11:008:022 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presenceof all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his handstoward heaven:
11:008:023 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
11:008:024 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
11:008:025 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
11:008:026 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
11:008:027 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven andheaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less thishouse that I have builded?
11:008:028 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and tohis supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry andto the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
11:008:029 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day,even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shallbe there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thyservant shall make toward this place.
11:008:030 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and ofthy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: andhear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest,forgive.
11:008:031 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
11:008:032 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; andjustifying the righteous, to give him according to hisrighteousness.
11:008:033 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again tothee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplicationunto thee in this house:
11:008:034 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
11:008:035 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because theyhave sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, andconfess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thouafflictest them:
11:008:036 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants,and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good waywherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, whichthou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
11:008:037 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if theirenemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoeverplague, whatsoever sickness there be;
11:008:038 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or byall thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plagueof his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward thishouse:
11:008:039 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, anddo, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heartthou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts ofall the children of men;)
11:008:040 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in theland which thou gavest unto our fathers.
11:008:041 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy peopleIsrael, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
11:008:042 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
11:008:043 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
11:008:044 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
11:008:045 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
11:008:046 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
11:008:047 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither theywere carried captives, and repent, and make supplication untothee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying,We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committedwickedness;
11:008:048 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with alltheir soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them awaycaptive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thougavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen,and the house which I have built for thy name:
11:008:049 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
11:008:050 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
11:008:051 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thoubroughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnaceof iron:
11:008:052 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thyservant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, tohearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
11:008:053 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of theearth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand ofMoses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out ofEgypt, O LORD God.
11:008:054 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of prayingall this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose frombefore the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees withhis hands spread up to heaven.
11:008:055 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
11:008:056 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
11:008:057 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
11:008:058 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
11:008:059 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
11:008:060 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
11:008:061 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
11:008:062 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
11:008:063 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
11:008:064 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
11:008:065 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel withhim, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath untothe river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days andseven days, even fourteen days.
11:008:066 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessedthe king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heartfor all the goodness that the LORD had done for David hisservant, and for Israel his people.
11:009:001 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
11:009:002 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
11:009:003 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thysupplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowedthis house, which thou hast built, to put my name there forever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
11:009:004 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked,in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according toall that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes andmy judgments:
11:009:005 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
11:009:006 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or yourchildren, and will not keep my commandments and my statuteswhich I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, andworship them:
11:009:007 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have giventhem; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, willI cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and abyword among all people:
11:009:008 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
11:009:009 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
11:009:010 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
11:009:011 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
11:009:012 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
11:009:013 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
11:009:014 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
11:009:015 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised;for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, andMillo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, andGezer.
11:009:016 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, andburnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in thecity, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon'swife.
11:009:017 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
11:009:018 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
11:009:019 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
11:009:020 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of thechildren of Israel,
11:009:021 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom thechildren of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, uponthose did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
11:009:022 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: butthey were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, andhis captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
11:009:023 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon'swork, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the peoplethat wrought in the work.
11:009:024 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David untoher house which Solomon had built for her: then did he buildMillo.
11:009:025 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
11:009:026 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
11:009:027 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that hadknowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
11:009:028 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, fourhundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
11:010:001 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
11:010:002 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
11:010:003 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hid from the king, which he told her not.
11:010:004 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, andthe house that he had built,
11:010:005 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
11:010:006 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
11:010:007 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
11:010:008 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
11:010:009 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to setthee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israelfor ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment andjustice.
11:010:010 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold,and of spices very great store, and precious stones: therecame no more such abundance of spices as these which the queenof Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11:010:011 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
11:010:012 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house ofthe LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteriesfor singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seenunto this day.
11:010:013 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her ofhis royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country,she and her servants.
11:010:014 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
11:010:015 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
11:010:016 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
11:010:017 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
11:010:018 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
11:010:019 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was roundbehind: and there were stays on either side on the place ofthe seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
11:010:020 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the otherupon the six steps: there was not the like made in anykingdom.
11:010:021 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
11:010:022 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
11:010:023 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for richesand for wisdom.
11:010:024 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, whichGod had put in his heart.
11:010:025 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
11:010:026 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
11:010:027 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
11:010:028 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
11:010:029 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
11:011:001 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
11:011:002 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
11:011:003 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
11:011:004 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
11:011:005 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians,and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
11:011:006 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went notfully after the LORD, as did David his father.
11:011:007 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
11:011:008 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
11:011:009 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart wasturned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared untohim twice,
11:011:010 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he shouldnot go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORDcommanded.
11:011:011 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
11:011:012 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
11:011:013 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
11:011:014 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
11:011:015 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
11:011:016 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
11:011:017 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
11:011:018 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
11:011:019 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so thathe gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister ofTahpenes the queen.
11:011:020 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whomTahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was inPharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:011:021 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
11:011:022 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
11:011:023 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
11:011:024 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band,when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, anddwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
11:011:025 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel,and reigned over Syria.
11:011:026 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widowwoman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
11:011:027 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against theking: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of thecity of David his father.
11:011:028 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomonseeing the young man that he was industrious, he made himruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
11:011:029 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
11:011:030 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
11:011:031 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saiththe LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdomout of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
11:011:032 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, andfor Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of allthe tribes of Israel:)
11:011:033 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
11:011:034 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
11:011:035 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
11:011:036 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
11:011:037 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
11:011:038 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
11:011:039 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
11:011:040 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose,and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was inEgypt until the death of Solomon.
11:011:041 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, andhis wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts ofSolomon?
11:011:042 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
11:011:043 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
11:012:001 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
11:012:002 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
11:012:003 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
11:012:004 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
11:012:005 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
11:012:006 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
11:012:007 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
11:012:008 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they hadgiven him, and consulted with the young men that were grown upwith him, and which stood before him:
11:012:009 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answerthis people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yokewhich thy father did put upon us lighter?
11:012:010 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
11:012:011 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, Iwill add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you withwhips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
11:012:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the thirdday.
11:012:013 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
11:012:014 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke:my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastiseyou with scorpions.
11:012:015 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for thecause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying,which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam theson of Nebat.
11:012:016 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
11:012:017 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
11:012:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
11:012:019 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
11:012:020 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam wascome again, that they sent and called him unto thecongregation, and made him king over all Israel: there wasnone that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judahonly.
11:012:021 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all thehouse of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred andfourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fightagainst the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again toRehoboam the son of Solomon.
11:012:022 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
11:012:023 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
11:012:024 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
11:012:025 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelttherein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
11:012:026 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom returnto the house of David:
11:012:027 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORDat Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn againunto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and theyshall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
11:012:028 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold,and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up toJerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee upout of the land of Egypt.
11:012:029 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
11:012:030 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worshipbefore the one, even unto Dan.
11:012:031 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of thelowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
11:012:032 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on thefifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is inJudah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel,sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed inBethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
11:012:033 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel thefifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which hehad devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto thechildren of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burntincense.
11:013:001 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
11:013:002 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
11:013:003 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
11:013:004 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
11:013:005 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
11:013:006 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
11:013:007 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
11:013:008 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give mehalf thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will Ieat bread nor drink water in this place:
11:013:009 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eatno bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way thatthou camest.
11:013:010 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
11:013:011 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
11:013:012 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
11:013:013 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
11:013:014 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
11:013:015 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
11:013:016 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in thisplace:
11:013:017 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eatno bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by theway that thou camest.
11:013:018 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
11:013:019 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, anddrank water.
11:013:020 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the wordof the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
11:013:021 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying,Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed themouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which theLORD thy God commanded thee,
11:013:022 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in theplace, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread,and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto thesepulchre of thy fathers.
11:013:023 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after hehad drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for theprophet whom he had brought back.
11:013:024 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him:and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it,the lion also stood by the carcase.
11:013:025 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in theway, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came andtold it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
11:013:026 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
11:013:027 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
11:013:028 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the assand the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eatenthe carcase, nor torn the ass.
11:013:029 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, andlaid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophetcame to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
11:013:030 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
11:013:031 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake tohis sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in thesepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bonesbeside his bones:
11:013:032 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD againstthe altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the highplaces which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely cometo pass.
11:013:033 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, butmade again of the lowest of the people priests of the highplaces: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became oneof the priests of the high places.
11:013:034 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
11:014:001 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
11:014:002 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
11:014:003 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse ofhoney, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become ofthe child.
11:014:004 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, andcame to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for hiseyes were set by reason of his age.
11:014:005 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
11:014:006 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
11:014:007 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
11:014:008 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
11:014:009 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
11:014:010 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11:014:011 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
11:014:012 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
11:014:013 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
11:014:014 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
11:014:015 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
11:014:016 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
11:014:017 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:and when she came to the threshold of the door, the childdied;
11:014:018 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, accordingto the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of hisservant Ahijah the prophet.
11:014:019 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and howhe reigned, behold, they are written in the book of thechronicles of the kings of Israel.
11:014:020 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years:and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned inhis stead.
11:014:021 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
11:014:022 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
11:014:023 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
11:014:024 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
11:014:025 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
11:014:026 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, andthe treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: andhe took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
11:014:027 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, andcommitted them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, whichkept the door of the king's house.
11:014:028 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD,that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guardchamber.
11:014:029 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, arethey not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings ofJudah?
11:014:030 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
11:014:031 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
11:015:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebatreigned Abijam over Judah.
11:015:002 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name wasMaachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11:015:003 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had donebefore him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD hisGod, as the heart of David his father.
11:015:004 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him alamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and toestablish Jerusalem:
11:015:005 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
11:015:006 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
11:015:007 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
11:015:008 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in thecity of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
11:015:009 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reignedAsa over Judah.
11:015:010 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And hismother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11:015:011 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, asdid David his father.
11:015:012 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removedall the idols that his fathers had made.
11:015:013 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
11:015:014 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
11:015:015 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
11:015:016 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
11:015:017 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
11:015:018 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
11:015:019 There is a league between me and thee, and between my fatherand thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present ofsilver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king ofIsrael, that he may depart from me.
11:015:020 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains ofthe hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smoteIjon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, withall the land of Naphtali.
11:015:021 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
11:015:022 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
11:015:023 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
11:015:024 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with hisfathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat hisson reigned in his stead.
11:015:025 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel inthe second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israeltwo years.
11:015:026 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in theway of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel tosin.
11:015:027 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
11:015:028 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
11:015:029 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
11:015:030 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which hemade Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked theLORD God of Israel to anger.
11:015:031 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, arethey not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings ofIsrael?
11:015:032 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
11:015:033 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son ofAhijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and fouryears.
11:015:034 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in theway of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel tosin.
11:016:001 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
11:016:002 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;