The First Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Behold, there came a man of God out of Yehudah by the word of
the LORD to Beit-El: and Yarov`am was standing by the altar to burn
incense. {13:2} He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD,
and said, altar, altar, thus says the LORD: Behold, a son shall be
born to the house of David, Yoshiyahu by name; and on you shall he
sacrifice the [1>]Kohanim[<1] 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 the LORD 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 Beit-El, that Yarov`am 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 the LORD. {13:6} The king answered the man of
God, Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that
my hand may be restored me again. The man of God entreated the LORD,
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 the LORD, 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 Beit-El. {13:11} Now there lived an old prophet in
Beit-El; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the
man of God had done that day in Beit-El: 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 Yehudah. {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
Yehudah? 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD came to the prophet who
brought him back; {13:21} and he cried to the man of God who came from
Yehudah, saying, Thus says the LORD, Because you have been disobedient
to the mouth of the LORD, and have not kept the [2>]mitzvah[<2] which
the LORD 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 the LORD: therefore the LORD has delivered
him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the
word of the LORD, 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 the LORD against the altar in
Beit-El, and against all the houses of the high places which are in
the cities of Shomron, shall surely happen. {13:33} After this thing
Yarov`am didn't return from his evil way, but made again from among
all the people [3>]Kohanim[<3] of the high places: whoever would, he
consecrated him, that there might be [4>]Kohanim[<4] of the high
places. {13:34} This thing became sin to the house of Yarov`am, even
to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the
[5>]eretz[<5].
{14:1} At that time Aviyah the son of Yarov`am fell sick. {14:2}
Yarov`am said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that
you not be known to be the wife of Yarov`am; and get you to Shiloh:
behold, there is Achiyah 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} Yarov`am's wife did so, and arose, and
went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Achiyah. Now Achiyah could
not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. {14:5} The LORD
said to Achiyah, Behold, the wife of Yarov`am 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 Achiyah heard the sound of her
feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of
Yarov`am; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you
with heavy news. {14:7} Go, tell Yarov`am, Thus says the LORD, the God
of Yisra'el: Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you
prince over my people Yisra'el, {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 [1>]mitzvot[<1], 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 Yarov`am, and will cut off from Yarov`am every
man-child, him who is shut up and him who is left at large in
Yisra'el, and will utterly sweep away the house of Yarov`am, as a man
sweeps away dung, until it be all gone. {14:11} Him who dies of
Yarov`am in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the field
shall the birds of the sky eat: for the LORD 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 Yisra'el shall mourn
for him, and bury him; for he only of Yarov`am shall come to the
grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD,
the God of Yisra'el, in the house of Yarov`am. {14:14} Moreover the
LORD will raise him up a king over Yisra'el, who shall cut off the
house of Yarov`am that day: but what? even now. {14:15} For the LORD
will strike Yisra'el, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will
root up Yisra'el 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 the LORD to anger. {14:16} He will give Yisra'el up
because of the sins of Yarov`am, which he has sinned, and with which
he has made Yisra'el to sin. {14:17} Yarov`am's wife arose, and
departed, and came to Tirtzah: [and] as she came to the threshold of
the house, the child died. {14:18} All Yisra'el buried him, and
mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by
his servant Achiyah the prophet. {14:19} The rest of the acts of
Yarov`am, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra'el. {14:20} The
days which Yarov`am reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept
with his fathers, and Nadav his son reigned in his place. {14:21}
Rechav`am the son of Shlomo reigned in Yehudah. Rechav`am was
forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Yerushalayim, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all
the tribes of Yisra'el, to put his name there: and his mother's name
was Na`amah the `Ammonite. {14:22} Yehudah did that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, 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 the LORD drove out before the
children of Yisra'el. {14:25} It happened in the fifth year of king
Rechav`am, that Shishak king of Mitzrayim came up against
Yerushalayim; {14:26} and he took away the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away
all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Shlomo had made.
{14:27} King Rechav`am 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 the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them
back into the guard-chamber. {14:29} Now the rest of the acts of
Rechav`am, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? {14:30} There was war between
Rechav`am and Yarov`am continually. {14:31} Rechav`am slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his
mother's name was Na`amah the `Ammonite. Aviyam his son reigned in his
place.
{15:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king Yarov`am the son of Nevat
began Aviyam to reign over Yehudah. {15:2} Three years reigned he in
Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Ma`akhah the daughter of
Avishalom. {15:3} He walked in all the sins of his father, which he
had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his
God, as the heart of David his father. {15:4} Nevertheless for David's
sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Yerushalayim, to set up
his son after him, and to establish Yerushalayim; {15:5} because David
did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and didn't turn
aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life,
except only in the matter of Uriyah the Hittite. {15:6} Now there was
war between Rechav`am and Yarov`am all the days of his life. {15:7}
The rest of the acts of Aviyam, and all that he did, aren't they
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah? There
was war between Aviyam and Yarov`am. {15:8} Aviyam 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 Yarov`am king of
Yisra'el began Asa to reign over Yehudah. {15:10} Forty-one years
reigned he in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Ma`akhah the
daughter of Avishalom. {15:11} Asa did that which was right in the
eyes of the LORD, 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 Ma`akhah 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 the LORD all his days. {15:15} He brought into the house
of the LORD 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 Ba`sha king of Yisra'el all their days.
{15:17} Ba`sha king of Yisra'el went up against Yehudah, and built
Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king
of Yehudah. {15:18} Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that
were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures
of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants;
and king Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tavrimon, the son of
Hezyon, king of Aram, who lived at Dammesek, 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 Ba`sha king of Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, and struck `Iyon, and Dan, and
Avel-Beit-Ma`akhah, and all Kinnarot, with all the land of Naftali.
{15:21} It happened, when Ba`sha heard of it, that he left off
building Ramah, and lived in Tirtzah. {15:22} Then king Asa made a
proclamation to all Yehudah; none was exempted: and they carried away
the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Ba`sha had
built; and king Asa built therewith Geva of Binyamin, and Mitzpah.
{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 Yehudah? 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 Yehoshafat his son reigned in his place. {15:25} Nadav the
son of Yarov`am began to reign over Yisra'el in the second year of Asa
king of Yehudah; and he reigned over Yisra'el two years. {15:26} He
did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the
way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Yisra'el to sin.
{15:27} Ba`sha the son of Achiyah, of the house of Yissakhar,
conspired against him; and Ba`sha struck him at Gibbeton, which
belonged to the Pelishtim; for Nadav and all Yisra'el were laying
siege to Gibbeton. {15:28} Even in the third year of Asa king of
Yehudah did Ba`sha kill him, and reigned in his place. {15:29} It
happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of
Yarov`am: he didn't leave to Yarov`am any who breathed, until he had
destroyed him; according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by
his servant Achiyah the Shiloni; {15:30} for the sins of Yarov`am
which he sinned, and with which he made Yisra'el to sin, because of
his provocation with which he provoked the LORD, the God of Yisra'el,
to anger. {15:31} Now the rest of the acts of Nadav, and all that he
did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Yisra'el? {15:32} There was war between Asa and Ba`sha king of
Yisra'el all their days. {15:33} In the third year of Asa king of
Yehudah began Ba`sha the son of Achiyah to reign over all Yisra'el in
Tirtzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years. {15:34} He did that which
was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Yarov`am,
and in his sin with which he made Yisra'el to sin.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:2} priests
[2] {13:21} commandment
[3] {13:33} priests
[4] {13:33} priests
[5] {13:34} earth
[1] {14:8} commandments
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