS 018|014` And now you sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

11~1_KINGS 018|015` And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself to him to day.

11~1_KINGS 018|016` So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

11~1_KINGS 018|017` And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Art you he that troubleth Israel?

11~1_KINGS 018|018` And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and thy father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and you hast followed Baalim.

11~1_KINGS 018|019` Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|020` So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to mount Carmel.

11~1_KINGS 018|021` And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt you between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

11~1_KINGS 018|022` Then said Elijah to the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

11~1_KINGS 018|023` 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:

11~1_KINGS 018|024` And call you on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that awnsers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, it is well spoken.

11~1_KINGS 018|025` And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.

11~1_KINGS 018|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|027` 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 sleeps, and must be awaked.

11~1_KINGS 018|028` And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

11~1_KINGS 018|029` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|030` And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.

11~1_KINGS 018|031` And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

11~1_KINGS 018|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|034` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|035` And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

11~1_KINGS 018|036` 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 you art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

11~1_KINGS 018|037` Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you art the Lord God, and that you hast turned their heart back again.

11~1_KINGS 018|038` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|039` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|040` And Elijah said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|041` And Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

11~1_KINGS 018|042` 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,

11~1_KINGS 018|043` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|044` And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arise a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get you down that the rain stop you not.

11~1_KINGS 018|045` 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.

11~1_KINGS 018|046` And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

11~1_KINGS 019|001` And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

11~1_KINGS 019|002` Then Jezebel sent a messenger to 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.

11~1_KINGS 019|003` And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

11~1_KINGS 019|004` 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.

11~1_KINGS 019|005` And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

11~1_KINGS 019|006` And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

11~1_KINGS 019|007` 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 you.

11~1_KINGS 019|008` And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

11~1_KINGS 019|009` And he came there to a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, What doest you here, Elijah?

11~1_KINGS 019|010` And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenient, thrown down yours altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

11~1_KINGS 019|011` 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:

11~1_KINGS 019|012` And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

11~1_KINGS 019|013` 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 to him, and said, What doest you here, Elijah?

11~1_KINGS 019|014` And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenient, thrown down yours altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

11~1_KINGS 019|015` And the Lord said to him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

11~1_KINGS 019|016` And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt you anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt you anoint to be prophet in thy room.

11~1_KINGS 019|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 019|018` Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

11~1_KINGS 019|019` So he departed there, 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.

11~1_KINGS 019|020` And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him, Go back again: for what have I done to you?

11~1_KINGS 019|021` 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 to the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.

11~1_KINGS 020|001` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|002` And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said to him, Thus saith Benhadad,

11~1_KINGS 020|003` Your silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

11~1_KINGS 020|004` And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am yours, and all that I have.

11~1_KINGS 020|005` And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent to you, saying, You shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

11~1_KINGS 020|006` Yet I will send my servants to you to morrow about this time, and they shall search yours house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in yours eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.

11~1_KINGS 020|007` Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

11~1_KINGS 020|008` And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken not to him, nor consent.

11~1_KINGS 020|009` Wherefore he said to the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|010` And Benhadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

11~1_KINGS 020|011` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|012` 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 to his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.

11~1_KINGS 020|013` And, behold, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into yours hand this day; and you shalt know that I am the Lord.

11~1_KINGS 020|014` 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, You.

11~1_KINGS 020|015` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|016` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|018` And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

11~1_KINGS 020|019` So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.

11~1_KINGS 020|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|021` And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

11~1_KINGS 020|022` And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what you doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.

11~1_KINGS 020|023` And the servants of the king of Syria said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|024` And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:

11~1_KINGS 020|025` And number you an army, like the army that you 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 to their voice, and did so.

11~1_KINGS 020|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|027` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|028` And there came a man of God, and spoke to 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 yours hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

11~1_KINGS 020|029` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|030` 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|031` And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

11~1_KINGS 020|032` So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Benhadad saith, I pray you, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

11~1_KINGS 020|033` Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Your brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

11~1_KINGS 020|034` And Ben-hadad said to him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and you shalt make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send you away with this covenient. So he made a covenient with him, and sent him aw

11~1_KINGS 020|035` And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray you. And the man refused to smite him.

11~1_KINGS 020|036` Then said he to him, Because you hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you art departed from me, a lion shall slay you. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

11~1_KINGS 020|037` Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray you. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

11~1_KINGS 020|038` So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

11~1_KINGS 020|039` And as the king passed by, he cried to the king: and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else you shalt pay a tal

11~1_KINGS 020|040` And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

11~1_KINGS 020|041` And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

11~1_KINGS 020|042` And he said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Because you 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.

11~1_KINGS 020|043` And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

11~1_KINGS 021|001` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|002` And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house: and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.

11~1_KINGS 021|003` And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.

11~1_KINGS 021|004` 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 you the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

11~1_KINGS 021|005` But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that you eatest no bread?

11~1_KINGS 021|006` And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.

11~1_KINGS 021|007` And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let yours heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

11~1_KINGS 021|008` So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

11~1_KINGS 021|009` And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

11~1_KINGS 021|010` And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, You didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

11~1_KINGS 021|011` And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

11~1_KINGS 021|012` They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

11~1_KINGS 021|013` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|014` Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

11~1_KINGS 021|015` 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 you for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

11~1_KINGS 021|016` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|017` And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

11~1_KINGS 021|018` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|019` And you shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Have you killed, and also taken possession? And you shalt speak to him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even yours.

11~1_KINGS 021|020` And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

11~1_KINGS 021|021` Behold, I will bring evil upon you, 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,

11~1_KINGS 021|022` And will make yours house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation where with you hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

11~1_KINGS 021|023` And of Jezebel also spoke the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

11~1_KINGS 021|024` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|025` But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

11~1_KINGS 021|026` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|027` 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.

11~1_KINGS 021|028` And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

11~1_KINGS 021|029` Seest you 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|001` Israel.

11~1_KINGS 022|002` And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

11~1_KINGS 022|003` And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know you that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

11~1_KINGS 022|004` And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt you go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

11~1_KINGS 022|005` And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray you, at the word of the Lord to day.

11~1_KINGS 022|006` Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|007` And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him?

11~1_KINGS 022|008` And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

11~1_KINGS 022|009` Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.

11~1_KINGS 022|010` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|011` And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt you push the Syrians, until you have consumed them.

11~1_KINGS 022|012` And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hand.

11~1_KINGS 022|013` And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray you, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

11~1_KINGS 022|014` And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith to me, that will I speak.

11~1_KINGS 022|015` So he came to the king. And the king said to 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|016` And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?

11~1_KINGS 022|017` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|018` And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

11~1_KINGS 022|019` And he said, Hear you 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|020` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|021` And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him.

11~1_KINGS 022|022` And the Lord said to 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, You shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

11~1_KINGS 022|023` 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 you.

11~1_KINGS 022|024` 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 to you?

11~1_KINGS 022|025` And Micaiah said, Behold, you shalt see in that day, when you shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

11~1_KINGS 022|026` And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

11~1_KINGS 022|027` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|028` And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.

11~1_KINGS 022|029` So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.

11~1_KINGS 022|030` And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put you on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

11~1_KINGS 022|031` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|032` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|033` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|034` 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 to the driver of his chariot, Turn yours hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

11~1_KINGS 022|035` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|036` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|037` So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

11~1_KINGS 022|038` And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armor; according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.

11~1_KINGS 022|039` 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?

11~1_KINGS 022|040` So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

11~1_KINGS 022|041` And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

11~1_KINGS 022|042` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|043` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|044` And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

11~1_KINGS 022|045` 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?

11~1_KINGS 022|046` And the remnant of the Sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

11~1_KINGS 022|047` There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

11~1_KINGS 022|048` Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

11~1_KINGS 022|049` Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

11~1_KINGS 022|050` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|051` 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.

11~1_KINGS 022|052` 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:

11~1_KINGS 022|053` For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.