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+<book name='1 Kings' permalink='1-kings' id='11'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they  covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Wherefore his servants said unto 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 thy bosom, that my lord the  king may get heat.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and  ministered to him: but the king knew her not.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying,  Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his  mother bare him after Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with  Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone  of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the  king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and  Solomon his brother, he called not.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon,  saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth  reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel,  that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst  not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly  Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?  why then doth Adonijah reign?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also  will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and  the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the  king.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And  the king said, What wouldest thou?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy  God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign  after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the  king, thou knowest it not:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in  abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the  priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath  he not called.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon  thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my  lord the king after him.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the  prophet also came in.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet.  And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the  king with his face to the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah  shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat  cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and  the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they  eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not  called.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not  shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the  king after him?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And  she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath  redeemed my soul out of all distress,</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying,  Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon  my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did  reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>The king also said unto 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him  there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save  king Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Then ye 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said,  Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>As the LORD hath 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an  uproar?</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar  the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a  valiant man, and bringest good tidings.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord  king David hath made Solomon king.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And the king hath 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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 ye have heard.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king  David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and  make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself  upon the bed.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of  Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes  even seeing it.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and  rose up, and went every man his way.</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went,  and caught hold on the horns of the altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth  king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar,  saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his  servant with the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>And Solomon said, If he will shew 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  unto him, Go to thine house.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he  charged Solomon his son, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and  shew thyself a man;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And keep the charge of the LORD thy 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 thou  mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest  thyself:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>That the LORD may continue his word which he spake  concerning me, saying, If thy 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 thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did  to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto  Abner the son of Ner, and unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar  head go down to the grave in peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite,  and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me  when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And, behold, thou hast with thee 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  sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the  sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise  man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head  bring thou down to the grave with blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city  of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and  his kingdom was established greatly.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother  of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said,  Peaceably.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she  said, Say on.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he said, Thou knowest 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she  said unto him, Say on.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for  he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to  wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the  king.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto  him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself  unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray  thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother:  for I will not say thee nay.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to  Adonijah thy brother to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why  dost thou 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to  me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his  own life.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established  me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me  an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of  Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to  Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I  will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of  the LORD God before David my father, and because thou hast been  afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the  LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake  concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after  Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the  tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the  tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon  sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said  unto him, Thus saith 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall  upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood,  which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,  Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth  thence any whither.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest  over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt  surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my  lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in  Jerusalem many days.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of  the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of  Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem  to Gath, and was come again.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,  Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee,  saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest  abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto  me, The word that I have heard is good.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the  commandment that I have charged thee with?</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the  wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my  father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own  head;</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David  shall be established before the LORD for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was  no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David  his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:  and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my  father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in  righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast  kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit  on his throne, as it is this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king  instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how  to go out or come in.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou  hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for  multitude.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge  thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to  judge this thy so great a people?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this  thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing,  and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for  thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for  thyself understanding to discern judgment;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given  thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like  thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked,  both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings  like unto thee all thy days.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my  commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy  days.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Solomon awoke; and, behold, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king,  and stood before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in  one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And this woman's child died in the night; because she  overlaid it.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,  while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead  child in my bosom.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,  behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning,  behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and  the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and  the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that  liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son  is the dead, and my son is the living.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a  sword before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give  half to the one, and half to the other.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the  king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord,  give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said,  Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child,  and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>So king Solomon was king over all Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of  Zadok the priest,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;  Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok  and Abiathar were the priests:</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of  Abda was over the tribute.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and  Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and  all the land of Hepher:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had  Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and  Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from  Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter  of Solomon to wife:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea  in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto  the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought  presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of  fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an  hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted  fowl.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine  and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of  Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his  chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and  for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month:  they lacked nothing.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought  they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his  charge.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding  much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea  shore.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children  of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a  thousand and five.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in  Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake  also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an  house unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so  that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of  the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy  son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an  house unto my name.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out  of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee  will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt  appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill  to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the  things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire  concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea:  and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt  appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt  receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for  my household.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to  all his desire.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the  levy was thirty thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare  burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,  costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the  house with beams and boards of cedar.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And then he built chambers against all the house, five  cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou  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 thee,  which I spake unto David thy father:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not  forsake my people Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>So Solomon built the house, and finished it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 ceiling: and  he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the  house with planks of fir.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty  cubits long.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and  open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there  the ark of the covenant of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree,  each ten cubits high.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were  of one measure and one size.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it  of the other cherub.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within  and without.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive  tree, a fourth part of the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open  flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone,  and a row of cedar beams.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the  LORD laid, in the month Zif:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and  he finished all his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay  on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And there were windows in three rows, and light was against  light in three ranks.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows:  and light was against light in three ranks.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto this porch.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>All these were of costly stones, according to the measures  of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the  foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great  court.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,  stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed  stones, and cedars.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were  of lily work in the porch, four cubits.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 called the name thereof Boaz.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the  work of the pillars finished.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had  borders, and the borders were between the ledges:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 half a cubit.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one  base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one  casting, one measure, and one size.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay  ground between Succoth and Zarthan.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they  were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the  house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon  the shewbread was,</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='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, unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king  Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up  the ark.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that  were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing  sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the  LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy  place, even under the wings of the cherubims.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the  thick darkness.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled  place for thee to abide in for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the  congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake  with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled  it, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house  for the name of the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in  thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was  in thine heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son  that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto  my name.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee,  in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy  with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou  promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it  with thine hand, as it is this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant  David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail  thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy  children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast  walked before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be  verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven  and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house  that I have builded?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to  his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the  prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day,  even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there:  that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make  toward this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of  thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear  thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 thine  altar in this house:</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,  condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying  the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,  because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee,  and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this  house:</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people  Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their  fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they  have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess  thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy  servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way  wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast  given to thy people for an inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or  by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his  own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive,  and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou  knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the  children of men;)</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the  land which thou gavest unto our fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people  Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong  hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward  this house;</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to  all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth  may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they  may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,  whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward  the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built  for thy name:</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their  supplication, and maintain their cause.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth  not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so  that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or  near;</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither  they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee  in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned,  and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all  their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive,  and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their  fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have  built for thy name:</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven  thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and  all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee,  and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that  they may have compassion on them:</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou  broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy  servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken  unto them in all that they call for unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='53'>For thou didst separate them from among all the people of  the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of  Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O  LORD God.</verse>
+    <verse no='54'>And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying  all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before  the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread  up to heaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='55'>And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel  with a loud voice, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='56'>Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people  Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one  word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses  his servant.</verse>
+    <verse no='57'>The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let  him not leave us, nor forsake us:</verse>
+    <verse no='58'>That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his  ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his  judgments, which he commanded our fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='59'>And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication  before the LORD, be nigh unto 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='60'>That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is  God, and that there is none else.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='62'>And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice  before the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='63'>And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he  offered unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='65'>And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with  him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the  river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days,  even fourteen days.</verse>
+    <verse no='66'>On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed  the king, and went unto 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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had  appeared unto him at Gibeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy  supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this  house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine  eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked,  in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that  I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel  for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not  fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by  it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath  the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?</verse>
+    <verse no='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 hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon  had given him; and they pleased him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me,  my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,  Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of  Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>These were the chief of the officers that were over  Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people  that wrought in the work.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto  her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings  and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he  burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished  the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which  is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had  knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four  hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with  camels that bare 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any  thing hid from the king, which he told her not.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom,  and the house that he had built,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,  and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his  cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the  LORD; there was no more spirit in her.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard  in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine  eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and  prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand  continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set  thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever,  therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir,  brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And king Solomon gave unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was  six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:  six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid  it with the best gold.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for  riches and for wisdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom,  which God had put in his heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:  the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the  daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,  Zidonians, and Hittites:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the  children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come  in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their  gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three  hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the  Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not  fully after the LORD, as did David his father.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt  incense and sacrificed unto their gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was  turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is  done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which  I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and  will give it to thy servant.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy  father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give  one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's  sake which I have chosen.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the  Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until  he had cut off every male in Edom:)</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, unto Pharaoh  king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and  gave him land.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom  Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's  household among the sons of Pharaoh.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with  me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he  answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of  Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And he gathered men unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent  it in twelve pieces:</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus  saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out  of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:</verse>
+    <verse no='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:)</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will  give it unto thee, even ten tribes.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all  that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I  command thee, 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 thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built  for David, and will give Israel unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for  ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam  arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in  Egypt until the death of Solomon.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all  Israel was forty years.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to  Shechem to make him king.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;)</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the  congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou  the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put  upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come  again to me. And the people departed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood  before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye  advise that I may answer this people?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant  unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and  speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may  answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which  thy father did put upon us lighter?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto  him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto  thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter  unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be  thicker than my father's loins.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I  will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I  will chastise you with scorpions.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the  old men's counsel that they gave him;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And spake 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the  cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the  LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto  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,  O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto  their tents.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities  of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was  come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and  made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house  of David, but the tribe of Judah only.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and  unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the  people, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Thus saith the LORD, Ye 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt  therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return  to the house of David:</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto  their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me,  and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of  gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:  behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of  Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship  before the one, even unto Dan.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the  fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and  he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the  calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the  high places which he had made.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto the children of  Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the  word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn  incense.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and  said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be  born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he  offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and  men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign  which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the  ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat  now the face of the LORD thy 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me,  and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me  half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread  nor drink water in this place:</verse>
+    <verse no='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 thou  camest.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he  came to Bethel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto the king, them they told  also to their father.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his  sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they  saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under  an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from  Judah? And he said, I am.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with  thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt  eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way  that thou camest.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an  angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back  with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But  he lied unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house,  and drank water.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word  of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah,  saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth  of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God  commanded thee,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the  place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink  no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And, behold, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto  the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the  lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the  LORD, which he spake unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And  they saddled him.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned  over him, saying, Alas, my brother!</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake  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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even  to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and  disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam;  and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told  me that I should be king over this people.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of  honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the  child.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam  cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and  thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that  she shall feign herself to be another woman.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, thou wife of Jeroboam;  why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with  heavy tidings.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,  Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince  over my people Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave  it thee: and yet thou hast 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;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou  hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to  anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore, behold, 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 taketh away dung, till  it be all gone.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat;  and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the  LORD hath spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when  thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,  who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him,  according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his  servant Ahijah the prophet.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how  he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of  the kings of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For they also built them high places, and images, and  groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that  Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and  committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the  door of the king's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And it was so, when the king went into the house of the  LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard  chamber.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their  days.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat  reigned Abijam over Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name  was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days  of his life.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in  the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned  Asa over Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his  mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as  did David his father.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed  all the idols that his fathers had made.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's  heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all  their days.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in  the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's  house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa  sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of  Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>There is a league between me and thee, and between my father  and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and  gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may  depart from me.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains  of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon,  and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of  Naphtali.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left  off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay  him, and reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto the saying of the LORD, which he  spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all  their days.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani  against Baasha, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee  prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of  Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger  with their sins;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the  posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of  Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and  him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah:  and Elah his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to  the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the  prophet.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath  conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made  Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,  and they besieged Tirzah.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the  people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri  reigned.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse  than all that were before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria:  and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD  above all that were before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal,  which he had built in Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 spake by Joshua the son of Nun.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of  Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I  stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my  word.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by  the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I  have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for  he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,  because there had been no rain in the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and  dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the  gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of  sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little  water in a vessel, that I may drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and  said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake,  but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and,  behold, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast  said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me,  and after make for thee and for thy son.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For thus saith 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 sendeth rain upon the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and  she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of  oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O  thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance,  and to slay my son?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And he said unto her, Give me thy 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast  thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying  her son?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and  cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this  child's soul come into him again.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the  child came into him again, and he revived.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the  chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah  said, See, thy son liveth.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou  art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the  LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto  Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a  sore famine in Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his  house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.)</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all  fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass  to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and  he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord  Elijah?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah  is here.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver  thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,  whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is  not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found  thee not.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is  here.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee,  that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so  when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:  but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is  here: and he shall slay me.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I  stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to  meet Elijah.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said  unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and  thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the  LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered  the prophets together unto mount Carmel.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt  ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal,  then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a  prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty  men.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the  name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.  And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one  bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call  on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that  answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 sleepeth, and must  be awaked.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner  with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And  all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the  LORD that was broken down.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of  the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came,  saying, Israel shall be thy name:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the  trench also with water.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done  all these things at thy word.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that  thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back  again.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And Elijah said unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for  there is a sound of abundance of rain.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said,  Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.  And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee  down that the rain stop thee not.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal  how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let  the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of  one of them by to morrow about this time.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and  came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant  there.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, O LORD, take away my  life; for I am not better than my fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then  an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he looked, and, behold, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the  strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount  of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and,  behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What  doest thou here, Elijah?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of  hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown  down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I  only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the  LORD. And, behold, 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:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the  fire: and after the fire a still small voice.</verse>
+    <verse no='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, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest  thou here, Elijah?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of  hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,  thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I,  even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the  wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king  over Syria:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over  Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint  to be prophet in thy room.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword  of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu  shall Elisha slay.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees  which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let  me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow  thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to  thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after  Elijah, and ministered unto him.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Benhadad 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city,  and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy  children, even the goodliest, are mine.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,  according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh  Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt  deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this  time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy  servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes,  they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land,  and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for  he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver,  and for my gold; and I denied him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken  not unto him, nor consent.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my  lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first  I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed,  and brought him word again.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto  me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls  for all the people that follow me.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not  him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it  off.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto  his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array  against the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel,  saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude?  behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know  that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself  drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that  helped him.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out  first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men  come out of Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out  of the city, and the army which followed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and  Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse  with the horsemen.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and  chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto  him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at  the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the servants of the king of Syria said unto 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his  place, and put captains in their rooms:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast 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 unto their voice, and did so.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad  numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of  Israel, and said, Thus saith 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 thine hand, and  ye shall know that I am the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard  that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I  pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go  out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on  their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant  Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive?  he is my brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would  come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother  Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to  him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father  took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for  thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will  send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and  sent him away.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his  neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man  refused to smite him.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the  voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion  shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found  him, and slew him.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee.  And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way,  and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he  said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a  man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man:  if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or  else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And  the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself  hast decided it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast  let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction,  therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and  displeased, and came to Samaria.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard,  that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my  house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it  seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I  should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid  him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no  bread.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is  thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the  Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else,  if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he  answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the  kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry:  I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with  his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that  were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and  set Naboth on high among the people:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness  against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then  carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto them,  and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is  dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 thee  for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in  Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone  down to possess it.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD,  Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto  him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the  blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?  And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to  work evil in the sight of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy  posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the  wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son  of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the  provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel  to sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall  eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and  him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to  work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred  up.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,  saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he  humbleth 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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>And they continued three years without war between Syria and  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the  king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that  Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the  hand of the king of Syria?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle  to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as  thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I  pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together,  about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against  Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for  the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the  LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the king of Israel said unto 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 doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.  And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten  hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron:  and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the  Syrians, until thou have consumed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to  Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the  king's hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto  him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto  the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of  one of them, and speak that which is good.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith  unto me, that will I speak.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah,  shall we go against Ramothgilead 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure  thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of  the LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell  thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And he said, Hear thou 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go  up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another  said on that manner.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD,  and said, I will persuade him.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the LORD said unto 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, Thou shalt persude him, and prevail also: go  forth, and do so.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in  the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil  concerning thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when  thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him  back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And say, Thus saith 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD  hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of  you.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went  up to Ramothgilead.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will  disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.  And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of  the host; for I am wounded.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they  buried the king in Samaria.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the  dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto  the word of the LORD which he spake.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned  in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in  the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days  of his father Asa, he took out of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold:  but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my  servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>