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Kings, 1st","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: History - Ancient","Category: History - Religious","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS\n\nThis and the following Book are called by the holy fathers the third and\nfourth book of Kings; but by the Hebrews, the first and second. They\ncontain the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Juda, from the\nbeginning of the reign of Solomon, to the captivity. As to the writer of\nthese books, it seems most probable they were not written by one man;\nnor at one time; but as there was all along a succession of prophets in\nIsrael, who recorded, by divine inspiration, the most remarkable things\nthat happened in their days, these books seem to have been written by\nthese prophets. See 2 Paralip. alias 2 Chron. 9.29; 12.15; 13.22; 20.34;\n26.22; 32.32.\n\n\n3 Kings Chapter 1\n\nKing David growing old, Abisag a Sunamitess is brought to him. Adonias\npretending to reign, Nathan and Bethsabee obtain that Solomon should be\ndeclared and anointed king.\n\n1:1. Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was\ncovered with clothes he was not warm.\n\n1:2. His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our Lord the\nking, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish\nhim, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king.\n\n1:3. So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel\nand they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.\n\n1:4. And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the\nking, and served him, but the king did not know her.\n\n1:5. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying: I will be\nking.  And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run\nbefore him.\n\n1:6. Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast\nthou done this?  And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after\nAbsalom.\n\n1:7. And he conferred with Joab, the son of Sarvia, and with Abiathar,\nthe priest, who furthered Adonias's side.\n\n1:8. But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Nathan,\nthe prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David's army, was\nnot with Adonias.\n\n1:9. And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat cattle, by\nthe stone of Zoheleth, which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all\nhis brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Juda, the king's\nservants:\n\n1:10. But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men, and\nSolomon, his brother, he invited not.\n\n1:11. And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not\nheard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David\nknoweth it not?\n\n1:12. Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life\nof thy son Solomon.\n\n1:13. Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou,\nmy lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son,\nshall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth\nAdonias reign?\n\n1:14. And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come\nin after thee, and will fill up thy words.\n\n1:15. So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber. Now the king\nwas very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him.\n\n1:16. Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king\nsaid to her: What is thy will?\n\n1:17. She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy handmaid,\nby the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and\nhe shall sit on my throne.\n\n1:18. And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord the king,\nknowest nothing of it.\n\n1:19. He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many rams, and\ninvited all the king's sons, and Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the\ngeneral of the army: but Solomon, thy servant, he invited not.\n\n1:20. And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee,\nthat thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the\nking, after thee.\n\n1:21. Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth\nwith his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted\noffenders.\n\n1:22. As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came.\n\n1:23. And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And\nwhen he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to\nthe ground,\n\n1:24. Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign\nafter me, and let him sit upon my throne?\n\n1:25. Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and\nfatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the\ncaptains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and\ndrinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:\n\n1:26. But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son\nof Joiada, and Solomon, thy servant, he hath not invited.\n\n1:27. Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not\ntold me, thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king\nafter him?\n\n1:28. And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when\nshe was come in to the king, and stood before him,\n\n1:29. The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered\nmy soul out of all distress,\n\n1:30. Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying:\nSolomon thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne\nin my stead, so will I do this day.\n\n1:31. And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the\nking, saying: May my lord David live for ever.\n\n1:32. King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the\nprophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada.  And when they were come in\nbefore the king,\n\n1:33. He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set\nmy son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon:\n\n1:34. And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him\nthere king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say:\nGod save king Solomon.\n\n1:35. And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit\nupon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him\nto be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.\n\n1:36. And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen:\nso say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.\n\n1:37. As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with\nSolomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king\nDavid.\n\n1:38. So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, went down, and\nBanaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set\nSolomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon.\n\n1:39. And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle,\nand anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people\nsaid: God save king Solomon.\n\n1:40. And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played\nwith pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the\nnoise of their cry.\n\n1:41. And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard it, and now\nthe feast was at an end. Joab also, hearing the sound of the trumpet,\nsaid: What meaneth this noise of the city in an uproar?\n\n1:42. While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest,\ncame: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man,\nand bringest good news.\n\n1:43. And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord, king David,\nhath appointed Solomon king;\n\n1:44. And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet,\nand Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and\nthey have set him upon the king's mule:\n\n1:45. And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him\nking, in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the\ncity rang again: this is the noise that you have heard.\n\n1:46. Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the kingdom.\n\n1:47. And the king's servants going in, have blessed ouur lord king\nDavid, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name,\nand make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his\nbed:\n\n1:48. And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath\ngiven this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing it.\n\n1:49. Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they all arose,\nand every man went his way.\n\n1:50. And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the\nhorn of the altar.\n\n1:51. And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king\nSolomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king\nSolomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the\nsword.\n\n1:52. And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as\none hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he\nshall die.\n\n1:53. Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and\ngoing in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to thy\nhouse.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 2\n\nDavid, after giving his last charge to Solomon, dieth. Adonias is put to\ndeath: Abiathar is banished: Joab and Semei are slain.\n\n1:1. And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged\nhis son Solomon, saying:\n\n2:2. I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself\na man.\n\n2:3. And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and\nobserve his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and\ntestimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayst\nunderstand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:\n\n2:4. That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me,\nsaying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk\nbefore me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there\nshall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.\n\n2:5. Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me,\nwhat he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son\nof Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the\nblood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was\nabout his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.\n\nJoab... These instructions given by David to his son, with relation to\nJoab and Semei, proceeded not from any rancour of heart, or private\npique; but from a zeal for justice, that crimes so public and heinous\nmight not pass unpunished.\n\n2:6. Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head\ngo down to hell in peace.\n\nTo hell... This word hell doth not here signify the place or state of\ndamnation; but the place and state of the dead.\n\n2:7. But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and let\nthem eat at thy table: for they met me when I fled from the face of\nAbsalom, thy brother.\n\n2:8. Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini,\nof Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the\ncamp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan,\nand I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the\nsword:\n\n2:9. Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and\nknowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs\nwith blood to the grave.\n\n2:10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid.\n\n2:11. And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty years: in\nHebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem thirty-three.\n\n2:12. And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his\nkingdom was strengthened exceedingly.\n\n2:13. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of\nSolomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered: It\nis peaceable.\n\n2:14. And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him:\nSpeak. And he said:\n\n2:15. Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had\npreferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is\nbecome my brother's: for it was appointed him by the Lord.\n\n2:16. Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face.\nAnd she said to him: Say on.\n\n2:17. And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny\nthee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.\n\n2:18. And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to the king.\n\n2:19. Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias:\nand the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his\nthrone: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his\nright hand.\n\n2:20. And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not\nput me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I must\nnot turn away thy face.\n\n2:21. And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy\nbrother, to wife.\n\n2:22. And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou\nask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom;\nfor he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the\nson of Sarvia.\n\n2:23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do\nto me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his\nown life.\n\n2:24. And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed\nme upon the throne of David, my father, and who hath made me a house, as\nhe promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day.\n\n2:25. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son of Joiada,\nwho slew him, and he died.\n\n2:26. And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth, to\nthy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this\ntime put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God\nbefore David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my\nfather endured.\n\n2:27. So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being the priest of the Lord,\nthat the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning\nthe house of Heli in Silo.\n\n2:28. And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias,\nand had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of\nthe Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar.\n\n2:29. And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the\ntabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias,\nthe son of Joiada, saying. Go, kill him.\n\n2:30. And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him:\nThus saith the king: Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth, but\nhere I will die. Banaias brought word back to the king, saying: Thus\nsaith Joab, and thus he answered me.\n\n2:31. And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and\nbury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed\nby Joab, from me, and from the house of my father:\n\n2:32. And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he\nmurdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the\nsword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general\nof the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army\nof Juda;\n\n2:33. And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the\nhead of his seed for ever. But to David and his seed, and his house, and\nto his throne, be peace for ever from the Lord.\n\n2:34. So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew\nhim, and he was buried in his house in the desert.\n\n2:35. And the king appointed Banaias, the son of Joiada in his room over\nthe army; and Sadoc, the priest, he put in the place of Abiathar.\n\n2:36. The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to him: Build\nthee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from thence\nany where.\n\n2:37. For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the\nbrook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be\nupon thy own head.\n\n2:38. And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the\nking hath said, so will thy servant do.  And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem\nmany days.\n\n2:39. And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei\nran away to Achis, the son of Maacha, the king of Geth: and it was told\nSemei that his servants were gone to Geth.\n\n2:40. And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Achis, to Geth,\nto seek his servants, and he brought them out of Geth.\n\n2:41. And it was told Solomon, that Semei had gone from Jerusalem to\nGeth, and was come back.\n\n2:42. And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest\nto thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt\ngo out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die?  And thou\nansweredst me: The word that I have heard is good.\n\n2:43. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the\ncommandment that I laid upon thee?\n\n2:44. And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which\nthy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord\nhath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.\n\n2:45. And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall\nbe established before the Lord for ever.\n\n2:46. So the king commanded Banaias, the son of Joiada: and he went out\nand struck him; and he died.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 3\n\nSolomon marrieth Pharao's daughter. He sacrificeth in Gabaon: in the\nchoice which God gave him he preferreth wisdom. His wise judgment\nbetween the two harlots.\n\n3:1. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made\naffinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and\nbrought her into the city of David: until he had made an end of building\nhis own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem\nround about.\n\n3:2. But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no\ntemple built to the name of the Lord until that day.\n\nHigh places... That is, altars where they worshipped the Lord, but not\naccording to the ordinance of the law; which allowed of no other places\nfor sacrifice but the temple of God. Among these high places that of\nGabaon was the chiefest, because there was the tabernacle of the\ntestimony, which had been removed from Silo to Nobe and from Nobe to\nGabaon.\n\n3:3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his\nfather; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense.\n\n3:4. He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the\ngreat high place: a thousand victims for holocausts, did Solomon offer\nupon that altar, in Gabaon.\n\n3:5. And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask\nwhat thou wilt that I should give thee.\n\n3:6. And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant\nDavid, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice,\nand an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for\nhim, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.\n\n3:7. And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of\nDavid, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and\ncome in;\n\n3:8. And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast\nchosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for\nmultitude.\n\n3:9. Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy\npeople, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to\njudge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?\n\n3:10. And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such\na thing.\n\n3:11. And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing,\nand hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of\nthy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern jndgment;\n\n3:12. Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given\nthee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no\none like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.\n\n3:13. Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given\nthee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among\nthe kings in all days heretofore.\n\n3:14. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my\ncommandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.\n\n3:15. And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when he\nwas come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the\nLord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace offerings,\nand made a great feast for all his servants.\n\n3:16. Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and\nstood before him.\n\n3:17. And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman\ndwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the\nchamber.\n\n3:18. And the third day after I was delivered, she also was delivered;\nand we were together, and no other person with us in the house; only we\ntwo.\n\n3:19. And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she\noverlaid him.\n\n3:20. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from\nmy side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom:\nand laid her dead child in my bosom.\n\n3:21. And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it\nwas dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I\nfound that it was not mine which I bore.\n\n3:22. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayst, but thy\nchild is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou liest:\nfor my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they\nstrove before the king.\n\n3:23. Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy\nchild is dead. And the other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and\nmine liveth.\n\n3:24. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had\nbrought a sword before the king,\n\n3:25. Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the one\nand half to the other.\n\n3:26. But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her\nbowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the\nchild alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither\nmine nor thine; but divide it.\n\n3:27. The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman,\nand let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof.\n\n3:28. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and\nthey feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do\njudgment.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 4\n\nSolomon's chief officers. His riches and wisdom.\n\n4:1. And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:\n\n4:2. And these were the princes which he had: Azarias, the son of Sadoc,\nthe priest:\n\n4:3. Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes: Josaphat, the son\nof Ahilud, recorder:\n\n4:4. Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc, and Abiathar,\npriests.\n\nAbiathar... By this it appears that Abiathar was not altogether deposed\nfrom the high priesthood; but only banished to his country house, and by\nthat means excluded from the exercise of his functions.\n\n4:5. Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that were about the king:\nZabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the king's friend:\n\n4:6. And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda,\nover the tribute.\n\n4:7. And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided\nvictuals for the king and for his house hold: for every one provided\nnecessaries, each man his month in the year.\n\n4:8. And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim.\n\n4:9. Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in Elon,\nand in Bethanan.\n\n4:10. Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land of Epher.\n\n4:11. Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor: he had Tapheth, the\ndaughter of Solomon, to wife.\n\n4:12. Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac, and Mageddo, and all\nBethsan, which is by Sarthana, beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan unto\nAbelmehula, over against Jecmaan.\n\n4:13. Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the town of Jair, the son of\nManasses, in Galaad: he was chief in all the country of Argob, which is\nin Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and brazen bolts.\n\n4:14. Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in Manaim.\n\n4:15. Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Basemath, the daughter of\nSolomon, to wife.\n\n4:16. Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in Baloth.\n\n4:17. Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.\n\n4:18. Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.\n\n4:19. Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the land of\nSehon, the king of the Amorrhites, and of Og, the king of Basan, over\nall that were in that land.\n\n4:20. Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in\nmultitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing.\n\n4:21. And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the river to the\nland of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought\nhim presents, and served him all the days of his life.\n\nThe river... Euphrates.\n\n4:22. And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures of\nfine flour, and threescore measures of meal;\n\n4:23. Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams;\nbesides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.\n\n4:24. For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from\nThaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace\non every side round about.\n\n4:25. And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his\nvine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of\nSolomon.\n\n4:26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and\ntwelve thousand for the saddle.\n\n4:27. And the foresaid governors of the king fed them; and they\nfurnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great\ncare, in their time.\n\n4:28. They brought barley also, and straw for the horses and beasts, to\nthe place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.\n\n4:29. And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much,\nand largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.\n\n4:30. And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the\nOrientals, and of the Egyptians;\n\n4:31. And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and\nHeman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in\nall nations round about.\n\n4:32. Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a\nthousand and five.\n\nThree thousand parables, etc... These works are all lost, excepting some\npart of the parables extant in the book of Proverbs; and his chief poem\ncalled the Canticle of Canticles.\n\n4:33. And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Libanus,\nunto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of\nbeasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.\n\n4:34. And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and\nfrom all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 5\n\nHiram king of Tyre agreeth to furnish timber and workmen for building\nthe temple: the number of workmen and overseers.\n\n5:1. And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon: for he heard\nthat they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram had\nalways been David's friend.\n\n5:2. Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:\n\n5:3. Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not\nbuild a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that\nwere round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his\nfeet.\n\n5:4. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about; and there\nis no adversary nor evil occurrence.\n\n5:5. Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my\nGod, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will\nset upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n5:6. Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees,\nout of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will\ngive thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou\nknowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew\nwood like to the Sidonians.\n\n5:7. Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced\nexceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath given\nto David a very wise son over this numerous people.\n\n5:8. And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast\ndesired of me; and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and\nfir trees.\n\n5:9. My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I\nwill put them together in floats, on the sea, and convey them to the\nplace, which thou shalt signify to me, and will land them there, and\nthou shalt receive them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish\nfood for my household.\n\n5:10. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to all\nhis desire.\n\n5:11. And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for\nprovision for his house, and twenty measures of the purest oil: thus\ngave Solomon to Hiram every year.\n\n5:12. And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised him: and there\nwas peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league\ntogether.\n\n5:13. And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy was\nof thirty thousand men.\n\n5:14. And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns,\nso that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.\n\n5:15. And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty\nthousand to hew stones in the mountain:\n\n5:16. Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three\nthousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that\ndid the work.\n\n5:17. And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly\nstones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:\n\n5:18. And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them:\nand the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 6\n\nThe building of Solomon's temple.\n\n6:1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after\nthe children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year\nof the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the\nsecond month) he began to build a house to the Lord.\n\n6:2. And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore\ncubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in\nheight.\n\n6:3. And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in\nlength, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it\nwas ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.\n\n6:4. And he made in the temple oblique windows.\n\n6:5. And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in\nthe walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he\nmade chambers in the sides round about.\n\nUpon the wall, i. e., joining to the wall.-Ibid. He built floors round\nabout... Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the\ntemple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and\noutward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.-Ibid.\nThe oracle... The inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his\noracles.\n\n6:6. The floor that was underneath was five cubits in breadth, and the\nmiddle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven\ncubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the\noutside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.\n\n6:7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed\nand made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool\nof iron heard in the house when it was in building.\n\nMade ready, etc... So the stones for the building of God's eternal\ntemple in the heavenly Jerusalem, (who are the faithful,) must first be\nhewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before they can be\nadmitted to have a place in that celestial structure.\n\n6:8. The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house:\nand by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the\nmiddle to the third.\n\n6:9. So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house\nwith roofs of cedar.\n\n6:10. And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height,\nand he covered the house with timber of cedar.\n\n6:11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon,\n\n6:12. As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in\nmy statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments,\nwalking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David\nthy father.\n\n6:13. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I\nwill not forsake my people Israel.\n\n6:14. So Solomon built the house, and finished it.\n\n6:15. And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of\ncedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the\nroofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered\nthe floor of the house with planks of fir.\n\n6:16. And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder\npart of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house\nof the oracle to be the holy of holies.\n\n6:17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty\ncubits long.\n\n6:18. And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the\nturnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings\nprojecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could\nbe seen in the wall at all.\n\n6:19. And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner\npart, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.\n\n6:20. Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in\nbreadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it\nwith most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.\n\n6:21. And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold,\nand fastened on the plates with nails of gold.\n\n6:22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with\ngold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.\n\n6:23. And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten\ncubits in height.\n\n6:24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the\ncherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity\nof one wing to the extremity of the other wing.\n\n6:25. The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the\nwork was the same in both the cherubims:\n\n6:26. That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner\nthe other cherub.\n\n6:27. And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and the\ncherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched\none wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and\nthe other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.\n\n6:28. And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.\n\n6:29. And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers\nfigures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and\ndivers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from\nthe wall.\n\n6:30. And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and\nwithout.\n\n6:31. And in the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors of olive\ntree, and posts of five corners,\n\n6:32. And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of\ncherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much projecting;\nand he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the cherubims and\nthe palm trees, and the other things, with gold.\n\n6:33. And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree\nfoursquare:\n\n6:34. And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each door was\ndouble, and so opened with folding leaves.\n\n6:35. And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing\nvery much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by\nrule.\n\n6:36. And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones,\nand one row of beams of cedar.\n\n6:37. In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the month\nZio:\n\n6:38. And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul.  (which is the eighth\nmonth) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the\nappurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 7\n\nSolomons palace, his house in the forest, and the queen's house: the\nwork of the two pillars: the sea (or laver) and other vessels.\n\n7:1. And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it\nto perfection.\n\n7:2. He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it\nwas a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height\nthirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had\ncut cedar trees into pillars.\n\n7:3. And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was\nheld up with five and forty pillars.  And one row had fifteen pillars,\n\n7:4. Set one against another,\n\n7:5. And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars,\nand over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.\n\n7:6. And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and\nthirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch,\nand pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.\n\n7:7. He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the seat of\njudgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top.\n\n7:8. And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in\njudgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of\nPharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch;\n\n7:9. All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and\nmeasure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the\nwalls, and without, unto the great court.\n\n7:10. And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten\ncubits or eight cubits.\n\n7:11. And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in\nlike manner planks of cedar.\n\n7:12. And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed\nstones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the\ninner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.\n\n7:13. And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,\n\n7:14. The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of Nephthali, whose father\nwas a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and\nunderstanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was come\nto king Solomon, he wrought all his work.\n\n7:15. And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits\nhigh: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.\n\n7:16. He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the\ntops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the\nheight of the other chapiter was five cubits:\n\n7:17. And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with\nwonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows\nof nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.\n\n7:18. And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to\ncover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in\nlike manner did he to the other chapiter.\n\n7:19. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of\nlily work, in the porch of four cubits.\n\n7:20. And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars\nabove, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network:\nand of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the\nother chapiter.\n\n7:21. And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and when\nhe had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name thereof\nJachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called the name\nthereof Booz.\n\nJachin... That is, firmly established.-Ibid. Booz... That is, in its\nstrength. By recording these names in holy writ, the spirit of God would\nhave us understand the invincible firmness and strength of the pillars\non which the true temple of God, which is the church, is established.\n\n7:22. And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work of\nthe pillars was finished.\n\n7:23. He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round\nall about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits\ncompassed it round about.\n\n7:24. And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten\ncubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered\nsculptures.\n\n7:25. And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the\nnorth, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and\nthree towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their\nhinder parts were all hid within.\n\n7:26. And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was\nlike the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two\nthousand bates.\n\nTwo thousand bates... That is, about ten thousand gallons. This was the\nquantity of water which was usually put into it: but it was capable, if\nbrimful, of holding three thousand. See 2 Par. 4.5.\n\n7:27. And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in\nlength, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.\n\n7:28. And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were\ngravings between the joinings.\n\n7:29. And between the little crowns and the ledges, were lions, and\noxen, and cherubims; and in the joinings likewise above: and under the\nlions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down.\n\n7:30. And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at the\nfour sides were undersetters, under the laver molten, looking one\nagainst another.\n\n7:31. The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the\nchapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round,\nand together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the\npillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were\nsquare, not round.\n\n7:32. And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base,\nwere joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a\ncubit and a half.\n\n7:33. And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot: and\ntheir axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all cast.\n\n7:34. And the four undersetters, that were at every corner of each base,\nwere of the base itself, cast and joined together.\n\n7:35. And on the top of the base, there was a round compass of half a\ncubit, so wrought that the laver might be set thereon, having its\ngravings, and divers sculptures of itself.\n\n7:36. He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass, and in the\ncorners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man\nstanding, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round about.\n\n7:37. After this manner, he made ten bases, of one casting and measure,\nand the like graving.\n\n7:38. He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bates,\nand was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many\nlavers.\n\n7:39. And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple,\nand five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the\ntemple, over against the east southward.\n\n7:40. And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished\nall the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord.\n\n7:41. The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the\nchapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords,\nthat were upon the top of the pillars.\n\n7:42. And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks: two rows of\npomegranates for each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters,\nwhich were upon the tops of the pillars.\n\n7:43. And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.\n\n7:44. And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.\n\n7:45. And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the\nvessels that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the house of the Lord,\nwere of fine brass.\n\n7:46. In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay\nground, between Socoth and Sartham.\n\n7:47. And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great\nmultitude the brass could not be weighed.\n\n7:48. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the\naltar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of\nproposition should be set:\n\n7:49. And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on\nthe left, over against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like\nlilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers,\n\n7:50. And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of\nmost pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the\nholy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple, were of\ngold.\n\n7:51. And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of the\nLord, and brought in the things that David, his father, had dedicated,\nthe silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up in the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 8\n\nThe dedication of the temple: Solomon's prayer and sacrifices.\n\n8:1. Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes,\nand the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled\nto king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the\ncovenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.\n\n8:2. And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the\nfestival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.\n\n8:3. And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the\nark,\n\n8:4. And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the\ncovenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the\ntabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them.\n\n8:5. And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were\nassembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed\nsheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered.\n\n8:6. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into\nits place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under\nthe wings of the cherubims.\n\n8:7. For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the\nark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.\n\n8:8. And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen\nwithout, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther\nout, and there they have been unto this day.\n\n8:9. Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone,\nwhich Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the\nchildren of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.\n\nNothing else, etc... There was nothing else but the tables of the law\nwithin the ark: but on the outside of the ark, or near the ark were also\nthe rod of Aaron, and a golden urn with manna, Heb. 9.4.\n\n8:10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the\nsanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,\n\n8:11. And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:\nfor the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.\n\n8:12. Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.\n\n8:13. Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most\nfirm throne for ever.\n\n8:14. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of\nIsrael: for all the assembly of Israel stood.\n\n8:15. And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke\nwith his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath\naccomplished it, saying:\n\n8:16. Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I\nchose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built,\nthat my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people\nIsrael.\n\n8:17. And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the\nLord, the God of Israel:\n\n8:18. And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought\nin thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having\nthis same thing in thy mind.\n\n8:19. Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that\nshall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.\n\n8:20. The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in\nthe room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the\nLord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God\nof Israel.\n\n8:21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant\nof the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the\nland of Egypt.\n\n8:22. And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of\nthe assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven,\n\n8:23. And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven\nabove, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy\nservants, that have walked before thee with all their heart:\n\n8:24. Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast\npromised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou\nhast performed, as this day proveth.\n\n8:25. Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David,\nmy father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be\ntaken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel:\nyet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before\nme as thou hast walked in my sight.\n\n8:26. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which\nthou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father.\n\n8:27. Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth?\nfor if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much\nless this house which I have built?\n\n8:28. But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his\nsupplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy\nservant prayeth before thee this day:\n\n8:29. That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the\nhouse of which thou hast said:  My name shall be there: that thou mayst\nhearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:\n\n8:30. That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and of\nthy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and\nhear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest,\nshew them mercy.\n\n8:31. If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon\nhim, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy\naltar, to thy house,\n\n8:32. Then hear thou in heaven: and do and judge thy servants,\ncondemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and\njustifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice.\n\n8:33. If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies (because they\nwill sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name,\nshall come and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house:\n\n8:34. Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people\nIsrael, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their\nfathers.\n\n8:35. If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of\ntheir sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy\nname, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their\nafflictions:\n\n8:36. Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy\nservants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein\nthey should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to\nthy people in possession.\n\n8:37. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or\nblasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them, besieging\nthe gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,\n\n8:38. Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy\npeople Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and\nshall spread forth his hands in this house;\n\n8:39. Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and\nforgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as\nthou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the\nchildren of men)\n\n8:40. That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face\nof the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.\n\n8:41. Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when\nhe shall come out of a far conntry for thy name's sake, (for they shall\nhear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand,\n\n8:42. And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray\nin this place,\n\n8:43. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place,\nand do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee:\nthat all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy\npeople Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house,\nwhich I have built.\n\n8:44. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way\nsoever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of\nthe city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have\nbuilt to thy name:\n\n8:45. And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their\nsupplications, and do judgment for them.\n\n8:46. But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth\nnot) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that\nthey be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;\n\n8:47. Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity,\nand being converted, make supplication to thee in their captivity,\nsaying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed\nwickedness:\n\n8:48. And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in\nthe land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and\npray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their\nfathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which\nI have built to thy name:\n\n8:49. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their\nprayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:\n\n8:50. And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all\ntheir iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give\nthem mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have\ncompassion on them.\n\n8:51. For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast\nbrought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.\n\n8:52. That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and\nof thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall\ncall upon thee.\n\n8:53. For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from\namongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy\nservant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.\n\n8:54. And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all\nthis prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he rose from before the\naltar of the Lord: for he had fixed both knees on the ground, and had\nspread his hands towards heaven.\n\n8:55. And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud\nvoice, saying:\n\n8:56. Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel,\naccording to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one\nword of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses.\n\n8:57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not\nleave us, nor cast us off:\n\n8:58. But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all\nhis ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his\njudgments, which he commanded our fathers.\n\n8:59. And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed before the Lord,\nbe nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may do judgment for\nhis servant, and for his people Israel, day by day:\n\n8:60. That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is\nGod, and there is no other besides him.\n\n8:61. Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may\nwalk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.\n\n8:62. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered victims before the\nLord.\n\n8:63. And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed\nto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty\nthousand sheep so the king, and all the children of Israel, dedicated\nthe temple of the Lord.\n\n8:64. In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was\nbefore the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and\nsacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar\nthat was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and\nsacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.\n\n8:65. And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel\nwith him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of\nEgypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is,\nfourteen days.\n\n8:66. And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and they blessed\nthe king, and went to their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for\nall the good things that the Lord had done for David, his servant, and\nfor Israel, his people.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 9\n\nThe Lord appeareth again to Solomon: he buildeth cities: he sendeth a\nfleet to Ophir.\n\n9:1. And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the\nhouse of the Lord, and the king's house, and all that he desired and was\npleased to do,\n\n9:2. That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared\nto him in Gabaon.\n\n9:3. And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy\nsupplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this\nhouse, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my\neyes, and my heart, shall be there always.\n\n9:4. And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in\nsimplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have\ncommanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments,\n\nAs thy father walked, in simplicity of heart... That is, in the\nsincerity and integrity of a single heart, as opposite to all double\ndealing and deceit.\n\n9:5. I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as\nI promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy\nrace upon the throne of Israel.\n\n9:6. But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from\nfollowing me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies,\nwhich I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and\nadore them:\n\n9:7. I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have\ngiven them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will\ncast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among\nall people.\n\n9:8. And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall\npass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the\nLord done thus to this land, and to this house?\n\n9:9. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who\nbrought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange\ngods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord\nbrought upon them all this evil.\n\n9:10. And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had built the two\nhouses; that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,\n\n9:11. (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing Solomon with cedar trees, and\nfir trees, and gold, according to all he had need of) then Solomon gave\nHiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.\n\n9:12. And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had\ngiven him, and they pleased him not;\n\n9:13. And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me,\nbrother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.\n\nChabul... That is, dirty or displeasing.\n\n9:14. And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of\ngold.\n\n9:15. This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to\nbuild the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall\nof Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.\n\n9:16. Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burnt it\nwith fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it\nfor a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.\n\n9:17. So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron the nether,\n\n9:18. And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of the wilderness.\n\n9:19. And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled,\nhe fortified; the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the\nhorsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in\nLibanus, and in all the land of his dominion.\n\n9:20. All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and\nPherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of\nIsrael:\n\n9:21. Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the\nchildren of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary\nunto this day.\n\n9:22. But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any to be bondmen,\nbut they were warriors, and his servants, and his princes, and captains,\nand overseers of the chariots and horses.\n\n9:23. And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all\nthe works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge\nover the appointed works.\n\n9:24. And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her\nhouse, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.\n\n9:25. Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and\nvictims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the\nLord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.\n\n9:26. And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath,\non the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.\n\n9:27. And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had\nknowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.\n\n9:28. And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king\nSolomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 10\n\nThe queen of Saba cometh to king Solomon: his riches and glory.\n\n10:1. And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of Solomon in the\nname of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.\n\n\n10:2. And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and\ncamels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and\nprecious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that she\nhad in her heart.\n\n10:3. And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him:\nthere was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not\nanswer her.\n\n10:4. And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the\nhouse which he had built,\n\n10:5. And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and\nthe order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and\nthe holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no\nlonger any spirit in her;\n\n10:6. And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my\nown country,\n\n10:7. Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom.  And I did not\nbelieve them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes,\nand have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy\nworks exceed the fame which I heard.\n\n10:8. Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand\nbefore thee always, and hear thy wisdom.\n\n10:9. Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath\nset thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel\nfor ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.\n\n10:10. And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and\nof spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no\nmore such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to\nking Solomon.\n\n10:11. (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought\nfrom Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.\n\n10:12. And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of\nthe Lord, and of the king's house: and citterns and harps for singers:\nthere were no such thyine trees as these brought nor seen unto this\nday.)\n\n10:13. And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and\nasked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal\nbounty. And she returned, and went to her own country, with her\nservants.\n\n10:14. And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every\nyear, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:\n\n10:15. Besides that which the men brought him that were over the\ntributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the\nkings of Arabia, and the governors of the country.\n\n10:16. And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he\nallowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.\n\n10:17. And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of\ngold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the\nforest of Libanus.\n\n10:18. King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it\nwith the finest gold.\n\n10:19. It had six steps: and the top of the throne was round behind: and\nthere were two hands on either side holding the seat: and two lions\nstood, one at each hand,\n\n10:20. And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on the one side\nand on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom.\n\n10:21. Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were\nof gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was\nof most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it\nin the days of Solomon:\n\n10:22. For the king's navy, once in three years, went with the navy of\nHiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and\nelephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks.\n\n10:23. And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches\nand wisdom.\n\n10:24. And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to hear his\nwisdom, which God had given in his heart.\n\n10:25. And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of\ngold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every\nyear.\n\n10:26. And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had a\nthousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he\nbestowed them in fenced cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.\n\n10:27. And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and\ncedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.\n\n10:28. And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for\nthe king's merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set\nprice.\n\n10:29. And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for six hundred\nsicles of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And after this\nmanner did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 11\n\nSolomon by means of his wives falleth into idolatry: God raiseth him\nadversaries, Adad, Razon, and Jeroboam: Solomon dieth.\n\n11:1. And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of\nPharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and\nof the Hethites:\n\n11:2. Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of\nIsrael:  You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come\ninto yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow\ntheir gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.\n\n11:3. And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred\nconcubines: and the women turned away his heart.\n\n11:4. And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to\nfollow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his\nGod, as was the heart of David, his father.\n\n11:5. But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and\nMoloch, the idol of the Ammonites.\n\n11:6. And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and\ndid not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father.\n\n11:7. Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the\nhill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the\nchildren of Ammon.\n\n11:8. And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers,\nwho burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.\n\n11:9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned\naway from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice;\n\n11:10. And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not\nfollow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord commanded\nhim.\n\n11:11. The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this,\nand hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded\nthee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy\nservant.\n\n11:12. Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy\nfather's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.\n\n11:13. Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I will give one\ntribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem,\nwhich I have chosen.\n\nOne tribe... Besides that of Juda, his own native tribe.\n\n11:14. And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad, the\nEdomite, of the king's seed, in Edom.\n\n11:15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army,\nwas gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in\nEdom,\n\n11:16. (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had\nslain every male in Edom,)\n\n11:17. Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants,\nwith him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy.\n\n11:18. And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they took\nmen with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt, to Pharao, the king of\nEgypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and assigned\nhim land.\n\n11:19. And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave\nhim to wife the own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen.\n\n11:20. And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son, Genubath; and Taphnes\nbrought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with Pharao\namong his children.\n\n11:21. And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,\nand that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let\nme depart, that I may go to my own country.\n\n11:22. And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me,\nthat thou seekest to go to thy own country?  But he answered: Nothing;\nyet I beseech thee to let me go.\n\n11:23. God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon, the son of\nEliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba.\n\n11:24. And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of\nrobbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and\ndwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.\n\n11:25. And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon: and\nthis is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against Israel; and he reigned\nin Syria.\n\n11:26. Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a\nservant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted\nup his hand against the king.\n\n11:27. And this is the cause of his rebellion against him; for Solomon\nbuilt Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David, his father.\n\n11:28. And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon seeing him\na young man ingenious and industrious, made him chief over the tributes\nof all the house of Joseph.\n\n11:29. So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of\nJerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new garment,\nfound him in the way: and they two were alone in the field.\n\n11:30. And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided\nit into twelve parts:\n\n11:31. And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith\nthe Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the\nhand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.\n\n11:32. But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant,\nDavid, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes\nof Israel:\n\n11:33. Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the\ngoddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the\ngod of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do\njustice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David,\nhis father.\n\n11:34. Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I\nwill make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's\nsake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts.\n\n11:35. But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will\ngive thee ten tribes:\n\n11:36. And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a\nlamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city\nwhich I have chosen, that my name might be there.\n\n11:37. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul\ndesireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.\n\n11:38. If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command thee, and\nwilt walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my\ncommandments and my precepts, as David, my servant, did: I will be with\nthee, and will build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for\nDavid, and I will deliver Israel to thee:\n\n11:39. And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet not for\never.\n\n11:40. Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and\nfled into Egypt, to Sesac, the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the\ndeath of Solomon.\n\n11:41. And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did and his\nwisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the days\nof Solomon.\n\nThe book of the words, etc... This book is lost, with divers others\nmentioned in holy writ.\n\n11:42. And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel,\nwere forty years.\n\n11:43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of\nDavid, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\nSolomon slept, etc... That is, died. He was then about fifty-eight years\nof age, having reigned forty years.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 12\n\nRoboam, following the counsel of young men alienateth from him the minds\nof the people. They make Jeroboam king over ten tribes: he setteth up\nidolatry.\n\n12:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come\ntogether to make him king.\n\n12:2. But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive\nfrom the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of\nEgypt.\n\n12:3. And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the\nmultitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:\n\n12:4. Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou\ntake off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most\nheavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.\n\n12:5. And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again.\nAnd when the people was gone,\n\n12:6. King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before\nSolomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said:  What counsel do\nyou give me, that I may answer this people?\n\n12:7. They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and\ncondescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle\nwords to them, they will be thy servants always.\n\n12:8. But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,\nand consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and\nstood before him.\n\n12:9. And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may\nanswer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father\nput upon us, lighter?\n\n12:10. And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus\nshalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy\nfather made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us.  Thou shalt say to them: My\nlittle finger is thicker than the back of my father.\n\n12:11. And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to\nyour yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with\nscorpions.\n\n12:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day, as\nthe king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.\n\n12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of\nthe old men, which they had given him,\n\n12:14. And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men,\nsaying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My\nfather beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.\n\n12:15. And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was\nturned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the\nhand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.\n\n12:16. Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them,\nanswered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance\nin the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look\nto thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.\n\n12:17. But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of\nJuda, Roboam reigned over them.\n\n12:18. Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all\nIsrael stoned him, and he died.  Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get\nhim up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:\n\n12:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.\n\n12:20. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come\nagain, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made\nhim king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of\nDavid but the tribe of Juda only.\n\nJuda only... Benjamin was a small tribe, and so intermixed with the\ntribe of Juda, (the very city of Jerusalem being partly in Juda, partly\nin Benjamin,) that they are here counted but as one tribe.\n\n12:21. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the house\nof Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand chosen\nmen for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring the\nkingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon.\n\n12:22. But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of God, saying:\n\n12:23. Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to all\nthe house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying:\n\n12:24. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your\nbrethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house, for\nthis thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and\nreturned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.\n\n12:25. And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and\ngoing out from thence, he built Phanuel.\n\n12:26. And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to\nthe house of David,\n\n12:27. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord\nat Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord\nRoboam, the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.\n\n12:28.  And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to\nthem: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who\nbrought thee out of the land of Egypt.\n\nGolden calves... It is likely, by making his gods in this form, he\nmimicked the Egyptians, among whom he had sojourned, who worshipped\ntheir Apis and their Osiris under the form of a bullock.\n\n12:29. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:\n\nBethel and Dan... Bethel was a city of the tribe of Ephraim in the\nsouthern part of the dominions of Jeroboam, about six leagues from\nJerusalem; Dan was in the extremity of his dominions to the north in the\nconfines of Syria.\n\n12:30. And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to\nadore the calf as far as Dan.\n\n12:31. And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest\nof the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.\n\n12:32. And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth\nday of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in\nJuda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to\nsacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel\npriests of the high places, which he had made.\n\n12:33. And he went up to the altar, which he had built in Bethel, on the\nfifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had devised of his own\nheart: and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and went up on\nthe altar to burn incense.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 13\n\nA prophet sent from Juda to Bethel foretelleth the birth of Josias, and\nthe destruction of Jeroboam's altar. Jeroboam's hand offering violence\nto the prophet withereth, but is restored by the prophet's prayer: the\nsame prophet is deceived by another prophet, and slain by a lion.\n\n13:1. And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the\nLord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning\nincense.\n\n13:2. And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and\nsaid: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born\nto the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee\nthe priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he\nshall burn men's bones upon thee.\n\n13:3. And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign,\nthat the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes\nthat are upon it, shall be poured out.\n\n13:4. And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he\nhad cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand\nfrom the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he stretched\nforth against him, withered: and he was not able to draw it back again\nto him.\n\n13:5. The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the\naltar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in\nthe word of the Lord.\n\n13:6. And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord\nthy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the\nman of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was\nrestored to him, and it became as it was before.\n\n13:7. And the king said to the man of God: Come home with me to dine,\nand I will make thee presents.\n\n13:8. And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me half\nthy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water in\nthis place:\n\n13:9. For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me:\nThou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way\nthat thou camest.\n\n13:10. So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that\nhe came into Bethel.\n\n13:11. Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to\nhim, and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in\nBethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to the\nking.\n\n13:12. And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed\nhim the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.\n\n13:13. And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had\nsaddled it, he got up,\n\n13:14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a\nturpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God who camest\nfrom Juda? He answered: I am.\n\n13:15. And he said to him: Come home with me to eat bread.\n\n13:16. But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I\neat bread, or drink water in this place:\n\n13:17. Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying:\nThou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor\nreturn by the way thou wentest.\n\n13:18. He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel\nspoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee\ninto thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,\n\nAn angel spoke to me, etc... This old man of Bethel was indeed a\nprophet, but he sinned in thus deceiving the man of God; the more\nbecause he pretended a revelation for what he did.\n\n13:19. And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and drank water\nin his house.\n\n13:20. And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the\nprophet that brought him back:\n\n13:21. And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying:\nThus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord,\nand hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,\n\n13:22. And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place\nwherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink\nwater, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy\nfathers.\n\n13:23. And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the\nprophet, whom he had brought back.\n\n13:24. And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed\nhim, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the\nlion stood by the dead body.\n\nKilled him... Thus the Lord often punishes his servants here, that he\nmay spare them hereafter. For the generality of divines are of opinion,\nthat the sin of this prophet, considered with all its circumstances, was\nnot mortal.\n\n13:25. And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast in the way,\nand the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the\ncity, wherein that old prophet dwelt.\n\n13:26. And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way,\nheard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the\nmouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he\nhath torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which\nhe spoke to him.\n\n13:27. And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when they had\nsaddled it,\n\n13:28. And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the\nass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the\ndead body, nor hurt the ass.\n\n13:29. And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it\nupon the ass, and going back brought it into the city of the old\nprophet, to mourn for him.\n\n13:30. And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and they mourned\nover him, saying:  Alas! alas, my brother.\n\n13:31. And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: When I\nam dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried: lay\nmy bones beside his bones.\n\n13:32. For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold\nin the word of the Lord, against the altar that is in Bethel: and\nagainst all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of\nSamaria.\n\n13:33. After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way:\nbut on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of the\nhigh places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a\npriest of the high places.\n\n13:34. And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut\noff, and destroyed from the face of the earth.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 14\n\nAhias prophesieth the destruction of the family of Jeroboam.  He dieth,\nand is succeeded by his son Nadab. The king of Egypt taketh and\npillageth Jerusalem. Roboam dieth and his son Abiam succeedeth.\n\n14:1. At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.\n\n14:2. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that\nthou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where\nAhias, the prophet is, who told me that I should reign over this people.\n\n14:3. Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey,\nand go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this child.\n\n14:4. Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo,\nand came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were\ndim by reason of his age.\n\n14:5. And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in,\nto consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus shalt\nthou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were\nanother woman,\n\n14:6. Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and\nsaid: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be\nanother? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.\n\n14:7. Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: For\nas much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince\nover my people Israel;\n\n14:8. And rent the kingdom away from thc house of David, and gave it to\nthee, and thou hast not been as my servant, David, who kept my\ncommandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was\nwell pleasing in my sight:\n\n14:9. But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made\nthee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast\ncast me behind thy back:\n\n14:10. Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam,\nand will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and\nhim that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the\nremnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be\nclean.\n\n14:11. Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat:\nand them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour:\nfor the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n14:12. Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet\nshall be entering into the city, the child shall die,\n\n14:13. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he\nonly of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard\nthere is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the\nhouse of Jeroboam.\n\n14:14. And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall\ncut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:\n\n14:15. And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the\nwater: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave\nto their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they\nhave made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.\n\n14:16. And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who\nhath sinned, and made Israel to sin.\n\n14:17. And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa:\nand when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child\ndied,\n\n14:18. And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according to\nthe word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias,\nthe prophet.\n\n14:19. And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he\nreigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel.\n\nThe book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel... This book,\nwhich is often mentioned in the Book of Kings, is long since lost. For\nas to the books of Paralipomenon, or Chronicles, (which the Hebrews call\nthe words of the days,) they were certainly written after the Book of\nKings, since they frequently refer to them.\n\n14:20. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years:\nand he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n14:21. And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one\nand forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen\nyears in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes\nof Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an\nAmmonitess.\n\n14:22. And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him\nabove all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they\ncommitted.\n\n14:23. For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon\nevery high hill, and under every green tree:\n\n14:24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did\naccording to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had\ndestroyed before the face of the children of Israel.\n\nThe effeminate... Catamites, or men addicted to unnatural lust.\n\n14:25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of\nEgypt, came up against Jerusalem.\n\n14:26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the\nking's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which\nSolomon had made:\n\n14:27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered\nthem into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them\nthat kept watch before the gate of the king's house.\n\n14:28. And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose\noffice it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they\nbrought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.\n\n14:29. Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold\nthey are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nJuda.\n\n14:30. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.\n\n14:31. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in\nthe city of David:  and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and\nAbiam, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 15\n\nThe acts of Abiam and of Asa kings of Juda. And of Nadab and Baasa kings\nof Israel.\n\n15:1. Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.\n\n15:2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nMaacha, the daughter of Abessalom.\n\nMaacha, etc... She is called elsewhere Michaia, daughter of Uriel; but\nit was common in those days for the same person to have two names.\n\n15:3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done\nbefore him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was\nthe heart of David, his father.\n\n15:4. But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in\nJerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:\n\n15:5. Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the\nLord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all\nthe days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.\n\n15:6. But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his\nlife.\n\n15:7. And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?\nAnd there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.\n\n15:8. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city\nof David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n15:9. So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Asa,\nking of Juda,\n\n15:10. And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's\nname was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.\n\nHis mother, etc... That is, his grandmother; unless we suppose, which is\nnot improbable, that the Maacha here named is different from the Maacha\nmentioned, ver. 2.\n\n15:11. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did\nDavid, his father:\n\n15:12. And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all\nthe filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.\n\n15:13. Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the\nprincess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had\nconsecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the\nfilthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:\n\n15:14. But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart\nof Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:\n\nThe high places... There were excelsa or high places of two different\nkinds. Some were set up, and dedicated to the worship of idols, or\nstrange gods; and these Asa removed, 2 Par. 14.2; others were only\naltars of the true God, but were erected contrary to the law, which\nallowed of no sacrifices but in the temple; and these were not removed\nby Asa.-Ibid. Perfect with the Lord... Asa had his faults; but never\nforsook the worship of the Lord.\n\n15:15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and\nhe had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.\n\n15:16. And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all\ntheir days.\n\n15:17. And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and built Rama,\nthat no man might go out or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda.\n\n15:18. Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the\ntreasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's\nhouse, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them to\nBenadad, son of Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in\nDamascus, saying:\n\n15:19. There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and\nthy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and\nI desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel,\nthat he may depart from me.\n\n15:20. Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army\nagainst the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and\nAbeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the land of Nephthali.\n\n15:21. And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and\nreturned into Thersa.\n\n15:22. But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be\nexcused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber\nthereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built\nGabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.\n\n15:23. But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and\nall that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in\nthe book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time\nof his old age he was diseased in his feet.\n\n15:24. And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the\ncity of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place.\n\n15:25. But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel the second\nyear of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.\n\n15:26. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways\nof his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.\n\n15:27. And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired\nagainst him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the\nPhilistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.\n\n15:28. So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa, king of Juda, and\nreigned in his place.\n\n15:29. And when he was king, he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he\nleft not so much as one soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed\nhim, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken in the hand\nof Ahias, the Silonite:\n\n15:30. Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and\nwherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he\nprovoked the Lord, the God of Israel.\n\n15:31. But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n15:32. And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all\ntheir days.\n\n15:33. In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the son of Ahias,\nreigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years.\n\n15:34. And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of\nJeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 16\n\nJehu prophesieth against Baasa: his son Ela is slain and all his family\ndestroyed by Zambri. Of the reign of Amri father of Achab.\n\n16:1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against\nBaasa, saying:\n\n16:2. For as much as I have exalted thee out of the dust and made thee\nprince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of\nJeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger\nwith their sins:\n\n16:3. Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity\nof his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat.\n\n16:4. Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him\nthat dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.\n\n16:5.  But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his\nbattles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n16:6. So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and\nEla, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n16:7. And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of\nHanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against\nall the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger\nby the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this\ncause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet.\n\n16:8. In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son\nof Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years.\n\n16:9. And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen,\nrebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the\nhouse of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.\n\n16:10. And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in the seven and\ntwentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he reigned in his stead.\n\n16:11. And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the\nhouse of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and\nall his kinsfolks and friends.\n\n16:12. And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the\nword of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the\nprophet,\n\n16:13. For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who\nsinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel,\nwith their vanities.\n\n16:14. But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n16:15. In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri\nreigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a\ncity of the Philistines.\n\n16:16. And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the king,\nall Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in the camp\nthat day.\n\n16:17. And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and\nthey besieged Thersa.\n\n16:18. And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into\nthe palace, and burnt himself with the king's house: and he died\n\n16:19. In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and\nwalking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made Israel\nto sin.\n\n16:20. But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and\ntyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of\nthe kings of Israel?\n\n16:21. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half\nof the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and\none half followed Amri.\n\n16:22. But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people\nthat followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri\nreigned.\n\n16:23. In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Amri reigned\nover Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years.\n\nIn the one and thirtieth year, etc... Amri began to reign in the seven\nand twentieth year of Asa; but had not quiet possession of the kingdom\ntill the death of his competitor Thebni, which was in the one and\nthirtieth year of Asa's reign.\n\n16:24. And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two talents of\nsilver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built\nSamaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.\n\n16:25. And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly\nabove all that were before him.\n\n16:26. And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and\nin his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the\nGod of Israel, to anger with their vanities.\n\nWith their vanities... That is, their idols their golden calves, vain,\nfalse, deceitful things.\n\n16:27. Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are\nthey not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of\nIsrael?\n\n16:28. And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and\nAchab, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n16:29. Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and\nthirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri, reigned\nover Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.\n\n16:30. And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord\nabove all that were before him.\n\n16:31. Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the\nson of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal,\nking of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.\n\n16:32. And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he\nhad built in Samaria;\n\n16:33. And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord,\nthe God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.\n\n16:34. In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his\nfirstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he\nset up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he\nspoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 17\n\nElias shutteth up the heaven from raining. He is fed by ravens, and\nafterwards by a widow of Sarephta. He raiseth the window's son to life.\n\n17:1. And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to\nAchab:  As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand,\nthere shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words\nof my mouth.\n\n17:2. And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n17:3. Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the\ntorrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan;\n\n17:4. And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded\nthe ravens to feed thee there.\n\n17:5. So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going,\nhe dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.\n\n17:6. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and\nbread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent.\n\n17:7. But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not\nrained upon the earth.\n\n17:8. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:\n\n17:9. Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I\nhave commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.\n\nSarephta of the Sidonians... That is, a city of the Sidonians.\n\n17:10. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate\nof the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her,\nand said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.\n\n17:11. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying:\nBring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.\n\n17:12. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread,\nbut only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise:\nbehold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me\nand my son, that we may eat it and die.\n\n17:13. And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said\nbut first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring\nit to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.\n\n17:14. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall\nnot waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein\nthe Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.\n\n17:15. She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and\nshe, and her house: and from that day\n\n17:16. The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not\ndiminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand\nof Elias.\n\n17:17. And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the\nmistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so\nthat there was no breath left in him.\n\n17:18. And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of\nGod? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and\nthat thou shouldst kill my son?\n\n17:11. And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of\nher bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and\nlaid him upon his own bed.\n\n17:20. And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou\nafflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as\nto kill her son?\n\n17:21. And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three\ntimes, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of\nthis child, I beseech thee, return into his body.\n\n17:22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child\nreturned into him, and he revived.\n\n17:23. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper\nchamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to\nher: Behold thy son liveth.\n\n17:24. And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that thou art a\nman of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 18\n\nElias cometh before Achab. He convinceth the false prophets by bringing\nfire from heaven: he obtaineth rain by his prayer.\n\n18:1. After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third\nyear, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon\nthe face of the earth.\n\n18:2. And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous\nfamine in Samaria.\n\n18:3. And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias\nfeared the Lord very much.\n\n18:4. For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a\nhundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them\nwith bread and water.\n\n18:5. And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of\nwaters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the\nhorses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.\n\n18:6. And they divided the countries between them, that they might go\nround about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.\n\n18:7. And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him:  and he knew him, and\nfell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?\n\n18:8. And he answered: I am.  Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.\n\n18:9. And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me, thy\nservant, into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?\n\n18:10. As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,\nwhither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is\nnot here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast\nnot found.\n\n18:11. And now thou sayest to me:  Go and tell thy master: Elias is\nhere.\n\n18:12. And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry\nthee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and\nhe, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord\nfrom his infancy.\n\n18:13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel\nkilled the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets\nof the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and\nwater?\n\n18:14. And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that\nhe may kill me.\n\n18:15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I\nstand, this day I will shew myself unto him.\n\n18:16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came\nto meet Elias.\n\n18:17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest\nIsrael?\n\n18:18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy\nfather's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have\nfollowed Baalim.\n\n18:19. Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount\nCarmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the\nprophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.\n\n18:20. Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together\nthe prophets unto mount Carmel.\n\n18:21. And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt\nbetween two sides?  If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then\nfollow him.  And the people did not answer him a word.\n\n18:22. And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of\nthe Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.\n\n18:23. Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock for\nthemselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no fire\nunder: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put\nno fire under it.\n\n18:24. Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of\nmy Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God.  And all\nthe people answering, said: A very good proposal.\n\n18:25. Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock\nand dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your\ngods; but put no fire under.\n\n18:26. And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it:\nand they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,\nsaying: O Baal, hear us.  But there was no voice, nor any that answered:\nand they leaped over the altar that they had made.\n\n18:27. And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with\na louder voice:  for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an\ninn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.\n\n18:28. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their\nmanner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.\n\n18:29. And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the\ntime was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor\ndid any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.\n\n18:30. Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me.  And the people\ncoming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken\ndown:\n\n18:31. And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes\nof the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying:  Israel\nshall be thy name.\n\n18:32. And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord:\nand he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round\nabout the altar.\n\n18:33. And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and\nlaid it upon the wood.\n\n18:34. And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the\nburnt offering, and upon the wood.  And again he said: Do the same the\nsecond time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the\nsame also the third time.  And they did so the third time.\n\n18:35. And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was\nfilled with water.\n\n18:36. And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the\nprophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and\nIsrael, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy\nservant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these\nthings.\n\n18:37. Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou\nart the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.\n\n18:38. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and\nthe wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was\nin the trench.\n\n18:39. And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and\nthey said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.\n\n18:40. And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not\none of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them\ndown to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.\n\n18:41. And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a\nsound of abundance of rain.\n\n18:42. Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of\nCarmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between\nhis knees,\n\n18:43. And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And\nhe went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to\nhim: Return seven times.\n\n18:44. And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the\nsea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy\nchariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.\n\n18:45. And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the\nheavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain.\nAnd Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:\n\n18:46. And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his\nloins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 19\n\nElias, fleeing from Jezabel, is fed by an angel in the desert; and by\nthe strength of that food walketh forty days, till he cometh to Horeb,\nwhere he hath a vision of God.\n\n19:1. And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had\nslain all the prophets with the sword.\n\n19:2. And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such\nthings may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to\nmorrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.\n\n19:3. Then Elias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he had\na mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,\n\n19:4. And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when\nhe was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul\nthat he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my\nsoul: for I am no better than my fathers.\n\nThat he might die... Elias requested to die, not out of impatience or\npusillanimity, but out of zeal against sin; and that he might no longer\nbe witness of the miseries of his people; and the war they were waging\nagainst God and his servants. See ver. 10.\n\n19:5. And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper\ntree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him:\nArise and eat.\n\n19:6. He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a\nvessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.\n\n19:7. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched\nhim, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.\n\n19:8. And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of\nthat food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.\n\nIn the strength of that food, etc... This bread, with which Elias was\nfed in the wilderness, was a figure of the bread of life which we\nreceive in the blessed sacrament; by the strength of which we are to be\nsupported in our journey through the wilderness of this world till we\ncome to the true mountain of God, and his vision in a happy eternity.\n\n19:9. And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave and behold the\nword of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here,\nElias?\n\n19:10. And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God\nof hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they\nhave thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the\nsword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.\n\nI alone am left... Viz., of the prophets in the kingdom of Israel, or of\nthe ten tribes; for in the kingdom of Juda religion was at that time in\na very flourishing condition under the kings Asa and Josaphat. And even\nin Israel there remained several prophets, though not then known to\nElias. See chap. 20.13, 28, 35.\n\n19:11. And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the\nLord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before\nthe Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces:\nbut the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: but\nthe Lord is not in the earthquake.\n\n19:12. And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord is not in the\nfire. And after the fire, a whistling of a gentle air.\n\n19:13. And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and\ncoming forth, stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice\nunto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:\n\n19:14. With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because\nthe children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed\nthy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am\nleft, and they seek my life to take it away.\n\n19:15. And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the\ndesert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint\nHazael to be king over Syria;\n\n19:16. And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be king over\nIsrael: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint\nto be prophet in thy room.\n\n19:17. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword\nof Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword\nof Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.\n\nShall be slain by Eliseus... Eliseus did not kill any of the idolaters\nwith the material sword: but he is here joined with Hazael and Jehu, the\ngreat instruments of God in punishing the idolatry of Israel, because he\nforetold to the former his exaltation to the kingdom of Syria, and the\nvengeance he would execute against Israel, and anointed the latter by\none of his disciples to be king of Israel, with commission to extirpate\nthe house of Achab.\n\n19:18. And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees\nhave not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not\nworshipped him, kissing the hands.\n\n19:19. And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus, the son of\nSaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that\nwere ploughing with, twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to him,\nhe cast his mantle upon him.\n\n19:20. And he forthwith left the oxen, and run after Elias, and said:\nLet me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will\nfollow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was\nmy part, I have done to thee.\n\n19:21. And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed\nthem, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the\npeople, and they ate: and rising up, he went away, and followed Elias,\nand ministered to him.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 20\n\nThe Syrians besiege Samaria: they are twice defeated by Achab: who is\nreprehended by a prophet for letting Benadad go.\n\n20:1. And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and\nthere were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and\ngoing up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.\n\n20:2. And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city,\n\n20:3. He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and\nthy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.\n\n20:4. And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord, O\nking, I am thine, and all that I have.\n\n20:5. And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who\nsent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy\nchildren, thou shalt deliver up to me.\n\n20:6. To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send my servants\nto thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy\nservants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands, and\ntake away.\n\n20:7. And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and\nsaid: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for\nmy wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said\nnot nay.\n\n20:8. And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not\nto him, nor consent to him.\n\n20:9. Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord, the\nking: All that thou didst send for to me, thy servant at first, I will\ndo: but this thing I cannot do.\n\n20:10. And the messengers returning brought him word.  And he sent\nagain, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more\nmay they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all\nthe people that follow me.\n\n20:11. And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the\ngirded boast himself as the ungirded.\n\nLet not the girded, etc... Let him not boast before the victory: it will\nthen be time to glory when he putteth off his armour, having overcome\nhis adversary.\n\n20:12. And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and\nthe kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset\nthe city. And they beset it.\n\n20:13. And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to\nhim:  Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great\nmultitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou\nmayst know that I am the Lord.\n\n20:14. And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord:\nBy the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who shall\nbegin to fight? And he said: Thou.\n\n20:15. So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and\nhe found the number of two hundred and thirty-two:  and he mustered\nafter them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand:\n\n20:16. And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk\nin his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to\nhelp him.\n\n20:17. And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first.\nAnd Benadad sent.  And they told him, saying: There are men come out of\nSamaria.\n\n20:18. And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or\nwhether they come to fight, take them alive.\n\n20:19. So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and the\nrest of the army followed:\n\n20:20. And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians\nfled, and Israel pursued after them.  And Benadad, king of Syria, fled\naway on horseback with his horsemen.\n\n20:21. But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and\nchariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.\n\n20:22. (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go, and\nstrengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next year\nthe king of Syria will come up against thee.)\n\n20:23. But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are\ngods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better\nthat we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome\nthem.\n\n20:24. Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy\narmy, and put captains in their stead:\n\n20:25. And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine,\nand horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to\nthe chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in\nthe plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed\ntheir counsel, and did so.\n\n20:26. Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the\nSyrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.\n\n20:27. And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals,\nwent out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two\nlittle flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.\n\n20:28. (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith\nthe Lord:  Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills,\nbut is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude\ninto thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)\n\n20:29. And both sides set their armies in array one against the other\nseven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the\nchildren of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in\none day.\n\n20:30. And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall\nfell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left.  And Benadad\nfleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.\n\n20:31. And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the\nkings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on\nour loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel:\nperhaps he will save our lives.\n\n20:32. So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their\nheads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant,\nBenadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he\nbe yet alive, he is my brother.\n\n20:33. The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word out\nof his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go,\nand bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up\ninto his chariot.\n\n20:34. And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy\nfather, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my\nfather made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from\nthee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.\n\n20:35. Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his\ncompanion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.\n\n20:36. Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word\nof the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay\nthee.  And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and\nslew him.\n\n20:37. Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he\nstruck him and wounded him.\n\n20:38. So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised\nhimself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes.\n\n20:39. And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy\nservant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run\naway, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall\nslip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of\nsilver.\n\n20:40. And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and that, on a sudden\nhe was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy\njudgment, which thyself hast decreed.\n\n20:41. But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king\nof Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets.\n\n20:42. And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let go\nout of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life,\nand thy people for his people.\n\n20:43. And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear,\nand raging came into Samaria.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 21\n\nNaboth, for denying his vineyard to king Achab, is by Jezabel's\ncommandment, falsely accused and stoned to death. For which crime Elias\ndenounceth to Achab the judgments of God: upon his humbling himself the\nsentence is mitigated.\n\n21:1. And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in\nJezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the palace of Achab, king of\nSamaria.\n\n21:2. And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I\nmay make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my\nhouse; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think\nit more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.\n\n21:3. Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me\ngive thee the inheritance of my fathers.\n\n21:4. And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the\nword that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will not\ngive thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his\nbed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.\n\n21:5. And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to him: What is\nthe matter that thy soul is so grieved?  and why eatest thou no bread?\n\n21:6. And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said\nto him:  Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please\nthee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not\ngive thee my vineyard.\n\n21:7. Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority\nindeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel.  Arise, and eat bread,\nand be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the\nJezrahelite.\n\n21:8. So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his\nring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his\ncity, and that dwelt with Naboth.\n\n21:9. And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make\nNaboth sit among the chief of the people;\n\n21:10. And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him and let them\nbear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then\ncarry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.\n\n21:11. And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with\nhim in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was\nwritten in the letters which she had sent to them;\n\n21:12. They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of\nthe people.\n\n21:13. And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit\nagainst him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him\nbefore the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king.\nWherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to\ndeath.\n\n21:14. And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead.\n\n21:15. And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned,\nand dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the\nvineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and\ngive it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.\n\n21:16. And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he\narose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, to\ntake possession of it.\n\n21:17. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\n\n21:18. Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king of Israel, who is in\nSamaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take\npossession of it:\n\n21:19. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou\nhast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession.  And after these\nwords thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the\ndogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.\n\n21:20. And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy?  He said:\nI have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the\nLord.\n\nSold, to do evil in the sight, etc... That is, so addicted to evil, as\nif thou hadst sold thyself to the devil, to be his slave to work all\nkinds of evil.\n\n21:21. Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy\nposterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall,\nand him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.\n\n21:22. And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of\nNabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast\ndone to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.\n\n21:23.  And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat\nJezabel in the field of Jezrahel.\n\n21:24. If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die\nin the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.\n\n21:25. Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil\nin the sight of the Lord: for his wife, Jezabel, set him on,\n\n21:26. And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols\nwhich the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face\nof the children of Israel.\n\n21:27. And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and\nput haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and\nwalked with his head cast down.\n\n21:28. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:\n\n21:29. Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he\nhath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his\ndays, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.\n\n3 Kings Chapter 22\n\nAchab believing his false prophets, rather than Micheas, is slain in\nRamoth Galaad.  Ochozias succeedeth him.  Good king Josaphat dieth, and\nhis son Joram succeedeth him.\n\n22:1. And there passed three years without war between Syria and Israel.\n\n22:2. And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the\nking of Israel.\n\n22:3. (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not that\nRamoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the\nking of Syria?)\n\n22:4. And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to\nRamoth Galaad?\n\n22:5. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my\npeople and thy people are one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And\nJosaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day\nthe word of the Lord.\n\n22:6. Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred\nmen, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall\nI forbear?  They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the\nhand of the king.\n\n22:7. And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord,\nthat we may inquire by him?\n\n22:8. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left, by\nwhom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I hate\nhim, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said:\nSpeak not so, O king.\n\n22:9. Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make\nhaste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of Jemla.\n\n22:10. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, sat each on\nhis throne, clothed with royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of the\ngate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.\n\n22:11. And Sedecias, thc son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron,\nand said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till\nthou destroy it.\n\n22:12. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to\nRamoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the king's\nhands.\n\n22:13. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him,\nsaying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good\nthings to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and\nspeak that which is good.\n\n22:14. But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord\nshall say to me, that will I speak.\n\n22:15. So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall\nwe go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear?  He answered him:\nGo up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hands.\n\nGo up, etc... This was spoken ironically, and by way of jesting at the\nflattering speeches of the false prophets: and so the king understood\nit, as appears by his adjuring Micheas, in the following verse, to tell\nhim the truth in the name of the Lord.\n\n22:16. But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that\nthou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord.\n\n22:17. And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like\nsheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master:\nlet every man of them return to his house in peace.\n\n22:18. (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee,\nthat he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?)\n\n22:19. And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the\nLord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven\nstanding by him on the right hand and on the left:\n\n22:20. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that\nhe may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this\nmanner, and another otherwise.\n\nThe Lord said, etc... God standeth not in need of any counsellor; nor\nare we to suppose that things pass in heaven in the manner here\ndescribed: but this representation was made to the prophet, to be\ndelivered by him in a manner adapted to the common ways and notions of\nmen.\n\n22:21. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and\nsaid: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?\n\n22:22. And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth\nof all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and\nshalt prevail: go forth, and do so.\n\nGo forth, and do so... This was not a command, but a permission: for God\nnever ordaineth lies; though he often permitteth the lying spirit to\ndeceive those who love not the truth. 2 Thess. 2.10. And in this sense\nit is said in the following verse, The Lord hath given a lying spirit in\nthe mouth of all thy prophets.\n\n22:23. Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the\nmouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil\nagainst thee.\n\n22:24. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on\nthe cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and\nspoken to thee?\n\n22:25. And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go\ninto a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.\n\nGo into a chamber, etc... This happened when he heard the king was\nslain, and justly apprehended that he should be punished for his false\nprophecy.\n\n22:26. And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let him abide with\nAmon, the governor of the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech;\n\n22:27. And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and\nfeed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return\nin peace.\n\n22:28. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not\nspoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.\n\n22:29. So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to\nRamoth-Galaad.\n\n22:30. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take thy armour, and go\ninto the battle, and put on thy own garments.  But the king of Israel\nchanged his dress, and went into the battle.\n\n22:31. And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains\nof the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or\ngreat, but against the king of Israel only.\n\n22:32. So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they suspected\nthat he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault, they\nfought against him: and Josaphat cried out.\n\n22:33. And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the\nking of Israel, and they turned away from him.\n\n22:34. And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and\nchanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the stomach.\nBut he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me\nout of the army, for I am grievously wounded.\n\n22:35. And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood\nin his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the\nblood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.\n\n22:36. And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun\nset, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own\ncountry.\n\n22:37. And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried\nthe king in Samaria.\n\n22:38. And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs\nlicked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of\nthe Lord which he had spoken.\n\n22:39. But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the\nhouse of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they\nnot written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?\n\n22:40. So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned\nin his stead.\n\n22:41. But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Juda, in the\nfourth year of Acbab, king of Israel.\n\n22:42. He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he\nreigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was\nAzuba, the daughter of Salai.\n\n22:43. And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined\nnot from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.\n\n22:44. Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the\npeople offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.\n\nHe took not away, etc... He left some of the high places, viz., those in\nwhich they worshipped the true God: but took away all others, 2 Par.\n17.6, and note ver. 14 of chap. 15. 3 Kings.\n\n22:45. And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.\n\n22:46. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did,\nand his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the\ndays of the kings of Juda?\n\n22:47. And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days\nof Asa, his father, he took out of the land.\n\n22:48. And there was then no king appointed in Edom.\n\n22:49. But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for\ngold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.\n\n22:50. Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my\nservants go with thy servants in the ships.  And Josaphat would not.\n\nWould not... He had been reprehended before for admitting such a\npartner: and therefore would have no more to do with him.\n\n22:51. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in\nthe city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead.\n\n22:52. And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over Israel, in\nSamaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he\nreigned over Israel two years.\n\n22:53. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way\nof his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of\nNabat, who made Israel to sin.\n\n22:54. He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord,\nthe God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":27509}