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Genesis 16.1: 16Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16.2: 2 Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16.3: 3 Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

Genesis 16.4: 4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Genesis 16.5: 5 Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

Genesis 16.6: 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

Genesis 16.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16.8: 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?”

Genesis 16.9: 9 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Genesis 16.10: 10 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

Genesis 16.11: 11 Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

Genesis 16.12: 12 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

Genesis 16.13: 13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

Genesis 16.14: 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.1 Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 16.15: 15 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

Genesis 16.16: 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Leviticus 17.2: 2 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded:

Leviticus 17.3: 3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

Leviticus 17.4: 4 and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 17.5: 5 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

Leviticus 17.6: 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh’s altar at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Leviticus 17.7: 7 They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

Leviticus 17.8: 8 “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

Leviticus 17.9: 9 and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that man shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 17.10: 10 “‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17.11: 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

Leviticus 17.12: 12 Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”

Leviticus 17.13: 13 “‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

Leviticus 17.14: 14 For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

Leviticus 17.15: 15 “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.

Leviticus 17.16: 16 But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

Deuteronomy 21.1: 21If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,

Deuteronomy 21.2: 2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.

Deuteronomy 21.3: 3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.

Deuteronomy 21.4: 4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21.5: 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.

Deuteronomy 21.6: 6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21.7: 7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21.8: 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21.9: 9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

Deuteronomy 21.10: 10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,

Deuteronomy 21.11: 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,

Deuteronomy 21.12: 12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

Deuteronomy 21.13: 13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Deuteronomy 21.14: 14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

Deuteronomy 21.15: 15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

Deuteronomy 21.16: 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

Deuteronomy 21.17: 17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

Deuteronomy 21.18: 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 21.19: 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Deuteronomy 21.20: 20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Deuteronomy 21.21: 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 21.22: 22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Deuteronomy 21.23: 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

1 Samuel 22.1: 22David therefore departed from there, and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 22.2: 2 Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

1 Samuel 22.3: 3 David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 22.4: 4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

1 Samuel 22.5: 5 The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.”

1 Samuel 22.6: 6 Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

1 Samuel 22.7: 7 Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

1 Samuel 22.8: 8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

1 Samuel 22.9: 9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

1 Samuel 22.10: 10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

1 Samuel 22.11: 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

1 Samuel 22.13: 13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

1 Samuel 22.14: 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

1 Samuel 22.15: 15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

1 Samuel 22.16: 16 The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

1 Samuel 22.17: 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22.19: 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 22.20: 20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

1 Samuel 22.22: 22 David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.

1 Samuel 22.23: 23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”

1 Kings 1.1: 1Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

1 Kings 1.2: 2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

1 Kings 1.3: 3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 1.4: 4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and served him; but the king didn’t know her intimately.

1 Kings 1.5: 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

1 Kings 1.6: 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

1 Kings 1.7: 7 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they followed Adonijah and helped him.

1 Kings 1.8: 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

1 Kings 1.9: 9 Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;

1 Kings 1.10: 10 but he didn’t call Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.

1 Kings 1.11: 11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?

1 Kings 1.12: 12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.

1 Kings 1.13: 13 Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’

1 Kings 1.14: 14 Behold,1 while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”

1 Kings 1.15: 15 Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.

1 Kings 1.16: 16 Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

1 Kings 1.17: 17 She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh2 your God3 to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’

1 Kings 1.18: 18 Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.

1 Kings 1.19: 19 He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.

1 Kings 1.20: 20 You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

1 Kings 1.21: 21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

1 Kings 1.22: 22 Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 1.24: 24 Nathan said, “My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’

1 Kings 1.25: 25 For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’

1 Kings 1.26: 26 But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

1 Kings 1.27: 27 Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

1 Kings 1.28: 28 Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.

1 Kings 1.29: 29 The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

1 Kings 1.30: 30 most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”

1 Kings 1.31: 31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

1 Kings 1.32: 32 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.

1 Kings 1.33: 33 The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

1 Kings 1.34: 34 Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

1 Kings 1.35: 35 Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.”

1 Kings 1.36: 36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.

1 Kings 1.37: 37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.”

1 Kings 1.38: 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1.39: 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”

1 Kings 1.40: 40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.

1 Kings 1.41: 41 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”

1 Kings 1.42: 42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”

1 Kings 1.43: 43 Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.

1 Kings 1.44: 44 The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.

1 Kings 1.45: 45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

1 Kings 1.47: 47 Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.

1 Kings 1.48: 48 Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”

1 Kings 1.49: 49 All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way.

1 Kings 1.50: 50 Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 1.51: 51 Solomon was told, “Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he is hanging onto the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 1.52: 52 Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

1 Kings 1.53: 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”

1 Kings 2.1: 2Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

1 Kings 2.2: 2 “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

1 Kings 2.3: 3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

1 Kings 2.4: 4 Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 2.5: 5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

1 Kings 2.6: 6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol1 in peace.

1 Kings 2.7: 7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

1 Kings 2.8: 8 “Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

1 Kings 2.9: 9 Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol2 with blood.”

1 Kings 2.10: 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

1 Kings 2.11: 11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 2.12: 12 Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

1 Kings 2.13: 13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”

1 Kings 2.15: 15 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.

1 Kings 2.17: 17 He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”

1 Kings 2.18: 18 Bathsheba said, “All right. I will speak for you to the king.”

1 Kings 2.19: 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

1 Kings 2.20: 20 Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”

1 Kings 2.21: 21 She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”

1 Kings 2.22: 22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

1 Kings 2.23: 23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

1 Kings 2.24: 24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

1 Kings 2.25: 25 King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.

1 Kings 2.26: 26 To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord3 Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”

1 Kings 2.27: 27 So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

1 Kings 2.28: 28 This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

1 Kings 2.29: 29 King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”

1 Kings 2.30: 30 Benaiah came to Yahweh’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’”

Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

1 Kings 2.31: 31 The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

1 Kings 2.32: 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

1 Kings 2.33: 33 So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring4 forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

1 Kings 2.34: 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

1 Kings 2.35: 35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

1 Kings 2.36: 36 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.

1 Kings 2.37: 37 For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

1 Kings 2.38: 38 Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

1 Kings 2.39: 39 At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”

1 Kings 2.40: 40 Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.

1 Kings 2.41: 41 Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.

1 Kings 2.42: 42 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’

1 Kings 2.43: 43 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”

1 Kings 2.44: 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

1 Kings 2.45: 45 But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”

1 Kings 2.46: 46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

1 Kings 3.1: 3Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 3.2: 2 However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.

1 Kings 3.3: 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

1 Kings 3.4: 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

1 Kings 3.5: 5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

1 Kings 3.6: 6 Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

1 Kings 3.7: 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

1 Kings 3.8: 8 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

1 Kings 3.9: 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

1 Kings 3.10: 10 This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Kings 3.11: 11 God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

1 Kings 3.12: 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

1 Kings 3.13: 13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

1 Kings 3.14: 14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

1 Kings 3.15: 15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 3.16: 16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

1 Kings 3.17: 17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

1 Kings 3.18: 18 The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

1 Kings 3.20: 20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3.21: 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”

1 Kings 3.22: 22 The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.”

The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.

1 Kings 3.23: 23 Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

1 Kings 3.24: 24 The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3.25: 25 The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

1 Kings 3.26: 26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!”

1 Kings 3.27: 27 Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

1 Kings 3.28: 28 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 justice.

1 Kings 4.2: 2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

1 Kings 4.3: 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

1 Kings 4.4: 4 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1 Kings 4.5: 5 Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

1 Kings 4.6: 6 Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

1 Kings 4.7: 7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

1 Kings 4.9: 9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

1 Kings 4.10: 10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

1 Kings 4.11: 11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

1 Kings 4.12: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

1 Kings 4.13: 13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

1 Kings 4.15: 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

1 Kings 4.19: 19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

1 Kings 4.20: 20 Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

1 Kings 4.21: 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4.22: 22 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors1 of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

1 Kings 4.23: 23 ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

1 Kings 4.24: 24 For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

1 Kings 4.25: 25 Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 4.26: 26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

1 Kings 4.27: 27 Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.

1 Kings 4.28: 28 They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

1 Kings 4.29: 29 God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

1 Kings 4.30: 30 Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 4.31: 31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

1 Kings 4.32: 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.

1 Kings 4.33: 33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

1 Kings 4.34: 34 People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

1 Kings 5.1: 5Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.

1 Kings 5.3: 3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 5.4: 4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.

1 Kings 5.5: 5 Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 5.6: 6 Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 5.7: 7 When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

1 Kings 5.8: 8 Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.

1 Kings 5.9: 9 My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

1 Kings 5.10: 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.

1 Kings 5.11: 11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors1 of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors2 of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

1 Kings 5.12: 12 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

1 Kings 5.13: 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

1 Kings 5.14: 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

1 Kings 5.15: 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

1 Kings 5.16: 16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

1 Kings 5.17: 17 The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

1 Kings 5.18: 18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

1 Kings 6.1: 6In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 6.2: 2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh had a length of sixty cubits,1 and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

1 Kings 6.3: 3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.

1 Kings 6.5: 5 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

1 Kings 6.6: 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

1 Kings 6.7: 7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

1 Kings 6.8: 8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

1 Kings 6.9: 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

1 Kings 6.10: 10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

1 Kings 6.12: 12 “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

1 Kings 6.13: 13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

1 Kings 6.15: 15 He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

1 Kings 6.16: 16 He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

1 Kings 6.18: 18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

1 Kings 6.19: 19 He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

1 Kings 6.20: 20 Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

1 Kings 6.21: 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

1 Kings 6.22: 22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

1 Kings 6.23: 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim2 of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

1 Kings 6.24: 24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

1 Kings 6.25: 25 The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

1 Kings 6.27: 27 He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, 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 middle of the house.

1 Kings 6.29: 29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.

1 Kings 6.30: 30 He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.

1 Kings 6.31: 31 For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

1 Kings 6.32: 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

1 Kings 6.33: 33 He also did so for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

1 Kings 6.34: 34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

1 Kings 6.35: 35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

1 Kings 6.36: 36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

1 Kings 6.37: 37 The foundation of Yahweh’s house was laid in the fourth year, in the month Ziv.

1 Kings 6.38: 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its specifications. So he spent seven years building it.

1 Kings 7.1: 7Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

1 Kings 7.2: 2 For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits,1 its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

1 Kings 7.3: 3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.

1 Kings 7.4: 4 There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.

1 Kings 7.5: 5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.

1 Kings 7.6: 6 He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.

1 Kings 7.7: 7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

1 Kings 7.8: 8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

1 Kings 7.9: 9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

1 Kings 7.10: 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1 Kings 7.11: 11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

1 Kings 7.12: 12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

1 Kings 7.14: 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

1 Kings 7.15: 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.

1 Kings 7.16: 16 He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

1 Kings 7.17: 17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

1 Kings 7.18: 18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital.

1 Kings 7.19: 19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

1 Kings 7.20: 20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.

1 Kings 7.21: 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.

1 Kings 7.22: 22 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

1 Kings 7.23: 23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

1 Kings 7.24: 24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

1 Kings 7.25: 25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

1 Kings 7.26: 26 It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

1 Kings 7.27: 27 He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

1 Kings 7.28: 28 The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

1 Kings 7.29: 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

1 Kings 7.30: 30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and the four feet of it had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.

1 Kings 7.31: 31 Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

1 Kings 7.32: 32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

1 Kings 7.33: 33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.

1 Kings 7.34: 34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.

1 Kings 7.35: 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same.

1 Kings 7.36: 36 On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

1 Kings 7.37: 37 He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

1 Kings 7.38: 38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths;2 and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.

1 Kings 7.39: 39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.

1 Kings 7.40: 40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:

1 Kings 7.41: 41 the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

1 Kings 7.42: 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

1 Kings 7.45: 45 the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze.

1 Kings 7.46: 46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

1 Kings 7.47: 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

1 Kings 7.48: 48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;

1 Kings 7.49: 49 and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

1 Kings 7.50: 50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

1 Kings 7.51: 51 Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.1: 8Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

1 Kings 8.2: 2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

1 Kings 8.3: 3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.

1 Kings 8.4: 4 They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.

1 Kings 8.5: 5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 8.6: 6 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

1 Kings 8.7: 7 For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

1 Kings 8.8: 8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside. They are there to this day.

1 Kings 8.9: 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8.10: 10 It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,

1 Kings 8.11: 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.12: 12 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

1 Kings 8.13: 13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

1 Kings 8.14: 14 The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.

1 Kings 8.15: 15 He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

1 Kings 8.16: 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8.17: 17 “Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8.18: 18 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

1 Kings 8.19: 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 8.20: 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8.21: 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 8.22: 22 Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

1 Kings 8.23: 23 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

1 Kings 8.24: 24 who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

1 Kings 8.25: 25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

1 Kings 8.26: 26 “Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

1 Kings 8.27: 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

1 Kings 8.28: 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

1 Kings 8.29: 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8.30: 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

1 Kings 8.31: 31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

1 Kings 8.32: 32 then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

1 Kings 8.33: 33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

1 Kings 8.34: 34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

1 Kings 8.35: 35 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

1 Kings 8.36: 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

1 Kings 8.37: 37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

1 Kings 8.38: 38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

1 Kings 8.39: 39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

1 Kings 8.40: 40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

1 Kings 8.41: 41 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake

1 Kings 8.42: 42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;

1 Kings 8.43: 43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

1 Kings 8.44: 44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

1 Kings 8.45: 45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

1 Kings 8.46: 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

1 Kings 8.47: 47 yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

1 Kings 8.48: 48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

1 Kings 8.49: 49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

1 Kings 8.50: 50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

1 Kings 8.51: 51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

1 Kings 8.52: 52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.

1 Kings 8.53: 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

1 Kings 8.54: 54 It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

1 Kings 8.55: 55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

1 Kings 8.56: 56 “Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

1 Kings 8.57: 57 May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

1 Kings 8.58: 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

1 Kings 8.59: 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;

1 Kings 8.60: 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.

1 Kings 8.61: 61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

1 Kings 8.62: 62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

1 Kings 8.63: 63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, twenty two thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated Yahweh’s house.

1 Kings 8.64: 64 The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

1 Kings 8.65: 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

1 Kings 8.66: 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

1 Kings 9.1: 9When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kings 9.2: 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Kings 9.3: 3 Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

1 Kings 9.4: 4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

1 Kings 9.5: 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 9.6: 6 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

1 Kings 9.7: 7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

1 Kings 9.8: 8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’

1 Kings 9.9: 9 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”

1 Kings 9.10: 10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house

1 Kings 9.11: 11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 9.12: 12 Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

1 Kings 9.13: 13 He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul1 to this day.

1 Kings 9.15: 15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9.16: 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

1 Kings 9.19: 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

1 Kings 9.20: 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

1 Kings 9.21: 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

1 Kings 9.22: 22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

1 Kings 9.23: 23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

1 Kings 9.24: 24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

1 Kings 9.25: 25 Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

1 Kings 9.26: 26 King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

1 Kings 9.27: 27 Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings 9.28: 28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents,3 and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10.1: 10When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

1 Kings 10.2: 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

1 Kings 10.3: 3 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

1 Kings 10.4: 4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

1 Kings 10.5: 5 the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

1 Kings 10.6: 6 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.

1 Kings 10.7: 7 However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.

1 Kings 10.8: 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

1 Kings 10.9: 9 Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

1 Kings 10.10: 10 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10.11: 11 The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees1 and precious stones.

1 Kings 10.12: 12 The king made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day.

1 Kings 10.13: 13 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants.

1 Kings 10.14: 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents2 of gold,

1 Kings 10.15: 15 in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.

1 Kings 10.16: 16 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels3 of gold went to one buckler.

1 Kings 10.17: 17 he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas4 of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings 10.18: 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

1 Kings 10.19: 19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

1 Kings 10.20: 20 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.

1 Kings 10.21: 21 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, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 10.22: 22 For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 10.23: 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

1 Kings 10.24: 24 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

1 Kings 10.25: 25 Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.

1 Kings 10.26: 26 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

1 Kings 10.27: 27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

1 Kings 10.28: 28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

1 Kings 10.29: 29 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels5 of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.

1 Kings 11.1: 11Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

1 Kings 11.2: 2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

1 Kings 11.3: 3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

1 Kings 11.4: 4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

1 Kings 11.5: 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11.6: 6 Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

1 Kings 11.7: 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

1 Kings 11.8: 8 So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 11.9: 9 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

1 Kings 11.10: 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.

1 Kings 11.11: 11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11.12: 12 Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

1 Kings 11.13: 13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

1 Kings 11.14: 14 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.

1 Kings 11.15: 15 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

1 Kings 11.16: 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

1 Kings 11.17: 17 Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.

1 Kings 11.18: 18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.

1 Kings 11.19: 19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

1 Kings 11.20: 20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

1 Kings 11.21: 21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”

1 Kings 11.22: 22 Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?”

1 Kings 11.23: 23 God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

1 Kings 11.24: 24 He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus, and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.

1 Kings 11.25: 25 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, in addition to the mischief of Hadad. He abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

1 Kings 11.26: 26 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

1 Kings 11.27: 27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

1 Kings 11.28: 28 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

1 Kings 11.29: 29 At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.

1 Kings 11.30: 30 Ahijah took the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

1 Kings 11.31: 31 He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you

1 Kings 11.32: 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);

1 Kings 11.33: 33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

1 Kings 11.34: 34 “‘However 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, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

1 Kings 11.35: 35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.

1 Kings 11.36: 36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

1 Kings 11.37: 37 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.

1 Kings 11.38: 38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 11.39: 39 I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’”

1 Kings 11.40: 40 Therefore Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

1 Kings 11.41: 41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

1 Kings 11.42: 42 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 11.43: 43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 12.1: 12Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

1 Kings 12.2: 2 When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,

1 Kings 12.3: 3 and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

1 Kings 12.4: 4 “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

1 Kings 12.5: 5 He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.”

1 Kings 12.6: 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

1 Kings 12.7: 7 They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

1 Kings 12.8: 8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

1 Kings 12.9: 9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

1 Kings 12.10: 10 The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

1 Kings 12.11: 11 Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

1 Kings 12.12: 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

1 Kings 12.13: 13 The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

1 Kings 12.14: 14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12.15: 15 So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kings 12.16: 16 When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

1 Kings 12.17: 17 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1 Kings 12.18: 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12.20: 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

1 Kings 12.21: 21 When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

1 Kings 12.23: 23 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

1 Kings 12.24: 24 ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.”’” So they listened to Yahweh’s word, and returned and went their way, according to Yahweh’s word.

1 Kings 12.25: 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

1 Kings 12.26: 26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

1 Kings 12.27: 27 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

1 Kings 12.28: 28 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

1 Kings 12.30: 30 This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.

1 Kings 12.31: 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings 12.32: 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

1 Kings 12.33: 33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

1 Kings 13.1: 13Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Bethel; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 13.2: 2 He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”

1 Kings 13.3: 3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

1 Kings 13.4: 4 When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.

1 Kings 13.5: 5 The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.

1 Kings 13.6: 6 The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.”

The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.

1 Kings 13.7: 7 The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

1 Kings 13.8: 8 The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;

1 Kings 13.9: 9 for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’”

1 Kings 13.10: 10 So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.

1 Kings 13.11: 11 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

1 Kings 13.12: 12 Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.

1 Kings 13.13: 13 He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.

1 Kings 13.14: 14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”

1 Kings 13.16: 16 He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

1 Kings 13.17: 17 For it was said to me by Yahweh’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’”

1 Kings 13.18: 18 He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

1 Kings 13.19: 19 So he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

1 Kings 13.20: 20 As they sat at the table, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;

1 Kings 13.21: 21 and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

1 Kings 13.22: 22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”

1 Kings 13.23: 23 After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

1 Kings 13.24: 24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

1 Kings 13.25: 25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 13.26: 26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke to him.”

1 Kings 13.27: 27 He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.

1 Kings 13.28: 28 He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

1 Kings 13.29: 29 The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.

1 Kings 13.30: 30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

1 Kings 13.31: 31 After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

1 Kings 13.32: 32 For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”

1 Kings 13.33: 33 After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

1 Kings 13.34: 34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.

1 Kings 14.2: 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.

1 Kings 14.3: 3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

1 Kings 14.4: 4 Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

1 Kings 14.5: 5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

1 Kings 14.6: 6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

1 Kings 14.7: 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

1 Kings 14.8: 8 and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have 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 my eyes,

1 Kings 14.9: 9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

1 Kings 14.10: 10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall,1 he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

1 Kings 14.11: 11 The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.”’

1 Kings 14.12: 12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.

1 Kings 14.13: 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

1 Kings 14.14: 14 Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.

1 Kings 14.15: 15 For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,2 because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

1 Kings 14.16: 16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

1 Kings 14.17: 17 Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

1 Kings 14.18: 18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kings 14.19: 19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

1 Kings 14.20: 20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 14.21: 21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14.22: 22 Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

1 Kings 14.23: 23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14.24: 24 There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 14.25: 25 In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

1 Kings 14.26: 26 and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14.27: 27 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

1 Kings 14.28: 28 It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

1 Kings 14.29: 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 14.31: 31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.1: 15Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.

1 Kings 15.2: 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15.3: 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15.4: 4 Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

1 Kings 15.5: 5 because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 15.6: 6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

1 Kings 15.7: 7 The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1 Kings 15.8: 8 Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.9: 9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

1 Kings 15.10: 10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15.11: 11 Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.

1 Kings 15.12: 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 15.13: 13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

1 Kings 15.14: 14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

1 Kings 15.15: 15 He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.

1 Kings 15.16: 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 15.17: 17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

1 Kings 15.18: 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

1 Kings 15.19: 19 “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

1 Kings 15.20: 20 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 15.21: 21 When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

1 Kings 15.22: 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

1 Kings 15.23: 23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

1 Kings 15.24: 24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.25: 25 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.

1 Kings 15.26: 26 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 15.27: 27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

1 Kings 15.28: 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15.29: 29 As soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam. He didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;

1 Kings 15.30: 30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.

1 Kings 15.31: 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 15.32: 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 15.33: 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.

1 Kings 15.34: 34 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 16.1: 16Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

1 Kings 16.2: 2 “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

1 Kings 16.3: 3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kings 16.4: 4 The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”

1 Kings 16.5: 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.6: 6 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 16.7: 7 Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

1 Kings 16.8: 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16.9: 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

1 Kings 16.10: 10 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

1 Kings 16.11: 11 When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall1 among his relatives or his friends.

1 Kings 16.12: 12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

1 Kings 16.13: 13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16.14: 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.15: 15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

1 Kings 16.16: 16 The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

1 Kings 16.17: 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

1 Kings 16.18: 18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

1 Kings 16.19: 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

1 Kings 16.20: 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.21: 21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

1 Kings 16.22: 22 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

1 Kings 16.23: 23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.

1 Kings 16.24: 24 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents2 of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

1 Kings 16.25: 25 Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.

1 Kings 16.26: 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16.27: 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 16.28: 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 16.29: 29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

1 Kings 16.30: 30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.

1 Kings 16.31: 31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

1 Kings 16.32: 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

1 Kings 16.33: 33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

1 Kings 16.34: 34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

1 Kings 17.1: 17Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

1 Kings 17.3: 3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

1 Kings 17.4: 4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

1 Kings 17.5: 5 So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

1 Kings 17.6: 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

1 Kings 17.7: 7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

1 Kings 17.9: 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

1 Kings 17.10: 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

1 Kings 17.11: 11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

1 Kings 17.12: 12 She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

1 Kings 17.13: 13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

1 Kings 17.14: 14 For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”

1 Kings 17.15: 15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

1 Kings 17.16: 16 The jar of meal didn’t run out, and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

1 Kings 17.17: 17 After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

1 Kings 17.18: 18 She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

1 Kings 17.19: 19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

1 Kings 17.20: 20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”

1 Kings 17.21: 21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”

1 Kings 17.22: 22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

1 Kings 17.23: 23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”

1 Kings 17.24: 24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

1 Kings 18.1: 18After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

1 Kings 18.2: 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

1 Kings 18.3: 3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

1 Kings 18.4: 4 for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18.5: 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

1 Kings 18.6: 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.

1 Kings 18.7: 7 As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

1 Kings 18.8: 8 He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”

1 Kings 18.9: 9 He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

1 Kings 18.10: 10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

1 Kings 18.11: 11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

1 Kings 18.12: 12 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

1 Kings 18.13: 13 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18.14: 14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

1 Kings 18.15: 15 Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”

1 Kings 18.16: 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

1 Kings 18.17: 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

1 Kings 18.18: 18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

1 Kings 18.19: 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

1 Kings 18.20: 20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18.21: 21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”

1 Kings 18.22: 22 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.

1 Kings 18.23: 23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

1 Kings 18.24: 24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.”

1 Kings 18.25: 25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

1 Kings 18.26: 26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

1 Kings 18.27: 27 At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

1 Kings 18.28: 28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

1 Kings 18.29: 29 When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

1 Kings 18.30: 30 Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.

1 Kings 18.31: 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

1 Kings 18.32: 32 With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs1 of seed.

1 Kings 18.33: 33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”

1 Kings 18.34: 34 He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.

1 Kings 18.35: 35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

1 Kings 18.36: 36 At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

1 Kings 18.37: 37 Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

1 Kings 18.38: 38 Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

1 Kings 18.39: 39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

1 Kings 18.40: 40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!”

They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

1 Kings 18.41: 41 Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

1 Kings 18.42: 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

1 Kings 18.43: 43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.”

1 Kings 18.44: 44 On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.”

He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”

1 Kings 18.45: 45 In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

1 Kings 18.46: 46 Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1 Kings 19.1: 19Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 19.2: 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

1 Kings 19.3: 3 When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 19.4: 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 19.5: 5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

1 Kings 19.6: 6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

1 Kings 19.7: 7 Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

1 Kings 19.8: 8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

1 Kings 19.9: 9 He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19.10: 10 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19.11: 11 He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.”

Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 19.12: 12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

1 Kings 19.13: 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19.14: 14 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19.15: 15 Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

1 Kings 19.16: 16 Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

1 Kings 19.17: 17 He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

1 Kings 19.18: 18 Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

1 Kings 19.19: 19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.

1 Kings 19.20: 20 Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”

1 Kings 19.21: 21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

1 Kings 20.1: 20Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

1 Kings 20.2: 2 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Ben Hadad says,

1 Kings 20.3: 3 ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’”

1 Kings 20.4: 4 The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”

1 Kings 20.5: 5 The messengers came again, and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;

1 Kings 20.6: 6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”

1 Kings 20.7: 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

1 Kings 20.8: 8 All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”

1 Kings 20.9: 9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’”

1 Kings 20.10: 10 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

1 Kings 20.11: 11 The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”

1 Kings 20.12: 12 When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.

1 Kings 20.13: 13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”

He said, “Yahweh says, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’”

1 Kings 20.15: 15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

1 Kings 20.16: 16 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

1 Kings 20.17: 17 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”

1 Kings 20.18: 18 He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

1 Kings 20.19: 19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

1 Kings 20.20: 20 They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

1 Kings 20.21: 21 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

1 Kings 20.22: 22 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

1 Kings 20.23: 23 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

1 Kings 20.24: 24 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place.

1 Kings 20.25: 25 Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.”

1 Kings 20.26: 26 At the return of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

1 Kings 20.27: 27 The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.

1 Kings 20.28: 28 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys;” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

1 Kings 20.29: 29 They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.

1 Kings 20.30: 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

1 Kings 20.31: 31 His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”

1 Kings 20.32: 32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, “Your servant Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’”

1 Kings 20.33: 33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.”

1 Kings 20.34: 34 Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.”

“I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

1 Kings 20.35: 35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!”

1 Kings 20.36: 36 Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.

1 Kings 20.38: 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

1 Kings 20.39: 39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent1 of silver.’

The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be. You yourself have decided it.”

1 Kings 20.41: 41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.

1 Kings 20.42: 42 He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’”

1 Kings 20.43: 43 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.

1 Kings 21.1: 21After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

1 Kings 21.2: 2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

1 Kings 21.3: 3 Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

1 Kings 21.4: 4 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

1 Kings 21.5: 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

1 Kings 21.6: 6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

1 Kings 21.7: 7 Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

1 Kings 21.8: 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

1 Kings 21.9: 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21.10: 10 Set two men, wicked fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

1 Kings 21.11: 11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

1 Kings 21.12: 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21.13: 13 The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

1 Kings 21.14: 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

1 Kings 21.15: 15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

1 Kings 21.16: 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

1 Kings 21.18: 18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it.

1 Kings 21.19: 19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”

He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

1 Kings 21.21: 21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,1 and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

1 Kings 21.22: 22 I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”

1 Kings 21.23: 23 Yahweh also spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

1 Kings 21.24: 24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ahab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”

1 Kings 21.25: 25 But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

1 Kings 21.26: 26 He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 21.27: 27 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

1 Kings 21.29: 29 “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

1 Kings 22.1: 22They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

1 Kings 22.2: 2 In the third year, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

1 Kings 22.3: 3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we do nothing, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”

1 Kings 22.4: 4 He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?”

Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

1 Kings 22.5: 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”

1 Kings 22.6: 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?”

1 Kings 22.7: 7 But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”

1 Kings 22.8: 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”

1 Kings 22.9: 9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”

1 Kings 22.10: 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

1 Kings 22.11: 11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

1 Kings 22.12: 12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

1 Kings 22.13: 13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

1 Kings 22.14: 14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”

1 Kings 22.15: 15 When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?”

He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

1 Kings 22.16: 16 The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

1 Kings 22.17: 17 He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”

1 Kings 22.18: 18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

1 Kings 22.19: 19 Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

1 Kings 22.20: 20 Yahweh said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.

1 Kings 22.21: 21 A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

1 Kings 22.23: 23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

1 Kings 22.24: 24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

1 Kings 22.25: 25 Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”

1 Kings 22.26: 26 The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.

1 Kings 22.27: 27 Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

1 Kings 22.28: 28 Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

1 Kings 22.29: 29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.

1 Kings 22.30: 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

1 Kings 22.31: 31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”

1 Kings 22.32: 32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.

1 Kings 22.33: 33 When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

1 Kings 22.34: 34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”

1 Kings 22.35: 35 The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

1 Kings 22.36: 36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

1 Kings 22.37: 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

1 Kings 22.38: 38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

1 Kings 22.39: 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 Kings 22.40: 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 22.41: 41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

1 Kings 22.42: 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

1 Kings 22.43: 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 22.45: 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 22.46: 46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

1 Kings 22.48: 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.

1 Kings 22.49: 49 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.

1 Kings 22.50: 50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 22.51: 51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

1 Kings 22.52: 52 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, 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, in which he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 22.53: 53 He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.

1 Chronicles 19.1: 19After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 19.2: 2 David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”

So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 19.3: 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

1 Chronicles 19.4: 4 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

1 Chronicles 19.5: 5 Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

1 Chronicles 19.6: 6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents1 of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

1 Chronicles 19.7: 7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah with his people, who came and encamped near Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

1 Chronicles 19.8: 8 When David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the army of the mighty men.

1 Chronicles 19.9: 9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

1 Chronicles 19.10: 10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

1 Chronicles 19.11: 11 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

1 Chronicles 19.12: 12 He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

1 Chronicles 19.13: 13 Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”

1 Chronicles 19.14: 14 So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

1 Chronicles 19.15: 15 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 19.16: 16 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they sent messengers, and called out the Syrians who were beyond the River,2 with Shophach the captain of the army of Hadadezer leading them.

1 Chronicles 19.17: 17 David was told that; so he gathered all Israel together, passed over the Jordan, came to them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

1 Chronicles 19.18: 18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.

1 Chronicles 19.19: 19 When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and served him. The Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.

Esther 1.1: 1Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

Esther 1.2: 2 in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,

Esther 1.3: 3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.

Esther 1.4: 4 He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

Esther 1.5: 5 When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

Esther 1.6: 6 There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Esther 1.7: 7 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.

Esther 1.8: 8 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

Esther 1.9: 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Esther 1.10: 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

Esther 1.11: 11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

Esther 1.12: 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

Esther 1.13: 13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

Esther 1.14: 14 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

Esther 1.15: 15 “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

Esther 1.16: 16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 1.17: 17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

Esther 1.18: 18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

Esther 1.19: 19 “If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

Esther 1.20: 20 When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

Esther 1.21: 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

Esther 1.22: 22 for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

Esther 2.1: 2After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Esther 2.2: 2 Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

Esther 2.3: 3 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

Esther 2.4: 4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

Esther 2.5: 5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Esther 2.6: 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

Esther 2.7: 7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Esther 2.8: 8 So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

Esther 2.9: 9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

Esther 2.10: 10 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

Esther 2.11: 11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

Esther 2.12: 12 Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

Esther 2.13: 13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

Esther 2.14: 14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

Esther 2.15: 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Esther 2.16: 16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Esther 2.17: 17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther 2.18: 18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

Esther 2.19: 19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Esther 2.20: 20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

Esther 2.21: 21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 2.22: 22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

Esther 2.23: 23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

Esther 3.1: 3After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

Esther 3.2: 2 All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Esther 3.3: 3 Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”

Esther 3.4: 4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Esther 3.5: 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

Esther 3.6: 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

Esther 3.7: 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Esther 3.8: 8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Esther 3.9: 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents1 of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 3.10: 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

Esther 3.11: 11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Esther 3.12: 12 Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 3.13: 13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 3.14: 14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Esther 3.15: 15 The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Esther 4.1: 4Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.

Esther 4.2: 2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4.3: 3 In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 4.4: 4 Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

Esther 4.5: 5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

Esther 4.6: 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.

Esther 4.7: 7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

Esther 4.8: 8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

Esther 4.10: 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

Esther 4.11: 11 “All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

Esther 4.13: 13 Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.

Esther 4.14: 14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Esther 4.16: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Esther 4.17: 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

Esther 5.1: 5Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

Esther 5.2: 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

Esther 5.3: 3 Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”

Esther 5.4: 4 Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

Esther 5.5: 5 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 5.6: 6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Esther 5.7: 7 Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.

Esther 5.8: 8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

Esther 5.9: 9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Esther 5.10: 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Esther 5.11: 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 5.12: 12 Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

Esther 5.13: 13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Esther 5.14: 14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits1 high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Esther 6.1: 6On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

Esther 6.2: 2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 6.3: 3 The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?”

Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

Esther 6.4: 4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Esther 6.5: 5 The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,1 Haman stands in the court.”

Esther 6.6: 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?”

Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

Esther 6.7: 7 Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Esther 6.8: 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.

Esther 6.9: 9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

Esther 6.10: 10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”

Esther 6.11: 11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

Esther 6.12: 12 Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Esther 6.13: 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

Esther 6.14: 14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 7.2: 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Esther 7.3: 3 Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

Esther 7.4: 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

Esther 7.5: 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

Esther 7.6: 6 Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!”

Esther 7.7: 7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Esther 7.8: 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Esther 7.9: 9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits1 high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.”

Esther 7.10: 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Esther 8.1: 8On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Esther 8.2: 2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Esther 8.3: 3 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.

Esther 8.4: 4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

Esther 8.5: 5 She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

Esther 8.6: 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Esther 8.7: 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

Esther 8.8: 8 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”

Esther 8.9: 9 Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

Esther 8.10: 10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

Esther 8.11: 11 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

Esther 8.12: 12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Esther 8.13: 13 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

Esther 8.14: 14 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.

Esther 8.15: 15 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

Esther 8.17: 17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

Esther 9.1: 9Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

Esther 9.2: 2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

Esther 9.3: 3 All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

Esther 9.4: 4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

Esther 9.5: 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

Esther 9.6: 6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

Esther 9.10: 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9.11: 11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.

Esther 9.12: 12 The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”

Esther 9.13: 13 Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

Esther 9.14: 14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

Esther 9.15: 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9.16: 16 The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Esther 9.17: 17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9.18: 18 But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9.19: 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

Esther 9.20: 20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

Esther 9.21: 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

Esther 9.22: 22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

Esther 9.23: 23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

Esther 9.24: 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Esther 9.25: 25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Esther 9.26: 26 Therefore they called these days “Purim”,1 from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

Esther 9.27: 27 the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

Esther 9.28: 28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring,2

Esther 9.29: 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

Esther 9.30: 30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

Esther 9.31: 31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Esther 9.32: 32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

Esther 10.1: 10King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.

Esther 10.2: 2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Esther 10.3: 3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

“Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 17.2: 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 17.3: 3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Isaiah 17.4: 4 “It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

Isaiah 17.5: 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17.6: 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 17.7: 7 In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17.8: 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

Isaiah 17.9: 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

Isaiah 17.10: 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Isaiah 17.11: 11 In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Isaiah 17.12: 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Isaiah 17.13: 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 17.14: 14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

Isaiah 32.10: 10 For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women;

Matthew 20.1: 20“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

Matthew 20.2: 2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius1 a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20.3: 3 He went out about the third hour,2 and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

Matthew 20.4: 4 He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

Matthew 20.5: 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,3 and did likewise.

Matthew 20.6: 6 About the eleventh hour4 he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

“He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

Matthew 20.8: 8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

Matthew 20.9: 9 “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

Matthew 20.10: 10 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

Matthew 20.11: 11 When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Matthew 20.12: 12 saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

Matthew 20.13: 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

Matthew 20.14: 14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

Matthew 20.15: 15 Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

Matthew 20.16: 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Matthew 20.17: 17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

Matthew 20.18: 18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

Matthew 20.19: 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

Matthew 20.20: 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

Matthew 20.22: 22 But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

Matthew 20.23: 23 He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Matthew 20.24: 24 When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.

Matthew 20.25: 25 But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Matthew 20.26: 26 It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be5 your servant.

Matthew 20.27: 27 Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

Matthew 20.28: 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 20.29: 29 As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

Matthew 20.30: 30 Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

Matthew 20.31: 31 The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

Matthew 20.32: 32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Matthew 20.34: 34 Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

Hebrews 8.1: 8Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Hebrews 8.2: 2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

Hebrews 8.3: 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

Hebrews 8.4: 4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

Hebrews 8.5: 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”a

Hebrews 8.6: 6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

Hebrews 8.7: 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

Hebrews 8.10: 10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.

Hebrews 8.13: 13 In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

2 John 1.1: 1The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

2 John 1.2: 2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

2 John 1.3: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

2 John 1.4: 4 I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

2 John 1.5: 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

2 John 1.6: 6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

2 John 1.7: 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

2 John 1.8: 8 Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

2 John 1.9: 9 Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

2 John 1.10: 10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

2 John 1.12: 12 Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

1 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.

1 1:14 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 1:17 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

3 1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

1 2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.

2 2:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

3 2:26 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

4 2:33 or, seed

1 4:22 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels

1 5:11 20,000 cors would be about 120,000 bushels or about 4.2 megaliters of wheat, which would weigh about 3,270 metric tons.

2 5:11 20 cors is about 1,100 gallons or about 4220 liters.

1 6:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

2 6:23 “Cherubim” is plural of “cherub”, an angelic being.

1 7:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

2 7:38 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters, so 4 baths was about 224 gallons or 840 liters.

1 9:13 “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”.

2 9:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons

3 9:28 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 420 talents is about 12.6 metric tons

1 10:11 possibly an Indian sandalwood, with nice grain and a pleasant scent, and good for woodworking

2 10:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons

3 10:16 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or 13.2 pounds or 192 Troy ounces.

4 10:17 A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds.

5 10:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

1 14:10 or, male

2 14:15 That is, the Euphrates.

1 16:11 or, male

2 16:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.

1 18:32 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

1 20:39 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds

1 21:21 or, male

1 19:6 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, so 1000 talents is about 30 metric tons

2 19:16 or, the Euphrates River

1 3:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

1 5:14 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 6:5 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

1 7:9 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

1 9:26 Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.

2 9:28 or, seed

1 20:2 A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.

2 20:3 Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 a.m.

3 20:5 noon and 3:00 p.m.

4 20:6 5:00 p.m.

5 20:26 TR reads “let him be” instead of “shall be”

a 8:5 Exodus 25:40

1 8:8 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

2 8:11 TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow citizen”

b 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31-34