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 Chapter 1
1:1 And king David was old and
advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.
2 And his servants said, Let them
seek for the king a young virgin, and she shall wait on the king, and cherish
him, and lie with him, and my lord the king shall be warmed.
3 So they sought for a fair damsel out of
all the coasts of Israel; and they found Abisag the Somanite, and they brought
her to the king. 4 And the damsel
was extremely beautiful, and she cherished the king, and ministered to him, but
the king knew her not.
5 And Adonias the son of Aggith exalted
himself, saying, I will be king; and he prepared for himself chariots and
horses, and fifty men to run before him. 6
And his father never at any time checked him, saying, Why hast
thou done thus? and he was also very handsome in appearance, and his
mother bore him after Abessalom. 7
And he conferred with Joab the son of Saruia, and with Abiathar the priest, and
they followed after Adonias. 8 But
Sadoc the priest, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and Nathan the prophet, and
Semei, and Resi, and the mighty men of David, did not follow Adonias.
9 And Adonias sacrificed sheep and calves
and lambs by the stone of Zoelethi, which was near Rogel: and he called all his
brethren, and all the adult men of Juda, servants of the king.
10 But Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas, and
the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he did not call.
11 And Nathan spoke to Bersabee the
mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonias the son of Aggith
reigns, and our lord David knows it not? 12
And now come, let me, I pray, give thee counsel, and thou shalt
rescue thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon. 13
Haste, and go in to king David, and thou shalt speak to
him, saying, Hast not thou, my lord, O king, sworn to thine handmaid, saying,
Thy son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then
does Adonias reign? 14 And behold,
while thou art still speaking there with the king, I also will come in after
thee, and will confirm thy words.
15 So Bersabee went in to the king into
the chamber: and the king was very old, and Abisag the Somanite was ministering
to the king. 16 And Bersabee bowed,
and did obeisance to the king; and the king said, What is thy request?
17 And she said, My lord, thou didst swear
by the Lord thy God to thine handmaid, saying, Thy son Solomon shall reign after
me, and shall sit upon my throne. 18
And now, behold, Adonias reigns, and thou, my lord, O king,
knowest it not. 19 And he has
sacrificed calves and lambs and sheep in abundance, and has called all the
king’s sons, and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander-in-chief of the
host; but Solomon thy servant he has not called. 20
And thou, my lord, O king, —the eyes of all Israel are
upon thee, to tell them who shall sit upon the throne of my lord the king after
him. 21 And it shall come to pass,
when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son
shall be offenders.
22 And behold, while she was yet talking
with the king, Nathan the prophet came. And it was reported to the king,
23 Behold, Nathan the prophet is here:
and he came in to the king’s presence, and did obeisance to the king with his
face to the ground. 24 And Nathan
said, My lord, O king, didst thou say, Adonias shall reign after me, and he
shall sit upon my throne? 25 For he
has gone down to-day, and has sacrificed calves and lambs and sheep in
abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, and the chiefs of the army, and
Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and
they said, Long live king Adonias. 26
But he has not invited me thy servant, and Sadoc the priest, and
Banaeas the son of Jodae, and Solomon thy servant. 27
Has this matter happened by the authority of my lord the
king, and hast thou not made known to thy servant who shall sit upon the throne
of my lord the king after him? 28
And king David answered and said, Call me Bersabee: and she came in before the
king, and stood before him. 29 And
the king swore, and said, As the Lord lives who redeemed my soul out of
all affliction, 30 as I swore to
thee by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Solomon thy son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this day.
31 And Bersabee bowed with her face to the
ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for
ever.
32 And king David said, Call me Sadoc
the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae: and they came
in before the king. 33 And the king
said to them, Take the servants of your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon
upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gion. 34
And there let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
to be king over Israel, and do ye sound the trumpet, and ye shall say, Let king
Solomon live. 35 And he shall sit
upon my throne, and reign in my stead: and I have given charge that he should be
for a prince over Israel and Juda. 36
And Banaeas the son of Jodae answered the king and said, So let
it be: may the Lord God of my lord the king confirm it.
37 As the Lord was with my lord the king,
so let him be with Solomon, and let him exalt his throne beyond the throne of my
lord king David.
38 And Sadoc the priest went down, and
Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the
Phelethite, and they mounted Solomon upon the mule of king David, and led him
away to Gion. 39 And Sadoc the
priest took the horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon, and
blew the trumpet; and all the people said, Let king Solomon live.
40 And all the people went up after him,
and they danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth quaked
with their voice.
41 And Adonias and all his guests heard,
and they had just left off eating: and Joab heard the sound of the
trumpet, and said, What means the voice of the city in tumult?
42 While he was yet speaking, behold,
Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came in: and Adonias said, Come in, for
thou art a mighty man, and thou comest to bring glad tidings.
43 And Jonathan answered and said, Verily
our lord king David has made Solomon king: 44
and the king has sent with him Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Banaeas the son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the Phelethite,
and they have mounted him on the king’s mule; 45
and Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him in
Gion, and have gone up thence rejoicing, and the city resounded: this is
the sound which ye have heard. 46
And Solomon is seated upon the throne of the kingdom. 47
And the servants of the king have gone in to bless our
lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and
make his throne greater than thy throne; and the king worshipped upon his bed.
48 Moreover thus said the king,
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has this day appointed one of my
seed sitting on my throne, and my eyes see it.
49 And all the guests of Adonias were
dismayed, and every man went his way. 50
And Adonias feared because of Solomon, and arose, and departed,
and laid hold on the horns of the altar. 51
And it was reported to Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonias fears
king Solomon, and holds the horns of the altar, saying, Let Solomon swear to me
this day, that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
52 And Solomon said, If he should be a
valiant man, there shall not a hair of his fall to the ground; but if evil be
found in him, he shall die. 53 And
king Solomon sent, and they brought him away from the altar; and he went in and
did obeisance to king Solomon: and Solomon said to him, Go to thy house.
Chapter 2
2:1 And the days of David drew near that
he should die: and he addressed his son Solomon, saying, I go the way of all the
earth: 2 but be thou strong, and
shew thyself a man; 3 and keep the
charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep the commandments and
the ordinances and the judgments which are written in the law of Moses; that
thou mayest understand what thou shalt do in all things that I command thee:
4 that the Lord may confirm his word
which he spoke, saying, If thy children shall take heed to their way to walk
before me in truth with all their heart, I promise thee, saying, there
shall not fail thee a man on the throne of Israel. 5
Moreover thou knowest all that Joab the son of Saruia did
to me, what he did to the two captains of the forces of Israel, to Abenner the
son of Ner, and to Amessai the son of Jether, that he slew them, and shed the
blood of war in peace, and put innocent blood on his girdle that was about his
loins, and on his sandal that was on his foot. 6
Therefore thou shalt deal with him according to thy
wisdom, and thou shalt not bring down his grey hairs in peace to the grave.
7 But thou shalt deal kindly with
the sons of Berzelli the Galaadite, and they shall be among those that eat at
thy table; for thus they drew nigh to me when I fled from the face of thy
brother Abessalom. 8 And, behold,
there is with thee Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he
cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he
came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will
not put thee to death with the sword. 9
But thou shalt by no means hold him guiltless, for thou art a
wise man, and wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and shalt bring down his grey
hairs with blood to the grave.
10 And David slept with his fathers, and
was buried in the city of David. 11
And the days which David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned
seven years in Chebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
12 And Solomon sat on the throne of his
father David, and his kingdom was established greatly. 13
And Adonias the son of Aggith came in to Bersabee the
mother of Solomon, and did obeisance to her: and she said, Dost thou enter
peaceably? and he said, Peaceably: 14
I have business with thee. And she said to him, Say on.
15 And he said to her, Thou knowest that
the kingdom was mine, and all Israel turned their face toward me for a king; but
the kingdom was turned from me and became my brother’s: for it was
appointed to him from the Lord. 16
And now I make one request of thee, do not turn away thy face.
And Bersabee said to him, Speak on. 17
And he said to her, Speak, I pray thee, to king Solomon, for he
will not turn away his face from thee, and let him give me Abisag the Somanite
for a wife. 18 And Bersabee said,
Well; I will speak for thee to the king.
19 And Bersabee went in to king Solomon
to speak to him concerning Adonias; and the king rose up to meet her, and kissed
her, and sat on the throne, and a throne was set for the mother of the king, and
she sat on his right hand. 20 And
she said to him, I ask of thee one little request; turn not away my face from
thee. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject thee.
21 And she said, Let, I pray thee,
Abisag the Somanite be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.
22 And king Solomon answered and said to
his mother, And why hast thou asked Abisag for Adonias? ask for him the kingdom
also; for he is my elder brother, and he has for his companion Abiathar
the priest, and Joab the son of Saruia the commander-in-chief.
23 And king Solomon swore by the Lord,
saying, God do so to me, and more also, if it be not that Adonias has
spoken this word against his own life. 24
And now as the Lord lives who has established me, and set
me on the throne of my father David, and he has made me a house, as the Lord
spoke, this day shall Adonias be put to death. 25
So king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaeas the son of Jodae, and
he slew him, and Adonias died in that day.
26 And the king said to Abiathar the
priest, Depart thou quickly to Anathoth to thy farm, for thou art worthy of
death this day; but I will not slay thee, because thou hast borne the ark of the
covenant of the Lord before my father, and because thou was afflicted in all
things wherein my father was afflicted. 27
And Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest of the Lord,
that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning the
house of Heli in Selom.
28 And the report came to Joab son of
Saruia; for Joab had turned after Adonias, and he went not after Solomon: and
Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold of the horns of the
altar. 29 And it was told Solomon,
saying, Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and lo! he has hold of the
horns of the altar. And king Solomon sent to Joab, saying, What ails thee, that
thou hast fled to the altar? and Joab said, Because I was afraid of thee, and
fled for refuge to the Lord. And Solomon sent Banaeas son of Jodae, saying, Go
and slay him, and bury him.
30 And Banaeas son of Jodae came to Joab
to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth.
And Joab said, I will not come forth, for I will die here. And Banaeas son of
Jodae returned and spoke to the king, saying, Thus has Joab spoken, and thus has
he answered me. 31 And the king said
to him, Go, and do to him as he has spoken, and kill him: and thou shalt bury
him, and thou shalt remove this day the blood which he shed without cause, from
me and from the house of my father. 32
And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his
unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more righteous and better than
himself, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their
blood, even Abenner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and
Amessa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Juda.
33 And their blood is returned upon his head, and upon the
head of his seed for ever: but to David, and his seed, and his house, and his
throne, may there be peace for ever from the Lord. 34
So Banaeas son of Jodae went up, and attacked him, and
slew him, and buried him in his house in the wilderness.
35 And the king appointed Banaeas son of
Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem;
and as for Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in
the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in
Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and
largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.
And the wisdom of Solomon abounded exceedingly beyond the wisdom of all the
ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt: and he took the daughter of
Pharao, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building
his own house, and the house of the Lord first, and the wall of Jerusalem round
about. In seven years he made and finished them.
And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eight thousand
hewers of stone in the mountain: and Solomon made the sea, and the bases, and
the great lavers, and the pillars, and the fountain of the court, and the brazen
sea-and he built the citadel as a defence above it, he made a breach in the wall
of the city of David: thus the daughter of Pharao went up out of the city of
David to her house which he built for her. Then he built the citadel: and
Solomon offered up three whole-burnt-offerings in the year, and peace-offerings
on the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord,
and finished the house. And these are the chief persons who presided over the
works of Solomon; three thousand and six hundred masters of the people that
wrought the works. And he burit Assur, and Magdo, and Gazer, and upper
Baethoron, and Ballath: only after he had built the house of the Lord, and the
wall of Jerusalem round about, afterwards he built these cities.
And when David was yet living, he charged Solomon, saying, Behold, there is
with thee Semei the son of Gera, of the seed of Benjamin out of Chebron: he
cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp; and he
came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, He shall
not be slain with the sword. But now do not thou hold him guiltless, for thou
art a man of understanding, and thou wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and
thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
36 And the king called Semei, and said
to him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go
out thence any whither. 37 And it
shall come to pass in the day that thou shalt go forth and cross over the brook
Kedron, know assuredly that thou shalt certainly die: thy blood shall be upon
thine head. And the king caused him to swear in that day.
38 And Semei said to the king, Good is the word
that thou hast spoken, my lord O king: thus will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt
in Jerusalem three years.
39 And it came to pass after the three
years, that two servants of Semei ran away to Anchus son of Maacha king of Geth:
and it was told Semei, saying, Behold, thy servants are in Geth.
40 And Semei rose up, and saddled his ass,
and went to Geth to Anchus to seek out his servants: and Semei went, and brought
his servants out of Geth. 41 And it
was told Solomon, saying, Semei is gone out of Jerusalem to Geth, and has
brought back his servants. 42 And
the king sent and called Semei, and said to him, Did I not adjure thee by the
Lord, and testify to thee, saying, In whatsoever day thou shalt go out of
Jerusalem, and go to the right or left, know certainly that thou shalt assuredly
die? 43 And why hast thou not kept
the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded thee?
44 And the king said to Semei, Thou
knowest all thy mischief which thy heart knows, which thou didst to David my
father: and the Lord has recompensed thy mischief on thine own head.
45 And king Solomon is
blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
46 And Solomon commanded Banaeas the
son of Jodae, and he went forth and slew him.
And king Solomon was very prudent and wise: and Juda and
Israel were very many, as the sand which is by the sea for multitude,
eating, and drinking, and rejoicing: and Solomon was chief in all the kingdoms,
and they brought gifts, and served Solomon all the days of his life. And Solomon
began to open the domains of Libanus, and he built Thermae in the wilderness.
And this was the daily provision of Solomon, thirty measures of fine flour, and
sixty measures of ground meal, ten choice calves, and twenty oxen from the
pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and does, and choice fed birds.
For he ruled in all the country on this side the river, from Raphi unto Gaza,
over all the kings on this side the river: and he was at peace on all sides
round about; and Juda and Israel dwelt safely, every one under his vine and
under his fig tree, eating and drinand feasting, from Dan even to Bersabee, all
the days of Solomon.
And these were the princes of Solomon; Azariu son of
Sadoc the priest, and Orniu son of Nathan chief of the officers, and he went to
his house; and Suba the scribe, and Basa son of Achithalam recorder, and Abi son
of Joab commander-in-chief, and Achire son of Edrai was over the levies,
and Banaeas son of Jodae over the household and over the brickwork, and Cachur
the son of Nathan was counsellor.
And Solomon had forty thousand brood mares for his chariots,
and twelve thousand horses. And he reigned over all the kings from the river and
to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt: so Solomon the son
of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem.
Chapter 3
3:1 2 Nevertheless the people burnt
incense on the high places, because a house had not yet been built to the Lord.
3 And Solomon loved the Lord, so
as to walk in the ordinances of David his father; only he sacrificed and
burnt incense on the high places. 4
And he arose and went to Gabaon to sacrifice there, for that was the
highest place, and great: Solomon offered a whole-burnt-offering of a thousand
victims on the altar in Gabaon.
5 And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a
dream by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for thyself.
6 And Solomon said, Thou hast dealt
very mercifully with thy servant David my father according as he walked before
thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee, and
thou hast kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as
it is this day. 7 And now, O
Lord my God, thou hast appointed thy servant in the room of David my father; and
I am a little child, and know not my going out an my coming in.
8 But thy servant is in the midst of
thy people, whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered.
9 Thou shalt give therefore to thy
servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people justly, and to discern between
good and evil: for who will be able to judge this thy great people?
10 And it was pleasing before the Lord,
that Solomon asked this thing. 11
And the Lord said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing of me, and hast not
asked for thyself long life, and hast not asked wealth, nor hast asked the lives
of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to hear judgment;
12 behold, I have done according to
thy word: behold, I have given thee an understanding and wise heart: there has
not been any one like thee before thee, and after thee there shall not
arise one like thee. 13 And I have
given thee what thou hast not asked, wealth and glory, so that there has not
been any one like thee among kings. 14
And if thou wilt walk in my way, to keep my commandments and my
ordinances, as David thy father walked, then will I multiply thy days.
15 And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it
was a dream: and he arose and came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar
that was in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Sion: and he offered
whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings, and made a great banquet
for himself and all his servants.
16 Then there appeared two harlots
before the king, and they stood before him. 17
And the one woman said, Hear me, my lord; I and this woman
dwelt in one house, and we were delivered in the house. 18
And it came to pass on the third day after I was
delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we were together; and there
was no one with us besides our two selves in the house. 19
And this woman’s child died in the night; because she
overlaid it. 20 and she arose in the
middle of the night, and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom,
and laid her dead son in my bosom. 21
and I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead:
and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son
whom I bore. 22 And the other woman
said, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. So
they spoke before the king.
23 and the king said to them, Thou
sayest, This is my son, even the living one, and this
woman’s son is the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living is
my son, and the dead is thy son. 24
And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before
the king. 25 And the king said,
Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and
half of it to the other. 26 And the
woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels
yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the
child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor
hers; divide it. 27 Then the
king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, ‘Give it to her, and by
no means slay it:’ she is its mother. 28
and all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and
they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God was
in him, to execute judgment.
Chapter 4
4:1 And king Solomon reigned over
Israel.
2 And these are the princes which
he had; Azarias son of Sadoc. 3
Eliaph, and Achia son of Seba, scribes; and Josaphat son of Achilud, recorder.
4 And Banaeas son of Jodae over the
host; and Sadoc and Abiathar were priests. 5
And Ornia the son of Nathan was over the officers; and
Zabuth son of Nathan was the king’s friend. 6
And Achisar was steward, and Eliac the chief
steward; and Eliab the son of Saph was over the family: and Adoniram the
son of Audon over the tribute.
7 And Solomon had twelve officers over
all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one’s turn came to
supply for a month in the year. 8
And these were their names: Been the son of Or in the mount of Ephraim,
one. 9 The son of Dacar, in Makes,
and in Salabin, and Baethsamys, and Elon as far as Bethanan, one.
10 The son of Esdi in Araboth; his was
Socho, and all the land of Opher. 11
All Nephthador belonged to the son of Aminadab, Tephath
daughter of Solomon was his wife, one. 12
Bana son of Achiluth had Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and
his was the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from
Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one.
13 The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to
him fell the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and
brazen bars, one. 14 Achinadab son
of Saddo, had Maanaim. 15
Achimaas was in Nephthalim, and he took Basemmath daughter of Solomon to
wife, one. 16 Baana son of Chusi, in
Aser and in Baaloth, one, 17
Josaphat son of Phuasud was in Issachar. 18
Semei son of Ela, in Benjamin. 19
Gaber son of Adai in the land of Gad, the land of Seon
king of Esebon, and of Og king of Basan, and one officer in the land of Juda.
20 21 22 And these were the
requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and
sixty measures of fine pounded meal, 23
and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred
sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does. 24
For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace
on all sides round about.
25 26 27 And thus the officers provided
king Solomon: and they execute every one in his month all the orders for
the table of the king, they omit nothing. 28
And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the
chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.
29 And the Lord gave understanding to
Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the
seashore. 30 And Solomon abounded
greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of
Egypt. 31 And he was wiser than all
other men: and he was wiser than Gaethan the Zarite, and than Ænan,
and than Chalcad and Darala the son of Mal. 32
And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs
were five thousand. 33 And he spoke
of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through
the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes.
34 And all the nations came to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, and ambassadors from all the kings of the earth,
as many as heard of his wisdom.
And Solomon took to himself the daughter of Pharao to wife,
and brought her into the city of David until he had finished the house of the
Lord, and his own house, and the wall of Jerusalem. Then went up Pharao the king
of Egypt, and took Gazer, and burnt it and the Chananite dwelling in Mergab; and
Pharao gave them as a dowry to his daughter the wife of Solomon: and Solomon
rebuilt Gazer.
Chapter 5
5:1 And Chiram king of Tyre sent his
servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram
always loved David. 2 And Solomon
sent to Chiram, saying, 3 Thou
knewest my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord
my God because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them
under the soles of his feet. 4 And
now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting
against me, and there is no evil trespass against me.
5 And, behold, I intend to build a house to
the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord God spoke to my father David, saying,
Thy son whom I will set on thy throne in thy place, he shall build a house to my
name. 6 And now command, and let
men cut wood for me out of Libanus: and, behold, my servants shall be
with thy servants, and I will give thee the wages of thy service, according to
all that thou shalt say, because thou knowest that we have no one skilled in
cutting timber like the Sidonians.
7 And it came to pass, as soon as Chiram
heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be
God to-day, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.
8 And he sent to Solomon, saying, I have
listened concerning all that thou hast sent to me for: I will do all thy will:
as for timber of cedar and fir, 9
my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will
form them into rafts, and bring them to the place which thou shalt
send to me about; and I will land them there, and thou shalt take them
up: and thou shalt do my will, in giving bread to my household.
10 So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and
fir trees, and all his desire. 11
And Solomon gave to Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his
house, and twenty thousand baths of beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram
yearly. 12 And the Lord gave wisdom
to Solomon as he promised him; and there was peace between Chiram and Solomon,
and they made a covenant between them.
13 And the king raised a levy out of all
Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14
And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand taking turn every
month: they were a month in Libanus and two months at home: and Adoniram was
over the levy. 15 And Solomon had
seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the
mountain; 16 besides the rulers that
were appointed over the works of Solomon, there were three thousand six
hundred masters who wrought in the works. 17 18
And they prepared the stones and the timber during three
years.
Chapter 6
6:0 And it came to pass in the four
hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of
Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of king Solomon over
Israel, 17 that the king commanded
that they should take great and costly stones for the foundation of the
house, and hewn stones. 18 And the
men of Solomon, and the men of Chiram hewed the stones, and laid them
for a foundation.
1 In the fourth year he laid the
foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziu, even in the second month.
38 In the eleventh year, in the
month Baal, this is the eighth month, the house was completed according
to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement. 2
And the house which the king built to the Lord was
forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and
twenty cubits. 3 And the porch in
front of the temple—twenty cubits was its length according to the breadth
of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.
4 And he made to the house secret
windows inclining inward.
5 And against the wall of the house he
set chambers round about the temple and the ark. 6
The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle
part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an
interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch
the walls of the house. 7 And the
house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was
not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.
8 And the porch of the under side
was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent
into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story.
9 So he built the house and finished it;
and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars. 10
And he made the partitions through all the house, each
five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.
11 12 13 14 15 And he framed the walls
of the house within with cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the
inner walls and to the beams: he lined the parts enclosed with boards within,
and compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.
16 And he built the twenty cubits from the
top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the
oracle to the most holy place. 17
And the temple was forty cubits in extent, 18 19
in front of the oracle in the midst of the house within,
in order to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20 The length was twenty cubits, and
the breadth was twenty cubits, and the height of it was twenty cubits.
And he covered it with perfect gold, and he made an altar in front of the
oracle, and covered it with gold. 21 22
And he covered the whole house with gold, till he had finished
gilding the whole house.
23 And he made in the oracle two cherubs
of ten cubits measured size. 24 And
the wing of one cherub was five cubits, and his other wing was five cubits; ten
cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing.
25 Thus it was with the other cherub, both
were alike finished with one measure. 26
And the height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so
was it with the second cherub. 27
And both the cherubs were in the midst of the innermost
part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the
wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings
in the midst of the house touched each other. 28
And he covered the cherubs with gold.
29 He graved all the walls of the house
round about with the graving of cherubs, and he sculptured palm trees
within and without the house. 30
And he covered the floor of the house within and without with
gold.
31 And for the door-way of the oracle he
made doors of juniper wood, there were porches in a four-fold way.
32 33 34 In both the doors were
planks of fir; the one door had two leaves and their hinges, and the other door
had two leaves and turned on hinges, 35
being carved with cherubs, and there were palm-trees and
open flower-leaves, and it was overlaid with gold gilt upon the
engraving. 36 And he built the inner
court, three rows of hewn stones, and a row of wrought cedar round about, and he
made the curtain of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the
temple. 37 38
13 And king Solomon sent, and took
Chiram out of Tyre, 14 the son of a
widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father was
a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to
work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought
all the works.
15 And he cast the two pillars for the
porch of the house: eighteen cubits was the height of each pillar,
and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the
pillar: the flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was
the other pillar formed. 16
And he made two molten chapiters to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits
was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of
the other chapiter. 17 And he made
two ornaments of net-work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for
one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter. 18
And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with
net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments
for the second chapiter. 19 And on
the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,
20 and a chamber over both the
pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.
21 And he set up the pillars of the
porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum:
and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz.
22 23 And he made the sea, ten cubits
from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its
height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.
24 And stays underneath its rim round about
compassed it ten cubits round; 25
And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and
three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to
the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was
above upon them. 26 and its rim
was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it
was a span.
27 And he made ten brazen bases: five
cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and
its height was six cubits. 28
And this work of the bases was formed with a border the
them, and there was a border between the ledges. 29
And upon their borders between the projection were
lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also
below were the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.
30 And there were four brazen wheels
to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides
answering to them, side pieces under the bases. 31
And there were axles in the wheels under the base.
32 And the height of one wheel
was a cubit and a half. 33 And
the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their axles,
and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.
34 The four side pieces were at the
four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.
35 And on the top of the base half a cubit
was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and
there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the
top of its spaces. 36 And its
borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was
joined in front and within and round about. 37
According to the same form he made all the ten bases,
even one order and one measure to all. 38
And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty baths,
and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base
throughout the ten bases. 39 And he
put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the
house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the
direction of the south.
40 And Chiram made the caldrons, and the
pans, and the bowls; and Chiram finished making all the works that he wrought
for king Solomon in the house of the Lord: 41
two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of
the two pillars; and the two net-works to cover both the wreathen works of the
flutings that were upon the pillars. 42
The four hundred pomegranates for both the net-works, two rows of
pomegranates for one net-work, to cover both the wreathen works of the bases
belonging to both pillars. 43 And
the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases. 44
And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.
45 And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls,
and all the furniture, which Chiram made for king Solomon for the house of the
Lord: and there were eight and forty pillars of the house of the king and
of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Chiram made were
entirely of brass. 46 In the country
round about Jordan did he cast them, in the clay land between Socchoth and Sira.
47 There was no reckoning of the
brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was
no end of the weight of the brass.
48 And king Solomon took the furniture
which Chiram made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the
golden table of shewbread. 49 And
he put the five candlesticks on the left, and five on the right in front of
the oracle, being of pure gold, and the lamp-stands, and the lamps, and
the snuffers of gold. 50 And
there were made the porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons,
and the golden censers, of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the
innermost part of the house, even the holy of holies, and the golden
doors of the temple.
51 So the work of the house of the Lord
which Solomon wrought was finished; and Solomon brought in the holy things of
David his father, and all the holy things of Solomon; he put the silver, and the
gold, and the furniture, into the treasures of the house of the Lord.
Chapter 7
7:1 And Solomon built a house for
himself in thirteen years. 2 And he
built the house with the wood of Libanus; its length was a hundred
cubits, and its breadth was fifty cubits, and its height was of
thirty cubits, and it was made with three rows of cedar pillars, and the
pillars had side-pieces of cedar. 3
And he formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the
number of the pillars was each row forty and five,
4 and there were three chambers, and space against
space in three rows. 5 And all the
doors and spaces formed like chambers were square, and from door to door
was a correspondence in three rows. 6
And he made the porch of the pillars, they were
fifty cubits long and fifty broad, the porch joining them in front; and
the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of the house by
the porches. 7 And there was
the Porch of seats where he would judge, the porch of judgment.
8 And their house where he would dwell,
had one court communicating with these according to this work; and he
built the house for the daughter of Pharao whom Solomon had taken, according
to this porch.
9 All these were of costly
stones, sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the top,
and outward to the great court, 10
founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits long.
11 And above with costly stones,
according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars.
12 There were three rows of hewn stones
round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar: and Solomon finished
all his house.
Chapter 8
8:1 And it came to pass when Solomon had
finished building the house of the Lord and his own house after twenty years,
then king Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel in Sion, to bring the ark
of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, this is Sion,
2 in the month of Athanin.
3 And the priests took up the ark,
4 and the tabernacle of testimony,
and the holy furniture that was in the tabernacle of testimony.
5 And the king and all Israel were
occupied before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, without number.
6 And the priests bring in the ark
into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies,
under the wings of the cherubs. 7
For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above. 8
And the holy staves projected, and the ends of the holy
staves appeared out of the holy places in front of the oracle, and were not seen
without. 9 There was nothing in the
ark except the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Moses put
there in Choreb, which tables the Lord made as a covenant
with the children of Israel in their going forth from the land of Egypt.
10 And it came to pass when the priests
departed out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house.
11 And the priests could not stand to
minister because of the cloud, because the glory of the Lord filled the house.
12 13 14 And the king turned his face,
and the king blessed all Israel, (and the whole assembly of Israel stood:)
15 and he said, Blessed be
the Lord God of Israel to-day, who spoke by his mouth concerning David my
father, and has fulfilled it with his hands, saying, 16
From the day that I brought out my people Israel out of
Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any one tribe of Israel to build a
house, so that my name should be there: but I chose Jerusalem that my name
should be there, and I chose David to be over my people Israel.
17 And it was in the heart of my father to
build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel. 18
And the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it came
into thine heart to build a house to my name, thou didst well that it came upon
thine heart. 19 Nevertheless thou
shalt not build the house, but thy son that has proceeded out of thy bowels, he
shall build the house to my name. 20
And the Lord has confirmed the word that he spoke, and I am risen
up in the place of my father David, and I have sat down on the throne of Israel,
as the Lord spoke, and I have built the house to the name of the Lord God of
Israel. 21 And I have set there a
place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, which the Lord made
with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 And Solomon stood up in front of the
altar before all the congregation of Israel; and he spread out his hands toward
heaven: 23 and he said, Lord God of
Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven above and on the earth beneath,
keeping covenant and mercy with thy servant who walks before thee with all his
heart; 24 which thou hast kept
toward thy servant David my father: for thou hast spoken by thy mouth and thou
hast fulfilled it with thine hands, as at this day.
25 And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for
thy servant David my father, the promises which thou hast spoken to him,
saying, There shall not be taken from thee a man sitting before me on the throne
of Israel, provided only thy children shall take heed to their ways, to walk
before me as thou hast walked before me. 26
And now, O Lord God of Israel, let, I pray thee, thy word to
David my father be confirmed.
27 But will God indeed dwell with men
upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice thee, how
much less even this house which I have built to thy name?
28 Yet, O Lord God of Israel, thou shalt look upon my
petition, to hear the prayer which thy servant prays to thee in thy presence
this day, 29 that thine eyes may be
open toward this house day and night, even toward the place which thou saidst,
My name shall be there, to hear the prayer which thy servant prays at this place
day and night. 30 And thou shalt
hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall
pray toward this place; and thou shalt hear in thy dwelling-place in heaven, and
thou shalt do and be gracious.
31 Whatsoever trespasses any one
shall commit against his neighbor,—and if he shall take upon him an oath so that
he should swear, and he shall come and make confession before thine altar in
this house, 32 then shalt thou hear
from heaven, and do, and thou shalt judge thy people Israel, that the wicked
should be condemned, to recompense his way upon his head; and to justify the
righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.
33 When thy people Israel falls before
enemies, because they shall sin against thee, and they shall return and confess
to thy name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house,
34 then shalt thou hear from heaven, and be
gracious to the sins of thy people Israel, and thou shalt restore them to the
land which thou gavest to their fathers.
35 When the heaven is restrained, and
there is no rain, because they shall sin against thee, and the shall pray toward
this place, and they shall make confession to thy name, and shall turn from
their sins when thou shalt have humbled them, 36
then thou shalt hear from heaven, and be merciful to the sins of
thy servant and of thy people Israel; for thou shalt shew them the good way to
walk in it, and thou shalt give rain upon the earth which thou hast given to thy
people for an inheritance.
37 If there should be famine, if there
should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be
mildew, and if their enemy oppress them in any one of their cities,
with regard to every calamity, every trouble, 38
every prayer, every supplication whatever shall be made by
any man, as they shall know each the plague of his heart, and shall spread
abroad his hands to this house, 39
then shalt thou hearken from heaven, out of thine established dwelling-place,
and shalt be merciful, and shalt do, and recompense to every man
according to his ways, as thou shalt know his heart, for thou alone knowest the
heart of all the children of men: 40
that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the
land, which thou hast given to our fathers.
41 And for the stranger who is not of
thy people, 42 when they shall come
and pray toward this place, 43 then
shalt thou hear them from heaven, out of thine established
dwelling-place, and thou shalt do according to all that the stranger shall call
upon thee for, that all the nations may know thy name, and fear thee, as do
thy people Israel, and may know that thy name has been called on this house
which I have builded.
44 If it be that thy people shall
go forth to war against their enemies in the way by which thou shalt turn them,
and pray in the name of the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the
house which I have built to thy name, 45
then shalt thou hear from heaven their supplication and their
prayer, and shalt execute judgment for them.
46 If it be that they shall sin
against thee, (for there is not a man who will not sin,) and thou shalt bring
them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them
captive shall carry them to a land far or near, 47
and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they
have been carried captives, and turn in the land of their sojourning, and
supplicate thee, saying, We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have
transgressed, 48 and they shall turn
to thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their
enemies whither thou hast carried them captives, and shall pray to thee toward
their land which thou hast given to their fathers, and the city which thou hast
chosen, and the house which I have built to thy name: 49
then shalt thou hear from heaven thine established
dwelling-place, 50 and thou shalt be
merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against thee, and
according to all their transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against
thee, and thou shalt cause them to be pitied before them that carried them
captives, and they shall have compassion on them: 51
for they are thy people and thine inheritance, whom
thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of
iron. 52 And let thine eyes and
thine ears be opened to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication
of thy people Israel, to hearken to them in all things for which they shall call
upon thee. 53 Because thou hast set
them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth, as
thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, when thou broughtest our fathers
out of the land of Egypt, O Lord God.—Then spoke Solomon concerning the house,
when he had finished building it—He manifested the sun in the heaven: the Lord
said he would dwell in darkness: build thou my house, a beautiful house for
thyself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
54 And it came to pass when Solomon had
finished praying to the Lord all this prayer and supplication, that he rose up
from before the altar of the Lord, after having knelt upon his knees, and
his hands were spread out towards heaven.
55 And he stood, and blessed all the
congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56
Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given rest to
his people Israel, according to all that he said: there has not failed one word
among all his good words which he spoke by the hand of his servant Moses.
57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he
was with our fathers; let him not desert us nor turn from us,
58 that he may turn our hearts toward him
to walk in all his ways, and to keep all his commandments, and his ordinances
which he commanded our fathers. 59
And let these words, which I have prayed before the Lord our God, be near
to the Lord our God day and night, to maintain the cause of thy servant, and the
cause of thy people Israel for ever. 60
that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God, he
is God, and there is none beside. 61
And let our hearts be perfect toward the Lord our God, to walk
also holily in his ordinances, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 And the king and all the children of
Israel offered sacrifice before the Lord. 63
And king Solomon offered for the sacrifices of peace-offering
which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and hundred and
twenty thousand sheep: and the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the
house of the Lord. 64 In that day
the king consecrated the middle of the court in the front of the house of the
Lord; for there he offered the whole-burnt-offering, and the sacrifices, and the
fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which was before the Lord
was too little to bear the whole-burnt-offering and the sacrifices of
peace-offerings.
65 And Solomon kept the feast in that
day, and all Israel with him, even a great assembly from the entering in of
Hemath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God in the house which he
built, eating and drinking, and rejoicing before the Lord our God seven days.
66 And on the eighth day he sent
away the people: and they blessed the king, and each departed to his tabernacle
rejoicing, and their heart was glad because of the good things
which the Lord had done to his servant David, and to Israel his people.
Chapter 9
9:1 And it came to pass when Solomon had
finished building the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the work
of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform, 2
that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared
in Gabaon.
3 And the Lord said to him, I have heard
the voice of thy prayer, and thy supplication which thou madest before me: I
have done for thee according to all thy prayer: I have hallowed this house which
thou hast built to put my name there for ever, and mine eyes and my heart shall
be there always. 4 And if thou wilt
walk before me as David thy father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness,
and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shalt keep my
ordinances and my commandments: 5
then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke
to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule in Israel.
6 But if ye or your children do in
any wise revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances,
which Moses set before you, and ye go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7 then will I cut off Israel from
the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my
name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word
to all nations. 8 And this house,
which is high, shall be so that every one that passes by it shall be
amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to
this land, and to this house? 9 And
men shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out
their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached
themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore the
Lord has brought this evil upon them.
Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharao out of the city of David into
his house which he built for himself in those days.
10 During twenty years in which
Solomon was building the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the house of the
king, 11 Chiram king of Tyre helped
Solomon with cedar wood, and fir wood, and with gold, and all that he wished
for: then the king gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 So Chiram departed from Tyre, and went
into Galilee to see the cities which Solomon gave to him; and they pleased him
not. And he said, 13 What are
these cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them Boundary
until this day. 14 And Chiram
brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
25 26 even that for which king Solomon built a ship in
Gasion Gaber near Ælath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in the land of
Edom. 27 And Chiram sent in the ship
together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men
acquainted with the sea. 28 And they
came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
brought them to king Solomon.
Chapter 10
10:1 And the queen of Saba heard of the
name of Solomon, and the name of the Lord, and she came to try him with riddles.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a
very great train; and there came camels bearing spices, and very much
gold, and precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was
in her heart. 3 And Solomon answered
all her questions: and there was not a question overlooked by the king which he
did not answer her. 4 And the queen
of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built,
5 and the provision of Solomon and the
sitting of his attendants, and the standing of his servants, and his raiment,
and his cup-bearers, and his whole-burnt-offering which he offered in the house
of the Lord, and she was utterly amazed. 6
And she said to king Solomon, It was a true report which I
heard in my land of thy words and thy wisdom. 7
But I believed not them that told me, until I came and my eyes
saw: and, behold, the words as they reported to me are not the half: thou hast
exceeded in goodness all the report which I heard in my land.
8 Blessed are thy wives, blessed
are these thy servants who stand before thee continually, who hear all thy
wisdom. 9 Blessed be the Lord thy
God, who has taken pleasure in thee, to set thee upon the throne of Israel,
because the Lord loved Israel to establish him for ever; and he has made
thee king over them, to execute judgment with justice, and in their causes.
10 And she gave to Solomon a hundred and
twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones: there had not
come any other spices so abundant as those which the queen of Saba gave to king
Solomon.
11 And the ship of Chiram which brought
the gold from Suphir, brought very much hewn timber and precious stones.
12 And the king made the hewn timber
into buttresses of the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and lyres and
harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been
seen anywhere until this day. 13 And
king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired, whatsoever she
asked, besides all that he had given her by the hand of king Solomon: and she
returned, and came into her own land, she and her servants.
14 And the weight of gold that came to
Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold.
15 Besides the tributes of them that were
subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the country beyond the
river, and of the princess of the land.
16 And Solomon made three hundred spears
of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.
17 And three hundred shields of beaten
gold: and three pounds of gold were in one shield: and the king put them in the
house of the forest of Lebanon.
18 And the king made a great ivory
throne, and gilded it with pure gold. 19
The throne had six steps, and calves in bold relief to the
throne behind it, and side-pieces on either hand of the place of the seat, and
two lions standing by the side-pieces, 20
and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side:
it was not so done in any other kingdom. 21
And all the vessels made by Solomon were of gold, and the
lavers were golden, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of
Lebanon were of pure gold; there was no silver, for it was not accounted of in
the days of Solomon. 22 For Solomon
had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the ships of Chiram: one ship came to the
king every three years out of Tharsis, laden with gold and silver, and
wrought stones, and hewn stones.
This was the arrangement of the provision which king Solomon
fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and the wall
of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David, and Assur, and
Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and Jethermath, and all the cities
of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the fortification of
Solomon which he purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all the land, so that
none of the people should rule over him that was left of the Chettite and the
Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite,
and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who
had been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not
utterly destroy; and Solomon made them tributaries until this day. But of the
children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the warriors, and his
servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his
chariots, and his horsemen.
23 And Solomon increased beyond all the
kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. 24
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to
hear his wisdom which the Lord had put into his heart.
25 And they brought every one their gifts,
vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a
rate year by year. 26 And Solomon
had four thousand mares for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he
put them in the cities of his chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem: and he
ruled over all the kings from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to
the borders of Egypt.
27 And the king made gold and silver in
Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the plain for
multitude. 28 And the goings forth
of Solomon’s horsemen was also out of Egypt, and the king’s merchants
were of Thecue; and they received them out of Thecue at a price.
29 And that which proceeded out of Egypt
went up thus, even a chariot for a hundred shekels of silver, and
a horse for fifty shekels of silver: and thus for all the kings of the
Chettians, and the kings of Syria, they came out by sea.
Chapter 11
11:0 And king Solomon was a lover of
women. 3 And he had seven hundred
wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. 1
And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish,
Ammanitish women, Syrians and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites;
2 of the nations concerning whom the Lord
forbade the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall not go in to them, and
they shall not come in to you, lest they turn away your hearts after their
idols: Solomon clave to these in love. 4
And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that
his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of
David his father. 5 and to Astarte
the abomination of the Sidonians. 7
Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the idol of Moab, and to their king
the idol of the children of Ammon, 8
And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt
incense and sacrificed to their idols. 6
And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he
went not after the Lord, as David his father. And the strange women turned away
his heart after their gods.
9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon,
because he turned away his heart from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared
twice to him, 10 and charged him
concerning this matter, by no means to go after other gods, but to take heed to
do what the Lord God commanded him; neither was his heart perfect with the Lord,
according to the heart of David his father. 11
And the Lord said to Solomon, Because it has been thus with thee,
and thou hast not kept my commandments and my ordinances which I commanded thee,
I will surely rend thy kingdom out of thy hand, and give it to thy servant.
12 Only in thy days I will not do it
for David thy father’s sake: but I will take it out of the hand of thy
son. 13 Only I will not take away
the whole kingdom: I will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake,
and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.
14 And the Lord raised up and enemy to
Solomon, Ader the Idumaean, and Esrom son of Eliadae who dwelt in Raama,
and Adadezer king of Suba his master; (and men gathered to him, and he
was head of the conspiracy, and he seized on Damasec,)and they were adversaries
to Israel all the days of Solomon: and Ader the Idumaean was of the seed
royal in Idumaea. 15 And it
happened, that while David was utterly destroying Edom, while Joab captain of
the host was going to bury the dead, when they slew every male in Idumaea;
16 (for Joab and all Israel abode
there six months in Idumaea, until he utterly destroyed every male in Idumaea;)
17 that Ader ran away, he and all
the Idumaeans of the servants of his father with him; and they went into Egypt;
and Ader was then a little child. 18
And there rise up men out of the city of Madiam, and they come to
Pharan, and take men with them, and come to Pharao king of Egypt: and Ader went
in to Pharao, and he gave him a house, and appointed him provision.
19 And Ader found great favour in the sight
of Pharao, and he gave him his wife’s sister in marriage, the elder sister of
Thekemina. 20 And the sister of
Thekemina bore to him, even to Ader, Ganebath her son; and Thekemina
brought him up in the midst of the sons of Pharao, and Ganebath was in the midst
of the sons of Pharao.
21 And Ader heard in Egypt that David
slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and Ader
said to Pharao, Let me go, and I will return to my country.
22 And Pharao said to Ader, What lackest
thou with me? that lo! thou seekest to depart to thy country? and Ader said to
him, By all means let me go. 23 So Ader returned to his country; this is the
mischief which Ader did, and he was a bitter enemy of Israel, and he reigned in
the land of Edom.
26 And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the
Ephrathite of Sarira, the son of a widow, was servant of Solomon.
27 And this was the occasion of his
lifting up his hands against king Solomon: now king Solomon built the
citadel, he completed the fortification of the city of David his father.
28 And the man Jeroboam was very strong;
and Solomon saw the young man that he was active, and he set him over the levies
of the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to pass at that time,
that Jeroboam went forth from Jerusalem, and Achia the Selonite the prophet
found him in the way, and caused him to turn aside out of the way: and Achia was
clad with a new garment, and they two were alone in the field.
30 And Achia laid hold of his new garment
that was upon him, and tore it into twelve pieces:
31 and he said to Jeroboam, Take to thyself ten pieces,
for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I rend the kingdom out of the
hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes. 32
Yet he shall have two tribes, for my servant David’s sake, and
for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel. 33 Because he forsook me,
and sacrificed to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, and
to the idols of Moab, and to their king the abomination of the children of Ammon,
and he walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David his
father did. 34 Howbeit I will
not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, (for I will certainly resist him all
the days of his life,) for David my servant’s sake, whom I have chosen.
35 But I will take the kingdom out of the
hand of his son, and give thee ten tribes. 36
But to his son I will give the two remaining tribes, that
my servant David may have an establishment continually before me in Jerusalem,
the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt
reign as thy soul desires, and thou shalt be king over Israel.
38 And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt
keep all the commandments that I shall give thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and
do that which is right before me, to keep my ordinances and my commandments, as
David my servant did, that I will be with thee, and will build thee a sure
house, as I built to David.
39 40 And Solomon sought to slay
Jeroboam: but he arose and fled into Egypt, to Susakim king of Egypt, and he was
in Egypt until Solomon died.
41 And the rest of the history of
Solomon, and all that he did, and all his wisdom, behold are not these things
written in the book of the life of Solomon? 42
And the days during which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem
over all Israel were forty years. 43
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
city of David his father. And it came to pass when Jeroboam son of Nabat heard
of it, even while he was yet in Egypt as he fled from the face of Solomon
and dwelt in Egypt, he straightway comes into his own city, into the land of
Sarira in the mount of Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers, and
Roboam his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 12
12:1 And king Roboam goes to Sikima; for
all Israel were coming to Sikima to make him king. 2 3
And the people spoke to king Roboam, saying, Thy father
made our yoke heavy; 4 but do thou
now lighten somewhat of the hard service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke
which he put upon us, and we will serve thee. 5
And he said to them, Depart for three days, and return to me. And
they departed.
6 And the king referred the matter
to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living,
saying, How do ye advise that I should answer this people?
7 And they spoke to him, saying, If thou
wilt this day be a servant to this people, and wilt serve them, and wilt speak
to them good words, then will they be thy servants continually.
8 But he forsook the counsel of the old
men which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who were brought up
with him, who stood in his presence. 9
And he said to them, What counsel do ye give? And what shall I
answer to this people who speak to me, saying, Lighten somewhat of the yoke
which thy father has put upon us?
10 And the young men who had been
brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt
thou say to this people who have spoken to thee, saying, Thy father made our
yoke heavy, and do thou now lighten it from off us: thus shalt say to them, My
little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
11 And whereas my father did lade you with
a heavy yoke, I also will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12 And all Israel came to king Roboam on
the third day, as the king spoke to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.
13 And the king answered the people
harshly; and Roboam forsook the counsel of the old men which they counselled
him. 14 And he spoke to them
according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke
heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scorpions.
15 And the king hearkened not to the
people, because the change was from the Lord, that he might establish his word
which he spoke by Achia the Selonite concerning Jeroboam the son of Nabat.
16 And all Israel saw that the king
did not hearken to them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion
have we in David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae. Depart,
O Israel, to thy tents: now feed thine own house, David. So Israel departed to
his tents.
17 18 And the king sent Adoniram who was
over the tribute; and they stoned him with stones, and he died: and king Roboam
made haste to rise to flee to Jerusalem.
19 So Israel rebelled against the house
of David until this day. 20 And it
came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned out of Egypt, that
they sent and called him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel:
and none followed the house of David except the tribe of Juda and Benjamin only.
21 And Roboam went into Jerusalem, and
he assembled the congregation of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and
twenty thousand young men, warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to
recover the kingdom to Roboam the son of Solomon. 22
And the word of the Lord came to Samaia the man of God,
saying, 23 Speak to Roboam the son
of Solomon, king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda and Benjamin, and to the
remnant of the people, saying, 24
Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, neither shall ye fight with your
brethren the sons of Israel: return each man to his own home; for this thing is
from me; and they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and they ceased from going
up, according to the word of the Lord.
So king Solomon sleeps with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in
the city of David; and Roboam his son reigned in his stead in Jerusalem, being
sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twelve years I
Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Naanan, daughter of Ana son of Naas
king of the children of Ammon. And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the Lord, and walked not in the way of David his father.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, a servant to Solomon, and his name was
Jeroboam: and the name of his mother was Sarira, a harlot: and Solomon made him
head of the levies of the house of Joseph: and he built for Solomon Sarira in
mount Ephraim; and he had three hundred chariots of horses: he built the citadel
with the levies of the house of Ephraim; he fortified the city of David, and
aspired to the kingdom, And Solomon sought to kill him; and he was afraid, and
escaped to Susakim king of Egypt, and was with him until Solomon died.
And Jeroboam heard in Egypt that Solomon was dead: and he spoke in the ears
of Susakim king of Egypt, saying, Let me go, and I will depart into my land: and
Susakim said to him, Ask and request, and I will grant it thee. And Susakim
gave to Jeroboam Ano the eldest sister of Thekemina his wife: she was great
among the daughters of the king, and she bore to Jerobaom Abia his son: and
Jeroboam said to Susakim, Let me indeed go, and I will depart.
And Jeroboam departed out of Egypt, and came into the land of Saria that was
in mount Ephraim, and thither the whole in mount Ephraim, and thither the whole
tribe of Ephraim assembles, and Jeroboam built a fortress there.
And his young child was sick with a very severe sickness; and Jeroboam went
to enquire concerning the child: and he said to Ano his wife, Arise, go, enquire
of God concerning the child, whether he shall recover from his sickness. Now
there was a man in Selom, an his name was Achia: and he was sixty years
old, and the word of the Lord was with him. And Jeroboam said to his wife,
Arise, and take in thine hand loaves for the man of God, and cakes for his
children, and grapes, and a pot of honey. And the woman arose, and took in her
hand bread, and two cakes, and grapes, and a pot of honey, for Achia: and the
man was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see. And she
arose, up from Sarira and went; and it came to pass when she had come into the
city to Achia the Selonite, that Achia said to his servant, Go out now to meet
Ano the wife of Jeroboam, and thou shalt say to her, Come in, and stand not
still: for thus saith the Lord, I send grievous tidings to thee. And Ano
went in to the man of God; and Achia said to her, Why hast thou brought me bread
and grapes, and cakes, and a pot of honey? Thus saith the Lord, Behold, thou
shalt depart from me, and it shall come to pass when thou hast entered into the
city, even into Sarira, that thy maidens shall come out to meet thee, and
shall say to thee, The child is dead: for thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will
destroy every male of Jeroboam, and there shall be the dead of Jeroboam in the
city, them the dogs shall eat, and him that eat, and he shall lament for
the child, saying, Woe is me, Lord! For there has been found in him some
good thing touching the Lord.
And the woman departed, when she heard this: and it came to pass as she
entered into Sarira, that the child died; and there came forth a wailing to meet
her. And Jeroboam went to Sikima in mount Ephraim, and assembled there
the tribes of Israel; and Roboam the son of Solomon went up thither. And the
word of the Lord came to Samaias son of Enlami, saying, Take to thyself a new
garment which has not gone into the water, and rend it into twelve piees; and
thou shalt five some to Jeroboam, and shalt say to him, thus saith the Lord,
Take to thyself ten pieces to cover thee: and Jeroboam took them: and
Samaias said, Thus saith the Lord concerning the ten tribes of Israel.
And the people said to Roboam the son of Solomon, Thy father make his yoke
heavy upon us, and made the meat of his table heavy; and now thou shalt lighten
them upon us, and we will serve thee. And Roboam said to the people, Wait three
days, and I will return you an answer: and Roboam said, Bring in to me the
elders, and I will take counsel with them what I shall answer to the people on
the third day, So Roboam spoke in their ears, as the people sent to him to
say: and the elders of the people said, Thus the people have spoken to thee.
And Roboam rejected their counsel, and it pleased him not: and he sent and
brought in thouse who had been brought up with him; and he said to them, Thus
and thus has the people sent to me to say: and they that had been brought up
with him said, Thus shalt thou speak to the people saying, My little finger
shall be thicker than my father’s loins; my father scourged you with whips,
but I will rule you with scorpions.
And the saying pleased Roboam, and he answered the people as the young men,
they that were brought up with him, counselled him: and all the people spoke as
one man, every one to his neighbor, and they cried out all together, saying, We
have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jessae: to they tents, O
Israel, every one; for this man is not for a prince or a ruler over us. And all
the people was dispersed from Sikima, and they departed every one to his tent:
and Roboam strengthened him self and departed, and mounted his chariot, and
entered into Jerusalem: and there follow him the whole tribe of Juda, and the
whole tribe of Benjamin. And it came to pass at the beginning of the year, that
Roboam gathered all the men of Juda and Benjamin, and went up to fight with
Jeroboam at Sikima. And the word of the Lord came to Sameas the man of God,
saying, Speak to Roboam king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda and Benjamin,
and to the remnant of the people, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go
up, neither shall ye fight with your brethren the sons of Israel: return every
man to his house, for this thing is from me. And they hearkened to the word of
the Lord, and forbore to go up, according to the word of the Lord.
25 And Jeroboam built Sikima in mount
Ephraim and dwelt in it, and went forth thence and built Phanuel.
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Behold,
now the kingdom will return to the house of David. 27
If this people shall go up to offer sacrifice in the house
of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of the people will return to the Lord,
and to their master, to Roboam king of Juda, and they will slay me.
28 And the king took counsel, and went, and
made two golden heifers, and said to the people, Let it suffice you to have gone
hitherto to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt. 29 And he put
one in Bethel, and he put the other in Dan. 30
And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as
far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord. 31
And he made houses on the high places, and made priests of any
part of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
32 And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the
eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the
land of Juda; 33 and went up to the
altar which he made in Baethel to sacrifice to the heifers which he made, and he
placed in Baethel the priests of the high places which he had made. And he went
up to the altar which he had made, on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, at
the feast which he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast to the
children of Israel, and went up to the altar to sacrifice.
Chapter 13
13:1 And behold, there came a man of God
out of Juda by the word of the Lord to Baethel, and Jeroboam stood at the altar
to sacrifice. 2 And he cried against
the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the
Lord, Behold, a son is to be born to the house of David, Josias by name;
and he shall offer upon thee the priests of the high places, even of them
that sacrifice upon thee, and he shall burn men’s bones upon thee.
3 And in that day one shall give a sign,
saying, This is the word which the Lord has spoken, saying, Behold, the
altar is rent, and the fatness upon it shall be poured out.
4 And it came to pass when king Jeroboam
heard the words of the man of God who called on the altar that was in Baethel,
that the king stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Take hold of him.
And, behold, his hand, which he stretched forth against him, withered, and he
could not draw it back to himself. 5
And the altar was rent, and the fatness was poured out from the
altar, according to the sign which the man of God gave by the word of the Lord.
6 And king Jeroboam said to the man
of God, Intreat the Lord thy God, and let my hand be restored to me. And the man
of God intreated the Lord, and he restored the king’s hand to him, and it became
as before.
7 And the king said to the man of God,
Enter with me into the house, and dine, and I will give thee a gift.
8 And the man of God said to the king, If
thou shouldest give me the half of thine house, I would not go in with thee,
neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water in this place; for thus the
Lord charged me by his word, saying, 9
Eat no bread, and drink no water, and return not by the way by
which thou camest. 10 So he departed
by another way, and returned not by the way by which he came to Baethel.
11 And there dwelt an old prophet in
Baethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God did on
that day in Baethel, and the words which he spoke to the king: and they turned
the face of their father. 12 And
their father spoke to them, saying, Which way went he? and his sons shew him the
way by which the man of God who came out of Juda went up.
13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass: and they
saddled him the ass, and he mounted it, 14
and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an
oak: and he said to him, Art thou the man of God that came out of Juda? And he
said to him, I am. 15 And he
said to him, Come with me, and eat bread. 16
And he said, I shall not by any means be able to return with
thee, neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water in this place.
17 For thus the Lord commanded me by word,
saying, Eat not bread there, and drink not water, and return not thither by the
way by which thou camest.
18 And he said to him, I also am a
prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord,
saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink
water: but he lied to him. 19 And he
brought him back, and he ate bread and drank water in his house.
20 And it came to pass while they were
sitting at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought
him back; 21 and he spoke to the man
of God that came out of Juda, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast
resisted the word of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord
thy God commanded thee, 22 but hast
returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he spoke to
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, and shalt not drink water; therefore
thy body shall in nowise enter into the sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 And it came to pass after he had
eaten bread and drunk water, that he saddled the ass for him, and he turned and
departed. 24 And a lion found him in
the way, and slew him; and his body was cast out in the way, and the ass was
standing by it, and the lion also was standing by the body.
25 And, behold, men were passing by,
and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion was standing near the carcase:
and they went in and spoke of it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And the prophet that
turned him back out of the way heard, and said, This is the man of God who
rebelled against the word of the Lord. 27 28
And he went and found the body cast in the way, and the ass and
the lion were standing by the body: and the lion had not devoured the body of
the man of God, and had not torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the body of
the man of God, and laid it on his ass; and the prophet brought him back to his
city, to bury him in his own tomb, 30
and they bewailed him, saying, Alas, brother.
31 And it came to pass after he had
lamented him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, Whenever I die, bury me in this
tomb wherein the man of God is buried; lay me by his bones, that my bones may be
preserved with his bones. 32 For the
word will surely come to pass which he spoke by the word of the Lord against the
altar in Baethel, and against the high houses in Samaria.
33 And after this Jeroboam turned not
from his sin, but he turned and made of part of the people priests of the
high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became a priest for
the high places. 34 And this thing
became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal
from the face of the earth.
Chapter 14
14:1
And Roboam son of Solomon ruled over Juda. Roboam was
forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years
in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the
tribes of Israel: and his mother’s name was Naama the Ammonitess.
22 And Roboam did evil in the sight of the
Lord; and he provoked him in all the things which their fathers did in their
sins which they sinned. 23 And they
built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on
every high hill, and under every shady tree. 24
And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to
all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the
children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year
of the reign of Roboam, Susakim king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
26 and took all the treasures of the house
of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the golden spears which
David took out of the hand of the sons of Adrazaar king of Suba, and brought
them into Jerusalem, even all that he took, and the golden shields which
Solomon had made, [and carried them away into Egypt.] 27
And king Roboam made brazen shields instead of them; and
the chiefs of the body guard, who kept the gate of the house of the king, were
placed in charge over them. 28 And
it came to pass when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the body
guard took them up, and fixed them in the chamber of the body guard.
29 And the rest of the history of Roboam,
and all that he did, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Juda? 30 And there
was war between Roboam and Jeroboam continually. 31
And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Abiu his son reigned in his stead.
Chapter 15
15:1 And in the eighteenth year of the
reign of Jeroboam son of Nabat, Abiu son of Roboam reigns over Juda.
2 And he reigned three years over
Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Maacha, daughter of Abessalom.
3 And he walked in the sins of his
father which he wrought in his presence, and his heart was not perfect with the
Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
4 Howbeit for David’s sake the Lord gave
him a remnant, that he might establish his children after him, and might
establish Jerusalem. 5 Forasmuch as
David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he turned not from any
thing that he commanded him all the days of his life.
6 7 And the rest of the history of Abiu,
and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiu and Jeroboam.
8 And Abiu slept with his fathers in the
twenty-fourth year of Jeroboam; and he is buried with his fathers in the city of
David: And Asa his son reigns in his stead.
9 In the four and twentieth year of
Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa begins to reign over Juda. 10
And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his
mother’s name was Ana, daughter of Abessalom. 11
And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,
as David his father. 12 And he
removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his
fathers had kept up. 13 And he
removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she gathered a meeting in
her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burnt them with fire in the brook
of Kedron. 14 But he removed not the
high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his
days. 15 And he brought in the
pillars of his father, he even brought in his gold and silver pillars into the
house of the Lord, and his vessels.
16 And there was war between Asa and
Baasa king of Israel all their days. 17
And Baasa king of Israel went up against Juda, and built Rama, so
that no one should go out or come in for Asa king of Juda.
18 And Asa took all the silver and the
gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the
treasures of the king’s house, and gave them into the hands of his servants; and
king Asa sent them out to the son of Ader, the son of Taberema son of Azin king
of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying, 19
Make a covenant between me and thee, and between my father and
thy father: lo! I have sent forth to thee gold and silver for gifts:
come, break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may go up from me.
20 And the son of Ader hearkened to
king Asa, and sent the chiefs of his forces to the cities of Israel; and they
smote Ain, Dan, and Abel of the house of Maacha, and all Chennereth, as far as
the whole land of Nephthali. 21 And
it came to pass when Baasa heard it, that he left off building Rama, and
returned to Thersa.
22 And king Asa charged all Juda without
exception: and they take up the stones of Rama and its timbers with which
Baasa was building; and king Asa built with them upon the whole hill of
Benjamin, and the watch-tower.
23 And the rest of the history of Asa,
and all his mighty deeds which he wrought, and the cities which he built,
behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?
Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Josaphat his son
reigns in his stead.
25 And Nabat son of Jeroboam reigns over
Israel in the second year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned two years in
Israel. 26 And he did that which was
evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his
sins wherein he caused Israel to sin.
27 And Baasa son of Achia, who was
over the house of Belaan son of Achia, conspired against him, and smote him in
Gabathon of the Philistines; for Nabat and all Israel were besieging Gabathon.
28 And Baasa slew him in the third
year of Asa son of Asa king of Juda; and reigned in his stead.
29 And it came to pass when he reigned,
that he smote the whole house of Jeroboam, and left none that breathed of
Jeroboam, until he has destroyed him utterly, according to the word of the Lord
which he spoke by his servant Achia the Selonite, 30
for the sins of Jeroboam, who led Israel into sin, even by
his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel.
31 And the rest of the history of Nabat,
and all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
32 33 And in the third year of Asa king
of Juda, Baasa the son of Achia begins to reign over Israel in Thersa, twenty
and four years. 34 And he did that
which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam the
son of Nabat, and in his sins, as he caused Israel to sin.
Chapter 16
16:1 And the word of the Lord came by
the hand of Ju son of Anani to Baasa, saying, 2
Forasmuch as I lifted thee up from the earth, and made
thee ruler over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam,
and hast caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their vanities;
3 Behold, I raise up enemies
after Baasa, and after his house; and I will make thy house as the house of
Jeroboam son of Nabat. 4 Him the
dies of Baasa in the city the dogs shall devour, and him that dies of his in the
field the birds of the sky shall devour.
5 Now the rest of the history of Baasa,
and all that he did, and his mighty acts, behold, are not these written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 6
And Baasa slept with his fathers, and they bury him in Thersa;
and Ela his son reigns in his stead.
7 And the Lord spoke by Ju the son of
Anani against Baasa, and against his house, even all the evil which he
wrought before the Lord to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, in
being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he smote him.
8 And Ela son of Baasa reigned over
Israel two years in Thersa. 9 And
Zambri, captain of half his cavalry, conspired against him, while he was in
Thersa, drinking himself drunk in the house of Osa the steward at Thersa.
10 And Zambri went in and smote him and
slew him, and reigned in his stead. 11
And it came to pass when he reigned, when he sat upon his throne,
12 that he smote all the house of
Baasa, according to the word which the Lord spoke against the house of Baasa,
and to Ju the prophet, 13 for all
the sins of Baasa and Ela his son, as he led Israel astray to sin, to provoke
the Lord God of Israel with their vanities. 14
And the rest of the deeds of Ela which he did, behold, are not
these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15 And Zambri reigned in Thersa seven
days: and the army of Israel was encamped against Gabathon of the
Philistines. 16 And the people heard
in the army, saying, Zambri has conspired and smitten the king: and the people
of Israel made Ambri the captain of the host king in that day in the camp over
Israel. 17 And Ambri went up, and
all Israel with him, out of Gabathon; and they besieged Thersa.
18 And it came to pass when Zambri saw that
his city was taken, that he goes into the inner chamber of the house of the
king, and burnt the king’s house over him, and died. 19
Because of his sins which he committed, doing that which
was evil in the sight of the Lord, so as to walk in the way of Jeroboam the son
of Nabat, and in his sins wherein he caused Israel to sin.
20 And the rest of the history of Zambri,
and his conspiracies wherein he conspired, behold, are not these written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
21 Then the people of Israel divides;
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