who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
011:024 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop,
when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus,
and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.
011:025 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel,
and reigned over Syria.
011:026 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah,
a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow,
he also lifted up his hand against the king.
011:027 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king:
Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city
of David his father.
011:028 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw
the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge
over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
011:029 It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way;
now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new garment; and they
two were alone in the field.
011:030 Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore
it in twelve pieces.
011:031 He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of
the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
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);
011:033 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god
of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon;
and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right
in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances,
as did David his father.
011:034 However 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, who kept my commandments
and my statutes;
011:035 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will
give it to you, even ten tribes.
011:036 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I
have chosen me to put my name there.
011:037 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your
soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
011:038 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you,
and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes,
to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did;
that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house,
as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
011:039 I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
011:040 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose,
and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt
until the death of Solomon.
011:041 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,
and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the
acts of Solomon?
011:042 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
was forty years.
011:043 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
012:001 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem
to make him king.
012:002 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it
(for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence
of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
012:003 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly
of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
012:004 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you
the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke
which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
012:005 He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me.
The people departed.
012:006 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel
give you me to return answer to this people?
012:007 They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this
people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak
good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.
012:008 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him,
who stood before him.
012:009 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer
to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
that your father did put on us lighter?
012:010 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying,
Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying,
Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us;
thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker
than my father's waist.
012:011 Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke,
I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions.
012:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
012:013 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel
of the old men which they had given him,
012:014 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke:
my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.
012:015 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing
brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word,
which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
012:016 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen 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, Israel: now see to your own house, David.
So Israel departed to their tents.
012:017 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities
of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
012:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject
to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones.
King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot,
to flee to Jerusalem.
012:019 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
012:020 It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned,
that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him
king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house
of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
012:021 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty
thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against
the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam
the son of Solomon.
012:022 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
012:023 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah,
and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest
of the people, saying,
012:024 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house;
for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh,
and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
012:025 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim,
and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
012:026 Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return
to the house of David:
012:027 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house
of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people
turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah;
and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
012:028 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the
land of Egypt.
012:029 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
012:030 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship]
before the one, even to Dan.
012:031 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among
all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
012:032 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went
up to 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 that he had made.
012:033 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on
the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month
which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained
a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar,
to burn incense.
013:001 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word
of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar
to burn incense.
013:002 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said,
altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born
to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall
he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense
on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you.
013:003 He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign
which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn,
and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.
013:004 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God,
which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam
put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him.
His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up,
so that he could not draw it back again to him.
013:005 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
according to the sign which the man of God had given by
the word of Yahweh.
013:006 The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of Yahweh
your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.
The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was
restored him again, and became as it was before.
013:007 The king said to the man of God, Come home with me,
and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.
013:008 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half
your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat
bread nor drink water in this place;
013:009 for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall
eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way
that you came.
013:010 So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that
he came to Bethel.
013:011 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of 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 also they told to their father.
013:012 Their father said to them, Which way did he go?
Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went,
who came from Judah.
013:013 He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled
him the donkey; and he rode thereon.
013:014 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak;
and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came
from Judah? He said, I am.
013:015 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
013:016 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:
013:017 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no
bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way
that you came.
013:018 He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel
spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with
you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.
[But] he lied to him.
013:019 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house,
and drank water.
013:020 It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh
came to the prophet who brought him back;
013:021 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying,
Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth
of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh
your God commanded you,
013:022 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place
of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water;
your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.
013:023 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk,
that he saddled for him the donkey, [to wit], for the prophet
whom he had brought back.
013:024 When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him:
and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it;
the lion also stood by the body.
013:025 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.
013:026 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it,
he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth
of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion,
which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word
of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.
013:027 He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey.
They saddled it.
013:028 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey
and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten
the body, nor torn the donkey.
013:029 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it
on the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city
of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.
013:030 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
[saying], Alas, my brother!
013:031 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons,
saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which
the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
013:032 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against
the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high
places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.
013:033 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made
again from among all the people priests of the high places:
whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests
of the high places.
013:034 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off,
and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
014:001 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
014:002 Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself,
that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you
to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke
concerning me that I should be king over this people.
014:003 Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey,
and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.
014:004 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh,
and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see;
for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
014:005 Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes
to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick:
thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she
comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.
014:006 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 feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you
with heavy news.
014:007 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because I
exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over
my people Israel,
014:008 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you;
and yet you have 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 my eyes,
014:009 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone
and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me
to anger, and have cast me behind your back:
014:010 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,{or,
male} him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel,
and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man
sweeps away dung, until it be all gone.
014:011 Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat;
and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat:
for Yahweh has spoken it.
014:012 Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your
feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
014:013 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel,
in the house of Jeroboam.
014:014 Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel,
who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day:
but what? even now.
014:015 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water;
and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave
to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,
because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
014:016 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,
which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
014:017 Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:
[and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
014:018 All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word
of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
014:019 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.
014:020 The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years:
and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned
in his place.
014:021 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen
out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there:
and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
014:022 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed,
above all that their fathers had done.
014:023 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim,
on every high hill, and under every green tree;
014:024 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according
to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove
out before the children of Israel.
014:025 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
014:026 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh,
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.
014:027 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass,
and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard,
who kept the door of the king's house.
014:028 It was so, that as often as the king went into the house
of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into
the guard chamber.
014:029 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
014:030 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
014:031 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Abijam his son reigned in his place.
015:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
began Abijam to reign over Judah.
015:002 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name
was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
015:003 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God,
as the heart of David his father.
015:004 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give
him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him,
and to establish Jerusalem;
015:005 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded
him all the days of his life, except only in the matter
of Uriah the Hittite.
015:006 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days
of his life.
015:007 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
015:008 Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city
of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.
015:009 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa
to reign over Judah.
015:010 Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
015:011 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did
David his father.
015:012 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all
the idols that his fathers had made.
015:013 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen,
because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah;
and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
015:014 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart
of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
015:015 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father
had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated,
silver, and gold, and vessels.
015:016 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
015:017 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa
king of Judah.
015:018 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left
in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures
of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand
of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad,
the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria,
who lived at Damascus, saying,
015:019 [There is] a league between me and you, between my father and
your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver
and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel,
that he may depart from me.
015:020 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of
his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon,
and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all
the land of Naphtali.
015:021 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off
building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
015:022 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted:
and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it,
with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith
Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
015:023 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might,
and all that he did, and the cities which he built,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased
in his feet.
015:024 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 place.
015:025 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second
year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
015:026 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made
Israel to sin.
015:027 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon,
which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel
were laying siege to Gibbethon.
015:028 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him,
and reigned in his place.
015:029 It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house
of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed,
until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh,
which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
015:030 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which
he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which
he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
015:032 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
015:033 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha
the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah,
[and reigned] twenty-four years.
015:034 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made
Israel to sin.
016:001 The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, saying,
016:002 Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over
my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam,
and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger
with their sins;
016:003 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house;
and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
016:004 Him who dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat;
and him who dies of his in the field shall the birds of
the sky eat.
016:005 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did,
and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
016:006 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah;
and Elah his son reigned in his place.
016:007 Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came
the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house,
both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh,
to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being
like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
016:008 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began
Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah,
[and reigned] two years.
016:009 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired
against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk
in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:
016:010 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him,
in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned
in his place.
016:011 It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat
on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha:
he didn't leave him a single one who urinates on a wall,{or,
male} neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.
016:012 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word
of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
016:013 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,
which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin,
to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
016:014 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
016:015 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri
reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped
against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
016:016 The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired,
and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri,
the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
016:017 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,
and they besieged Tirzah.
016:018 It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken,
that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt
the king's house over him with fire, and died,
016:019 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam,
and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
016:020 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he did,
aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
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.
016:022 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people
who followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died,
and Omri reigned.
016:023 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri
to reign over Israel, [and reigned] twelve years:
six years reigned he in Tirzah.
016:024 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver;
and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city
which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of
the hill, Samaria.
016:025 Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt
wickedly above all who were before him.
016:026 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh,
the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
016:027 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might
that he shown, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
016:028 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria;
and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
016:029 In the thirty-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-two years.
016:030 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh above all that were before him.
016:031 It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk
in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians,
and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
016:032 He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal,
which he had built in Samaria.
016:033 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh,
the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel
who were before him.
016:034 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid
the foundation of it with the loss of Abiram his firstborn,
and set up the gates of it with the loss of his youngest
son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke
by Joshua the son of Nun.
017:001 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead,
said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom
I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years,
but according to my word.
017:002 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
017:003 Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself
by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
017:004 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have
commanded the ravens to feed you there.
017:005 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went
and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
017:006 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,
and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
017:007 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there
was no rain in the land.
017:008 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
017:009 Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon,
and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there
to sustain you.
017:010 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate
of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks:
and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water
in a vessel, that I may drink.
017:011 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said,
Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
017:012 She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake,
but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar:
and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake
it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
017:013 Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said;
but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me,
and afterward make for you and for your son.
017:014 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall
not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day
that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.
017:015 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah:
and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
017:016 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail,
according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.
017:017 It happened 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.
017:018 She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man
of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory,
and to kill my son!
017:019 He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom,
and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode,
and laid him on his own bed.
017:020 He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought
evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?
017:021 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh,
and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come
into him again.
017:022 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child
came into him again, and he revived.
017:023 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the
chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother;
and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
017:024 The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God,
and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
018:001 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came
to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab;
and I will send rain on the earth.
018:002 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was
sore in Samaria.
018:003 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household.
(Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:
018:004 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh,
that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty
in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
018:005 Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs
of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find
grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose
all the animals.
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.
018:007 As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him:
and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you,
my lord Elijah?
018:008 He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is
here].
018:009 He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your
servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
018:010 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom,
where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said,
He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation,
that they didn't find you.
018:011 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
018:012 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit
of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I
come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me:
but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.
018:013 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets
of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets
by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
018:014 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here];
and he will kill me.
018:015 Elijah said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand,
I will surely show myself to him today.
018:016 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went
to meet Elijah.
018:017 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him,
Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
018:018 He answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your
father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments
of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.
018:019 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets
of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
018:020 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered
the prophets together to Mount Carmel.
018:021 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you
waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him;
but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him
not a word.
018:022 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet
of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
018:023 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull
for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood,
and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull,
and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.
018:024 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name
of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God."
All the people answered, "It is well said."
018:025 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull
for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many;
and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
018:026 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it,
and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying,
Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered.
They leaped about the altar which was made.
018:027 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud;
for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside,
or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and
must be awakened.
018:028 They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner
with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
018:029 It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until
the time of the offering of the [evening] offering; but there
was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.
018:030 Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all
the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh
that was thrown down.
018:031 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes
of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying,
Israel shall be your name.
018:032 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh;
and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would
contain two measures of seed.
018:033 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces,
and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water,
and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.
018:034 He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time.
He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.
018:035 The water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
also with water.
018:036 It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering,
that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God
of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this
day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant,
and that I have done all these things at your word.
018:037 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know
that you, Yahweh, are God, and [that] you have turned their
heart back again.
018:038 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering,
and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up
the water that was in the trench.
018:039 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces:
and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God.
018:040 and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let
one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them
down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
018:041 Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there
is the sound of abundance of rain.
018:042 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top
of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put
his face between his knees.
018:043 He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.
He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing.
He said, Go again seven times.
018:044 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold,
a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea."
He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot],
and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
018:045 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black
with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain.
Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
018:046 and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his waist,
and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
019:001 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had
killed all the prophets with the sword.
019:002 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let
the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life
as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
019:003 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came
to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
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 Yahweh,
take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
019:005 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold,
an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
019:006 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked
on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink,
and laid him down again.
019:007 The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him,
and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
019:008 He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that
food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
019:009 He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold,
the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, What are
you doing here, Elijah?
019:010 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies;
for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant,
thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword:
and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,
to take it away.
019:011 He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.
Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore
the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh;
but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake;
but Yahweh was not in the earthquake:
019:012 and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire:
and after the fire a still small voice.
019:013 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face
in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance
of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to him, and said,
What are you doing here, Elijah?
019:014 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies;
for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant,
thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword;
and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,
to take it away.
019:015 Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness
of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael
to be king over Syria;
019:016 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel;
and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah shall you anoint
to be prophet in your room.
019:017 It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael
shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu
shall Elisha kill.
019:018 Yet will I leave [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees
which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has
not kissed him.
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 over to him,
and cast his mantle on him.
019:020 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.
He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
019:021 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen,
and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments
of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate.
Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
020:001 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together;
and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots:
and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
020:002 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city,
and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad,
020:003 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children,
even the best, are mine.
020:004 The king of Israel answered, It is according to your saying,
my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have.
020:005 The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben Hadad,
saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me
your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
020:006 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time,
and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants;
and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes,
they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
020:007 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land,
and said, Please notice 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 didn't deny him.
020:008 All the elders and all the people said to him, Don't you
listen, neither consent.
020:009 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my
lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant
at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do.
The messengers departed, and brought him word again.
020:010 Ben Hadad 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 who follow me.
020:011 The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds
on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off.
020:012 It happened, 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]. They set [themselves in array]
against the city.
020:013 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said,
Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold,
I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh.
020:014 Ahab said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young
men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall
begin the battle? He answered, You.
020:015 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces,
and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them
he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel,
being seven thousand.
020:016 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself
drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two
kings who helped him.
020:017 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first;
and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are
men come out from Samaria.
020:018 He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive,
or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive.
020:019 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes
of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
020:020 They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel
pursued them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on
a horse with horsemen.
020:021 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots,
and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
020:022 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him,
Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do;
for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come
up against you.
020:023 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is
a god 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.
020:024 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place,
and put captains in their room;
020:025 and number you an army, like the army that you have 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.
He listened to their voice, and did so.
020:026 It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered
the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
020:027 The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned,
and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped
before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians
filled the country.
020:028 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel,
and said, Thus says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said,
Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;
therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand,
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
020:029 They encamped one over against the other seven days.
So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined;
and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred
thousand footmen in one day.
020:030 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell
on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled,
and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
020:031 His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that
the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings:
let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our bodies,
and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel:
peradventure he will save your life.
020:032 So they girded sackcloth on their bodies, and [put] ropes
on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said,
Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let me live.
He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
020:033 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether
it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad.
Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came forth to him;
and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
020:034 [Ben Hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took
from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets
for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.
I, [said Ahab], will let you go with this covenant.
So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
020:035 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow
by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused
to strike him.
020:036 Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice
of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me,
a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed from him,
a lion found him, and killed him.
020:037 Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me.
The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.
020:038 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way,
and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
020:039 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 your life be for his life, or else you shall pay
a talent of silver.
020:040 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
The king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be;
yourself have decided it.
020:041 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes;
and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
020:042 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have let go
out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction,
therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people
for his people.
020:043 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry,
and came to Samaria.
021:001 It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite
had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace
of Ahab king of Samaria.
021:002 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your 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.
021:003 Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give
the inheritance of my fathers to you.
021:004 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry 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.
He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face,
and would eat no bread.
021:005 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your
spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?
021:006 He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite,
and said to him, Give me your 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.
021:007 Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom
of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry:
I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
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 who were
in his city, [and] who lived with Naboth.
021:009 She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set
Naboth on high among the people:
021:010 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them
testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king.
Then carry him out, and stone him to death.
021:011 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived
in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it
was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
021:012 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
021:013 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him:
and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth,
in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God
and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city,
and stoned him to death with stones.
021:014 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned,
and is dead.
021:015 It happened, 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.
021:016 It happened, 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.
021:017 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
021:018 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria:
behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone
down to take possession of it.
021:019 You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you
killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to him,
saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked
the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.
021:020 Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy?
He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself
to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
021:021 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you
away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against
a wall,{or, male} and him who is shut up and him who is left
at large in Israel:
021:022 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah
for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger,
and have made Israel to sin.
021:023 Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat
Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
021:024 Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat;
and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
021:025 (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel
his wife stirred up.
021:026 He did very abominably in following idols, according to
all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before
the children of Israel.)
021:027 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes,
and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth,
and went softly.
021:028 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
021:029 See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles
himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days;
but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
022:001 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
022:002 It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
022:003 The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that
Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it
out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
022:004 He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to
Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am
as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
022:005 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first
for the word of Yahweh.
022:006 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together,
about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go
against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand
of the king.
022:007 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides,
that we may inquire of him?
022:008 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man
by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah:
but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me,
but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
022:009 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly
Micaiah the son of Imlah.
022:010 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes,
in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria;
and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
022:011 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said,
Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians,
until they be consumed.
022:012 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead,
and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand
of the king.
022:013 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now,
the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth:
please let your word be like the word of one of them,
and speak you good.
022:014 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me,
that will I speak.
022:015 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah,
shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?
He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver
it into the hand of the king.
022:016 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you
speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
022:017 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep
that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master;
let them return every man to his house in peace.
022:018 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you
that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
022:019 [Micaiah] said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw
Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven
standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
022:020 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up
and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner;
and another said on that manner.
022:021 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said,
'I will entice him.'
022:022 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth,
and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.'
He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also:
go forth, and do so.'
022:023 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in
the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken
evil concerning you."
022:024 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah
on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh
from me to speak to you?
022:025 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you
shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
022:026 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;
022:027 and say, Thus says 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.
022:028 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not
spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
022:029 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
up to Ramoth Gilead.
022:030 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself,
and go into the battle; but put you on your robes.
The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
022:031 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains
of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great,
save only with the king of Israel.
022:032 It happened, 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.
022:033 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was
not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
022:034 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck
the king of Israel between the joints of the armor:
therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand,
and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.
022:035 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 bottom of the chariot.
022:036 There went a cry throughout the army about the going down
of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man
to his country.
022:037 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried
the king in Samaria.
022:038 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked
up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]);
according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
022:039 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did,
and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that
he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
022:040 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned
in his place.
022:041 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth
year of Ahab king of Israel.
022:042 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
022:043 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside
from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh:
however the high places were not taken away; the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
022:044 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
022:045 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that
he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
022:046 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his
father Asa, he put away out of the land.
022:047 There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
022:048 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold:
but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
022:049 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants
go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
022:050 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son
reigned in his place.
022:051 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria
in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
and he reigned two years over Israel.
022:052 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made
Israel to sin.
022:053 He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh,
the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.