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   THE THIRD BOOK OF KINGS


          3 Kings Chapter 1

          1:1. Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and
          when he was covered with clothes he was not warm.

          1:2. His servants therefore, said to him: Let us seek for
          our Lord the king, a young virgin, and let her stand before
          the king, and cherish him, and sleep in his bosom and warm
          our lord the king.

          1:3. So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the
          coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and
          brought her to the king.

          1:4. And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful, and she
          slept with the king, and served him, but the king did not
          know her.

          1:5. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted himself,
          saying: I will be king.  And he made himself chariots and
          horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

          1:6. Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying:
          Why hast thou done this?  And he also was very beautiful,
          the next in birth after Absalom.

          1:7. And he conferred with Joab, the son of Sarvia, and
          with Abiathar, the priest, who furthered Adonias's side.

          1:8. But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son of Joiada,
          and Nathan, the prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the
          strength of David's army, was not with Adonias.

          1:9. And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat
          cattle, by the stone of Zoheleth, which was near the
          fountain Rogel, invited all his brethren, the king's sons,
          and all the men of Juda, the king's servants:

          1:10. But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and all the
          valiant men, and Solomon, his brother, he invited not.

          1:11. And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon:
          Hast thou not heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith,
          reigneth, and our lord David knoweth it not?

          1:12. Now then, come, take my counsel, and save thy life,
          and the life of thy son Solomon.

          1:13. Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him:
          Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid,
          saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he
          shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?

          1:14. And while thou art yet speaking there with the king,
          I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words.

          1:15. So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber.
          Now the king was very old, and Abisag, the Sunamitess,
          ministered to him.

          1:16. Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king.
          And the king said to her: What is thy will?

          1:17. She answered, and said: My lord, thou didst swear to
          thy handmaid, by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon, thy
          son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

          1:18. And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord
          the king, knowest nothing of it.

          1:19. He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many
          rams, and invited all the king's sons, and Abiathar, the
          priest, and Joab, the general of the army: but Solomon, thy
          servant, he invited not.

          1:20. And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are
          upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on
          thy throne, my lord the king, after thee.

          1:21. Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the
          king sleepeth with his fathers, that I, and my son,
          Solomon, shall be accounted offenders.

          1:22. As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan, the
          prophet, came.

          1:23. And they told the king, saying: Nathan, the prophet,
          is here. And when he was come in before the king, and had
          worshipped, bowing down to the ground,

          1:24. Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou said: Let
          Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?

          1:25. Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen,
          and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's
          sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the
          priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and
          saying: God save king Adonias:

          1:26. But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest, and
          Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Solomon, thy servant, he
          hath not invited.

          1:27. Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast
          thou not told me, thy servant, who should sit on the throne
          of my lord the king after him?

          1:28. And king David answered, and said: Call to me
          Bethsabee. And when she was come in to the king, and stood
          before him,

          1:29. The king swore, and said: As the Lord liveth, who
          hath delivered my soul out of all distress,

          1:30. Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the God of
          Israel, saying: Solomon thy son, shall reign after me, and
          he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this
          day.

          1:31. And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to the earth,
          worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for
          ever.

          1:32. King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the priest, and
          Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada.  And
          when they were come in before the king,

          1:33. He said to them: Take with you the servants of your
          lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to
          Gihon:

          1:34. And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet,
          anoint him there king over Israel: and you shall sound the
          trumpet, and shall say: God save king Solomon.

          1:35. And you shall come up after him, and he shall come,
          and shall sit upon my throne, and he shall reign in my
          stead: and I will appoint him to be ruler over Israel, and
          over Juda.

          1:36. And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered the king,
          saying: Amen: so say the Lord, the God of my lord the king.

          1:37. As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he
          with Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of
          my lord king David.

          1:38. So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, went
          down, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and
          Phelethi: and they set Solomon upon the mule of king David,
          and brought him to Gihon.

          1:39. And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil out of the
          tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they sounded the
          trumpet, and all the people said: God save king Solomon.

          1:40. And all the multitude went up after him, and the
          people played with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy,
          and the earth rang with the noise of their cry.

          1:41. And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard
          it, and now the feast was at an end. Joab also, hearing the
          sound of the trumpet, said: What meaneth this noise of the
          city in an uproar?

          1:42. While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar,
          the priest, came: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because
          thou art a valiant man, and bringest good news.

          1:43. And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord,
          king David, hath appointed Solomon king;

          1:44. And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan,
          the prophet, and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and the
          Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and they have set him upon the
          king's mule:

          1:45. And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the prophet, have
          anointed him king, in Gihon: and they are gone up from
          thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again: this is the
          noise that you have heard.

          1:46. Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the
          kingdom.

          1:47. And the king's servants going in, have blessed ouur
          lord king David, saying: May God make the name of Solomon
          greater than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy
          throne. And the king adored in his bed:

          1:48. And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
          who hath given this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes
          seeing it.

          1:49. Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they
          all arose, and every man went his way.

          1:50. And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and went, and took
          hold of the horn of the altar.

          1:51. And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias fearing
          king Solomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar,
          saying: Let king Solomon swear to me this day, that he will
          not kill his servant with the sword.

          1:52. And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall
          not so much as one hair of his head fall to the ground: but
          if evil be found in him, he shall die.

          1:53. Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the
          altar: and going in, he worshipped king Solomon: and
          Solomon said to him: Go to thy house.

          3 Kings Chapter 2

          1:1. And the days of David drew nigh that he should die,
          and he charged his son Solomon, saying:

          2:2. I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and
          shew thyself a man.

          2:3. And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in
          his ways, and observe his ceremonies, and his precepts, and
          judgments, and testimonies, as it is written in the law of
          Moses: that thou mayst understand all thou dost, and
          whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:

          2:4. That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath
          spoken of me, saying: If thy children shall take heed to
          their ways, and shall walk before me in truth, with all
          their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not be
          taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.

          2:5. Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Sarvia, hath
          done to me, what he did to the two captains of the army of
          Israel, to Abner, the son of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of
          Jether: whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace,
          and put the blood of war on his girdle that was about his
          loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

          2:6. Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and let not
          his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

          2:7. But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai, the
          Galaadite, and let them eat at thy table: for they met me
          when I fled from the face of Absalom, thy brother.

          2:8. Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of Gera, the
          son of Jemini, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous
          curse, when I went to the camp: but because he came down to
          meet me when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to him
          by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with the sword:

          2:9. Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise
          man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring
          down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

          2:10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in
          the city of David.

          2:11. And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty
          years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem
          thirty-three.

          2:12. And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David,
          and his kingdom was strengthened exceedingly.

          2:13. And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee
          the mother of Solomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming
          peaceable? He answered: It is peaceable.

          2:14. And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She
          said to him: Speak. And he said:

          2:15. Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all
          Israel had preferred me to be their king: but the kingdom
          is transferred, and is become my brother's: for it was
          appointed him by the Lord.

          2:16. Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee; turn not
          away my face. And she said to him: Say on.

          2:17. And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he
          cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag, the
          Sunamitess, to wife.

          2:18. And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to
          the king.

          2:19. Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him
          for Adonias: and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to
          her, and sat down upon his throne: and a throne was set for
          the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.

          2:20. And she said to him: I desire one small petition of
          thee; do not put me to confusion. And the king said to her:
          My mother ask, for I must not turn away thy face.

          2:21. And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess, be given to
          Adonias, thy brother, to wife.

          2:22. And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother:
          Why dost thou ask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask
          for him also the kingdom; for he is my elder brother, and
          hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Sarvia.

          2:23. Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and
          so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not
          spoken this word against his own life.

          2:24. And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me,
          and placed me upon the throne of David, my father, and who
          hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonias shall be put
          to death this day.

          2:25. And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son
          of Joiada, who slew him, and he died.

          2:26. And the king said also to Abiathar, the priest: Go to
          Anathoth, to thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of
          death: but I will not at this time put thee to death,
          because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God before
          David, my father, and hast endured trouble in all the
          troubles my father endured.

          2:27. So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being the priest of
          the Lord, that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled,
          which he spoke concerning the house of Heli in Silo.

          2:28. And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned
          after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab
          fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took hold on the
          horn of the altar.

          2:29. And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into
          the tabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and
          Solomon sent Banaias, the son of Joiada, saying. Go, kill
          him.

          2:30. And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and
          said to him: Thus saith the king: Come forth. And he said:
          I will not come forth, but here I will die. Banaias
          brought word back to the king, saying: Thus saith Joab, and
          thus he answered me.

          2:31. And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and
          kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent
          blood which hath been shed by Joab, from me, and from the
          house of my father:

          2:32. And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own
          head; because he murdered two men, just and better than
          himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David,
          not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army
          of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army
          of Juda;

          2:33. And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab,
          and upon the head of his seed for ever. But to David and
          his seed, and his house, and to his throne, be peace for
          ever from the Lord.

          2:34. So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and setting
          upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the
          desert.

          2:35. And the king appointed Banaias, the son of Joiada in
          his room over the army; and Sadoc, the priest, he put in
          the place of Abiathar.

          2:36. The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to
          him: Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and
          go not out from thence any where.

          2:37. For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt
          pass over the brook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to
          death: thy blood shall be upon thy own head.

          2:38. And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my
          lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.  And Semei
          dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

          2:39. And it came to pass after three years, that the
          servants of Semei ran away to Achis, the son of Maacha, the
          king of Geth: and it was told Semei that his servants were
          gone to Geth.

          2:40. And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to
          Achis, to Geth, to seek his servants, and he brought them
          out of Geth.

          2:41. And it was told Solomon, that Semei had gone from
          Jerusalem to Geth, and was come back.

          2:42. And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I
          not protest to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On
          what day soever thou shalt go out and walk abroad any
          where, know that thou shalt die?  And thou answeredst me:
          The word that I have heard is good.

          2:43. Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and
          the commandment that I laid upon thee?

          2:44. And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the
          evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to
          David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness
          upon thy own head.

          2:45. And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of
          David shall be established before the Lord for ever.

          2:46. So the king commanded Banaias, the son of Joiada: and
          he went out and struck him; and he died.

          3 Kings Chapter 3

          3:1. And the kingdom was established in the hand of
          Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao, the king of
          Egypt: for he took his daughter, and brought her into the
          city of David: until he had made an end of building his
          own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of
          Jerusalem round about.

          3:2. But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for
          there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until
          that day.

          3:3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of
          David, his father; only he sacrificed in the high places,
          and burnt incense.

          3:4. He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for
          that was the great high place: a thousand victims for
          holocausts, did Solomon offer upon that altar, in Gabaon.

          3:5. And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night,
          saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.

          3:6. And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy
          servant David, my father, even as he walked before thee in
          truth, and justice, and an upright heart with thee: and
          thou hast kept thy great mercy for him, and hast given him
          a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

          3:7. And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king
          instead of David, my father: and I am but a child, and know
          not how to go out and come in;

          3:8. And thy servant is in the midst of the people which
          thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be
          numbered nor counted for multitude.

          3:9. Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart,
          to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For
          who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which
          is so numerous?

          3:10. And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon
          had asked such a thing.

          3:11. And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked
          this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life nor
          riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for
          thyself wisdom to discern jndgment;

          3:12. Behold I have done for thee according to thy words,
          and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so
          much that there hath been no one like thee before
          thee, nor shall arise after thee.

          3:13. Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I
          have given thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one
          hath been like thee among the kings in all days
          heretofore.

          3:14. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my
          precepts and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will
          lengthen thy days.

          3:15. And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a
          dream: and when he was come to Jerusalem, he stood before
          the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered
          holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace offerings, and
          made a great feast for all his servants.

          3:16. Then there came two women that were harlots, to the
          king, and stood before him.

          3:17. And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and
          this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a
          child with her in the chamber.

          3:18. And the third day after I was delivered, she also was
          delivered; and we were together, and no other person with
          us in the house; only we two.

          3:19. And this woman's child died in the night: for in her
          sleep she overlaid him.

          3:20. And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my
          child from my side, while I, thy handmaid, was asleep, and
          laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.

          3:21. And when I arose in the morning, to give my child
          suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more
          diligently, when it was clear day, I found that it was not
          mine which I bore.

          3:22. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou
          sayst, but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the
          contrary, she said; Thou liest: for my child liveth, and
          thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove before
          the king.

          3:23. Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive,
          and thy child is dead. And the other answereth: Nay; but
          thy child is dead, and mine liveth.

          3:24. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when
          they had brought a sword before the king,

          3:25. Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give
          half to the one and half to the other.

          3:26. But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the
          king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech
          thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill
          it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine;
          but divide it.

          3:27. The king answered, and said: Give the living child to
          this woman, and let it not be killed; for she is the mother
          thereof.

          3:28. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had
          judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of
          God was in him to do judgment.

          3 Kings Chapter 4

          4:1. And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:

          4:2. And these were the princes which he had: Azarias, the
          son of Sadoc, the priest:

          4:3. Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes:
          Josaphat, the son of Ahilud, recorder:

          4:4. Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc,
          and Abiathar, priests.

          4:5. Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that were about
          the king: Zabud, the son of Nathan, the priest, the king's
          friend:

          4:6. And Ahisar, governor of the house: and Adoniram, the
          son of Abda, over the tribute.

          4:7. And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who
          provided victuals for the king and for his house hold: for
          every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the
          year.

          4:8. And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim.

          4:9. Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames,
          and in Elon, and in Bethanan.

          4:10. Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land
          of Epher.

          4:11. Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor: he
          had Tapheth, the daughter of Solomon, to wife.

          4:12. Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac, and
          Mageddo, and all Bethsan, which is by Sarthana, beneath
          Jezrael, from Bethsan unto Abelmehula, over against
          Jecmaan.

          4:13. Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the town of Jair,
          the son of Manasses, in Galaad: he was chief in all the
          country of Argob, which is in Basan, threescore great
          cities with walls, and brazen bolts.

          4:14. Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in Manaim.

          4:15. Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Basemath, the
          daughter of Solomon, to wife.

          4:16. Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in Baloth.

          4:17. Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.

          4:18. Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.

          4:19. Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the
          land of Sehon, the king of the Amorrhites, and of Og, the
          king of Basan, over all that were in that land.

          4:20. Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the
          sea in multitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

          4:21. And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the
          river to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of
          Egypt: and they brought him presents, and served him all
          the days of his life.

          4:22. And the provision of Solomon, for each day, was
          thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of
          meal;

          4:23. Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pastures, and a
          hundred rams; besides venison of harts, roes, and
          buffles, and fatted fowls.

          4:24. For he had all the country which was beyond the
          river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those
          countries: and he had peace on every side round about.

          4:25. And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every
          one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to
          Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

          4:26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot
          horses, and twelve thousand for the saddle.

          4:27. And the foresaid governors of the king fed them; and
          they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's
          table, with great care, in their time.

          4:28. They brought barley also, and straw for the horses
          and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as
          it was appointed them.

          4:29. And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding
          exceeding much, and largeness of heart, as the sand that is
          on the sea shore.

          4:30. And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all
          the Orientals, and of the Egyptians;

          4:31. And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the
          Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of
          Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about.

          4:32. Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his
          poems were a thousand and five.

          4:33. And he treated about trees, from the cedar that is in
          Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and
          he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping
          things, and of fishes.

          4:34. And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of
          Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who heard of
          his wisdom.

          3 Kings Chapter 5

          5:1. And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon:
          for he heard that they had anointed him king in the room of
          his father: for Hiram had always been David's friend.

          5:2. Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

          5:3. Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he
          could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God,
          because of the wars that were round about him, until the
          Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

          5:4. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round
          about; and there is no adversary nor evil occurrence.

          5:5. Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of
          the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father,
          saying: Thy son, whom I will set upon the throne, in thy
          place, he shall build a house to my name.

          5:6. Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down
          cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let my servants be with
          thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants
          whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not
          among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to
          the Sidonians.

          5:7. Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he
          rejoiced exceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God
          this day, who hath given to David a very wise son over this
          numerous people.

          5:8. And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all
          thou hast desired of me; and I will do all thy desire
          concerning cedar trees, and fir trees.

          5:9. My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the
          sea: and I will put them together in floats, on the sea,
          and convey them to the place, which thou shalt signify to
          me, and will land them there, and thou shalt receive them:
          and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish food for my
          household.

          5:10. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees,
          according to all his desire.

          5:11. And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of
          wheat, for provision for his house, and twenty measures of
          the purest oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram every year.

          5:12. And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised
          him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and
          they two made a league together.

          5:13. And king Solomon chose workmen out of all Israel, and
          the levy was of thirty thousand men.

          5:14. And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every
          month, by turns, so that two months they were at home: and
          Adoniram was over this levy.

          5:15. And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens,
          and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

          5:16. Besides the overseers who were over every work, in
          number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over
          the people, and them that did the work.

          5:17. And the king commanded that they should bring great
          stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple,
          and should square them:

          5:18. And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram,
          hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to
          build the house.

          3 Kings Chapter 6

          6:1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth
          year after the children of Israel came out of the land of
          Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over
          Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he
          began to build a house to the Lord.

          6:2. And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord,
          was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in
          breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

          6:3. And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty
          cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth
          of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the
          face of the temple.

          6:4. And he made in the temple oblique windows.

          6:5. And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round
          about, in the walls of the house, round about the temple
          and the oracle, and he made chambers in the sides round
          about.

          6:6. The floor that was underneath was five cubits in
          breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth,
          and the third floor was seven cubits in breadth. And he put
          beams in the house round about on the outside, that they
          might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.

          6:7. And the house, when it was in building, was built of
          stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither
          hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house
          when it was in building.

          6:8. The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand
          of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the
          middle room, and from the middle to the third.

          6:9. So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered
          the house with roofs of cedar.

          6:10. And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits
          in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.

          6:11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon,

          6:12. As for this house, which thou art building, if thou
          wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and
          keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my
          word to thee, which I spoke to David thy father.

          6:13. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of
          Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.

          6:14. So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

          6:15. And he built the walls of the house on the inside,
          with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the
          top of the walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with
          boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of
          the house with planks of fir.

          6:16. And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at
          the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top:
          and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of
          holies.

          6:17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the
          oracle, was forty cubits long.

          6:18. And all the house was covered within with cedar,
          having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully
          wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with
          boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at
          all.

          6:19. And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in
          the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the
          Lord.

          6:20. Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and
          twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And
          he covered it, and overlaid it with most pure gold. And
          the altar also he covered with cedar.

          6:21. And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most
          pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

          6:22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not
          covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered
          also with gold.

          6:23. And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive
          tree, of ten cubits in height.

          6:24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other
          wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten
          cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of
          the other wing.

          6:25. The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the
          measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:

          6:26. That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and
          in like manner the other cherub.

          6:27. And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner
          temple: and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and
          the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the
          other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings in
          the midst of the temple touched one another.

          6:28. And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

          6:29. And all the walls of the temple round about he carved
          with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them
          cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it
          were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.

          6:30. And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold
          within and without.

          6:31. And in the entrance of the oracle, he made little
          doors of olive tree, snd posts of five corners,

          6:32. And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them
          figures of cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and
          carvings very much projecting; and he overlaid them with
          gold: and he covered both the cherubims and the palm trees,
          and the other things, with gold.

          6:33. And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of
          olive tree foursquare:

          6:34. And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each
          door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.

          6:35. And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved
          work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with
          golden plates in square work by rule.

          6:36. And he built the inner court with three rows of
          polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

          6:37. In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded,
          in the month Zio:

          6:38. And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul.  (which
          is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the
          works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he
          was seven years in building it.

          3 Kings Chapter 7

          7:1. And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and
          brought it to perfection.

          7:2. He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the
          length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty
          cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries
          between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into
          pillars.

          7:3. And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar,
          and it was held up with five and forty pillars.  And one
          row had fifteen pillars,

          7:4. Set one against another,

          7:5. And looking one upon another, with equal space between
          the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all
          things equal.

          7:6. And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in
          length, and thirty cubits in breadth: and another porch
          before the greater porch, and pillars, and chapiters upon
          the pillars.

          7:7. He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the
          seat of judgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the
          floor to the top.

          7:8. And in the midst of the porch, was a small house,
          where he sat in judgment of the like work. He made also a
          house for the daughter of Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to
          wife) of the same work, as this porch;

          7:9. All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain
          rule and measure, both within and without: from the
          foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the
          great court.

          7:10. And the foundations were of costly stones, great
          stones of ten cubits or eight cubits.

          7:11. And above there were costly stones of equal measure
          hewed, and in like manner planks of cedar.

          7:12. And the great court was made round with three rows of
          hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also
          was observed in the inner court of the house of the Lord,
          and in the porch of the house.

          7:13. And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,

          7:14. The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of Nephthali,
          whose father was a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full
          of wisdom, and understanding, and skill to work all work in
          brass. And when he was come to king Solomon, he wrought all
          his work.

          7:15. And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was
          eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed
          both the pillars.

          7:16. He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set
          upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter
          was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was
          five cubits:

          7:17. And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed
          together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the
          pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter,
          and seven nets on the other chapiter.

          7:18. And he made the pillars, and two rows round about
          each network to cover the chapiters, that were upon the
          top, with pomegranates: and in like manner did he to the
          other chapiter.

          7:19. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the
          pillars, were of lily work, in the porch of four cubits.

          7:20. And again there were other chapiters on the top of
          the pillars above, according to the measure of the pillar
          over against the network: and of pomegranates there were
          two hundred, in rows round about the other chapiter.

          7:21. And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the
          temple: and when he had set up the pillar on the right
          hand, he called the name thereof Jachin: in like manner he
          set up the second pillar, and called the name thereof Booz.

          7:22. And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work:
          so the work of the pillars was finished.

          7:23. He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim
          to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits,
          and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

          7:24. And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it
          for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows
          cast of chamfered sculptures.

          7:25. And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked
          towards the north, and three towards the west, and three
          towards the south, and three towards the east: and the sea
          was above upon them, and their hinder parts were all hid
          within.

          7:26. And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim
          thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a
          crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.

          7:27. And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four
          cubits in length, and four cubits in breadth, and three
          cubits high.

          7:28. And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven:
          and there were gravings between the joinings.

          7:29. And between the little crowns and the ledges, were
          lions, and oxen, and cherubims; and in the joinings
          likewise above: and under the lions and oxen, as it were
          bands of brass hanging down.

          7:30. And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of
          brass: and at the four sides were undersetters, under the
          laver molten, looking one against another.

          7:31. The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of
          the chapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one
          cubit all round, and together it was one cubit and a half:
          and in the corners of the pillars were divers engravings:
          and the spaces between the pillars were square, not round.

          7:32. And the four whee]s, which were at the four corners
          of the base, were joined one to another under the base: the
          height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

          7:33. And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a
          chariot: and their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and
          naves, were all cast.

          7:34. And the four undersetters, that were at every corner
          of each base, were of the base itself, cast and joined
          together.

          7:35. And on the top of the base, there was a round compass
          of half a cubit, so wrought that the laver might be set
          thereon, having its gravings, and divers sculptures of
          itself.

          7:36. He engraved also in those plates, which were of
          brass, and in the corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm
          trees, in likeness of a man standing, so that they seemed
          not to be engraven, but added round about.

          7:37. After this manner, he made ten bases, of one casting
          and measure, and the like graving.

          7:38. He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained
          four bates, and was of four cubits: and upon every base, in
          all ten, he put as many lavers.

          7:39. And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of
          the temple, and five on the left: and the sea he put on the
          right side of the temple, over against the east southward.

          7:40. And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels, and basins,
          and finished all the work of king Solomon in the temple of
          the Lord.

          7:41. The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters,
          upon the chapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to
          cover the two cords, that were upon the top of the pillars.

          7:42. And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks:
          two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the
          cords of the chapiters, which were upon the tops of the
          pillars.

          7:43. And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.

          7:44. And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.

          7:45. And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and the basins.
          All the vessels that Hiram made for king Solomon, for the
          house of the Lord, were of fine brass.

          7:46. In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them
          in a clay ground, between Socoth and Sartham.

          7:47. And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its
          exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

          7:48. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the
          Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which
          the loaves of proposition should be set:

          7:49. And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand,
          and five on the left, over against the oracle, of pure
          gold: and the flowers like lilies, and the lamps over them
          of gold: and golden snuffers,

          7:50. And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and
          censers, of most pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of
          the inner house of the holy of holies, and for the doors of
          the house of the temple, were of gold.

          7:51. And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the
          house of the Lord, and brought in the things that David,
          his father, had dedicated, the silver and the gold, and the
          vessels, and laid them up in the treasures of the house of
          the Lord.

          3 Kings Chapter 8

          8:1. Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of
          the tribes, and the heads of the families of the children
          of Israel, were assembled to king Solomon, in Jerusalem:
          that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
          out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.

          8:2. And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon,
          on the festival day, in the month of Ethanim, the same is
          the seventh month.

          8:3. And a]l the ancients of Israel came, and the priests
          took up the ark,

          8:4. And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of
          the covenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that
          were in the tabernacle: and the priests and the Levites
          carried them.

          8:5. And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel,
          that were assembled unto him, went with him before the ark,
          and they sacrificed sheep and oxen, that could not be
          counted or numbered.

          8:6. And tbe priests brought in the ark of the covenant of
          the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple,
          into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubims.

          8:7. For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the
          place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves
          thereof above.

          8:8. And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them
          were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but
          were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto
          this day.

          8:9. Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two
          tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the
          Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they
          came out of the land of Egypt.

          8:10. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out
          of the sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the
          Lord,

          8:11. And the priests could not stand to minister because
          of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the
          house of the Lord.

          8:12. Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would
          dwell in a cloud.

          8:13. Building, I have built a house for thy dwelling, to
          be thy most firm throne for ever.

          8:14. And the king turned his face, and blessed all the
          assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood.

          8:15. And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of
          Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David, my father, and
          with his own hands hath accomplished it, saying:

          8:16. Since the day that I brought my people Israel, out of
          Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for
          a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I
          chose David to be over my people Israel.

          8:17. And David, my father, would have built a house to the
          name of the Lord, the God of Israel:

          8:18. And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou
          hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou
          hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind.

          8:19. Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a house, but
          thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall
          build a house to my name.

          8:20. The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke. And
          I stand in the room of David, my father, and sit upon the
          throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a
          house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

          8:21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is
          the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers,
          when they came out of the land of Egypt.

          8:22. And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in
          the sight of the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his
          hands towards heaven,

          8:23. And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like
          thee, in heaven above, or on the earth beneath: who keepest
          covenant and mercy with thy servants, that have walked
          before thee with all their heart:

          8:24. Who hast kept with thy servant David, my father, what
          thou hast promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak,
          and with thy hands thou hast performed, as this day
          proveth.

          8:25. Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy
          servant David, my father, what thou hast spoken to him,
          saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my
          sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy
          children take heed to their way, that they walk before me
          as thou hast walked in my sight.

          8:26. And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be
          established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David,
          my father.

          8:27. Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell
          upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens,
          cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have
          built?

          8:28. But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to
          his supplications, O Lord, my God: hear the hymn and the
          prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:

          8:29. That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and
          day: upon the house of which thou hast said:  My name shall
          be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy
          servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

          8:30. That thou mayst hearken to the supplication of thy
          servant, and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall
          pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy
          dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

          8:31. If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have
          an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because
          of the oath, before thy altar, to thy house,

          8:32. Then hear thou in heaven: and do and judge thy
          servants, condemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon
          his own head, and justifying the just, and rewarding him
          according to his justice.

          8:33. If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies
          (because they will sin against thee) and doing penance, and
          confessing to thy name, shall come and pray, and make
          supplications to thee in this house:

          8:34. Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
          people Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou
          gavest to their fathers.

          8:35. If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no
          rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this
          place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted
          from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions:

          8:36. Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins
          of thy servants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them
          the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon
          thy land, which thou hast given to thy people in
          possession.

          8:37. If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or
          corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew; if their
          enemy afflict them, besieging the gates, whatsoever plague,
          whatsoever infirmity,

          8:38. Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any
          man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound
          of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this
          house;

          8:39. Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy
          dwelling, and forgive, and do so as to give to every one
          according to his ways, as thou shalt see his heart (for
          thou only knowest the heart of all the children of men)

          8:40. That they may fear thee all the days that they live
          upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our
          fathers.

          8:41. Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people
          Israel, when he shall come out of a far conntry for thy
          name's sake, (for they shall hear every where of thy great
          name, and thy mighty hand,

          8:42. And thy stretched out arm) so when he shall come, and
          shall pray in this place,

          8:43. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy
          dwelling place, and do all those things, for which that
          stranger shall call upon thee: that all the people of the
          earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy people Israel,
          and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house,
          which I have built.

          8:44. If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by
          what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to
          thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen,
          and towards the house, which I have built to thy name:

          8:45. And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their
          supplications, and do judgment for them.

          8:46. But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man
          who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to
          their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the
          land of their enemies, far or near;

          8:47. Then if they do penance in their heart, in the place
          of captivity, and being converted, make supplication to
          thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have
          done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:

          8:48. And return to thee with all their heart, and all
          their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they
          have been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of
          their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the
          city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have
          built to thy name:

          8:49. Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy
          throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do
          judgment for them:

          8:50. And forgive thy people, that have sinned against
          thee, and all their iniquities, by which they have
          transgressed against thee: and give them mercy before them
          that have made them captives, that they may have compassion
          on them.

          8:51. For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom
          thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst
          of the furnace of iron.

          8:52. That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy
          servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all
          things for which they shall call upon thee.

          8:53. For thou hast separated them to thyself for an
          inheritance, from amongst all the people of the earth, as
          thou hast spoken by Moses, thy servant, when thou
          broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

          8:54. And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of
          praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, that
          he rose from before the altar of the Lord: for he had fixed
          both knees on the ground, and had spread his hands towards
          heaven.

          8:55. And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel
          with a loud voice, saying:

          8:56. Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his
          people Israel, according to all that he promised: there
          hath not failed so much as one word of all the good things
          that he promised by his servant Moses.

          8:57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our
          fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us off:

          8:58. But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may
          walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his
          ceremonies, and all his judgments, which he commanded our
          fathers.

          8:59. And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed
          before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and
          night, that he may do judgment for his servant, and for his
          people Israel, day by day:

          8:60. That all the people of the earth may know, that the
          Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

          8:61. Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God,
          that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his
          commandments, as at this day.

          8:62. And the king, and all Israel with him, offered
          victims before the Lord.

          8:63. And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he
          sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a
          hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the king, and all the
          children of Israel, dedicated the temple of the Lord.

          8:64. In that day the king sanctified the middle of the
          court, that was before the house of the Lord for there he
          offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the
          peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before
          the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and
          sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.

          8:65. And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and
          all Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance
          of Emath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God,
          seven days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.

          8:66. And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and
          they blessed the king, and went to their dwellings,
          rejoicing, and glad in heart, for all the good things that
          the Lord had done for David, his servant, and for Israel,
          his people.

          3 Kings Chapter 9

          9:1. And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the
          building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house,
          and all that he desired and was pleased to do,

          9:2. That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he
          had appeared to him in Gabaon.

          9:3. And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and
          thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have
          sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my
          name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be
          there always.

          9:4. And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked,
          in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all
          that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances,
          and my judgments,

          9:5. I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over
          Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy father, saying:
          There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of
          Israel.

          9:6. But if you and your children, revolting, shall turn
          away from following me, and will not keep my commandments,
          and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go
          and worship strange gods, and adore them:

          9:7. I will take away Israel from the face of the land
          which I have given them; and the temple which I have
          sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and
          Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.

          9:8. And this house shall be made an example of: every one
          that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss,
          and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to
          this house?

          9:9. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord
          their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of
          Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and
          worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them
          all this evil.

          9:10. And when twenty years were ended, after Solomon had
          built the two houses; that is, the house of the Lord, and
          the house of the king,

          9:11. (Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing Solomon with
          cedar trees, and fir trees, and gold, according to all he
          had need of) then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the
          land of Galilee.

          9:12. And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which
          Solomon had given him, and they pleased him not;

          9:13. And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast
          given me, brother? And he called them the land of Chabul,
          unto this day.

          9:14. And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty
          talents of gold.

          9:15. This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon
          offered to build the house of the Lord, and his own house,
          and Mello, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser, and
          Mageddo, and Gazer.

          9:16. Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and took Gazer,
          and burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt
          in the city, and gave it for a dowry to his daughter,
          Solomon's wife.

          9:17. So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron the nether,

          9:18. And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of the
          wilderness.

          9:19. And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were
          not walled, he fortified; the cities also of the chariots,
          and the cities of the horsemen, and whatsoever he had a
          mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Libanus, and in all the
          land of his dominion.

          9:20. All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and
          Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that
          are not of the children of Israel:

          9:21. Their children, that were left in the land; to wit,
          such as the children of Israel had not been able to
          destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.

          9:22. But of the children of Israel, Solomon made not any
          to be bondmen, but they were warriors, and his servants,
          and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the
          chariots and horses.

          9:23. And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers
          set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people
          under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

          9:24. And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of
          David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then
          did he build Mello.

          9:25. Solomon also offered three times every year
          holocausts, and victims of peace offerings, upon the altar
          which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before
          the Lord: and the temple was finished.

          9:26. And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is
          by Ailath, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of
          Edom.

          9:27. And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors
          that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of
          Solomon.

          9:28. And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence
          to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.

          3 Kings Chapter 10

          10:1. And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame of
          Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try him with hard
          questions.


          10:2. And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and
          riches, and camels that carried spices, and an immense
          quantity of gold, and precious stones, she came to king
          Solomon, and spoke to him all that she had in her heart.

          10:3. And Solomon informed her of all the things she
          proposed to him: there was not any word the king was
          ignorant of, and which he could not answer her.

          10:4. And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of
          Solomon, and the house which he had built,

          10:5. And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his
          servants, and the order of his ministers, and their
          apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he
          offered in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any
          spirit in her;

          10:6. And she said to the king: The report is true, which I
          heard in my own country,

          10:7. Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom.  And
          I did not believe them that told me, till I came myself,
          and saw with my own eyes, and have found that the half hath
          not been told me: thy wisdom and thy works exceed the fame
          which I heard.

          10:8. Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants,
          who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

          10:9. Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased,
          and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel, because
          the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed
          thee king, to do judgment and justice.

          10:10. And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents
          of gold, and of spices a very great store, and precious
          stones: there was brought no more such abundance of spices
          as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.

          10:11. (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from
          Ophir, brought from Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and
          precious stones.

          10:12. And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of
          the house of the Lord, and of the king's house: and
          citterns and harps for singers: there were no such thyine
          trees as these brought nor seen unto this day.)

          10:13. And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she
          desired, and asked of him: besides what he offered her of
          himself of his royal bounty. And she returned, and went to
          her own country, with her servants.

          10:14. And the weight of the gold that was brought to
          Solomon every year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents
          of gold:

          10:15. Besides that which the men brought him that were
          over the tributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by
          retail, and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of
          the country.

          10:16. And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest
          gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates
          of one shield.

          10:17. And three hundred targets of fine gold: three
          hundred pounds of gold covered one target: and the king put
          them in the house of the forest of Libanus.

          10:18. King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and
          overlaid it with the finest gold.

          10:19. It had six steps: and the top of the throne was
          round behind: and there were two hands on either side
          holding the seat: and two lions stood, one at each hand,

          10:20. And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on
          the one side and on the other: there was no such work made
          in any kingdom.

          10:21. Moreover, all the vessels out of which king Solomon
          drank, were of gold: and all the furniture of the house of
          the forest of Libanus was of most pure gold: there was no
          silver, nor was any account made of it in the days of
          Solomon:

          10:22. For the king's navy, once in three years, went with
          the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from
          thence gold, and silver, and elephants' teeth, and apes,
          and peacocks.

          10:23. And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth
          in riches and wisdom.

          10:24. And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to
          hear his wisdom, which God had given in his heart.

          10:25. And every one brought him presents, vessels of
          silver and of gold, garments, and armour, and spices, and
          horses, and mules, every year.

          10:26. And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen,
          and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve
          thousand horsemen: and he bestowed them in fenced cities,
          and with the king in Jerusalem.

          10:27. And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem
          as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which
          grow in the plains.

          10:28. And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt,
          and Coa: for the king's merchants bought them out of Coa,
          and brought them at a set price.

          10:29. And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for
          six hundred sicles of silver, and a horse for a hundred and
          fifty. And after this manner did all the kings of the
          Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses.

          3 Kings Chapter 11

          11:1. And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides
          the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon,
          and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

          11:2. Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the
          children of Israel:  You shall not go in unto them, neither
          shall any of them come into yours: for they will most
          certainly turn away your hearts to follow their gods. And
          to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

          11:3. And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three
          hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.

          11:4. And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by
          women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect
          with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his
          father.

          11:5. But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the goddess of the
          Sidonians, and Moloch, the idol of the Ammonites.

          11:6. And Solomon did that which was not pleasing before
          the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David, his
          father.

          11:7. Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of
          Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for
          Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.

          11:8. And he did in this manner for all his wives that were
          strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to
          their gods.

          11:9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind
          was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had
          appeared to him twice;

          11:10. And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he
          should not follow strange gods: but he kept not the things
          which the Lord commanded him.

          11:11. The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou
          hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my
          precepts, which I have commanded thee, I will divide and
          rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant.

          11:12. Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for
          David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand
          of thy son.

          11:13. Neither will I take away the whole kingdom; but I
          will give one tribe to thy son, for the sake of David, my
          servant, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen.

          11:14. And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon,
          Adad, the Edomite, of the king's seed, in Edom.

          11:15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of
          the army, was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had
          killed every male in Edom,

          11:16. (For Joab remained there six months with all Israel,
          till he had slain every male in Edom,)

          11:17. Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites of his
          father's servants, with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was
          then a Iittle boy.

          11:18. And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan,
          and they took men with them from Pharan, and went into
          Egypt, to Pharao, the king of Egypt: who gave him a house,
          and appointed him victuals, and assigned him land.

          11:19. And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch
          that he gave him to wife the own sister of his wife,
          Taphnes, the queen.

          11:20. And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son,
          Genubath; and Taphnes brought him up in the house of
          Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with Pharao among his children.

          11:21. And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with
          his fathers, and that Joab, the general of the army, was
          dead, he said to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my
          own country.

          11:22. And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee
          with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country?  But
          he answered: Nothing; yet I beseech thee to let me go.

          11:23. God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon,
          the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Adarezer,
          the king of Soba.

          11:24. And he gathered men against him, and he became a
          captain of robbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they
          went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and they made him king
          in Damascus.

          11:25. And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of
          Solomon: and this is the evil of Adad, and his hatred
          against Israel; and he reigned in Syria.

          11:26. Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of
          Sareda, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua,
          a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.

          11:27. And this is the cause of his rebellion against him;
          for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the
          city of David, his father.

          11:28. And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and
          Solomon seeing him a young man ingenious and industrious,
          made him chief over the tributes of all the house of
          Joseph.

          11:29. So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went
          out of Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad
          with a new garment, found him in the way: and they two were
          alone in the field.

          11:30. And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was
          clad, divided it into twelve parts:

          11:31. And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces:
          for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
          rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give
          thee ten tribes.

          11:32. But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my
          servant, David, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen
          out of all the tribes of Israel:

          11:33. Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored
          Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos, the god
          of Moab, and Moloch, the god of the children of Ammon: and
          hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to
          keep my precepts, and judgments, as did David, his father.

          11:34. Yet I will not take away all the kingdom out of his
          hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life,
          for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my
          commandments, and my precepts.

          11:35. But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's
          hand, and will give thee ten tribes:

          11:36. And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may
          remain a lamp for my servant, David, before me always in
          Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen, that my name might
          be there.

          11:37. And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all
          that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

          11:38. If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall
          command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do what is
          right before me, keeping my commandments and my precepts,
          as David, my servant, did: I will be with thee, and will
          build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for
          David, and I will deliver Israel to thee:

          11:39. And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but
          yet not for ever.

          11:40. Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jeroboam: but he
          arose, and fled into Egypt, to Sesac, the king of Egypt,
          and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

          11:41. And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that
          he did and his wisdom: behold they are all written in the
          book of the words of the days of Solomon.

          The book of the words, etc... This book is lost, with
          divers others mentioned in holy writ.

          11:42. And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem, over
          all Israel, were forty years.

          11:43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried
          in the city of David, his father; and Roboam, his son,
          reigned in his stead.

          3 Kings Chapter 12

          12:1. And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all
          Israel come together to make him king.

          12:2. But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt,
          a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his
          death, returned out of Egypt.

          12:3. And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and
          all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam,
          saying:

          12:4. Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now,
          therefore, do thou take off a little of the grievous
          service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he
          put upon us, and we will serve thee.

          12:5. And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come
          to me again. And when the people was gone,

          12:6. King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood
          before Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he
          said:  What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this
          people?

          12:7. They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people
          to day, and condescend to them, and grant their petition,
          and wilt speak gentle words to them, they will be thy
          servants always.

          12:8. But he left the counsel of the old men, which they
          had given him, and consulted with the young men that had
          been brought up with him, and stood before him.

          12:9. And he said to them: What counsel do you give me,
          that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make
          the yoke, which thy father put upon us, lighter?

          12:10. And the young men that had been brought up with him,
          said: Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken
          to thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou
          ease us.  Thou shalt say to them: My little finger is
          thicker than the back of my father.

          12:11. And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I
          will add to your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I
          will beat you with scorpions.

          12:12. So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the
          third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me
          again the third day.

          12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, leaving
          the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,

          12:14. And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the
          young men, saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I
          will add to your yoke: My father beat you with whips, but I
          will beat you with scorpions.

          12:15. And the king condescended not to the people: for the
          Lord was turned away from him, to make good his word, which
          he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to
          Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.

          12:16. Then the people, seeing that the king would not
          hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we
          in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home
          to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own
          house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

          12:17. But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in
          the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.

          12:18. Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the
          tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and he died.  Wherefore
          king Roboam made haste to get him up into his chariot, and
          he fled to Jerusalem:

          12:19. And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto
          this day.

          12:20. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that
          Jeroboam was come again, that they gathered an assembly,
          and sent and called him, and made him king over all Israel,
          and there was none that followed the house of David but the
          tribe of Juda only.

          12:21. And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together
          all the house of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred
          fourscore thousand chosen men for war, to fight against the
          house of Israel, and to bring the kingdom again under
          Roboam, the son of Solomon.

          12:22. But the word of the Lord came to Semeias, the man of
          God, saying:

          12:23. Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the king of
          Juda, and to all the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the
          rest of the people, saying:

          12:24. Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up, nor fight
          against your brethren, the children of Israel: let every
          man return to his house, for this thing is from me. They
          hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned from their
          journey, as the Lord had commanded them.

          12:25. And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and
          dwelt there, and going out from thence, he built Phanuel.

          12:26. And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the
          kingdom return to the house of David,

          12:27. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the
          house of the Lord at Jerusalem: and the heart of this
          people will turn to their lord Roboam, the king of Juda,
          and they will kill me, and return to him.

          12:28.  And finding out a device, he made two golden
          calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem:
          Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land
          of Egypt.

          12:29. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:

          12:30. And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the
          people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.

          12:31. And he made temples in the high places, and priests
          of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of
          Levi.

          12:32. And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the
          fifteenth day of the month, after the manner of the feast
          that was celebrated in Juda. And going up to the altar, he
          did in like manner in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves,
          which he had made: and he placed in Bethel priests of the
          high places, which he had made.

          12:33. And he went up to the altar, which he had built in
          Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he
          had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast to
          the children of Israel, and went up on the altar to burn
          incense.

          3 Kings Chapter 13

          13:1. And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by
          the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing
          upon the altar, and burning incense.

          13:2. And he cried out against the altar in the word of the
          Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold
          a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by
          name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the
          high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall
          burn men's bones upon thee.

          13:3. And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall
          be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar
          shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall be
          poured out.

          13:4. And when the king had heard the word of the man of
          God, which he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, he
          stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying: Lay hold
          on him. And his hand which he stretched forth against him,
          withered: and he was not able to draw it back again to him.

          13:5. The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured
          out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of
          God had given before in the word of the Lord.

          13:6. And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face
          of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
          restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of
          the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it
          became as it was before.

          13:7. And the king said to the man of God: Come home with
          me to dine, and I will make thee presents.

          13:8. And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst
          give me half thy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat
          bread, nor drink water in this place:

          13:9. For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord
          commanding me: Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water,
          nor return by the same way that thou camest.

          13:10. So he departed by another way, and returned not by
          the way that he came into Bethel.

          13:11. Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his
          sons came to him, and told him all the works that the man
          of God had done that day in Bethel: and they told their
          father the words which he had spoken to the king.

          13:12. And their father said to them: What way went he?
          His sons shewed him the way by which the man of God went,
          who came out of Juda.

          13:13. And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when
          they had saddled it, he got up,

          13:14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting
          under a turpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the
          man of God who camest from Juda? He answered: I am.

          13:15. And he said to him: Come home with me to eat bread.

          13:16. But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee,
          neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place:

          13:17. Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the
          Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not
          drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.

          13:18. He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee:
          and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying:
          Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat
          bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

          13:19. And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and
          drank water in his house.

          13:20. And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came
          to the prophet that brought him back:

          13:21. And he cried out to the man of God who came out of
          Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not
          been obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept the
          commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

          13:22. And hast returned, and eaten bread, and drunk water
          in the place wherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not
          eat bread, nor drink water, thy dead body shall not be
          brought into the sepulchre of thy fathers.

          13:23. And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass
          for the prophet, whom he had brought back.

          13:24. And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way,
          and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the
          ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body.

          13:25. And behold, men passing by, saw the dead body cast
          in the way, and the lion standing by the body. And they
          came and told it in the city, wherein that old prophet
          dwelt.

          13:26. And when that prophet, who had brought him back out
          of the way, heard of it, he said: It is the man of God,
          that was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord, and the Lord
          hath delivered him to the lion, and he hath torn him, and
          killed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he
          spoke to him.

          13:27. And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when
          they had saddled it,

          13:28. And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the
          way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the
          lion had not eaten of the dead body, nor hurt the ass.

          13:29. And the prophet took up the body of the man of God,
          and laid it upon the ass, and going back brought it into
          the city of the old prophet, to mourn for him.

          13:30. And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and
          they mourned over him, saying:  Alas! alas, my brother.

          13:31. And when they had mourned over him, he said to his
          sons: When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the
          man of God is buried: lay my bones beside his bones.

          13:32. For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he
          hath foretold in the word of the Lord, against the altar
          that is in Bethel: and against all the temples of the high
          places, that are in the cities of Samaria.

          13:33. After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his
          wicked way: but on the contrary, he made of the meanest of
          the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he
          filled his hand, and he was made a priest of the high
          places.

          13:34. And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin,
          and was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the earth.

          3 Kings Chapter 14

          14:1. At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.

          14:2. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy
          dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam,
          and go to Silo, where Ahias, the prophet is, who told me
          that I should reign over this people.

          14:3. Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a
          pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what
          will become of this child.

          14:4. Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up,
          went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias; but he could
          not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.

          14:5. And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of
          Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son,
          that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So
          when she was coming in, and made as if she were another
          woman,

          14:6. Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the
          door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost
          thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee
          with heavy tidings.

          14:7. Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God
          of Israel: For as much as I exalted thee from among the
          people, and made thee prince over my people Israel;

          14:8. And rent the kingdom away from thc house of David,
          and gave it to thee, and thou hast not been as my servant,
          David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all
          his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

          14:9. But hast done evil above all that were before thee,
          and hast made thee strange gods, and molten gods, to
          provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

          14:10. Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house
          of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that
          pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the
          last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the
          house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

          14:11. Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the
          dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the
          birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

          14:12. Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when
          thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall
          die,

          14:13. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury
          him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre,
          because in his regard there is found a good word from the
          Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

          14:14. And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over
          Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this
          day, and in this time:

          14:15. And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is
          shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of
          this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall
          scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to
          themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

          14:16. And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of
          Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

          14:17. And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and
          came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold
          of the house, the child died,

          14:18. And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for
          him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by
          the hand of his servant Ahias, the prophet.

          14:19. And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought,
          and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of
          the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

          14:20. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and
          twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his
          son, reigned in his stead.

          14:21. And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda:
          Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign:
          and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which
          the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his
          name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess.

          14:22. And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and
          provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in
          their sins which they committed.

          14:23. For they also built them altars, and statues, and
          groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

          14:24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they
          did according to all the abominations of the people, whom
          the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of
          Israel.

          14:25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac,
          king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.

          14:26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the
          Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as
          also the shields of gold which Solomon had made:

          14:27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them,
          and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the
          shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate
          of the king's house.

          14:28. And when the king went into the house of the Lord,
          they whose office it was to go before him, carried them:
          and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the
          shieldbearers.

          14:29. Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he
          did, behold they are written in the book of the words of
          the days of the kings of Juda.

          14:30. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam
          always.

          14:31. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
          with them, in the city of David:  and his mother's name was
          Naama, an Ammonitess: and Abiam, his son, reigned in his
          stead.

          3 Kings Chapter 15

          15:1. Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam,
          the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.

          15:2. He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his
          mother was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

          15:3. 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 was the heart of David, his father.

          15:4. But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp
          in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
          Jerusalem:

          15:5. Because David had done that which was right in the
          eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing
          that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the
          matter of Urias, the Hethite.

          15:6. But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the
          time of his life.

          15:7. And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he
          did, are they not written in the book of the words of the
          days of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiam
          and Jeroboam.

          15:8. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him
          in the city of David: and Asa, his son, reigned in his
          stead.

          15:9. So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel,
          reigned Asa, king of Juda,

          15:10. And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem.
          His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

          15:11. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the
          Lord, as did David, his father:

          15:12. And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and
          removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had
          made.

          15:13. Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from
          being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the
          grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed
          her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it
          by the torrent Cedron:

          15:14. But the high places he did not take away.
          Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord
          all his days:

          15:15. And he brought in the things which his father had
          dedicated, and he had vowed, into the house of the Lord,
          silver and gold, and vessels.

          15:16. And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of
          Israel, all their days.

          15:17. And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against Juda, and
          built Rama, that no man might go out or come in of the side
          of Asa, king of Juda.

          15:18. Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained
          in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the
          treasures of the king's house, and delivered it into the
          hands of his servants: and sent them to Benadad, son of
          Tabremon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in
          Damascus, saying:

          15:19. There is a league between me and thee, and between
          my father and thy father: therefore I have sent thee
          presents of silver and gold: and I desire thee to come, and
          break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel, that he may
          depart from me.

          15:20. Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains
          of his army against the cities of Israel, and they smote
          Ahion, and Dan, and Abeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth;
          that is all the land of Nephthali.

          15:21. And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building
          Rama, and returned into Thersa.

          15:22. But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no
          man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama,
          and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building,
          and with them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.

          15:23. But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his
          strength, and all that he did, and the cities that he
          built, are they not written in the book of the words of the
          days of the kings of Juda? But in the time of his old age
          he was diseased in his feet.

          15:24. And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with
          them in the city of David, his father. And Josaphat, his
          son, reigned in his place.

          15:25. But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel
          the second year of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over
          Israel two years.

          15:26. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked
          in the ways of his father, and in his sins, wherewith he
          made Israel to sin.

          15:27. And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house of
          Issachar, conspired against him, and slew him in Gebbethon,
          which is a city of the Philistines: for Nadab and all
          Israel besieged Gebbethon.

          15:28. So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa, king of
          Juda, and reigned in his place.

          15:29. And when he was king, he cut off all the house of
          Jeroboam: he left not so much as one soul of his seed, till
          he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the
          Lord, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the
          Silonite:

          15:30. Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned,
          and wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the
          offence wherewith he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.

          15:31. But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he
          did, are they not written in the book of the words of the
          days of the kings of Israel?

          15:32. And there was war between Asa and Baasa, the king of
          Israel, all their days.

          15:33. In the third year of Asa, king of Juda, Baasa, the
          son of Ahias, reigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and
          twenty years.

          15:34. And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the
          ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel
          to sin.

          3 Kings Chapter 16

          16:1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of
          Hanani, against Baasa, saying:

          16:2. For as much as I have 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:

          16:3. Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and
          the posterity of his house, and I will make thy house as
          the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.

          16:4. Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall
          eat: and him that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of
          the air shall devour.

          16:5.  But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he
          did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of
          the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

          16:6. So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in
          Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.

          16:7. And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of
          Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and
          against his house, and against all the evil that he had
          done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works
          of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this
          cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani,
          the prophet.

          16:8. In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda,
          Ela, the son of Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two
          years.

          16:9. And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the
          horsemen, rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in
          Thersa, and drunk in the house of Arsa, the governor of
          Thersa.

          16:10. And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in
          the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he
          reigned in his stead.

          16:11. And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he
          slew all the house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to
          piss against a wall and all his kinsfolks and friends.

          16:12. And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa,
          according to the word of the Lord, that he had spoken to
          Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the prophet,

          16:13. For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his
          son, who sinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the
          Lord, the God of Israel, with their vanities.

          16:14. But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did,
          are they not written in the book of the words of the days
          of the kings of Israel?

          16:15. In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of
          Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was
          besieging Gebbethon, a city of the Philistines.

          16:16. And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and
          slain the king, all Israel made Amri their king, who was
          general over Israel in the camp that day.

          16:17. And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from
          Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.

          16:18. And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be
          taken, went into the palace, and burnt himself with the
          king's house: and he died

          16:19. In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before
          the Lord, and walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his
          sin, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

          16:20. But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his
          conspiracy and tyranny, are they not written in the book of
          the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

          16:21. Then were the people of Israel divided into two
          parts: one half of the people followed Thebni, the son of
          Gineth, to make him king: and one half followed Amri.

          16:22. But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over
          the people that followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and
          Thebni died, and Amri reigned.

          16:23. In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda,
          Amri reigned over Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned
          six years.

          16:24. And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two
          talents of silver: and he built upon it, and he called the
          city which he built Samaria, after the name of Semer, the
          owner of the hill.

          16:25. And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and
          acted wickedly above all that were before him.

          16:26. And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of
          Nabat, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to
          provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger with their
          vanities.

          16:27. Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he
          fought, are they not written in the book of the words of
          the days of the kings of Israel?

          16:28. And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in
          Samaria, and Achab, his son, reigned in his stead.

          16:29. Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in
          the eight and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And
          Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in Samaria two
          and twenty years.

          16:30. And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of
          the Lord above all that were before him.

          16:31. Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of
          Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife
          Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And
          he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

          16:32. And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of
          Baal, which he had built in Samaria;

          16:33. And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to
          provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, than all the kings of
          Israel that were before him.

          16:34. In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in
          Abiram, his firstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his
          youngest son, Segub, he set up the gates thereof: according
          to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of
          Josue, the son of Nun.

          3 Kings Chapter 17

          17:1. And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad,
          said to Achab:  As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in
          whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these
          years, but according to the words of my mouth.

          17:2. And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

          17:3. Get thee hence, and go towards the east, and hide
          thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the
          Jordan;

          17:4. And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have
          commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

          17:5. So he went, and did according to the word of the
          Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is
          over against the Jordan.

          17:6. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the
          morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank
          of the torrent.

          17:7. But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it
          had not rained upon the earth.

          17:8. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

          17:9. Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and
          dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to
          feed thee.

          17:10. He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come
          to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering
          sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a
          little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

          17:11. And when she was going to fetch it, he called after
          her, saying:  Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of
          bread in thy hand.

          17:12. And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have
          no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little
          oil in a cruise: 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.

          17:13. And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as
          thou hast said but first make for me of the same meal a
          little hearth cake, and bring it to me, and after make for
          thyself and thy son.

          17:14. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: The pot
          of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be
          diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain
          upon the face of the earth.

          17:15. She went, and did according to the word of Elias:
          and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

          17:16. The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil
          was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which
          he spoke in the hand of Elias.

          17:17. And it came to pass after this, that the son of the
          woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the
          sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath
          left in him.

          17:18. And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee,
          thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities
          should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?

          17:11. And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took
          him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper
          chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

          17:20. And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord, my God,
          hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a
          sort maintained, so as to kill her son?

          17:21. And he stretched, and measured himself upon the
          child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord,
          my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return
          into his body.

          17:22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul
          of the child returned into him, and he revived.

          17:23. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from
          the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to
          his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.

          17:24. And the woman said to Elias: Now by this I know that
          thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy
          mouth is true.

          3 Kings Chapter 18

          18:1. After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elias,
          in the third year, saying: Go, and shew thyself to Achab,
          that I may give rain upon the face of the earth.

          18:2. And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there
          was a grievous famine in Samaria.

          18:3. And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house:
          now Abdias feared the Lord very much.

          18:4. For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he
          took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in
          caves, and fed them with bread and water.

          18:5. And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all
          fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can
          find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts
          may not utterly perish.

          18:6. And they divided the countries between them, that
          they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and
          Abdias another way by himself.

          18:7. And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him:  and he
          knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord
          Elias?

          18:8. And he answered: I am.  Go, and tell thy master:
          Elias is here.

          18:9. And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst
          deliver me, thy servant, into the hand of Achab, that he
          should kill me?

          18:10. As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or
          kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and
          when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every
          kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found.

          18:11. And now thou sayest to me:  Go and tell thy master:
          Elias is here.

          18:12. And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord
          will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall
          go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill
          me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.

          18:13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when
          Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a
          hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty
          in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

          18:14. And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias
          is here: that he may kill me.

          18:15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before
          whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.

          18:16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him:
          and Achab came to meet Elias.

          18:17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that
          troublest Israel?

          18:18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou
          and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments
          of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.

          18:19. Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all
          Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four
          hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four
          hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.

          18:20. Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and
          gathered together the prophets unto mount Carmel.

          18:21. And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long
          do you halt between two sides?  If the Lord be God, follow
          him: but if Baal, then follow him.  And the people did not
          answer him a word.

          18:22. And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a
          prophet of the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four
          hundred and fifty men.

          18:23. Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose
          one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay
          it upon wood, but put no fire under: and I will dress the
          other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under
          it.

          18:24. Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call
          on the name of my Lord: and the God that shall answer by
          fire, let him be God.  And all the people answering, said:
          A very good proposal.

          18:25. Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you
          one bullock and dress it first, because you are many: and
          call on the names of your gods; but put no fire under.

          18:26. And they took the bullock, which he gave them, and
          dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from
          morning even until noon, saying: O Baal, hear us.  But
          there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped
          over the altar that they had made.

          18:27. And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them,
          saying: Cry with a louder voice:  for he is a god; and
          perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey; or
          perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.

          18:28. So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves
          after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were
          all covered with blood.

          18:29. And after midday was past, and while they were
          prophesying, the time was come of offering sacrifice, and
          there was no voice heard, nor did any one answer, nor
          regard them as they prayed.

          18:30. Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto me.  And
          the people coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of
          the Lord, that was broken down:

          18:31. And he took twelve stones, according to the number
          of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the
          Lord came, saying:  Israel shall be thy name.

          18:32. And he built with the stones an altar to the name of
          the Lord: and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of
          two furrows, round about the altar.

          18:33. And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock
          in pieces, and laid it upon the wood.

          18:34. And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour
          it upon the burnt offering, and upon the wood.  And again
          he said: Do the same the second time. And when they had
          done it the second time, he said: Do the same also the
          third time.  And they did so the third time.

          18:35. And the water run round about the altar, and the
          trench was filled with water.

          18:36. And when it was now time to offer the holocaust,
          Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O Lord God of
          Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art
          the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to
          thy commandment I have done all these things.

          18:37. Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn
          that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their
          heart again.

          18:38. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the
          holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
          licked up the water that was in the trench.

          18:39. And when all the people saw this, they fell on their
          faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is
          God.

          18:40. And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal,
          and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken
          them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and
          killed them there.

          18:41. And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: for
          there is a sound of abundance of rain.

          18:42. Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to
          the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth,
          put his face between his knees,

          18:43. And he said to his servant: Go up, and look towards
          the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is
          nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times.

          18:44. And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose
          out of the sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and
          say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the
          rain prevent thee.

          18:45. And while he turned himself this way and that way,
          behold the heavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and
          there fell a great rain. And Achab getting up, went away to
          Jezrahel:

          18:46. And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he
          girded up his loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to
          Jezrahel.

          3 Kings Chapter 19

          19:1. And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and
          how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

          19:2. And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such
          and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more,
          if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life
          of one of them.

          19:3. Then Elias was afraid, and rising up, he went
          whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of
          Juda, and left his servant there,

          19:4. And he went forward, one day's journey into the
          desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper
          tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and
          said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I
          am no better than my fathers.

          19:5. And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of
          the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched
          him, and said to him: Arise and eat.

          19:6. He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth
          cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he
          fell asleep again.

          19:7. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time,
          and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast
          yet a great way to go.

          19:8. And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the
          strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the
          mount of God, Horeb.

          19:9. And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave. and
          behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to
          him: What dost thou here, Elias?

          19:10. And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for
          the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have
          forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars,
          they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am
          left, and they seek my life to take it away.

          19:11. And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the
          mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a
          great and strong wind before the Lord, overthrowing the
          mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: but the Lord
          is not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: but
          the Lord is not in the earthquake.

          19:12. And after the earthquake, a fire: but the Lord is
          not in the fire. And after the fire, a whistling of a
          gentle air.

          19:13. And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with
          his mantle, and coming forth, stood in the entering in of
          the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost
          thou here, Elias? And he answered:

          19:14. With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of
          hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
          covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain
          thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they
          seek my life to take it away.

          19:15. And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way,
          through the desert, to Damascus: and when thou art come
          thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;

          19:16. And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be
          king over Israel: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of
          Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint to be prophet in thy room.

          19:17. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall
          escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and
          whosoever shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be slain by
          Eliseus.

          19:18. And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel,
          whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every
          mouth that hath not worshipped him, kissing the hands.

          19:19. And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus, the
          son of Saphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he
          was one of them that were ploughing with, twelve yoke of
          oxen: and when Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle
          upon him.

          19:20. And he forthwith left the oxen, and run after Elias,
          and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my
          mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him:
          Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have
          done to thee.

          19:21. And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen,
          and killed them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of
          the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and rising
          up, he went away, and followed Elias, and ministered to
          him.

          3 Kings Chapter 20

          20:1. And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his
          host, and there were two and thirty kings with him, and
          horses, and chariots: and going up, he fought against
          Samaria, and besieged it.

          20:2. And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into
          the city,

          20:3. He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold
          is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.

          20:4. And the king of Israel answered: According to thy
          word, my lord, O king, I am thine, and all that I have.

          20:5. And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith
          Benadad, who sent us unto thee: Thy silver and thy gold,
          and thy wives and thy children, thou shalt deliver up to
          me.

          20:6. To morrow, therefore, at this same hour, I will send
          my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and
          the houses of thy servants: and all that pleaseth them,
          they shall put in their hands, and take away.

          20:7. And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the
          land, and said: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us.
          For he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and
          for my silver and gold: and I said not nay.

          20:8. And all the ancients, and all the people said to him:
          Hearken not to him, nor consent to him.

          20:9. Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell
          my lord, the king: All that thou didst send for to me, thy
          servant at first, I will do: but this thing I cannot do.

          20:10. And the messengers returning brought him word.  And
          he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods
          do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria
          shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow
          me.

          20:11. And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him:
          Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.

          Let not the girded, etc... Let him not boast before the
          victory: it will then be time to glory when he putteth off
          his armour, having overcome his adversary.

          20:12. And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word,
          that he and the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he
          said to his servants: Beset the city. And they beset it.

          20:13. And behold a prophet coming to Achab, king of
          Israel, said to him:  Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen
          all this exceeding great multitude? behold I will deliver
          them into thy hand this day: that thou mayst know that I am
          the Lord.

          20:14. And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus
          saith the Lord: By the servants of the princes of the
          provinces. And he said: Who shall begin to fight? And he
          said: Thou.

          20:15. So he mustered the servants of the princes of the
          provinces, and he found the number of two hundred and
          thirty-two:  and he mustered after them the people, all the
          children of Israel, seven thousand:

          20:16. And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking
          himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings
          with him, who were come to help him.

          20:17. And the servants of the princes of the provinces
          went out first. And Benadad sent.  And they told him,
          saying: There are men come out of Samaria.

          20:18. And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them
          alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.

          20:19. So the servants of the princes of the provinces went
          out, and the rest of the army followed:

          20:20. And every one slew the man that came against him:
          and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued after them.  And
          Benadad, king of Syria, fled away on horseback with his
          horsemen.

          20:21. But the king of Israel going out overthrew the
          horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great
          slaughter.

          20:22. (And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to
          him: Go, and strengthen thyself, and know, and see what
          thou dost: for the next year the king of Syria will come up
          against thee.)

          20:23. But the servants of the king of Syria said to him:
          Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have
          overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against
          them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

          20:24. Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all the kings
          from thy army, and put captains in their stead:

          20:25. And make up the number of soldiers that have been
          slain of thine, and horses, according to the former horses,
          and chariots, according to the chariots which thou hadst
          before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and
          thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed
          their counsel, and did so.

          20:26. Wherefore, at the return of the year, Benadad
          mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphec, to fight
          against Israel.

          20:27. And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking
          victuals, went out on the other side, and encamped over
          against them, like two little flocks of goats: but the
          Syrians filled the land.

          20:28. (And a man of God coming, said to the king of
          Israel: Thus saith the Lord:  Because the Syrians have
          said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the
          valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy
          hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

          20:29. And both sides set their armies in array one against
          the other seven days, and on the seventh day the battle was
          fought: and the children of Israel slew, of the Syrians, a
          hundred thousand footmen in one day.

          20:30. And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city:
          and the wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that
          were left.  And Benadad fleeing, went into the city, into a
          chamber that was within a chamber.

          20:31. And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard
          that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let
          us put sackcloths on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and
          go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our
          lives.

          20:32. So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put
          ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and
          said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee
          let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is
          my brother.

          20:33. The men took this for good luck: and in haste caught
          the word out of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad.
          And he said to them: Go, and bring him to me. Then Benadad
          came out to him, and he lifted him up into his chariot.

          20:34. And he said to him: The cities which my father took
          from thy father, I will restore: and do thou make thee
          streets in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria and
          having made a league, I will depart from thee. So he made a
          league with him, and let him go.

          20:35. Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said
          to his companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But
          he would not strike.

          20:36. Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not
          hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart
          from me, and a lion shall slay thee.  And when he was gone
          a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

          20:37. Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike
          me. And he struck him and wounded him.

          20:38. So the prophet went, and met the king in the way,
          and disguised himself by sprinkling dust on his face and
          his eyes.

          20:39. And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and
          said: Thy servant went out to fight hand to hand: and when
          a certain man was run away, one brought him to me, and
          said: Keep this man: and if he shall slip away, thy life
          shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of
          silver.

          20:40. And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way and
          that, on a sudden he was not to be seen. And the king of
          Israel said to him: This is thy judgment, which thyself
          hast decreed.

          20:41. But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face,
          and the king of Israel knew him, that he was one of the
          prophets.

          20:42. And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because
          thou hast let go out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy
          life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people.

          20:43. And the king of Israel returned to his house,
          slighting to hear, and raging came into Samaria.

          3 Kings Chapter 21

          21:1. And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who
          was in Jezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the
          palace of Achab, king of Samaria.

          21:2. And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy
          vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it
          is nigh, and adjoining to my house; and I will give thee
          for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more
          convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in
          money.

          21:3. Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and
          not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

          21:4. And Achab came into his house angry and fretting,
          because of the word that Naboth, the Jezrahelite, had
          spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance
          of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned
          away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.

          21:5. And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to
          him: What is the matter that thy soul is so grieved?  and
          why eatest thou no bread?

          21:6. And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth, the
          Jezrahelite, and said to him:  Give me thy vineyard, and
          take money for it: or if it please thee, I will give thee a
          better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not give thee
          my vineyard.

          21:7. Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of
          great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of
          Israel.  Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer; I will
          give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.

          21:8. So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them
          with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief
          men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.

          21:9. And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a
          fast, and make Naboth sit among the chief of the people;

          21:10. And suborn two men, sons of Belial, against him.
          and let them bear false witness; that he hath blasphemed
          God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him,
          and so let him die.

          21:11. And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles,
          that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had
          commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which
          she had sent to them;

          21:12. They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among
          the chief of the people.

          21:13. And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made
          them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore
          witness against him before the people: saying: Naboth hath
          blasphemed God and the king.  Wherefore they brought him
          forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

          21:14. And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned,
          and is dead.

          21:15. And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard that Naboth
          was stoned, and dead, that she said to Achab: Arise, and
          take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite,
          who would not agree with thee, and give it thee for money:
          for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

          21:16. And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was
          dead, he arose, and went down into the vineyard of Naboth,
          the Jezrahelite, to take possession of it.

          21:17. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the Thesbite,
          saying:

          21:18. Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king of Israel,
          who is in Samaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard
          of Naboth, to take possession of it:

          21:19. And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the
          Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken
          possession.  And after these words thou shalt add: Thus
          saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked
          the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

          21:20. And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy
          enemy?  He said: I have found thee because thou art sold,
          to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

          21:21. Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut
          down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that
          pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the
          last in Israel.

          21:22. And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam
          the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of
          Ahias: for what thou hast done to provoke me to anger, and
          for making Israel to sin.

          21:23.  And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, saying: The
          dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.

          21:24. If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him:
          but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat
          him.

          21:25. Now, there was not such another as Achab, who was
          sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife,
          Jezabel, set him on,

          21:26. And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed
          the idols which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord
          destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

          21:27. And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his
          garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and
          slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

          21:28. And the word of the Lord came to Elias, the
          Thesbite, saying:

          21:29. Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me?
          therefore, because he hath humbled himself, for my sake, I
          will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days
          will I bring the evil upon his house.

          3 Kings Chapter 22

          22:1. And there passed three years without war between
          Syria and Israel.

          22:2. And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came
          down to the king of Israel.

          22:3. (And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye
          not that Ramoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it
          out of the hand of the king of Syria?)

          22:4. And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to
          battle to Ramoth Galaad?

          22:5. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so
          art thou: my people and thy people are one: and my horsemen
          are thy horsemen. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel:
          Inquire, I beseech thee, this day the word of the Lord.

          22:6. Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about
          four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to
          Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear?  They answered:
          Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the
          king.

          22:7. And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of
          the Lord, that we may inquire by him?

          22:8. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one
          man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the
          son of Jemla: but I hate him, for he doth not prophecy good
          to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king.

          22:9. Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to
          him: Make haste, and bring hither Micheas, the son of
          Jemla.

          22:10. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda,
          sat each on his throne, clothed with royal robes, in a
          court, by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the
          prophets prophesied before them.

          22:11. And Sedecias, thc son of Chanaana, made himself
          horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these
          shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.

          22:12. And all the prophets prophesied in like manner,
          saying: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord
          will deliver it into the king's hands.

          22:13. And the messenger that went to call Micheas, spoke
          to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one
          mouth declare good things to the king: let thy word,
          therefore, be like to theirs, and speak that which is good.

          22:14. But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth,
          whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

          22:15. So he came to the king, and the king said to him:
          Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall
          we forbear?  He answered him: Go up, and prosper, and the
          Lord shall deliver it into the king's hands.

          22:16. But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and
          again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true, in
          the name of the Lord.

          22:17. And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the
          hills, like sheep that have no shepherd; and the Lord said:
          These have no master: let every man of them return to his
          house in peace.

          22:18. (Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not
          tell thee, that he prophesieth no good to me, but always
          evil?)

          22:19. And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the
          word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and
          all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand
          and on the left:

          22:20. And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of
          Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And
          one spoke words of this manner, and another otherwise.

          22:21. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the
          Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to
          him: By what means?

          22:22. And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit,
          in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou
          shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.

          22:23. Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given a lying
          spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and
          the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.

          22:24. And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck
          Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the
          Lord left me, and spoken to thee?

          22:25. And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when
          thou shalt go into a chamber within a chamber to hide
          thyself.

          22:26. And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas and let
          him abide with Amon, the governor of the city, and with
          Joas, the son of Amalech;

          22:27. And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in
          prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of
          distress till I return in peace.

          22:28. And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord
          hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

          22:29. So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda,
          went up to Ramoth-Galaad.

          22:30. And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take thy
          armour, and go into the battle, and put on thy own
          garments.  But the king of Israel changed his dress, and
          went into the battle.

          22:31. And the king of Syria had commanded the two and
          thirty captains of the chariots, saying: You shall not
          fight against any, small or great, but against the king of
          Israel only.

          22:32. So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat,
          they suspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a
          violent assault, they fought against him: and Josaphat
          cried out.

          22:33. And the captains of the chariots perceived that he
          was not the king of Israel, and they turned away from him.

          22:34. And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a
          venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel, between
          the lungs and the stomach. But he said to the driver of his
          chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the army, for I
          am grievously wounded.

          22:35. And the battle was fought that day, and the king of
          Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he
          died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound
          into the midst of the chariot.

          22:36. And the herald proclaimed through all the army,
          before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own
          city, and to his own country.

          22:37. And the king died, and was carried into Samaria: and
          they buried the king in Samaria.

          22:38. And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria
          and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed the reins
          according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.

          22:39. But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he
          did, and the house of ivory that he made, and all the
          cities that he built, are they not written in the book of
          the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

          22:40. So Achab slept with his fathers; and Ochozias, his
          son, reigned in his stead.

          22:41. But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign over
          Juda, in the fourth year of Acbab, king of Israel.

          22:42. He was five and thirty years old when he began to
          reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem:
          the name of his mother was Azuba, the daughter of Salai.

          22:43. And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and
          he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in
          the sight of the Lord.

          22:44. Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for
          as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in
          the high places.

          22:45. And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.

          22:46. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works
          which he did, and his battles, are they not written in the
          book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

          22:47. And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained
          in the days of Asa, his father, he took out of the land.

          22:48. And there was then no king appointed in Edom.

          22:49. But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail
          into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships
          were broken in Asiongaber.

          22:50. Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to Josaphat:
          Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships.  And
          Josaphat would not.

          22:51. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried
          with them in the city of David, his father: and Joram, his
          son, reigned in his stead.

          22:52. And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to reign over
          Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Josaphat,
          king of Juda, and he reigned over Israel two years.

          22:53. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked
          in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of
          Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

          22:54. He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and
          provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, according to all that
          his father had done.