turned to depart, according to the thee, and men's bones shall be burnt word of the LORD. upon thee. 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem 3 And he gave a sign the same day, in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out. 4 And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man 27 If this people go up to do sacri- of God, which had cried against the fice in the house of the LORD at Jeru- altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his salem, then shall the heart of this peo-hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold ple turn again unto their lord, even un-on him. And his hand, which he put to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they forth against him, dried up, so that he shall kill me, and go again to Reho- could not pull it in again to him. boam king of Judah. 5 The altar also was rent, and the 28 Whereupon the king took coun- ashes poured out from the altar, ac sel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. cording to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. 6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. 31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest 7 And the king said unto the man of the people, which were not of the of God, Come home with me, and resons of Levi. fresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth 8 And the man of God said unto the day of the month, like unto the feast king, If thou wilt give me half thy that is in Judah, and he offered upon house, I will not go in with thee, neithe altar. So did he in Beth-el, sa- ther will I eat bread nor drink water crificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made. in this place: 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el. 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fif- 10 So he went another way, and teenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt in cense. A CHAP. XII. The disobedient prophet. Jeroboam's sin. ND behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn in cense. 11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. 12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? for his sons had seen what way the man of God went which came from Judah. 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Be-ass: and he rode thereon, 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the hold, a child shall be born unto the 14 And went after the man of God, house of David, Josiah by name; and and found him sitting under an oak upon thee shall he offer the priests of and he said unto him, Art thou the the high places that burn incense upon man of God that camest from Judah? ling to the word of the LORD, which And he said, I am. 15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. 16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: 17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. he spake unto him. 27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. 28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. 29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: 18 He said unto him, I am a prophet and the old prophet came to the city, also as thou art; and an angel spake to mourn and to bury him. unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his bouse and drank water. 30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! 31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside 20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the his bones: LORD came unto the prophet that 32 For the saying which he cried brought him back: by the word of the LORD against the 21 And he cried unto the man of altar in Beth-el, and against all the God that came from Judah, saying, houses of the high places which are Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as in the cities of Samaria, shall surely thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the come to pass. LORD, and hast not kept the com- 33 After this thing Jeroboam remandment which the LORD thy God turned not from his evil way, but made commanded thee, 22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face 23 And it came to pass, after he of the earth. had eaten bread, and after he had CHAP. XIV. drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, Abijah's sickness. God's judgment denounced. to wit, for the prophet whom he had T that time Abijah the son of JeA brought back. roboam fell sick. 24 And when he was gone, a lion 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. 25 And behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard 4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and thereof, he said, It is the man of God, arose, and went to Shiloh, and came who was disobedient unto the word of to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah the LORD: therefore the LORD hath could not see; for his eyes were set by delivered him unto the lion, which reason of his age. hath torn him, and slain him, accord- 5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her cause of the sins of Jeroboam, who did son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt sin, and who made Israel to sin. thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman. 17 And Jeroboam's wife агозе, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; 6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in 18 And they buried him; and all Isat the door, that he said, Come in, rael mourned for him, according to thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest the word of the LORD, which he e spake thou thyself to be another? for 1 am by the hand of his servant Ahijah the sent to thee with heavy tidings. prophet. 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith 19 And the rest of the acts of Jerothe LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch boam, how he warred, and how he as I exalted thee from among the peo- reigned, behold, they are written in ple, and made thee prince over my the book of the Chronicles of the kings people Israel, of Israel. 8 And rent the kingdom away from 20 And the days which Jeroboam the house of David, and gave it thee: reigned were two and twenty years: and yet thou hast not been as my ser- and he slept with his fathers, and Navant David, who kept my command-dab his son reigned in his stead. ments, and who followed me with all 21 And Rehoboam the son of Sohis heart, to do that only which was lomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam right in mine eyes; was forty and one years old when he 9 But hast done evil above all that began to reign, and he reigned sevenwere before thee: for thou hast gone teen years in Jerusalem, the city and made thee other gods, and molten which the LORD did choose out of all images, to provoke me to anger, and the tribes of Israel, to put his name hast cast me behind thy back: there. And his mother's name was 10 Therefore behold, I will bring Naamah an Ammonitess. evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of will cut off from Jeroboam him that the LORD, and they provoked him to pisseth against the wall, and him that jealousy with their sins which they had is shut up and left in Israel, and will committed, above all that their fatake away the remnant of the house thers had done. of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away 23 For they also built them high dung, till it be all gone. places, and images and groves, on 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in every high hill, and under every green the city shall the dogs eat; and him tree. that dieth in the field shall the fowls 24 And there were also sodomites of the air eat: for the LORD hath in the land: and they did according to spoken it. all the abominations of the nations - 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to which the LORD cast out before the thine own house: and when thy feet children of Israel. enter into the city, the child shall die. 25 And it came to pass in the fisla 13 And all Israel shall mourn for year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak him, and bury him: for he only of Je- king of Egypt came up against Jeru roboam shall come to the grave, be- salem: cause in him there is found some good 26 And he took away the treasures thing toward the LORD God of Israel of the house of the Lord, and the in the house of Jeroboam. treasures of the king's house; he even 14 Moreover, the LORD shall raise took away all: and he took away all him up a king over Israel, who shall the shields of gold which Solomon had cut off the house of Jeroboam that made. day: but what? even now. 27 And king Rehoboam made in 15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, their stead brazen shields, and comas a reed is shaken in the water, and mitted them unto the hands of the he shall root up Israel out of this good chief of the guard, which kept the land, which he gave to their fathers, door of the king's house. and shall scatter them beyond the 28 And it was so, when the king river, because they have made their went into the house of the LORD, that groves, provoking the LORD to anger. the guard bare them, and brought 16 And he shall give Israel up be-them back into the guard chamber. 29 Now the rest of the acts of because she had made an idol in a Rehoboam, and all that he did, are grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, they not written in the book of the and burnt it by the brook Kidron. Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 14 But the high places were not re30 And there was war between Re-moved: nevertheless Asa's heart was hoboam and Jeroboam all their days. perfect with the LORD all his days. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his 15 And he brought in the things fathers, and was buried with his fa- which his father had dedicated, and thers in the city of David. And his the things which himself had dedimother's name was Naamah an Am-cated, into the house of the LORD, monitess. And Abijam his son reigned silver, and gold, and vessels. in his stead. CHAP. XV. 16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. Now in the eighteenth year of 17 And Baasha king of Israel went king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, up against Judah, and built Ramah, reigned Abijam over Judah. that he might not suffer any to go out 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusa- or come in to Asa king of Judah. lem. And his mother's name was 18 Then Asa took all the silver and Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. the gold that were left in the treasures 3 And he walked in all the sins of of the house of the LORD, and the his father, which he had done before treasures of the king's house, and dehim: and his heart was not perfect livered them into the hand of his serwith the LORD his God, as the heart vants: and king Asa sent them to of David his father. Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the 4 Nevertheless, for David's sake son of Hezion, king of Syria, that did the LORD his God give him a lamp dwelt at Damascus, saying, in Jerusalem, to set up his son after 19 There is a league between me him, and to establish Jerusalem : and thee, and between my father and 5 Because David did that which was thy father: behold, I have sent unto right in the eyes of the LORD, and thee a present of silver and gold; come turned not aside from any thing that and break thy league with Baasha he commanded him all the days of his king of Israel, that he may depart life, save only in the matter of Uriah from me. the Hittite. 20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto 6 And there was war between Re-king Asa, and sent the captains of the hoboam and Jeroboam all the days of hosts which he had against the cities his life. of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, 7 Now the rest of the acts of Abi- and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinjam, and all that he did, are they not neroth, with all the land of Naphtali. written in the book of the Chronicles 21 And it came to pass, when of the kings of Judah? And there was Baasha heard thereof, that he left off war between Abijam and Jeroboam. building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tir8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; zah. and they buried him in the city of 22 Then king Asa made a proclaDavid: and Asa his son reigned in his mation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away 9 And in the twentieth year of the stones of Ramah, and the timber Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa thereof, wherewith Baasha had buildover Judah. ed; and king Asa built with them 10 And forty and one years reigned Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. he in Jerusalem. And his mother's 23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, name was Maachah, the daughter of and all his might, and all that he did, Abishalom. and the cities which he built, are they stead. 11 And Asa did that which was right not written in the book of the Chroniin the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, cles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. 24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehosha phat his son reigned in his stead. 25 And Nadab the son of Jero-dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls boam began to reign over Israel in the of the air eat. second year of Asa king of Judah, and 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baareigned over Israel two years. sha, and what he did, and his might, 26 And he did evil in the sight of are they not written in the book of the the LORD, and walked in the way of Chronicles of the kings of Israel? his father, and in his sin wherewith 6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, he made Israel to sin. and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah 27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, his son reigned in his stead. of the house of Issachar, conspired 7 And also by the hand of the proagainst him; and Baasha smote him phet Jehu the son of Hanani came the at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him. 29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of 8 In the twenty and sixth year of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam Asa king of Judah began Elah the son any that breathed, until he had de- of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirstroyed him, according unto the say-zah, two years. ing of the LORD, which he spake by 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: half his chariots, conspired against 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah. which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of 10 And Zimri went in and smote Israel to anger. 31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years. 34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. 2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. 11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, norof his friends. 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, 13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? my people Israel; and thou hast walk- 15 In the twenty and seventh year ed in the way of Jeroboam, and hast of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign made my people Israel to sin, to pro-seven days in Tirzah. And the peovoke me to anger with their sins; ple were encamped against Gibbethon, 3 Behold, I will take away the pos- which belonged to the Philistines. terity of Baasha, and the posterity of 16 And the people that were enhis house; and will make thy house camped heard say, Zimri hath conlike the house of Jeroboam the son of spired, and hath also slain the king: Nebat. wherefore all Israel made Omri, the 4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the captain of the host, king over Israel city shall the dogs eat; and him that that day in the camp. |