boat went to be testes for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) 3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congrega tion of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, Ten tribes revolt. the king had appointed, saying, Come 15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous his saying, which the LonD spake by now therefore make thou the grievous Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam service of thy father, and his heavy the son of Nebat. yoke which he put upon us, lighter, 16 So when all Israel saw that the and we will serve thee. king hearkened not unto them,the peo5 And he said unto them, Depart yet ple answered the king, saying, What for three days,then come again to me. portion have we in David? neither And the people departed. have we inheritance in the son of 6 T And king Rehoboam consulted Jesse: to your tents,O Israel: now see with the old men, that stood before to thine own house, David. So Israel Solomon his father while he yet lived, departed unto their tents. and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, 7 And they spake unto him, saying, Rehoboam reigned over them. If thou wilt be a servant unto this 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adopeople this day, and wilt serve them, ram, who was over the tribute; and and answer them, and speak good all Israel stoned him with stones,that words to then, then they will be thy he died. Therefore king Rehoboam servants for ever. made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him: 19So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 20 And it came to pass, when all Israel beard that Jeroboam was come 9 And he said unto them, What coun-again, that they sent and called him sel give ye that we may answer this to the congregation, and made him people, who have spoken to me, say king over all Israel; there was none ing, Make the yoke which thy father that followed the house of David, but did put upon us lighter? the tribe of Judah only. 10 And the young men that were 21 And when Rehoboam was coine grown up with him spake unto him, to Jerusalem, he assembled all the saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this house of Judah, with the tribe of Benpeople that spake unto thee, saying, jamin, a hundred and fourscore thouThy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my fath er's loins. 11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastis ed you with whips, but I will chas tise you with scorpions. 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as sand chosen men, which were war- Jeroboam's idolatry CHAP. XIII. His hand withereth. the children of Israel: return every house of David, Josiah by name: and man to his house; for this thing is upon thee shall he offer the priests of from me. They hearkened therefore the high places that burn incense upon to the word of the LORD, and returned thee, and mea's bones shall be burnt to depart, according to the word of the upon thee. LORD. 3 And he gave a sign the same day, 25 T Then Jeroboam built Shechem saying, This is the sign which the in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein: LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar and went out from thence, and built shall be rent, and the ashes that are Penuel. Jupon it shall be poured out. 25 And Jeroboam said in his heart, 4 T And it came to pass, when king Now shall the kingdom return to the Jeroboam heard the saying of the man house of David: of God, which had cried against the 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice altar in Beth el, that he put forth his in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold then shall the heart of this people turn on him. And his hand, which he put again unto their lord, even unto Reho forth against him, dried up, so that he bam king of Judah, and they shall could not pull it in again to him. kill me, and go again to Rehoboam 5 The altar was also rent, and the king of Judah. ashes poured out from the altar, ac 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, cording to the sign which the man of and made two calves of gold, and said God had given by the word of the unto them, It is too much for you to go LORD. up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Ismel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. 6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD thy God,and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. 7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. 8 And the man of God said unto the 32 And Jeroborm ordained a feast in king, If thou wilt give me half thy the eighth month, on the fifteenth day house, I will not go in with thee, neiof the mouth, like unto the feast that ther will I eat bread nor drink water is in Judah; and he offered upon the in this place: altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing 9 For so was it charged me by the unto the calves that he had made: and word of the LORD, saying, Eat no he placed in Beth-el the priests of the bread, nor drink water, nor turn again high places which he had made. by the same way that thou camest. 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el. 33 So he offered upon the altar which be had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar and burnt incense. 11 T Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the A out Judah the word father said unto ND, behold, there came a man of king,them they told also to their father. CHAP. XIII. What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to buru incense. 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle altar, altar! thus saith the LORD, Be-me the ass. So they saddled him the hold, a child shall be born unto the lass, and he rode thereon, The deceived I. KINGS Prophet lain. 14 And went after the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of and found him sitting under an oak the LORD; therefore the LORD hath de and he said unto him, Art thou the livered him unto the lion, which hath man of God that camest from Judah? torn him, and slain him, according to And he said, I am. the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him. 15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread." 27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled 16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; nei-him. ther 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 shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 28 And he went, and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. 29 And the prophet took up the car18 He said unto him, I am a prophet case of the man of God, and laid it up also as thou art; and an angel spake on the ass, and brought it back and anto me by the word of the LORD, say-the old prophet came to the city to ing, Bring him back with thee into thy mourn, and to bury him. house, 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. 20 T And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave: and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! 31 And it came to pass, 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 is buried; lay my boues beside his bones: 21 And he cried unto the man of God 32 For the saying which he cried by that came from Judah, saying, Thus the word of the LORD against the altar saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou in Beth-el, and against all the houses hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, of the high places which are in the and hast not kept the commandinent cities of Samaria, shall surely come to which the LORD thy God commanded pass. thee, 33 T After this thing Jeroboam re22 But camest back, and hast eaten turned not from his evil way, but made bread and drunk water in the place of again of the lowest of the people the which the LORD did say to thee, priests of the high places: whosoever Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy would, he cousecrated him, and be be carcase shall not come unto the sepul- came one of the priests of the high chre of thy father. places. 23 T And it came to pass, after he had 34 And this thing became sin unto the eaten bread, and after he had drunk, house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, and to destroy it from off the face of for the prophet whom he had brought the earth. back. 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him; and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. A CHAP. XIV. T that time Abijah the son of Je roboam fell sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the 25 And, behold, men passed by, and wife of Jeroboam, and get thee to saw the carcase cast in the way, and Shiloh: behold, there is Abijah the the lion standing by the carcase: and prophet, which told me that I should they came and told it in the city where be king over this people. the old prophet dwelt. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and 26 And when the prophet that crackuels, and a cruse of honey, and go brought him back from the way heard to hum: he shall tell thee what shall tref, he said, it is the man of God, become of the child. Jeroboam threatened. CHAP. XIV. His child diah, cut off the house of Jeroboam that dayı but what? even now. 15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, 4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Abijah. But Abijah could not see; for his eyes were set by rea-as a reed is shaken in the water, and he Bon of his age. 5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick; thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman. G And it was 80, when Abijab heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am seut to thee with heavy tidings. 7 Go tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my ser vant David, who kept my command ments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was 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: 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboamn, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken ic. 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house; and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam hall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing to wat the LORD God of Israel in the hou e of Jeroboan. shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the riv er, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. 17 T 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 Is rael mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Alijah the prophet. 19 T And the 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. 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers; and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. 21 T And Rehoboam the son of Solo mon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitese. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fa thers had done." 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were also Sodomites in the land; and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Loan cast out before the children of Israel. 25 ¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jurusalem: JA Moreover, the LORD shall raise 26 And he took away the treasures up a king over Israel, who shall of the house of the Loup, and the 1. KINGS. Abijam's wicked reign. Ata's good reign. treasures of the king's house; he even] 9 And in the twentieth year of Je took away all: and he took away ali roboam king of Israel reigned Asa over the shields of gold which Solomon had Judah. made. 10 And forty and one years reigned 27 And king Rehoboam made in their he in Jerusalem: and his mother's stead brazen shields, and committed name teas Manchah, the daughter of them unto the hands of the chief of Abishalom. the guard, which kept the door of the king's house. 28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rebo boam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fa thers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess: and Abijam his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XV. Nero son Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. 4 Nevertheless, for David's sake, did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: 5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12 And he took away the Sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron. 14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days. 15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Loan, silver, and gold, and vessels. and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dselt at Damascus, saying, 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. 20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the host which he had against the cities of Is rael, and smote ljon, and Dan, and and all Cinne 7T Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles Abel-beth-maachah, of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his ΓΕ roth, with all the land of Naphtali, 21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramals, and dwelt in Tirzah.. 22 Then king Asa made a proclama. ition throughout all Judah, (none was |