13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the as*. So they saddled him the ase; and lie rode thereon,

14 And went after the roan of God, and found him sitting under an oak 1 and he laid unto him, Art thou the man of God that camelt from Judah? And he laid, I am.

15 Then he laid unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

16 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 this place:

17 For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou lhalt eat no bread, nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou earnest.

18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lo R D, laying, Bring him back with thee into thine bouse, that he may eat bread, and drink water. But he lied unto him.

19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

10 And it came to pass as they fat at the table, that the word of the Lo R D came unto the prophet that brought him backs

11 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, faying, Thus faith the LoKd, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lo R D thy God commanded thee,

»i But earnest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water: thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

13 V, And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he (addled for him the ass, to -wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

14 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and (lew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase,

15 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

%6 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thenof, he slid, It it the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Loud: therefore the Lo R D hath delivered him unto the li'jii, which hath torn him, and

slain him, according to the word of the Lor D, which he spake unto him.

17 And he spake to his Ions, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they iaddlcd Aim. it And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion Handing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. *9 And the prophet took up the carcafe of the man of God, and laid it upon the als, and brought it back. And the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

jo And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, faying, Alas, my brother!

3 j And it came to pals, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God it buried; lay my bones belide his bones: 31 For the laying which he cried by the word of the Lo R D against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, (hall surely come to pass,

3 3 «J[ After this thing Jeroboam return ed not from his evil way, but mads again of the lowest of the people pricils of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

34. And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to" cut iV off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

CHAP. XIV. 1 Abijah being Jick, Jeroboam sendeth his ivife disguised •with presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh. 5 Ahijah J ore•warned denounceth God's judgement.

AT that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 1 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 / should be king over this people.

3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: lie (hall tell thee what (hall become of the child.

4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason os his age.

< <R And the Lou n said unto Ahijah,

Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to

alk a tiling of thee lor her son j for he //

, sick: thus and thus (halt thou fay unto

her: "Jeroboam threatened.

RehoboanVs wicked reign.

her: for it {hall be when (he cometh in, that me sliaU feign herself to be another •woman.

6 And it wasyj, when Ahijah hcani the sound of her feet as (he came in at the door, that he (aid, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am lent to thee with heavy tidings.

7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus faith the Lo R D God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; andjrt 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 ivas right in mine eyes;

9 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:

loThercfore, behold, I will brine evil upon the house of Jeroboam, ana will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisleth 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 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city (hall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field (nail the fowls of the air eat: for the Lor D hath spoken it.

it Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house; and when thy feet enter into the city, the child (hall die.

13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury iiira: for he only of Jeroboam (hall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lo R D God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

i+Moreover the Lo R n (hall raise him up a king over Israel, who (hall cut oft" the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

j j For the Lo R D shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and he (hall root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their .fathers, and (hail scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lor D to anger.

16 And he shall give Israel up, because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did fin, and who made Israel to fin.

17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and

when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they arc written in the lx>ok of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

10 And the days which Jeroboam reigned ivere two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

xi And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam 11 as 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 ivas -Naamah an Ammonites?.

tt And Judah did evil in the slight of the.Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

ajFortheyalsobuiltthem high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, ancsunder every green tree.

1+ 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.

a 5 And it came to pass in. the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shifhak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

*6 And he took away the trealiires of the house os the Lor D, and the treasures of the king's house: be even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brafen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

18 And it wasyc, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

»9 Now-the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of she king's of Judah?

30 Arid there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

31 And Rehoboam slept with bis fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the cityofDavid. Andhismother'snaiTie ivas Nar.mnh an Ammonitess. AndAmjanv his son reigned in his ftwd.

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CHAP. XV.

i ik.juai's ivicked rtiga. 8 Afasueceedeth kirn. 14 Ht dying, J eholhephat succeedtin. 33 Btiajhas nmcleJ rtign.

NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

* Three years reigned be in Jerusalem. And his mothers name Iuos Maachah, the daughter of Abilhalom.

) And he walked in all-the tins of his father, which be had done before him: aad his heart was hot perfect with the Lord his God, a3 the heart of David his father.

4 Nevertheless for David's fake did the Lor D his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son aster him, and to establish Jerusalem:

5 Because David did that ixihich was right in the eyes of the Lo R D , and turned not aside rrom any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written la the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

% «J And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried himin the city of David: aad Ala his ion reigned in his Head.

9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asaover Judah.

10 And forty and one years reigned he injerusaltm. And his mother's name wm Maachah, tbe daughter of Abiihalom.

11 And Asa did that which tetu right in the eyes of the Load, as did David his father.

11 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols tliat his fattier had made.

13 And also Maachah his mother, even her lie removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Ala destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

14 BiK the. high places were not removed.- nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lo* D all his days.

15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the tilings which himself had dedicated, into the house os the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.

»6 And there was war between Asa and Baalba king of Israel all their days.

17 And Baafha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramab, that

he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Ala king os Judah.

18*shen Asa took all the silver and the gold that noere lest in the treasures of the house of the Lor D, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Ala sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damalcus, faying,

19 there it a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy fa ■ ther: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league witli Baalha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

io bo Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts whicii he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbeth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land os Naphtali.

21 And it came to pass, when Baaslii heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

»» Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none <wat exempted: and they took away the stones of Kamah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baalha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

13 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.

»+ *J[ And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers, in the city of David his father: and Jeholhaphat his son reigned in his stead.

. 15 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year os Ala king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.

a6 And he did evil in the sight of the Lor D, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to I'm.

27 And Baalha the son of Ahijah, of the houle of IfTachar, conlpired against him; and Baalha smote him atGibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

i% Even in the third year of Asa king os Judah did Baalha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

19 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left n»t to Jeroboam, any

that that breathed until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam whichhesinned,andwhichheniadeltrael fin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

31 Now the rest os the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

32 And there was war between Asa and Baaslia king of Israel all their days.

33 fj In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baafha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lo R D, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

C H A P. XVI. 1 Jehu's prophecy against Baa/ha. 8 Zimri's conspiracy,. 29 Ahab's •wicted reign. 34 Joshua's curse upon Hiel the builder tj Jericho fulfilled.

Til E N the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baafha, laying,

2 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 j

3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baafha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

4 Him that dieth of Baaslia in the city {hall the dogs eat: and him that dieth of his in the fields (hall the fowls of the air eat.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Baaslia, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel t

6 So Baaslia slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in bis stead.

7 And arse by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lor D against Baafha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lor D, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam j and because he killed him.

8 fl In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baafha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years,

9 And his servant Zimri, captain of hals^M chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he fat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baatlia: he left him not one that pisleth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

11 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baaslia, according to the word os the Lord, which he spake against Baaslia by Jehu the prophet,

13 For all the sins of Baafha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they fin* ned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lor D God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

14 Now the reft of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not writ>ten in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people •were encamped against Gibbcthon, which belonged to the Philistines.

16 And the people that iuere encamped heard fay, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah,

18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,

19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, 'art they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

11 Then 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,

22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that follow, ed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned,

»J 1(4

i j In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Oiriri to reign over lsi-æl, twelve years: fix years reigned be ia Tirzah.

z+ Ami he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of-silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of tie city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

*5 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that 'mere before him.

16 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his fin naerewith he made Israel to sin, to proToke the Lo R. D God of Israel to anger ■with their vanities.

*7 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he (hewed,.*/-* they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

18 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

xo € And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judab began Ahab the fon of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

jo And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lor D above all that -were before hint.

jt And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the fins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Ziclonians.and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

j» And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baas, which he had built in Samaria.

j3 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Ifrael that were oefore him.

-,+ m In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his yonngeft fan Segub, according to the TOrd of the LorO, which he spake by Josliua the son of Nun.

CHAP. XVII. 1 Elijah, prophesying against Ahab, is lent

tt Cherith, inhere the ravens feed him.

8 He is sent to the tvidtnv ofZarephath.

17 He raiseth the <vuid<nvssfen.

AN D Eliiah the Tifhbite, who nuas of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lor D God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

1 And the word of the Lord came unto him, faying,

3 Get thee hence, and turn thete eastward, and hide thyself bv the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

4 And it (hall be, that thou llialt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

5 So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith,.that is before Jordan.

6 And the ravens brought him bread and stem in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

8 ff And the word of die Lord came unto him, saying,

9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongelh to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

10 So he" arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman -was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

n And as (he was going to fetch //, he called to her, and (aid, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

ii And (he said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast: said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.

14. For thus faith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal (hall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord scndeth rain upon the earth.

15 And (he went and did according to the laying of Eliiah : and (he, and he, and her house, did eat many days.

16 Ami the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lor D, which he spake by Elijah.

17 f[ And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, tint mistress, of the house, ttik'kk; and his

fick