1 Kings 14 Cross References - MSTC

¹ At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. ² And Jeroboam said unto his wife, "Up, a fellowship, and change thine apparel that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and get thee to Shiloh. For 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: for he will tell thee what shall come of the lad." ⁴ And Jeroboam's wife did so: she arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were waxen dim for age. ⁵ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh, to question with thee about her son which is sick. This wise and this wise answer her." And when she came, she feigned herself to be another woman. ⁶ But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came to the door, he said, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why feignest thou thyself to be another? I am sent to thee a cruel messenger. ⁷ Go and tell Jeroboam, thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: 'Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the common people and made thee prince over my people Israel, ⁸ and did rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it thee — and thou hast not been as was my servant David, which kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, to do that only which seemeth right in mine eyes - ⁹ but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made the other gods and images of metal, to provoke me, and hast cast me behind thy back. ¹⁰ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will strike from Jeroboam all that pisseth against the wall, and whatsoever is in prison or forsaken in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as men take away a dung hill, till it be consumed. ¹¹ And whosoever of Jeroboam's house die in the town, him shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field, shall the fowls of the air eat': for the LORD hath said it. ¹² Up, and get thee to thine house, and as soon as thy foot enterest the city, the lad shall die. ¹³ Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. ¹⁴ Moreover, the LORD shall stir him up a king over Israel which shall destroy the house of Jeroboam in that day. And what is that, that is now in hand? ¹⁵ And the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed that groweth in the water is shaken, and will weed Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond Euphrates, because they have made them groves to anger the LORD. ¹⁶ And he will give Israel up, because of the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he did sin and made Israel sin thereto." ¹⁷ And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and went to Tirzah, and by that she was come to the threshold of the door, the lad was dead. ¹⁸ And all Israel buried him and lamented him, according to the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the Prophet. ¹⁹ And the rest of the deeds of Jeroboam — how he warred and how he reigned — are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Israel. ²⁰ And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years. And then he rested with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. ²¹ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah and was forty one years old when he began to reign, and reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah an Ammonite. ²² And Judah wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD and angered him above all that their fathers did, with their sin which they sinned. ²³ For they also made them hill altars and images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. ²⁴ And thereto there was a stews of male children in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. ²⁵ And the fifth year of king Rehoboam came Shishak king of Egypt up to Jerusalem, ²⁶ and took away the treasure of the house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's house and all that was to be had. And he took away the shields of gold which Solomon made. ²⁷ In whose stead, king Rehoboam made brazen shields and put them in the keeping of the captains of the guard which waited at the door of the king's house. ²⁸ And as oft as the king went in to the house of the LORD, they of his guard bare them, and ever brought them again into the guard chamber. ²⁹ The rest of the acts of king Rehoboam and all he did, are written in the book of Acts of the kings of Judah. ³⁰ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their lives. ³¹ And Rehoboam laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his room.

⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

¹⁹ And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child and nigh the birth. And when she heard the tidings of the taking of the ark of God, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. ²⁰ And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it.

² And the Philistines followed after Saul and his sons, and slew Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

¹⁵ And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child, that Uriah's wife bare David, and it sickened.

³³ Howbeit, for all that, Jeroboam turned not from his wicked way: but turned away and made of the lowest of the people priests of the hill altars. Whosoever would, he filled their hands, and they became priests of the hill altars. ³⁴ And this doing was sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to destroy it and to put it away from off the face of the earth.

¹² Up, and get thee to thine house, and as soon as thy foot enterest the city, the lad shall die. ¹³ Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

¹ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of witness there, and the land was in subjection before them.

⁸ And Saul changed his clothes and put on other raiment; and then went he, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. And he said, "Prophesy unto me by the spirit, and bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee."

² he sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, "Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel. And anoint not thyself with oil. But be as a woman that had long time mourned for the death of somebody.

²⁹ And it chanced, at that season, as Jeroboam was gone out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him by the way, having a new mantle on him, and they two alone in the field. ³⁰ And Ahijah caught the new mantle that was on him and rent it in twelve pieces, ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, "Take thee ten pieces. For this sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Behold, I will rent the kingdom out of the hands of Solomon and will give ten tribes to thee, ³² and he shall have one, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel: ³³ because they have forsaken me, and have bowed themselves unto Ashtaroth the God of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh the God of the Moabites and to Milcom the God of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that pleaseth me, and mine ordinances and customs, as David his father. ³⁴ Howbeit, I will take none of the kingdom out of his hand: but will make him chief all his life long, for David my servant's sake, which I chose: because he kept my commandments and ordinances. ³⁵ But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give unto thee ten tribes of it: ³⁶ and will give his son one, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me, to put my name there. ³⁷ And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign upon all that thy soul desireth and shalt be king over Israel. ³⁸ And if thou shalt hearken unto all that I command thee, and shalt walk in my ways and do that is right in my sight, that thou keep mine ordinances and commandments as David my servant did: then will I be with thee and build thee a house that shall continue, as I built for my servant David, and will give Israel unto thee.

⁵ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh, to question with thee about her son which is sick. This wise and this wise answer her." And when she came, she feigned herself to be another woman. ⁶ But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came to the door, he said, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why feignest thou thyself to be another? I am sent to thee a cruel messenger.

³⁰ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Change thee and get thee to war: but put on thine own apparel." And the king of Israel changed himself, and went to battle also.

²⁹ Then said the king of Israel to Jehoshaphat, "Change thee and get thee to battle, but see thou have thine own apparel upon thee." And the king of Israel changed himself, and they went to battle.

² For there is nothing covered, that shall not be uncovered: neither hid, that shall not be known.

⁷ Then said Saul to his lad, "If we go, what shall we bring the man? For our bread is all spent out of our hampers and there is none other present to bring the man of God. What have we?" ⁸ And the young man answered Saul again, and said, "I have found about me the fourth part of a sicle: that will we give the man of God to tell us our way."

⁷ Then said the king unto the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward."

² And Ahaziah fell through a lattice window out of an upper chamber that he had in Samaria, and fell sick. Then he sent messengers saying unto them, "Go and enquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease."

⁴² There came a man from Baalshalishah and brought the man of God bread of first fruits, even twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in a cloth he had. And Elisha bade put it before the people that they might eat. Then his minister said,

⁵ And the king of Syria said, "Go thy way, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel." And he went and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiments.

¹⁵ Then he turned again to the man of God and all his company with him, and came and stood before him and said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the world, but in Israel. And now, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant."

⁷ After that, Elisha went to Damascus; Benhadad the king of Syria being sick. And one told the king, saying, "The man of God is come hither." ⁸ Then said the king to Hazael, "Take a present with thee and go against the man of God and ask the LORD by him whether I shall recover of this my disease or no." ⁹ And Hazael went to meet him and took presents with him, even of all the good things of Damascus — as much as forty camels could bear — and came and presented himself before him and said, "Thy son Benhadad, king of Syria, hath sent me to thee, saying, 'Shall I recover of this my disease?'"

² And the servant of a certain Centurion was sick, and ready to die, whom he made much of. ³ And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

⁴⁷ As soon as the same heard that Jesus was come out of Jewry, into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him, that he would descend, and heal his son: For he was even ready to die. ⁴⁸ Then said Jesus unto him, "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye cannot believe."

³ and his sisters sent unto him, saying, "Lord behold, he whom thou lovest is sick."

¹ And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see. Then called he Esau, his eldest son, and said unto him, "My son." And he said unto him, "Here am I."

¹⁰ And the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

⁷ And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, and yet his eyes were not dim nor his cheeks abated.

² And it chanced at that time, that Eli lay in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim that he could not see.

³ And when the people were come into their tents, the elders of Israel said, "Wherefore hath the LORD beaten us this day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD, out of Shiloh unto us, and let it come among us and save us out of the hands of our enemies." ⁴ And the people sent to Shiloh, and fetched from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts which dwelleth between the Cherubims. And there were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas with the ark of the covenant of God.

¹⁵ Eli was four score and eighteen years old, and his sight failed him that he could not see.

²⁹ And it chanced, at that season, as Jeroboam was gone out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him by the way, having a new mantle on him, and they two alone in the field.

² And Jeroboam said unto his wife, "Up, a fellowship, and change thine apparel that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and get thee to Shiloh. For there is Ahijah the prophet which told me that I should be king over this people.

¹⁰ The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

³ when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bow themselves; when the millers stand still, because they be so few, and when the sight of the windows shall wax dim;

¹² Go to my place in Shiloh, whereunto I gave my name afore time, and look well what I did to the same place for the wickedness of my people of Israel. ¹³ And now, though ye have done all these deeds, sayeth the LORD, and I myself rose up ever betimes to warn you and to commune with you, yet would ye not hear me: I called, ye would not answer. ¹⁴ And therefore even as I have done to Shiloh, so will I do to this house that my name is given unto, and that ye put your trust in: yea, unto the place that I have given to you and your fathers.

²⁷ Then she went to the man of God up to the hill and caught him by the feet. And Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is vexed, and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told it me."

⁸ And the king of Syria fought against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, "In such a place and in such a place will I pitch." ⁹ And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, "Beware thou go not by such a place, for there are the Syrians gone down." ¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there more than once or twice. ¹¹ And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled therewith, that he sent for his servants and said to them, "Will ye not show me which of us telleth the king of Israel?" ¹² And one of his servants said, "Nay, my lord king: Elisha the prophet that is in Israel, he telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy sleeping chamber."

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. ² Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts afar off. ³ Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways. ⁴ For lo, there is not a word in my tongue, but thou, O LORD, knowest it altogether.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel against the LORD.

⁷ Now doth the LORD God no manner of thing, but he telleth his secret before unto his servants the prophets.

¹⁹ While Peter thought on this vision, the spirit said unto him, "Behold, men seek thee: arise therefore, get thee down, ²⁰ and go with them, and doubt not. For I have sent them."

¹⁶ But Samuel said to Saul, "Cease, and let me tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night." And he said unto him, "Say on."

²⁶ Then said Samuel unto Saul, "I will not return with thee: for thou hast cast away the bidding of God, and therefore the LORD hath cast away thee also, that thou shalt not be king over Israel."

¹⁸ because thou obeyedest not the voice of the LORD, nor executedest his fierce wrath upon the Amalekites. Therefore hath the LORD done this unto thee this day.

²⁰ And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him again. ²¹ And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, "Thus sayeth the LORD: 'Because thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, ²² but camest back again and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place in which he bade that thou shouldest eat no bread nor drink water: therefore thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.'"

⁵ And the LORD said unto Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh, to question with thee about her son which is sick. This wise and this wise answer her." And when she came, she feigned herself to be another woman.

¹⁰ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will strike from Jeroboam all that pisseth against the wall, and whatsoever is in prison or forsaken in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as men take away a dung hill, till it be consumed. ¹¹ And whosoever of Jeroboam's house die in the town, him shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field, shall the fowls of the air eat': for the LORD hath said it.

⁴² And he said unto the king, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Because thou hast let go a man that ought to have died, thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his."

¹⁸ "Up, and go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth: for he is gone down thither, to take possession of it. ¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'" ²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, "Hast thou found me thine enemy at any time?" And he said, "Yea, because thou art utterly given to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD. ²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will make clean riddance of thee, and will destroy unto Ahab all that pisseth against the wall, and if ought be prisoned or forsaken in Israel: ²² and will make thine house, like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the angering wherewith thou hast angered and made Israel sin." ²³ And thereto against Jezebel came the word of the LORD, saying, "Dogs shall eat Jezebel, under the walls of Jezreel. ²⁴ And he that dieth of Ahab in the town, him shall dogs eat: and he that dieth in the fields, him shall the fowls of the air eat."

⁸ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one, by whom we may ask counsel of the LORD: one Micaiah the son of Imlah. But I hate him: for he never prophesieth good unto me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."

¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked.

¹⁰ The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.

² "Ask counsel at the LORD, we Pray thee, of our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon beseigeth us: if the LORD peradventure will deal with us, according to his marvelous power, and take him from us." ³ Then spake Jeremiah, "Give Zedekiah this answer, ⁴ 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: behold, I will turn back the weapons, that ye have in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans, which besiege you round about the walls, and I will bring them together into the midst of this city, ⁵ and I myself will fight against you, with an outstretched hand, and with a mighty arm, in great displeasure and terrible wrath: ⁶ and will smite them, that dwell in this city, yea both man and cattle shall die of the pestilence. ⁷ And after this, sayeth the LORD, I shall deliver Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his servants, his people - and such as are escaped in the city, from the pestilence, sword, and hunger - into the power of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon: yea into the hands of their enemies; into the hands of those that follow upon their lives, which shall smite them with the sword. They shall not pity them, they shall not spare them, they shall have no mercy upon them.'

⁴ Yea, I will send thee unto a people that have rough visages and stiff stomachs: unto whom thou shalt say on this manner, 'This the LORD God himself hath spoken,' ⁵ that whether they be obedient or no - for it is a froward household - they may know yet that there hath been a Prophet among them.

³ "Thou son of man, these men bear their idols in their hearts, and go purposely upon the stumbling block of their own wickedness: how dare they then ask counsel at me? ⁴ Therefore speak unto them, and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Every man of the house of Israel that beareth his Idols in his heart, purposing to stumble in his own wickedness, and cometh to a prophet, to enquire anything at me by him: unto that man will I the LORD myself give answer, according to the multitude of his idols: ⁵ that the house of Israel may be snared in their own hearts, because they be clean gone from me, for their Idols' sakes.'

⁷ For every man, whether he be of the house of Israel, or a stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which departeth from me, and carrieth idols in his heart, purposing to go still stumbling in his own wickedness, and cometh to a Prophet, for to ask counsel at me through him: unto that man will I the LORD give answer, by mine own self. ⁸ I will set my face against that man. And will make him to be an example for others; yea, and a common byword. And will root him out of my people, that he may know how that I am the LORD.

¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name was Balteshazzar, held his peace by the space of a hour and his thoughts troubled him. So the king spake, and said, "O Balteshazzar, let neither the dream nor the interpretation thereof fear thee." Balteshazzar answered saying, "O my lord, this dream happen to thine enemies, and the interpretation to thine adversaries! ²⁰ As for the tree that thou sawest which was so great and mighty, whose height reached unto the heaven, and his breadth into all the world; ²¹ whose leaves were fair, and the fruit much; under the which the beasts of the field had their habitation, and upon whose branches the fowls of the air did sit. ²² Even thou, O king, art the tree: great and strong. Thy greatness increaseth, and reacheth unto the heaven, so doth thy power to the ends of the earth. ²³ But whereas the king saw a watcher, even a holy angel, that came down from heaven, and said, 'Hew down the tree, and destroy it: yet leave the ground of the root in the earth, and bind him upon the plain field with chains of iron and steel: He shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and his part shall be with the beasts of the field, till seven years be come and gone upon him.' ²⁴ This, O king, is the interpretation: yea, it is the very device of him that is highest of all, and it toucheth my lord the king. ²⁵ Thou shalt be cast out from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: with grass shalt thou be fed like an ox. Thou must be wet with the dew of the heaven: yea, seven years shall come and go upon thee, till thou know that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whom he list.

¹⁷ Daniel answered, and said before the king, "As for thy rewards, keep them to thyself, or give thy rich gifts to another: yet not the less, I will read the writing unto the king, and show him the interpretation thereof. ¹⁸ O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor: ¹⁹ So that all people, kindreds and tongues stood in awe and fear of him, by reason of the high estate that he had sent him. For why? He slew whom he would; he smote, whom it pleased him. Again: whom he would, he set up; and whom he list, he put down. ²⁰ But because his heart was so proud, and his stomach set so fast unto wilfulness: he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his majesty was taken from him. ²¹ He was shot out from among men, his heart was like a beast's heart, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: he was fain to eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew, that the highest had power upon the kingdoms of men, and setteth over them, whom he list. ²² And thou, his son, O Belshazzar, for all this, hast not submitted thine heart, though thou knewest all these things: ²³ but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him. ²⁴ Therefore is the palm of this hand sent hither from him, to token up this writing. ²⁵ And this is the scripture that is written up, 'Mene, Tekel, Phares.' ²⁶ Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. ²⁷ Tekel, thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting: ²⁸ Phares, thy kingdom is dealt in parts, and given to the Medes and Persians."

²¹ The son of man goeth, as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man is betrayed. Good were it for him, if that man had never been born."

²⁰ And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves perfect, to take him in his words, and to deliver him unto the power, and authority of the deputy. ²¹ And they asked him saying, "Master, we know that thou sayest, and teachest right, neither considerest thou any man's degree, but teachest the way of God truly. ²² Is it lawful for us to give Caesar tribute, or no?" ²³ He perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, "Why tempt ye me?

³ Then said Peter, "Ananias how is it that Satan hath filled thine heart, that thou shouldest lie unto the holy ghost, and keep away part of the price of the livelihood: ⁴ Pertained it not unto thee only? And after it was sold, was not the price in thine own power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." ⁵ When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and gave up the ghost. And great fear came on all them that these things heard.

⁹ Then Peter said unto her, "Why have ye agreed together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." ¹⁰ Then she fell down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carried her out and buried her by her husband.

¹³ Neither is there any creature invisible in the sight of it. For all things are naked and bare unto the eyes of him, of whom we speak.

²⁷ And there came a man of God unto Eli and said unto him, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'I appeared unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt, in Pharaoh's house. ²⁸ And I chose thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest for to offer upon mine altar and to burn cense, and to wear an ephod before me. And I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel. ²⁹ Wherefore kick ye against my sacrifice and against mine offering which I command in the tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, and make yourselves fat of the first fruits of all the offerings of Israel my people?' ³⁰ Wherefore the LORD God of Israel sayeth, 'I said that thine house and the house of thy father should have walked before me forever. But now the LORD sayeth that be far from me: for them that honoureth me I will honour, and they that despise me, shall not be regarded.

⁷ Then Nathan said to David, "Thou art the man. Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'I anointed thee king over Israel and rid thee out of the hands of Saul. ⁸ And I gave thee thy master's house and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah — and would, if that had been too little, have given thee twice so much more.

²⁴ 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Go not, nor yet fight against your brethren the children of Israel, but return every man to his house, for this doing is of the LORD.'" And they obeyed the word of the LORD and returned and departed according to the word of the LORD.

² "Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of dust and made thee captain over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam and hast made my people Israel sin, to anger me with their sin:

¹⁴ And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep mine ordinances and commandments as David thy father did walk, I will lengthen thy days also."

³⁰ And Ahijah caught the new mantle that was on him and rent it in twelve pieces, ³¹ and said to Jeroboam, "Take thee ten pieces. For this sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Behold, I will rent the kingdom out of the hands of Solomon and will give ten tribes to thee,

⁵ because that David did which pleased the LORD and turned from nothing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

³ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the old ways of his father David, and sought not Baals:

¹ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not that pleased the LORD, as did his father David:

²² And after he had put him down, he set up David to be their king: of whom he gave reported, saying, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, he shall fulfill all my will.'

³⁶ Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

¹⁷ they make thy sons go a whoring after their gods also. Thou shalt make thee no gods of metal.

⁸ Also in Horeb ye angered the LORD so that the LORD was wroth with you, even to have destroyed you, ⁹ after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ And the LORD delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and in them was according to all the words which the LORD said unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered together. ¹¹ And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, ¹² and said unto me, 'Up, and get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred themselves. They are turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and have made them a god of metal.' ¹³ Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, 'I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people; ¹⁴ let me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation both greater and more than they.' ¹⁵ And I turned away and came down from the hill — and the hill burnt with fire — and had the two tables of the covenant in my hands. ¹⁶ And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the LORD your God and had made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out of the way which the LORD had commanded you;

²⁴ Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since the day that I knew you.

¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him. ¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not.

²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

⁸ "God chose new fashions of war, for when they had war at their gates: there was not seen, among forty thousand, either shield or spear in Israel.

²⁸ Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold and said unto the people, "Ye shall not need to go any more to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt!"

¹⁶ And he will give Israel up, because of the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he did sin and made Israel sin thereto."

²² And Judah wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD and angered him above all that their fathers did, with their sin which they sinned.

³⁴ And he did that which displeased the LORD, for he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin.

³¹ For it seemed him a light thing to walk in the sin of Jeroboam — But took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians to wife, and went and served Baal and bowed unto him.

³ And he went and built the hill altars again, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he reared up altars to Baal and made groves, as did Ahab king of Israel. And he bowed himself unto all the host of heaven and served them.

²⁶ Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not from his fierce and great wrath wherewith he was angry against Judah upon all the provocations that Manasseh provoked him.

¹⁵ And he ordained him priests of hill altars - both to field devils and also to the calves which he had made.

⁶ And he burnt his children in fire in the valley of the sons of Hinnom. And he observed dismal days and occupied witchcraft and sorcery, and maintained workers with spirits and seers of fortunes: and wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to anger him withal.

²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies.

¹⁷ whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?

⁴⁰ O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?

⁵⁶ Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant:

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay.

²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.

⁴ Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, and hear not; noses have they, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, and handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. ⁸ They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

⁹ All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded. ¹⁰ Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing? ¹¹ Behold, all the fellowship of them must be brought to confusion. Let all the workmasters of them come and stand together from among men: they must be abashed and confounded one with another. ¹² The smith taketh iron, and tempereth it with hot coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and maketh it with all the strength of his arms: yea, sometimes he is faint for very hunger, and so thirsty, that he hath no more power. ¹³ The carpenter or image carver taketh meat of the timber, and spreadeth forth his line; he marketh it with some colour; he planeth it, he ruleth it, and squareth it, and maketh it after the image of a man; and according to the beauty of a man that it may stand in the temple. ¹⁴ Moreover, he goeth out to hew down Cedar trees: He bringeth home Elms and Oaks, and other timber of the wood. Or else the Fir trees which he planted himself, and such as the rain hath swelled, ¹⁵ which wood serveth for men to burn. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withal: he maketh a fire of it to bake bread. And afterward maketh a god thereof, to honour it: and an Idol to kneel before it. ¹⁶ One piece he burneth in the fire; with another he roasteth flesh, that he may eat roast his belly full; with the third he warmeth himself, and sayeth, "Aha, I am well warmed, I have been at the fire." ¹⁷ And of the residue he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneeleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth unto it, and sayeth, "Deliver me, for thou art my god!" ¹⁸ Yet men neither consider nor understand; because their eyes are stopped that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they can not perceive. ¹⁹ They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?" ²⁰ The keeping of dust, and foolishness of heart hath turned them aside: so that none of them can have a free conscience to think, "Do not I err?"

⁹ For when ye have stolen, murdered, committed adultery and penury; When ye have offered unto Baal, following strange and unknown gods; ¹⁰ Then come ye, and stand before me in this house, which hath my name given unto it, and say 'Tush, we are absolved quite, though we have done all these abominations.'

¹⁴ His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life. ¹⁵ The vain craftsmen with their works, that they in their vanity hath made, shall perish one with another in the time of visitation. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, Jacob's portion is not such: but it is he that hath made all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of Hosts is his name.

³ This similitude stretched out a hand, and took me by the hairy locks of my head, and the spirit lift me up betwixt heaven and earth: And God brought me in a vision to Jerusalem, into the court of the inward port that lieth toward the north. There stood an image, with whom he that hath all things in his power was very wroth.

¹⁷ And he said unto me, "Hast thou seen this thou son of man? Thinketh the house of Israel that it is but a trifle to do these abominations here? Should they fill the land full of wickedness, and undertake to provoke me unto anger? Yea, and purposely to cast up their noses upon me?

³⁵ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast forgotten me, and cast me aside, so bear now thy own filthiness and whoredom."

²² Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?

³⁶ "For the LORD will do justice unto his people, and have compassion on his servants. For it shall be seen that their power shall fail, and at the last they shall be prisoned and forsaken.

³⁰ Wherefore the LORD God of Israel sayeth, 'I said that thine house and the house of thy father should have walked before me forever. But now the LORD sayeth that be far from me: for them that honoureth me I will honour, and they that despise me, shall not be regarded.

²² God do this and yet more unto the enemies of David, if until tomorrow in the morning I leave this man, of all that he hath, so much as one that pisseth against the wall."

³⁴ For in very deed — as sure as the LORD God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee — except thou hadst hasted and met me, there had not been left Nabal, by the dawning of the day, a pisser against the wall."

²⁵ And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign upon Israel, the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned upon Israel two years. ²⁶ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin. ²⁷ But Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and slew him at Gibbethon a city of the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel lay at siege before Gibbethon. ²⁸ And it was the third year of Asa king of Judah, when Baasha slew him, and reigned in his stead. ²⁹ And as soon as he was king, he slew all the house of Jeroboam and left him nought that breathed, until he had put him clean out, agreeing unto the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, ³⁰ for the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he sinned and made Israel sin, and for his angering wherewith he angered the LORD God of Israel.

¹¹ And as soon as he was king and sat his seat, he slew all the house of Baasha and left not a pisser against a wall. And thereto he slew all his kin and friends,

²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will make clean riddance of thee, and will destroy unto Ahab all that pisseth against the wall, and if ought be prisoned or forsaken in Israel:

⁸ for the whole house of Ahab shall be destroyed; and I will destroy unto Ahab what pisseth against the wall, and so much as the prisoned or that which is forsaken in Israel, ⁹ and will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

³⁷ and the carcass of Jezebel shall be dung upon the earth, in the field of Jezreel, that men shall not say, this is Jezebel.'"

²⁶ For the LORD had seen how that the affliction of Israel was exceeding bitter, in so much that the prisoned and the forsaken were at an end. And there was no helper unto Israel.

¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the squaring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe out Jerusalem, as a man would wipe a dish, and when he hath wiped it, turneth it upside down.

⁷ yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'

¹⁰ who perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth.

²⁵ Therefore is the wrath of the LORD kindled also against his people, and he shaketh his hand at them: yea he shall smite so, that the hills shall tremble. And their carcasses shall lie in the open streets, like mire. And in all this, the wrath of God shall not cease, but he shall stretch his hand wider.

¹⁹ and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet -

²³ and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the broom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

² and laid against the Sun, the Moon and all the heavenly host: whom they loved, whom they served, whom they ran after, whom they sought and worshipped. They shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lie upon the earth, to their shame and despising.

⁴ These shall break the walls of Tyre, and cast down her towers. I will scrape the ground from her, and make her a bare stone.

⁶ Cry they out Alarum with the trumpet in the city, and the people not afraid? Cometh there any plague in a city without it be the LORD's doing?

¹⁷ I will bring the people to such vexation, that they shall go about like blind men; because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood shall be shed as the dust, and their bodies as the mire.

³ Behold, I shall corrupt your seed, and cast dung in your faces: even the dung of your solemn feasts and it shall cleave fast upon you.

³⁴ Salt is good, but if salt have lost her saltiness, what shall be seasoned therewith? ³⁵ It is neither good for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out at the doors. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

⁴ And he that dieth of Baasha in the city, him shall dogs eat: and him that dieth in the fields, shall the fowls of the air eat."

¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'"

²⁴ And they shall go forth and look upon the carrions of them that have transgressed against me. For their worms shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and all flesh shall abhor them.

³ For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them.

¹⁷ And thou son of man: thus sayeth the LORD God: Speak unto all the fouls and every bird, yea and to all the wild beasts of the field, 'Heap you together and come; gather you round about upon my slaughter that I have slain for you: even a great slaughter upon the mountains of Israel: eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ Ye shall eat the flesh of the worthies, and drink the blood of the princes of the land: of the wethers, of the lambs, of the goats, and of the oxen that be all slain at Bashan. ¹⁹ Eat the fat your belly full, and drink blood till ye be drunken of the slaughter, which I have slain unto you.

¹⁷ And I saw an angel stand in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly by the midst of heaven, "Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, ¹⁸ that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and of high captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all free men and bond men, and of small and great."

³ And take with thee ten loaves and cracknels and a cruse of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall come of the lad."

¹⁶ And he will give Israel up, because of the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he did sin and made Israel sin thereto." ¹⁷ And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and went to Tirzah, and by that she was come to the threshold of the door, the lad was dead.

⁶ And they said unto him, "There came a man against us and said unto us, 'Go and turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him: Thus sayeth the LORD. Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire through Beelzebub the god of Ekron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'"

¹⁶ And he said unto the king, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Forasmuch as thou sentest messengers to ask through Beelzebub the god of Ekron — as though there had been no God in Israel to ask through his word — therefore thou shalt not come off the bed on which thou art ascended, but shalt surely die.'"

⁵⁰ Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way, thy son liveth." And the man believed the words that Jesus had spoken unto him, and went his way. ⁵¹ And anon as he went on his way, his servants met him, and told him, saying, "Thy child liveth." ⁵² Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, "Yesterday, the seventh hour, the fever left him."

²⁹ And Moses and Eleazar came down out of the mount. And all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

¹² And so because he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, and destroyed not all together. And thereto there were many good things yet in Judah.

³ Neverthelater, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."

²⁸ Did not ye say, "Why doth he suffer persecution?" Is there found an occasion against me?

¹⁰ Mourn not over the dead, and be not woe for them, but be sorry for him that departeth away: for he cometh not again, and seeth his native country no more.

¹⁸ And therefore, thus sayeth the LORD against Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, "They shall not mourn for him as they used to do, 'Alas brother, alas sister.' Neither shall they say unto him, 'Alas sir, alas for that noble prince.'

¹⁴ Now if this man get a son also, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, neither doth such like: ¹⁵ Namely, he eateth not upon the mountains; he lifteth not his eyes up to the Idols of Israel; he defileth not his neighbour's wife; ¹⁶ he vexeth no man; he keepeth no man's pledge, he neither spoileth, nor robbeth any man; he dealeth his meat with the hungry; he clotheth the naked; ¹⁷ he opresseth not the poor; he receiveth no usury, nor anything over; he keepeth my laws, and walketh in my commandments: this man shall not die in his father's sin, but shall live without fail. ¹⁸ As for his father, because he oppressed and spoiled his brother, and did wickedly among his people: Lo, he is dead in his own sin. ¹⁹ And yet say ye, 'Wherefore then should not this son bear his father's sin?' Therefore, because the son hath done equity and right, hath kept all my commandments and done them: therefore shall he live indeed. ²⁰ The soul that sinneth, she shall die. The son shall not bear part of the father's wickedness. The righteousness of the right shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. ²¹ And yet the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he did, and keep all mine ordinances, and do justly and righteously; he shall live and not die. ²² None of the sins that he hath done shall be reckoned unto him: In the righteousness that he hath done, he shall live. ²³ For I desire not the death of a sinner, saith the Lord Jehovah, but rather that he should turn from his way, and live. ²⁴ And so if a righteous turn from his righteousness and do wickedness, and shall do like unto all the abominations which a wicked doth, shall he live? No, none of those righteousness that he did shall be remembered. But in the wickedness which he wrought, and in the sin which he did, in them shall he die. ²⁵ But you will say, 'The way of the Lord is not equal.' Here I pray you, ye house of Israel. Is not my way equal? ²⁶ If a righteous turn from his righteousness and do wickedly, and die therefore: in the wickedness which he did he shall die. ²⁷ And when a wicked turneth from his wickedness and doth justly and righteously, he shall save his soul: ²⁸ because he feared and turned from all his wickedness which he did, he shall live and not die, saith the Lord almighty. ²⁹ And yet sayeth the house of Israel, 'Tush, the way of the LORD is not equal.' Are my ways unright, O ye house of Israel? Are not your ways rather unequal? ³⁰ "As for me, I will judge every man, according to his ways, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD God. Wherefore be converted, and turn you clean from all your wickedness, so shall there no sin do you harm. ³¹ Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done: make you new hearts and a new spirit. Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel? ³² Seeing I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, sayeth the LORD God; Turn you then, and ye shall live."

⁶ so that the fellowship that thou hast in the faith is fruitful through knowledge of all good things, which are in you by Jesus Christ.

⁸ For he being righteous and dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds - ⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished:

²⁷ But Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and slew him at Gibbethon a city of the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel lay at siege before Gibbethon. ²⁸ And it was the third year of Asa king of Judah, when Baasha slew him, and reigned in his stead. ²⁹ And as soon as he was king, he slew all the house of Jeroboam and left him nought that breathed, until he had put him clean out, agreeing unto the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

¹¹ Because now that evil works are not hastily punished, the heart of man giveth himself over unto wickedness.

² "Thee I call, O thou son of man. Thus sayeth the LORD God unto the land of Israel: The end cometh: yea, verily the end cometh upon all the four corners of the land. ³ But now shall the end come upon thee: For I will send my wrath upon thee, and will punish thee according to thy ways; and reward thee after all thy abominations. ⁴ Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee: but reward thee according to thy ways, and declare thy abominations. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD. ⁵ "Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, one misery and plague shall come after another. ⁶ The end is here: The end, I say, that waiteth for thee is come already. ⁷ The hour is come against thee that dwellest in the land. The time is at hand; the day of sedition is hard by: and no glad tidings upon the mountains.

²² "Thou son of man, what manner of byword is that, which ye use in the land of Israel? Saying, 'Tush, seeing that the days are so slack in coming, all the visions are of none effect.' ²³ Tell them therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will make that byword to cease, so that it shall no more be commonly used in Israel.' But say this unto them, 'The days are at hand, that everything which hath been prophesied, shall be fulfilled. ²⁴ There shall no vision be in vain, neither any prophecy fail among the children of Israel: ²⁵ For it is I, the LORD, that speak it: and whatsoever I, the LORD, speak, it shall be performed, and not be slacken in coming. Yea even in your days, O ye froward household, will I devise something and bring it to pass, sayeth the LORD God.'" ²⁶ And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, ²⁷ "Behold, thou son of man: The house of Israel say in this manner, 'Tush, as for the vision that he hath seen, it will be many a day or it come to pass: It is far off yet, the thing that he prophesieth.' ²⁸ Therefore say unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: All my words shall no more be slack. Look what I speak, that same shall come to pass, sayeth the LORD.'"

⁹ Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be damned. Behold, the judge standeth before the door.

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

¹³ But overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and cut down their groves, ¹⁴ for thou shalt worship no strange god. For the LORD is called jealous, because he is a jealous God:

³² "'And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it. ³³ And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. ³⁴ Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in her Sabbaths.

⁴³ For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances.

²⁶ I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. ²⁷ And the LORD shall scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people whither the LORD shall bring you:

³ Overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and hew down the images of their gods, and bring the names of them to nought out of that place. ⁴ See ye do not so unto the LORD your God;

³⁶ The LORD shall bring both thee and thy king which thou hast set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there thou shalt serve strange gods: even wood and stone.

⁶³ "And as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shall be wasted from off the land whither thou goest to enjoy it. ⁶⁴ And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt fear both day and night and shalt have no trust in thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, 'Would God it were night.' And at night thou shalt say, 'Would God it were morning' — for fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way which I bade thee that thou shouldest see it no more. And there ye shall be sold unto your enemies, for bondmen and bondwomen: and yet no man shall buy you."

²⁴ And then all nations also say, "Wherefore hath the LORD done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath?' ²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought. ²⁷ And therefore the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.'

¹⁵ And as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you: so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil until he have destroyed you from off this good land, which the LORD your God hath given you ¹⁶ when ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: and have gone and served strange gods, and bowed yourselves to them. Then shall the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you, and ye shall perish quickly, from off the good land which he hath given you."

²⁵ But and if ye shall do wickedly: then shall both ye and your king thereto perish."

⁹ but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made the other gods and images of metal, to provoke me, and hast cast me behind thy back.

²³ For they also made them hill altars and images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. ²⁴ And thereto there was a stews of male children in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, came Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abelbethmaacah, Janoah, Kadesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and carried them away to Assyria.

⁶ And in the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away unto Assyria and put them in Halah, in Habor on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. ⁷ For the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God which brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and feared other gods.

²³ until the LORD had put Israel away out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. And so he translated Israel out of their land to Assyria, even unto this day.

¹¹ And the king of Assiria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: ¹² because they would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD their God. But transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would neither hear nor do.

⁵ Therefore shall God destroy thee forever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

²² But the ungodly shall be rooted out of the land, and the wicked doers shall be taken out of it.

²⁸ For the transgressors and ungodly, and such as are become unfaithful unto the LORD, must altogether be utterly destroyed. ²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the gods that you longed for. And you shall be put to shame for the idols and grove gardens that ye have chosen.

⁹ "'Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, that was as high as the Cedar trees, and as strong as the oaks: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruit from above and his root from under.

²⁷ Therefore will I cause you be carried away beyond Damascus,' sayeth the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts."

⁴ For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ashkelon shall be laid waste. They shall cast out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be plucked up by the roots.

⁷ And as they departed, Jesus began to speak unto the people, of John, "What for to see went ye out into the wilderness? Went ye to see a reed shaken in the wind?

¹³ He answered, and said, "All plants which my heavenly father hath not planted, shall be plucked up by the roots.

²⁴ When the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people of John, "What went ye out for to see into the wilderness? Went ye to see a reed shaken with the wind?

⁴³ And ye took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, figures which ye made to worship them. And I will translate you beyond Babylon.'

²¹ And then Moses said unto Aaron, "What did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?"

³⁵ And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf; which Aaron made.

³⁰ And that doing was a cause of sin. And the people went before the one as far as Dan.

³⁴ And this doing was sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to destroy it and to put it away from off the face of the earth.

³⁰ for the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he sinned and made Israel sin, and for his angering wherewith he angered the LORD God of Israel.

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.

²⁴ so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind.

³¹ The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therein. What will come thereof at the last?

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law. For why? They follow the doctrines of men. ¹² Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar.

¹¹ Ephraim flyeth like a bird, so shall their glory also: Insomuch that they shall neither beget, conceive nor bear children. ¹² And though they bring up any, yet will I make them childless among men. Yea, woe shall come to them, when I depart from them.

¹⁶ Ephraim is hewn down, their root is dried up, so that they shall bring no more fruit: yea and though they bring forth any, yet will I slay even the best beloved fruit of their body. ¹⁷ My God shall cast them away, for they have not been obedient unto him, therefore shall they go astray among the Heathen.

¹⁶ Ye keep the ordinances of Omri, and all the customs of the house of Ahab: Ye follow their pleasures, therefore will I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be abhorred, O my people: and thus shalt thou bear thine own shame.

⁷ Woe be unto the world because of evil offenses! Howbeit, it cannot be avoided but that offenses shall be given. Nevertheless, woe be to the man, by whom the offense cometh.

¹³ Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more. But judge this, rather: that no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

²⁴ and the king of Tirzah: All the kings together thirty and one.

²⁰ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "The LORD give thee seed of this woman, for that she hath lent the LORD." And they went unto their own home. ²¹ And the LORD visited Hannah for that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew, dwelling still with the LORD. ²² Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they slept with the women that waited in the door of the tabernacle of witness, ²³ and said unto them, "Why do ye such things? For I hear your wicked deeds of all these people. ²⁴ Oh, nay my sons: For it is no good report that I hear how that ye make the LORD's people to trespass. ²⁵ If one man sin against another, the judge can redress it. But if a man sin against the LORD, who can redress it?" Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, for the LORD's will was to slay them. ²⁶ But the child Samuel profited and grew, and was in favour both with the LORD and also with men. ²⁷ And there came a man of God unto Eli and said unto him, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'I appeared unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt, in Pharaoh's house. ²⁸ And I chose thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest for to offer upon mine altar and to burn cense, and to wear an ephod before me. And I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel. ²⁹ Wherefore kick ye against my sacrifice and against mine offering which I command in the tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, and make yourselves fat of the first fruits of all the offerings of Israel my people?' ³⁰ Wherefore the LORD God of Israel sayeth, 'I said that thine house and the house of thy father should have walked before me forever. But now the LORD sayeth that be far from me: for them that honoureth me I will honour, and they that despise me, shall not be regarded. ³¹ Behold, the days will come that I will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an elder in thine house. ³² And thou shalt see thine enemy in the tabernacle, in all that shall please Israel, and there shall not be an elder in thine house while the world standeth. ³³ Yet will I will not root out every man of thee from mine altar, but that thine eyes may be consumed, and thy soul may be sorry. And a great multitude of thine house shall die young. ³⁴ And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: Even in one day they shall die, both of them.

¹⁸ And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

²¹ And when Baasha heard that, he left building of Ramah and dwelt in Tirzah.

³³ And the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, and continued twenty four years.

⁶ And Baasha fell on sleep with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son reigned in his stead. ⁷ And thereto through the Prophet Jehu the son of Hanani, the word of the LORD came against Baasha and against his house, because of all the wickedness that he did in the sight of the LORD, in angering him with the works of his hands, that he should be like the house of Jeroboam, because he had killed Nabad. ⁸ The twenty sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and continued two years. ⁹ And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah drinking of strong drink, in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

¹⁵ The twenty seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah, the people besieging Gibbethon a city of the Philistines.

²³ The thirty first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel twelve years and he ruled six years in Tirzah.

⁴ Thou art beautiful, O my love, even as loveliness itself; thou art fair as Jerusalem, glorious as an army of men with their banners.

¹³ Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

²⁹ The rest of the acts of king Rehoboam and all he did, are written in the book of Acts of the kings of Judah. ³⁰ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their lives.

³¹ The rest of the deeds of Nadab, and all he did, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

⁵ The rest of the deeds of Baasha, and what he did and his power, are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Israel.

¹⁴ The rest of the deeds of Elah and all he did, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁰ The rest of the Acts of Zimri and the treason that he wrought, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁷ The rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his power that he used, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

³⁹ The rest of the deeds of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and the cities that he built, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁴ And Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number. And though he finished it not, yet there fell wrath for that upon Israel. And therefore the number was not put in the chronicles of king David.

² and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. ³ And Abijah made a battle with an Host of fighting men of four hundred thousand chosen men. And Jeroboam put in array to fight against him, with eight hundred thousand picked men and strong. ⁴ And Abijah stood up upon Zemaraim a hill in mount Ephraim and said, "Hear me thou Jeroboam and all Israel! ⁵ Becometh it not you to know how the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom of Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons, with a salted covenant. ⁶ But Jeroboam the son of Nebat the servant of Solomon the son of David, rebelled against his lord. ⁷ And there gathered to him lewd men and unthrifties, and prevailed against Rehoboam the son of Solomon: for Rehoboam was young and tender hearted and not strong enough for them. ⁸ And now ye think to prevail against the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because ye be a great multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods. ⁹ And have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests like the nations of other lands? Even whosoever cometh and filleth his hand with an ox and seven rams, the same is made priest to them that are no Gods. ¹⁰ But with us is the LORD our God whom we have not forsaken, and the priests of the sons of Aaron ministering unto the LORD, and the Levites in office: ¹¹ burning unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet cense: and the shewbread put in order upon a pure table: and the candlestick of gold with the lamps of the same, to be lighted every evening. For we keep the watch of the LORD our God: but ye have forsaken him. ¹² Moreover, see: God is with us in the forward; and his priests, and the roaring trumpets to cry alarm against you. Ye children of Israel, fight not with the LORD God of your fathers: for it will not prosper with you." ¹³ But for all that, Jeroboam sent men privily above to come behind upon them: and so they were before Judah, and the layers in wait were behind them. ¹⁴ And when Judah turned and saw the battle behind and before, they cried unto the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets ¹⁵ and the men of Judah gave a shout. And as the men of Judah shouted, God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. ¹⁶ And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into the hands of Judah. ¹⁷ And Abijah and his people slew a great slaughter of them: so that there were stricken down dead of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. ¹⁸ And so the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed: because they leaned unto the LORD God of their fathers. ¹⁹ And Abijah followed after Jeroboam and won certain cities from him: Bethel with the towns belonging thereto, and Jeshanah with the towns that belonged thereto, and Ephron with her towns. ²⁰ And Jeroboam recovered not strength again in the days of Abijah. And at the last, the LORD plagued him, that he died.

¹ The same night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the Chronicles and the stories: which when they were read before the king,

¹⁰ And so David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

⁴³ And then he laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

²⁵ And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign upon Israel, the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned upon Israel two years. ²⁶ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin. ²⁷ But Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and slew him at Gibbethon a city of the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel lay at siege before Gibbethon. ²⁸ And it was the third year of Asa king of Judah, when Baasha slew him, and reigned in his stead. ²⁹ And as soon as he was king, he slew all the house of Jeroboam and left him nought that breathed, until he had put him clean out, agreeing unto the saying of the LORD which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, ³⁰ for the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he sinned and made Israel sin, and for his angering wherewith he angered the LORD God of Israel. ³¹ The rest of the deeds of Nadab, and all he did, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

¹² but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep.

⁵ I laid me down and slept, and rose up again; for the LORD sustained me.

⁸ I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest; for it is thou, LORD, only that makest me dwell in safety.

²⁴ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and thereon offer thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, and thy sheep and thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remembrance of my name, thither I will come unto thee and bless thee.

⁵ but ye shall enquire the place which the LORD your God shall have chosen out of all your tribes to put his name there and there to dwell.

²¹ If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou mayest kill of thy oxen and of thy sheep which the LORD hath given thee as I have commanded thee, and thou mayest eat in thine own city whatsoever thy soul lusteth.

³ The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the LORD; no, not in the tenth generation, no they shall never come in to the congregation of the LORD,

¹⁶ 'From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city among any of the tribes of Israel, to build a house, that my name might be there: But I have chosen David to be ruler over my people Israel.'

⁴⁴ And when they go out to battle against their enemies whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

³² and he shall have one, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:

³⁶ and will give his son one, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me, to put my name there.

³¹ And Rehoboam laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his room.

¹³ And king Rehoboam waxed mighty in Jerusalem and reigned. And Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he was made king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonite.

⁷ And there gathered to him lewd men and unthrifties, and prevailed against Rehoboam the son of Solomon: for Rehoboam was young and tender hearted and not strong enough for them.

⁶⁸ but chose the tribe of Judah, even the hill of Zion which he loved. ⁶⁹ And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure.

¹ {A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah} Her foundations are upon the holy hills; ² the LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

¹³ For the LORD hath chosen Zion, to be a habitation for himself; he hath longed for her. ¹⁴ "This shall be my rest; here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.

⁶ Cry and shout thou inhabiter of Zion, for great among you is the holy of Israel.

²⁴ For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God.

²⁸ And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.'

¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him. ¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not. ¹⁸ Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgot God that made thee. ¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. ²⁰ And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith. ²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

⁷ And so the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God and served Baalim and Asheroth.

¹² And then the children of Israel went to again, and committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And then the LORD hardened Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickedness before the LORD.

¹ And the children of Israel began again to do wickedly in the sight of the LORD when Ehud was dead.

³⁰ And he displeased the LORD above all that were before him.

¹⁹ And thereto Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the ordinances of Israel which they had made.

¹¹ "Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done such abominations — and hath wrought wickedly above all that the Amorites which were before him did; and hath made Judah sin also with his Idols -

¹ And when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and made it strong, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him;

¹⁴ And he did evil: for he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

⁵⁸ And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

³ To a people that is ever defying me to my face. They make their oblations in gardens, and their smoke upon altars of brick; ⁴ they lurk among the graves, and lie in the dens all night. They eat swine flesh, and unclean broth is in their vessels.

⁷ Hast thou seen also, when she had done all this, how I said unto her that she should turn again unto me, and yet she is not returned? Judah, that unfaithful sister of hers also saw this: ⁸ Namely, that after I had well seen the adultery of the shrinking harlot Israel, I put her away, and gave her a bill of divorcement. For all this, her unfaithful sister Judah was not ashamed, but went back and played the whore also. ⁹ Yea, and the noise of her whoredom hath defiled the whole land. For she hath committed her adultery with stones and stocks. ¹⁰ Nevertheless, her unfaithful sister Judah is not turned unto me again with her whole heart, but feignedly, sayeth the LORD." ¹¹ And the LORD said unto me, "The shrinking Israel is more righteous than the unfaithful Judah:

⁴⁷ Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they. ⁴⁸ As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, Sodom thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil as thou and thy daughters.

¹ Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves thereto: for I am the LORD your God;

² See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high hills and under every green tree.

²² Thou shalt set thee up no pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth.

² Only the people sacrificed in altars made on hills, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD until those days.

¹⁵ And the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed that groweth in the water is shaken, and will weed Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond Euphrates, because they have made them groves to anger the LORD.

⁹ And the children of Israel wrapped themselves in things that were not well toward the LORD their God. And they built them Hill altars in all their cities, both in the towers where they kept watch and also in the strong towns. ¹⁰ And they made them images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

³ And he went and built the hill altars again, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he reared up altars to Baal and made groves, as did Ahab king of Israel. And he bowed himself unto all the host of heaven and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the very house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put my name." ⁵ And he built altars unto all the host of heaven, even in two courts of the house of the LORD. ⁶ And he offered his son in fire, and observed dismal days; and used witchcraft and maintained workers with spirits, and tellers of fortunes — and wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to anger him. ⁷ And he put an image of a grove that he had made, even in the very temple of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.

⁴ And he offered burnt cense in hill altars and on mountains and under every green tree.

⁵ Ye take your pleasure under the oaks, and under all green trees. And ye offer children in the valleys, and dens of stone.

²⁰ "I have ever broken thy yoke of old, and bursten thy bonds: yet sayest thou, 'I will no more serve.' But like a harlot thou runnest about upon all high hills,

¹³ but on this condition, that thou know thy great blasphemy: Namely, that thou hast unfaithfully forsaken the LORD thy God, and hast made thyself partaker of strange gods under all green trees, but hast had no will to hear my voice, sayeth the LORD.

² that your children also may think upon your altars, woods, thick trees, high hills, mountains and fields.

²⁴ Thou hast builded thy stews and brothel houses in every place: yea, at the head of every street hast thou builded thee an altar. ²⁵ Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom.

²⁸ For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings. ²⁹ Then I ask them, 'What is that hill altar that you go to it?' And therefore is it called Bamah unto this day.

¹⁴ Thy groves will I pluck up by the roots, and break down thy cities.

⁵ And they called unto Lot and said unto him, "Where are the men which came into thy house tonight? Bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them."

¹⁷ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whorekeeper of the sons of Israel.

²² And as they were making their hearts merry, the men of the city which were wicked, set the house round about, and thrust at the door, and spake to the man of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him."

¹² And he made the stews of males depart the land, and put away all the idols that his fathers had made.

⁴⁶ And the remnant of the stews of the males, which remained in the days of his father, he put clean out of the land.

⁷ And he brake down the cells of the male whores that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove little houses for the grove.

²⁴ Wherefore God, likewise, gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves: ²⁵ which turned his truth unto a lie, and worshipped and served the creatures more than the creator, which is blessed forever, Amen. ²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use unto the unnatural. ²⁷ And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.

⁹ Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

⁴⁰ And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam: wherefore Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt unto Shishak king of Egypt and continued there until the death of Solomon.

² wherefore, the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, ³ with twelve hundred chariots and three score thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, with them of Libya, and the Sukkiims and the black Moors. ⁴ And they took the strong cities that were in Judah and came to Jerusalem.

⁹ And Shishak king of Egypt came to Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and shortly he took all. And he took also the shields of gold which Solomon made.

⁵¹ And so was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And then Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated in silver, gold and other vessels, and put them to the treasure of the house of the LORD.

¹⁶ And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold, six hundred sicles of gold went to a buckler. ¹⁷ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold, three pounds of gold going to a piece, and put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁸ Then Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasure of the house of the LORD, and all the treasure of the king's house and delivered it unto his servants, and sent them to Benhadad the son of Tabrimmon the son of Hezion king of Syria that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

¹³ And he carried out thence all the treasure of the house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's house, and brake all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made, in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

¹⁵ And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of gold, six hundred sicles of beaten gold to a buckler; ¹⁶ and three hundred shields of beaten gold, three hundred sicles of gold to a shield; and he put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

⁹ And Shishak king of Egypt came to Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and shortly he took all. And he took also the shields of gold which Solomon made. ¹⁰ Instead of which, king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and put them in the keeping of the captains of his guard which waited in the gate of the king's house. ¹¹ And as oft as the king went to the house of the LORD, the guard went and fetched them, and brought them again unto the guard chamber.

⁶ Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

³⁵ I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. ³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne is like as the sun before me. ³⁷ He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon, and as the faithful witness in heaven." Selah. ³⁸ But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine annointed, and art displeased at him. ³⁹ Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground. ⁴⁰ Thou hast overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his strongholds. ⁴¹ All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours. ⁴² Thou hast set up the righthand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice. ⁴³ Thou hast taken away the strength of his sword, and givest him not victory in the battle. ⁴⁴ Thou hast put out his glory, and cast his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with dishonour. Selah.

⁵ Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.

¹⁸ Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me. ¹⁹ For who knoweth, whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with such wisdom have taken under the Sun. Is not this a vain thing?

¹¹ and he said, "This shall be the duty of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons and put them to his chariots and make his horsemen of them and they must run before his chariot,

¹⁷ Then said the king unto his footmen that stood about him, "Turn and slay the priests of the LORD, both because their hand is with David and because they knew when David fled and showed it not to me." But the servants of the king would not move their hands, to run upon the priests of the LORD.

¹ After this Absalom gat him chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him.

¹ At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

⁴⁶ And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab, till they came to Jezreel.

¹ {Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street? ² {Beth} The children of Zion that were always in honour, and clothed with the most precious gold: how are they now become like the earthen vessels which be made with the potter's hand?

¹¹ And as oft as the king went to the house of the LORD, the guard went and fetched them, and brought them again unto the guard chamber.

⁴¹ And the rest of the acts of Solomon and all that he did, and his wisdom, are written in the book of the Acts of Solomon.

¹⁹ And the rest of the deeds of Jeroboam — how he warred and how he reigned — are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Israel.

²³ And the remnant of all the deeds of Asa and of all his might and of all that he did, and the cities which he built, are written in the chronicles of the acts done in the days of the kings of Judah. Neverthelater, in his old age he was diseased in his feet.

⁴⁵ And the rest of the deeds of Jehoshaphat, and the might that he used, and how he warred, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

¹⁵ The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are written in the sayings of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer of visions — so much as his genealogy, and the perpetual war that was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam during their life. ¹⁶ And Rehoboam laid him to sleep with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

²¹ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and four score thousands of chosen men and good warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, and to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

⁶ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam as long as he lived. ⁷ And the rest of the deeds of Abijam and all that he did, are written in the book of the deeds that were done in the days of the kings of Judah. And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

¹⁵ The acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are written in the sayings of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer of visions — so much as his genealogy, and the perpetual war that was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam during their life.

²⁰ And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years. And then he rested with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. ²¹ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah and was forty one years old when he began to reign, and reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah an Ammonite.

³ And he walked in all the sins of his father which he did before him, and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

²⁴ And Asa laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father. And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his room.

⁵⁰ And Jehoshaphat laid him to sleep with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father. And Jehoram his son reigned in his room.

¹⁰ Solomon's son was Rehoboam, whose son was Abijah: and Asa was his son, and Jehoshaphat his son:

¹⁶ And Rehoboam laid him to sleep with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

⁷ Solomon begat Rehoboam; Rehoboam begat Abijah; Abijah begat Asa;