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They +contain the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Juda, from the +beginning of the reign of Solomon, to the captivity. As to the writer of +these books, it seems most probable they were not written by one man; +nor at one time; but as there was all along a succession of prophets in +Israel, who recorded, by divine inspiration, the most remarkable things +that happened in their days, these books seem to have been written by +these prophets. See 2 Paralip. alias 2 Chron. 9.29; 12.15; 13.22; 20.34; +26.22; 32.32. + + +3 Kings Chapter 1 + +King David growing old, Abisag a Sunamitess is brought to him. Adonias +pretending to reign, Nathan and Bethsabee obtain that Solomon should be +declared and anointed king. + +1:1. Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was +covered with clothes he was not warm. + +1:2. His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for our Lord the +king, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish +him, and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the king. + +1:3. So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel +and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king. + +1:4. And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she slept with the +king, and served him, but the king did not know her. + +1:5. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself, saying: I will be +king. And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run +before him. + +1:6. Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast +thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after +Absalom. + +1:7. And he conferred with Joab, the son of Sarvia, and with Abiathar, +the priest, who furthered Adonias's side. + +1:8. But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Nathan, +the prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David's army, was +not with Adonias. + +1:9. And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat cattle, by +the stone of Zoheleth, which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all +his brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Juda, the king's +servants: + +1:10. But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men, and +Solomon, his brother, he invited not. + +1:11. And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not +heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David +knoweth it not? + +1:12. Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life, and the life +of thy son Solomon. + +1:13. Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, +my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, +shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth +Adonias reign? + +1:14. And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come +in after thee, and will fill up thy words. + +1:15. So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber. Now the king +was very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him. + +1:16. Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king +said to her: What is thy will? + +1:17. She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy handmaid, +by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and +he shall sit on my throne. + +1:18. And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord the king, +knowest nothing of it. + +1:19. He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many rams, and +invited all the king's sons, and Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the +general of the army: but Solomon, thy servant, he invited not. + +1:20. And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, +that thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the +king, after thee. + +1:21. Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth +with his fathers, that I, and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted +offenders. + +1:22. As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the prophet, came. + +1:23. And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet, is here. And +when he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to +the ground, + +1:24. Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign +after me, and let him sit upon my throne? + +1:25. Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and +fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the +captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and +drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias: + +1:26. But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son +of Joiada, and Solomon, thy servant, he hath not invited. + +1:27. Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not +told me, thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king +after him? + +1:28. And king David answered, and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when +she was come in to the king, and stood before him, + +1:29. The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered +my soul out of all distress, + +1:30. Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: +Solomon thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne +in my stead, so will I do this day. + +1:31. And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth, worshipped the +king, saying: May my lord David live for ever. + +1:32. King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the +prophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada. And when they were come in +before the king, + +1:33. He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set +my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon: + +1:34. And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, anoint him +there king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say: +God save king Solomon. + +1:35. And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit +upon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him +to be ruler over Israel, and over Juda. + +1:36. And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king, saying: Amen: +so say the Lord, the God of my lord the king. + +1:37. As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with +Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king +David. + +1:38. So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, went down, and +Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set +Solomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon. + +1:39. And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, +and anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people +said: God save king Solomon. + +1:40. And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played +with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the +noise of their cry. + +1:41. And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard it, and now +the feast was at an end. Joab also, hearing the sound of the trumpet, +said: What meaneth this noise of the city in an uproar? + +1:42. While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, the priest, +came: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man, +and bringest good news. + +1:43. And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord, king David, +hath appointed Solomon king; + +1:44. And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, +and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and +they have set him upon the king's mule: + +1:45. And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have anointed him +king, in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the +city rang again: this is the noise that you have heard. + +1:46. Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the kingdom. + +1:47. And the king's servants going in, have blessed ouur lord king +David, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name, +and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his +bed: + +1:48. And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who hath +given this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing it. + +1:49. Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they all arose, +and every man went his way. + +1:50. And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took hold of the +horn of the altar. + +1:51. And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing king +Solomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king +Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the +sword. + +1:52. And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as +one hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he +shall die. + +1:53. Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and +going in, he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to thy +house. + +3 Kings Chapter 2 + +David, after giving his last charge to Solomon, dieth. Adonias is put to +death: Abiathar is banished: Joab and Semei are slain. + +1:1. And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged +his son Solomon, saying: + +2:2. I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself +a man. + +2:3. And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and +observe his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and +testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayst +understand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself: + +2:4. That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me, +saying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk +before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there +shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel. + +2:5. Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath done to me, +what he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son +of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the +blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was +about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. + +Joab... These instructions given by David to his son, with relation to +Joab and Semei, proceeded not from any rancour of heart, or private +pique; but from a zeal for justice, that crimes so public and heinous +might not pass unpunished. + +2:6. Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head +go down to hell in peace. + +To hell... This word hell doth not here signify the place or state of +damnation; but the place and state of the dead. + +2:7. But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai, the Galaadite, and let +them eat at thy table: for they met me when I fled from the face of +Absalom, thy brother. + +2:8. Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, +of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the +camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan, +and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the +sword: + +2:9. Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and +knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs +with blood to the grave. + +2:10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of +David. + +2:11. And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty years: in +Hebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem thirty-three. + +2:12. And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his +kingdom was strengthened exceedingly. + +2:13. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of +Solomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered: It +is peaceable. + +2:14. And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him: +Speak. And he said: + +2:15. Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had +preferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is +become my brother's: for it was appointed him by the Lord. + +2:16. Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not away my face. +And she said to him: Say on. + +2:17. And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny +thee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife. + +2:18. And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to the king. + +2:19. Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias: +and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his +throne: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his +right hand. + +2:20. And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not +put me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I must +not turn away thy face. + +2:21. And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to Adonias, thy +brother, to wife. + +2:22. And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou +ask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom; +for he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the +son of Sarvia. + +2:23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do +to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his +own life. + +2:24. And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed +me upon the throne of David, my father, and who hath made me a house, as +he promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day. + +2:25. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son of Joiada, +who slew him, and he died. + +2:26. And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to Anathoth, to +thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this +time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God +before David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my +father endured. + +2:27. So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being the priest of the Lord, +that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning +the house of Heli in Silo. + +2:28. And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, +and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of +the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the altar. + +2:29. And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the +tabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias, +the son of Joiada, saying. Go, kill him. + +2:30. And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him: +Thus saith the king: Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth, but +here I will die. Banaias brought word back to the king, saying: Thus +saith Joab, and thus he answered me. + +2:31. And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and +bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed +by Joab, from me, and from the house of my father: + +2:32. And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he +murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the +sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general +of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army +of Juda; + +2:33. And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the +head of his seed for ever. But to David and his seed, and his house, and +to his throne, be peace for ever from the Lord. + +2:34. So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting upon him slew +him, and he was buried in his house in the desert. + +2:35. And the king appointed Banaias, the son of Joiada in his room over +the army; and Sadoc, the priest, he put in the place of Abiathar. + +2:36. The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to him: Build +thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from thence +any where. + +2:37. For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the +brook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be +upon thy own head. + +2:38. And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the +king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem +many days. + +2:39. And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei +ran away to Achis, the son of Maacha, the king of Geth: and it was told +Semei that his servants were gone to Geth. + +2:40. And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Achis, to Geth, +to seek his servants, and he brought them out of Geth. + +2:41. And it was told Solomon, that Semei had gone from Jerusalem to +Geth, and was come back. + +2:42. And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest +to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt +go out and walk abroad any where, know that thou shalt die? And thou +answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good. + +2:43. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the +commandment that I laid upon thee? + +2:44. And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which +thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord +hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head. + +2:45. And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall +be established before the Lord for ever. + +2:46. So the king commanded Banaias, the son of Joiada: and he went out +and struck him; and he died. + +3 Kings Chapter 3 + +Solomon marrieth Pharao's daughter. He sacrificeth in Gabaon: in the +choice which God gave him he preferreth wisdom. His wise judgment +between the two harlots. + +3:1. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made +affinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and +brought her into the city of David: until he had made an end of building +his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem +round about. + +3:2. But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no +temple built to the name of the Lord until that day. + +High places... That is, altars where they worshipped the Lord, but not +according to the ordinance of the law; which allowed of no other places +for sacrifice but the temple of God. Among these high places that of +Gabaon was the chiefest, because there was the tabernacle of the +testimony, which had been removed from Silo to Nobe and from Nobe to +Gabaon. + +3:3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his +father; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense. + +3:4. He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the +great high place: a thousand victims for holocausts, did Solomon offer +upon that altar, in Gabaon. + +3:5. And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask +what thou wilt that I should give thee. + +3:6. And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant +David, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice, +and an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for +him, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. + +3:7. And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of +David, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and +come in; + +3:8. And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast +chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for +multitude. + +3:9. Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy +people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to +judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous? + +3:10. And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such +a thing. + +3:11. And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, +and hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of +thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern jndgment; + +3:12. Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given +thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no +one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee. + +3:13. Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given +thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among +the kings in all days heretofore. + +3:14. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my +commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days. + +3:15. And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when he +was come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the +Lord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace offerings, +and made a great feast for all his servants. + +3:16. Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and +stood before him. + +3:17. And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman +dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the +chamber. + +3:18. And the third day after I was delivered, she also was delivered; +and we were together, and no other person with us in the house; only we +two. + +3:19. And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she +overlaid him. + +3:20. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from +my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: +and laid her dead child in my bosom. + +3:21. And when I arose in the morning, to give my child suck, behold it +was dead: but considering him more diligently, when it was clear day, I +found that it was not mine which I bore. + +3:22. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayst, but thy +child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou liest: +for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they +strove before the king. + +3:23. Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy +child is dead. And the other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and +mine liveth. + +3:24. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had +brought a sword before the king, + +3:25. Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the one +and half to the other. + +3:26. But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her +bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the +child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither +mine nor thine; but divide it. + +3:27. The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman, +and let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof. + +3:28. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and +they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do +judgment. + +3 Kings Chapter 4 + +Solomon's chief officers. His riches and wisdom. + +4:1. And king Solomon reigned over all Israel: + +4:2. And these were the princes which he had: Azarias, the son of Sadoc, +the priest: + +4:3. Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes: Josaphat, the son +of Ahilud, recorder: + +4:4. Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc, and Abiathar, +priests. + +Abiathar... By this it appears that Abiathar was not altogether deposed +from the high priesthood; but only banished to his country house, and by +that means excluded from the exercise of his functions. + +4:5. Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that were about the king: +Zabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the king's friend: + +4:6. And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the son of Abda, +over the tribute. + +4:7. And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided +victuals for the king and for his house hold: for every one provided +necessaries, each man his month in the year. + +4:8. And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim. + +4:9. Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in Elon, +and in Bethanan. + +4:10. Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land of Epher. + +4:11. Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor: he had Tapheth, the +daughter of Solomon, to wife. + +4:12. Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac, and Mageddo, and all +Bethsan, which is by Sarthana, beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan unto +Abelmehula, over against Jecmaan. + +4:13. Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the town of Jair, the son of +Manasses, in Galaad: he was chief in all the country of Argob, which is +in Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and brazen bolts. + +4:14. Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in Manaim. + +4:15. Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Basemath, the daughter of +Solomon, to wife. + +4:16. Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in Baloth. + +4:17. Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar. + +4:18. Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin. + +4:19. Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the land of +Sehon, the king of the Amorrhites, and of Og, the king of Basan, over +all that were in that land. + +4:20. Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in +multitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing. + +4:21. And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the river to the +land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought +him presents, and served him all the days of his life. + +The river... Euphrates. + +4:22. And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was thirty measures of +fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; + +4:23. Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams; +besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls. + +4:24. For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from +Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace +on every side round about. + +4:25. And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his +vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of +Solomon. + +4:26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and +twelve thousand for the saddle. + +4:27. And the foresaid governors of the king fed them; and they +furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great +care, in their time. + +4:28. They brought barley also, and straw for the horses and beasts, to +the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them. + +4:29. And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much, +and largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore. + +4:30. And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the +Orientals, and of the Egyptians; + +4:31. And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and +Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in +all nations round about. + +4:32. Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a +thousand and five. + +Three thousand parables, etc... These works are all lost, excepting some +part of the parables extant in the book of Proverbs; and his chief poem +called the Canticle of Canticles. + +4:33. And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in Libanus, +unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of +beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes. + +4:34. And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and +from all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom. + +3 Kings Chapter 5 + +Hiram king of Tyre agreeth to furnish timber and workmen for building +the temple: the number of workmen and overseers. + +5:1. And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon: for he heard +that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram had +always been David's friend. + +5:2. Solomon sent to Hiram, saying: + +5:3. Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not +build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that +were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his +feet. + +5:4. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about; and there +is no adversary nor evil occurrence. + +5:5. Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my +God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will +set upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build a house to my name. + +5:6. Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees, +out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will +give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou +knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew +wood like to the Sidonians. + +5:7. Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced +exceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath given +to David a very wise son over this numerous people. + +5:8. And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast +desired of me; and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and +fir trees. + +5:9. My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I +will put them together in floats, on the sea, and convey them to the +place, which thou shalt signify to me, and will land them there, and +thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish +food for my household. + +5:10. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to all +his desire. + +5:11. And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for +provision for his house, and twenty measures of the purest oil: thus +gave Solomon to Hiram every year. + +5:12. And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised him: and there +was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league +together. + +5:13. And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and the levy was +of thirty thousand men. + +5:14. And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month, by turns, +so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy. + +5:15. And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty +thousand to hew stones in the mountain: + +5:16. Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three +thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that +did the work. + +5:17. And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly +stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them: + +5:18. And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: +and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house. + +3 Kings Chapter 6 + +The building of Solomon's temple. + +6:1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after +the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year +of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the +second month) he began to build a house to the Lord. + +6:2. And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore +cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in +height. + +6:3. And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in +length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it +was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple. + +6:4. And he made in the temple oblique windows. + +6:5. And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in +the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he +made chambers in the sides round about. + +Upon the wall, i. e., joining to the wall.-Ibid. He built floors round +about... Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the +temple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and +outward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.-Ibid. +The oracle... The inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his +oracles. + +6:6. The floor that was underneath was five cubits in breadth, and the +middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven +cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the +outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple. + +6:7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed +and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool +of iron heard in the house when it was in building. + +Made ready, etc... So the stones for the building of God's eternal +temple in the heavenly Jerusalem, (who are the faithful,) must first be +hewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before they can be +admitted to have a place in that celestial structure. + +6:8. The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: +and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the +middle to the third. + +6:9. So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house +with roofs of cedar. + +6:10. And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height, +and he covered the house with timber of cedar. + +6:11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, + +6:12. As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in +my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, +walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David +thy father. + +6:13. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I +will not forsake my people Israel. + +6:14. So Solomon built the house, and finished it. + +6:15. And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of +cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the +roofs, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered +the floor of the house with planks of fir. + +6:16. And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder +part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house +of the oracle to be the holy of holies. + +6:17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty +cubits long. + +6:18. And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the +turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings +projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could +be seen in the wall at all. + +6:19. And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner +part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. + +6:20. Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in +breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it +with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar. + +6:21. And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, +and fastened on the plates with nails of gold. + +6:22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with +gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold. + +6:23. And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten +cubits in height. + +6:24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the +cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity +of one wing to the extremity of the other wing. + +6:25. The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the +work was the same in both the cherubims: + +6:26. That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner +the other cherub. + +6:27. And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and the +cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched +one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and +the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another. + +6:28. And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. + +6:29. And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers +figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and +divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from +the wall. + +6:30. And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and +without. + +6:31. And in the entrance of the oracle, he made little doors of olive +tree, and posts of five corners, + +6:32. And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of +cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much projecting; +and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the cherubims and +the palm trees, and the other things, with gold. + +6:33. And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree +foursquare: + +6:34. And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each door was +double, and so opened with folding leaves. + +6:35. And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing +very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by +rule. + +6:36. And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, +and one row of beams of cedar. + +6:37. In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the month +Zio: + +6:38. And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul. (which is the eighth +month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the +appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it. + +3 Kings Chapter 7 + +Solomons palace, his house in the forest, and the queen's house: the +work of the two pillars: the sea (or laver) and other vessels. + +7:1. And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it +to perfection. + +7:2. He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it +was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height +thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had +cut cedar trees into pillars. + +7:3. And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was +held up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars, + +7:4. Set one against another, + +7:5. And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, +and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal. + +7:6. And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and +thirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch, +and pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars. + +7:7. He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the seat of +judgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top. + +7:8. And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in +judgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of +Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch; + +7:9. All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and +measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the +walls, and without, unto the great court. + +7:10. And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten +cubits or eight cubits. + +7:11. And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in +like manner planks of cedar. + +7:12. And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed +stones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the +inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house. + +7:13. And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre, + +7:14. The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of Nephthali, whose father +was a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and +understanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was come +to king Solomon, he wrought all his work. + +7:15. And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits +high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars. + +7:16. He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the +tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the +height of the other chapiter was five cubits: + +7:17. And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with +wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows +of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter. + +7:18. And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to +cover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in +like manner did he to the other chapiter. + +7:19. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of +lily work, in the porch of four cubits. + +7:20. And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars +above, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network: +and of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the +other chapiter. + +7:21. And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and when +he had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name thereof +Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called the name +thereof Booz. + +Jachin... That is, firmly established.-Ibid. Booz... That is, in its +strength. By recording these names in holy writ, the spirit of God would +have us understand the invincible firmness and strength of the pillars +on which the true temple of God, which is the church, is established. + +7:22. And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work of +the pillars was finished. + +7:23. He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round +all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits +compassed it round about. + +7:24. And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten +cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered +sculptures. + +7:25. And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the +north, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and +three towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their +hinder parts were all hid within. + +7:26. And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was +like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two +thousand bates. + +Two thousand bates... That is, about ten thousand gallons. This was the +quantity of water which was usually put into it: but it was capable, if +brimful, of holding three thousand. See 2 Par. 4.5. + +7:27. And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in +length, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high. + +7:28. And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were +gravings between the joinings. + +7:29. And between the little crowns and the ledges, were lions, and +oxen, and cherubims; and in the joinings likewise above: and under the +lions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down. + +7:30. And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at the +four sides were undersetters, under the laver molten, looking one +against another. + +7:31. The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the +chapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round, +and together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the +pillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were +square, not round. + +7:32. And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base, +were joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a +cubit and a half. + +7:33. And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot: and +their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all cast. + +7:34. And the four undersetters, that were at every corner of each base, +were of the base itself, cast and joined together. + +7:35. And on the top of the base, there was a round compass of half a +cubit, so wrought that the laver might be set thereon, having its +gravings, and divers sculptures of itself. + +7:36. He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass, and in the +corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man +standing, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round about. + +7:37. After this manner, he made ten bases, of one casting and measure, +and the like graving. + +7:38. He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bates, +and was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many +lavers. + +7:39. And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple, +and five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the +temple, over against the east southward. + +7:40. And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished +all the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord. + +7:41. The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the +chapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords, +that were upon the top of the pillars. + +7:42. And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks: two rows of +pomegranates for each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters, +which were upon the tops of the pillars. + +7:43. And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases. + +7:44. And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea. + +7:45. And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the +vessels that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the house of the Lord, +were of fine brass. + +7:46. In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay +ground, between Socoth and Sartham. + +7:47. And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great +multitude the brass could not be weighed. + +7:48. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the +altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the loaves of +proposition should be set: + +7:49. And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on +the left, over against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like +lilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers, + +7:50. And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of +most pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the +holy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple, were of +gold. + +7:51. And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of the +Lord, and brought in the things that David, his father, had dedicated, +the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up in the +treasures of the house of the Lord. + +3 Kings Chapter 8 + +The dedication of the temple: Solomon's prayer and sacrifices. + +8:1. Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes, +and the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled +to king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the +covenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion. + +8:2. And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon, on the +festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month. + +8:3. And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the +ark, + +8:4. And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the +covenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the +tabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them. + +8:5. And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were +assembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed +sheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered. + +8:6. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into +its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under +the wings of the cherubims. + +8:7. For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the +ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above. + +8:8. And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen +without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther +out, and there they have been unto this day. + +8:9. Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, +which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the +children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. + +Nothing else, etc... There was nothing else but the tables of the law +within the ark: but on the outside of the ark, or near the ark were also +the rod of Aaron, and a golden urn with manna, Heb. 9.4. + +8:10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the +sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord, + +8:11. And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: +for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord. + +8:12. Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud. + +8:13. Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most +firm throne for ever. + +8:14. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of +Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood. + +8:15. And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke +with his mouth to David, my father, and with his own hands hath +accomplished it, saying: + +8:16. Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of Egypt, I +chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, +that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people +Israel. + +8:17. And David, my father, would have built a house to the name of the +Lord, the God of Israel: + +8:18. And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought +in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having +this same thing in thy mind. + +8:19. Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that +shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name. + +8:20. The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And I stand in +the room of David, my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the +Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God +of Israel. + +8:21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant +of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the +land of Egypt. + +8:22. And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of +the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven, + +8:23. And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven +above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy +servants, that have walked before thee with all their heart: + +8:24. Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what thou hast +promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou +hast performed, as this day proveth. + +8:25. Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David, +my father, what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be +taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: +yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before +me as thou hast walked in my sight. + +8:26. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which +thou hast spoken to thy servant David, my father. + +8:27. Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? +for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much +less this house which I have built? + +8:28. But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his +supplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy +servant prayeth before thee this day: + +8:29. That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the +house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst +hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee: + +8:30. That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy servant, and of +thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and +hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, +shew them mercy. + +8:31. If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon +him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy +altar, to thy house, + +8:32. Then hear thou in heaven: and do and judge thy servants, +condemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and +justifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice. + +8:33. If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies (because they +will sin against thee) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name, +shall come and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house: + +8:34. Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people +Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their +fathers. + +8:35. If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of +their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy +name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their +afflictions: + +8:36. Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy +servants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein +they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to +thy people in possession. + +8:37. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or +blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their enemy afflict them, besieging +the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity, + +8:38. Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy +people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and +shall spread forth his hands in this house; + +8:39. Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and +forgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as +thou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the +children of men) + +8:40. That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face +of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers. + +8:41. Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when +he shall come out of a far conntry for thy name's sake, (for they shall +hear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, + +8:42. And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and shall pray +in this place, + +8:43. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place, +and do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee: +that all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy +people Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house, +which I have built. + +8:44. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way +soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of +the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have +built to thy name: + +8:45. And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their +supplications, and do judgment for them. + +8:46. But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth +not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that +they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near; + +8:47. Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, +and being converted, make supplication to thee in their captivity, +saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed +wickedness: + +8:48. And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in +the land of their enemies, to which they have been led captives: and +pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their +fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which +I have built to thy name: + +8:49. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their +prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them: + +8:50. And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all +their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give +them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have +compassion on them. + +8:51. For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast +brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron. + +8:52. That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and +of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall +call upon thee. + +8:53. For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance, from +amongst all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy +servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God. + +8:54. And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all +this prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he rose from before the +altar of the Lord: for he had fixed both knees on the ground, and had +spread his hands towards heaven. + +8:55. And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud +voice, saying: + +8:56. Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel, +according to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one +word of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses. + +8:57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not +leave us, nor cast us off: + +8:58. But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all +his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his +judgments, which he commanded our fathers. + +8:59. And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed before the Lord, +be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may do judgment for +his servant, and for his people Israel, day by day: + +8:60. That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is +God, and there is no other besides him. + +8:61. Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may +walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day. + +8:62. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered victims before the +Lord. + +8:63. And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed +to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty +thousand sheep so the king, and all the children of Israel, dedicated +the temple of the Lord. + +8:64. In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was +before the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and +sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar +that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and +sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings. + +8:65. And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel +with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the river of +Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is, +fourteen days. + +8:66. And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and they blessed +the king, and went to their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for +all the good things that the Lord had done for David, his servant, and +for Israel, his people. + +3 Kings Chapter 9 + +The Lord appeareth again to Solomon: he buildeth cities: he sendeth a +fleet to Ophir. + +9:1. And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the +house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all that he desired and was +pleased to do, + +9:2. That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared +to him in Gabaon. + +9:3. And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy +supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this +house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my +eyes, and my heart, shall be there always. + +9:4. And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in +simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have +commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments, + +As thy father walked, in simplicity of heart... That is, in the +sincerity and integrity of a single heart, as opposite to all double +dealing and deceit. + +9:5. I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as +I promised David, thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy +race upon the throne of Israel. + +9:6. But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn away from +following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, +which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and +adore them: + +9:7. I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have +given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will +cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among +all people. + +9:8. And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall +pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the +Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? + +9:9. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who +brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange +gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord +brought upon them all this evil. + +9:10. And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had built the two +houses; that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, + +9:11. (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing Solomon with cedar trees, and +fir trees, and gold, according to all he had need of) then Solomon gave +Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. + +9:12. And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had +given him, and they pleased him not; + +9:13. And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me, +brother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day. + +Chabul... That is, dirty or displeasing. + +9:14. And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of +gold. + +9:15. This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to +build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall +of Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer. + +9:16. Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer, and burnt it +with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it +for a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. + +9:17. So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron the nether, + +9:18. And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of the wilderness. + +9:19. And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled, +he fortified; the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the +horsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in +Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion. + +9:20. All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and +Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of +Israel: + +9:21. Their children, that were left in the land; to wit, such as the +children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary +unto this day. + +9:22. But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any to be bondmen, +but they were warriors, and his servants, and his princes, and captains, +and overseers of the chariots and horses. + +9:23. And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all +the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge +over the appointed works. + +9:24. And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her +house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello. + +9:25. Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and +victims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the +Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished. + +9:26. And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath, +on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. + +9:27. And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had +knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. + +9:28. And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king +Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold. + +3 Kings Chapter 10 + +The queen of Saba cometh to king Solomon: his riches and glory. + +10:1. And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of Solomon in the +name of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions. + + +10:2. And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and +camels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and +precious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that she +had in her heart. + +10:3. And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him: +there was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not +answer her. + +10:4. And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the +house which he had built, + +10:5. And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and +the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and +the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no +longer any spirit in her; + +10:6. And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my +own country, + +10:7. Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not +believe them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes, +and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy +works exceed the fame which I heard. + +10:8. Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand +before thee always, and hear thy wisdom. + +10:9. Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath +set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel +for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice. + +10:10. And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and +of spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no +more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to +king Solomon. + +10:11. (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought +from Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones. + +10:12. And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of +the Lord, and of the king's house: and citterns and harps for singers: +there were no such thyine trees as these brought nor seen unto this +day.) + +10:13. And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and +asked of him: besides what he offered her of himself of his royal +bounty. And she returned, and went to her own country, with her +servants. + +10:14. And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every +year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold: + +10:15. Besides that which the men brought him that were over the +tributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the +kings of Arabia, and the governors of the country. + +10:16. And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he +allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield. + +10:17. And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of +gold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the +forest of Libanus. + +10:18. King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it +with the finest gold. + +10:19. It had six steps: and the top of the throne was round behind: and +there were two hands on either side holding the seat: and two lions +stood, one at each hand, + +10:20. And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on the one side +and on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom. + +10:21. Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon drank, were +of gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was +of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it +in the days of Solomon: + +10:22. For the king's navy, once in three years, went with the navy of +Hiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and +elephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks. + +10:23. And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches +and wisdom. + +10:24. And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to hear his +wisdom, which God had given in his heart. + +10:25. And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of +gold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every +year. + +10:26. And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had a +thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he +bestowed them in fenced cities, and with the king in Jerusalem. + +10:27. And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and +cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains. + +10:28. And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for +the king's merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set +price. + +10:29. And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for six hundred +sicles of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And after this +manner did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses. + +3 Kings Chapter 11 + +Solomon by means of his wives falleth into idolatry: God raiseth him +adversaries, Adad, Razon, and Jeroboam: Solomon dieth. + +11:1. And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of +Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and +of the Hethites: + +11:2. Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of +Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come +into yours: for they will most certainly turn away your hearts to follow +their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love. + +11:3. And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred +concubines: and the women turned away his heart. + +11:4. And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to +follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his +God, as was the heart of David, his father. + +11:5. But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and +Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites. + +11:6. And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before the Lord, and +did not fully follow the Lord, as David, his father. + +11:7. Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the +hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the +children of Ammon. + +11:8. And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, +who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods. + +11:9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned +away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice; + +11:10. And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not +follow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord commanded +him. + +11:11. The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this, +and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded +thee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy +servant. + +11:12. Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy +father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. + +11:13. Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I will give one +tribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem, +which I have chosen. + +One tribe... Besides that of Juda, his own native tribe. + +11:14. And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad, the +Edomite, of the king's seed, in Edom. + +11:15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army, +was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in +Edom, + +11:16. (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had +slain every male in Edom,) + +11:17. Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants, +with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy. + +11:18. And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they took +men with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt, to Pharao, the king of +Egypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and assigned +him land. + +11:19. And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave +him to wife the own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen. + +11:20. And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son, Genubath; and Taphnes +brought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with Pharao +among his children. + +11:21. And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, +and that Joab, the general of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let +me depart, that I may go to my own country. + +11:22. And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, +that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing; +yet I beseech thee to let me go. + +11:23. God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon, the son of +Eliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba. + +11:24. And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of +robbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and +dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus. + +11:25. And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon: and +this is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against Israel; and he reigned +in Syria. + +11:26. Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a +servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted +up his hand against the king. + +11:27. And this is the cause of his rebellion against him; for Solomon +built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David, his father. + +11:28. And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon seeing him +a young man ingenious and industrious, made him chief over the tributes +of all the house of Joseph. + +11:29. So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of +Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new garment, +found him in the way: and they two were alone in the field. + +11:30. And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided +it into twelve parts: + +11:31. And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith +the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the +hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes. + +11:32. But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant, +David, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes +of Israel: + +11:33. Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe, the +goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch, the +god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do +justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David, +his father. + +11:34. Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his hand, but I +will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's +sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and my precepts. + +11:35. But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will +give thee ten tribes: + +11:36. And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a +lamp for my servant, David, before me always in Jerusalem, the city +which I have chosen, that my name might be there. + +11:37. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul +desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel. + +11:38. If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command thee, and +wilt walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my +commandments and my precepts, as David, my servant, did: I will be with +thee, and will build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for +David, and I will deliver Israel to thee: + +11:39. And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet not for +ever. + +11:40. Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and +fled into Egypt, to Sesac, the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the +death of Solomon. + +11:41. And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did and his +wisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the days +of Solomon. + +The book of the words, etc... This book is lost, with divers others +mentioned in holy writ. + +11:42. And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over all Israel, +were forty years. + +11:43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of +David, his father; and Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead. + +Solomon slept, etc... That is, died. He was then about fifty-eight years +of age, having reigned forty years. + +3 Kings Chapter 12 + +Roboam, following the counsel of young men alienateth from him the minds +of the people. They make Jeroboam king over ten tribes: he setteth up +idolatry. + +12:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come +together to make him king. + +12:2. But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive +from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of +Egypt. + +12:3. And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the +multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying: + +12:4. Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou +take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most +heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee. + +12:5. And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. +And when the people was gone, + +12:6. King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before +Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do +you give me, that I may answer this people? + +12:7. They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and +condescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle +words to them, they will be thy servants always. + +12:8. But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, +and consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and +stood before him. + +12:9. And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may +answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father +put upon us, lighter? + +12:10. And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus +shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy +father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My +little finger is thicker than the back of my father. + +12:11. And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to +your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with +scorpions. + +12:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day, as +the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day. + +12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of +the old men, which they had given him, + +12:14. And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, +saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My +father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions. + +12:15. And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was +turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the +hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat. + +12:16. Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, +answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance +in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look +to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings. + +12:17. But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of +Juda, Roboam reigned over them. + +12:18. Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all +Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get +him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem: + +12:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day. + +12:20. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come +again, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made +him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of +David but the tribe of Juda only. + +Juda only... Benjamin was a small tribe, and so intermixed with the +tribe of Juda, (the very city of Jerusalem being partly in Juda, partly +in Benjamin,) that they are here counted but as one tribe. + +12:21. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the house +of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand chosen +men for war, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring the +kingdom again under Roboam, the son of Solomon. + +12:22. But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of God, saying: + +12:23. Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to all +the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying: + +12:24. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight against your +brethren, the children of Israel: let every man return to his house, for +this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and +returned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them. + +12:25. And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and +going out from thence, he built Phanuel. + +12:26. And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to +the house of David, + +12:27. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord +at Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord +Roboam, the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him. + +12:28. And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to +them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who +brought thee out of the land of Egypt. + +Golden calves... It is likely, by making his gods in this form, he +mimicked the Egyptians, among whom he had sojourned, who worshipped +their Apis and their Osiris under the form of a bullock. + +12:29. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan: + +Bethel and Dan... Bethel was a city of the tribe of Ephraim in the +southern part of the dominions of Jeroboam, about six leagues from +Jerusalem; Dan was in the extremity of his dominions to the north in the +confines of Syria. + +12:30. And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to +adore the calf as far as Dan. + +12:31. And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest +of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. + +12:32. And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth +day of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in +Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to +sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel +priests of the high places, which he had made. + +12:33. And he went up to the altar, which he had built in Bethel, on the +fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had devised of his own +heart: and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and went up on +the altar to burn incense. + +3 Kings Chapter 13 + +A prophet sent from Juda to Bethel foretelleth the birth of Josias, and +the destruction of Jeroboam's altar. Jeroboam's hand offering violence +to the prophet withereth, but is restored by the prophet's prayer: the +same prophet is deceived by another prophet, and slain by a lion. + +13:1. And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the +Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning +incense. + +13:2. And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and +said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born +to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee +the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he +shall burn men's bones upon thee. + +13:3. And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, +that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes +that are upon it, shall be poured out. + +13:4. And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he +had cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand +from the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he stretched +forth against him, withered: and he was not able to draw it back again +to him. + +13:5. The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the +altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in +the word of the Lord. + +13:6. And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord +thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the +man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was +restored to him, and it became as it was before. + +13:7. And the king said to the man of God: Come home with me to dine, +and I will make thee presents. + +13:8. And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me half +thy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water in +this place: + +13:9. For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me: +Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way +that thou camest. + +13:10. So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that +he came into Bethel. + +13:11. Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to +him, and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in +Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to the +king. + +13:12. And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed +him the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda. + +13:13. And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had +saddled it, he got up, + +13:14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a +turpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God who camest +from Juda? He answered: I am. + +13:15. And he said to him: Come home with me to eat bread. + +13:16. But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I +eat bread, or drink water in this place: + +13:17. Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: +Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor +return by the way thou wentest. + +13:18. He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel +spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee +into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him, + +An angel spoke to me, etc... This old man of Bethel was indeed a +prophet, but he sinned in thus deceiving the man of God; the more +because he pretended a revelation for what he did. + +13:19. And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and drank water +in his house. + +13:20. And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the +prophet that brought him back: + +13:21. And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying: +Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord, +and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee, + +13:22. And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place +wherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink +water, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy +fathers. + +13:23. And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the +prophet, whom he had brought back. + +13:24. And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed +him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the +lion stood by the dead body. + +Killed him... Thus the Lord often punishes his servants here, that he +may spare them hereafter. For the generality of divines are of opinion, +that the sin of this prophet, considered with all its circumstances, was +not mortal. + +13:25. And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast in the way, +and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the +city, wherein that old prophet dwelt. + +13:26. And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way, +heard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the +mouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he +hath torn him, and killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which +he spoke to him. + +13:27. And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when they had +saddled it, + +13:28. And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the +ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the +dead body, nor hurt the ass. + +13:29. And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it +upon the ass, and going back brought it into the city of the old +prophet, to mourn for him. + +13:30. And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and they mourned +over him, saying: Alas! alas, my brother. + +13:31. And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: When I +am dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried: lay +my bones beside his bones. + +13:32. For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold +in the word of the Lord, against the altar that is in Bethel: and +against all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of +Samaria. + +13:33. After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: +but on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of the +high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a +priest of the high places. + +13:34. And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut +off, and destroyed from the face of the earth. + +3 Kings Chapter 14 + +Ahias prophesieth the destruction of the family of Jeroboam. He dieth, +and is succeeded by his son Nadab. The king of Egypt taketh and +pillageth Jerusalem. Roboam dieth and his son Abiam succeedeth. + +14:1. At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick. + +14:2. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that +thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where +Ahias, the prophet is, who told me that I should reign over this people. + +14:3. Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, +and go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this child. + +14:4. Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo, +and came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were +dim by reason of his age. + +14:5. And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, +to consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus shalt +thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were +another woman, + +14:6. Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and +said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be +another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. + +14:7. Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: For +as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince +over my people Israel; + +14:8. And rent the kingdom away from thc house of David, and gave it to +thee, and thou hast not been as my servant, David, who kept my +commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was +well pleasing in my sight: + +14:9. But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made +thee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast +cast me behind thy back: + +14:10. Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, +and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and +him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the +remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be +clean. + +14:11. Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: +and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: +for the Lord hath spoken it. + +14:12. Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet +shall be entering into the city, the child shall die, + +14:13. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he +only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard +there is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the +house of Jeroboam. + +14:14. And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall +cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time: + +14:15. And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the +water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave +to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they +have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord. + +14:16. And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who +hath sinned, and made Israel to sin. + +14:17. And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: +and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child +died, + +14:18. And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according to +the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias, +the prophet. + +14:19. And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he +reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of +the kings of Israel. + +The book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel... This book, +which is often mentioned in the Book of Kings, is long since lost. For +as to the books of Paralipomenon, or Chronicles, (which the Hebrews call +the words of the days,) they were certainly written after the Book of +Kings, since they frequently refer to them. + +14:20. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: +and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead. + +14:21. And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one +and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen +years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes +of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an +Ammonitess. + +14:22. And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him +above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they +committed. + +14:23. For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon +every high hill, and under every green tree: + +14:24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did +according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had +destroyed before the face of the children of Israel. + +The effeminate... Catamites, or men addicted to unnatural lust. + +14:25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of +Egypt, came up against Jerusalem. + +14:26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the +king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which +Solomon had made: + +14:27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered +them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them +that kept watch before the gate of the king's house. + +14:28. And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose +office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they +brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers. + +14:29. Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold +they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of +Juda. + +14:30. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always. + +14:31. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in +the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and +Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead. + +3 Kings Chapter 15 + +The acts of Abiam and of Asa kings of Juda. And of Nadab and Baasa kings +of Israel. + +15:1. Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, the son of +Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda. + +15:2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was +Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom. + +Maacha, etc... She is called elsewhere Michaia, daughter of Uriel; but +it was common in those days for the same person to have two names. + +15:3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done +before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was +the heart of David, his father. + +15:4. But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in +Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: + +15:5. Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the +Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all +the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite. + +15:6. But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his +life. + +15:7. And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? +And there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam. + +15:8. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city +of David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his stead. + +15:9. So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Asa, +king of Juda, + +15:10. And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's +name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom. + +His mother, etc... That is, his grandmother; unless we suppose, which is +not improbable, that the Maacha here named is different from the Maacha +mentioned, ver. 2. + +15:11. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did +David, his father: + +15:12. And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all +the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. + +15:13. Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the +princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had +consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the +filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron: + +15:14. But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart +of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days: + +The high places... There were excelsa or high places of two different +kinds. Some were set up, and dedicated to the worship of idols, or +strange gods; and these Asa removed, 2 Par. 14.2; others were only +altars of the true God, but were erected contrary to the law, which +allowed of no sacrifices but in the temple; and these were not removed +by Asa.-Ibid. Perfect with the Lord... Asa had his faults; but never +forsook the worship of the Lord. + +15:15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and +he had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels. + +15:16. And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all +their days. + +15:17. And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and built Rama, +that no man might go out or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda. + +15:18. Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the +treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's +house, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them to +Benadad, son of Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in +Damascus, saying: + +15:19. There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and +thy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and +I desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel, +that he may depart from me. + +15:20. Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army +against the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and +Abeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the land of Nephthali. + +15:21. And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and +returned into Thersa. + +15:22. But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be +excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber +thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built +Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha. + +15:23. But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and +all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in +the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time +of his old age he was diseased in his feet. + +15:24. And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the +city of David, his father. And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place. + +15:25. But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel the second +year of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years. + +15:26. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways +of his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin. + +15:27. And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of Issachar, conspired +against him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the +Philistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon. + +15:28. So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa, king of Juda, and +reigned in his place. + +15:29. And when he was king, he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he +left not so much as one soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed +him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken in the hand +of Ahias, the Silonite: + +15:30. Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and +wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence wherewith he +provoked the Lord, the God of Israel. + +15:31. But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +15:32. And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of Israel, all +their days. + +15:33. In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the son of Ahias, +reigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years. + +15:34. And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of +Jeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin. + +3 Kings Chapter 16 + +Jehu prophesieth against Baasa: his son Ela is slain and all his family +destroyed by Zambri. Of the reign of Amri father of Achab. + +16:1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against +Baasa, saying: + +16:2. For as much as I have exalted thee out of the dust and made thee +prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of +Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger +with their sins: + +16:3. Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity +of his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the +son of Nabat. + +16:4. Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him +that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour. + +16:5. But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his +battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of +the kings of Israel? + +16:6. So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and +Ela, his son, reigned in his stead. + +16:7. And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of +Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against +all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger +by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this +cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet. + +16:8. In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son +of Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years. + +16:9. And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen, +rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the +house of Arsa, the governor of Thersa. + +16:10. And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in the seven and +twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he reigned in his stead. + +16:11. And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the +house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and +all his kinsfolks and friends. + +16:12. And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the +word of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the +prophet, + +16:13. For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who +sinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, +with their vanities. + +16:14. But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +16:15. In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri +reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a +city of the Philistines. + +16:16. And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the king, +all Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in the camp +that day. + +16:17. And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and +they besieged Thersa. + +16:18. And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into +the palace, and burnt himself with the king's house: and he died + +16:19. In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and +walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made Israel +to sin. + +16:20. But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and +tyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of +the kings of Israel? + +16:21. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half +of the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and +one half followed Amri. + +16:22. But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people +that followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri +reigned. + +16:23. In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Amri reigned +over Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years. + +In the one and thirtieth year, etc... Amri began to reign in the seven +and twentieth year of Asa; but had not quiet possession of the kingdom +till the death of his competitor Thebni, which was in the one and +thirtieth year of Asa's reign. + +16:24. And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two talents of +silver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built +Samaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill. + +16:25. And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly +above all that were before him. + +16:26. And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and +in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the +God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. + +With their vanities... That is, their idols their golden calves, vain, +false, deceitful things. + +16:27. Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are +they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of +Israel? + +16:28. And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and +Achab, his son, reigned in his stead. + +16:29. Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and +thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri, reigned +over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years. + +16:30. And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord +above all that were before him. + +16:31. Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the +son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, +king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him. + +16:32. And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he +had built in Samaria; + +16:33. And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord, +the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him. + +16:34. In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his +firstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he +set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he +spoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun. + +3 Kings Chapter 17 + +Elias shutteth up the heaven from raining. He is fed by ravens, and +afterwards by a widow of Sarephta. He raiseth the window's son to life. + +17:1. And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to +Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, +there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words +of my mouth. + +17:2. And the word of the Lord came to him, saying: + +17:3. Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide thyself by the +torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan; + +17:4. And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded +the ravens to feed thee there. + +17:5. So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, +he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan. + +17:6. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and +bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the torrent. + +17:7. But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not +rained upon the earth. + +17:8. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying: + +17:9. Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I +have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee. + +Sarephta of the Sidonians... That is, a city of the Sidonians. + +17:10. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate +of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, +and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. + +17:11. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after her, saying: +Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. + +17:12. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, +but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: +behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me +and my son, that we may eat it and die. + +17:13. And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said +but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring +it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son. + +17:14. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall +not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein +the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. + +17:15. She went, and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and +she, and her house: and from that day + +17:16. The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not +diminished according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand +of Elias. + +17:17. And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the +mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so +that there was no breath left in him. + +17:18. And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of +God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and +that thou shouldst kill my son? + +17:11. And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of +her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and +laid him upon his own bed. + +17:20. And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, hast thou +afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a sort maintained, so as +to kill her son? + +17:21. And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three +times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of +this child, I beseech thee, return into his body. + +17:22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child +returned into him, and he revived. + +17:23. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper +chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to +her: Behold thy son liveth. + +17:24. And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that thou art a +man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true. + +3 Kings Chapter 18 + +Elias cometh before Achab. He convinceth the false prophets by bringing +fire from heaven: he obtaineth rain by his prayer. + +18:1. After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third +year, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon +the face of the earth. + +18:2. And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous +famine in Samaria. + +18:3. And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias +feared the Lord very much. + +18:4. For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a +hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them +with bread and water. + +18:5. And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of +waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the +horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish. + +18:6. And they divided the countries between them, that they might go +round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself. + +18:7. And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and +fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias? + +18:8. And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here. + +18:9. And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me, thy +servant, into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me? + +18:10. As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, +whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is +not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast +not found. + +18:11. And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell thy master: Elias is +here. + +18:12. And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry +thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and +he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord +from his infancy. + +18:13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel +killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets +of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and +water? + +18:14. And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that +he may kill me. + +18:15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I +stand, this day I will shew myself unto him. + +18:16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came +to meet Elias. + +18:17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest +Israel? + +18:18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy +father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have +followed Baalim. + +18:19. Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount +Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the +prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table. + +18:20. Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together +the prophets unto mount Carmel. + +18:21. And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt +between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then +follow him. And the people did not answer him a word. + +18:22. And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of +the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men. + +18:23. Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock for +themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no fire +under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put +no fire under it. + +18:24. Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of +my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all +the people answering, said: A very good proposal. + +18:25. Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock +and dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your +gods; but put no fire under. + +18:26. And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and dressed it: +and they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, +saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: +and they leaped over the altar that they had made. + +18:27. And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with +a louder voice: for he is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an +inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked. + +18:28. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their +manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood. + +18:29. And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the +time was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor +did any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed. + +18:30. Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me. And the people +coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken +down: + +18:31. And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes +of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel +shall be thy name. + +18:32. And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord: +and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round +about the altar. + +18:33. And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and +laid it upon the wood. + +18:34. And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the +burnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the +second time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the +same also the third time. And they did so the third time. + +18:35. And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was +filled with water. + +18:36. And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias, the +prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and +Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy +servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these +things. + +18:37. Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn that thou +art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again. + +18:38. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and +the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was +in the trench. + +18:39. And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and +they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God. + +18:40. And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not +one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them +down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there. + +18:41. And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for there is a +sound of abundance of rain. + +18:42. Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of +Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth, put his face between +his knees, + +18:43. And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards the sea. And +he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to +him: Return seven times. + +18:44. And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the +sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy +chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee. + +18:45. And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the +heavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain. +And Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel: + +18:46. And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his +loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel. + +3 Kings Chapter 19 + +Elias, fleeing from Jezabel, is fed by an angel in the desert; and by +the strength of that food walketh forty days, till he cometh to Horeb, +where he hath a vision of God. + +19:1. And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had +slain all the prophets with the sword. + +19:2. And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such +things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to +morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them. + +19:3. Then Elias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he had +a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there, + +19:4. And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when +he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul +that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my +soul: for I am no better than my fathers. + +That he might die... Elias requested to die, not out of impatience or +pusillanimity, but out of zeal against sin; and that he might no longer +be witness of the miseries of his people; and the war they were waging +against God and his servants. See ver. 10. + +19:5. And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper +tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: +Arise and eat. + +19:6. He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a +vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again. + +19:7. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched +him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go. + +19:8. And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of +that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb. + +In the strength of that food, etc... This bread, with which Elias was +fed in the wilderness, was a figure of the bread of life which we +receive in the blessed sacrament; by the strength of which we are to be +supported in our journey through the wilderness of this world till we +come to the true mountain of God, and his vision in a happy eternity. + +19:9. And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave and behold the +word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, +Elias? + +19:10. And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God +of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they +have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the +sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away. + +I alone am left... Viz., of the prophets in the kingdom of Israel, or of +the ten tribes; for in the kingdom of Juda religion was at that time in +a very flourishing condition under the kings Asa and Josaphat. And even +in Israel there remained several prophets, though not then known to +Elias. See chap. 20.13, 28, 35. + +19:11. And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the +Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before +the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: +but the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: but +the Lord is not in the earthquake. + +19:12. And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord is not in the +fire. And after the fire, a whistling of a gentle air. + +19:13. And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and +coming forth, stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice +unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered: + +19:14. With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because +the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed +thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am +left, and they seek my life to take it away. + +19:15. And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way, through the +desert, to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint +Hazael to be king over Syria; + +19:16. And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be king over +Israel: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint +to be prophet in thy room. + +19:17. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword +of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword +of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus. + +Shall be slain by Eliseus... Eliseus did not kill any of the idolaters +with the material sword: but he is here joined with Hazael and Jehu, the +great instruments of God in punishing the idolatry of Israel, because he +foretold to the former his exaltation to the kingdom of Syria, and the +vengeance he would execute against Israel, and anointed the latter by +one of his disciples to be king of Israel, with commission to extirpate +the house of Achab. + +19:18. And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees +have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not +worshipped him, kissing the hands. + +19:19. And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus, the son of +Saphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that +were ploughing with, twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to him, +he cast his mantle upon him. + +19:20. And he forthwith left the oxen, and run after Elias, and said: +Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will +follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was +my part, I have done to thee. + +19:21. And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed +them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the +people, and they ate: and rising up, he went away, and followed Elias, +and ministered to him. + +3 Kings Chapter 20 + +The Syrians besiege Samaria: they are twice defeated by Achab: who is +reprehended by a prophet for letting Benadad go. + +20:1. And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and +there were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and +going up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it. + +20:2. And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city, + +20:3. He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and +thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine. + +20:4. And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord, O +king, I am thine, and all that I have. + +20:5. And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who +sent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy +children, thou shalt deliver up to me. + +20:6. To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send my servants +to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy +servants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands, and +take away. + +20:7. And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and +said: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for +my wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said +not nay. + +20:8. And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not +to him, nor consent to him. + +20:9. Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord, the +king: All that thou didst send for to me, thy servant at first, I will +do: but this thing I cannot do. + +20:10. And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent +again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more +may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all +the people that follow me. + +20:11. And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the +girded boast himself as the ungirded. + +Let not the girded, etc... Let him not boast before the victory: it will +then be time to glory when he putteth off his armour, having overcome +his adversary. + +20:12. And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and +the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset +the city. And they beset it. + +20:13. And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of Israel, said to +him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great +multitude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou +mayst know that I am the Lord. + +20:14. And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: +By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who shall +begin to fight? And he said: Thou. + +20:15. So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and +he found the number of two hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered +after them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand: + +20:16. And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk +in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to +help him. + +20:17. And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first. +And Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of +Samaria. + +20:18. And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or +whether they come to fight, take them alive. + +20:19. So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and the +rest of the army followed: + +20:20. And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians +fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad, king of Syria, fled +away on horseback with his horsemen. + +20:21. But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and +chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. + +20:22. (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go, and +strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next year +the king of Syria will come up against thee.) + +20:23. But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are +gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better +that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome +them. + +20:24. Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings from thy +army, and put captains in their stead: + +20:25. And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, +and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to +the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in +the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed +their counsel, and did so. + +20:26. Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad mustered the +Syrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight against Israel. + +20:27. And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals, +went out on the other side, and encamped over against them, like two +little flocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land. + +20:28. (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith +the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, +but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude +into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.) + +20:29. And both sides set their armies in array one against the other +seven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the +children of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in +one day. + +20:30. And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall +fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad +fleeing, went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber. + +20:31. And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the +kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on +our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: +perhaps he will save our lives. + +20:32. So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their +heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, +Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he +be yet alive, he is my brother. + +20:33. The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught the word out +of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go, +and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up +into his chariot. + +20:34. And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy +father, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my +father made in Samaria and having made a league, I will depart from +thee. So he made a league with him, and let him go. + +20:35. Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his +companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike. + +20:36. Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word +of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay +thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and +slew him. + +20:37. Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he +struck him and wounded him. + +20:38. So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised +himself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes. + +20:39. And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy +servant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run +away, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall +slip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of +silver. + +20:40. And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and that, on a sudden +he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy +judgment, which thyself hast decreed. + +20:41. But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king +of Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets. + +20:42. And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let go +out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, +and thy people for his people. + +20:43. And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear, +and raging came into Samaria. + +3 Kings Chapter 21 + +Naboth, for denying his vineyard to king Achab, is by Jezabel's +commandment, falsely accused and stoned to death. For which crime Elias +denounceth to Achab the judgments of God: upon his humbling himself the +sentence is mitigated. + +21:1. And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in +Jezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the palace of Achab, king of +Samaria. + +21:2. And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I +may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my +house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think +it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. + +21:3. Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me +give thee the inheritance of my fathers. + +21:4. And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the +word that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will not +give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his +bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread. + +21:5. And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to him: What is +the matter that thy soul is so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread? + +21:6. And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the Jezrahelite, and said +to him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please +thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not +give thee my vineyard. + +21:7. Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority +indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, +and be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the +Jezrahelite. + +21:8. So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his +ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his +city, and that dwelt with Naboth. + +21:9. And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make +Naboth sit among the chief of the people; + +21:10. And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him and let them +bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then +carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die. + +21:11. And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with +him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was +written in the letters which she had sent to them; + +21:12. They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of +the people. + +21:13. And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit +against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him +before the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. +Wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to +death. + +21:14. And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead. + +21:15. And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned, +and dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the +vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and +give it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead. + +21:16. And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he +arose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, to +take possession of it. + +21:17. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: + +21:18. Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king of Israel, who is in +Samaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take +possession of it: + +21:19. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou +hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these +words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the +dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also. + +21:20. And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: +I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the +Lord. + +Sold, to do evil in the sight, etc... That is, so addicted to evil, as +if thou hadst sold thyself to the devil, to be his slave to work all +kinds of evil. + +21:21. Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy +posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, +and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel. + +21:22. And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of +Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast +done to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin. + +21:23. And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat +Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel. + +21:24. If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die +in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him. + +21:25. Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil +in the sight of the Lord: for his wife, Jezabel, set him on, + +21:26. And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols +which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face +of the children of Israel. + +21:27. And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and +put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and +walked with his head cast down. + +21:28. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: + +21:29. Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he +hath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his +days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. + +3 Kings Chapter 22 + +Achab believing his false prophets, rather than Micheas, is slain in +Ramoth Galaad. Ochozias succeedeth him. Good king Josaphat dieth, and +his son Joram succeedeth him. + +22:1. And there passed three years without war between Syria and Israel. + +22:2. And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the +king of Israel. + +22:3. (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not that +Ramoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the +king of Syria?) + +22:4. And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to +Ramoth Galaad? + +22:5. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my +people and thy people are one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And +Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day +the word of the Lord. + +22:6. Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred +men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall +I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the +hand of the king. + +22:7. And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord, +that we may inquire by him? + +22:8. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left, by +whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I hate +him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: +Speak not so, O king. + +22:9. Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make +haste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of Jemla. + +22:10. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, sat each on +his throne, clothed with royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of the +gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them. + +22:11. And Sedecias, thc son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron, +and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till +thou destroy it. + +22:12. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to +Ramoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the king's +hands. + +22:13. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, +saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one mouth declare good +things to the king: let thy word, therefore, be like to theirs, and +speak that which is good. + +22:14. But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord +shall say to me, that will I speak. + +22:15. So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall +we go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him: +Go up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hands. + +Go up, etc... This was spoken ironically, and by way of jesting at the +flattering speeches of the false prophets: and so the king understood +it, as appears by his adjuring Micheas, in the following verse, to tell +him the truth in the name of the Lord. + +22:16. But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that +thou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord. + +22:17. And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like +sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said: These have no master: +let every man of them return to his house in peace. + +22:18. (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee, +that he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?) + +22:19. And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the +Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven +standing by him on the right hand and on the left: + +22:20. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that +he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this +manner, and another otherwise. + +The Lord said, etc... God standeth not in need of any counsellor; nor +are we to suppose that things pass in heaven in the manner here +described: but this representation was made to the prophet, to be +delivered by him in a manner adapted to the common ways and notions of +men. + +22:21. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and +said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means? + +22:22. And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth +of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and +shalt prevail: go forth, and do so. + +Go forth, and do so... This was not a command, but a permission: for God +never ordaineth lies; though he often permitteth the lying spirit to +deceive those who love not the truth. 2 Thess. 2.10. And in this sense +it is said in the following verse, The Lord hath given a lying spirit in +the mouth of all thy prophets. + +22:23. Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the +mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil +against thee. + +22:24. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on +the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and +spoken to thee? + +22:25. And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go +into a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself. + +Go into a chamber, etc... This happened when he heard the king was +slain, and justly apprehended that he should be punished for his false +prophecy. + +22:26. And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let him abide with +Amon, the governor of the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech; + +22:27. And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and +feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return +in peace. + +22:28. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not +spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people. + +22:29. So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to +Ramoth-Galaad. + +22:30. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take thy armour, and go +into the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel +changed his dress, and went into the battle. + +22:31. And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains +of the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or +great, but against the king of Israel only. + +22:32. So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they suspected +that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault, they +fought against him: and Josaphat cried out. + +22:33. And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the +king of Israel, and they turned away from him. + +22:34. And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and +chanced to strike the king of Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. +But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me +out of the army, for I am grievously wounded. + +22:35. And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood +in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the +blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot. + +22:36. And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun +set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own +country. + +22:37. And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and they buried +the king in Samaria. + +22:38. And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs +licked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of +the Lord which he had spoken. + +22:39. But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the +house of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they +not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? + +22:40. So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his son, reigned +in his stead. + +22:41. But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over Juda, in the +fourth year of Acbab, king of Israel. + +22:42. He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he +reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was +Azuba, the daughter of Salai. + +22:43. And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined +not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. + +22:44. Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the +people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places. + +He took not away, etc... He left some of the high places, viz., those in +which they worshipped the true God: but took away all others, 2 Par. +17.6, and note ver. 14 of chap. 15. 3 Kings. + +22:45. And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel. + +22:46. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, +and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the +days of the kings of Juda? + +22:47. And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days +of Asa, his father, he took out of the land. + +22:48. And there was then no king appointed in Edom. + +22:49. But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for +gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber. + +22:50. Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat: Let my +servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not. + +Would not... He had been reprehended before for admitting such a +partner: and therefore would have no more to do with him. + +22:51. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in +the city of David, his father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead. + +22:52. And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over Israel, in +Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he +reigned over Israel two years. + +22:53. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way +of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of +Nabat, who made Israel to sin. + +22:54. 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