First Kings

11Now King David had aged, he had come into days, and they covered him with garments, but it was not warm for him. 2And his servants said to him, “Let them seek for my lord the king a young woman, a virgin, and let her stand to the face of the king, and let her be caring for him, and let her lie in your bosom, that it may be warm for my lord the king.”

3And they sought a beautiful young woman in all of the border of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunammitess, and they brought her to the king. 4Now the young woman was beautiful to abundance. And she became one caring for the king, and she served him, but the king did not know her.

5Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, was lifting himself up, saying, “I, I will reign.” And he made for himself a chariot and horses and 50 men running to his face. 6And his father had not grieved him from his days, saying, “Why have you done thus?” And he was also very good of appearance, and she had borne him after Absalom.

7And his words were with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped after Adonijah. 8But Zadok the priest and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and the warriors who {were} to David were not with Adonijah.

9And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and cattle and fatling at the stone of Zoheleth, which {is} near En Rogel. And he called all of his brothers, the sons of the king, and to all of the men of Judah, the servants of the king. 10But he did not call Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the warriors or his brother Solomon.

11And Nathan spoke to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, reigns, and our master David does not know? 12And now, come, please let me counsel you counsel, and escape with your life and with the life of your son Solomon. 13Go, and come to King David, and you shall say to him, ‘My lord the king, you, have you not sworn to your female servant, saying, “Surely Solomon your son will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Then why does Adonijah reign?’ 14Behold, you will still be speaking there with the king, and I, I will come after you, and I will fill your words.”

15So Bathsheba came to the king, into the room. (Now the king had aged greatly, and Abishag the Shunammitess was serving the king.) 16And Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself to the king. And the king said, “What to you?”

17And she said to him, “My lord, you, you swore to your female servant by Yahweh your God, ‘Surely Solomon your son will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’ 18But now, behold, Adonijah reigns, and now, my lord the king, you do not know. 19And he has sacrificed ox and fatling and sheep to abundance, and he has called to all of the sons of the king and to Abiathar the priest and to Joab the commander of the army, but to Solomon your servant he has not called. 20And you, my lord the king, the eyes of all of Israel are on you, to declare to them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 21And it will happen, when my lord the king lies down with his fathers, that I will be, I and my son Solomon, offenders.”

22And behold, she was still speaking with the king, and Nathan the prophet came. 23And they declared to the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet.” And he came to the face of the king, and he prostrated himself to the king with his nose to the ground.

24And Nathan said, “My lord the king, you, have you said, ‘Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne’? 25For he has gone down today and sacrificed ox and fatling and sheep to abundance, and he has called to all of the sons of the king and to the commanders of the army and to Abiathar the priest. And behold them, eating and drinking to his face. And they are saying, ‘May King Adonijah live!’ 26But to me, me your servant, and to Zadok the priest and to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and to Solomon your servant, he has not called. 27Has this thing been done from with my lord the king and you have not made your servants know who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

28And King David answered and said, “Call to Bathsheba for me.” And she came to the face of the king, and she stood to the face of the king.

29And the king swore and said, “The life of Yahweh, who has rescued my life from every distress, 30that just as I swore to you by Yahweh the God of Israel, saying, ‘Surely Solomon your son will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place,’ surely thus I will do this day.”

31And Bathsheba bowed, nostrils {to} the ground, and she prostrated herself to the king, and she said, “May my lord King David live to forever!”

32And King David said, “Call to me to Zadok the priest and to Nathan the prophet and to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada.” And they came to the face of the king. 33And the king said to them, “Take the servants of your master with you, and you shall make Solomon my son ride on the female mule that is to me, and you shall bring him down to Gihon. 34And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet shall anoint him there as king over Israel. And you shall blow on a shofar, and you shall say, ‘May King Solomon live!’ 35And you shall go up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he, he will reign in my place. And I have commanded him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.”

36And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, answered the king and said, “Truly! May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say thus! 37Just as Yahweh has been with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon. And may he make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”

38Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethite and the Pelethite went down, and they made Solomon ride on the female mule of King David. And they brought him to Gihon. 39And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and he anointed Solomon. And they blew on the shofar, and all of the people said, “May King Solomon live!” 40Then all of the people went up after him. And the people were piping with pipes and rejoicing a great rejoicing. And the earth was split by their sound.

41And Adonijah and all of the called ones who {were} with him heard, and they had finished eating. And Joab heard the sound of the shofar, and he said, “Why is the sound of the city being noisy?”

42He was still speaking, and behold, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest, came. And Adonijah said, “Come, for you are a man of valor, and you will bring good news.”

43And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, “Truly, our master King David has made Solomon reign. 44And the king sent with him Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethite and the Pelethite. And they made him ride on the female mule of the king. 45And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, and the city is agitated. This {is} the sound that you have heard. 46And also, Solomon is sitting on the throne of the kingdom. 47And also, the servants of the king came to bless our master King David, saying, ‘May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and may he make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself on the bed. 48And also, thus said the king, ‘Blessed {be} Yahweh, the God of Israel, who today has given a sitter on my throne, and my eyes are seeing.’”

49Then all of the called ones who {were} with Adonijah trembled and arose. And they went, a man to his way. 50And Adonijah was afraid from the face of Solomon. And he arose and went and grasped the horns of the altar. 51And it was declared to Solomon, saying, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon. And behold, he has grasped the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me as today if he will kill his servant with the sword.’”

52And Solomon said, “If he will be a son of valor, from his hair shall not fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, then he shall die.” 53And King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from beside the altar. And he came and prostrated himself to King Solomon. And Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”

21Now the days of David to die approached, and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, 2“I am going in the way of all of the earth. So you shall be strong, and you shall be a man. 3And you shall keep the keeping of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as written in the law of Moses, so that you may succeed {in} all that you do and everywhere that you turn there, 4so that Yahweh may raise up his word, which he spoke about me, saying, ‘If your sons keep their way, to walk to my face in truth with all of their heart and with all of their soul,’ saying, ‘a man to you will not be cut off from upon the throne of Israel.’ 5And also, you, you know what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, what he did to two of the commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether, that he murdered them. For he put the blood of war in peace, and he put the blood of war on his belt that {was} on his loins and on his sandal that {was} on his feet. 6And you shall act according to your wisdom, and you shall not let his gray hair go down in peace to Sheol. 7But to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite do covenant faithfulness, and let them be among the eaters at your table. For thus they came near to me, when I fled from the face of Absalom your brother. 8And behold, with you {is} Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim. And he, he cursed me with a severe curse on the day of my going to Mahanaim. But he, he went down to meet me {at} the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘If I should kill you with the sword.’ 9But now, may you not acquit him. For you {are} a wise man, and you know what you shall do to him. And you shall make his gray hair go down with blood to Sheol.”

10And David lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David. 11And the days that David had reigned over Israel {were} 40 years. In Hebron he had reigned 7 years, and in Jerusalem he had reigned 33 years. 12And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was established greatly.

13Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, came to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, “{Is} your coming {in} peace?” And he said, “{In} peace.” 14And he said, “A word {is} to me for you.” And she said, “Speak.” 15And he said, “You, you know that the kingdom was to me, and all of Israel had set their faces on me to reign. But the kingdom turned and became to my brother, for it was to him from Yahweh. 16And now, one request I am requesting from you. Do not turn away my face.” And she said to him, “Speak.” 17And he said, “Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not turn away your face, that he may give to me Abishag the Shunammitess for a wife.” 18And Bathsheba said, “Good. I, I will speak about you to the king.”

19And Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, and he bowed down to her. And he sat on his throne, and he set a throne for the mother of the king, and she sat at his right side. 20And she said, “One small request I am requesting from you. Do not turn away my face.” And the king said to her, “Request, my mother, for I will not turn away your face.” 21And she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammitess be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.” 22And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammitess for Adonijah? Then request for him the kingdom, for he is my brother, older than me, and for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab, the son of Zeruiah!” 23And King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “Thus may God do to me, and thus may he add, for against his life Adonijah has spoken this word. 24And now, the life of Yahweh, who has established me and made me sit on the throne of David my father, and who has made a house for me, just as he said, surely Adonijah shall be killed today.” 25And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he attacked him, and he died.

26And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go {to} Anathoth, to your fields. For you {are} a man of death, but I will not kill you on this day, because you carried the Box of my Lord Yahweh to the face of David my father and because you were afflicted with everything {with} which my father was afflicted.” 27So Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to Yahweh, to fulfill the word of Yahweh that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli at Shiloh.

28And the report came to Joab, for Joab had turned aside after Adonijah, but he had not turned aside after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of Yahweh, and he grasped the horns of the altar. 29And it was declared to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Yahweh, and behold, {he was} beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, attack him.” 30And Benaiah came to the tent of Yahweh, and he said to him, “Thus says the king, ‘Come out!’” And he said, “No, for here I will die.” And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “Thus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me.” 31And the king said to him, “Do just as he has spoken and attack him and bury him. And you shall remove the blood that Joab poured out without cause from upon me and from upon the house of my father. 32And Yahweh will return his blood on his head because he attacked two men more righteous and better than him, and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know, Abner, the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah. 33And their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his seed to forever. But for David and for his seed and for his house and for his throne will be peace until forever from with Yahweh.” 34And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up and attacked him and killed him. And he was buried in his house in the wilderness. 35And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in place of him over the army, and the king put Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar.

36And the king sent and called for Shimei, and he said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and dwell there. And do not go out from there where or where. 37And it will happen on the day of your going out and you pass over the wadi of Kidron, knowing, you shall know that dying, you shall die. Your blood will be on your head.” 38And Shimei said to the king, “The word is good. Just as my lord the king has spoken, thus will your servant do.” And Shimei dwelled in Jerusalem many days.

39And it happened at the end of three years that two of the slaves of Shimei fled to Achish, the son of Maacah, the king of Gath. And they declared to Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves {are} in Gath.” 40So Shimei arose and saddled his donkey and went to Gath, to Achish, to seek his slaves. And Shimei went and brought back his slaves from Gath. 41And it was declared to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem {to} Gath and had returned. 42And the king sent and called for Shimei, and he said to him, “Did I not make you swear by Yahweh and testify against you, saying, ‘On the day of your going out, and you go where or where, knowing, you shall know that dying, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘The word I have heard is good.’ 43So why did you not keep the oath of Yahweh and the command that I commanded upon you?” 44And the king said to Shimei, “You, you know all of the evil that your heart knows, which you did to David my father. And Yahweh will return your evil on your head. 45But King Solomon will be blessed, and the throne of David will be established to the face of Yahweh to forever.” 46And the king commanded Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and attacked him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

31And Solomon made himself a son-in-law to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her into the City of David until his finishing to build his house and the house of Yahweh and the wall of Jerusalem round about. 2However, the people were sacrificing at the high places because a house had not been built for the name of Yahweh up to those days. 3And Solomon loved Yahweh, to walk in the statutes of David his father, but at the high places he was sacrificing and burning incense.

4And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 5At Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream that night. And God said, “Ask! What shall I give to you?” 6And Solomon said, “You, you did great covenant faithfulness with your servant David, my father because he walked to your face in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. And you have kept for him this great covenant faithfulness, and you have given to him a son sitting on his throne, as {it is} this day. 7And now, Yahweh my God, you, you have made your servant reign in place of David my father, but I {am} a little child. I do not know going out or coming in. 8And your servant {is} in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, an abundant people who can not be numbered and can not be counted from abundance. 9So may you give to your servant a hearing heart to judge your people, to discern between good to evil. For who is able to judge this your heavy people?”

10And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon had requested this thing. 11And God said to him, “Because you have requested this thing and you have not requested for yourself many days, and you have not requested riches for yourself, and you have not requested the life of your enemies, but you have requested for yourself to discern to hear justice, 12behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given to you a wise and discerning heart, that one like you has not been to your face and one like you will not arise after you. 13And also, what you have not requested, I have given to you, both riches and honor, so that there will not be a man like you among kings all of your days. 14And if you walk in my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments, just as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days.” 15And Solomon awoke, and behold, {it had been} a dream. And he entered Jerusalem, and he stood to the face of the Box of the Covenant of the Lord. And he offered burnt offerings, and he made peace offerings. And he made a feast for all of his servants.

16Then two women, prostitutes, came to the king, and they stood to his face. 17And one woman said, “Please, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I gave birth with her in the house. 18And it happened on the third day of my giving birth that this woman also gave birth. And we {were} together, no stranger {was} with us in the house, only we two {were} in the house. 19And the son of this woman died {at} night, because she lay on him. 20And she arose in the middle of the night, and she took my son from my side, and your female servant was asleep. And she laid him in her bosom. And her son, the one having died, she laid in my bosom. 21And I arose in the morning to nurse my son, and behold, he had died. But I looked carefully upon him in the morning, and behold, he was not my son whom I had borne.” 22And the other woman said, “No, for my son {is} the living one, and your son {is} the one having died.” But this one was saying, “No, for your son {is} the one having died, and my son {is} the living one.” And they spoke to the face of the king.

23And the king said, “This one says, ‘This {is} my son, the living one, and your son {is} the one having died,’ but that one says, ‘No, but your son {is} the one having died, and my son {is} the living one.’” 24And the king said, “Get a sword for me.” And they brought the sword to the face of the king. 25And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other.” 26And the woman whose son {was} the living one spoke to the king, for her compassions for her son were kindled. And she said, “Please, my lord, give the living child to her, but killing, you must not kill him!” But this one was saying, “He will not be either for me or for you. Divide.” 27And the king answered and said, “Give the living child to her, and killing, you shall not kill him. She is his mother.” 28And all of Israel heard the judgment that the king had judged, and they were afraid from the face of the king, because they saw that the wisdom of God was within him to do justice.

41Now King Solomon was king over all of Israel. 2And these {were} the officials who {were} to him. Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest. 3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes. Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder. 4And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests. 5And Azariah, the son of Nathan, {was} over the deputies. And Zabud, the son of Nathan, {was} a priest, a friend of the king. 6And Ahishar was over the house. And Adoniram, the son of Abda, was over the forced labor.

7Now to Solomon {were} 12 deputies over all of Israel, and they sustained the king and his house. A month in the year was upon one to sustain. 8And these {were} their names. Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim. 9Ben Deker, in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth Shemesh and Elon Beth Hanan. 10Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him {was} Sokoh and all of the land of Hepher). 11Ben Abinadab, all of Naphoth Dor. (Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, was to him for a wife.) 12Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo and all of Beth Shan that {is} beside Zarethan from below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah, as far as from the other side of Jokmeam. 13Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead. (To him {were} the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh, that {were} in Gilead; to him {was} the region of Argob, which {was} in Bashan, 60 great cities {with} a wall and a bar of bronze). 14Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim. 15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali. (He also took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, for a wife.) 16Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth. 17Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar. 18Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin. 19Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorite, and Og, the king of Bashan, and {there was} one deputy who {was} in the land.

20Judah and Israel {were} numerous, like the sand that {is} at the sea for abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing. 21And Solomon was ruling over all of the kingdoms from the River {to} the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt, bringing tribute and serving Solomon all of the days of his life. 22And the bread of Solomon for one day was 30 cors of fine flour and 60 cors of flour, 23ten fat cattle and 20 pasture cattle and 100 sheep, apart from deer and gazelle and roebuck and fattened fowl. 24For he ruled over everything beyond the River from Tiphsah and to Gaza, over all of the kings of beyond the River. And peace was to him from all of his sides, from all around. 25And Judah and Israel dwelled in safety, a man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan and to Beersheba, all of the days of Solomon. 26And 40,000 stalls of horses were to Solomon for his chariotry, and 12,000 horsemen. 27And those deputies sustained King Solomon and all of the {ones} near to the table of King Solomon, a man his month. They did not let a thing lack. 28And they brought the barley and the straw for the horses and for the steed to the place where it should be there, a man according to his ordinance.

29And God gave wisdom to Solomon and very much understanding and breadth of heart like the sand that {is} on the shore of the sea. 30And the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all of the sons of the east and than all of the wisdom of Egypt. 31And he was wiser than every man, than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his name was in all of the surrounding nations. 32And he spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. 33And he spoke about trees, from the cedar that {is} in Lebanon and to the hyssop that comes out in the wall. And he spoke about the beast and about the bird and about the creeping thing and about the fish. 34And they came from all of the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from with all of the kings of the earth who had heard {about} his wisdom.

51And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father, for Hiram was a friend to David all of the days. 2And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3“You, you know David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God from the face of the warfare {with} which they surrounded him until Yahweh put them under the soles of his foot. 4And now Yahweh my God has given rest to me from all around. There is no adversary, and there is no evil occurrence. 5And behold me, saying to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, just as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will put in your place on your throne, he, he will build the house for my name.’ 6And now, command, and may they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and may my servants be with your servants, and I will give to you the wage of your servants according to all that you say. For you, you know that {there is} no man among us knowing {how} to cut trees like the Sidonians.”

7And it happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly. And he said, “Blessed {be} Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.” 8And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard what you sent to me. I, I will do all of your desire with the trees of cedar and with the trees of cypress. 9And my servants will bring down from Lebanon to the sea, and I, I will set rafts on the sea to the place that you send to me, and I will break them up there. And you, you will lift. And you, you will do my desire by giving the bread of my house.” 10So Hiram was giving to Solomon trees of cedar and trees of cypress, all of his desire. 11And Solomon gave to Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat {as} food for his house and 20 cors of beaten oil. Thus Solomon would give to Hiram year by year. 12And Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon, just as he had spoken to him. And peace was between Hiram and between Solomon, and the two of them cut a covenant.

13And King Solomon brought up forced labor from all of Israel. And the forced labor was 30,000 men. 14And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 by month, {in} shifts. They were a month in Lebanon, two months in his house. And Adoniram was over the forced labor. 15And it was to Solomon 70,000, a carrier of a burden, and 80,000, a quarrier in the hill country, 16apart from the commanders of the deputies of Solomon who {were} over the work, 3,300 {were} the ones ruling over the people doing the work. 17And the king commanded, and they removed great stones, valuable stones, to found the house, stones of hewing. 18And the builders of Solomon and the builders of Hiram and the Gebalites hewed, and they prepared the wood and the stones to build the house.

61And it happened, in year 80 and year 400 of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv (it {is} the second month), of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he built the house of Yahweh. 2And the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh, 60 cubits {was} its length, and 20 {was} its width, and 30 cubits {was} its height. 3And the porch on the face of the nave of the house, 20 cubits {was} its length, on the face of the width of the house. Ten by the cubit {was} its depth, on the face of the house. 4And he made for the house windows with narrowed frames. 5And he built an addition against the wall of the house all around, the walls of the house all around, of the nave and of the inner sanctuary. And he made chambers all around. 6The lowest addition, five by the cubit {was} its width, and the middle, six by the cubit {was} its width, and the third, seven by the cubit {was} its width. For he made ledges for the house all around the outside, so as not to hold onto the walls of the house. 7And the house, in its being built, was built {of} finished stone {from} a quarry. So hammers or the chisel, any implement of iron, was not heard in the house in its being built. 8The entrance of the middle chamber {was} to the shoulder of the house {at} the right, and they went up by stairs onto the middle, and from the middle to the third. 9And he built the house and finished it. And he roofed the house with beams and boards of cedars. 10And he built the addition against all of the house, five cubits {was} its height, and it held {onto} the house with wood of cedars.

11And the word of Yahweh was to Solomon, saying, 12“This house that you are building, if you walk in my statutes and do my judgments and keep all of my commandments by walking in them, then I will make my word stand with you that I spoke to David your father, 13and I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.”

14And Solomon built the house and finished it. 15And he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he overlaid wood on the inside, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 16And he built 20 cubits from the recesses of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls. And he built {them} for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Holy of Holies. 17And 40 by the cubit was the house (that {is}, the nave) to the face of it. 18And cedar was to the house within, carving of gourds and opened ones of flowers. The whole {was} cedar, no stone was seen. 19And he prepared the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside to put the Box of the Covenant of Yahweh there. 20And the interior of the inner sanctuary, {it was} 20 cubits {in} length and 20 cubits {in} width, and 20 cubits {was} its height. And he overlaid it {with} pure gold, and he overlaid an altar {with} cedar. 21And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside {with} pure gold. And he made chains of gold cross to the face of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it {with} gold. 22So he overlaid all of the house {with} gold until finishing all of the house. And the whole of the altar that {was} to the inner sanctuary, he overlaid {with} gold.

23And he made in the inner sanctuary two cherubs of wood of oil. Ten cubits {was} its height. 24And five cubits {was} the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits {was} the second wing of the cherub. Ten cubits {were} from the ends of its wings and to the ends of its wings. 25And ten by the cubit {was} the second cherub. One size and one shape {were} to the two cherubs. 26The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit, and thus {was} the second cherub. 27And he put the cherubs in the midst of the inner house. And they spread out the wings of the cherubs, and the wing of the one touched against the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall. And their wings toward the middle of the house were touching wing to wing. 28And he overlaid the cherubs {with} gold.

29And all of the walls of the house round about, he carved {with} engravings of carvings of cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers, from the inside and to the outside. 30And the floor of the house, he overlaid {with} gold, to the inside and to the outside. 31And the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of wood of oil. The lintel, the doorposts, {were} a fifth. 32And the two of the doors {were} wood of oil, and he carved on them carvings of cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers, and he overlaid them {with} gold. And he beat out the gold on the cherubs and on the palm trees. 33And thus he made for the entrance of the nave, doorposts of wood of oil from a fourth. 34And the two of the doors {were} wood of cypress. The two of the leaves {of} the one door {were} folding, and the two of the curtains {of} the second door {were} folding. 35And he carved cherubs and palm trees and opened ones of flowers. And he overlaid {with} gold, smoothed onto the carved things. 36And he built the inner courtyard {with} three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar.

37In the fourth year, the house of Yahweh was founded, in the month of Ziv. 38And in year 11, in the month of Bul (it {is} the eighth month), the house finished, in all of its matters and according to all of its plans. So he built it seven years.

71And Solomon built his house 13 years, and he finished all of his house. 2And he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 100 cubits {was} its length and 50 cubits {was} its width and 30 cubits {was} its height, upon four rows of pillars of cedar and beams of cedar upon the pillars. 3And it was covered with cedar from above, upon the beams that were on 45 pillars, 15 the row. 4And the {window} frames {were} three rows, and window {was} opposite window {in} three tiers. 5And all of the entrances and doorposts {were} square {in} frame, and window {was} directly opposite to window {in} three tiers. 6And he made the Porch of Pillars. 50 cubits {was} its length and 30 cubits {was} its width. And a porch {was} on their face, and pillars and a roof {were} on their face. 7And he made the Porch of the Throne where he would judge there, the Porch of Judgment. And it was covered with cedar from the floor to the floor. 8And his house where he would dwell there, {in} the other courtyard from the house of the porch, was like this work. And he made a house for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.

9All of these {were} valuable stones, according to the measurements of hewn stone, sawn with the saw on the inside and on the outside, and from the foundation to the eaves and from outside to the great courtyard. 10And it was founded with valuable stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11And from above {were} valuable stones, according to the measurements of hewn stone, and cedar. 12And a great courtyard {was} all around, three rows {of} hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar, and for the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh and for the porch of the house.

13And King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre. 14He {was} the son of a woman, a widow, from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a crafter of bronze. And he was filled with wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do all work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and he did all of his work. 15And he fashioned two bronze pillars. 18 cubits {was} the height of the one pillar, and a cord of 12 cubits surrounded the second pillar. 16And he made two capitals to put on the heads of the pillars, casting of bronze. Five cubits {was} the height of one capital, and five cubits {was} the height of the second capital. 17Networks, a work of netting, strands, a work of chains, {were} to the capitals that {were} on the head of the pillars. Seven were to one capital, and seven were to the second capital. 18And he made pillars, and two rows all around on one network, to cover the capitals that were on the head of the pomegranates, and thus he did for the second capital. 19And the capitals that {were} on the head of the pillars {were} the work of a lily, on the porch, four cubits. 20And the capitals on the two pillars also from above, from near the belly that was on the other side of the network, and the pomegranates {were} 200, {in} rows all around on the second capital. 21And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. And he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin. And he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz. 22And on the head of the pillars {was} the work of a lily. And the work of the pillars was finished.

23And he made a cast sea, ten by the cubit from its lip to its lip, circular all around. And five by the cubit was its height, and a cord of 30 cubits surrounded it all around. 24And gourds {were} from underneath to its lip all around, surrounding it, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea all around {in} two rows. The gourds were cast when it was cast. 25{It was} standing upon 12 cattle, three facing northward and three facing westward and three facing southward and three facing eastward, and the sea {was} upon them from above. And all of their hindquarters {were} inward. 26And its thickness {was} a handbreadth, and its lip {was} like the work of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. It contained 2,000 baths.

27And he made ten bronze stands. Four by the cubit {was} the length of one stand, and four by the cubit {was} its width, and three by the cubit {was} its height. 28And this {was} the work of the stand. Panels {were} to them, and the panels {were} between the frames. 29And on the panels that {were} between the frames {were} lions, cattle, and cherubs. And on the frames {was} a pedestal from above, and from below to the lions and to the cattle {were} wreaths, the work of descent. 30And four wheels of bronze {were} to one stand, and axles of bronze. And its four corners, shoulders {were} to them, from below to the basin. The shoulders were cast on the side of each {with} wreaths. 31And its mouth from the inside of the capital and upward {was} by a cubit. And its mouth {was} circular, the work of a pedestal, a cubit and half of a cubit, and also on its mouth {were} carvings. But their panels were square, not circular. 32And the four of the wheels {were} beneath the panels, and the hands of the wheels {were} in the stand. And the height of one wheel {was} a cubit and half of a cubit. 33And the work of the wheels {was} like the work of the wheel of a chariot. Their hands and their rims and their spokes and their hubs, the whole was cast. 34And four shoulders {were} to the four corners of one stand, from the stand {were} its shoulders. 35And on the head of the stand, half of a cubit {was} the height, circular all around. And on the head of the stand, its hands and its panels {were} from it. 36And he engraved cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its hands and on its panels, according to the bare space of each, and wreaths all around. 37Like this he made the ten stands. One casting, one size, one shape {was} to all of them.

38And he made ten bronze basins. One basin contained 40 baths. One basin {was} four by the cubit. One basin {was} on one stand, for the ten stands. 39And he put the stands, five on the shoulder of the house from the right and five on the shoulder of the house from its left. And he put the sea from the right shoulder of the house, eastward toward the south.

40And Hiram made basins and shovels and bowls. And Hiram finished doing all of the work that he did for King Solomon {for} the house of Yahweh: 41the two pillars, and the bowls of the capitals that {were} on the head of the two pillars, and the two networks for covering the two bowls of the capitals that {were} on the head of the pillars, 42and the 400 pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the faces of the pillars, 43and the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands, 44and the one sea, and the 12 cattle under the sea, 45and the pots and the shovels and the bowls. And all of these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon {for} the house of Yahweh {were} polished bronze. 46In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay of the ground between Succoth and between Zarethan. 47And Solomon let all of the vessels rest, from great, great abundance. The weight of the bronze was not determined.

48And Solomon made all of the vessels that {were} in the house of Yahweh: the altar of gold, and the table that on it {was} the bread of the face, gold, 49and the five lampstands on the right and five on the left to the face of the inner sanctuary, pure gold, and the blossom and the lamps and the tongs, gold, 50and the basins and the trimmers and the sprinkling bowls and the palms and the firepans, pure gold, and the sockets of the doors of the inner house, for the Holy of Holies, for the doors of the house, for the temple, gold.

51And all of the work that King Solomon did {for} the house of Yahweh was complete. And Solomon brought in the holy things of David, his father. The silver and the gold and the vessels, he put in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh.

81Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all of the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon {at} Jerusalem, to bring up the Box of the Covenant of Yahweh from the City of David (it {is} Zion). 2And all of the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the feast (it {is} the seventh month). 3And all of the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the Box. 4And they brought up the Box of Yahweh and the tent of meeting and all of the vessels of holiness that {were} in the tent. And the priests and the Levites brought them up. 5And King Solomon and all of the congregation of Israel, the ones having congregated themselves to him, {who were} with him to the face of the Box, were sacrificing sheep and cattle that were not counted and were not numbered from abundance. 6And the priests brought the Box of the Covenant of Yahweh into its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, into the Holy of Holies, to beneath the wings of the cherubs. 7For the cherubs were spreading wings toward the place of the Box, and the cherubs covered over the Box and over its poles from above. 8And the poles were long, and the heads of the poles were seen from the Holy Place, at the face of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen on the outside. And they are there to this day. 9Nothing {was} in the Box except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut with the sons of Israel when they came out from the land of Egypt. 10And it happened, when the priests came out from the Holy Place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh. 11And the priests were not able to stand to minister from the face of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.

12Then Solomon said, “Yahweh said he would dwell in a dark cloud. 13Building, I have built a house of habitation for you, a place for your dwelling {for} ages.” 14And the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. Now all of the assembly of Israel was standing. 15And he said, “Blessed {be} Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke by his mouth to David my father and fulfilled by his hand, saying, 16‘From the day when I brought out my people, Israel, from Egypt, I did not choose a city from all of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name to be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ 17And it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 18But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart. 19However, you, you will not build the house, but rather your son coming out from your loins, he, he will build the house for my name.’ 20And Yahweh has raised up his word that he spoke. And I have arisen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, just as Yahweh spoke. And I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 21And I have made a place there for the Box where the Covenant of Yahweh {is} there, which he cut with our fathers when he brought them out from the land of Egypt.”

22And Solomon stood to the face of the altar of Yahweh, in front of all of the assembly of Israel. And he spread out his palms to the heavens, 23and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, no god {is} like you in the heavens from above or on the earth from below, keeping the covenant and covenant faithfulness with your servants walking to your face with all of their heart, 24which you have kept for your servant David, my father, what you spoke to him. And you spoke with your mouth, and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day. 25And now, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David, my father, what you spoke to him, saying, ‘A man to you will not be cut off from to my face, sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons will keep their way, to walk to my face just as you have walked to my face.’ 26And now, God of Israel, may your word please be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David, my father.

27But will God truly dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you. How much less this house that I have built! 28Yet may you turn to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer that your servant is praying to your face today, 29that your eyes may be opened to this house night and day, to the place {about} which you have said, ‘My name will be there,’ to listen to the prayer that your servant will pray toward this place. 30And may you listen to the supplication of your servant and your people Israel that they will pray toward this place. And you, may you hear in the place of your dwelling, in the heavens, and may you hear and forgive.

31Whoever sins, a man against his neighbor, and he lifts an oath against him to adjure him, and an oath comes to the face of your altar in this house, 32then you, may you hear {in} the heavens and act and judge your servants, to condemn the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to acquit the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.

33When your people Israel are struck to the face of an enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn back to you and they confess your name and they pray and they supplicate toward you in this house, 34then you, may you hear {in} the heavens, and may you forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land that you gave to their fathers.

35When the heavens are restrained and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and they confess your name and they turn back from their sin because you have afflicted them, 36then you, may you hear {in} the heavens, and may you forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you teach the good way in which they should walk. And may you give rain on your land that you have given to your people for an inheritance.

37If famine is in the land, if {there} is pestilence, if {there} is blight, mildew, locust, grasshopper, if his enemy makes {it} narrow to him in the land of his gates, any plague, any sickness, 38any prayer, any supplication that is to any man, to any of your people Israel who know, a man the plague of his heart, and he spreads out his palms toward this house, 39then you, may you hear {in} the heavens, the place of your dwelling, and may you forgive, and may you act and give to a man according to all of his ways, for you know his heart. For you, you know, you alone, the heart of all of the sons of man, 40so that they may fear you all of the days that they {are} alive on the face of the land that you gave to our fathers.

41And also, concerning the foreigner, he who {is} not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, 42for they will hear {about} your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, and he will come and pray toward this house, 43you, may you hear in the heavens, the place of your dwelling, and may you act according to all that the foreigner has cried out to you, so that all of the peoples of the earth will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel {do} and to know that your name has been called over this house that I have built.

44If your people goes out to battle against its enemy by the way that you send them, and they pray to Yahweh {in} the way of the city upon which you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 45then may you hear {in} the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and may you do their justice.

46If they sin against you (for {there is} no man who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to the face of an enemy and they take them captive {as} their captives to the land of the enemy, distant or near, 47and they bring back to their heart in the land where they have been taken captive there, and they turn back and supplicate to you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done iniquity, we have acted wickedly,’ 48and they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies where they took them captive, and they pray to you {in} the way of their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 49then may you hear {in} the heavens, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and may you do their justice. 50And may you forgive your people who have sinned against you and all of their transgressions that they have transgressed against you. And may you give them compassion to the face of their captors, and may they have compassion on them. 51For they {are} your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out from Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron, 52for your eyes to be opened to the supplication of your servant and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all of their crying out to you. 53For you, you separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all of the peoples of the earth, just as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our fathers from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh.”

54And it happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of this prayer and supplication, he arose from to the face of the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his palms spread out {toward} the heavens. 55And he stood, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel {in} a great voice, saying, 56“Blessed {be} Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he spoke. One word has not fallen from all of his good word that he spoke by the hand of Moses his servant. 57May Yahweh our God be with us, just as he was with our fathers. May he not forsake us and may he not abandon us, 58may he stretch out our heart to him, to walk in all of his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. 59And may these my words, which I have supplicated to the face of Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God by day and {by} night, to do the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel, the matter of a day in its day, 60so that all of the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he {is} God, {there is} no other! 61And may your heart be complete with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as this day.”

62And the king and all of Israel with him were sacrificing sacrifices to the face of Yahweh. 63And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace offerings that he sacrificed to Yahweh, 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. And the king and all of the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. 64On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was to the face of the house of Yahweh, so that there he made the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings, for the altar of bronze that {was} to the face of Yahweh was small from the containing of the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings. 65And Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all of Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt, to the face of Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, fourteen days. 66On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and good of heart over all of the good that Yahweh had done for David his servant and for Israel his people.

91And it happened, when Solomon finished building the house of Yahweh and the house of the king and all of the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do, 2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3And Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you supplicated to my face. I have consecrated this house that you have built, to put my name there to forever. And my eyes and my heart will be there all of the days. 4And you, if you walk to my face just as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, {if} you keep my statutes and my judgments, 5then I will raise up the throne of your kingdom over Israel to forever, just as I spoke to David your father, saying, ‘A man to you will not be cut off from upon the throne of Israel.’ 6If turning, you turn, you or your sons, from after me, and you do not keep my commandments, my statutes that I have set to your faces, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, 7then I will cut off Israel from upon the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name, I will send away from before my face, and Israel will be for a proverb and for a taunt among all of the peoples. 8And this house is exalted, everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss. And they will say, ‘Why did Yahweh do thus to this land and to this house?’ 9And they will say, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they held onto other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore Yahweh brought upon them all of this harm.’” 10And it happened at the end of 20 years that Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. 11Hiram, the king of Tyre, had supplied Solomon with trees of cedar and with trees of cypress and with gold, according to all of his delight. Then King Solomon gave to Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee. 12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given to him, but they were not right in his eyes. 13And he said, “What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul, to this day. 14Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 kikkars of gold.

15Now this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon brought up to build the house of Yahweh and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer. 16Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer, and he had burned it with fire, and he had killed the Canaanite, the dweller of the city. And he had given it {as} a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon. 17And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth Horon 18and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness in the land 19and all of the cities of the storehouses that were to Solomon and the cities of the chariotry and the cities of the horsemen and the desire of Solomon, whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all of the land of his dominion. 20All of the people, the ones being left from the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, they who {were} not from the sons of Israel, 21their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were not able to devote them, Solomon brought them up for the forced labor of working, to this day. 22But from the sons of Israel Solomon did not make a servant, for they {were} the men of war and his servants and his commanders and his captains and the commanders of his chariotry and his horsemen.

23These {were} the commanders of the deputies who {were} over the work for Solomon, 550, the ones ruling over the people doing the work.

24Once the daughter of Pharoah had gone up from the City of David to her house that he had built for her, then he built the Millo.

25And three times in the year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built for Yahweh, and he burned incense with it, which {was} to the face of Yahweh. And he completed the house.

26And King Solomon made a fleet in Ezion Geber, which {is} near Elath on the lip of the Sea of Reeds in the land of Edom. 27And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, men of ships, knowers of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28And they came to Ophir, and they took gold from there, 420 kikkars. And they brought it to King Solomon.

101Now the Queen of Sheba heard the report of Solomon regarding the name of Yahweh. And she came to test him with difficult questions. 2And she came to Jerusalem with a very great entourage, camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stone. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was with her heart. 3And Solomon declared to her all of her matters. No matter was hidden from the king that he did not declare to her. 4And the Queen of Sheba saw all of the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he had built 5and the food of his table and the seating of his servants and the service of his attendants and their apparel and his cupbearers and his burnt offerings that he offered {at} the house of Yahweh. And no more breath was in her. 6And she said to the king, “The word is true that I heard in my land about your words and about your wisdom. 7But I did not believe the words until when I came and my eyes saw, and behold, the half had not been declared to me! You have added wisdom and goodness to the report that I heard. 8The happiness of your men! The happiness of these servants of yours, the ones standing to your face continually, the ones hearing your wisdom! 9May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to put you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loves Israel to forever, he has set you as king, to do justice and righteousness!” 10And she gave to the king 120 kikkars of gold and very many spices and precious stone. {There} has not come again for abundance like that spice that the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

11(And also the fleet of Hiram, which carried gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir very much wood of almug and precious stone. 12And the king made the wood of almug a support for the house of Yahweh and for the house of the king and harps and lyres for the singers. Such wood of almug had not come and has not been seen to this day.)

13And King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba all of her delight, whatever she requested, besides what he gave to her according to the hand of King Solomon. And she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.

14And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 kikkars of gold, 15apart from the men of the searchers and from the merchandise of the traders and all of the kings of the Arab and the governors of the land. 16And King Solomon made 200 beaten-gold large shields, 600 gold went up onto one large shield, 17and 300 beaten-gold shields, three gold minas went up onto one shield. And the king put them {in} the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 18And the king made a great ivory throne, and he overlaid it {with} refined gold. 19Six steps {were} to the throne, and a round head {was} to the throne from behind it. And hands {were} from this side and from that side to the place of the seat. And two lions were standing beside the hands. 20And 12 lions were standing there on the six steps, from this side and from that side. It was not made thus for any of the kingdoms. 21And all of the vessels of the drink of King Solomon were gold, and all of the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were beaten gold. {There was} no silver. It was not reckoned as anything in the days of Solomon. 22For a fleet of Tarshish {was} to the king on the sea with the fleet of Hiram. One in three years the fleet of Tarshish would come carrying gold and silver, elephant tusks and apes and peacocks.

23And King Solomon became greater than all of the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom. 24And all of the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 25And they were bringing, a man his gift, vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments and weaponry and spices, horses and mules, a matter of year by year.

26And Solomon accumulated chariotry and horsemen. And 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen were to him. And he stationed them in the cities of chariotry and with the king in Jerusalem. 27And the king made silver in Jerusalem like stones, and he made cedars like the sycamores that {are} in the Shephelah for abundance. 28And the going out of the horses that {were} to Solomon {was} from Egypt and from Kue. The traders of the king would take from Kue for a price. 29And a chariot came up and went out from Egypt for 600 silver, and a horse for 150, and thus by their hand they brought out to all of the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

111Now King Solomon loved many foreign women and the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabitesses, Ammonitesses, Edomitesses, Sidonianesses, Hittitesses, 2from the nations {about} which Yahweh had said to the sons of Israel, “You must not enter into them, and they must not enter into you. Surely they will stretch out your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to them in love. 3And to him were 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives stretched out his heart. 4And it happened in the time of the old age of Solomon {that} his wives stretched out his heart after other gods. And his heart was not complete with Yahweh his God like the heart of David his father. 5And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. 6And Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he was not full after Yahweh like David his father. 7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill that {is} on the face of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon. 8And thus he did for all of his foreign wives burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.

9And Yahweh became angry with Solomon, for his heart had stretched away from with Yahweh, the God of Israel, the one having appeared to him two times, 10and he had commanded to him about this thing, not to go after other gods. But he did not keep what Yahweh had commanded. 11And Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is with you, that you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I commanded concerning you, tearing, I will tear the kingdom away from you, and I will give it to your servant. 12However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father. From the hand of your son I will tear it away. 13Only I will not tear away all of the kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

14And Yahweh raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He {was} from the seed of the king in Edom. 15Now it had happened, when David was in Edom, when Joab, the commander of the army, had gone up to bury the slain, that he had struck every male in Edom. 16For Joab and all of Israel dwelled there six months until he had cut off every male in Edom. 17But Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to enter Egypt. And Hadad {was} a little boy. 18And they arose from Midian and entered Paran. And they took men with them from Paran and came {to} Egypt, to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And he gave a house to him, and he ordered bread for him, and he gave land to him. 19And Hadad found much favor in the eyes of Pharaoh. And he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. 20And the sister of Tahpenes bore to him Genubath, his son, and Tahpenes weaned him in the midst of the house of Pharaoh. And Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the sons of Pharaoh. 21And Hadad heard in Egypt that David had lain down with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, had died. And Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Send me away, that I may go to my land.” 22And Pharaoh said to him, “But what {are} you lacking with me, that behold you, seeking to go to your land?” And he said, “Nothing, but sending, may you send me away.”

23And God raised up an adversary against him, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had fled from Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, his master. 24And he gathered men to himself, and he became the commander of a raiding band when David killed them. And they went {to} Damascus, and they dwelled in it and they reigned in Damascus. 25And he was an adversary against Israel all of the days of Solomon, and the harm that Hadad {did}. And he loathed Israel, and he reigned over Aram.

26And Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite from Zeredah, and the name of his mother {was} Zeruah, a woman, a widow, {was} a servant of Solomon, and he raised a hand against the king. 27Now this {was} the matter {by} which he raised a hand against the king. Solomon had built the Millo; he had closed up the breach of the City of David his father. 28And the man Jeroboam {was} mighty of strength. And Solomon had seen the young man, that he was a doer of work, so he had appointed him over all of the forced labor of the house of Joseph. 29And it happened at that time that Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the road. And he was covering himself with a new cloak, and the two of them {were} by themselves in the field. 30And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak that was upon him, and he tore it {into} 12 pieces. 31And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces. For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold me, tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give ten tribes to you. 32But one tribe will be to him for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city upon which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel. 33For they have forsaken me, and they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the sons of Ammon. And they do not walk in my ways, to do right in my eyes, or my statutes or my judgments, like David his father. 34But I will not take all of the kingdom from his hand. Rather, I will put him as a leader all of the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, him whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes. 35But I will take the kingdom from the hand of his son, and I will give it to you, ten of the tribes. 36But to his son I will give one tribe so that there may be a lamp for David my servant all of the days to my face in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself to put my name there. 37And I will take you, and you will reign over all that your soul desires, and you will be king over Israel. 38And it will be, if you hear all that I command you and you walk in my ways and you do right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, just as David my servant did, then I will be with you and I will build for you an established house, just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 39And I will afflict the seed of David on account of this, only not all of the days.’” 40And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak, the king of Egypt. And he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

41Now the rest of the matters of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom, {are} they not written in the book of the matters of Solomon? 42And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all of Israel were 40 years. 43And Solomon lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David, his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

121And Rehoboam went {to} Shechem, for all of Israel had come {to} Shechem to make him reign. 2And it happened, when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, heard (now he, he {was} still in Egypt, where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelled in Egypt), 3that they sent and they called for him. And Jeroboam came, and all of the assembly of Israel, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 4“Your father made our yoke hard. But you, now make {it} lighter than the hard service of your father and than his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.” 5And he said to them, “Go until three days, then return to me.” So the people went.

6And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had been standing to the face of Solomon his father while he was alive, saying, “How are you advising to answer this people {with} a word?” 7And they spoke to him, saying, “If today you will be a servant to this people and serve them and you answer them and speak good words to them, then they will be servants to you all of the days.” 8But he forsook the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him who were standing to his face. 9And he said to them, “How are you advising that we should answer {with} a word this people who spoke to me saying, ‘Make lighter than the yoke that your father put on us’?” 10And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make light from upon us.’ Thus you shall speak to them, ‘My little finger {is} thicker than the loins of my father. 11And now, my father loaded a heavy yoke on you, but I, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I, I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

12And Jeroboam and all of the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had spoken, saying, “Return to me on the third day.” 13And the king answered the people harshly, and he forsook the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him. 14And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I, I will discipline you with scorpions.” 15And the king did not listen to the people, for the turn was from with Yahweh, so that he might raise up his word, which Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

16And all of Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, and the people answered the king {with} a word, saying, “What portion {is} to us in David? And no inheritance in the son of Jesse! To your tents, Israel! Now see your house, David.” And Israel went to its tents.

17(But the sons of Israel, the ones dwelling in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.) 18And King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who {was} over the forced labor, but all of Israel stoned him {with} stone, and he died. And King Rehoboam strengthened himself to go up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. 19And Israel has rebelled against the house of David to this day. 20And it happened, when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and they made him reign over all of Israel. One was not after the house of David except the tribe of Judah by itself.

21And Rehoboam entered Jerusalem, and he assembled all of the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen makers of war, to fight with the house of Israel to return the kingdom to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. 22But the word of God was to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 23“Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Judah, and to all of the house of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people, saying, 24‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not go up and you shall not fight with your brothers, the sons of Israel. Return, a man to his house, for this thing has been from with me.”’” And they heard the word of Yahweh, and they returned to go, according to the word of Yahweh.

25And Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he dwelled in it. And he went out from there, and he built Penuel. 26And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. 27If this people goes up to make sacrifices in the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their master, to Rehoboam, the king of Judah. And they will kill me, and they will return to Rehoboam, the king of Judah.” 28And the king consulted, and he made two calves of gold. And he said to them, “Going up to Jerusalem {is} too much for you. Behold your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!” 29And he set one in Bethel, and he put one in Dan. 30And this thing became a sin, and the people went to the face of the one as far as Dan. 31And he made a house of high places. And he made priests from the extremities of the people, who were not from the sons of Levi. 32And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that {was} in Judah, and he offered on the altar. Thus he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he stationed at Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 33And he offered on the altar that he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised by himself. And he made a festival for the sons of Israel, and he offered on the altar to burn incense.

131And behold, a man of God came from Judah by the word of Yahweh to Bethel. And Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. 2And he cried out against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said: “Altar! Altar! Thus says Yahweh, ‘Behold, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah {will be} his name. And he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places, the ones burning incense on you. And they will burn the bones of a human on you.’” 3And he gave a sign on that day, saying, “This {is} the sign that Yahweh has spoken, ‘Behold, the altar will be split open, and the ash that {is} on it will be poured out.’” 4And it happened, when the king heard the word of the man of God that he had cried out against the altar at Bethel, that Jeroboam stretched out his hand from over the altar, saying, “Seize him!” And his hand that he had stretched out against him dried up, and he was not able to bring it back to himself. 5And the altar was split open, and the ash was poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh. 6And the king answered and said to the man of God, “Entreat, please, the face of Yahweh your God and pray for me, that my hand may return to me.” And the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, and it became like at the first. 7And the king spoke to the man of God, “Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, and I will give a gift to you.” 8But the man of God said to the king, “If you gave half of your house to me, I would not come with you, and I would not eat bread and I would not drink water in this place. 9For thus he has commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water, and you shall not return by the road {by} which you went.’” 10And he went by another road, and he did not return by the road {by} which he had come to Bethel.

11Now an old prophet was dwelling in Bethel, and his son came, and he recounted to him all of the deed that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. The words that he had spoken to the king, also they recounted them to their father. 12And their father spoke to them, “Where {is} this, the road he walked?” Now his sons had seen the road that the man of God had walked who had come from Judah. 13And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted on it. 14And he went after the man of God, and he found him sitting under the oak tree. And he said to him, “{Are} you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I {am}.” 15And he said to him, “Go with me to the house and eat bread.” 16And he said, “I am not able to return with you or to come with you. And I will not eat bread and I will not drink water with you in this place. 17For a word {was} to me by the word of Yahweh, ‘You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water there. You shall not return to go by the road by which you went.’” 18And he said to him, “I also {am} a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.) 19And he returned with him, and he ate bread in his house and drank water.

20And it happened, {as} they were sitting at the table, that the word of Yahweh {was} to the prophet who had brought him back. 21And he cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh and you have not kept the command that Yahweh your God commanded you, 22and you have returned and you have eaten bread and you have drunk water in the place {about} which he spoke to you, “You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water,” your corpse shall not enter into the grave of your fathers.’” 23And it happened after his eating bread and after his drinking that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet, him whom he had brought back. 24And he went, and a lion found him in the road, and it killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse. 25And behold, men were passing by, and they saw the corpse thrown in the road and the lion standing beside the corpse. And they came and spoke in the city in which the old prophet was dwelling.

26And the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard, and he said, “He is the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh. And Yahweh gave him to the lion, and it tore him apart and killed him, according to the word of Yahweh that he spoke to him.” 27And he spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it. 28And he went, and he found the corpse thrown in the road and the donkey and the lion standing beside the corpse. The lion had not eaten the corpse, and it had not torn apart the donkey. 29And the prophet lifted up the corpse of the man of God, and he laid it on the donkey, and he brought it back. And he entered into the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him. 30And he laid his corpse in his grave. And they mourned over him, “Alas, my brother!” 31And it happened after his burying him that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I die, then you shall bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. 32For the word that he cried out by the word of Yahweh against the altar that {is} in Bethel and against all of the houses of the high places that {are} in the cities of Samaria, happening, it will happen.”

33After this matter Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but he returned and made priests of the high places from the extremities of the people. The one desiring, he would fill his hand, and he became priests of the high places. 34And it became in this thing a sin of the house of Jeroboam, both to annihilate and to destroy from upon the face of the ground.

141At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became sick. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, please, and change yourself, so they will not know that you {are} the wife of Jeroboam. And you shall go {to} Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet {is} there. He, he spoke about me as king over this people. 3And you shall take in your hand ten {loaves of} bread and cakes and a jar of honey, and you shall go to him. He, he will declare to you what will happen to the boy.” 4And the wife of Jeroboam did thus. And she arose and went {to} Shiloh, and she entered the house of Ahijah. (Now Ahijah was not able to see, for his eyes had set because of his age.) 5And Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is sick. Like this and like this you shall speak to her. And it will happen when she comes that she will be disguising herself.”

6And it happened, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming into the entrance, that he said, “Enter, wife of Jeroboam. Why is this, you are disguising yourself? Now I have been sent to you harshly. 7Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Because I raised you up from the midst of the people and made you a leader over my people Israel, 8and I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and I gave it to you, but you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who walked after me with all of his heart, to do only the right in my eyes, 9and you have been evil to do more than all who were to your face, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to anger me, and you have thrown me behind your back, 10therefore, behold me, bringing harm to the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam one pissing against a wall, one restrained and one set free in Israel. And I will burn after the house of Jeroboam, just as dung burns until the finishing of it. 11The one to Jeroboam dying in the city, dogs will eat, and the one dying in the field, birds of the sky will eat.” For Yahweh has spoken.’ 12Now you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, then the child will die. 13And all of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. For this {one} alone from Jeroboam will enter into a grave, because a good thing was found in him for Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14And Yahweh by himself will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. But what, even now! 15And Yahweh will strike Israel, just as a reed sways in the waters, and he will uproot Israel from upon this good ground that he gave to their fathers. And he will scatter them beyond the River because they made their Asherahs, provoking Yahweh. 16And he will give Israel up on account of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he caused Israel to sin.”

17And the wife of Jeroboam arose and went, and she came to Tirzah. She was entering at the threshold of the house, and the boy died. 18And they buried him, and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19Now the rest of the matters of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold them, written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel. 20And the days that Jeroboam reigned were 22 years. And he lay down with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

21Now Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam {was} a son of 41 years when he became king. And he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name there from all of the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22And Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. And they made him jealous more than all that their fathers had done by their sins that they sinned. 23And they built for themselves, they also, high places and pillars and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree. 24And also a cultic prostitute was in the land. They did according to all of the abominations of the nations that Yahweh had dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel.

25And it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26And he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh and the treasures of the house of the king. And he took everything. And he took all of the shields of gold that Solomon had made. 27And King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and he committed them to the hand of the commanders of the runners, the ones keeping the entrance of the house of the king. 28And it happened that whenever the king entered the house of Yahweh, the runners bore them, and they brought them back to the chamber of the runners.

29Now the rest of the matters of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah? 30And war was between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all of the days. 31And Rehoboam lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the City of David. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.

151Now in the year of 18 to King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam reigned over Judah. 2He reigned three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom. 3And he walked in all of the sins of his father that he had done to his face. And his heart was not complete with Yahweh his God like the heart of David his father. 4But for the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave to him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him, and by making Jerusalem stand, 5because David had done right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he had not turned from all that he had commanded him all of the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 6And war was between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all of the days of his life.

7Now the rest of the matters of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah? And war was between Abijam and between Jeroboam. 8And Abijam lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.

9Now in the year of 20 to Jeroboam, the king of Israel, Asa reigned {as} the king of Judah. 10And he reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 11And Asa did right in the eyes of Yahweh like David his father. 12And he made the cultic prostitutes pass over from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his fathers had made. 13And also Maacah his mother, he removed her from {being} queen mother because she had made a horror for Asherah. And Asa cut down her horror, and he burned {it} in the wadi of Kidron. 14But they did not remove the high places. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was complete with Yahweh all of his days. 15And he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things {into} the house of Yahweh, silver and gold and vessels.

16And war was between Asa and between Baasha, the king of Israel, all of their days. 17And Baasha, the king of Israel, went up against Judah, and he built Ramah so as not to give going out or coming in to Asa, the king of Judah. 18And Asa took all of the silver and the gold remaining in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh and the storerooms of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, the dweller in Damascus, saying, 19“A covenant between me and between you, between my father and between your father. Behold, I have sent to you a gift of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha, the king of Israel, that he may go up from against me.” 20And Ben Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of the armies that {were} to him against the cities of Israel. And he struck Ijon and Dan and Abel Beth Maacah and all of Chinnereth, with all of the land of Naphtali. 21And it happened, when Baasha heard, that he ceased from building Ramah, and he dwelled in Tirzah. 22And King Asa made all of Judah hear. None {was} exempt. And they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood, {with} which Baasha had been building. And with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

23Now the rest of all of the matters of Asa and all of his might and all that he did and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah? (But in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.) 24And Asa lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

25Now Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel in year two of Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned over Israel two years. 26And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. And he walked in the way of his father and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin. 27And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, from the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which {is} to the Philistines. Now Nadab and all of Israel were besieging against Gibbethon. 28And Baasha killed him in year three of Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned in his place. 29And it happened when he reigned {that} he struck all of the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave any breathing one to Jeroboam, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the Shilonite 30because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation {by} which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel.

31Now the rest of the matters of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel? 32And war was between Asa and between Baasha, the king of Israel, all of their days.

33In year three of Asa the king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, reigned over all of Israel in Tirzah 24 years. 34And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. And he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin.

161And the word of Yahweh was to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying, 2“Because I raised you from the dust and made you the leader over my people Israel, but you walked in the way of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin, provoking me by their sins, 3behold me, burning after Baasha and after his house. And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 4The one to Baasha dying in the city, dogs will eat, and the one to him dying in the field, birds of the sky will eat.”

5Now the rest of the matters of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel? 6And Baasha lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son reigned in his place. 7And also by the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, the word of Yahweh was to Baasha and to his house and against all of the evil that he had done in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam and because he had struck him.

8In the year of 26, the year to Asa, the king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha reigned over Israel in Tirzah, two years. 9And his servant Zimri, the commander of half of the chariotry, conspired against him. Now he {was} in Tirzah, drinking drunk {in} the house of Arza, who {was} over the house in Tirzah. 10And Zimri entered, and he struck him and killed him, in the year of 27 to Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned in his place. 11And it happened that when he reigned, as soon as he sat on his throne, he struck all of the house of Baasha. He did not leave to him one pissing against a wall, both his kinsmen and his friend. 12And Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet 13concerning all of the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son that they sinned, and because they caused Israel to sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, with their vapors. 14Now the rest of the matters of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel?

15In the year of 27, the year to Asa, the king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people {were} camping against Gibbethon, which {was} to the Philistines. 16And the people camping heard, saying, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck the king!” And all of Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, reign over Israel on that day in the camp. 17And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all of Israel with him, and they besieged against Tirzah. 18And it happened, when Zimri saw that the city had been taken, that he entered into the citadel of the house of the king. And he burned the house of the king over himself with fire, and he died, 19because of his sin that he sinned by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, by walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin that he did, causing Israel to sin. 20Now the rest of the matters of Zimri and his conspiracy that he conspired, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel?

21Then the people of Israel were divided in half. Half of the people were behind Tibni, the son of Ginath, to make him reign, and half {were} behind Omri. 22And the people who {were} behind Omri prevailed against the people who {were} behind Tibni, the son of Ginath. And Tibni died, and Omri reigned. 23In the year of 31, the year to Asa, the king of Judah, Omri reigned over Israel 12 years. In Tirzah he reigned six years. 24Then he bought the hill {of} Samaria from Shemer for two silver kikkars. And he built on the hill, and he called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill. 25And Omri did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he did evil more than all who {were} to his face. 26And he walked in all of the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and in his sins {by} which he caused Israel to sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, with their vapors. 27Now the rest of the matters of Omri, what he did and his might that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel? 28And Omri lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son reigned in his place.

29Now Ahab, the son of Omri, reigned over Israel in the year of 38, the year of Asa, the king of Judah. And Ahab, the son of Omri, reigned over Israel in Samaria 22 years. 30And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, more than all who {were} to his face. 31And it happened (was his walking in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, trivial?) that he took a wife, Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Sidonians. And he went and served Baal, and he bowed down to him. 32And he set up an altar for Baal {in} the house of Baal that he built in Samaria. 33And Ahab made an Asherah, and Ahab added to do to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, more than all of the kings of Israel who were to his face. 34In his days, Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. By Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it, and by Segub, his youngest, he set up its doors, according to the word of Yahweh that he spoke by the hand of Joshua, the son of Nun.

171Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Tishbites of Gilead, said to Ahab, “The life of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whose face I stand, if there will be dew or rain these years except by the mouth of my word.” 2And the word of Yahweh was to him, saying, 3“Go from here and turn for yourself eastward, and you shall hide yourself at the wadi of Cherith, which {is} on the face of the Jordan. 4And it will happen that you shall drink from the wadi. And I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there.” 5And he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. And he went and dwelled at the wadi of Cherith, which {is} on the face of the Jordan. 6And the ravens were bringing bread and meat to him in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening. And he drank from the wadi. 7And it happened, at the end of some days, that the wadi dried up because no rain was in the land.

8And the word of Yahweh was to him, saying, 9“Arise, go to Zarephath, which {is} to Sidon, and you shall dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a woman, a widow, there to sustain you.” 10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And he came to the entrance of the city, and behold, a woman, a widow, {was} there, gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please take to me a little water in a vessel, and I shall drink.” 11And she went to take, and he called to her and said, “Please take to me a piece of bread in your hand.” 12And she said, “The life of Yahweh your God, if {there} is to me a bread-cake, but only the fullness of a palm of flour in a jar and a little bit of oil in a jug. And behold me, gathering two sticks, and I will enter, and I will make it for me and for my son, and we will eat it, and we will die.” 13And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear. Come, do according to your word, only first make for me from there a little bread-cake and bring it out to me. And make for yourself and for your son afterward. 14For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour will not finish, and the jug of oil will not lack, up to the day Yahweh gives rain on the face of the ground.’” 15And she went and did according to the word of Elijah. And she ate, he and she and her house, {for} days. 16The jar of flour did not finish, and the jug of oil did not lack, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of Elijah.

17And it happened after these things {that} the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick, and his sickness became very strong until breath did not remain in him. 18And she said to Elijah, “What to me and to you, man of God? Did you come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to kill my son?” 19And he said to her, “Give your son to me.” And he took him from her lap, and he brought him up to the upper room where he was dwelling there, and he laid him down on his bed. 20And he cried out to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, have you even brought harm upon the widow with whom I am sojourning, by killing her son?” 21And he stretched himself out over the child three times. And he called out to Yahweh and said, “Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return into his midst.” 22And Yahweh heard the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child returned into his midst, and he lived. 23And Elijah took the child, and he brought him down from the upper room to the house, and he gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.” 24And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know this, that you {are} a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth {is} truth.”

181And it was many days, and the word of Yahweh was to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will give rain on the face of the ground.” 2So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. (Now the famine {was} strong in Samaria.) 3And Ahab called to Obadiah, who {was} over the house. (Now Obadiah was fearing Yahweh greatly. 4Now it had happened, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah had taken 100 prophets and hidden them, 50 men in the cave, and he had sustained them {with} bread and water.) 5And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all of the springs of water and to all of the wadis. Perhaps we will find grass, and we will keep alive a horse or a mule, and we will not cut off from the cattle.” 6And they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went in one way by himself, and Obadiah went in one way by himself.

7And it happened that Obadiah {was} on the road, and behold, Elijah met him. And he recognized him, and he fell on his face and said, “{Is} this you, my lord Elijah?” 8And he said to him, “{It is} I. Go, say to your master, ‘Behold, Elijah.’” 9And he said, “How have I sinned, that you are putting your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me? 10The life of Yahweh your God, if {there} is a nation or a kingdom where my master has not sent to seek you there. If they said ‘Not,’ then he made the kingdom or the nation swear that it had not found you. 11And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah.”’ 12And it will happen that I, I will go from with you, and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you to where I do not know. And I will come to declare to Ahab, but he will not find you, and he will kill me. But your servant {has been} fearing Yahweh from my youth. 13Has it not been declared to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, that I hid 100 men from the prophets of Yahweh, 50, 50 men in the cave, and I sustained them with bread and water? 14And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah,”’ and he will kill me.” 15And Elijah said, “The life of Yahweh of Armies, to whose face I stand, surely today I will show myself to him.”

16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and he declared to him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17And it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, “{Is} this you, one troubling Israel?” 18And he said, “I have not troubled Israel, but rather you and the house of your father, by your forsaking the commandments of Yahweh and going after the Baals. 19And now, send, gather to me all of Israel to Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, eaters at the table of Jezebel.”

20And Ahab sent among all of the sons of Israel, and he gathered the prophets to Mount Carmel. 21And Elijah approached to all of the people, and he said, “Until when {will} you {be} limping on two opinions? If Yahweh {is} God, go after him, but if Baal, go after him.” But the people did not answer him a word. 22And Elijah said to the people, “I, I remain a prophet of Yahweh by myself, but the prophets of Baal {are} 450 men. 23Now let them give two bulls to us, and let them choose for themselves one bull, and let them cut it up. And let them set {it} on the wood, but let them not set a fire. And I, I will prepare one bull, and I will put {it} on the wood, but I will not set a fire. 24And you will call on the name of your god, and I, I will call on the name of Yahweh. And it will happen that the God who answers with fire, he {is} God.” And all of the people answered and said, “The word {is} good.”

25And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull, and prepare {it} first, for you are many. And call on the name of your god, but you shall not set a fire.” 26And they took the bull that one gave to them, and they prepared, and they called on the name of Baal from morning and to midday, saying, “Baal, answer us!” But {there was} no voice, and {there was} no answering. And they limped beside the altar that one had made. 27And it happened at midday that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a great voice, for he is a god. Surely {he is in} contemplation, or surely {he has} a withdrawal for himself, or surely a way {is} to him. Perhaps he {is} asleep and he will awaken.” 28And they called out with a great voice, and they cut themselves, according to their custom, with swords and with spears until a pouring of blood {was} on them. 29And it happened, when midday passed, that they prophesied until the offering of the grain offering. But {there was} no voice, and {there was} no answering, and there was no attention.

30And Elijah said to all of the people, “Come near to me.” And all of the people came near to him. And he repaired the broken-down altar of Yahweh. 31And Elijah took 12 stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh had been, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” 32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. And he made a trench around the altar like the house of two seahs {of} seed. 33And he arranged the wood, and he cut up the bull, and he set {it} on the wood. 34And he said, “Fill four jars {with} water, and pour {it} on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do a second time,” and they did a second time. And he said, “Do a third time,” and they did a third time. 35And the water went around the altar, and it even filled the trench with water. 36And it happened at the offering of the grain offering that Elijah the prophet came near, and he said, “Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and I {am} your servant and by your word I have done all these things. 37Answer me, Yahweh! Answer me so that this people may know that you, Yahweh, {are} God, and you, you have turned their heart back.” 38And the fire of Yahweh fell, and it consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust. And it licked up the water that {was} in the trench. 39And all of the people saw, and they fell on their faces. And they said, “Yahweh, he {is} God! Yahweh, he {is} God!” 40And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a man from them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah led them down to the wadi Kishon, and he slaughtered them there.

41And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for {there is} the sound of the roar of a shower.” 42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the head of Carmel, and he bowed down to the ground, and he put his face between his knees. 43And he said to his servant, “Go up, please, look the way of the sea.” And he went up, and he looked, and he said, “{There is} not anything.” And he said, “Return,” seven times. 44And it happened on the seventh time that he said, “Behold, a small cloud like the palm of a man is coming up from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Harness and go down so the rain does not stop you.’” 45And it happened to thus and to thus that the heavens darkened {with} clouds and wind, and {there} was a great shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 46And the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and he ran to the face of Ahab to your coming {to} Jezreel.

191And Ahab declared to Jezebel all that Elijah had done and all that he had killed all of the prophets with the sword. 2And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “Thus may the gods do, and thus may they add, unless about {this} time tomorrow I make your life like the life of one of them.” 3And he saw, and he arose and went for his life, and he came {to} Beersheba, which is to Judah. And he made his servant stay there. 4And he, he went the journey of a day into the wilderness, and he came and sat under a juniper tree. And he asked, {regarding} his life, to die, and he said, “Enough! Take my life now, Yahweh, for I am not better than my fathers.” 5And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree. And behold this, an angel was touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat!” 6And he looked, and behold, by his head {was} a bread-cake of hot stones and a jug of water. And he ate and drank, and he returned and lay down. 7And the angel of Yahweh returned a second time, and he touched him and said, “Arise, eat! For the journey {will be} too much for you.” 8So he arose, and he ate and drank. And he went in the strength of that food 40 days and 40 nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.

9And he entered into a cave there, and he lodged there. And behold, the word of Yahweh was to him, and he said to him, “What to you here, Elijah?” 10And he said, “Being jealous, I have been jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies, for the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant, they have torn down your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. And I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.” 11And he said, “Go out, and you shall stand on the mountain to the face of Yahweh.” And behold, Yahweh was passing over, and a great and strong wind was tearing the mountains and breaking rocks to the face of Yahweh. Yahweh {was} not in the wind. And after the wind, {there was} an earthquake. Yahweh {was} not in the earthquake. 12And after the earthquake, {there was} a fire. Yahweh {was} not in the fire. And after the fire, {there was} a voice of small stillness. 13And it happened when Elijah heard that he wrapped his face in his cloak. And he went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice {was} to him, and it said, “What to you here, Elijah?” 14And he said, “Being jealous, I have been jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies, for the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant, they have torn down your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. And I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.”

15And Yahweh said to him, “Go, return to your way toward the wilderness of Damascus. And you shall come and anoint Hazael as king over Aram. 16And you shall anoint Jehu, the son of Nimshi, as king over Israel. And you shall anoint Elisha, the son of Shaphat, from Abel Meholah, as prophet in your place. 17And it will happen that the one escaping from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill. And the one escaping from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. 18But I will leave in Israel 7,000, all of the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

19And he went from there, and he found Elisha, the son of Shaphat. And he was plowing {with} 12 pairs to his face, and he was with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him, and he threw his cloak on him. 20And he left the oxen, and he ran after Elijah, and he said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then let me go after you.” And he said to him, “Go, return, for what have I done to you?” 21And he returned from after him. And he took the pair of oxen, and he sacrificed it. And with the equipment of the oxen he boiled them, the flesh. And he gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and he served him.

201Now Ben Hadad, the king of Aram, gathered all of his army, and 32 kings with him, and horse and chariot. And he went up and besieged against Samaria, and he fought with it. 2And he sent messengers to Ahab, the king of Israel, at the city, 3and he said to him, “Thus says Ben Hadad, ‘Your silver and your gold, it {is} to me, and your wives and your sons, the best ones, they {are} to me.’” 4And the king of Israel answered and said, “According to your word, my lord the king, I and all that {is} to me {are} to you.” 5And the messengers returned and said, “Thus says Ben Hadad, saying, ‘Indeed I sent to you, saying, “Your silver and your gold and your wives and your sons, you shall give to me,” 6but rather, around {this} time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants. And it will happen, every desire of your eyes, they will put in their hand and take away.’”

7And the king of Israel called to all of the elders of the land. And he said, “Please know and see that this one is seeking harm, for he sent to me for my wives and for my sons and for my silver and for my gold, and I did not withhold from him.” 8And all of the elders and all of the people said to him, “Do not hear and do not consent.” 9And he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Say to my lord the king, ‘All that you sent to your servant at first, I will do, but this thing I am not able to do.’” And the messengers went and returned him word. 10And Ben Hadad sent to him and said, “Thus may the gods do to me, and thus may they add, if the dust of Samaria is enough for handfuls for all of the people who {are} at my feet!” 11And the king of Israel answered and said, “Tell {him}, ‘Let one girding not boast like one ungirding.’” 12And it happened when he heard this word (and he was drinking, he and the kings, in huts), that he said to his servants, “Set!” And they set against the city.

13And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab, the king of Israel, and he said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Have you seen all of this great multitude? Behold me, giving it into your hand today, and you will know that I {am} Yahweh.’” 14And Ahab said, “By whom?” And he said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘By the servants of the leaders of the districts.’” And he said, “Who will bind the battle?” And he said, “You.” 15And he mustered the servants of the leaders of the districts, and they were 232. And after them he mustered all of the people. All of the sons of Israel {were} 7,000.

16And they went out at midday. (Now Ben Hadad was drinking drunk in the huts, he and the kings, 32 kings who helped him.) 17And the servants of the leaders of the districts went out at first. And Ben Hadad sent, and they declared to him, saying, “Men have gone out from Samaria.” 18And he said, “If they have gone out for peace, seize them alive, and if they have gone out for battle, seize them alive.” 19And these went out from the city, the servants of the leaders of the districts, and the army that was behind them. 20And they struck, a man his man. And Aram fled, and Israel pursued them. And Ben Hadad, the king of Aram, escaped on a horse with the horsemen. 21And the king of Israel went out, and he struck the horse and the chariot. And he struck Aram a great striking.

22And the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and know and see what you shall do, because at the return of the year the king of Aram will be coming up against you.” 23And the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods {are} gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than us. But indeed, we shall fight them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than them. 24And do this thing: remove the kings, a man from his place, and appoint captains instead of them. 25And you, you shall muster for yourself an army like the army having fallen from with you, and a horse like the horse and a chariot like the chariot, and we will fight them in the plain. Surely will we be stronger than them.” And he listened to their voice and did so.

26And it happened at the return of the year that Ben Hadad mustered Aram. And he went up to Aphek for battle with Israel. 27And the sons of Israel were mustered and were sustained, and they went to meet them. And the sons of Israel camped in front of them like two little flocks of goats, but Aram filled the land. 28And a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because Aram has said, “Yahweh {is} a god of the hills, but he {is} not a god of the valleys,” I will give all of this great multitude into your hand, and you will know that I {am} Yahweh.’” 29And they camped, these opposite these, seven days. And it happened on the seventh day that the battle approached, and the sons of Israel struck Aram, 100,000 foot soldiers in one day. 30And the remaining ones fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell on 27,000 remaining men. And Ben Hadad fled and entered into the city, a chamber in a chamber.

31And his servants said to him, “Behold, please, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel, that they {are} kings of mercy. Please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and we will go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will let your soul live.” 32And they girded sackcloth on their waists and ropes on their heads, and they came to the king of Israel. And they said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let my soul live.’” And he said, “{Is} he still alive? He {is} my brother.” 33And the men were observing signs, and they hastened and caught the {thing} from him. And they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.” And he said, “Come, bring him!” And Ben Hadad came out to him, and he brought him up onto the chariot. 34And he said to him, “I will return the cities that my father took from your father, and you may establish marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, just as my father established in Samaria.” “And I, I will send you away with a covenant.” And he cut a covenant with him, and he sent him away.

35And a man from the sons of the prophets said to his fellow, “By the word of Yahweh, strike me, please.” But the man refused to strike him. 36And he said to him, “Because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, behold you, going from with me, and a lion will strike you.” And he went from beside him, and a lion found him and struck him. 37And he found a man and said, “Strike me, please.” And the man struck him, striking and wounding. 38And the prophet went, and he stood on the road for the king. And he disguised himself with a covering over his eyes. 39And it happened that the king was passing by, and he, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle, and behold, a man turned and brought a man to me. And he said, ‘Guard this man. If missing, he is missing, then your life will be in place of his life, or you shall pay a kikkar of silver.’ 40And it happened that your servant was doing here and there, and he {was} not {there}.” And the king of Israel said to him, “Thus {is} your judgment, you, you have decided.” 41And he hurried and removed the covering from upon his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he {was} from the prophets. 42And he said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have sent away a man of my devotion from {your} hand, so it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’” 43And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and he came to Samaria.

211And it happened after these things {that} a vineyard was to Naboth the Jezreelite that was in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab, the king of Samaria. 2And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give your vineyard to me, and it will be to me for a garden of vegetables, for it is near beside my house. And let me give to you in its place a better vineyard than it. If it is good in your eyes, let me give to you silver of the price of this.” 3And Naboth said to Ahab, “Profane to me from Yahweh, from my giving the inheritance of my fathers to you!” 4And Ahab entered into his house sullen and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed, and he turned his face away, and he did not eat bread.

5And Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “What is this? Your spirit {is} sullen, and you are not eating bread!” 6And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, ‘Give your vineyard to me for silver or, if you are desiring, let me give a vineyard to you in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give my vineyard to you.’” 7And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Now you, you do the kingship over Israel. Get up, eat bread, and let your heart be good! I, I will give to you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” 8And she wrote letters in the name of Ahab, and she sealed {them} with his seal. And she sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who {were} in his city, the dwellers with Naboth. 9And she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the people. 10And seat two men, sons of wickedness, in front of him, and let them witness against him, saying, ‘You blessed God and the king.’ And take him out and stone him, and may he die.”

11And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who were dwelling in his city, did just as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the letters that she sent to them. 12They proclaimed a fast, and they seated Naboth at the head of the people. 13And the two men came, the sons of wickedness, and they sat in front of him, and the men of wickedness witnessed against Naboth in front of the people, saying, “Naboth blessed God and the king.” And they brought him to the outside of the city, and they stoned him with stones, and he died. 14And they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and he has died.” 15And it happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and had died, that Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise! Possess the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to give to you for silver, for Naboth {is} not alive, but he is dead!” 16And it happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth had died, that Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to possess it.

17And the word of Yahweh was to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 18“Arise! Go down to meet Ahab, the king of Israel, who {is} in Samaria. Behold, {he is} in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down there to possess it. 19And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick your blood, even you.”’” 20And Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” And he said, “I have found {you} because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh. 21‘Behold me, bringing harm on you, and I will burn after you, and I will cut off from Ahab one pissing against a wall, both one restrained and one set free in Israel. 22And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation {by} which you have provoked {me}, and you have caused Israel to sin.’ 23And also about Jezebel Yahweh has spoken, saying, ‘Dogs will eat Jezebel at the rampart of Jezreel.’ 24The one to Ahab dying in the city, dogs will eat, and the one dying in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.” 25Surely one was not like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh, he whom Jezebel his wife incited. 26And he acted very abominably by walking after idols, like all that the Amorite had done, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel.

27And it happened, when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his garments and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and he fasted. And he lay down in sackcloth, and he walked softly. 28And the word of Yahweh was to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 29“Have you seen that Ahab has humbled himself from to my face? Because he has humbled himself from my face, I will not bring harm in his days. In the days of his son, I will bring harm on his house.”

221And they continued three years without war between Aram and between Israel. 2And it happened in the third year that Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went down to the king of Israel. 3And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth Gilead is to us, but we are being silent from taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?” 4And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle {at} Ramoth Gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Like me, like you. Like my people, like your people. Like my horses, like your horses.”

5And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please seek as today the word of Yahweh.” 6And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about 400 men, and he said to them, “Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give {it} into the hand of the king.” 7And Jehoshaphat said, “{Is} no prophet of Yahweh still here, that we may seek from him?” 8And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “{There is} still one man for seeking Yahweh from him, but I, I hate him because he does not prophesy good about me, but rather evil, Micaiah, the son of Imlah.” And Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not say thus.” 9So the king of Israel called to a eunuch and said, “Hasten Micaiah, the son of Imlah.” 10Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were sitting, a man on his throne, clothed {in} robes, by the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all of the prophets were prophesying to their faces. 11And Zedekiah, the son of Kenaanah, made horns of iron for himself, and he said, “Thus says Yahweh: ‘With these you will gore Aram until their finishing.’” 12And all of the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, “Go up {to} Ramoth Gilead and prosper, for Yahweh will give {it} into the hand of the king.”

13And the messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, please, the words of the prophets {with} one mouth {are} good for the king. Please let your word be like the word of one from them, and speak good.” 14And Micaiah said, “The life of Yahweh, surely what Yahweh says to me, I will speak it.” 15And he came to the king, and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead for battle, or shall we refrain?” And he said to him, “Go up and prosper, for Yahweh will give {it} into the hand of the king.” 16And the king said to him, “Up to how many times have I been making you swear that you would not speak about me except truth in the name of Yahweh?” 17And he said, “I saw all of Israel scattered on the hills like a flock when no shepherd is to them. And Yahweh said, ‘No masters {are} to these. Let them return, a man to his house, in peace.’” 18And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not say to you, ‘He will not prophesy good about me, but rather evil’?” 19And he said, “Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and the whole army of the heavens was standing beside him on his right and on his left. 20And Yahweh said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab so that he may go up and fall {at} Ramoth Gilead?’ And this {one} said, ‘By thus,’ while that {one} was saying, ‘By thus.’ 21Then a spirit came out and stood to the face of Yahweh. And he said, ‘I, I will deceive {him}.’ And Yahweh said to him, ‘By what?’ 22And he said, ‘I will go out and be a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all of his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You will deceive and also you will be able. Go out and do thus.’ 23And now, behold, Yahweh has put a spirit of falsehood into the mouth of all of these your prophets. For Yahweh has spoken harm against you.”

24And Zedekiah, the son of Kenaanah, approached and struck Micaiah on the cheek. And he said, “What {is} this, the Spirit of Yahweh has passed over from with me to speak to you?” 25And Micaiah said, “Behold you, seeing on that day when you enter a chamber in a chamber to hide yourself.” 26And the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and bring him back to Amon, the commander of the city, and to Joash, the son of the king. 27And you shall say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this {one} in the house of imprisonment and feed him bread of affliction and water of affliction until my coming in peace.”’” 28And Micaiah said, “If returning, you return in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Listen, peoples, all of them!”

29And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up {to} Ramoth Gilead. 30And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and come into the battle, but you, wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself, and he came into the battle. 31Now the king of Aram had commanded the 32 commanders of the chariotry that was to him, saying, “You shall not fight with small or with great except with the king of Israel alone.” 32And it happened, when the commanders of the chariotry saw Jehoshaphat, that they, they said, “Surely he {is} the king of Israel!” And they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33And it happened, when the commanders of the chariotry saw that he {was} not the king of Israel, that they turned back from after him. 34But a man drew with the bow in his innocence, and he struck the king of Israel between the joints and between the armor. And he said to his charioteer, “Turn your hand and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded.” 35And the battle went up on that day, and the king was propped up in the chariot opposite Aram. And he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound poured out onto the bosom of the chariot. 36And a cry passed through in the camp about the going of the sun, saying, “A man to his city, and a man to his land!”

37And the king died, and he came to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria. 38And one washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria. And dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes bathed {there}), according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken. 39Now the rest of the matters of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all of the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel? 40And Ahab lay down with his fathers. And Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

41And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, reigned over Judah in year four of Ahab, the king of Israel. 42Jehoshaphat {was} a son of 35 years when he reigned, and he reigned 25 years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi. 43And he walked in every way of Asa his father, he did not turn from it, doing right in the eyes of Yahweh. However, they did not remove the high places. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense at the high places. 44And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

45Now the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, and his mighty things that he did and how he fought, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah? 46And the rest of the cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land. 47And no king {was} in Edom. A deputy was king. 48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but he did not go, because the ships were broken at Ezion Geber. 49Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat was not willing. 50And Jehoshaphat lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. And Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, reigned over Israel in Samaria in year 17 of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah. And he reigned over Israel two years. 52And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. And he walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 53And he served Baal, and he bowed down to him. And he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.