The First Book of Kings, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn
incense. {13:2} He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and
said, altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to
the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the
priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones
shall they burn on you. {13:3} He gave a sign the same day, saying,
This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be
torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out. {13:4} It
happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he
cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand
from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he put forth
against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him.
{13:5} The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the
altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the
word of Yahweh. {13:6} The king answered the man of God, Entreat now
the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
restored me again. The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's
hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. {13:7} The
king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself,
and I will give you a reward. {13:8} The man of God said to the king,
If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you,
neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place; {13:9} for so
was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no
bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.
{13:10} So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he
came to Bethel. {13:11} Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and
one of 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 to the
king, them also they told to their father. {13:12} Their father said
to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man
of God went, who came from Judah. {13:13} He said to his sons, Saddle
me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon.
{13:14} He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an
oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah?
He said, I am. {13:15} Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat
bread. {13:16} He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you;
neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
{13:17} for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no
bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you
came. {13:18} He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an
angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with
you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he
lied to him. {13:19} So he went back with him, and ate bread in his
house, and drank water. {13:20} It happened, as they sat at the table,
that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;
{13:21} and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying,
Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of
Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God
commanded you, {13:22} but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk
water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no
water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers. {13:23}
It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he
saddled for him the donkey, [to wit], for the prophet whom he had
brought back. {13:24} When he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and
killed him: and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by
it; the lion also stood by the body. {13:25} Behold, men passed by,
and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body;
and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
{13:26} When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of
it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of
Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn
him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to
him. {13:27} He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They
saddled it. {13:28} He went and found his body cast in the way, and
the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten
the body, nor torn the donkey. {13:29} The prophet took up the body of
the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back; and he
came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.
{13:30} He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
[saying], Alas, my brother! {13:31} It happened, after he had buried
him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me
in the tomb in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his
bones. {13:32} For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh
against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high
places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely happen.
{13:33} After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but
made again from among all the people priests of the high places:
whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the
high places. {13:34} This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam,
even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the
earth.
{14:1} At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. {14:2}
Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that
you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh:
behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I
should be king over this people. {14:3} Take with you ten loaves, and
cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall
become of the child. {14:4} Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and
went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not
see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. {14:5} Yahweh said to
Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you
concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you tell her;
for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself to be
another woman. {14:6} It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her
feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of
Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you
with heavy news. {14:7} Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you
prince over my people Israel, {14:8} and tore the kingdom away from
the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my
servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all
his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, {14:9} but have
done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you
other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast
me behind your back: {14:10} therefore, behold, I will bring evil on
the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every boy, him
who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, and will
utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung,
until it be all gone. {14:11} Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city
shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of
the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it. {14:12} Arise you therefore,
get you to your house: [and] when your feet enter into the city, the
child shall die. {14:13} All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him;
for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there
is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the
house of Jeroboam. {14:14} Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king
over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? even now. {14:15} For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is
shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land
which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the
River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to
anger. {14:16} He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,
which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin. {14:17}
Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] as she
came to the threshold of the house, the child died. {14:18} All Israel
buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh,
which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. {14:19} The rest of
the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they
are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
{14:20} The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and
he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
{14:21} Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess. {14:22} Judah did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins
which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. {14:23}
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on
every high hill, and under every green tree; {14:24} and there were
also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations
of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
{14:25} It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; {14:26} and he took away the
treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's
house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold
which Solomon had made. {14:27} King Rehoboam made in their place
shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of
the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. {14:28} It was so,
that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard
bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. {14:29} Now
the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? {14:30}
There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. {14:31}
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Abijam his son reigned in his place.
{15:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
began Abijam to reign over Judah. {15:2} Three years reigned he in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
{15:3} He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the
heart of David his father. {15:4} Nevertheless for David's sake did
Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after
him, and to establish Jerusalem; {15:5} because David did that which
was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything
that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the
matter of Uriah the Hittite. {15:6} Now there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all the days of his life. {15:7} The rest of the acts of
Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and
Jeroboam. {15:8} Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. {15:9} In the
twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over
Judah. {15:10} Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. {15:11} Asa did
that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.
{15:12} He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made. {15:13} Also Maacah his mother he
removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for
an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook
Kidron. {15:14} But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless
the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days. {15:15} He
brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had
dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels. {15:16} There was war between Asa and Baasha king
of Israel all their days. {15:17} Baasha king of Israel went up
against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go
out or come in to Asa king of Judah. {15:18} Then Asa took all the
silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of
Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into
the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son
of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus,
saying, {15:19} [There is] a league between me and you, between my
father and your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver
and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he
may depart from me. {15:20} Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent
the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck
Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the
land of Naphtali. {15:21} It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that
he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. {15:22} Then king Asa
made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried
away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had
built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
{15:23} Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and
all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of
his old age he was diseased in his feet. {15:24} Asa slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his
father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place. {15:25} Nadab
the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of
Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years. {15:26} He
did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way
of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
{15:27} Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the
Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
{15:28} Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill
him, and reigned in his place. {15:29} It happened that, as soon as he
was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to
Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to
the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the
Shilonite; {15:30} for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with
which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he
provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger. {15:31} Now the rest of
the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? {15:32} There was war
between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. {15:33} In the
third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to
reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years.
{15:34} He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to
sin.
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