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___2 Samuel chapter 1
 1 Now after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had lived two days in Ziklag,
 2 On the third day, see, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn, and earth on his head, and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
 3 And David said to him, "Where do you come from?"  And he said to him, "I've escaped out of the camp of Israel."
 4 And David said to him, "What happened?  Please tell me."  And he answered that the people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and died, and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
 5 And David said to the young man that told him, "How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"
 6 And the young man that told him said, "As I happened by chance on mount Gilboa, see, Saul leaned on his spear, and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
 7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me.  And I answered, here I am.
 8 And he said to me, who are you?  And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
 9 He said to me again, stand, I pray you, on me, and kill me, for anguish has come on me, because my life is yet whole in me.
 10 So I stood on him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen, and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord."
 11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them, and likewise all the men that were with him,
 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
 13 And David said to the young man that told him, "Where are you from?  And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite."
 14 And David said to him, "How is it that you weren't afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?"
 15 And David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him."  And he struck him so that he died.
 16 And David said to him, "Your blood is on your own head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have killed the Lord's anointed."
 17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,
 18 (Also he told them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow, see, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
 19 "The beauty of Israel has been killed on your high places, how are the mighty fallen!
 20 Don't tell it in Gath, don't publish it in the streets of Askelon, so that the daughters of the Philistines don't rejoice, so that the daughters of the uncircumcised don't triumph.
 21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, nor let there be rain, on you, nor fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty is vilely thrown away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
 22 From the blood of the killed, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan didn't turn back, and the sword of Saul didn't return empty.
 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided, they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
 24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in red cloth, with other delights, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
 25 How are the mighty fallen in the middle of the battle!  O Jonathan, you were killed in your high places.
 26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan, very pleasant have you been to me, your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women.
 27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

___2 Samuel chapter 2
 1 And after this, David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?  And the Lord said to him, go up."  And David said, "Where shall I go up?  And he said, to Hebron."
 2 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
 3 And David brought up his men that were with him, every man with his household, and they lived in the cities of Hebron.
 4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.  And they told David, saying, that the men of Jabeshgilead were those who buried Saul.
 5 And David sent messengers to the men of Jabeshgilead, and said to them, "The Lord bless you, because you've shown this kindness to your lord, to Saul, and have buried him.
 6 And now the Lord show kindness and truth to you, and I also will repay you this kindness, because you've done this thing.
 7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be valiant, for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them."
 8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim,
 9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
 10 Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to rule over Israel, and ruled two years.  But the house of Judah followed David.
 11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
 12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
 13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon, and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
 14 And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men now get up, and play before us."  And Joab said, "Let them get up."
 15 Then twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul got up and went over, and twelve of the servants of David.
 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side, so they fell down together, so that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
 17 And there was a very severe battle that day, and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
 18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
 19 And Asahel pursued after Abner, and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
 20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Are you Asahel?"  And he answered, "I am."
 21 And Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay hold on one of the young men, and take his armor."  But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
 22 And Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me, why should I strike you to the ground?  How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"
 23 But he refused to turn aside, so Abner with the rear end of the spear struck him under the fifth rib, so that the spear came out behind him, and he fell down there, and died in the same place, and as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
 24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner, and the sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
 25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a hill.
 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever?  Don't you know that it will be bitterness at the end?  How long shall it be then, before you tell the people to return from following their brothers?"
 27 And Joab said, "As God lives, unless you had spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone up every one from following his brother."
 28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.
 29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
 30 And Joab returned from following Abner, and when he had gathered all the people together, of David's servants, nineteen men and Asahel were missing.
 31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred sixty men died.
 32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, that was in Bethlehem.  And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at daybreak.

___2 Samuel chapter 3
 1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
 2 And sons were born to David in Hebron, and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
 3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite, and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur,
 4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith, and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital,
 5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife.  These were born to David in Hebron.
 6 And while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
 7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, and Ishbosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"
 8 Then Abner was very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head, who against Judah shows kindness this day to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David, that you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman?
 9 So do God to Abner, and more also, unless, as the Lord has sworn to David, even so I do to him,
 10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba."
 11 And he couldn't answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
 12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?"  And also saying, "Make your league with me, and see, my hand shall be with you, to bring around all Israel to you."
 13 And he said, well, "I will make a league with you, but one thing I require of you, that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.
 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, deliver me my wife Michal, whom I engaged to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
 15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
 16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim.  Then Abner said to him, "Go, return."  And he returned.
 17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "You sought for David in times past to be king over you,
 18 Now then do it, for the Lord has spoken about David, saying, by the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies."
 19 And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin, and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him.  And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
 21 And Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, so that they will make a league with you, and so that you will rule over all that your heart desires."  And David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
 22 And see, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them, but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
 23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace."
 24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done?  See, Abner came to you, why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?
 25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do."
 26 And when Joab had come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah, but David didn't know it.
 27 And when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
 28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord forever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner,
 29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house, and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls on the sword, or that lacks bread."
 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, "Tear your clothes, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner."  And king David himself followed the bier.
 32 And they buried Abner in Hebron, and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.
 33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, "Did Abner die like a fool dies?
 34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters, as a man falls before wicked men, so did you fall."  And all the people wept again for him.
 35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David swore, saying, "So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, 'til the sun is down."
 36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
 37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.
 38 And the king said to his servants, "Don't you know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
 39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king, and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me, the Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness."

___2 Samuel chapter 4
 1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
 2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands, the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin, (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin,
 3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were visitors there until this day.)
 4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet.  He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled, and as she made haste to flee, he fell, and became lame.  And his name was Mephibosheth.
 5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
 6 And they came there inside the house, as though they would have fetched wheat, and they struck him under the fifth rib, and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
 7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bed room, and they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and got away through the plain all night.
 8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "See the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life, and the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day against Saul, and against his descendants."
 9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
 10 When someone told me, saying, see, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his news,
 11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed?  Shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hands, and take you away from the earth?"
 12 And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung them up over the pool in Hebron.  But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

___2 Samuel chapter 5
 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron, and said see, "We are your bone and your flesh.
 2 Also in the past, when Saul was king over us, you were he that led out and brought in Israel, and the Lord said to you, you shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be a captain over Israel."
 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.
 4 David was thirty years old when he began to rule, and he ruled forty years.
 5 In Hebron he ruled over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he ruled thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, "Unless you take away the blind and the lame, you can't come in here," thinking, "David can't come in here."
 7 But David took the strong hold of Zion, the same is the city of David.
 8 And David said on that day, "Whoever gets up to the gutter, and strikes the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated by David's soul, he shall be chief and captain."  So they said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."
 9 So David lived in the fort, and called it the city of David.  And David built all around from Millo and inward.
 10 And David went on, and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.
 11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons, and they built David a house.
 12 And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
 13 And David took more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron, and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
 14 And these be the names of those that were born to him in Jerusalem, Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
 15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
 16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
 17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David, and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.
 18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
 19 And David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines?  Will you deliver them into my hand?"  And the Lord said to David, "Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand."
 20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David struck them there, and said, "The Lord has broken forth on my enemies before me, as the breach of waters."  Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
 21 And they left their idols there, and David and his men burned them.
 22 And the Philistines came up again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
 23 And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, "You shall not go up, but circle around behind them, and come at them opposite the mulberry trees.
 24 And let it be, when you hear the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir yourself up, for then the Lord shall go out before you, to strike the host of the Philistines."
 25 And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gazer.

___2 Samuel chapter 6
 1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
 2 And David got up, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of Hosts that dwells between the cherubims.
 3 And they set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah, and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
 4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark.
 5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all kinds of instruments made of fir wood, on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
 6 And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.
 7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and there he died by the ark of God.
 8 And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach on Uzzah, and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
 9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, how shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
 10 So David would not move the ark of the Lord to him into the city of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
 11 And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.
 12 And it was told king David, saying, "The Lord has blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God."  So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
 13 And it was so, that when those who carried the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
 14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod.
 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
 16 And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
 17 And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
 18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
 19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to everyone a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.  So all the people departed everyone to his house.
 20 Then David returned to bless his household.  And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"
 21 And David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, who chose me before your father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel, therefore I will play before the Lord.
 22 And I will yet be more common than this, and will be base in my own sight, and concerning the maid servants that you've spoken about, I'll be had in honor by them."
 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

___2 Samuel chapter 7
 1 And when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest all around from all his enemies,
 2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays within curtains."
 3 And Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you."
 4 And that night, the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
 5 "Go and tell my servant David, thus says the Lord, shall you build me an house for me to live in?
 6 But I haven't lived in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, until this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
 7 In all the places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, why haven't you built me a house of cedar?
 8 Now therefore so shall you say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel,
 9 And I was with you wherever you went, and have cut off all yours enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
 10 Also I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, so that they will live in a place of their own, and move no more, neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore, as previously,
 11 And like since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies.  Also the Lord tells you that he will make you a house.
 12 And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your descendant after you, who shall proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son.  If he commits iniquity, I will punish him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men,
 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you, your throne shall be established forever."
 17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
 18 Then king David went in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, "Who am I, O Lord God?  And what is my house, that you have brought me to this?
 19 And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord God, but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come.  And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?
 20 And what can David say more to you?  For you, Lord God, know your servant.
 21 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all these great things, to make your servant know them.
 22 So you are great, O Lord God, for there is none like you, nor is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
 23 And what nation in the earth is like your people, like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for your land, before your people, that you redeemed to you from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
 24 For you have confirmed to yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
 25 And now, O Lord God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as you have said.
 26 And let your name be magnified forever, saying, the Lord of hosts is the God over Israel, and let the house of your servant David be established before you.
 27 For you, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house, therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
 28 And now, O Lord God, you are that God, and your words are true, and you have promised this goodness to your servant,
 29 Therefore now let it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it will continue forever before you, for you, O Lord God, have spoken it, and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever."

___2 Samuel chapter 8
 1 And after this David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
 2 And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line, throwing them down to the ground, with two lines he measured to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive.  And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
 3 David struck also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
 4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David killed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.
 5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to strengthen Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed of the Syrians twenty two thousand men.
 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts.  And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
 7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
 8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took very much brass.
 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the host of Hadadezer,
 10 Then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and struck him, for Hadadezer had wars with Toi.  And Joram brought with him containers of silver, and containers of gold, and containers of brass,
 11 Which also king David dedicated to the Lord, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued,
 12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
 13 And David got himself a name when he returned from striking of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
 14 And he put garrisons in Edom, throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all of those of Edom became David's servants.  And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
 15 And David ruled over all Israel, and David executed judgment and justice for all his people.
 16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
 17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests, and Seraiah was the scribe,
 18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were the main rulers.

___2 Samuel chapter 9
 1 And David said, "Is there yet anyone that is left of the house of Saul, so I can show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
 2 And there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba.  And when they had called him to David, the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?"  And he said, "Your servant is he."
 3 And the king said, "Is there yet any of the house of Saul, so I can show the kindness of God to him?"  And Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan still has a son, who is lame on his feet."
 4 And the king said to him, "Where is he?"  And Ziba said to the king, "See, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar."
 5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
 6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face, and did reverence.  And David said, "Mephibosheth."  And he answered, "See, your servant!"
 7 And David said to him, "Don't be afraid, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat bread at my table continually."
 8 And he bowed himself, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?"
 9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "I have given to your master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.
 10 You therefore, and your sons, and your servants, shall till the land for him, and you shall bring in the fruits, so that your master's son can have food to eat, but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread always at my table."  Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
 11 Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so shall your servant do."  "As for Mephibosheth," said the king, "he shall eat at my table, like one of the king's sons."
 12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha.  And all that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.
 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king's table, and was lame on both his feet.

___2 Samuel chapter 10
 1 And after this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son ruled instead of him.
 2 Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, like his father showed kindness to me."  And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father.  And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
 3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David is honoring your father, because he has sent comforters to you?  Hasn't David rather sent his servants to you, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"
 4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, to their buttocks, and sent them away.
 5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed, and the king said, wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.
 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate, and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
 9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians,
 10 And the rest of the people he put into the hand of Abishai his brother, so that he would put them in array against the children of Ammon.
 11 And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
 12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God, and let the Lord do what seems good to him."
 13 And Joab went near, and the people that were with him, to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
 14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, then they also fled before Abishai, and entered into the city.  So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
 15 And when the Syrians saw that they were struck before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
 16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river, and they came to Helam, and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
 17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam.  And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
 18 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
 19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were struck before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them.  So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon anymore.

___2 Samuel chapter 11
 1 And after the year had ended, at the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.  But David remained at Jerusalem.
 2 And one evening, David got up from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman.  And someone said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
 4 And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he lay with her, for she was purified from her uncleanness, and she returned to her house.
 5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."
 6 And David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah the Hittite."  And Joab sent Uriah to David.
 7 And when Uriah had come to him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
 8 And David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet."  And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and an order of meat from the king was sent after him.
 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.
 10 And when they had told David, "Uriah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Didn't you come from your journey?  Why then didn't you go down to your house?"
 11 And Uriah said to David, "The ark, and Israel, and Judah, stay in tents, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields, shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife?  As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."
 12 And David said to Uriah, "Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart."  So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
 13 And when David had called him, he ate and drink before him, and he made him drunk, and at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
 14 And in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set Uriah in the front of the hottest battle, and pull back from him, so that he will be struck, and die."
 16 And when Joab observed the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew that valiant men were.
 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab, and some of the people of the servants of David fell, and Uriah the Hittite died also.
 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,
 19 And charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling the matters of the war to the king,
 20 And if the king's anger arises, and he says to you, why did you approach so near to the city when you fought?  Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
 21 Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?  Didn't a woman throw a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez?  Why did you go so near the wall?  Then say, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
 22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
 23 And the messenger said to David, "Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entering of the gate.
 24 And the shooters shot from off the wall at your servants, and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
 25 Then David said to the messenger, thus shall you say to Joab, "Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another, make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it, and encourage him."
 26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son.  But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

___2 Samuel chapter 12
 1 And the Lord sent Nathan to David.  And he came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor.
 2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
 3 But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, that he had bought and nourished up, and it grew up together with him, and with his children, it ate of his own food, and drank from his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
 4 And a traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and from his own herd, to dress for the traveling man that had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and cooked it for the man that had come to him."
 5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord lives, the man that has done this thing shall surely die,
 6 And he shall restore the lamb four fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."
 7 And Nathan said to David, "You are the man.  Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul,
 8 And I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I would also have given to you such and such things.
 9 Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight?  You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you've despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
 11 Thus says the Lord, see, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun."
 13 And David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord."  And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin, you shall not die.
 14 But, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die."
 15 And Nathan departed to his house.  And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
 16 David therefore besought God for the child, and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
 17 And the elders of his house got up, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth, but he wouldn't, nor did he eat bread with them.
 18 And on the seventh day, the child died.  And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "See, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn't listen to our voice, how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"
 19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead, therefore David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?  And they said, "He is dead."
 20 Then David got up from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped, then he came to his own house, and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
 21 Then his said servants to him, "What is this that you have done?  You fasted and cried for the child, while it was alive, but when the child was dead, you did got up and ate bread."
 22 And he said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and cried, for I said, who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, so that the child will live?
 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast?  Can I bring him back again?  I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me."
 24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him.
 25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.
 26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it, so that I don't take the city, and it is called by my name."
 29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
 30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight from which was a talent of gold with the precious stones, and it was set on David's head.  And he brought out the spoil of the city in great abundance.
 31 And he brought out the people that were in it, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln, and thus did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon.  So David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

___2 Samuel chapter 13
 1 And after this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar, and Amnon the son of David loved her.
 2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to her.
 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
 4 And he said to him, "Why are you, being the king's son, lean from day to day?  Won't you tell me?"  And Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
 5 And Jonadab said to him, "Lay down on your bed, and make yourself sick, and when your father comes to see you, say to him, please, let my sister Tamar come, and give me food, and prepare the food in my sight, so I can see it, and eat it from her hand."
 6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick, and when the king had come to see him, Amnon said to the king, please, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, so I can eat from her hand."
 7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and cook him food."
 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, and he was laid down.  And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
 9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him, but he refused to eat.  And Amnon said, have out all men from me.  And every man went out from him.
 10 And Amnon said to Tamar, bring the food into the room, so that I can eat from your hand.  And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.
 11 And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come lie with me, my sister."
 12 And she answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel, don't do this foolishness.
 13 And I, where shall I cause my shame to go?  And as for you, you'll be like one of the fools in Israel.  Now therefore, please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."
 14 But he wouldn't listen to her voice, but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
 15 Then Amnon hated her very much, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her.  And Amnon said to her, "Get up, be gone."
 16 And she said to him, "There is no reason, this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me."  But he would not listen to her.
 17 Then he called his servant that ministered to him, and said, put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
 18 And she had a garment of various colors on her, for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins dressed.  Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and torn her garment of various colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
 20 And Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you?  But be quiet now, my sister, he is your brother, don't pay attention to this thing."  So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
 21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
 22 And Absalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
 23 And after two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
 24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheep shearers, let the king, please, and his servants go with your servant."
 25 And the king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all now go, so that we won't be indebted to you."  And he pressed him, but he wouldn't go, but blessed him.
 26 Then Absalom said, "If not, please, let my brother Amnon go with us."  And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"
 27 But Absalom pressed him, so that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, "Watch now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, strike Amnon, then kill him, don't be afraid, haven't I commanded you?  Be courageous, and be valiant."
 29 And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded.  Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.
 30 And while they were on the way, news came to David, saying, "Absalom has killed all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left."
 31 Then the king got up, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
 32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother said, "Let my lord not suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons, for Amnon only is dead, for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined since the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
 33 Now therefore let my lord the king not take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead, for Amnon only is dead."
 34 But Absalom fled.  And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, see, many people came by the way of the hill side behind him.
 35 And Jonadab said to the king, "See, the king's sons come, as your servant said, so it is."
 36 And as soon as he had made an end of speaking, see, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and cried, and the king also and all his servants cried very severely.
 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur.  And David mourned for his son every day.
 38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
 39 And the soul of king David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

___2 Samuel chapter 14
 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
 2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please, pretend to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead,
 3 And come to the king, and speak like this to him."  So Joab put the words in her mouth.
 4 And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king."
 5 And the king said to her, "What's wrong with you?"  And she answered, "I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
 6 And your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
 7 And, see, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they said, deliver him that struck his brother, so that we can kill him, for the life of his brother whom he killed, and we will destroy the heir also, and so they shall quench my coal that is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the earth."
 8 And the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you."
 9 And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house, and the king and his throne be guiltless."
 10 And the king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore."
 11 Then she said, "Please, let the king remember the Lord your God, that you would not allow the avengers of blood to destroy anymore, so that they won't destroy my son."  And he said, "As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."
 12 Then the woman said, "Let your handmaid, please, speak one word to my lord the king."  And he said, "Go ahead."
 13 And the woman said, "Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God?  For the king speaks this thing as one who is faulty, in that the king doesn't fetch home again his banished.
 14 For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, that can't be gathered up again, neither does God respect any person, yet does he devise means, so that his banished is not expelled from him.
 15 Now therefore the reason I've come to speak about this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid, and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king, it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
 17 Then your handmaid said, the word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable, for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad, therefore the Lord your God will be with you."
 18 Then the king answered and said to the woman, "Don't hide from me, please, the thing that I shall ask you."  And the woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."
 19 And the king said, "Isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?"  And the woman answered and said, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken, for your servant Joab, he told me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid,
 20 To bring about this form of speech has your servant Joab done this thing, and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."
 21 And the king said to Joab, "See now, I have done this thing, go therefore, bring back the young man, Absalom."
 22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king, and Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found grace in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant."
 23 So Joab got up and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
 24 And the king said, "Let him return to his own house, and let him not see my face."  So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.
 25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty, from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
 26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it, because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it,) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
 27 And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar, she was a woman of a fair countenance.
 28 So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and didn't see the king's face.
 29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king, but he wouldn't come to him, and when he sent again the second time, he wouldn't come.
 30 Therefore he said to his servants, "See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there, go and set it on fire."  And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
 31 Then Joab got up, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"
 32 And Absalom answered Joab, "See, I sent to you, saying, come here, so that I can send you to the king, to say, why have I come from Geshur?  It had been good for me to have been there still, now therefore let me see the king's face, and if there is any iniquity in me, let him kill me."
 33 So Joab came to the king, and told him, and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

___2 Samuel chapter 15
 1 And after this, Absalom prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
 2 And Absalom got up early, and stood beside the way of the gate, and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "Of what city are you?"  And he said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."
 3 And Absalom said to him, "See, your matters are good and right, but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you."
 4 Absalom said also, "Oh that I were made judge in the land, so that every man who has any suit or cause would come to me, and I would do him justice!"
 5 And it was so, that when any man came near to him to do him obeisance, he put out his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
 6 And Absalom did like that to all Israel that came to the king for judgment, so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
 7 And after forty years, Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, that I've vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Syria, saying, if the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord."
 9 And the king said to him, "Go in peace."  So he got up, and went to Hebron.
 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, Absalom rules in Hebron."
 11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called, and they went in their simplicity, and they didn't know anything.
 12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices.  And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.
 13 And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."
 14 And David said to all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, "Get up, and let us flee, for we shall not otherwise escape from Absalom, make speed to depart, so he doesn't overtake us suddenly, and bring evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."
 15 And the king's servants said to the king, "See, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall appoint."
 16 And the king went out, and all his household after him.  And the king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
 17 And the king went out, and all the people after him, and waited in a place that was far off.
 18 And all his servants passed on beside him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
 19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you go also with us?  Return to your place, and stay with the king, for you are a stranger, and also an exile.
 20 Since you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us?  Seeing I go where I can, return, and take back your brothers, mercy and truth be with you."
 21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, "As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, there also will your servant be."
 22 And David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over."  And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
 23 And all the country cried with a loud voice, and all the people passed over, the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
 24 And lo, Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar went up, until all the people had finished passing out of the city.
 25 And the king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city, if I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation,
 26 But if he says thus, I have no delight in you, see, here I am, let him do to me as seems good to him."
 27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer?  Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
 28 See, I will wait in the plain of the wilderness, until word comes from you to certify me."
 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they waited there.
 30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and cried as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot, and all the people that were with him all covered their heads, and they went up, cried as they went up.
 31 And someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom."  And David said, "O Lord, please, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
 32 And when David had come to the top of the mountain, where he worshipped God, see, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head,
 33 To whom David said, "If you pass on with me, then you'll be a burden to me,
 34 But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king, as I have been your father's servant until now, so I will now also be your servant, then you can for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
 35 And don't you have there with you Zadok and Abiathar the priests?  Therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
 36 See, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son, and by them you shall send to me everything that you can hear."
 37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

___2 Samuel chapter 16
 1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, see, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
 2 And the king said to Ziba, what do you mean by these?  And Ziba said, "The asses are for the king's household to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, so that such as are faint in the wilderness can drink."
 3 And the king said, "And where is your master's son?"  And Ziba said to the king, "See, he stays at Jerusalem, for he said, today the house of Israel shall restore me the kingdom of my father."
 4 Then the king said to Ziba, "See, all that pertained to Mephibosheth is yours."  And Ziba said, "I humbly beseech you that I may find grace in your sight, my lord, O king."
 5 And when king David came to Bahurim, see, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, he came out, cursing as he came.
 6 And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
 7 And when he cursed Shimei said, "Come out, come out, you bloody man, and you man of Belial,
 8 The Lord has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, instead of whom you've ruled, and the Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son, and, see, you are taken in your mischief, because you're a bloody man."
 9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?  Let me go over, please, and take off his head."
 10 And the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah?  So let him curse, because the Lord has said to him, curse David.  Who shall then say, why have you done so?"
 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "See, my son, who came out of my body, seeks my life, how much more now may this Benjamite do it?  Let him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has sent him.
 12 It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me good for his cursing this day."
 13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side opposite him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and threw dust.
 14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
 15 And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
 16 And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "God save the king, God save the king."
 17 And Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend?  Why didn't you go with your friend?"
 18 And Hushai said to Absalom, "No, but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, I will be his, and I will stay with him.
 19 And again, whom should I serve?  Shouldn't I serve in the presence of his son?  As I have served in your father's presence, so will I be in your presence."
 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give advice among you what we shall do."
 21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house, and all Israel shall hear that you're hated by your father, then the hands of all that are with you shall be strong.
 22 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
 23 And the advice of Ahithophel, that he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God, so was all the advice of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

___2 Samuel chapter 17
 1 Also Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose out twelve thousand men now, and I will get up and pursue after David tonight,
 2 And I will come on him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid, and all the people that are with him shall flee, and I will strike the king only,
 3 And I will bring back all the people to you, the man whom you seek is as if all returned, so all the people shall be in peace."
 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
 5 Then Absalom said, "Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let's also hear what he says."
 6 And when Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken after this manner, shall we do after his saying?  If not, speak."
 7 And Hushai said to Absalom, "The advice that Ahithophel has given is not good at this time.
 8 For, Hushai said, you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, like a bear robbed of her whelps in the field, and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
 9 See, he is hidden now in some pit, or in some other place, and when some of them are overthrown at the first, whoever hears it will say, there is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
 10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, shall completely melt, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
 11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in your own person.
 12 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him like the dew falls on the ground, and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left as much as one.
 13 Also, if he has gotten into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will pull it into the river, until there's not one small stone found there."
 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel."  For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord would bring evil on Absalom.
 15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Thus and thus did Ahithophel advise Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and thus I have advised.
 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, don't lodge this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over, so that the king won't be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him."
 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel, so they wouldn't be seen to come into the city, and a young woman went and told them, and they went and told king David.
 18 But a lad saw them, and told Absalom, but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court that they went down into.
 19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it, and the thing was not known.
 20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?"  And the woman said to them, "They've gone over the brook of water."  And when they'd looked for them and couldn't find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
 21 And after they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said to David, "Get up, and pass quickly over the water, for thus has Ahithophel advised against you."
 22 Then David got up, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan, by the morning light not one of them remained that had not gone over Jordan.
 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled his ass, and got up, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his affairs in order, and hung himself, and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
 24 Then David came to Mahanaim.  And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
 25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab, which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
 26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
 27 And when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
 28 Brought beds, and basins, and pots, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
 29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."

___2 Samuel chapter 18
 1 And David counted the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
 2 And David sent out one third of the people under the hand of Joab, and one third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite.  And the king said to the people, "I will surely go out with you myself also."
 3 But the people answered, "You shall not go out, for if we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half of us die, will they care for us, but now you are worth ten thousand of us, therefore now it is better that you strengthen us out of the city."
 4 And the king said to them, "I'll do what seems best to you."  And the king stood by the side of the gate, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
 5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, with Absalom."  And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
 6 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was in the woods of Ephraim,
 7 Where the people of Israel were killed before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
 8 For the battle was scattered over the face of all the country, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
 9 And Absalom met the servants of David.  And Absalom rode on a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth, and the mule that was under him went away.
 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, "See, I saw Absalom hung in an oak."
 11 And Joab said to the man that told him, "And, you saw him, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground?  And I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a girdle."
 12 And the man said to Joab, "Though I would receive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, yet I wouldn't put out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, beware that no one touches the young man Absalom.
 13 Otherwise I would have worked falsehood against my own life, for there is no matter hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me."
 14 Then said Joab, "I can't wait like this with you."  And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
 15 And ten young men that carried Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
 16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel, for Joab held back the people.
 17 And they took Absalom, and threw him into a large pit in the woods, and laid a very great heap of stones on him, and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.
 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance," and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called to this day, Absalom's place.
 19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me now run, and take the king news, how that the Lord has avenged him of his enemies."
 20 And Joab said to him, "You shall not take news this day, but you shall bear news another day, but this day you shall bear no news, because the king's son is dead."
 21 Then Joab said to Cushi, "Go tell the king what you've seen."  And Cushi bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
 22 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, "But however, please let me also run after Cushi."  And Joab said, "Why would you run, my son, since you have no news ready?"
 23 But however, he said, let me run."  And he said to him, "Run."  Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran Cushi.
 24 And David sat between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw a man running alone.
 25 And the watchman shouted, and told the king.  And the king said, if he's alone, there is news in his mouth.  And he came apace, and came near.
 26 And the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the porter, and said, "See another man running alone."  And the king said, he also brings news.
 27 And the watchman said, "I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok."  And the king said, he is a good man, and comes with good news.
 28 And Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, "All is well."  And he fell down to the earth on his face before the king, and said, "Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king."
 29 And the king said, "Is the young man Absalom safe?"  And Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, and me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I didn't know what it was."
 30 And the king said to him, "Turn aside, and stand here."  And he turned aside, and stood still.
 31 And, see, Cushi came, and Cushi said, "News, my lord the king, for the Lord has avenged you this day of all of those who rose up against you."
 32 And the king said to Cushi, is the young man Absalom safe?  And Cushi answered, "The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against you to do you hurt, be like that young man is."
 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and cried, and as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!  Would God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

___2 Samuel chapter 19
 1 And Joab was told, "See, the king is crying and mourning for Absalom."
 2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people, for the people heard that day how the king was grieved for his son.
 3 And the people went by stealth that day into the city, like people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
 4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
 5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines,
 6 In that you've loved your enemies, and hate your friends.  For you have declared this day, that you regard neither princes nor servants, for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all of us had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.
 7 Now therefore get up, go out, and speak comfortably to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you don't go out, there won't remain anyone with you this night, and that will be worse to you than all the evil that's happened you from your youth until now."
 8 Then the king got up, and sat in the gate.  And they told to all the people, saying, "See, the king sits in the gate."  And all the people came before the king, for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
 9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land for Absalom.
 10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.  Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?"
 11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, why are you the last to bring the king back to his house?  Seeing the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to his house.
 12 You are my brothers, you are my bones and my flesh, why then are you the last to bring back the king?
 13 And say to Amasa, are you not of my bone, and of my flesh?  God do so to me, and more also, if you are not captain of the host before me continually in the office of Joab."
 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, like the heart of one man, so that they sent this word to the king, "Return, and all your servants."
 15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan.  And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
 16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
 17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, and they went over Jordan before the king.
 18 And a ferry boat went over to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good.  And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan,
 19 And said to the king, "Let 
my lord not count me as having done wrong, nor remember what your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, so that the king should take it to his heart.
 20 For your servant knows that I have sinned, therefore, see, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."
 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?"
 22 And David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me?  Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel?  For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?"
 23 Therefore the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die."  And the king swore to him.
 24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
 25 And when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?"
 26 And he answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said, I will saddle me an ass, so that I can ride on it, and go to the king, because your servant is lame.
 27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God, do therefore what is good in yours eyes.
 28 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king, yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table.  What right therefore do I have yet to call anymore to the king for help?"
 29 And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your matters?  I have said, you and Ziba divide the land."
 30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, since my lord the king has come again in peace to his own house."
 31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old, and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
 33 And the king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will feed you with me in Jerusalem."
 34 And Barzillai said to the king, "How long do I have to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
 35 I am this day eighty years old, and can I discern between good and evil?  Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink?  Can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women?  So then would your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
 36 Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king, and why should the king repay me with such a reward?
 37 Let your servant, please, turn back again, so I can die in my own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother.  But look at your servant Chimham, let him go over with my lord the king, and do to him what shall seem good to you."
 38 And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you, and whatever you shall require of me, I will do for you."
 39 And all the people went over Jordan.  And when the king had come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.
 40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him, and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
 41 And, see, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?"
 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is near of kin to us, why then are you angry about this matter?  Have we eaten at all of the king's cost?  Or has he given us any gift?"
 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than you, why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?"  And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

___2 Samuel chapter 20
 1 And there happened to be present a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he blew a trumpet, and said, "We have no part in David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse, every man to his tents, O Israel."
 2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri, but the men of Judah stuck with their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
 3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but didn't have sex with them.  So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
 4 Then the king said to Amasa, assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and you too.
 5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah, but he took longer than the set time that he had appointed him.
 6 And David said to Abishai, "Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom, take you your lord's servants, and pursue after him, so that he doesn't get himself fenced cities, and escape us." 
 7 And Joab's men went out after him, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
 8 When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them.  And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded to him, and on it a girdle with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it, and as he went it fell out.
 9 And Joab said to Amasa, "Are you in health, my brother?"  And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
 10 But Amasa didn't pay attention to the sword that was in Joab's hand, so he struck him with it in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again, and he died.  So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
 11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, "He that favors Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab."
 12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the middle of the highway.  And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and threw a cloth on him, when he saw that everyone that came near him stood still.
 13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
 14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites, and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
 15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they threw up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench, and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
 16 Then a wise woman out of the city shouted, "Hear, hear, say, please," to Joab, "come near here, so I can talk with you."
 17 And when he had come near to her, the woman said, "Are you Joab?"  And he answered, I am he.  Then she said to him, "Hear the words of your handmaid."  And he answered, "I hear."
 18 Then she spoke, saying, "They were wont to speak in old time, saying, they shall surely ask counsel at Abel, and so they ended the matter.
 19 I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel, you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel, why do you want to swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?"
 20 And Joab answered and said, "Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
 21 The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David, deliver him only, and I will depart from the city."  And the woman said to Joab, "See, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."
 22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom.  And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab.  And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent.  And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
 23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,
 24 And Adoram was over the tribute, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,
 25 And Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests,
 26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler near David.

___2 Samuel chapter 21
 1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David inquired of the Lord.  And the Lord answered, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites."
 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them, (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
 3 So David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you?  And how shall I make the atonement, so that you'll bless the inheritance of the Lord?"
 4 And the Gibeonites said to him, "We will have no silver nor gold from Saul, nor from his family, nor shall you kill any man for us in Israel."  And he said, "I will do for you what you shall say."
 5 And they answered the king, "The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
 6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord chose."  And the king said, "I will give them."
 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite,
 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hung them in the hill before the Lord, and all seven of them fell together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped on them out of heaven, and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, who had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hung them, when the Philistines had killed Saul in Gilboa,
 13 And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered the bones of them that were hung.
 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son they buried in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father, and they performed all that the king commanded.  And after that God was entreated for the land.
 15 Also the Philistines had yet war again with Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines, and David became faint.
 16 And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have killed David.
 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah strengthened him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him.  Then the men of David swore to him, saying, you shall go no more out with us to battle, so that you don't quench the light of Israel.
 18 And after this, there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob, then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where there was a very tall man, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, twenty four in number, and he also was born to the giant.
 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David killed him.
 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

___2 Samuel chapter 22
 1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
 2 And he said, "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,
 3 The God of my rock, in him I will trust, he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior, you save me from violence.
 4 I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, so shall I be saved from my enemies.
 5 When the waves of death surrounded me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid,
 6 The sorrows of hell surrounded me, the traps of death went before me,
 7 In my distress I called on the Lord, and cried to my God, and he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry entered into his ears.
 8 Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was angry.
 9 A smoke went up out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured, coals were kindled by it.
 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.
 11 And he rode on a cherub, and flew, and he was seen on the wings of the wind.
 12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
 13 Through the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled.
 14 The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most high uttered his voice.
 15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them, lightning, and struck them.
 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the reprimanding of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
 17 He sent from above, he took me, he pulled me out of many waters,
 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay.
 20 He brought me forth also into a large place, he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
 21 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.
 22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
 23 For all his judgments were before me, and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
 24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.
 25 Therefore the Lord has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.
 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure, and with the froward you will show yourself unsavory.
 28 And the afflicted people you will save, but your eyes are on the haughty, so that you can bring them down.
 29 For you are my lamp, O Lord, and the Lord will lighten my darkness.
 30 For by you I have run through a battalion, by my God have I jumped over a wall.
 31 As for God, his way is perfect, the word of the Lord is tested, he is a buckler to all those who trust in him.
 32 For who is God, except the Lord?  And who is a rock, except our God?
 33 God is my strength and power, and he makes my way perfect.
 34 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places.
 35 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
 36 You've also given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness has made me great.
 37 You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip.
 38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them, and didn't turn away again until I had consumed them.
 39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, so that they couldn't arise, yes, they've fallen under my feet.
 40 For you've girded me with strength to battle, those who rose up against me you have subdued under me.
 41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, so I could destroy those who hate me.
 42 They looked, but there was none to save, even to the Lord, but he didn't answer them.
 43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them like the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
 44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen, a people that I didn't know shall serve me.
 45 Strangers shall submit themselves to me, as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient to me.
 46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
 47 The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and the God of the rock of my salvation be exalted.
 48 It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me,
 49 And that brings me out from my enemies, you also have lifted me up on high above those who rose up against me, you have delivered me from the violent man.
 50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises to your name.
 51 He is the tower of salvation for his king, and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants for evermore."

___2 Samuel chapter 23
 1 Now these are the last words of David.  "David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
 2 The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
 3 The God of Israel said, the rock of Israel spoke to me, he that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds, like the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
 5 Although my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn't make it to grow.
 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them like thorns thrust away, because they can't be taken with hands,
 7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear, and they shall be completely burned with fire in the same place."
 8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had, the Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains, the same was Adino the Eznite, he lifted up his spear against eight hundred, whom he killed at one time.
 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away,
 10 He got up, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword, and the Lord made a great victory that day, and the people returned after him only to spoil.
 11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite.  And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles, and the people fled from the Philistines.
 12 But he stood in the middle of the ground, and defended it, and killed the Philistines, and the Lord made a great victory.
 13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
 14 And David was then in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
 15 And David longed, and said, "Oh that someone would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is by the gate!"
 16 And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David, but he wouldn't drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord.
 17 And he said, "Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this, isn't this the blood of the men that went in danger of their lives?"  Therefore he would not drink it.  These things did these three mighty men.
 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three.  And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and killed them, and had the name among three.
 19 Wasn't he most honorable of three?  Therefore he was their captain, but he attained not to the first three.
 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he killed two lion-like men of Moab, he went down also and killed a lion in the middle of a pit in time of snow,
 21 And he killed an Egyptian, a goodly man, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
 22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did these things, and had the name among three mighty men.
 23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn't attain to the first three.  And David set him over his guard.
 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
 27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
 29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
 31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
 38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
 39 Uriah the Hittite, thirty seven in all.

___2 Samuel chapter 24
 1 And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, "Go, count Israel and Judah."
 2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, "Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, so I will know the number of the people."
 3 And Joab said to the king, "Now the Lord your God add to the people, however many they are, a hundredfold, and so that the eyes of my lord the king will see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"
 4 But the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host.  And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to count the people of Israel.
 5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lies in the middle of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer,
 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi, and they came to Danjaan, and around to Zidon,
 7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.
 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
 9 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
 10 And David's heart struck him after he had counted the people.  And David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done, and now, I beg you, O Lord, take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
 11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
 12 "Go and say to David, thus says the Lord, I offer you three things, choose one of them, so I can do it to you."
 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land?  Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you?  Or that there be three days' pestilence in your land?  Now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me."
 14 And David said to Gad, "I am in great difficulty, let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for his mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man."
 15 So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the time appointed, and seventy thousand men of the people died from Dan to Beersheba.
 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand on Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, "It is enough, now stop your hand."  And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite.
 17 And David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel that struck the people, and said, "See, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly, but these sheep, what have they done?  Let your hand, please, be against me, and against my father's house."
 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, raise an altar to the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
 20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face on the ground.
 21 And Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?"  And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the Lord, so that the plague will be stopped from the people."
 22 And Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him, see, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood."
 23 All these things did Araunah, like a king, give to the king.  And Araunah said to the king, "The Lord your God accept you."
 24 And the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you at a price, nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God of that which costs me nothing."  So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
 25 And David built an altar to the Lord there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.  So the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stopped from Israel.

___1 Kings chapter 1
 1 Now king David was old and the years had taken their toll, and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't stay warm.
 2 So his servants said to him, "Let's find for my lord the king a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king will get heat."
 3 So they sought for a fair young woman throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
 4 And the young woman was very beautiful, and cherished the king, and ministered to him, but the king didn't have sex with her.
 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king," and he prepared himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
 6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, why have you done so?  And he also was a very goodly man, and his mother bore him after Absalom.
 7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed Adonijah and helped him.
 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
 9 And Adonijah killed sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, that is by Enrogel, and called all his brothers the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants,
 10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call.
 11 So Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith rules, and David our lord doesn't know it?
 12 Now therefore come, and please let me give you advice, so you can save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
 13 Go to king David, and say to him, didn't you, my lord O king, swear to your handmaid, saying, assuredly Solomon your son shall rule after me, and he shall sit on my throne?  Why then does Adonijah rule?
 14 See, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words."
 15 And Bathsheba went in to the king into the room, and the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the king.
 16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king.  And the king said, "What do you want?"
 17 And she said to him, "My lord, you swore by the Lord your God to your handmaid, saying, assuredly Solomon your son shall rule after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
 18 And now, see, Adonijah rules, and now, my lord the king, you don't know it,
 19 And he has killed oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host, but Solomon your servant he hasn't called.
 20 And you, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
 21 Otherwise when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."
 22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.
 23 And they told the king, saying, "See, Nathan the prophet."  And when he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
 24 And Nathan said, "My lord, O king, have you said, Adonijah shall rule after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
 25 For he has gone down this day, and has killed oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest, and, see, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
 26 But me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he hasn't called.
 27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not showed it to your servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
 28 Then king David answered, "Call me Bathsheba."  And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
 29 And the king swore, and said, "As the Lord lives, that has redeemed my soul out of all distress,
 30 Just like I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel, saying, assuredly Solomon your son shall rule after me, and he shall sit on my throne instead of me, even so I will certainly do this day."
 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, "Let my lord king David live forever."
 32 And king David said, "Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada."  And they came before the king.
 33 The king also said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon,
 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel, and blow with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
 35 Then you shall come up after him, so that he can come and sit on my throne, for he shall be king instead of me, and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah."
 36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, "Amen, the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.
 37 As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so let him be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David."
 38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
 39 And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon.  And they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
 40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth tore with the sound of them.
 41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating.  And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?"
 42 And while he yet spoke, see, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came, and Adonijah said to him, "Come in, for you are a valiant man, and bring good news."
 43 And Jonathan answered Adonijah, "Truly our lord king David has made Solomon king.
 44 And the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule,
 45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they've come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again.  This is the noise that you've heard.
 46 And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
 47 And also the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.  And the king bowed himself on the bed.
 48 And also thus said the king, blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has given someone to sit on my throne this day, my eyes seeing it."
 49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
 50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and got up, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
 51 And it was told Solomon, saying, see, "Adonijah fears king Solomon, for, lo, he has caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, let king Solomon swear to me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword."
 52 And Solomon said, "If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth, but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die."
 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar.  And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house."

___1 Kings chapter 2
 1 Now the days of David came near that he would die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
 2 "I go the way of all the earth, be strong therefore, and show yourself a man,
 3 And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that you'll prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn,
 4 So that the Lord will continue his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, if your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
 5 Also you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was around his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.
 7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table, for they came to me when I fled because of Absalom your brother.
 8 And, see, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.
 9 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and know what you ought to do to him, but his hoar head bring down to the grave with blood."
 10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
 11 And the days that David ruled over Israel were forty years, seven years ruled he in Hebron, and thirty three years he ruled in Jerusalem.
 12 Then Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was established greatly.
 13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon.  And she said, "Do you come peaceably?"  And he said, "Peaceably."
 14 He also said, "I have something to say to you."  And she said, "Go ahead."
 15 And he said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should rule, but the kingdom has turned around, and has become my brother's, for it was his from the Lord.
 16 And now I ask one petition of you, don't deny me."  And she said to him, "Continue."
 17 And he said, "Please speak, to Solomon the king, (for he will not say no to you,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."
 18 And Bathsheba said, "Well, I will speak for you to the king."
 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah.  And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother, and she sat at his right hand.
 20 Then she said, "I desire one small petition of you, please don't say no to me."  And the king said to her, "Ask on, my mother, for I will not say no to you."
 21 And she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."
 22 And king Solomon answered his mother, and "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah?  Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother, for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."
 23 Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
 24 Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today."
 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he fell on him so that he died.
 26 And the king said to Abiathar the priest, go to Anathoth, "Go to your own fields, for you are worthy of death, but I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you have been afflicted in everything in which my father was afflicted."
 27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, so that he would fulfill the word of the Lord, that he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
 28 Then news came to Joab, for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom.  And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
 29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and, see, he is by the altar.  Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, fall on him."
 30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, "Thus says the king, come out."  And he said, "No, I'll die here."And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."
 31 And the king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, so that you'll take away the innocent blood that Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
 32 And the Lord shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing about it, by name, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
 33 Their blood shall therefore return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever, but on David, and on his descendants, and on his house, and on his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord."
 34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him, and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
 35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his office over the army, and the king put Zadok the priest in the office of Abiathar.
 36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don't go out anywhere.
 37 For it shall be, that on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die, your blood shall be on your own head."
 38 And Shimei said to the king, "The saying is good, as my lord the king has said, so your servant will do."  And Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
 39 And at the end of three years, two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maachah king of Gath.  And they told Shimei, saying, "See, your servants are in Gath."
 40 And Shimei got up, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants, and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
 41 And Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come back.
 42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Didn't I make you swear by the Lord, and protested to you, saying, know for certain, on the day you go out, and walk abroad anywhere, that you shall surely die?  And you said to me, the word that I have heard is good.
 43 Why then haven't you kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged you with?"
 44 The king said also to Shimei, "You know all the wickedness that your heart is partner with, that you did to David my father, therefore the Lord shall return your wickedness on your own head,
 45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever."
 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, who went out, and fell on him, so that he died.  And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

___1 Kings chapter 3
 1 And Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
 2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the Lord, until those days.
 3 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
 4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place, Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."
 6 And Solomon said, "You have shown your servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you, and you've kept for him this great kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
 7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father, and I am but a little child, I don't know how to go out or come in.
 8 And your servant is among your people that you've chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.
 9 Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, so I can discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge your so great a people?"
 10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
 11 And God said to him, "Because you've asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern judgment,
 12 See, I have done according to your words, lo, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
 13 And I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches, and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you all your days.
 14 And if you'll walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, like your father David did, then I will lengthen your days."
 15 And Solomon awoke, and, see, it was a dream.  And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
 16 Then two women came to the king that were prostitutes, and stood before him.
 17 And the one woman said, "O my lord, I and this woman live in one house, and I received deliverance from a child with her in the house.
 18 And the third day after I was delivered, this woman was delivered also, and we were together, there was no stranger with us in the house, except the two of us in the house.
 19 And this woman's child died in the night, because she overlaid it.
 20 And she got up at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
 21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, see, it was dead, but when I had considered it in the morning, see, it was not my son, that I bore."
 22 And the other woman said, "No, the living is my son, and the dead is your son."  And this said, "No, the dead is your son, and the living is my son."  That's how they talked before the king.
 23 Then said the king, "The one says, this is my son that lives, and your son is the dead, and the other says, no, your son is the dead, and my son is the living."
 24 And the king said, "Bring me a sword."  And they brought a sword before the king.
 25 And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."
 26 Then the woman whose the living child was, said to the king, for her bowels yearned for her son, and she said, "O my lord, give her the living child, and don't at all kill it."  But the other said, "Let it be neither mine nor yours, but divide it."
 27 Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and don't at all kill it, she is the mother of it."
 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had judged, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

___1 Kings chapter 4
 1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
 2 And these were the princes which he had, Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
 3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
 4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army, and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests,
 5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers, and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend,
 6 And Ahishar was over the household, and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the taxes.
 7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, that provided food for the king and his household, each man his month in a year made provision.
 8 And these are their names, the son of Hur, in mount Ephraim,
 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan,
 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth, to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher,
 11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor, who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife,
 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, that is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, to the place that is beyond Jokneam,
 13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead, to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, that are in Gilead, to him also pertained the region of Argob, that is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brass bars,
 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim,
 15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali, he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife,
 16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth,
 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar,
 18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin,
 19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan, and he was the only officer who was in the land.
 20 Judah and Israel were many, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
 21 And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt, they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.
 24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river, and he had peace on all sides around him.
 25 And Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
 26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
 27 And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month, they lacked nothing.
 28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries they brought to the place where the officers were, every man according to his assignment.
 29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding very much, and largeness of heart, like the sand that is on the sea shore.
 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
 31 For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all nations all around.
 32 And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand five.
 33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall, he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fish.
 34 And there came from all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

___1 Kings chapter 5
 1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the office of his father, for Hiram was always a lover of David.
 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
 3 "You know how David my father couldn't build a house to the name of the Lord his God for the wars that were around him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
 4 But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
 5 And, see, I purpose to build a house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, your son, whom I will set on your throne in your office, he shall build a house for my name.
 6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon, and my servants shall be with your servants, and to you will I give wages for your servants according to all that you shall appoint, for you know that there are not among us any that can cut timber as skillfully as the Zidonians."
 7 And when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed be the Lord this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."
 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have considered the things that you sent to me for, and I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be delivered there, and you shall receive them, and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."
 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food for his household, and twenty measures of pure oil, thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
 12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made an alliance together.
 13 And king Solomon raised a draft out of all Israel, and the draft was thirty thousand men.
 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses, a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home, and Adoniram was over the draft.
 15 And Solomon had seventy thousand that carried burdens, and eighty thousand cutters in the mountains,
 16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers that were over the work, three thousand three hundred, that ruled over the people that did the work.
 17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and cut stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders cut them, and the stone squarers, so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

___1 Kings chapter 6
 1 And in the four hundred eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's rule over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
 2 And the house that king Solomon built for the Lord, the length of which was ninety feet, and the breadth of which thirty feet, and the height of which forty five feet.
 3 And the porch before the temple of the house, thirty feet was the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, and fifteen feet was the breadth of it before the house.
 4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
 5 And against the wall of the house he built rooms all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle, and he made rooms all around,
 6 The lowermost room was seven and a half feet broad, and the middle was nine feet broad, and the third was ten and a half feet broad, for outside in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests all around, so that the beams wouldn't be fastened in the walls of the house.
 7 And the house, while it was being built, was built of stone made ready before it was brought there, so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.
 8 The door for the middle room was in the right side of the house, and they went up with winding stairs into the middle room, and out of the middle into the third.
 9 So he built the house, and finished it, and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
 10 And then he built rooms against all the house, seven and a half feet high, and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
 11 And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
 12 "Concerning this house that you're building, if you'll walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will perform my word with you, that I spoke to David your father,
 13 And I will live among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."
 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
 15 And he built the walls of the house inside with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling, and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
 16 And he built thirty feet on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar, he built them for it inside, for the oracle, and for the most holy place.
 17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was sixty feet long.
 18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers, all was cedar, there was no stone seen.
 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house inside, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
 20 And the oracle in the front was thirty feet in length, and thirty feet in breadth, and thirty feet in height, and he plated it with pure gold, and so covered the altar that was of cedar.
 21 So Solomon plated the house inside with pure gold, and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle, and he plated it with gold.
 22 And the whole house he plated with gold, until he had finished all the house, also the whole altar that was by the oracle he plated with gold.
 23 And inside the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each fifteen feet high.
 24 And seven and a half feet was the one wing of the cherub, and seven and a half feet the other wing of the cherub, from the furthest part of the one wing to the furthest part of the other were fifteen feet.
 25 And the other cherub was fifteen feet, both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
 26 The height of the one cherub was fifteen feet, and so was it for the other cherub.
 27 And he set the cherubims inside the inner house, and they stretched out the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the house.
 28 And he plated the cherubims with gold.
 29 And he carved all the walls of the house all around with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
 30 And the floor of the house he plated with gold, inside and outside.
 31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree, the lintel and side posts were one fifth of the wall.
 32 The two doors also were of olive tree, and he carved on them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and plated them with gold, and spread gold on the cherubims, and on the palm trees.
 33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, one fourth of the wall.
 34 And the two doors were of fir tree, the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
 35 And he carved on them cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and covered them with gold fitted on the carved work.
 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of cut stone, and a row of cedar beams.
 37 In the fourth year, the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month Zif,
 38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all the parts from which, and according to all the fashion of it.  So he was building it for seven years.

___1 Kings chapter 7
 1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
 2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon, the length of which was one hundred fifty feet, and the breadth of which seventy five feet, and the height of which forty five feet, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
 3 And it was covered with cedar above on the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
 4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
 5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows, and light was against light in three ranks.
 6 And he made a porch of pillars, the length of which was seventy five feet, and the breadth of which forty five feet, and the porch was before them, and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
 7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he could judge, the porch of judgment, and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
 8 And his house where he lived had another court inside the porch, that was of the like work.  Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as wife, like this porch.
 9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of cut stones, sawed with saws, inside and outside, from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
 10 And the foundation was of costly stones, great stones, stones of fifteen feet, and stones of twelve feet.
 11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of cut stones, and cedars.
 12 And the great court all around was with three rows of cut stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
 13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass, and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass.  And he came to king Solomon, and made all his work.
 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of twenty seven feet high each, and a line of eighteen feet circled either of them.
 16 And he made two chapiters of brass cast in foundry, to set on the tops of the pillars, the height of the one chapiter was seven and a half feet, and the height of the other chapiter was seven and a half,
 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters that were on the top of the pillars, seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows all around on the one network, to cover the chapiters that were on the top, with pomegranates, and he did so for the other chapiter.
 19 And the chapiters that were on the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, six feet.
 20 And the chapiters on the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly that was by the network, and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows all around on the other chapiter.
 21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple, and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it Boaz.
 22 And on the top of the pillars was lily work, so was the work of the pillars finished.
 23 And he made a sea cast in the foundry, fifteen feet from the one brim to the other, it was round, and its height was seven and a half feet, and a line of forty five feet circled it.
 24 And under the brim of it all around there were knops surrounding it, ten per eighteen inches, surrounding the sea all around, the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
 25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east, and the sea was set above on them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
 26 And it was a hand breadth thick, and the brim of which was made like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies, it contained two thousand baths.
 27 And he made ten bases of brass, six feet was the length of one base, and six feet the breadth of it, and four and a half feet the height of it.
 28 And the work of the bases was like this: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges,
 29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims, and on the ledges there was a base above, and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
 30 And every base had four brass wheels, and plates of brass, and the four corners of which had undersetters, under the wash basin were undersetters cast in foundry, at the side of every addition.
 31 And the mouth of it inside the chapiter and above was eighteen inches, but the mouth of which was round like the work of the base, twenty seven inches, and also on the mouth of it were engravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
 32 And under the borders were four wheels, and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base, and the height of a wheel was a twenty seven inches.
 33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel, their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all cast in the foundry.
 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base, and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
 35 And in the top of the base there was a round circle of nine inches high, and on the top of the base the ledges of it and the borders of which were of the same.
 36 For on the plates of the ledges of it, and on the borders of it, he engraved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions all around.
 37 After this manner he made the ten bases, all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
 38 Then he made ten wash basins of brass, one wash basin contained forty baths, and every wash basin was six feet, and on every one of the ten bases one wash basin.
 39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house, and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward opposite the south.
 40 And Hiram made the wash basins, and the shovels, and the basins.  So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord,
 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars,
 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the pillars,
 43 And the ten bases, and ten wash basins on the bases,
 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea,
 45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and all these containers, that Hiram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
 47 And Solomon left all the containers unweighed, because there were very many, nor was the weight of the brass found out.
 48 And Solomon made all the containers that pertained to the house of the Lord, the altar of gold, and the table of gold, on which was the showbread,
 49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold, and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple.
 51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord.  And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the containers, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.

___1 Kings chapter 8
 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, so that they could bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
 4 And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy containers that were in the tabernacle, those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
 5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that couldn't be told nor numbered for multitude.
 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubims.
 7 For the cherubims spread out their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves of which above.
 8 And they pulled out the staves, so that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen outside, and there they are to this day.
 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, that Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
 10 And when the priests had come out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
 11 So that the priests couldn't stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
 12 Then Solomon said, "The Lord said that he would live in the thick darkness.
 13 I have surely built you a house to live in, a settled place for you to live in forever."
 14 And the king turned his face around, and blessed all the congregation of Israel, (and all the congregation of Israel stood,)
 15 And he said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
 16 Since the day that I brought out my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, so that my name would be in it, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
 17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
 18 And the Lord said to David my father, since it was in your heart to build a house to my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
 19 But you shall not build the house, but your son that shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.
 20 And the Lord has performed his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in the office of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
 21 And I have set a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord, that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
 22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,
 23 And he said, "Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their heart,
 24 Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him, you spoke also with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
 25 Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, there shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, so that your children take heed to their way, so that they walk before me as you have walked before me.
 26 And now, O God of Israel, please let your word be verified, that you spoke to your servant David my father.
 27 But will God indeed live on the earth?  See, the heaven and heaven of heavens can't contain you, how much less this house that I've built?
 28 Yet have respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer, that your servant prays before you today,
 29 So that your eyes will be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you've said, my name shall be there, so that you'll listen to the prayer that your servant shall make toward this place.
 30 And listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place, and hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
 31 If any man trespasses against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house,
 32 Then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
 33 When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house,
 34 Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.
 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
 36 Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, so that you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain on your land, that you've given to your people for an inheritance.
 37 If there's a famine in the land, if there's pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there are caterpillars, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
 38 Whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, that shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
 39 Then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know, (for only you know the hearts of all the children of men,)
 40 So that they'll fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.
 41 Also concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for your name's sake,
 42 (For they shall hear of your great name, and of your strong hand, and of your stretched out arm,) when he shall come and pray toward this house,
 43 Hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to you for, so that all people of the earth will know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they will know that this house, that I've built, is called by your name.
 44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you shall send them, and shall pray to the Lord toward the city that you've chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name,
 45 Then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that doesn't sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near,
 47 Yet if they shall think themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, we have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness,
 48 And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, that led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, that you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
 49 Then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
 50 And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, so that they will have compassion on them,
 51 For they are your people, and your inheritance, that you brought out of Egypt, from the furnace of iron,
 52 So that your eyes will be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all that they call to you for.
 53 For you separated them from among all the people of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God."
 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
 56 "Blessed be the Lord, that has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised, there has not failed one word of all his good promise, that he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
 57 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, let him not leave us, nor forsake us,
 58 So that he will incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that he commanded our fathers.
 59 And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night, so that he maintains the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require,
 60 So that all the people of the earth will know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.
 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
 62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, that he offered to the Lord, twenty two thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep.  So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
 64 The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brass altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, so fourteen days.
 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

___1 Kings chapter 9
 1 And when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire that he was pleased to do,
 2 The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
 3 And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me, I have hallowed this house, that you have built, to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
 4 And if you'll walk before me, like David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my judgments,
 5 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom in Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
 6 But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them,
 7 Then I will cut off Israel out of the land that I have given them, and this house, that I have hallowed for my name, I will throw out of my sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people,
 8 And at this house, that is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and they shall say, why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
 9 And they shall answer, because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold on other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them, that's why the Lord has brought on them all this evil."
 10 And at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
 11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, and they didn't please him.
 13 And he said, "What cities are these that you have given me, my brother?"  And he called them the land of Cabul until this day.
 14 And Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
 15 And this is the reason of the levy that king Solomon raised, to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and killed the Canaanites that lived in the city, and given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the lower,
 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
 19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
 20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, that were not of the children of Israel,
 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able completely to destroy, on those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service to this day.
 22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen, but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
 23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, that bore rule over the people that did the work.
 24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house that Solomon had built for her, then he built Millo.
 25 And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense on the altar that was before the Lord.  So he finished the house.
 26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, that is beside Eloth, on the shore of the red sea, in the land of Edom.
 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

___1 Kings chapter 10
 1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that carried spices, and very much gold, and precious stones, and when she had come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
 3 And Solomon told her all her questions, there was not anything hidden from the king, that he didn't tell her.
 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
 5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
 6 And she said to the king, "It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom.
 7 But I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it, and, see, the half was not told me, your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame that I heard.
 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and that hear your wisdom.
 9 Blessed be the Lord your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do judgment and justice."
 10 And she gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones, there came no more such abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
 11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
 12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers, there came no such almug trees, nor were seen to this day.
 13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, beside what Solomon gave her of his royal abundance.  So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty six talents of gold,
 15 Beside what he had from the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold, three pounds of gold went to one shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
 18 Also the king made a great throne of ivory, and plated it with the best gold.
 19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind, and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
 20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps, there was not the like made in any kingdom.
 21 And all king Solomon's drinking containers were of gold, and all the containers of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram, the navy of Tharshish came once in three years, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
 24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
 25 And they brought every man his present, containers of silver, and containers of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
 26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
 27 And the king made silver to be like stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be like the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
 28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn, the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty, and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

___1 Kings chapter 11
 1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites,
 2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel, you shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods, Solomon stuck to these in love.
 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart.
 4 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the dirty thing of the Ammonites.
 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and didn't go fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the dirty thing of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the dirty thing of the children of Ammon.
 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
 9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
 10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods, but he didn't keep that which the Lord commanded.
 11 So the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been done by you, and you haven't kept my covenant and my statutes, that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
 12 But in your days I won't do it for David your father's sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
 13 But I will not tear away all the kingdom, but will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen."
 14 And the Lord stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, he was of the king's descendants in Edom.
 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host had gone up to bury the dead, after he had struck every male in Edom,
 16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom,)
 17 Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
 18 And they got up out of Midian, and came to Paran, and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
 19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house, and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
 21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, so I can go to my own country."
 22 Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that see, you want to go to your own country?"  And he answered, "Nothing, but let me go anyway."
 23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah,
 24 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David killed those of Zobah, and they went to Damascus, and lived in it, and ruled in Damascus.
 25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did, and he hated Israel, and ruled over Syria.
 26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, he lifted up his hand against the king.
 27 And this was the reason that he lifted up his hand against the king, Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor, and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
 29 And at the time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way, and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the field,
 30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces,
 31 And he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, see, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you,
 32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,)
 33 Because they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
 34 But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes,
 35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, ten tribes.
 36 And to his son will I give one tribe, so that David my servant will have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen me to put my name there.
 37 And I will take you, and you shall rule according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
 38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, like David my servant did, that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
 39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever."
 40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam.  And Jeroboam got up, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
 41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
 42 And the time that Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
 43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son ruled instead of him.

___1 Kings chapter 12
 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
 2 And when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, heard of it, (for he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,)
 3 They sent and called him.  And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
 4 "Your father made our yoke grievous, now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put on us lighter, and we will serve you."
 5 And he said to them, "Depart for three days, then come again to me."  And the people departed.
 6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, "How do you advise me to answer these people?"
 7 And they answered him, "If you will be a servant to these people today, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
 8 But he forsook the advice of the old men, that they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had grown up with him, and who stood before him,
 9 And he said to them, "What advice do you give that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?"
 10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus shall you speak to this people that spoke to you, saying, your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us, thus shall you say to them, my little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
 11 And now whereas my father did burden you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke, my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."
 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, like the king had appointed, saying, "Come to me again the third day."
 13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him,
 14 And spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke, my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."
 15 So the king didn't listen to the people, for the cause was from the Lord, so that he would perform his saying, that the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 16 So when all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David?  Nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse, to your tents, O Israel, now see to your own house, David."  So Israel departed to their tents.
 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam ruled over them.
 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the taxes, and all Israel stoned him with stones, so that he died.  Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
 20 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come again, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel, there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
 21 And when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
 22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
 23 "Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
 24 Thus says the Lord, you shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel, return every man to his house, for this thing is from me."  They listened therefore to the word of the Lord, and returned, according to the word of the Lord.
 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and lived in it, and went out from there, and built Penuel.
 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom shall return to the house of David,
 27 If these people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the hearts of these people shall turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah,"
 28 About which the king got advice, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem, see your gods, O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
 30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one, to Dan.
 31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.
 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he offered on the altar.  So did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
 33 So he offered on the altar that he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he had devised of his own heart, and ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and he offered on the altar, and burnt incense.

___1 Kings chapter 13
 1 And, see, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel, and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
 2 And he shouted against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord, see, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and on you shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be burnt on you."
 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign that the Lord has spoken, see, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out."
 4 And when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, that had shouted against the altar in Bethel, he put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Take hold of him."  And his hand, that he put out against him, dried up, so that he couldn't pull it in again to himself.
 5 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
 6 And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat now the face of the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand will be restored to me again."  And the man of God besought the Lord, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became like it was before.
 7 And the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."
 8 And the man of God said to the king, "If you would give me half your house, I won't go in with you, nor will I eat bread nor drink water in this place,
 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that you came."
 10 So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Bethel.
 11 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel, the words that he had spoken to the king, they told also to their father.
 12 And their father said to them, "Which way did he go?"  For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
 13 And he said to his sons, "Saddle me the ass."  So they saddled the ass for him, and he rode on it,
 14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak, and he said to him, "Are you the man of God that came from Judah?"  And he said, "I am."
 15 Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread."
 16 And he said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you, nor will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,
 17 For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, you shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came."
 18 He said to him, "I am a prophet also like you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, bring him back with you into your house, so that he can eat bread and drink water."  But he lied to him.
 19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
 20 And as they sat at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back,
 21 And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the Lord, since you have disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment that the Lord your God commanded you,
 22 But came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place, about which the Lord said to you, eat no bread, and drink no water, your carcass shall not come to the tomb of your fathers."
 23 And after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, he saddled for him the ass, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
 24 And when he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him, and his carcass was thrown in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass.
 25 And, see, men passed by, and saw the carcass thrown in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass, and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard about it, he said, "It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the word of the Lord, therefore the Lord has delivered him to the lion, that has torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke to him."
 27 And he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle me the ass."  And they saddled him.
 28 And he went and found his carcass thrown in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass, the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor torn the ass.
 29 And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God, and laid it on the ass, and brought it back, and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
 30 And he laid his carcass in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"
 31 And after he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried, lay my bones beside his bones,
 32 For the saying that he shouted by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen."
 33 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places, whoever wanted it, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
 34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

___1 Kings chapter 14
 1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up, and disguise yourself, so that you're not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and get you to Shiloh, see, there is Ahijah the prophet, who told me that I would be king over these people.
 3 And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him, he shall tell you what shall become of the child."
 4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah.  But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
 5 And the Lord said to Ahijah, "See, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son, for he is sick, thus and thus shall you say to her, for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall pretend to be another woman.
 6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, "Come in, you wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be someone else?  For I am sent to you with heavy news.
 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, thus says the Lord God of Israel, since as I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
 8 And tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in my eyes,
 9 But have done evil more than all that were before you, for you have gone and made other gods, and images cast in the foundry, to provoke me to anger, and have thrown me behind your back,
 10 Therefore, see, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisses against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, like a man takes away dung, 'til it's all gone.
 11 Him that dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat, for the Lord has spoken it.
 12 Arise therefore, get yourself to your own house, and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
 14 Also the Lord shall raise himself up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day, but what?  Even now.
 15 For the Lord shall strike Israel, like a piece of bamboo is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, that he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin."
 17 And Jeroboam's wife got up, and departed, and came to Tirzah, and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died,
 18 And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he ruled, see, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
 20 And the days that Jeroboam ruled were twenty two years, and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son ruled instead of him.
 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon ruled in Judah.  Rehoboam was forty one years old when he began to rule, and he ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.  And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they had committed, more than all that their fathers had done.
 23 For they also built themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
 24 And there were also Sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the dirty things of the nations that the Lord threw out before the children of Israel.
 25 And in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, he took away all, and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
 27 And king Rehoboam made instead of them brass shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
 28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard carried them, and brought them back into the guard room.
 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David.  And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.  And Abijam his son ruled instead of him.

___1 Kings chapter 15
 1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam ruled over Judah.
 2 He ruled three years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, that he had done before him, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
 4 But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
 5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
 6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
 7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
 8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son ruled instead of him.
 9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel Asa ruled over Judah.
 10 And he ruled forty one years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
 11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
 12 And he took away the Sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
 13 And also Maachah his mother, he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove, and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
 14 But the high places were not removed, but Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
 15 And he brought in the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and containers.
 16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
 17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, to stop anyone from going in to or coming out from Asa king of Judah.
 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants, and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that lived at Damascus, saying,
 19 "There is a league between me and you, and between my father and your father, see, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold, come and break your league with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will depart from me."
 20 So Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts that he had against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
 21 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah, no one was exempted, and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber from it, that Baasha had built with, and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
 23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
 24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son ruled instead of him.
 25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to rule over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and ruled over Israel two years.
 26 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
 27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, that belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel laid siege against Gibbethon.
 28 In the third year of Asa king of Judah Baasha killed him, and ruled instead of him.
 29 And when he ruled, he struck all the house of Jeroboam, he didn't leave to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to rule over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty four years.
 34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

___1 Kings chapter 16
 1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
 2 "Since I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins,
 3 See, I will take away the descendants of Baasha, and the descendants of his house, and will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
 4 Him that dies of Baasha in the city the dogs shall eat, and him that dies of his in the fields the fowls of the air shall eat."
 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son ruled instead of him.
 7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani, the word of the Lord came against Baasha, and against his house, for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed him.
 8 In the twenty sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to rule over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
 10 And Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and ruled instead of him.
 11 And when he began to rule, as soon as he sat on his throne, he killed all the house of Baasha, he didn't leave him one that pisses against a wall, neither of his kinsfolk, nor of his friends.
 12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
 13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 15 In the twenty seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri ruled seven days in Tirzah.  And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, that belonged to the Philistines.
 16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also killed the king, so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
 18 And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the palace of the king's house, and burned the king's house over him with fire, and died,
 19 For his sins that he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin that he did, to make Israel to sin.
 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he made, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts, half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.
 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath, so Tibni died, and Omri ruled.
 23 In the thirty first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to rule over Israel, twelve years, six years he ruled in Tirzah.
 24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city that he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
 25 But Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.
 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and his might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son ruled instead of him.
 29 And in the thirty eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to rule over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri ruled over Israel in Samaria twenty two years.
 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all that were before him.
 31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, that he had built in Samaria.
 33 And Ahab made a grove, and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
 34 In his days, Hiel the Bethelite, built Jericho, he laid the foundation of it in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates of it in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

___1 Kings chapter 17
 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
 2 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
 3 "Go from here, and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
 4 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook.
 7 And after a while, the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
 8 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
 9 "Get up and go to Zarephath, that belongs to Zidon, and live there, see, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you."
 10 So he got up and went to Zarephath.  And when he came to the gate of the city, see, the widow woman was there gathering sticks, and he called to her, and said, "Fetch me, please, a little water in a container, so I can drink."
 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, "Bring me, please, a morsel of bread in your hand."
 12 And she said, "As the Lord your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and, see, I am gathering two sticks, so I can go in and dress it for me and my son, so we can eat it, and die."
 13 And Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid, go and do as you have said, but make of it for me a little cake first, and bring it to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
 14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not run out, nor shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth."
 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.
 16 And the barrel of meal didn't run out, nor did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke by Elijah.
 17 And after these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, got sick, and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.
 18 And she said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, O man of God?  Have you come to me to call my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?"
 19 And he said to her, "Give me your son."  And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he lived, and laid him on his own bed.
 20 And he called to the Lord, and said, "O Lord my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I visit, by killing her son?"
 21 And he stretched himself on the child three times, and called to the Lord, and said, "O Lord my God, please, let this child's soul come into him again."
 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother, and Elijah said, "See, your son lives."
 24 And the woman said to Elijah, "Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth."

___1 Kings chapter 18
 1 And after many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth."
 2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab.  And there was a severe famine in Samaria.
 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the governor of his house.  (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly,
 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
 5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all brooks, perhaps we'll find grass to save the horses and mules alive, so we don't lose all the animals."
 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it, Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
 7 And as Obadiah was on the way, Elijah met him, and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, "Are you my lord Elijah?"
 8 And he answered him, "I am, go, tell your lord, see, Elijah is here."
 9 And he said, "What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
 10 As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you, and when they said, he is not there, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.
 11 And now you say, go, tell your lord, see, Elijah is here.
 12 And as soon as I've gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you I don't know where, and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he'll kill me, but I your servant fear the Lord from my youth.
 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
 14 And now you say, go, tell your lord, see, Elijah is here, and he'll kill me."
 15 And Elijah said, "As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
 17 And when Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Are you he that troubles Israel?"
 18 And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and you have followed Baalim.
 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table."
 20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to mount Carmel.
 21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long do you totter between two opinions?  If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him."  And the people didn't answer him a word.
 22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under, and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under,
 24 And you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord, and the God that answers by fire, let him be God."  And all the people answered and said, "It is well spoken."
 25 And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many, and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under."
 26 And they took the bullock that was given to them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, hear us."  But there was no voice, nor any that answered.  And they jumped on the altar that had been made.
 27 And at noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, "Shout out loud, for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or perhaps he sleeps, and must be awakened."
 28 And they cried out loud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, 'til the blood gushed out on them.
 29 And when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
 30 And Elijah said to all the people, "Come near me."  And all the people came near him.  And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been broken down.
 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be your name,
 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he made a trench around the altar, as large as would contain two measures of seed.
 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, "Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood."
 34 And he said, "Do it the second time.  And they did it the second time."  And he said, "Do it the third time."  And they did it the third time.
 35 And the water ran around the altar, and he filled the trench also with water.
 36 And at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
 37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, so these people will know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their heart back again."
 38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, "The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God."
 40 And Elijah said to them, "Take the prophets of Baal, don't let one of them escape."  And they took them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
 41 And Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of abundance of rain."
 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.  And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and he threw himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees,
 43 And said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea."  And he went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing."  And he said, "Go again seven times."
 44 And at the seventh time, he said, "See, a little cloud arises out of the sea, like a man's hand."  And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, prepare your chariot, and get down, so that the rain doesn't stop you."
 45 And in the mean while, the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain.  And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
 46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

___1 Kings chapter 19
 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."
 3 And when he saw that, he got up, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that to die, and said, it is enough, now, "O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers."
 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, see, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Get up and eat."
 6 And he looked, and, see, there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head.  And he are and drank, and laid down again.
 7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, because the journey is too great for you."
 8 And he got up, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
 9 And he came there to a cave, and lodged there, and see, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
 10 And he said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down yours altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."
 11 And he said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord."  And, see, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake,
 12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a still small voice.
 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave.  And, see, there came a voice to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
 14 And he said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down yours altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."
 15 And the Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you come, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria,
 16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your office.
 17 And him that escapes the sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill, and him that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha kill.
 18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him."
 19 So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth, and Elijah passed by him, and threw his mantle on him.
 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me, please, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you."  And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"
 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate.  Then he got up, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.

___1 Kings chapter 20
 1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together, and there were thirty two kings with him, and horses, and chariots, and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
 2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said to him, "Thus says Benhadad,
 3 Your silver and your gold are mine, your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine."
 4 And the king of Israel answered and said, "My lord, O king, according to your saying, I am yours, and all that I have."
 5 And the messengers came again, and said, "Thus speaks Benhadad, saying, although I have sent to you, saying, you shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children,
 6 Yet I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants, and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away."
 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Look, please, and see how this man is looking for mischief, for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I didn't deny him."
 8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, "Don't listen to him, nor consent."
 9 So he said to the messengers of Benhadad, tell my lord the king, "All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I can't do."  And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
 10 And Benhadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria is enough for handfuls for all the people that follow me."
 11 And the king of Israel answered and said, tell him, "Let him that girds on his harness not boast himself like he that puts it off."
 12 And when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, he said to his servants, "Set yourselves in array."  And they set themselves in array against the city.
 13 And see, a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel, saying, "Thus says the Lord, have you seen all this great multitude?  See, I will deliver it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the Lord."
 14 And Ahab said, "By whom?"  And he said, thus says the Lord, "By the young men of the princes of the provinces."  Then he said, "Who shall order the battle?"  And he answered, "You."
 15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred thirty two, and after them he counted all the people, all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
 16 And they went out at noon.  But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty two kings that helped him.
 17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first, and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, "Men have come out of Samaria."
 18 And he said, "Whether they've come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they've come out for war, take them alive."
 19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army that followed them.
 20 And they killed every one his man, and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them, and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.
 21 And the king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
 22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself, and watch, and see what you'll do, for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you."
 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they were stronger than we are, but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they are.
 24 And do this thing, take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their places,
 25 And count an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot, and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they are."  And he listened to their voice, and did so.
 26 And at the return of the year, Benhadad counted the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
 27 And the children of Israel were counted, and were all present, and went against them, and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids, but the Syrians filled the country.
 28 And a man of God came, and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, "Thus says the Lord, because the Syrians have said, the Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord."
 29 And they pitched opposite each other for seven days.  And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined, and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city, and there a wall fell on twenty seven thousand of the men that were left.  And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
 31 And his servants said to him, see now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, let us, please, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel, perhaps he will save your life.
 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Benhadad says, please, let me live."  And he said, "Is he still alive?  He is my brother."
 33 Now the men diligently observed whether anything would come from him, and did hastily catch it, and they said, "Your brother Benhadad."  Then he said, "Go get him."  Then Benhadad came out to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
 34 And Benhadad said to him, "The cities, that my father took from your father, I will restore, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria."  Then Ahab said, "I will send you away with this covenant."  So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor in the word of the Lord, "Strike me, please."  And the man refused to strike him.
 36 Then said he to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, see, as soon as you've departed from me, a lion shall kill you."  And as soon as he'd departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.
 37 Then he found another man, and said, "Strike me, please."  And the man struck him, so that in striking he wounded him.
 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king on the way, and disguised himself with ashes on his face.
 39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and he said, "Your servant went out into the middle of the battle, and, see, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, keep this man, if by any means he's missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
 40 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone."  And the king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be, yourself have decided it."
 41 And he hurried, and took the ashes away from his face, and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
 42 And he said to him, "Thus says the Lord, because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I appointed to complete destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people."
 43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

___1 Kings chapter 21
 1 And after these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, that was in Jezreel, adjoining the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
 2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, so I can have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house, and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it, or, if it seems good to you, I will give you the value of it in money."
 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, "The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you."
 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, "I won't give you the inheritance of my fathers."  And he laid down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?"
 6 And he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it," and he answered, "I will not give you my vineyard."
 7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel?  Get up, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry, I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, living with Naboth.
 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people,
 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, you blasphemed God and the king.  And then carry him out, and stone him, so that he dies."
 11 And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did like Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.
 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
 13 And two men came in, children of Belial, and sat before him, and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth blasphemed God and the king."  Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned, and is dead."
 15 And when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, that he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead."
 16 And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
 17 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
 18 "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria, see, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to possess it.
 19 And you shall speak to him, saying, thus says the Lord, have you killed, and also taken possession?  And you shall speak to him, saying, thus says the Lord, in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood."
 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?  And he answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.
 21 See, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your descendants, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisses against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
 22 And will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you've provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin."
 23 And the Lord also spoke about Jezebel, saying, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
 24 Him that dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat."
 25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
 26 And he did very dirtily in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord threw out before the children of Israel.
 27 And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
 28 And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
 29 "Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before me?  Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house."

___1 Kings chapter 22
 1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
 2 And in the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
 3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
 4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle to Ramothgilead?"  And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."
 5 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire, please, at the word of the Lord today."
 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I refrain from going?"  And they said, "Go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king."
 7 And Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of the Lord besides, so we can inquire from him?"
 8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, for he doesn't prophesy good concerning me, but evil."  And Jehoshaphat said, "let the king not say so."
 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, "Hasten here Micaiah the son of Imlah."
 10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.
 11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and he said, "Thus says the Lord, with these shall you push the Syrians, until you have consumed them."
 12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, "Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hand."
 13 And the messenger that had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king unanimously, let your word, please, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good."
 14 And Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that's what I'll speak."
 15 So he came to the king.  And the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we refrain from going?"  And he answered him, "Go, and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king."
 16 And the king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?"
 17 And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the hills, like sheep that don't have a shepherd, and the Lord said, these have no master, let them return every man to his house in peace."
 18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?"
 19 And he said, "Hear therefore the word of the Lord, I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him at his right hand and at his left.
 20 And the Lord said, who shall persuade Ahab, to go up and fall at Ramothgilead?  And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
 21 And a spirit came and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him.
 22 And the Lord said to him, how?  And he said, I will go out, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.  And he said, you shall persuade him, and prevail also, go out, and do so.
 23 Now therefore, see, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you."
 24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?"
 25 And Micaiah said, "See, you'll see on that day, when you shall go into an inner room to hide yourself."
 26 And the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son,
 27 And say, thus says the king, put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace."
 28 And Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.  And he said, listen, O people, every one of you."
 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
 30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle, but put on your robes."  And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
 31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, "Fight neither with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel."
 32 And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely it is the king of Israel."  And they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat shouted out.
 33 And when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
 34 And a certain man drew a bow by chance, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the harness, so he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host, for I am wounded."
 35 And the battle increased that day, and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at evening, and the blood ran out of the wound into the middle of the chariot.
 36 And a proclamation went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his own country."
 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.
 38 And someone washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed his armor, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke.
 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son ruled instead of him.
 41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to rule over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty five years old when he began to rule, and he ruled twenty five years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father, he didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, but the high places were not taken away, for the people offered and burnt incense still in the high places.
 44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
 46 And the remnant of the Sodomites, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
 47 There was then no king in Edom, a deputy was king.
 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn't go, for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, let my servants go with your servants in the ships.  But Jehoshaphat wouldn't.
 50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son ruled instead of him.
 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to rule over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and ruled two years over Israel.
 52 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
 53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.