_E4trans	1Ki	1:1	Now king David was old and stricken in years. and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:2	Therefore his servants said to him. Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin. and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:3	So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:4	And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him. but the king knew her not.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:5	Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying. I will be king. and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:6	And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying. Why has you done so? and he also was a very goodly man. and his mother bore him after Absalom.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:7	And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest. and they following Adonijah helped him.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:8	But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:9	And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
_E4trans	1Ki	1:10	But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:11	Therefore Nathan spoke to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying. has you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith does reign, and David our lord knows it not?
_E4trans	1Ki	1:12	Now therefore come, let me. I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:13	Go and get you in to king David, and say to him, did not you, my lord, Oh king, swear to your handmaid, saying. Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
_E4trans	1Ki	1:14	Look, while you yet talk there with the king. I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:15	And Bath-sheba went in to the king into the chamber. and the king was very old. and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:16	And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said. What would you?
_E4trans	1Ki	1:17	And she said to him. My lord, you swore by the Lord your God to your handmaid, saying. Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:18	And now, look, Adonijah reigns. and now, my lord the king, you know it not:
_E4trans	1Ki	1:19	And he has slain 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 has he not called.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:20	And you, my lord, Oh king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:21	Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:22	And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:23	And they told the king, saying. Look Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:24	And Nathan said. My lord, Oh king, has you said. Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
_E4trans	1Ki	1:25	For he is gone down this day, and has slain 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, look, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:26	But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, has he not called.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:27	Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you has not showed it to your servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
_E4trans	1Ki	1:28	Then king David answered and said. Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:29	And the king sware, and said. As the Lord lives, that has redeemed my soul out of all distress,
_E4trans	1Ki	1:30	Even as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel, saying. Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead. even so will I certainly do this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:31	Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said. Let my lord king David live for ever.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:32	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:33	The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
_E4trans	1Ki	1:34	And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. and blow you with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:35	Then you shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne. for he shall be king in my stead. and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:36	And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said. Amen. the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:37	As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:38	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 upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:39	And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet. and all the people said. God save king Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:40	And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:41	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. Therefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
_E4trans	1Ki	1:42	And while he yet spoke, look, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. and Adonijah said to him. Come in. for you are a valiant man, and bring good tidings.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:43	And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David has made Solomon king.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:44	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 upon the king's mule:
_E4trans	1Ki	1:45	And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:46	And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:47	And moreover 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 upon the bed.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:48	And also thus said the king, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which has given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:49	And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:50	And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:51	And it was told Solomon, saying. Look, Adonijah fears king Solomon. for, lo, he has caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying. Let king Solomon swear to me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:52	And Solomon said. If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth. but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
_E4trans	1Ki	1:53	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:1	Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die. and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	2:2	I go the way of all the earth. be you strong therefore, and show thyself a man;
_E4trans	1Ki	2:3	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, that you may prosper in all that you do, and whithersoever you turn thyself:
_E4trans	1Ki	2:4	That the Lord may continue his word which 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:5	Moreover 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 slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:6	Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:7	But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at your table. for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom your brother.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:8	And, look, you has with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying. I will not put you to death with the sword.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:9	Now therefore hold him not guiltless. for you are a wise man, and know what you ought to do to him. but his hoar head bring you down to the grave with blood.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:10	So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:11	And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years. seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:12	Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father. and his kingdom was established greatly.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:13	And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said. come you peaceably? And he said. Peaceably.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:14	He said moreover. I have somewhat to say to you. And she said. Say on.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:15	And he said. You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's. for it was his from the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:16	And now I ask one petition of you, deny me not. And she said to him. Say on.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:17	And he said. Speak. I pray you, to Solomon the king,  ( for he will not say you nay, )  that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:18	And Bath-sheba said. Well. I will speak for you to the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:19	Bath-sheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother. and she sat on his right hand.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:20	Then she said. I desire one small petition of you. I pray you, say me not nay. And the king said to her. Ask on, my mother. for I will not say you nay.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:21	And she said. Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother to wife.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:22	And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also. for he is mine elder brother. even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:23	Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying. God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:24	Now therefore, as the Lord lives, which has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:25	And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. and he fell upon him that he died.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:26	And to Abiathar the priest said the king. Get you to Anathoth, to your own fields. for you are worthy of death. but I will not at this time put you to death, because you barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you has been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:27	So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the Lord. that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:28	Then tidings came to Joab. for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:29	And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled to the tabernacle of the Lord. and, look, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying. Go, fall upon him.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:30	And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him. Thus says the king. Come forth. And he said. Nay. but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying. Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:31	And the king said to him. Do as he has said. and fall upon him, and bury him. that you may take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:32	And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:33	Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever. but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:34	So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him. and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:35	And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host. and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:36	And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him. Build you an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:37	For it shall be, that on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, you shalt know for certain that you shalt surely die. your blood shall be upon your own head.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:38	And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good. as my lord the king has said. so will your servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:39	And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying. Look, your servants be in Gath.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:40	And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants. and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:41	And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:42	And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him. Did I not make you to swear by the Lord, and protested to you, saying. Know for a certain, on the day you go out, and walk abroad any whither, that you shalt surely die? and you said to me, The word that I have heard is good.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:43	Why then has you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged you with?
_E4trans	1Ki	2:44	The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father. therefore the Lord shall return your wickedness upon your own head;
_E4trans	1Ki	2:45	And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
_E4trans	1Ki	2:46	So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:1	And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:2	Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the Lord, until those days.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:3	And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father. only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:4	And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there. for that was the great high place. a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:5	In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. and God said. Ask what I shall give you.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:6	And Solomon said. You has showed to 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 has kept for him this great kindness, that you has given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:7	And now, Oh Lord my God, you has made your servant king instead of David my father. and I am but a little child. I know not how to go out or come in.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:8	And your servant is in the midst of your people which you has chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:9	Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and bad. for who is able to judge this your so great a people?
_E4trans	1Ki	3:10	And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:11	And God said to him. Because you has asked this thing, and has not asked for thyself long life. neither has asked riches for thyself, nor has asked the life of your enemies. but has asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
_E4trans	1Ki	3:12	Look. 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 to you.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:13	And I have also given you that which you has not asked, both riches, and honour. so that there shall not be any among the kings like to you all your days.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:14	And if you wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:15	And Solomon awoke. and, look, 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:16	Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:17	And the one woman said. Oh my lord. I and this woman dwell in one house. and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:18	And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also. and we were together. there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:19	And this woman's child died in the night. because she overlaid it.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:20	And she arose 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:21	And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, look, it was dead. but when I had considered it in the morning, look, it was not my son, which I did bear.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:22	And the other woman said. Nay. but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. And this said. No. but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:23	Then said the king, The one says. This is my son that lives, and your son is the dead. and the other says, Nay. but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:24	And the king said. Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:25	And the king said. Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:26	Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said. Oh my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said. Let it be neither mine nor your, but divide it.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:27	Then the king answered and said. Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. she is the mother thereof.
_E4trans	1Ki	3:28	And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged. and they feared the king. for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:1	So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:2	And these were the princes which he had. Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
_E4trans	1Ki	4:3	Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes. Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:4	And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host. and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:5	And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers. and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:6	And Ahishar was over the household. and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:7	And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household. each man his month in a year made provision.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:8	And these are their names. The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:9	The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:10	The son of Hesed, in Aruboth. to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:11	The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor. which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:12	Baana the son of Ahilud. to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even to the place that is beyond Jokneam:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:13	The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead. to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead. to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:14	Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:15	Ahimaaz was in Naphtali. he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:16	Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:17	Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:18	Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
_E4trans	1Ki	4:19	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 which was in the land.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:20	Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:21	And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:22	And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
_E4trans	1Ki	4:23	Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:24	For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river. and he had peace on all sides round about him.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:25	And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:26	And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:27	And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month. they lacked nothing.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:28	Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:29	And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:30	And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:31	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 round about.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:32	And he spoke three thousand proverbs. and his songs were a thousand and five.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:33	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 fishes.
_E4trans	1Ki	4:34	And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:1	And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon. for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father. for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:2	And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	5:3	You know how that David my father could not build an house to the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:4	But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:5	And, look. I purpose to build an house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying. your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your room, he shall build an house to my name.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:6	Now therefore command you that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon. and my servants shall be with your servants. and to you will I give hire for your servants according to all that you shalt appoint. for you know that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like to the Sidonians.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:7	And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said. Blessed be the Lord this day, which has given to David a wise son over this great people.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:8	And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying. I have considered the things which you sent to me for. and I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:9	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 shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and you shalt receive them. and you shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:10	So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:11	And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:12	And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon. and they two made a league together.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:13	And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel. and the levy was thirty thousand men.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:14	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 levy.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:15	And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
_E4trans	1Ki	5:16	Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:17	And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	5:18	And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers. so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:1	And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:2	And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:3	And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house. and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:4	And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:5	And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle. and he made chambers round about:
_E4trans	1Ki	6:6	The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:7	And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither. so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:8	The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house. and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:9	So he built the house, and finished it. and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:10	And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high. and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:11	And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	6:12	Concerning this house which you are in building, if you wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them. then will I perform my word with you, which I spoke to David your father:
_E4trans	1Ki	6:13	And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:14	So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:15	And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling. and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:16	And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar. he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:17	And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:18	And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers. all was cedar. there was no stone seen.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:19	And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:20	And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof. and he overlaid it with pure gold. and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:21	So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle. and he overlaid it with gold.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:22	And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house. also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:23	And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:24	And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:25	And the other cherub was ten cubits. both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:26	The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:27	And he set the cherubims within the inner house. and they stretched forth 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 one another in the midst of the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:28	And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:29	And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:30	And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:31	And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree. the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:32	The two doors also were of olive tree. and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:33	So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:34	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:35	And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers. and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:36	And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
_E4trans	1Ki	6:37	In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:
_E4trans	1Ki	6:38	And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:1	But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:2	He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon. the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:3	And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:4	And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:5	And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows. and light was against light in three ranks.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:6	And he made a porch of pillars. the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits. and the porch was before them. and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:7	Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment. and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:8	And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like to this porch.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:9	All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:10	And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:11	And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:12	And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:13	And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:14	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 wrought all his work.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:15	For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece. and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:16	And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars. the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
_E4trans	1Ki	7:17	And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars. seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:18	And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates. and so did he for the other chapiter.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:19	And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:20	And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network. and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:21	And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple. and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin. and he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof Boaz.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:22	And upon the top of the pillars was lily work. so was the work of the pillars finished.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:23	And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other. it was round all about, and his height was five cubits. and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:24	And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:25	It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east. and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:26	And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies. it contained two thousand baths.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:27	And he made ten bases of brass. four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:28	And the work of the bases was on this manner. they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
_E4trans	1Ki	7:29	And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims. and upon the ledges there was a base above. and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:30	And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass. and the four corners thereof had undersetters. under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:31	And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit. but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half. and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:32	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 cubit and a half a cubit.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:33	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 molten.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:34	And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base. and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:35	And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high. and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:36	For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:37	After this manner he made the ten bases. all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:38	Then made he ten lavers of brass. one laver contained forty baths. and every laver was four cubits. and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:39	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 over against the south.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:40	And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:
_E4trans	1Ki	7:41	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 upon the top of the pillars;
_E4trans	1Ki	7:42	And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
_E4trans	1Ki	7:43	And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
_E4trans	1Ki	7:44	And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
_E4trans	1Ki	7:45	And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:46	In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:47	And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many. neither was the weight of the brass found out.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:48	And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the Lord. the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
_E4trans	1Ki	7:49	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,
_E4trans	1Ki	7:50	And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold. and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
_E4trans	1Ki	7:51	So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated. even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	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, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:2	And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:3	And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:4	And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:5	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 could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:6	And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:7	For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:8	And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without. and there they are to this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:9	There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:10	And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,
_E4trans	1Ki	8:11	So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud. for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:12	Then spoke Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:13	I have surely built you an house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in for ever.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:14	And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel.  ( and all the congregation of Israel stood. ) 
_E4trans	1Ki	8:15	And he said. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	8:16	Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt. I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein. but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:17	And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:18	And the Lord said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build an house to my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:19	Nevertheless you shalt not build the house. but your son that shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house to my name.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:20	And the Lord has performed his word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:21	And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:22	And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:23	And he said. Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keep covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their heart:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:24	Who has kept with your servant David my father that you promised him. you spoke also with your mouth, and has fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:25	Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that 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, that they walk before me as you has walked before me.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:26	And now, Oh God of Israel, let your word. I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:27	But will God indeed dwell on the earth? look, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you. how much less this house that I have builded?
_E4trans	1Ki	8:28	Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Oh Lord my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer, which your servant prays before you to day:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:29	That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you has said. My name shall be there. that you may hearken to the prayer which your servant shall make toward this place.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:30	And hearken you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. and hear you in heaven your dwelling place. and when you heard, forgive.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:31	If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:32	Then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head. and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:33	When your people Israel be smitten 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:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:34	Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:35	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:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:36	Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon your land, which you has given to your people for an inheritance.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:37	If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller. if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities. whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
_E4trans	1Ki	8:38	What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:39	Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know.  ( for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men. ) 
_E4trans	1Ki	8:40	That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:41	Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for your name's sake;
_E4trans	1Ki	8:42	 ( 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;
_E4trans	1Ki	8:43	Hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to you for. that all people of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel. and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by your name.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:44	If your people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever you shalt send them, and shall pray to the Lord toward the city which you has chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:45	Then hear you in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:46	If they sin against you,  ( for there is no man that sins not, )  and you be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
_E4trans	1Ki	8:47	Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of them that carried them captives, saying. We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
_E4trans	1Ki	8:48	And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you has chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:49	Then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
_E4trans	1Ki	8:50	And forgive your people that have sinned against you and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:51	For they be your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:52	That your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to hearken to them in all that they call for to you.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:53	For you did separate 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, Oh Lord God.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:54	And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:55	And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	8:56	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, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:57	The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:58	That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:59	And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh to the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
_E4trans	1Ki	8:60	That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:61	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:62	And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:63	And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:64	The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord. for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:65	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, even fourteen days.
_E4trans	1Ki	8:66	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:1	And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
_E4trans	1Ki	9:2	That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:3	And the Lord said to him. I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you has made before me. I have hallowed this house, which you has built, to put my name there for ever. and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:4	And if you wilt walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
_E4trans	1Ki	9:5	Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David your father, saying. There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:6	But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
_E4trans	1Ki	9:7	Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
_E4trans	1Ki	9:8	And at this house, which 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?
_E4trans	1Ki	9:9	And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them. therefore has the Lord brought upon them all this evil.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:10	And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
_E4trans	1Ki	9:11	 ( Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire, )  that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:12	And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him. and they pleased him not.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:13	And he said. What cities are these which you has given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:14	And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:15	And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised. for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:16	For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:17	And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
_E4trans	1Ki	9:18	and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
_E4trans	1Ki	9:19	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:20	And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
_E4trans	1Ki	9:21	Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice to this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:22	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:23	These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:24	But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her. then did he build Millo.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:25	And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:26	And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:27	And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	9:28	And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:1	And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:2	And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones. and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:3	And Solomon told her all her questions. there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:4	And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
_E4trans	1Ki	10:5	And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of the Lord. there was no more spirit in her.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:6	And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of your acts and of your wisdom.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:7	Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it. and, look, the half was not told me. your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:8	Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, which stand continually before you, and that hear your wisdom.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:9	Blessed be the Lord your God, which delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he you king, to do judgment and justice.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:10	And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones. there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:11	And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:12	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:13	And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:14	Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:15	Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:16	And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold. six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:17	And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold. three pound of gold went to one shield. and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:18	Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:19	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:20	And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. there was not the like made in any kingdom.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:21	And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. none were of silver. it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:22	For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram. once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:23	So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:24	And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:25	And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:26	And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:27	And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:28	And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn. the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
_E4trans	1Ki	10:29	And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty. and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:1	But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
_E4trans	1Ki	11:2	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 clave to these in love.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:3	And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. and his wives turned away his heart.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:4	For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods. and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:5	For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:6	And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:7	Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:8	And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:9	And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared to him twice,
_E4trans	1Ki	11:10	And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:11	Therefore the Lord said to Solomon. Since this is done of you, and you has not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you. I will surely rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:12	Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake. but I will rend it out of the hand of your son.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:13	Howbeit I will not rend 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:14	And the Lord stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. he was of the king's seed in Edom.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:15	For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
_E4trans	1Ki	11:16	 ( For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom. ) 
_E4trans	1Ki	11:17	That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt. Hadad being yet a little child.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:18	And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran. and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:19	And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:20	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:21	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, that I may go to mine own country.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:22	Then Pharaoh said to him. But what has you lacked with me, that, look, you seek to go to your own country? And he answered, Nothing. howbeit let me go in any wise.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:23	And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
_E4trans	1Ki	11:24	And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah. and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:25	And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did. and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:26	And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:27	And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:28	And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour. and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:29	And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way. and he had clad himself with a new garment. and they two were alone in the field:
_E4trans	1Ki	11:30	And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
_E4trans	1Ki	11:31	And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces. for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Look. I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you:
_E4trans	1Ki	11:32	 ( But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. ) 
_E4trans	1Ki	11:33	Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:34	Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand. but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
_E4trans	1Ki	11:35	But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:36	And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:37	And I will take you, and you shalt reign according to all that your soul desires, and shalt be king over Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:38	And it shall be, if you wilt hearken to all that I command you, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did. that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:39	And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:40	Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:41	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?
_E4trans	1Ki	11:42	And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
_E4trans	1Ki	11:43	And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father. and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:1	And Rehoboam went to Shechem. for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:2	And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it,  ( for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt. ) 
_E4trans	1Ki	12:3	That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	12:4	your father made our yoke grievous. now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:5	And he said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:6	And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said. How do you advise that I may answer this people?
_E4trans	1Ki	12:7	And they spoke to him, saying. If you wilt be a servant to this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:8	But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
_E4trans	1Ki	12:9	And he said to them. What counsel give you that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying. Make the yoke which your father did put upon us lighter?
_E4trans	1Ki	12:10	And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying. Thus shalt you speak to this people that spoke to you, saying. your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us. thus shalt you say to them. My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:11	And now whereas my father did lade 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:12	So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying. Come to me again the third day.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:13	And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
_E4trans	1Ki	12:14	And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying. My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke. my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:15	Therefore the king hearkened not to the people. for the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his saying. which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:16	So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, the people answered the king, saying. What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. to your tents, Oh Israel. now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:17	But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:18	Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute. and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:19	So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:20	And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:21	And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:22	But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	12:23	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,
_E4trans	1Ki	12:24	Thus says the Lord, you shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel. return every man to his house. for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:25	Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein. and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:26	And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
_E4trans	1Ki	12:27	If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:28	Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. behold your gods, Oh Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:29	And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:30	And this thing became a sin. for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:31	And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:32	And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like to the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
_E4trans	1Ki	12:33	So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart. and ordained a feast to the children of Israel. and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:1	And, look, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:2	And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said. Oh altar, altar, thus says the Lord. Look, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. and upon you shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burnt upon you.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:3	And he gave a sign the same day, saying. This is the sign which the Lord has spoken. Look, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:4	And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying. Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:5	The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:6	And the king answered and said to the man of God, Intreat now the face of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the Lord, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:7	And the king said to the man of God. Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give you a reward.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:8	And the man of God said to the king, If you wilt give me half your house. I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
_E4trans	1Ki	13:9	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:10	So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:11	Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel. and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. the words which he had spoken to the king, them they told also to their father.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:12	And their father said to them. What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:13	And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass. and he rode thereon,
_E4trans	1Ki	13:14	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:15	Then he said to him. Come home with me, and eat bread.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:16	And he said. I may not return with you, nor go in with you. neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
_E4trans	1Ki	13:17	For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, You shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:18	He said to him. I am a prophet also as you are. and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying. Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:19	So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:20	And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:
_E4trans	1Ki	13:21	And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying. Thus says the Lord. Since you has disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and has not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,
_E4trans	1Ki	13:22	But came back, and has eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water. your carcase shall not come to the sepulchre of your fathers.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:23	And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:24	And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him. and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:25	And, look, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase. and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:26	And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said. It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the word of the Lord. therefore the Lord has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:27	And he spoke to his sons, saying. Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:28	And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase. the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:29	And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back. and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:30	And he laid his carcase in his own grave. and they mourned over him, saying. Alas, my brother!
_E4trans	1Ki	13:31	And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying. When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried. lay my bones beside his bones:
_E4trans	1Ki	13:32	For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:33	After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places. whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
_E4trans	1Ki	13:34	And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:1	At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:2	And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise. I pray you, and disguise thyself, that you be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam. and get you to Shiloh. look, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:3	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:4	And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see. for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:5	And the Lord said to Ahijah. Look, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son. for he is sick. thus and thus shalt you say to her. for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:6	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 feignest you thyself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy tidings.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:7	Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says the Lord God of Israel. Since I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
_E4trans	1Ki	14:8	And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you. and yet you has not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
_E4trans	1Ki	14:9	But has done evil above all that were before you. for you has gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and has cast me behind your back:
_E4trans	1Ki	14:10	Therefore, look. I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man takes away dung, till it be all gone.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:11	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:12	Arise you therefore, get you to your own house. and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:13	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:14	Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day. but what? even now.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:15	For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:16	And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:17	And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
_E4trans	1Ki	14:18	And they buried him. and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:19	And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, look, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:20	And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years. and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:21	And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:22	And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:23	For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:24	And there were also sodomites in the land. and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:25	And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
_E4trans	1Ki	14:26	And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house. he even took away all. and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:27	And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:28	And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:29	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?
_E4trans	1Ki	14:30	And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
_E4trans	1Ki	14:31	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 reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:1	Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:2	Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:3	And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him. and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:4	Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
_E4trans	1Ki	15:5	Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:6	And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:7	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:8	And Abijam slept with his fathers. and they buried him in the city of David. and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:9	And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:10	And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:11	And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:12	And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:13	And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove. and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:14	But the high places were not removed. nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:15	And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:16	And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:17	And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:18	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 Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	15:19	There is a league between me and you, and between my father and your father. look. I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. come and break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:20	So Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:21	And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:22	Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah. none was exempted. and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded. and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:23	The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:24	And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father. and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:25	And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:26	And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:27	And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:28	Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:29	And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam. he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
_E4trans	1Ki	15:30	Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:31	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?
_E4trans	1Ki	15:32	And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:33	In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
_E4trans	1Ki	15:34	And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:1	Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	16:2	Since I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel. and you has walked in the way of Jeroboam, and has made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
_E4trans	1Ki	16:3	Look. I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house. and will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:4	Him that dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat. and him that dies of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:5	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?
_E4trans	1Ki	16:6	So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah. and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:7	And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam. and because he killed him.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:8	In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:9	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:10	And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:11	And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha. he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:12	Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
_E4trans	1Ki	16:13	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:14	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?
_E4trans	1Ki	16:15	In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:16	And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also slain the king. wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:17	And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:18	And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
_E4trans	1Ki	16:19	For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:20	Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
_E4trans	1Ki	16:21	Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts. half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king. and half followed Omri.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:22	But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath. so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:23	In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years. six years reigned he in Tirzah.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:24	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 which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:25	But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:26	For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:27	Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
_E4trans	1Ki	16:28	So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria. and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:29	And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel. and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:30	And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:31	And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:32	And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:33	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	16:34	In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho. he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
_E4trans	1Ki	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:2	And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	17:3	Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:4	And it shall be, that you shalt drink of the brook. and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:5	So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:6	And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. and he drank of the brook.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:7	And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:8	And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	17:9	Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Zidon, and dwell there. look. I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:10	So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, look, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks. and he called to her, and said. Fetch me. I pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:11	And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said. Bring me. I pray you, a morsel of bread in your hand.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:12	And she said. As the Lord your God lives. I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse. and, look. I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:13	And Elijah said to her. Fear not. go and do as you has said. but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it to me, and after make for you and for your son.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:14	For thus says the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:15	And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah. and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:16	And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Elijah.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:17	And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick. and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:18	And she said to Elijah. What have I to do with you, Oh you man of God? are you come to me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
_E4trans	1Ki	17:19	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 abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:20	And he cried to the Lord, and said. Oh Lord my God, has you also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
_E4trans	1Ki	17:21	And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said. Oh Lord my God. I pray you, let this child's soul come into him again.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:22	And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah. and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:23	And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother. and Elijah said. See, your son lives.
_E4trans	1Ki	17:24	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:1	And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying. Go, show thyself to Ahab. and I will send rain upon the earth.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:2	And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:3	And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house.  ( Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
_E4trans	1Ki	18:4	For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water. ) 
_E4trans	1Ki	18:5	And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all brooks. peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:6	So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:7	And as Obadiah was in the way, look, Elijah met him. and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said. are you that my lord Elijah?
_E4trans	1Ki	18:8	And he answered him. I am. go, tell your lord. Look, Elijah is here.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:9	And he said. What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
_E4trans	1Ki	18:10	As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, whither 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 found you not.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:11	And now you say, Go, tell your lord. Look, Elijah is here.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:12	And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you whither I know not. and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me. but I your servant fear the Lord from my youth.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:13	Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
_E4trans	1Ki	18:14	And now you say, Go, tell your lord. Look, Elijah is here. and he shall slay me.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:15	And Elijah said. As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand. I will surely show myself to him to day.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:16	So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:17	And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him. are you he that troubles Israel?
_E4trans	1Ki	18:18	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 has followed Baalim.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:19	Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:20	So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to mount Carmel.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:21	And Elijah came to all the people, and said. How long halt you between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him. but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:22	Then said Elijah to the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord. but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:23	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:
_E4trans	1Ki	18:24	And call you 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:25	And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first. for you are many. and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:26	And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying. Oh Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:27	And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said. Cry aloud. for he is a god. either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleeps, and must be awaked.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:28	And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:29	And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:30	And Elijah said to all the people. Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:31	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:
_E4trans	1Ki	18:32	And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord. and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:33	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:34	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:35	And the water ran round about the altar. and he filled the trench also with water.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:36	And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said. Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:37	Hear me, Oh Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you are the Lord God, and that you has turned their heart back again.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:38	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:39	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:40	And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal. let not one of them escape. And they took them. and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:41	And Elijah said to Ahab. Get you up, eat and drink. for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:42	So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
_E4trans	1Ki	18:43	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:44	And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said. Look, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said. Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare your chariot, and get you down, that the rain stop you not.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:45	And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
_E4trans	1Ki	18:46	And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah. and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:1	And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:2	Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying. So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not your life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:3	And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:4	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 he might die. and said. It is enough. now, Oh Lord, take away my life. for I am not better than my fathers.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:5	And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, look, then an angel touched him, and said to him. Arise and eat.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:6	And he looked, and, look, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:7	And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said. Arise and eat. because the journey is too great for you.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:8	And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:9	And he came thither to a cave, and lodged there. and, look, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him. What do you here, Elijah?
_E4trans	1Ki	19:10	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 your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. and I, even I only, am left. and they seek my life, to take it away.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:11	And he said. Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, look, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord. but the Lord was not in the wind. and after the wind an earthquake. but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
_E4trans	1Ki	19:12	And after the earthquake a fire. but the Lord was not in the fire. and after the fire a still small voice.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:13	And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, look, there came a voice to him, and said. What do you here, Elijah?
_E4trans	1Ki	19:14	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 your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. and I, even I only, am left. and they seek my life, to take it away.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:15	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:
_E4trans	1Ki	19:16	And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt you anoint to be king over Israel. and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt you anoint to be prophet in your room.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:17	And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay. and him that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:18	Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:19	So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
_E4trans	1Ki	19:20	And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said. Let me. I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him. Go back again. for what have I done to you?
_E4trans	1Ki	19:21	And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:1	And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together. and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots. and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:2	And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said to him. Thus says Ben-hadad,
_E4trans	1Ki	20:3	your silver and your gold is mine. your wives also and your children, even the goodliest, are mine.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:4	And the king of Israel answered and said. My lord, Oh king, according to your saying. I am your, and all that I have.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:5	And the messengers came again, and said. Thus speaks Ben-hadad, saying. Although I have sent to you, saying. You shalt deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
_E4trans	1Ki	20:6	Yet I will send my servants to you to morrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants. and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:7	Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said. Mark. I pray you, and see how this man seeks mischief. for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold. and I denied him not.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:8	And all the elders and all the people said to him. Hearken not to him, nor consent.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:9	Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do. but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:10	And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said. The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:11	And the king of Israel answered and said. Tell him. Let not him that girds on his harness boast himself as he that puts it off.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:12	And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions,that he said to his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:13	And, look, there came a prophet to Ahab king of Israel, saying. Thus says the Lord, has you seen all this great multitude? look. I will deliver it into your hand this day. and you shalt know that I am the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:14	And Ahab said. By whom? And he said. Thus says the Lord, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said. Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:15	Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two. and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:16	And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:17	And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first. and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying. There are men come out of Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:18	And he said. Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive. or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:19	So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:20	And they slew every one his man. and the Syrians fled. and Israel pursued them. and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:21	And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:22	And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said to him. Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what you do. for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:23	And the servants of the king of Syria said to him. Their gods are gods of the hills. therefore they were stronger than we. but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:24	And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
_E4trans	1Ki	20:25	And number you an army, like the army that you has lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:26	And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:27	And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them. and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids. but the Syrians filled the country.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:28	And there came a man of God, 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.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:29	And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined. and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:30	But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city. and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:31	And his servants said to him. Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. let us. I pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. peradventure he will save your life.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:32	So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said. your servant Ben-hadad says. I pray you, let me live. And he said. Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:33	Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it. and they said. your brother Ben-hadad. Then he said. Go you, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him. and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:34	And Ben-hadad said to him. The cities, which my father took from your father. I will restore. and you shalt make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab. I will send you away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:35	And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me. I pray you. And the man refused to smite him.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:36	Then said he to him, Because you has not obeyed the voice of the Lord, look, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall slay you. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:37	Then he found another man, and said. Smite me. I pray you. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:38	So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:39	And as the king passed by, he cried to the king. and he said. your servant went out into the midst of the battle. and, look, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said. Keep this man. if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shalt pay a talent of silver.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:40	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. thyself has decided it.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:41	And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face. and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:42	And he said to him. Thus says the Lord, Because you has let go out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
_E4trans	1Ki	20:43	And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:1	And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:2	And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying. Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house. and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. or, if it seem good to you. I will give you the worth of it in money.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:3	And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:4	And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him. for he had said. I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:5	But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him. Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?
_E4trans	1Ki	21:6	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 please you. I will give you another vineyard for it. and he answered. I will not give you my vineyard.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:7	And Jezebel his wife said to him. do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:8	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, dwelling with Naboth.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:9	And she wrote in the letters, saying. Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
_E4trans	1Ki	21:10	And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying. You did blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:11	And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:12	They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:13	And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him. and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying. Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:14	Then they sent to Jezebel, saying. Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:15	And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money. for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:16	And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:17	And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	21:18	Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria. look, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:19	And you shalt speak to him, saying. Thus says the Lord, has you killed, and also taken possession? And you shalt speak to him, saying. Thus says the Lord. In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even your.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:20	And Ahab said to Elijah, has you found me, Oh mine enemy? And he answered. I have found you. because you has sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:21	Look. I will bring evil upon you, and will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
_E4trans	1Ki	21:22	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 wherewith you has provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:23	And of Jezebel also spoke the Lord, saying. The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:24	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:25	But there was none like to Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:26	And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:27	And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
_E4trans	1Ki	21:28	And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
_E4trans	1Ki	21:29	see you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me. I will not bring the evil in his days. but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:1	And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:2	And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:3	And the king of Israel said to his servants. Know you that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:4	And he said to Jehoshaphat, Wilt you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:5	And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Enquire. I pray you, at the word of the Lord to day.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:6	Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said. Go up. for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:7	And Jehoshaphat said. Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:8	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord. but I hate him. for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said. Let not the king say so.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:9	Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said. Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:10	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:11	And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron. and he said. Thus says the Lord, With these shalt you push the Syrians, until you have consumed them.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:12	And all the prophets prophesied so, saying. Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper. for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hand.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:13	And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying. Look now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. let your word. I pray you, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:14	And Micaiah said. As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that will I speak.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:15	So he came to the king. And the king said to him. Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper. for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:16	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?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:17	And he said. I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd. and the Lord said. These have no master. let them return every man to his house in peace.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:18	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:19	And he said. Hear you therefore the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:20	And the Lord said. Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:21	And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said. I will persuade him.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:22	And the Lord said to him. Wherewith? And he said. I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said. You shalt persuade him, and prevail also. go forth, and do so.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:23	Now therefore, look, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets, and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:24	But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said. Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak to you?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:25	And Micaiah said. Look, you shalt see in that day, when you shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:26	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;
_E4trans	1Ki	22:27	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.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:28	And Micaiah said. If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me. And he said. Hearken, Oh people, every one of you.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:29	So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:30	And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat. I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle. but put you on your robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:31	But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying. Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:32	And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said. Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him. and Jehoshaphat cried out.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:33	And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:34	And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness. wherefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host. for I am wounded.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:35	And the battle increased that day. and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even. and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:36	And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying. Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:37	So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. and they buried the king in Samaria.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:38	And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria. and the dogs licked up his blood. and they washed his armour. according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:39	Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:40	So Ahab slept with his fathers. and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:41	And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:42	Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign. and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:43	And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father. he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. nevertheless the high places were not taken away. for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:44	And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:45	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
_E4trans	1Ki	22:46	And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:47	There was then no king in Edom. a deputy was king.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:48	Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold. but they went not. for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:49	Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat. Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:50	And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father. and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:51	Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
_E4trans	1Ki	22:52	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:
_E4trans	1Ki	22:53	For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
