1

6 And there was warre between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the dayes of his life.

Afa s death. Nadabs reigne.

king of Ifrael, that he may I depart from me. Heb. 20 So Ber-hadad hearkened unto king Ala, "?. and fent the captains of the hosts, which he had agamst the cities of Ifrael, and fimore Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth maachad, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

21 And it came to paffe, when Baafha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and

dwelt in Tirzah.

22 Then king Afa made a proclamation throughout all Judah, (none wastexempted) theb f and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baafta had builded, and king A fa built with them Geba of

13.3.

Ma

8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and 2.Chron. they buried him in the city of David:and*Afa his sonne reigned in his stead.

14.1.

4

9 And in the twentieth yeare of Jeroboam king of Ifrael, reigned Asa over Judah.

10 And fourty and one yeares reigned he in Jerufalem: and his mothers name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

And Ala did that which was right in the

eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

12 And he took away the fodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

13 And alfo Maachah his mother, even her *2 Chron. he removed from being queen, because she had Heb. cat made an idol in a grove; and Afat destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

15.16.

off

Heb.holy.

* 2. Chron.

16. 1.

14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheleffe, Ala his heart was perfect with the LORD all his dayes.

15 And he brought in the † things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himfelf had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, filver and gold, and veffels.

16g And there was warre between Afa and Baasha king of Ifrael all their dayes.

17. And Baasha king of Ifrael went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not fuffer any to go out or come in to Afa king of Judah.

18 Then Afa took all the filver and the gold that were left in thetreasures of the house of the LORD., and the treasures of the kings house, and delivered them into the hand of. *2. Chron. his fervants: and king Afa fent them to *Benhadad the fonne of Tabrimon, the fonne of Hezionking of Syria, that dwelt at Damafcus, faying,

16 2.

19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have fent unto thee a present of filver ard gold; come and break thy league with Baasta

23 The rest of all the acts of Afa, 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? Nevertheleffe, in the time of his old age he was di seased in his feet.

24 And Afa flept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his fonne reigned in "Matt. 1. his stead.

called lofa phar. Jeroboam t. Heb.

25. And Nadab the fonne of † began to reigne over Ifrael, in the second reign d. yeare of Afa king of Judah, and reigned over Ifrael two yeares.

26 And he did evil in the fight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his finne wherewith he made Ifrael to finne.

27 And Baasha the sonne of Ahijah, of the house of Iffachar, confpired against him; and Baasha finote him at Gibbethon, which belonger to the Philistines, (for Nadab, and all Ifrael laid siege to G bbethon)

28 Even in the third yeare of Afa king of Judah, did Baasha flay him, and reigned in his

stead.

29 And it came to passe when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam, he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, untill he had destroyed him, according unto the Chap. J saying of the LORD, which he spake hy his 10. servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

o Because of the finnes of Jeroboam which he finned, and which he made Ifrael finne, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Ifrael to anger.

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

Hen the word of the LORD came to Jehu the fonne of Hanani, againft Baafna, faying,

XV I.

of Tioni, Omri, and Ahab.

1.2 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baafha, according to the word of the Loan, which he spake against Baasha † by Jehu the prophet;

13 For all the finnes of Baasha, and the finnes of Elah his sonne, by which they finned, and by which they made Ifrael to finne, in provoking the LORD God of Ifrael to anger with their vanities.

14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kines of Ifrael?

15 In the twentie and feventh yeare of Afa king of Judah, di Ziuri reigne seven dayes in Tuzah: and the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

boam, & haft made my people Ifrael to finne, to provoke me to anger with their finnes :

3 Behold, I will take away the posteritie of Baafha, and the posteritie of his house:and will Chap. 15. make thy house like the house of Jeroboam

20.

*Chap-14

1.

Heb.

hych was

the fonne of Nebar.

4 *Him that dieth of. Brasha in the city, shall the dog eat: and him that dicth of his in the fields, shall the fowls of the aire eat.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Baafha, and what he did, and his might, are they not wr.tten in the book of the chronicles of the kings

of Ifrael?

6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his sonne reigned in his stead.

7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the sonne of Hanani, came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the fight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed him.

8 In the twentie and fixth yeare of Afa king of Judah, began Elah the sonne of Baasha to reigne over Ifrael in Tirzah, two yeares.

9 And his fervant Zimri (captain of half his chariots.) confpired against him as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunck. in the house of Arzat steward of his house in Tirzah.

10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and feventh yeare of Afa king of Judah, and reigned in his ftead.

11 And it came to passe when he began to reigne, affoon as he fat on his throne, that Dr, bath he flew all the house of Baasha: he let him not one that piffeth against a wall, I neither of his dkinsfolks, nor of his friends..

flain the king: wherefore all Ifrael made Omri the captain of the hoft, king over Ifrael that day in the camp.

17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Ifrael with him, and they befieged Tırzah.

18 And it came to paffe when Zimri faw that the citie was taken, that he went into the palace of the kings house, and burnt the kings house over him with fire, and died;

19 For his finnes which he finned in doing evil in the fight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his finne which he did, to make Ifrael finne.

20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, ought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles the kings.

of Ifrael ?

les of

21 Then were the people of Ifrael divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the lonne of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

22 But the people that followed Omri, prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath: so Tibini died, and Omri reigned.

23 In the thirtie and one yeare of Afa king of Judah, began Omri to reigne over Ifrael twelve yeares: fix yeares reigned he in Tirzah.

24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer, for two talents of filver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the citie which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill T Samaria.

Heb. by

the hand of.

1

Heb. She

25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of meren. the LORD, and did worse then all that were before him..

26 For he walked in all the way of feroboam the fonne of Nebat, & in his finne where.

..

Elijah by Gods Command,

Heb.vvas

with he made Ifrael to finne, to provoke the LORD God of Ifrael to anger with their vanities.

27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri, which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Ifrael?

28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his sonne reigned in his stead.

29 And in the thirty and eighth yeare of Asaking of Judah, began Ahab the fonne of Omri to reigne over Ifrael; and Arab the fonne of Omri reigned over Ifrael in Samaria, twenty and two yeares.

30 And Ahab the fonne of Omri did evil in the fight of the LORD, above all that were before him.

31 And it came to passe, † as if it had been it a light a light thing for him to walk in the finnes of thing.c. Jeroboam the sonne of Nebat, that he took

Heb. Eli

jaku.

to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and wentuand served Baal, and worshipped him.

1

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

33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Ifrael to anger, then all the kings of Ifrael that were before him.

34 In his dayes did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Ahiram his first-born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest sonne Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the sonne of Nun.

CHAP. XVII.

Elijah having prophefied against Ahab, is fent to Cherib, vuhere the raven, feed him. & He is sent to the widow of Zarephath: 17 He raifeth the voidours fonne. 24 The uvoman belee vern him.

A

Nd † Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, faid unto Ahab, * As

Luke 4.25; the LORD God of Ifracl liveth, before.whom I-stand, there shall not be dew norrain these

heis called Elias.

• Ecclus yeares, but according to my word.

48.2.

2. And the word of the LORD came unto

Kames.5.17 him, faying,

3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thy felf by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

4 And it shall be, that thou shalt 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.

is fed by ravens.

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

7 And it came to passe t after a while, that Hebr the brook dried up, because there had beenno he end dayes. rain an-the land.

8 And the word of the LORD came un

to him, saying,

?

9 Arife, get thee to * Zarephath, which be. Luke 4. longeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I called S 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 citie, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and faid, Ferch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

II And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

12 And she said, Asthe LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handfull of meal in a barrel, and a little oyl in a cruse : and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in, and dresse it for me and my sonne, 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 litte cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy fonne.

16. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the crufe of oyl fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Heb. by Elijah.

17 And it came to passe after these things, that the fonne of the woman, the mistresse of the house, fell fick, and his fiknesse was so fore, that there was no breath left in him.

18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my finne to remembrance, and to flay my fonne?

19 And he faid unto her, Give me thy sonne. And he took him out of her bosome, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

20 And he cried unto the LORD, and faid, O LORD My God, haft thou also brought evil upon the widow, with whom I sojourn, by slaying her fonne?

21; And

the hand

21 And he † stretched himself upon the childe three times, and cried unto the LORD, and faid, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let again.

14ch. ive this childes soul come Tinto him aga

Heb.Oba

diabu.

+ Heb.ever

his bu

↑ Heb.

Izebel,

22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the foul of the childe came into him again, and he revived.

23 And Elijah took the childe, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah faid, See, thy sonne liveth.

24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth, is truth.

CHAP. XVIII.

In the extremity of famine Elijah sent to Abab, meeteth road Obadiah. 9 Obadiah bringeth Ahab, to Elijah. 17 Elijah reproving Ahab, by fire from heaven convincethBaals prophets. 41 Elijah by prayer obtaining rain followeth Ahab to lezreet. Nd it came to paffe after many dayes, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third yeare, faying, Go shew thy felf unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

A

2 And Elijah went to shew himselfunto Ahab: and there was a fore famine in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called † Obadiah which was † the governour of bis house: (now Obadiah feared the LORD

greatly:

4 For it was so, when ↑ Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fiftie in a cave, and fed them with bread and water)

5 And Ahab faid unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may finde graffe to Web, that fave the horses and mules alive, that we leese not all the beafts.

e Cut net our fel

6 So they divided the land between them to The beafts. paffe throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord *Elijah?

8 And he answered him, I am: go tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is bere.

9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to flay me?

10 As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lord hath not fent to feek thee:and when they faid, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdome and nation, that they found thee not.

11 And now thou saycit, Go tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is bere.

12 And it shall come to paffe, as foon as I am gone from thee, that the spirit of the LORD shall carrie thee whither I know not: and fo when I come andtell Ahab, and he cannot finde thee, he shall flay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.

13 Was it not told my lord, what I did when Jezebel flew the prophets of the LORD? how I hid an hundred men of the LORDS prophets, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and

water?

14 And now thou sayest, Go tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: And he shall lay me.

15 And Elijah faid, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will furely shew my self unto him to day.

16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

17 And it came to paffe when Ahabsaw Elijah, that Ahab faid unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Ifrael?

18 And he answered, I have not troubled Ifrael, but thou and thy faters house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

19 Now therefore fend, and gather to me all Ifrael, unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal foure hundred and fiftie, and the prophets of the groves foure hundred, which eat at Jezebels table.

20 So Ahab fent unto all the children of Ifrael, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and faid, How long halt ye between two opinions? F Or; if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, thoughts, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

22 Then faid Elijah unto the people, I, even I onely remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baals prophets are foure hundred and fifty

men.

23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dresse the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:

24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and faid, † It is well spoken.

f Heb. the

word is

25 And Elijah faid unto the prophets of Baal, good, Choose you one bullock for your selves, and dresse it first; for ye are many: and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. 26 And they took the bullock which was

27 And it came to paffe at noon, that Elijah THeb. with mocked them, and faid, Cry † aloud: for he w a god, either & he is talking, or het is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he fleepmeditateth, eth, and must be awaked.

a great

voice.

7 Or,he

THeb. bath

28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves a pursuit. after their manner with knives and lancers, till +Heb pour-t the bloud gushed out upon them.

ed out bloud

upon them.

† Heb. a

Scending.

+ Rear

tention.

28.

29 And it came to passe, when mid-day was paft, and they prophefied untill the time of the † offering of the evening facrifice; that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

30 And Elijah faid unto all the people, Come neare unto me. And all the people came neare unto him: and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.

31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sonnes of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD

Gen. 32. Came, saying, * Ifrael fhall be thy name. 32 And with the stones he built an altar in 2. Kings 17 the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of feed.

34.

Heb.went

33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and faid, Fill foure barrels with water, and poure it on the burnt-facrifice, and on the wood.

34 And he said, Do it the second time: and they did it the second time. And he faid, Do it the third time: and they did it the third time, 35 And the water † ran round about the altar, and he filled the trench also with water.

36 And it came to paffe at the time of the offering of the evening facrifice, that Elijah the prophet came neare and faid, LORD God of Abraham, Ifaac, and of Ifrael, let it be known this day, that thou art God in Ifrael, and that I am thy fervant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

37 Heare me,O LORD, heare me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and confumed the burnt-facrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the duft, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

:

39 And when all the people faw it, they fell on their faces: and they faid, The LORD, he #the God, the LORD, he is the God.

40 And Elijah faid unto thein, # Take the prophets of Bal, let not one of them cheape: hend. and they took them, and El jah brough them down to the brook Kithon, and flew them

there.

41 And Elijah faid unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink, for there is a found of abundance of rain.

Or a fe

of a neve

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink, and rain. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

43 And faid to his fervant, Go up now, look toward the fea. And he went up, and looked, and faid, There is nothing. And he said, Goagain seven times.

44 And it came to passe at the seventh time, that he faid, Behold, there arifeth a little cloud out of the fea, like a mans hand. And he said, Go up, fay unto Ahab, † Prepare thy chariot, & get thee down, that the rain stop thee not, or binde.

45 And it came to passe in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain: and Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah;and he girded up his loyns, and ran before Ahab, T to the entrance of Jezreel. CHAP. ΧΙΧ.

I Elijah threatned by lezebet, fleeth to Beer-sheba. 4 In the
wildernesse being weary of his life, is comforted by an angel
9 At Horeb God appearerh unto him, sending him to anoint
Hazael, lehu, and Elisha. 19 Elisha taking leave of his
friends, followeth Elzjah.

Nd Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
had flain all

Adone and withalt, how he
the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, faying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them, by to morrow about this time.

3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his fervant there.

Heb.rie

† Heb.ri theu came Lezreel.

4 But he himself went a dayes journey into the wildernesse, and came and fat downunder a juniper-tree:and he requested † for him- Hebr. self that he might die, and faid, It is enough, his life. now OLORD take away my life: for I am not better them my fathers.

5 And as he lay and flept under a junipertree, behold then, an angel touched him, and laid unto him, Arife and eat.

6 And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a crufe of water at his † head: and he dideat and drink, and laid him down again.

7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and faid, A

↑ Heb.

belfter.