13:1Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.13:2He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you.13:3He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.13:4It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him.13:5The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh.13:6The king answered the man of God, Entreat now the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.13:7The king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.13:8The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;13:9for so was it commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.13:10So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Bethel.13:11Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.13:12Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.13:13He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon.13:14He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? He said, I am.13:15Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.13:16He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:13:17for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.13:18He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.Buthe lied to him.13:19So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.13:20It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;13:21and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,13:22but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.13:23It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the donkey,to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.13:24When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.13:25Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.13:26When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.13:27He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They saddled it.13:28He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.13:29The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.13:30He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him,saying, Alas, my brother!13:31It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.13:32For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.13:33After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.13:34This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
14:1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.14:2Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.14:3Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.14:4Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.14:5Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.14:6It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.14:7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,14:8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,14:9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:14:10therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone whourinates on a wall,him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it be all gone.14:11Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.14:12Arise you therefore, get you to your house:andwhen your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.14:13All 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.14:14Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.14:15For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.14:16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.14:17Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:andas she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.14:18All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.14:19The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.14:20The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.14:21Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.14:22Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.14:23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;14:24and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.14:25It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;14:26and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.14:27King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.14:28It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.14:29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?14:30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.14:31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
15:1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.15:2Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.15:3He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.15:4Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;15:5because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.15:6Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.15:7The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.15:8Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.15:9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.15:10Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.15:11Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.15:12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.15:13Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.15:14But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.15:15He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.15:16There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.15:17Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.15:18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,15:19There isa league between me and you, between my father and your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.15:20Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.15:21It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.15:22Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.15:23Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.15:24Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.15:25Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.15:26He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.15:27Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.15:28Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.15:29It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;15:30for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.15:31Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?15:32There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.15:33In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah,and reignedtwenty-four years.15:34He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
16:1The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,16:2Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;16:3behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.16:4Him who dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies of his in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.16:5Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?16:6Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.16:7Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.16:8In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah,and reignedtwo years.16:9His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:16:10and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.16:11It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single onewho urinates on a wall,neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.16:12Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,16:13for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.16:14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?16:15In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.16:16The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.16:17Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.16:18It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,16:19for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.16:20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?16:21Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.16:22But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.16:23In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel,and reignedtwelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.16:24He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria.16:25Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.16:26For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.16:27Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?16:28So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.16:29In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.16:30Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him.16:31It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.16:32He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.16:33Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.16:34In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
17:1Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.17:2The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,17:3Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.17:4It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.17:5So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.17:6The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.17:7It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.17:8The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,17:9Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.17:11As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.17:12She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.17:13Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.17:14For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.17:15She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, atemanydays.17:16The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.17:17It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.17:18She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!17:19He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.17:20He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?17:21He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.17:22Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.17:23Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.17:24The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
18:1It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.18:2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was sore in Samaria.18:3Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:18:4for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)18:5Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.18:6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.18:7As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?18:8He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijahis here.18:9He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?18:10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.18:11Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijahis here.18:12It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.18:13Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?18:14Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijahis here; and he will kill me.18:15Elijah said, As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.18:16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.18:17It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?18:18He answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.18:19Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.18:20So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.18:21Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.18:22Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.18:23Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.18:24You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God."
All the people answered, "It is well said."18:25Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
18:26They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.18:27It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.18:28They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.18:29It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of theeveningoffering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.18:30Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down.18:31Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name.18:32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.18:33He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.18:34He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.18:35The water ran around the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.18:36It happened at the time of the offering of theeveningoffering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.18:37Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, andthatyou have turned their heart back again.18:38Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.18:39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God.18:40and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.18:41Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.18:42So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.18:43He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times.18:44It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make readyyour chariot, and get you down, that the rain not stop you.18:45It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:18:46and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his waist, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
19:1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.19:2Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.19:3When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.19:5He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.19:6He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink, and laid him down again.19:7The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.19:8He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.19:9He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?19:10He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.19:11He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake:19:12and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.19:13It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to him, and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?19:14He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.19:15Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;19:16and you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your room.19:17It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha kill.19:18Yet will I leavemeseven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.19:19So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yokeof oxenbefore him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.19:20He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?19:21He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
20:1Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.20:2He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad,20:3Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.20:4The king of Israel answered, It is according to your saying, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have.20:5The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben Hadad, saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;20:6but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.20:7Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him.20:8All the elders and all the people said to him, Don't you listen, neither consent.20:9Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.20:10Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.20:11The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds onhis armorboast himself as he who puts it off.20:12It happened, whenBen Hadadheard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, Setyourselves in array. They setthemselves in arrayagainst the city.20:13Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.20:14Ahab said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? He answered, You.20:15Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.20:16They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.20:17The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria.20:18He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive.20:19So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.20:20They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.20:21The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.20:22The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.20:23The servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.20:24Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their room;20:25and number you an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. He listened to their voice, and did so.20:26It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.20:27The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.20:28A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.20:29They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred thousand footmen in one day.20:30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.20:31His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save your life.20:32So they girded sackcloth on their bodies, andputropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let me live. He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.20:33Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad. Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.20:34Ben Hadadsaid to him, The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. I,said Ahab, will let you go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.20:35A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused to strike him.20:36Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.20:37Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.20:38So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.20:39As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.20:40As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Israel said to him, So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it.20:41He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.20:42He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.20:43The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.
21:1It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.21:2Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to you, I will give you its worth in money.21:3Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.21:4Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.21:5But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?21:6He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give youanothervineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.21:7Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.21:8So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city,andwho lived with Naboth.21:9She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:21:10and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.21:11The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.21:12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.21:13The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.21:14Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.21:15It happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.21:16It happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.21:17The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,21:18Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone down to take possession of it.21:19You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.21:20Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.21:21Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyonewho urinates against a wall,and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel:21:22and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.21:23Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.21:24Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.21:25(But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.21:26He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.)21:27It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.21:28The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,21:29See you how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
22:1They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.22:2It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.22:3The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"22:4He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.22:5Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.22:7But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."22:9Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.22:10Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.22:11Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.22:12All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.22:13The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, the words of the prophetsdeclaregood to the king with one mouth: please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak you good.22:14Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.22:15When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.22:16The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?22:17He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.22:18The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?22:19Micaiahsaid, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.22:20Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner; and another said on that manner.22:21There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, 'I will entice him.'22:22Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'22:23Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you."22:24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?22:25Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.22:26The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;22:27and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.22:28Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.22:29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.22:30The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.22:31Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.22:32It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.22:33It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.22:34A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.22:35The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.22:36There went a cry throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.22:37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.22:38They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselvesthere); according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.22:39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?22:40So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.22:41Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.22:42Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.22:43He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.22:44Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.22:45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?22:46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.22:47There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.22:49Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.22:50Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.22:51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.22:52He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.22:53He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
Notes:
[1]back to 9:26or, Sea of Reeds
[2]back to 14:10or, male
[3]back to 16:11or, male
[4]back to 21:21or, male