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And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I am. Then said she unto him, Hear the words of thy handmaid. And he said, I do hear.


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Then said she, thus, They ought surely first to have spoken, saying, "Let them ask at least in Abel:" and so would they have come to an end.


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I am one of the peaceful and faithful <i>cities</i> in Israel; thou seekest to overthrow a city and a metropolis in Israel: why wilt thou destroy the inheritance of the Lord?


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The matter is not so; but a man from the mountains of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri is his name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give him up alone, and I will withdraw from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be cast down to thee over the wall.


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And the woman came unto all the people with her wisdom; and they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it down to Joab: and he blew the cornet, and they scattered themselves from the city, every man to his tents. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.


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Now Joab was over all the army of Israel; and Benayah the son of Yehoyada was over the Kerethites and over the Pelethites;


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And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David besought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, On account of Saul, and on account of the house of blood, is this; because he hath slain the Gibonites.


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And the king called for the Gibonites, and said unto them: <i>now the Gibonites are not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Emorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; but Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel in Judah:</i>


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Wherefore David said unto the Gibonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?


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And the Gibonites said unto him, We have no concern of silver or gold with Saul and with his house: nor do we wish to kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye say, will I do for you.


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And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed, so that we should have no footing in all the boundaries of Israel.


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Let there be delivered unto us seven men of his sons, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.


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But the king had pity on Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lords oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.


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And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ayah, whom she had born unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Mecholathite:


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And he delivered them into the hand of the Gibonites, and they hanged them on the mount before the Lord; and they fell, these seven, together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest, in the beginning of the barleyharvest.


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And Rizpah the daughter of Ayah took sackcloth, and spread out it for herself upon the rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped down upon them out of heaven, and she suffered neither the birds of heaven to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.


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And David then went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Yabeshgilad, who had stolen them from the marketplace of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them up, at the time the Philistines had smitten Saul at Gilboa:


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And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered up the bones of those that had been hanged.


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And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin at Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king had commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.


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And the Philistines had again a war with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David became fatigued.


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And Yishbi at Nob, who was of the children of the Raphah, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of copper, he being girded with a new armor, thought to slay David.


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But Abishai the son of Zeruyah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then swore the men of David unto him, saying, Thou shalt go out no more with us to battle, that thou mayest not quench the lamp of Israel.


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And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle at Gob, with the Philistines: then smote Sibbechai the Chushathite Saph, who was of the children of the Raphah.


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And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines, when Elchanan the son of Yaareoregim, the Bethlechemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weavers beam.


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And there was again a battle in Gath, where was a man of <i>great</i> stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, <i>in all</i> four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the Raphah.


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These four were born to the Raphah in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.


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And David spoke unto the Lord the words of this song, and on the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.


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God, my rock, in whom I trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour! from violence dost thou save me!


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<i>When</i> in my distress I called upon the Lord, and to my God I cried; and he heard from his temple my voice, and my complaint <i>entered</i> into his ears.


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Then shook and trembled the earth; the foundations of the heavens were moved; and they shook, because he was wroth.


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And he made darkness round about him into pavilions, heavy masses of waters, thick clouds of the skies.


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And then were seen the channels of the sea, there were laid open the foundations of the world; at the rebuke of the Lord, through the blast of the breath of his nostrils.


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He delivered me from my enemy, the strong, from those that hated me, when they were too mighty for me.


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The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.


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Therefore did the Lord recompense me according to my righteousness, according to my purity before his eyes.


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With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind; with the upright mighty man thou wilt show thyself upright.


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And the afflicted people thou wilt save; but thy eyes are upon the haughty, <i>that</i> thou mayest bring <i>them</i> down.


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As for Godhis way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried; he is a shield to all that trust in him.


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And I beat them small as the dust of the earth; as the mire of the street, I stamp them, I tread them down.


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Thou hast also delivered me from the contests of my people: thou preservest me to be the head of nations, a people which I know not shall serve me.


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The children of the stranger shall utter flattery unto me; as soon as their ear heareth they shall be obedient unto me.


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And that bringeth me forth from my enemies: also above my opponents thou liftest me up, from the man of violence thou deliverest me.


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Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the nations, and unto thy name will I sing praises;


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<i>To</i> the tower of salvation of his king, and who showeth kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed forever.


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And these are the last words of David. Thus saith David the son of Jesse, and thus saith the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel:


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<i>Thus</i> said the God of Israel, concerning me spoke the Rock of Israel, That <i>I should be</i> ruler over men, be righteous, ruling in the fear of God;


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And as in the light of morning the sun riseth, in a morning without clouds, with more than the brightness <i>reflected</i> by rain on the herbs that spring from the earth.


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Truly is not so my house with God? since he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, firm in all, and sure? yea, will he not cause to grow all my salvation, and all my desire?


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But the man that will touch them must protect his hand with iron and the staff of a spear: and they will be utterly burnt with fire in the dwelling.


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These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Yoshebbashebeth, the Thachkemonite, the chief among the captains,the same as Adino the Eznite,because of eight hundred slain at one time.


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And after him was Elazar the son of Dodo, the son of Achochi, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had withdrawn themselves;


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He then arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand did cleave unto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victory on that day; and the people returned after him only to strip <i>the slain</i>.


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And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Hararite. The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, and there was a piece of ground full of lentiles; and the people had fled from the Philistines;


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But he placed himself in the midst of the ground, and delivered it, and smote the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.


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And these three, the chiefs of the thirty, went down, and came to David at harvesttime unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.


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And David longed, and said, Oh that one would bring me water to drink out of the well at Bethlechem, which is by the gate!


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And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines; and drew water out of the well of Bethlechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but he would not drink thereof, and poured it out unto the Lord.


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And he said, Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this: <i>is not this</i> the blood of the men that went at the risk of their life? and thus he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.


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And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruyah, was the chief of these three; and he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain, and had a name among the three.


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Although he was the most honored of the three, wherefore he became their captain: he nevertheless attained not unto the three <i>in prowess</i>.


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And Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, the son of a valiant man, great in many acts of Kabzeel; he it was that smote the two lionlike heroes of Moab; he also went down and slew a lion in the midst of a pit on a day when it snowed;


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And he slew an Egyptian, a man of good appearance; and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and he snatched the spear out of the Egyptians hand, and slew him with his own spear.


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He was more honored than the thirty; but he attained not to these three. And David appointed him in his private council.


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Cheleb the son of Baanah, the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibah of the children of Benjamin,


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Eliphelet the son of Achasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Achithophel the Gilonite,


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And again was the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.


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And the king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, Traverse, I pray thee, all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.


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Then said Joab unto the king, Now may the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold more, and may the eyes of my Lord the king see it; but why doth my Lord the king find delight in this thing?


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Nevertheless the kings word remained firm against Joab, and against the captains of the army: and Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.


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And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad, and toward Yazer:


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Then they came to Gilad, and to the land of Tachtimchodshi; and they came to Danyaan, and about to Zidon;


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And they came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, up to Beersheba.


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And so they traversed all the land, and they came at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem.


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And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.


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And Davids heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, cause the iniquity of thy servant to pass away; for I have acted very foolishly.


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And when David was arisen in the morning, The word of the Lord came unto Gad the prophet, Davids seer, saying,


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Go and speak unto David, Thus hath said the Lord, Three things do I offer thee: choose for thyself one of them, and I will do it unto thee.


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So Gad came to David, and told it unto him; and he said unto him, Shall there come unto thee seven years of famine in thy land? or three months, that thou flee before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be for three days a pestilence in thy land? now consider and see what word I shall bring back to him that hath sent me.


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And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall then into the hand of the Lord,for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.


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And the Lord sent a pestilence in Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.


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And when the angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord bethought himself of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: now stay thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingfloor of Aravnah the Jebusite.


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And David spoke unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Lo, I have indeed sinned, and I have truly done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my fathers house.


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And Gad came to David on that day, and said unto him, Go up, erect an altar unto the Lord on the threshingfloor of Aravnah the Jebusite.


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And Aravnah looked up, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Aravnah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.


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And Aravnah said, Wherefore is my Lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy from thee the threshingfloor, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.


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And Aravnah said unto David, Let my Lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good in his eyes: behold, the oxen are here for burntofferings, and the threshing rollers and the harness of the oxen for wood.


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All these things did Aravnah, <i>for</i> the king, give unto the king. And Aravnah said unto the king, May the Lord thy God receive thee favorably.


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And the king said unto Aravnah, No; but I will surely buy it from thee at the value; for I will not offer burntofferings unto the Lord my God without paying therefor. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.


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And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burntofferings and peaceofferings: and the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.


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Now king David was old, stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not become warm.


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Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let them seek out for my lord the king a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and let her be an attendant on him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may become warm.


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So they sought for a fair maiden throughout all the territory of Israel; and they found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.


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And the maiden was exceedingly fair; and she became an attendant on the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.


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And Adoniyah the son of Chaggith exalted himself, saying, I shall be king: and he procured himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men who ran before him.


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And his father had never grieved him in all his life by saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was of a very goodly form; and his mother had born him after Abshalom.


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And he had conferences with Joab the son of Zeruyah, and with Ebyathar the priest: and they, following Adoniyah, helped him.


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But Zadok the priest, and Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimi, and Rei, and the mighty men that belonged to David, were not with Adoniyah.


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And Adoniyah slaughtered sheep and oxen and fatted cattle by the stone Zocheleth, which is by Enrogel; and he invited all his brothers the kings sons, and all the men of Judah the kings servants;


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And Nathan spoke unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adoniyah the son of Chaggith is become king, and <i>that</i> David our lord knoweth it not?


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And now come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thy own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.


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Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying, Assuredly, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and only he shall sit upon my throne? why then is Adoniyah become king?


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And, lo, while thou shalt be yet speaking there with the king, I myself will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.


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And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber, and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king.


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And she said unto him, My lord, thou thyself didst swear by the Lord thy God unto thy handmaid, Assuredly, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and only he shall sit upon my throne.


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And he hath slaughtered oxen and fatted cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath invited all the sons of the king, and Ebyathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but Solomon thy servant hath he not invited.


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And as for thee, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, to tell them, who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.


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Otherwise it would come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon may be counted offenders.


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And they told the king, saying, Behold, here is Nathan the prophet: and when he was come in before the king, he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground.


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And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou then said, Adoniyah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?


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For he is gone down this day, and hath slaughtered oxen and fatted cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath invited all the kings sons, and the captains of the army, and Ebyathar the priest: and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and they say, Long live king Adoniyah.


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But as for me, me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not invited.


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Can it be that this hath been done by order of my lord the king, and thou hast not informed thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?


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Then answered king David, and said, Call me Bathsheba; and she came into the kings presence, and stood before the king.


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Even as I have sworn unto thee by the Lord the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and only he shall sit upon my throne in my stead: even so will I certainly do this day.


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Then did Bathsheba bow herself with her face to the earth, and prostrate herself unto the king; and she said, May my lord, the king David, live for ever!


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And king David said, Call unto me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benayahu the son of Yehoyada. And they came before the king.


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And the king said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon my own mule, and conduct him down to Gichon:


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And let Zadok the priest with Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel; and blow ye with the cornet, and say, Long live king Solomon.


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Then shall ye go up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; and he shall be king in my stead: and him have I ordained to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.


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And Benayahu the son of Yehoyada answered the king, and said, Amen: May thus say the Eternal the God of my lord the king.


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As the Eternal hath been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my lord the king David.


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Thereupon Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, and the Kerethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king Davids mule, and conducted him to Gichon.


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And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew with the cornet; and all the people said, Long live king Solomon.


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And all the people went up after him, and the people blew on flutes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth was rent at their noise.


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And Adoniyah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had just finished eating: and when Joab heard the sound of the cornet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city in an uproar?


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And while he was yet speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Ebyathar the priest came in: and Adoniyah said <i>unto him</i>, Come in; for thou art a worthy man, and must bring good tidings.


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And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, and the Kerethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the kings mule;


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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him as king on the Gichon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, and the city hath been set in commotion. This is the noise that ye have heard.


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And also the kings servants are come to bless our lord king David, saying, May God make the name of Solomon more famous than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne: and the king hath bowed himself upon the bed.


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And also thus hath the king said, Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath given <i>me</i> this day one who sitteth on my throne, while my eyes see it.


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And all the guests that were with Adoniyah were terrified, and rose up, and went, every man, on his own way.


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And Adoniyah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.


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And it was told unto Solomon, saying, Behold, Adoniyah feareth king Solomon; and, behold, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword.


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And Solomon said, If he will become a worthy man, there shall not a hair of his fall to the earth; but if any wrong shall be found on him, then shall he die.


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So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar; and he came and bowed himself to king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him, Go to thy house.


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And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses; in order that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;


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In order that the Lord may fulfill his word which he hath spoken concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall never fail thee, said he, a man on the throne of Israel.


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And thou also knowest well what Joab the son of Zeruyah hath done to me, what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amassa the son of Yether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and on his shoes that were on his feet.


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But unto the sons of Barzillai the Giladite show thou kindness, and let them be of those that eat at thy table; for so they came near to me when I fled from before Abshalom thy brother.


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And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimi the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bachurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Machanayim; but who came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.


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But now leave him not unpunished; for thou art a wise man; know then what thou oughtest to do unto him, and bring thou down his hoary head with blood to the grave.


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


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And Adoniyah the son of Chaggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon: and she said, Is thy coming for peace? And he said, For peace.


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And he said, Thou well knowest that mine was the kingdom, and that on me all Israel had set their faces, that I should reign: nevertheless the kingdom was turned about, and became my brothers; for from the Lord was it <i>made</i> his.


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And now there is one petition I am going to ask of thee, do not turn me away. And she said unto him, Speak.


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And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, <i>for he will not turn thee away,</i> that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite for wife.


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Bathsheba thereupon went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adoniyah; and the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and then sat down on his throne, and placed a chair for the kings mother; and she sat on his right hand.


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Then said she, There is one small petition I am going to ask of thee; do not turn me away. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not turn thee away.


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And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adoniyah? rather ask for him the kingdom; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Ebyathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruyah.


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Then swore king Solomon by the Lord, saying, May God do so to me, and may he thus continue, if Adoniyah have not spoken this word against his own life.


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And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and seated me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he hath spoken, this very day shall Adoniyah be put to death.


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And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benayahu the son of Yehoyada; and he fell upon him so that he died.


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And unto Ebyathar the priest said the king, Go to Anathoth, unto thy own fields; for thou art a man worthy of death; but on this day will I not put thee to death; because thou hast borne the ark of the Lord Eternal before David my father, and because thou was afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.


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So Solomon banished Ebyathar that he should not be priest unto the Lord, to fulfill the word of the Lord, which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.


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And the report came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adoniyah, though he had not turned after Abshalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.


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And it was told to king Solomon that Joab had fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and that, behold, he was close by the altar. Then sent Solomon Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, saying, Go, fall upon him.


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And Benayahu came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus hath said the king, Come forth. And he said, No; but here will I die. And Benayahu brought the king word again, saying, Thus hath Joab spoken, and thus hath he answered me.


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Then said the king unto him, Do as he hath spoken, and fall upon him, and bury him; and remove <i>thus</i> the innocent blood, which Joab hath shed, from me, and from the house of my father.


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And may the Lord bring back his bloodguiltiness upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, while my father David knew it not, Abner the son of Ner, the captain of the army of Israel, and Amassa the son of Yether, the captain of the army of Judah.


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And their blood shall return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever; but unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, may there be peace for ever from the Lord.


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So Benayahu the son of Yehoyada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.


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And the king appointed Benayahu the son of Yehoyada in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest did the king appoint in the place of Ebyathar.


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And the king sent and called for Shimi, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go forth from there hither or thither.


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And it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thy own head.


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And Shimi said unto the king, It is well: as my Lord the king hath spoken, so will thy servant do. And Shimi dwelt in Jerusalem many days.


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And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two servants of Shimi ran away unto Achish the son of Maachah the king of Gath: and they told unto Shimi, saying, Behold, thy servants are in Gath.


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And Shimi arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants; and Shimi went, and brought his servants from Gath.


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And the king sent and called for Shimi, and said unto him, Did I not make thee swear by the Lord, and warned thee, saying, On that day thou goest out, and walkest abroad hither or thither, know for certain that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, It is well, I have heard?


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The king said moreover to Shimi, Thou well knowest all the wickedness of which thy heart is conscious, that thou hast done to David my father: and the Lord bringeth back thy wickedness upon thy own head;


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But king Solomon will be blessed, and the throne of David will be established before the Lord for ever.


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So the king commanded Benayahu the son of Yehoyada, who went out, and fell upon him, so that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.


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And Solomon intermarried with Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.


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But the people sacrificed still on the highplaces; because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.


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And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only that he sacrificed and burnt incense on the highplaces.


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And the king went to Gibon to sacrifice there; for that was the great highplace: one thousand burntofferings did Solomon offer upon that altar.


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In Gibon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream of the night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.


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And Solomon said, Thou hast shown unto thy servant David my father great kindness, just as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, and thou hast given him a son who sitteth on his throne, as it is this day.


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And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king in the place of David my father: and I am but a young lad; I know not how to go out or come in.


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And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot he numbered nor counted for multitude.


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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who would <i>otherwise</i> be able to judge this thy great people?


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And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; and hast not asked for thyself riches, nor hast asked the life of thy enemies; but hast asked for thyself discernment to understand <i>how to give</i> judgment:


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Behold, I have done according to thy word; lo, I have given thee a wise and a discerning heart; so that like unto thee there was none before thee, nor after thee shall any one arise like unto thee.


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And also what thou hast not asked have I given thee, both riches and honor: so that like unto thee there shall not have been any one among the kings all thy days.


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And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then will I lengthen thy days.


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And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream; and he went to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burntofferings, and prepared peaceofferings, and made a feast to all his servants.


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And the one woman said, Pardon, my Lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.


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And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, that also this woman was delivered: and we were together, there was no stranger with us in the house, only we two were in the house.


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And she arose in the midst of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom.


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And when I rose in the morning to give my son suck, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I had born.


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And the other woman said, It is not so; my son is the living one, and thy son is the dead; and this one said, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living: thus they spoke before the king.


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Then said the king, This one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is dead: and the other saith, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.


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And the king said, Hew the living child in two, and give the one half to one, and the other half to the other.


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Then spoke the woman whose son was the living unto the king, for her love had become enkindled for her son, and she said, O pardon, my Lord, give her the living child, and only do not slay it; but the other said, Neither mine nor thine shall it be, hew it asunder.


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And when all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to exercise justice.


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And Azaryahu the son of Nathan was over the superintendents; and Zabud the son of Nathan was an officer of state and the kings friend;


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And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household: one month in the year had the particular one to procure provisions.


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Baana the son of Achilud in Thaanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zarethanah beneath Yizreel, from Bethshean to Abelmecholah, as far as beyond Yokmeam;


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Bengeber, in Ramothgilad; to him pertained the villages of Yair the son of Menasseh, which are in Gilad; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars;


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Geber the son of Uri in the country of Gilad, the country of Sichon the king of the Emorites, and of Og the king of Bashan; besides the one superintendent who was in the land.


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Judah and Israel were numerous, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude; and they ate and drank, and made merry.


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<n>(5:1)</n> And Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt, which brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.


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<n>(5:2)</n> And Solomons provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour, and sixty kors of meal,


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<n>(5:3)</n> Ten fatted oxen, and twenty pasture oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.


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<n>(5:4)</n> For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Thiphsach even to Gazzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.


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<n>(5:5)</n> And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.


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<n>(5:6)</n> And Solomon had forty thousand stalls for the horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.


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<n>(5:7)</n> And those superintendents provided for king Solomon, and for all that came near unto king Solomons table, every man in his month: they let nothing be wanting.


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<n>(5:8)</n> The barley also and the straw for the horses and the runners did they bring unto the place where he might be, every man according to his prescription.


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<n>(5:9)</n> And God gave unto Solomon wisdom and understanding exceedingly much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.


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<n>(5:10)</n> And Solomons wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.


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<n>(5:11)</n> And he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Darda, the sons of Machol: and his name was <i>spread</i> among all the nations round about.


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<n>(5:13)</n> And he spoke concerning the trees, from the cedartree that is on the Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also concerning the beasts, and concerning the fowl, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes.


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<n>(5:14)</n> And men came from all the people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.


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<n>(5:15)</n> And Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram had all the time been a lover of David.


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<n>(5:17)</n> Thou well knowest of David my father, that he was not able to build a house unto the name of the Lord his God, on account of the war wherewith his enemies encompassed him, until the Lord had put them under the soles of his feet.


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<n>(5:18)</n> But now hath the Lord my God given me rest on every side, there is neither adversary nor evil hinderance.


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<n>(5:19)</n> And, behold, I purpose to build a house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord hath spoken unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will place in thy room upon thy throne, he it is that shall build the house unto my name.


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<n>(5:20)</n> And now command thou that they hew me cedartrees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and the wages of thy servants will I give unto thee in accordance with all that thou wilt say; for thou well knowest that there is not among us a man that hath the skill to hew timber like unto the Zidonians.


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<n>(5:21)</n> And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly; and he said, Blessed be the Lord this day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this numerous people.


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<n>(5:22)</n> And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard what thou hast sent to me for: I will gladly execute all thy desire in respect of timber of cedar, and in respect of timber of fir.


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<n>(5:23)</n> My servants shall bring them down from the Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place of which thou wilt send me word, and I will cause them to be taken apart there, and thou shalt take them away; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving the food for my household.


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<n>(5:25)</n> And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as provision for his household, and twenty kors of beaten oil: thus did Solomon give to Hiram year by year.


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<n>(5:26)</n> And the Lord gave wisdom unto Solomon, as he had spoken to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they made a covenant with each other.


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<n>(5:27)</n> And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.


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<n>(5:28)</n> And he sent them into the Lebanon, ten thousand in each month by turns; one month they used to be in the Lebanon, two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.


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<n>(5:29)</n> And there belonged to Solomon seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains;


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<n>(5:30)</n> Besides the chiefs who were appointed by Solomon over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought on the work.


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<n>(5:31)</n> And when the king commanded, they quarried out great stones, heavy stones, to lay the foundation of the house, and hewn stones.


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<n>(5:32)</n> And the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hewed them; and so they prepared the wood and the stones to build the house.


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And it came to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the going forth of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, of the reign of Solomon over Israel, that he built the house unto the Lord.


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And the house which king Solomon built unto the Lord, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.


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And the porch before the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the breadth of the house; and ten cubits in breadth at the east side of the house.


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And he built on the wall of the house a gallery round about, on the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the most holy place: and he made sidechambers round about.


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The nethermost gallery was five cubits in breadth, and the middle was six cubits in breadth, and the third was seven cubits in breadth; for projections had he made to the house round about on the outside, so as to fasten nothing in the walls of the house.


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And the house, when it was in building, was built of entire stones as they had been prepared at the quarry: so that neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron was heard in the house, while it was in building.


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The door for the middle <i>gallery</i> sidechamber was in the right side of the house: and with winding stairs they went up into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.


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So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with hollow tiles, and with boards of cedar.


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And he built the gallery against all the house, <i>each</i> five cubits in height; and it was fastened on to the house with timber of cedar.


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This house which thou art buildingif thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them: then will I perform my word with thee, which I have spoken unto David thy father.


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And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to where the walls touched the ceiling did he overlay it on the inside with wood; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.


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And he built the twenty cubits on the lower side of the house with boards of cedar, from the floor to the battlements; and he built it within, for the debir, for the holy of holies.


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And the cedar on the house within was carved with colocynths and opening flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.


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And the debir in the house within did he prepare, to set therein the ark of the covenant of the Lord.


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And the interior of the debir was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits was its height: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the altar with cedarwood.


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And Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he barred by means of chains of gold the front of the debir; and he overlaid it with gold.


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And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that was before the debir did he overlay with gold.


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And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: <i>there were</i> ten cubits from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other.


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And he set the cherubim within the innermost part of the house: and they spread forth the wings of the cherubim, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings toward the middle of the house touched one another.


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And on all the wall of the house round about he carved figures of cherubim and palmtrees and opening flowers, in the debir and in the temple.


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And for the entrance of the debir he made doors of oleasterwood: the lintel with the sideposts forming five sides.


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And also upon the two doors of oleasterwood he carved figures of cherubim and palmtrees and opening flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread the gold, by beating, upon the cherubim, and upon the palmtrees.


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And two doors of firwood: the one door having two leaves which were folding, and the other door having two leaves which were folding.


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And he carved thereon cherubim, and palmtrees and opening flowers: and he overlaid them with gold fitting upon the carved work.


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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its requirements. So was he building it seven years.


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He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon: a hundred cubits was its length, and fifty cubits was its breadth, and thirty cubits was its height, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.


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And it was covered with cedar above over the beams, that lay on the fortyfive pillars, fifteen in a row.


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And all the entrances and doorposts formed a square in shape: and windows were opposite windows in three ranks.


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And he made a porch of pillars: fifty cubits was its length, and thirty cubits its breadth; and the porch was before them; and the other pillars with an entablature before them.


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Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.


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And his house where he dwelt in another court within the porch, was of the like work: and Solomon made also a house for Pharaohs daughter, whom he had taken for wife, like unto this porch.


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All these were of heavy stones, hewn after a fixed measure, sawed with the saw inside and outside, even from the foundation unto the coping, and from the outside unto the great court.


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And the foundation was of heavy stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.


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And the great court round about was of three rows of hewn stones, and one row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.


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He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in copper: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge, to make every work in copper; and he came to king Solomon, and did all his work.


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And he cast two pillars of copper, eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar; and a line of twelve cubits did encompass the second pillar.


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And he made two capitals, to set upon the tops of the pillars, of molten copper; five cubits was the height of the one capital, and five cubits was the height of the other capital;


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And nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.


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And he made the pillars, so that two rows of pomegranates were round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top: and the same he made for the other capital.


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And the capitals, that were upon the top of the pillars, furnished with lilywork, <i>as</i> those in the porch, were four cubits.


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And the capitals upon the two pillars rose also above, close by the rounding which was on the side of the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about, upon either capital.


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And he set up the pillars for the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Yachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.


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And he made the molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other, rounded all about, and it was five cubits in height: and a line of thirty cubits did encompass it round about.


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And colocynthshaped knobs were under its brim round about encompassing it, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea round about: the colocynths were in two rows, and were cast <i>with it</i> when it was cast.


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It was standing upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was resting above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.


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And its thickness was a hands breadth, and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, with lilybuds: it could contain two thousand baths.


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And he made ten bases of copper: four cubits was the length of each one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.


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And this was the workmanship of the bases: They had borders, and the borders were between the corner ledges;


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And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the corner ledges it was thus also above; and likewise beneath the lions and oxen were pendant wreaths of plated work.


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And every base had four copper wheels, and axles of copper; and its four corners had undersetters; under the laver were the undersetters cast on; at the side of each were pendants.


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And its mouth was within the capital and above a cubit in height; but the mouth of this was rounded after the work of the base, a cubit and a half cubit; and also upon its mouth were carvings; and their borders were square, not rounded.


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And the four wheels were under the borders; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of each one wheel was a cubit and a half cubit.


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And the workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariotwheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all cast.


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And there were four undersetters to the four corners of each one base; the undersetters were of one piece with the base itself.


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And on the top of the base was a rounded compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base were its sideledges; and its borders were of one piece with itself.


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And he engraved on the plates of its sideledges and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palmtrees: and in the open space of every one were pendant wreaths round about.


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After this manner did he make the ten bases: one casting, one measure, one form, was there for all of them.


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Then made he ten lavers of copper; forty baths could each one laver contain; every laver was four cubits: each one laver was upon each one base of the ten bases.


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And he put the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea he set on the right side of the house eastward opposite the south.


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And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins; so Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord.


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The two pillars, and the two bowlshaped capitals that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowlshaped capitals which were upon the top of the pillars;


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And the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each one network, to cover the two bowlshaped, capitals that were upon the front of the pillars;


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And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins; and all these vessels, which Hiram had made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of polished copper.


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And Solomon set down all the vessels <i>unweighed</i>, because they were exceedingly many: the weight of the copper was not inquired into.


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And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: The altar of gold, and the table whereupon the showbread was, of gold,


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And the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the debir, of pure gold, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,


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And the bowls, and the knives, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges, for the doors of the inner house, for the holy of holies, for the doors of the house, and for the temple, <i>were</i> of gold.


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And so was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord: and Solomon brought in the things sanctified by David his father, the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, <i>and</i> he placed <i>these</i> in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.


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Then did Solomon assemble the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the divisions of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.


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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.


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And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle: even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.


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And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.


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And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto its place, into the debir of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.


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For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves from above.


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And they had made the staves so long, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place in the front of the debir, but they were not seen without; and they have remained there until this day.


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There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses had placed therein at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.


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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord:


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And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.


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And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel was standing;


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And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, when he said,


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Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I did not make choice of any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I made choice of David to be over my people Israel.


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And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.


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But the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart:


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Nevertheless, thou shalt not thyself build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.


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And the Lord hath fulfilled his word that he hath spoken: and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord hath spoken, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.


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And I have assigned there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt.


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And Solomon now placed himself before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;


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And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no god like thee, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath, thou who keepest the covenant and the kindness for thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;


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Who hast kept for thy servant David my father what thou hadst promised him; and thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.


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And now, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep for thy servant David my father what thou hast spoken concerning him, saying, There shall never fail thee a man in my sight who sitteth on the throne of Israel; if thy children but take heed to their way to walk before me, as thou hast walked before me.


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And now, O God of Israel, I pray thee, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David my father.


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For in truth will God then dwell on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!


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Yet wilt thou turn thy regard unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen unto the entreaty and unto the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee today;


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That thy eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there; that thou mayest listen unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray at this place.


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And listen thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they will pray at this place: and oh, do thou hear in heaven thy dwellingplace; and hear, and forgive.


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If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thy altar in this house:


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Then do thou hear in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, by condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and by justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.


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When thy people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and they return then to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:


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Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and cause them to return unto the land which thou hast given unto their fathers.


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When the heavens be shut up, and there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee, and they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them:


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Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt teach them the good way wherein they should walk; and give then rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.


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If there be a famine in the land, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, or if there be locust, caterpillar, if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; at whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness;


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What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall be conscious every man of the plague of his own heart, and he then spread forth his hands toward this house:


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Then do thou hear in heaven the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and act, and give to every man in accordance with all his ways, as thou mayest know his heart; for thou, thyself alone, knowest the heart of all the children of men;


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In order that they may fear thee all the days that they live on the face of the land which thou hast given unto our fathers.


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But also to the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a faroff country for the sake of thy name;


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For they will hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy outstretched arm; when he will come and pray at this house:


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Mayest thou listen in heaven the place of thy dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger will call on thee for; in order that all the nations of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as <i>do</i> thy people Israel; and that they may understand that this house, which I have built, is called by thy name.


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If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, on the way on which thou mayest send them, and they do pray unto the Lord in the direction of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the house that I have built for thy name:


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If they sin against thee, <i>for there is no man that may not sin,</i> and thou be angry with them, and give them up before the enemy, so that their captors carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, <i>be it</i> far or near;


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And if they then take it to their heart in the land whither they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly;


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And they return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have led them away captive, and they pray unto thee in the direction of their land, which thou hast given unto their fathers, of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the house which I have built for thy name:


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Then hear thou in heaven the place of thy dwelling their prayer and their supplication, and procure them justice;


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And forgive thy people for what they have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against thee, and cause them to find mercy before their captors, that they may have mercy on them;


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For they are thy people, and thy heritage, whom thou hast brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace;


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That thy eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to listen unto them in all for which they call unto thee;


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For thou hast separated them unto thee as a heritage from all the people of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest forth our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Eternal.


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And it happened, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord from kneeling on his knees, with his hands spread out toward heaven.


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Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest unto his people Israel, in accordance with all that he hath spoken: <i>so that</i> there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he spoke by the hand of Moses his servant.


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That he may incline our heart unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.


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And may these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel in their daily requirements;


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In order that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord is the <i>true</i> God, and none else.


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Let your heart therefore be entire with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.


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And Solomon offered <i>as</i> the sacrifice of peaceoffering which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. And thus did the king and all the children of Israel dedicate the house of the Lord.


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On the same day did the king hallow the interior of the court that was before the house of the Lord; for he prepared there the burntofferings, and the meatofferings, and the fat of the peaceofferings; because the copper altar that was before the Lord was too small to contain the burntofferings, and the meatofferings, and the fat of the peaceofferings.


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And Solomon held at that time the feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Chamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.


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On the eighth day he dismissed the people, and they blessed the king; and they went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart, because of all the good that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.


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And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the kings house, and all Solomons desire which he was pleased to execute:


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And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast offered before me; I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times.


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And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in rectitude, to do in accordance with all that I have commanded thee, <i>and</i> wilt keep my statutes and my ordinances:


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Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever; as I have spoken concerning David thy father, saying, There shall never fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.


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But if ye will at all turn away, ye or your children, from following me, and will not keep my commandments <i>and</i> my statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them:


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Then will I cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed unto my name, will I cast away from my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all the nations;


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And at this house, <i>which</i> should be so exalted, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and men will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?


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And they shall say, For the cause that they forsook the Lord their God, who had brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.


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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the kings house,


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(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedartrees and firtrees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that king Solomon then gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.


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And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; but they were not right in his eyes.


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And he said, What kind of cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them, The land of Cabul, until this day.


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And this is the manner of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Chazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.


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(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and captured Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it as a marriagepresent unto his daughter, Solomons wife.


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And all the treasurecities that Solomon had, and the cities for the chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and the <i>other</i> desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.)


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All the people that were left of the Emorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,


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Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not been able utterly to destroy, these did Solomon levy as tributary laborers until this day.


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Yet of the children of Israel did Solomon make no one a bondman; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and the officers of his chariots, and of his horsemen.


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These <i>also</i> were the chiefs of the superintendents that were over Solomons work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people that wrought on the work.


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But Pharaohs daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which he had built for her: then did he build the Millo.


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And Solomon did offer three times in every year burntofferings and peaceofferings upon the altar which he had built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the one that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.


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And king Solomon made a ship in Ezyongeber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.


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And Hiram sent in the ship his servants, seamen, that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.


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And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.


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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon in connection with the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with riddles.


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And she came to Jerusalem with an exceedingly great train, with camels bearing spices, and gold in great abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was on her heart.


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And Solomon solved <i>for</i> her all her questions: nothing remained hidden from the king, which he did not tell her.


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And the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her.


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And she said to the king, The truth only was the word that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.


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And I believed not in the words, until I came, and my eyes saw <i>all</i>: and, behold, the half hath not been told me; thou excellest in wisdom and prosperity the report which I have heard.


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Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, who stand before thee continually, who hear thy wisdom.


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Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath had delight in thee, to place thee on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loveth Israel for ever, therefore hath he made thee king, to do justice and righteousness.


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


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And also the ship of Hiram, that fetched gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir in great abundance sandalwood and precious stones.


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And the king made of the sandalwood a railing for the house of the Lord, and for the kings house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: there came no such sandalwood, nor was it seen <i>again</i> until this day.


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And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her pleasure, whatsoever she asked, beside what Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned about and went to her own country, she and her servants.


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Now the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty and six talents of gold,


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Beside <i>what he had</i> of the traveling tradesmen, and of the traffic of the merchants, and of the kings of confederate nations, and of the governors of the country.


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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold he used for each one target.


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And <i>he made</i> three hundred shields of beaten gold; three manehs of gold he used for each one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


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The throne had six steps, and there was a round top on the throne behind; and there were arms on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms.


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And twelve lions stood there upon the six steps on both sides: there was not the like made in any other kingdom.


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And all king Solomons drinkingvessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver; it was not valued in the days of Solomon at the least.


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For the king had a Tharshishship at sea with the ship of Hiram: once in three years the Tharshishship used to come home, laden with gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.


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And <i>men of</i> all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.


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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules: and so year by year.


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And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he quartered in the cities for chariots, and near the king at Jerusalem.


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And the king rendered the silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he rendered like the sycamoretrees that are in the lowlands, for abundance.


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And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt; and a company of the kings merchants bought a quantity at a price.


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And a chariotteam came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.


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But king Solomon loved many strange women, beside the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.


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From the nations concerning which the Lord had said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in among them, nor shall they come in among you; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: unto these Solomon did cleave to love them.


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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.


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And it came to pass, at the time that Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not undivided with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.


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And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the divinity of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.


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And Solomon did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, like David his father.


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Then did Solomon build a highplace for Kemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.


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And the Lord was angry with Solomon; because his heart was turned away from the Lord the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice;


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And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep that which the Lord had commanded.


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And the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is in thy mind, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I commanded concerning thee: I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.


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Nevertheless in thy days will I not do it, for the sake of David thy father; <i>but</i> out of the hand of thy son will I rend it.


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Still all the kingdom will I not rend away: one tribe will I give to thy son on account of David my servant, and on account of Jerusalem which I have chosen.


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And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the kings seed in Edom.


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It came to pass, namely, when David was in Edom, when Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;


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That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his fathers servants with him, to go into Egypt; but Hadad was then yet a young lad.


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And they arose from Midian, and came to Paran; and they took <i>some</i> men with them from Paran, and came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt; who gave him a house, and decreed him a support, and gave him land.


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And Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, so that he gave him for wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Thachpeness the queen.


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And the sister of Thachpeness bore him Genubath his son, whom Thachpeness brought up in Pharaohs house; and Genubath remained in Pharaohs house among the sons of Pharaoh.


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And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead: Hadad said to Pharaoh, Dismiss me, that I may go to my own country.


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Then said Pharaoh unto him, But what dost thou lack with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own country? And he answered, Nothing: nevertheless thou must let me go away.


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And God stirred him up <i>another</i> adversary, Rezon the son of Elyada, who had fled from Hadadezer the king of Zobah his lord;


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And he gathered around him some men, and became captain over a band, when David slew those <i>of Zobah</i>; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.


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And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.


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Also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zeredah, the name of whose mother was Zeruah, a widow woman, was a servant of Solomon, and he lifted up his hand against the king.


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And this was the occasion that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built up the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.


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And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was <i>also</i> an industrious worker, he appointed him over all the charge of the house of Joseph.


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And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Achiyah the Shilonite found him on the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and these two were alone by themselves in the field;


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


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But the one tribe shall remain for him, on account of my servant David, and on account of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel;


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For the cause that they have forsaken me, and have bowed down to Ashtoreth the divinity of the Zidonians, to Kemosh the god of Moab, and to Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes, and my statutes and my ordinances, like David his father.


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Nevertheless will I not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will let him remain prince all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;


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But I will take the kingdom out of the hand of his son, and I will give it unto thee, even the ten tribes.


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And unto his son will I give one tribe; so that there may remain a government for David my servant at all times before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for me, to put my name there.


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But thee will I take, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul may long for; and thou shalt be king over Israel.


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And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I shall command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did: that I will be with thee, and build thee a permanent house, as I have built for David, and I will give Israel unto thee.


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Solomon thereupon sought to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak the king of Egypt, and remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon.


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And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did and his wisdom, behold, they are written in the book of the history of Solomon.


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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son became king in his stead.


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And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, heard of it, (but he was yet in Egypt, whither he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;


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And they had sent and called him;) that Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke unto Rehoboam, saying,


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Thy father made our yoke hard; but do thou now make lighter the hard service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.


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Then consulted king Rehoboam with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I should give an answer to this people?


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And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou wilt this day be a servant unto this people, and wilt serve them, and be attentive to them, and speak to them good words; then will they be servants unto thee for all times.


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But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, those who stood before him:


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And he said unto them, What do you counsel how we should give an answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make lighter the yoke which thy father did put upon us?


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Then spoke unto him the young men that were grown up with him, saying, Thus must thou say unto this people that have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but do thou make it lighter unto us: thus must thou speak unto them, My little finger is thicker than my fathers loins.


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And now, if my father hath burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will even add to your yoke; if my father hath chastised you with whips, then will I chastise you with scorpionthorns.


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When now Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Return to me on the third day.


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And he spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will even add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpionthorns.


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Thus the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was so brought about from the Lord, in order that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord had spoken by means of Achiyah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


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So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people gave the king an answer saying, What portion have we in David? nor have we an inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel: now see to thy own house, David. So did Israel go away unto their tents.


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Then sent king Rehoboam Adoram, who was over the tribute; but all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed with all his might to get up into his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.


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And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, save the tribe of Judah alone.


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And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.


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Say unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, the king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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Thus hath said the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight with your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for from me hath this thing been brought about. And they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned to go home, according to the word of the Lord.


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And Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from there and built Penuel.


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If this people go up to prepare sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then may the heart of this people turn again unto their Lord, even unto Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they might kill me, and return to Rehoboam the king of Judah.


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Whereupon the king took counsel, and he made two calves of gold, and said unto the people, You have been long enough going up to Jerusalem: behold, here are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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And he made a house of the highplaces, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.


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And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he stationed at Bethel the priests of the highplaces whom he had made.


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So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had falsely devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast unto the children of Israel, and he went up to the altar, to burn incense.


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And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Bethel: while Jeroboam was standing upon the altar to burn incense.


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And he called out against the altar by the word of the Lord, and he said, O altar, altar, thus hath said the Lord, Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice upon thee the priests of the highplaces that burn incense upon thee, and mens bones shall be burnt upon thee.


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And he gave on the same day a token, saying, This is the token that the Lord hath spoken, Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes which are upon it shall be spilled about.


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And it came to pass, when the king heard the word of the man of God, which he had called out against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam stretched forth his hand from off the altar, saying, Seize him. And his hand, which he had put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.


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The altar also was rent, and the ashes were spilled about from the altar, according to the token which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.


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And the king commenced and said unto the man of God, Offer but entreaty before the Lord thy God, and pray in behalf of me, that my hand may return to me again. And the man of God offered his entreaty before the Lord, and the kings hand returned to him again, and became as it was before.


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And the king spoke unto the man of God, Come home with me, and take some refreshment, and I will give thee a present.


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But the man of God said unto the king, If thou wert to give me the half of thy house, I would not go in with thee, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;


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For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way that thou camest.


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Now there dwelt a certain old prophet in Bethel; and his son came and told him all the deed that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words <i>also</i> which he had spoken unto the king, these too they told to their father.


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And their father spoke unto them, What way did he go? His sons however had seen what way had gone the man of God, who had come from Judah.


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And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass, and he rode away thereon,


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And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under the oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.


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And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place;


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For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water there; thou shalt not return to go by the way <i>also</i> by which thou camest.


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And he said unto him, I also am a prophet like thee; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.


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And it came to pass, as they were sitting at the table, That the word of the Lord came unto the prophet who had brought him back;


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And he called unto the man of God that was come from Judah, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the order of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God had commanded thee;


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But didst return, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of which he had spoken to thee, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water: thy dead body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.


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And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, <i>to wit,</i> for the prophet whom he had brought back.


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And when he was gone, a lion met him on the way, and slew him; and his corpse remained cast down on the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the corpse.


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And, behold, men passed by, and saw the corpse cast down on the way, and the lion standing by the corpse; and they came and spoke of it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.


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And when the prophet that had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, It is the man of God who was disobedient unto the order of the Lord; wherefore the Lord hath given him up unto the lion, who hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him.


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And he went and found his corpse cast down on the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion had not eaten the corpse, nor torn the ass.


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And the prophet took up the corpse of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to lament for, and to bury him.


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And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; beside his bones lay ye my bones;


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For the thing which he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar which is in Bethel, and against all the houses of the highplaces which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely come to pass.


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After this event Jeroboam returned not from his evil way; but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the highplaces: whosoever desired it, he consecrated, that he might become one of the priests of the highplaces.


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And he became through this thing the cause of sin unto the house of Jeroboam, and to cause that it was blotted out, and destroyed from off the face of the earth.


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And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that people may not know that thou art the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there is Achiyahu the prophet, who spoke of me that <i>I should become</i> king over this people.


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And take with thee ten loaves of bread and spicecakes, and a cruise of honey, and go to him: he will tell thee what is to become of the lad.


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And Jeroboams wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Achiyahu. But Achiyahu was not able to see; for his eyes were set by reason of his high age.


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And the Lord had said unto Achiyahu, Behold the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire a word of thee about her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak unto her; for it will be, when she cometh in, that she will feign to be another.


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And it happened, when Achiyahu heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why is this, that thou feignest to be another? but I am sent to thee with a hard message.


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Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from the midst of the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,


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And I rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it unto thee; whereas thou hast not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed after me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes;


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And thou hast done more evil than all that were before thee; and thou art gone and hast made unto thyself other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and me hast thou cast behind thy back:


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Therefore, behold, will I bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, <i>also</i> the guarded and fortified in Israel; and I will sweep out after the house of Jeroboam as one sweepeth away the dung till there be nothing left of it.


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Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the heavens eat; for the Lord hath spoken it.


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And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for this one alone shall come of Jeroboams <i>family</i> to the grave; because there hath been found in him some good thing toward the Lord the God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.


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And the Lord will raise up unto himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam what is here this day, and what will be after this.


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And the Lord will smite Israel, as the reed is shaken in the water, and he will pull up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them on the other side of the river; because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.


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And he will give Israel up for the sake of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who induced Israel to sin.


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And Jeroboams wife arose, and departed, and came to Thirzah; <i>and</i> as she came to the threshold of the door, the lad died:


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And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Achiyahu the prophet.


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And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son became king in his stead.


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And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he became king, and seventeen years did he reign in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mothers name was Naamah the Ammonitess.


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And Judah did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and they moved him to wrath more than all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed.


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And they also built themselves highplaces, and standing images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.


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And sodomites also were in the land: they acted in accordance with all the abominable deeds of the nations which the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.


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And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:


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And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house; yea, every thing did he take away; and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.


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And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of copper, and committed them for keeping into the hand of the chiefs of the runners, who kept guard at the door of the kings house.


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And it happened whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, that the runners used to bear them, and carried them then back into the apartment of the runners.


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And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mothers name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abiyam his son became king in his stead.


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And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not entire with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.


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Nevertheless for the sake of David did the Lord his God give him a rule in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to allow Jerusalem to exist.


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Because David did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from all that he had commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriyah the Hittite.


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And the rest of the acts of Abiyam, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. And there was <i>also</i> war between Abiyam and Jeroboam.


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And Abiyam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Assa his son became king in his stead.


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And forty and one years did he reign in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.


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And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.


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And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen; because she had made a scandalous image for the grove; and Assa cut down her scandalous image, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.


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But the highplaces were not removed; nevertheless Assas heart was entire with the Lord all his days.


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And he brought the things which his father had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.


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And Basha the king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order not to suffer any one to go out or come in to Assa the king of Judah.


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Then did Assa take all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, and gave them into the hand of his servants; and king Assa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Chesyon, the king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,


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A covenant is between me and thee, <i>as</i> between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go and do break thy covenant with Basha the king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.


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And Benhadad hearkened unto king Assa, and sent the captains of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Iyon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and the whole of Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.


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And it came to pass, when Basha heard this, that he left off the building of Ramah, and remained in Tirzah.


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Then king Assa called together by proclamation all Judah, none being exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, wherewith Basha had built; and king Assa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.


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And the rest of all the acts of Assa, and all his mighty deeds, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. Nevertheless in the time of his old age he became diseased in his feet.


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And Assa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his stead.


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And Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Assa the king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and he walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he had induced Israel to sin.


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And Basha the son of Achiyah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Basha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines: while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.


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And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not any that breathed unto Jeroboam, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servant Achiyah the Shilonite;


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Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he had sinned, and through which he had induced Israel to sin, by his provoking wherewith he provoked the Lord the God of Israel to anger.


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And the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the third year of Assa the king of Judah became Basha the son of Achiyah king over all Israel, in Thirzah, <i>for</i> twenty and four years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he had induced Israel to sin.


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Forasmuch as I lifted thee up out of the dust, and I set thee as prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast induced my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins:


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Behold, I will sweep out after Basha, and after his house; and I will render thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat;


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Him that dieth of Basha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowls of the heavens eat.


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And the rest of the acts of Basha, and what he did, and his mighty deeds, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Basha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thirzah: and Elah his son became king in his stead.


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And also by the hand of Jehu the son of Chanani, the prophet, came the word of the Lord against Basha, and against his house, both for all the evil that he did in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, thus being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he had killed him.


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In the twenty and sixth year of Assa the king of Judah became Elah the son of Basha king over Israel in Thirzah, <i>for</i> two years.


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And there conspired against him his servant Zimri, captain of half the chariots, as he was in Thirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was set over the house in Thirzah.


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And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Assa the king of Judah, and became king in his stead.


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And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Basha: he left him not a single male, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.


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Thus did Zimri exterminate all the house of Basha, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken against Basha by the agency of Jehu the prophet,


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For all the sins of Basha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they had sinned, and by which they had induced Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.


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Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the twenty and seventh year of Assa the king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Thirzah: and the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.


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And when the people that were encamped heard it said, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel on that day in the camp.


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And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was captured, that he went into the stronghold of the kings house, and burnt the kings house over him with fire, and he died;


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For his sins which he had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to walk in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to induce Israel to sin.


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And the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his conspiracy that he contrived, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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At that time were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half of the people followed Thibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and the other half followed Omri.


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But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Thibni the son of Ginath: and Thibni <i>also</i> died, and Omri became king.


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In the thirty and first year of Assa the king of Judah became Omri king over Israel, <i>for</i> twelve years; in Thirzah he reigned six years.


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And he bought the mount Samaria, of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the mount, and called the name of the city which he had built, after the name of Shemer, the Lord of the mount, Samaria.


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And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he induced Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.


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Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his mighty deeds that he displayed, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Achab his son became king in his stead.


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And Achab the son of omri became king over Israel in the thirty and eighth year of Assa the king of Judah; and Achab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.


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And Achab the son of Omri did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord more than all that had been before him.


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And it came to pass, as if it had been too light a thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took for wife Izebel the daughter of Ethbaal the king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.


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And Achab made a grove; and Achab did yet more, so as to provoke the Lord the God of Israel to anger, than all the kings of Israel that had been before him.


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In his days did Chiel the Bethelite build Jericho: with Abiram his firstborn laid he the foundation thereof, and with Segub his youngest son set he up the gates thereof, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by means of Joshua the son of Nun.


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Then said Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilad, unto Achab, As the Lord the God of Israel liveth, before whom I have stood, there shall not be in these years dew or rain, except according to my word.


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Go away from here, and turn thyself eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Kerith, which is to the east of the Jordan.


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And it shall be, that out of the brook shalt thou drink; and the ravens have I ordained to sustain thee there.


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And he went and did according to the word of the Lord; and he went and remained by the brook Kerith, that is to the east of the Jordan.


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And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening: and out of the brook he used to drink.


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And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up; because there had been no rain in the land.


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Arise, go unto Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and remain there: behold, I have ordained there a widowwoman to sustain thee.


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So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, there was there a widowwoman gathering sticks of wood: and he called her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.


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And as she went to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.


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And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have nothing baked, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruise: and, behold, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son; and when we have eaten it, we shall have to die.


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And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake at first, and bring it out unto me, and for thee and for thy son shalt thou prepare <i>something</i> afterward.


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For thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not fail, neither shall the cruise of oil diminish, until the day that the Lord giveth rain upon the face of the earth.


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And she went and did according to the word of Elijah: and she, and he, and her household, did eat <i>many</i> days.


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The jar of meal failed not, nor did the cruise of oil diminish, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken through means of Elijah.


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And it came to pass after these events, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness became very severe, until that at length there was no breath left in him.


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And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O man of God? thou art come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!


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And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, in which he abode, and he laid him upon his own bed.


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And he called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?


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And he stretched himself out over the child three times, and called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray thee, the soul of this child return again within him.


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And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.


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And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the upper chamber into the house, and gave him unto his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.


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And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this do I know, that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.


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And it lasted many days, when the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Achab; and I will give rain upon the face of the earth.


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And Achab called Obadiah, who was the superintendent of the house; (now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly;


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And it happened, when Izebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them fifty each in one cave, and provided them with bread and water;)


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And Achab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land, unto all the springs of water, and unto all the brooks, peradventure we may find grass and keep alive horse and mule, that we lose not all the cattle.


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So they divided between them the land to pass through it: Achab went one way by himself alone, and Obadiah went another way by himself alone.


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And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah came toward him; and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou here indeed, my Lord Elijah?


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And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver thy servant into the hand of Achab, to slay me?


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As the Lord thy God liveth, there is not a nation or kingdom whither my Lord hath not sent to seek thee; and when they said, He is not here: he caused that kingdom and nation to take an oath, that no one could find thee.


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And it may come to pass, that, when I go from thee, the spirit of the Lord may carry thee whither I know not; and when I come to inform Achab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me; but I thy servant have feared the Lord from my youth.


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Hath it not been told unto my Lord what I did when Izebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, fifty each in one cave, and provided them with bread and water?


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Then said Elijah, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I have stood, surely today will I show myself unto him.


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And it came to pass, when Achab saw Elijah, that Achab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?


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And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy fathers house, through your forsaking the commandments of the Lord, and because thou hast followed the Bealim.


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And now send, assemble unto me all Israel at Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the grove four hundred, who eat at the table of Izebel.


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And Achab sent round among all the children of Israel, and he assembled the prophets at Mount Carmel.


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And Elijah approached unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between the two opinions? if the Lord be the God, follow him; and if Baalfollow him. And the people answered him not a word.


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And Elijah said unto the people, I have been left a prophet of the Lord by myself alone; but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.


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Therefore let there be given unto us two bullocks; and let them choose for themselves the one bullock, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire to it: and I will prepare the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire to it.


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And do ye call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and it shall be that the God who answereth by fire, he shall be the <i>true</i> God. And all the people answered and said, The proposal is good.


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And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you for yourselves the one bullock, and prepare it first; for ye are the many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire to it.


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And they took the bullock which he had given to them, and they prepared it; and they called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, answer us; but there was no voice, nor any answer: and they danced about the altar which had been made.


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And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked at them, and said, Call with a loud voice; for he is a god; either he is holding council, or he is busy in some pursuit, or he is on a journey; or peradventure he sleepeth, and may thus awaken.


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And they called with a loud voice and cut themselves after their custom with knives and spears, till the blood gushed out over them.


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And it came to pass, when midday was past, that they practised their follies until near <i>the time of</i> the offering of the eveningsacrifice; but there was neither voice, nor any answer, nor any perceptible sound.


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And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me: and all the people came near unto him; and he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down.


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And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord was come, saying, Israel shall be thy name.


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And he built of the stones an altar in the name of the Lord; and he made a trench as great as would contain two seahs of seed round about the altar.


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And he said. Fill four jars with water; and they had to pour it on the burntoffering, and on the wood: and he said, Do it the second time: and they did it the second time: and he said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.


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And it came to pass, at <i>the time of</i> the offering of the eveningsacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O Lord, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, this day let it be known that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that at thy word I have done all these things.


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Answer me, O Lord, answer me, and let all this people know that thou, O Lord, art the <i>true</i> God, and thou wilt <i>then</i> have turned their heart back again.


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And there fell a fire of the Lord, and consumed the burntoffering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; and the water also that was in the trench did it lick up.


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And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces; and they said, the Lordhe is the God; the Lordhe is the God.


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And Elijah said unto them, Seize the prophets of Baal; not one of them must escape; and they seized them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slaughtered them there.


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So Achab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down toward the earth, and put his face between his knees;


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And he said to his servant, Go up, I pray thee, look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, Not the least <i>is visible</i>. And he said, Go again, seven times.


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And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there is a little cloud like a mans hand arising out of the sea. And he said, Go up, say unto Achab, Harness up <i>thy chariot</i>, and come down, that the rain may not detain thee.


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And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heavens were blackened with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Achab rode, and went to Yizreel.


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And the inspiration of the Lord came over Elijah, and he girded up his loins; and he ran before Achab up to the entrance of Yizreel.


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And Achab told Izebel all that Elijah had done, and withal that he had slain all the prophets with the sword.


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Then sent Izebel a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So may the gods do to me, and may they thus continue, if about this time tomorrow I do not render thy life as the life of any one of them.


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And when he saw this, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and he left his young man there.


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But he himself went forward into the wilderness a days journey, and he came and sat down under a certain broombush: and he requested for himself to die; and he said, It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my soul; for I am not better than my fathers.


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And he laid himself down and slept under a certain broombush, and, behold then, an angel was touching him, and said unto him, Arise, eat.


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And he looked about, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on coals, and a cruise of water; and he ate and drank, and laid himself down again.


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And the angel of the Lord came again, the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise, eat; because the journey is yet far for thee.


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And he arose, and ate and drank; and he went on the strength of that eating forty days and forty nights unto the mount of God, Horeb.


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And he came there unto a cave, and remained there over night: and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and said unto him, What dost thou here, Elijah?


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And he said, I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thy altars have they thrown down, and thy prophets have they slain with the sword: and I am left by myself alone, and they have sought my life, to take it away.


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And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and, behold, the Lord passed by, and a wind, great and strong, rending the mountains, and breaking in pieces the rocks <i>went</i> before the Lord; but not in the wind was the Lord: and after the wind was an earthquake: but not in the earthquake was the Lord;


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And after the earthquake was a fire; but not in the fire was the Lord; and after the fire was the sound of a soft whisper.


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And it came to pass, when Elijah heard it, that he concealed his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave: and, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What dost thou here, Elijah?


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And he said, I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thy altars have they thrown down, and thy prophets have they slain with the sword: and I am left by myself alone, and they have sought my life, to take it away.


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And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and go, anoint Chazael to be king over Syria;


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And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmecholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy stead.


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And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Chazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.


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And I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all the knees which have not been bent unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.


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And he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing; twelve yoke of oxen were before him, and he was with the twelfth: and Elijah passed up to him, and cast his mantle toward him.


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And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss but my father and my mother, and I will <i>then</i> follow thee: and he said unto him, Go, return; for what have I done to thee?


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And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and with the instruments of the oxen he boiled the flesh for them, and he gave it unto the people, and they did eat; and then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.


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And Benhadad the king of Syria assembled all his host together: and thirty and two kings were with him, and horses, and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it.


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And he said unto him, Thus hath said Benhadad, Thy silver and thy gold are mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the best, are mine.


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And the king of Israel answered and said, According to thy word, my Lord, O king, thine am I, and all that I have.


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And the messengers returned, and said, Thus hath said Benhadad, to say <i>to thee</i>, I have indeed sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt give unto me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;


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Nevertheless, about this time tomorrow will I send my servants unto thee, and they shall search through thy house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thy eyes, they shall place it in their hand, and take it away.


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Then did the king of Israel call for all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see that this man seeketh mischief; for he hath sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I have not refused them to him.


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Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Say to my lord the king, all that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first will I do; but this thing I am not able to do. And the messengers went away, and brought him word again.


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And Benhadad then sent unto him, and said, May the gods do so unto me, and continue to do so, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that are in my train.


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And the king of Israel answered and said, Speak, Let him that girdeth on the armor not boast himself as he that putteth it off.


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And it came to pass, when he heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Get ready for the attack. And they got ready for the attack against the city.


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And, behold, there approached a certain prophet unto Achab the king of Israel, and said, Thus hath said the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.


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And Achab said, By whom? And he said, Thus hath said the Lord, By means of the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then said he, Who shall order the battle? And he said, Thou.


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He then numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirtytwo: and after them he numbered all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand strong.


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And they went out at midday; while Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.


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And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out at first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, Some men are come out of Samaria.


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And he said, If they be come out for peace, catch them alive; and if they be come out for war, alive must ye catch them.


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So these, the young men of the princes of the provinces, came out of the city, with the army which followed them.


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And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.


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And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and inflicted on the Syrians a great defeat.


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And the prophet approached unto the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou hast to do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.


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And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Gods of the mountains are their gods; therefore they prevailed over us; but let us fight against them in the plain, <i>and see</i> whether we shall not prevail over them.


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But do this thing, Remove the kings, every one from his place, and appoint governors in their rooms;


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And thou, number for thyself an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, <i>and see</i> whether we shall prevail over them. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.


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And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to the war with Israel.


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And the children of Israel were numbered, and provisioned, and went <i>out</i> against them: and the children of Israel encamped opposite to them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians filled the country.


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And there approached the man of God, and spoke unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as the Syrians have said, "A God of the hills is the Lord, but he is not God of the valleys": will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.


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And they encamped one opposite the other for seven days. And it happened, that on the seventh day the battle took place: and the children of Israel smote the Syrians a hundred thousand men on foot in one day.


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But those that were left fled to Aphek, into the city; but the citywall fell upon the twenty and seven thousand men that had been left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an innermost chamber.


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And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kindly kings; let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; peradventure he may save thy life.


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So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad hath said, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.


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Now the men took it for a good sign, and hastened and caught at his word, whether it was his earnest; and they said, Thy brother Benhadad! But he said, Go ye, bring him. Then came Benhadad forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.


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And he said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, will I restore; and thou canst lay out for thyself streets in Damascus, as my father laid out in Samaria. "And I for my part will send thee away with this covenant." So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.


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And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his companion, By the word of the Lord, smite me, I pray thee. But the man refused to smite him.


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Then said he unto him, Forasmuch as thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, when thou goest away from me, a lion shall slay thee. And he went away from him, when a lion found him, and slew him.


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Then he met with another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, smiting and wounding <i>him</i>.


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And the prophet then went, and placed himself before the king on the way, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.


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And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king, and said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought unto me a man, and said, Guard this man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be <i>forfeit</i> for his life, or else thou shalt weigh me down a talent of silver.


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But it happened as thy servant was Busy here and there, that he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So is thy sentence: thou thyself hast decided it.


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And he hastened, and removed the bandage from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him that he was one of the prophets.


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And he said unto him, Thus hath said the Lord, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had caught in my net, therefore shall thy life be the forfeit for his life, and thy people for his people.


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And it came to pass after these events, that Naboth the Yizreelite had a vineyard, which was in Yizreel, near the palace of Achab the king of Samaria.


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And Achab spoke unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that it may serve me for a herbgarden, because it is near unto my house; and I will give thee in its stead a vineyard better than it; <i>or,</i> if it seem good in thy eyes, I will give thee the money, the value of the same.


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And Naboth said to Achab, Far be it from me before the Lord, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.


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And Achab came into his house lowspirited and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Yizreelite had spoken to him, when he said, I will not give unto thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food.


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But Izebel his wife came to him, and spoke unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad! and why eatest thou no food?


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And he said unto her, Because I spoke unto Naboth the Yizreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee a vineyard in its stead; but he hath said, I will not give unto thee my vineyard.


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Then said unto him Izebel his wife, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will myself give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Yizreelite.


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So she wrote letters in Achabs name, and sealed them with his seal; and she sent the letters unto the elders and unto the nobles who were in his city, and who dwelt near Naboth.


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And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people;


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And seat two men, worthless fellows, opposite to him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou hast blasphemed God and the king; and then lead him forth, and stone him, that he may die.


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And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles, those who dwelt in his city, did as Izebel had sent unto them, as was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.


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And there came in two men, worthless fellows, and seated themselves opposite to him; and these worthless men testified against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Then they led him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.


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And it came to pass, when Izebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, that Izebel said to Achab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Yizreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.


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And it came to pass, when Achab heard that Naboth was dead, that Achab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Yizreelite, to take possession of it.


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Arise, go down to meet Achab the king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it.


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And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Hast thou murdered, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, yes, thine also.


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And Achab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.


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Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and I will sweep out after thee, and will cut off from Achab every male, and the guarded and fortified in Israel,


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And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Basha the son of Achiyah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked <i>me</i> to anger, and induced Israel to sin.


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And also concerning Izebel hath the Lord spoken, saying, The dogs shall eat Izebel in the valley of Yizreel.


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Him that dieth of Achab in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the heavens eat.


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But indeed there was none like unto Achab, who sold himself to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to which Izebel his wife incited him.


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And he acted very abominably in following the idols, in all things just as had done the Emorites, whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.


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And it came to pass, when Achab heard these words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in the sackcloth, and walked about barefooted.


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Hast thou seen how Achab hath humbled himself before me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself before me, will I not bring the evil in his days: in the days of his son will I bring the evil upon his house.


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And it came to pass in the third year that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.


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And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilad is ours, and we remain idle, without taking it out of the hand of the king of Syria?


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And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to the battle against Ramothgilad? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I <i>will be</i> like thee, my people like thy people, my horses like thy horses.


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And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, today <i>first</i> of the word of the Lord.


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Then assembled the king of Israel the prophets, about four hundred men, and said unto them, shall I go against Ramothgilad to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; and the Lord will deliver <i>it</i> into the hand of the king.


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And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Eternal besides, that we might inquire of him?


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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we might inquire of the Lord; but I hate him; for he will never prophesy good concerning me, but evil: <i>it is</i> Michayhu the son of Yimlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.


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Then called the king of Israel a certain officer, and said, Hasten hither Michayhu the son of Yimlah.


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And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their regal garments, in a threshingfloor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


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And Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah had made himself horns of iron; and he said, Thus hath said the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have made an end of them.


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And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilad, and prosper; and the Lord will deliver it into the kings hand.


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And the messenger that went to call Michayhu spoke unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets are with one voice good for the king: do let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of any one of them, and speak something good.


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And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Michayhu, shall we go against Ramothgilad to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go up, and prosper; and may the Lord deliver it into the hand of the king.


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And the king said unto him, How many times yet must I adjure thee that thou shalt not speak to me anything but the truth in the name of the Lord?


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And he said, I saw all Israel scattered over the mountains, as flocks that have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.


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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not say unto thee that he would not prophesy concerning me any good, but <i>only</i> evil?


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And he said, Therefore hear thou the word of the Lord, I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right and on his left.


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And the Lord said, Who will persuade Achab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilad! And one said, In this manner, and another said, In that manner.


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And there came forth a spirit, and placed himself before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?


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And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou wilt persuade him, and also prevail: go forth, and do so.


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And now, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; but the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.


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And Zedekiah, the son of Kenaanah, went near, and struck Michayhu on the cheek, and said, Which way passed the Spirit of the Lord away from me to speak with thee!


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And Michayhu said, Behold, thou shalt see it on that day, when thou shalt go into the innermost chamber to hide thyself.


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And the king of Israel said, Take Michayhu, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and unto Joash the kings son;


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And say, Thus hath said the king, Put this man in the prison, and feed him with sparing bread and with sparing water, until I come home in peace.


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And Michayhu said, If thou return at all in peace, then hath the Lord not spoken through me. And he said, Hear it, O all ye nations!


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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but do thou put on thy regal garments. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.


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And the king of Syria had commanded the captains over his chariots, thirtytwo <i>in number</i>, saying, Fight neither with a small nor a great one, save only with the king of Israel alone.


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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely this is the king of Israel. And they turned aside against him to fight: and Jehoshaphat cried out.


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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from following him.


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But a man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the armor; wherefore he said unto his chariotdriver. Turn about, and carry me out of the camp; for I am wounded.


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And the battle increased on that day; and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians; but he died in the evening: and the blood of the wound flowed down into the hollow of the chariot.


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And there went a proclamation throughout the camp at the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own land.


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And the chariot was washed out at the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood, as they washed his armor: according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.


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Now the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Jehoshaphat the son of Assa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Achab the king of Israel.


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Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he became king, and twenty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilchi.


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And he walked in all the ways of Assa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord: <n>(22:44)</n> Nevertheless the highplaces were not removed; for the people still offered, and burnt incense on the highplaces.


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<n>(22:46)</n> Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his mighty deeds that he showed, and how he warred, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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<n>(22:47)</n> And the remnant of the sodomites, that had been left in the days of his father Assa, did he put away out of the land.


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<n>(22:49)</n> Jehoshaphat made Tharshishships to go to Ophir for gold; but they went not; for the ships were wrecked at Ezyongeber.


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<n>(22:50)</n> Then said Achazyahu the son of Achab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.


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<n>(22:51)</n> And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son became king in his stead.


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<n>(22:52)</n> Achazyahu the son of Achab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.


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<n>(22:53)</n> And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had induced Israel to sin.


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<n>(22:54)</n> And he served Baal, and bowed down to him, and he provoked to anger the Lord the God of Israel, all just as his father had done.


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And Achazyah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and became sick; and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover from this sickness.


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But an angel of the Lord spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?


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Now therefore, thus hath said the Lord, From the bed on which thou art gone up shalt thou not come down; for thou shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.


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And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is this that ye are already returned?


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And they said unto him, There came up a man to meet us, and he said unto us, Go, return unto the king that hath sent you, and speak unto him, Thus hath said the Lord, Is it because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore from the bed on which thou art gone up shalt thou not come down; for thou shalt surely die.


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And he spoke unto them, What is the manner of the man who came up to meet you, and spoke unto you these words?


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And they said unto him, He is a hairy man, with a girdle of leather girded about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.


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Then did he send unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty: and he went up to him, and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the mount; and he spoke unto him, O man of God, the king hath commanded, Come down.


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And Elijah answered and spoke to the captain of the fifty, And if I be a man of God, let a fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down a fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.


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And he sent again unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he commenced and spoke unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.


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And Elijah answered and spoke unto them, If I be a man of God, let a fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.


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And he sent again a captain of fifty the third time with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and bent down on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and spoke unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life and the life of these fifty thy servants be precious in thy eyes.


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Behold, there came down a fire from heaven, and consumed the two captains of the first fifties with their fifties; and now let my life be precious in thy eyes.


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And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him, and he arose, and went down with him unto the king.


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And he spoke unto him, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as thou didst send messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the God of Ekron, as though there were no God in Israel to inquire of his word: therefore from the bed on which thou art gone up shalt thou not come down; for thou shalt surely die.


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And he died, according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken; and Jehoram became king in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah; because he had no son.


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Now the rest of the acts of Achazyahu which he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to take up Elijah by a stormwind to heaven, that Elijah went out with Elisha from Gilgal.


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And Elijah said unto Elisha, Remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.


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And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that today the Lord will take away thy master from thy head? And he said, I also know it; be still.


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And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.


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And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that today the Lord will take away thy master from thy head? And he said, I also know it; be still.


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And Elijah said unto him, Remain, I pray thee, here; for the Lord hath sent me to the Jordan. But he said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So these two went on.


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And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite <i>to them</i> afar off: and those two stood by the Jordan.


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And Elijah took his mantle, and folded it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they went, both of them, over on dry ground.


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And it came to pass, when they passed over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I shall be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, Let there be, I pray thee, a double portion of thy spirit upon me.


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And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so <i>given</i> unto thee; but if not, it shall not be.


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And it came to pass, as they went on, speaking as they were going, that, behold, there came a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a stormwind to heaven.


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And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and their horsemen. And he saw him no more; and he took hold of his clothes, and rent them in two pieces.


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And he lifted up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back, and stood by the border of the Jordan;


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And he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord the God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither; and Elisha passed over.


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And when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho, at a distance, saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah Doth rest on Elisha. And they came forth to meet him, and bowed themselves unto him to the ground.


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And they said unto him, Behold now, there are among thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master; peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon one of the mountains, or into one of the valleys. And he said, Ye must not send.


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And they urged him till he was ashamed, when he said, Send. And they sent fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.


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And they returned again to him, for he had remained at Jericho; and he then said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Ye should not go?


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And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is good, as my Lord seeth; but the water is bad, and the land causeth untimely births.


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And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast therein the salt, and said, Thus hath said the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or untimely births.


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And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and they mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, baldhead! go up, baldhead!


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And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord; and there came forth two shebears out of the forest, and tore of them forty and two boys.


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And Jehoram the son of Achab became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother; and he removed the statue of Baal which his father had made.


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Nevertheless unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had induced Israel to sin, did he cleave: he departed not therefrom.


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And Mesha the king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered as tribute unto the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool.


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And it came to pass, when Achab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.


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And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up, I as thyself, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.


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So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they took a circuitous route, a seven days journey; and there was no water for the camp, and for the cattle that followed in their train.


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And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!


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But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord from him? And there answered one of the king of Israels servants and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.


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And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the Lord is with him. And there went down to him the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom.


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And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Not so; for the Lord hath called these three kings, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.


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And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I have stood, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.


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But now bring me a musician. And it came to pass, when the musician played, that the inspiration of the Lord came upon him.


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For thus hath said the Lord, Ye shall not perceive wind, nor shall ye see rain; yet this valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, yourselves, and your flocks, and your cattle.


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And this is yet too light a thing in the eyes of the Lord; and he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.


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And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and every good tree shall ye fell, and all springs of water shall ye stop, and every good piece of land shall ye spoil with stones.


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And it came to pass in the morning, at the time when the meatoffering is offered, that, behold, there came water by the way from Edom, and the country was filled with the water.


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And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they were called together from every one who was girded with a sword, and upward, and they posted themselves on the border.


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And when they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water at a distance as red as blood.


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And they said, This is blood; the kings have certainly had a contest among themselves, and they have smitten one another: and now, up to the spoil, Moab.


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But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they smote the Moabites completely, even in their own country.


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And the cities they pulled down, and into every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it up, and every spring of water they stopped, and every good tree they felled, until they left only its stones in Kirchareseth, and this the slingers encompassed and smote it.


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And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not.


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Then took he his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burntoffering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their land.


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And a certain woman, of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou well knowest that thy servant was one who feared the Lord: and now the creditor is come to take my two sons unto himself for servants.


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And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath nothing in the house, save a pot of oil.


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And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels from abroad from all thy neighbors, empty vessels, let them not be a few.


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And then go home, and lock the door behind thee and behind thy sons, and then pour out into all those vessels; and that which is full thou shalt set aside.


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So she went from him, and locked the door behind her and behind her sons, who brought the vessels near to her, and she poured out.


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And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring near to me yet another vessel; and he said unto her, There is not a vessel more: and the oil stayed.


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Then came she and told it to the man of God; and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and thou with thy children shalt live of the rest.


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And it happened one day, that Elisha passed over to Shunem, and there was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread; and it happened, that as oft as he passed by, he used to turn in thither to eat bread.


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And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passeth through by us continually.


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Let us then make a little upper chamber, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a chair, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.


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And he said to Gechazi his servant, Call this Shunammite: and he called her, and she stood before him.


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And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been at pains to take all this trouble for us: what is to be done for thee? wouldst thou be spoken for to the king, or to the chief of the army? And she said, I dwell in the midst of my own people.


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And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gechazi said, Verily, she hath no son, and her husband is old.


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And he said, At this season, next year, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my Lord, man of God, do not deceive thy handmaid.


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But the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season in the following year, as Elisha had spoken unto her.


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And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and locked the door behind him, and went out.


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And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the sheasses, that I may hasten as far as the man of God, and return.


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And he said, Wherefore art thou going to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It is well.


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Then she saddled the sheass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; do not restrain me in riding, unless I say it to thee.


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So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel; and it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gechazi his servant, Behold, yonder that Shunammite.


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Now do run to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with thy child? and she answered, It is well.


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And she came to the man of God to the mount, and caught hold of his feet; and Gechazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is grieved within her; and the Lord hath hidden it from me, and hath not told it me.


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Then said he to Gechazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, thou shalt not salute him; and if any salute thee, thou shalt not answer him; and lay my staff upon the face of the lad.


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And the mother of the lad said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose and followed her.


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And Gechazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the lad; but there was neither voice, nor perceptible sound; wherefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, The lad is not awakened.


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And he went up, and laid himself upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon him: and the flesh of the child became warm.


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Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself <i>again</i> upon him; and the lad sneezed as many as seven times, and the lad opened his eyes.


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And he called Gechazi, and said, Call this Shunammite: so he called her, and she came in unto him; and he said, Take up thy son.


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Then went she in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.


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And Elisha returned to Gilgal; and there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the large pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.


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And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild colocynths his garment full, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.


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And they poured it out for the men to eat; and it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, Death is in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat.


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But he said, Then bring some meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour it out for the people, that they may eat. And there was nothing bad in the pot.


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And there came a man from Baalshalishah, and brought unto the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and fresh ears of corn in his scrip: and he said, Give it unto the people, that they may eat.


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And his servitor said, What, shall I set this before a hundred men? And he said, Give it unto the people, that they may eat; for thus hath said the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave <i>thereof</i>.


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And Naaman, the captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man before his Lord, and highly honored; because by him had the Lord given victory unto Syria: and this man was valiant in war, <i>but</i> a leper.


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And the Syrians had gone out in predatory troops, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naamans wife.


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And she said unto her mistress, Oh that my Lord were but before the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he heal him of his leprosy.


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And he went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus hath spoken the maiden that is from the land of Israel.


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And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of garments.


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And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said, And now when this letter cometh unto thee, behold, I have sent to thee Naaman my servant, that thou mayest heal him of his leprosy.


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And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this one doth send unto me to heal a man of his leprosy? for know to a certainty, I pray you, and see that he but seeketh a quarrel against me.


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And it happened, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him but come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.


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And Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and remained at the door of the house of Elisha.


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And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and bathe seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall be restored <i>healthy</i> to thee, and thou shalt become clean.


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But Naaman became wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I had thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and swing his hand over the place, and heal the leper.


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Are not Amanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not bathe in them, and become clean? and he turned and went away in a rage.


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And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and they said, My father, if the prophet had bidden thee a great thing, wouldst thou not do it? how much rather then, when he hath said to thee, Bathe, and become clean?


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Then went he down, and dived seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God: and his flesh was restored <i>healthy</i> like the flesh of a little boy, and he became clean.


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And he returned to the man of God, he with all his camp, and came and stood before him, and said, Behold, now I know that there is no god on all the earth, but in Israel; and now, I pray thee, take a present from thy servant.


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But he said, As the Lord liveth before whom I have stood, I will take none: and he urged him to take it; but he refused.


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And Naaman said, If <i>thou wilt</i> not, <i>then</i> let there be given, I pray thee, unto thy servant two mules burden of earth; for thy servant will not offer henceforth either burntoffering or peacesacrifice unto other gods, except unto the Lord.


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For this thing may the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my Lord goeth into the house of Rimmon to prostrate himself there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I prostrate myself also in the house of Rimmon: when I prostrate myself in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon thy servant for this thing.


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But Gechazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving from his hand what he had brought; but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some little thing from him.


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So Gechazi hurried after Naaman; and when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted doom from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is <i>all</i> well?


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And he said, <i>all</i> is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the mountain of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: do give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.


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And Naaman said, Give thy assent, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and he gave them unto his two young men, and they carried them before him.


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And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he dismissed the men, and they departed.


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But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gechazi? And he said, Thy servant went not hither or thither.


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And he said unto him, My mind was not gone, when the man turned round from his chariot to meet thee. Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?


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May then the leprosy of Naaman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper <i>as white</i> as snow.


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And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too narrow for us.


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Let us go, we pray thee, as far as the Jordan, and take thence every man one beam, and let us prepare for us there a place to dwell therein. And he said, Go.


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And one said, Give thy assent, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he said, I will indeed go.


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But as one was felling a beam, the axehead fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, my Lord! it was also borrowed.


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And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and he caused the iron to swim.


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And the king of Syria made war against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.


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And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not that place; for thither the Syrians are come down.


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And the king of Israel sent to the place, which the man of God had told him and warned him of, and he took care of himself there: not once nor twice.


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Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sorely troubled concerning this thing; and he called for his servants, and said unto them, Can ye not tell me who of us is for the king of Israel?


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And one of his servants said, Not so, my Lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, can tell unto the king of Israel the words that thou mayest speak in thy sleepingchamber.


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And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told unto him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.


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And he sent thither horses, and chariots, and a strong army: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.


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And the servant of the man of God rose early, and went forth, when, behold, an army compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?


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And Elisha prayed, and said, O Lord, open, I pray thee, his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man: and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.


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And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite, I pray thee, this people with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.


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And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will lead you to the man whom ye wish to seek. And he led them thus to Samaria.


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And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw, and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.


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And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, Shall I smite them? Shall I smite them, my father?


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But he said, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldst thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go <i>back</i> to their master.


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And he prepared for them a great meal; and they ate and drank, and he sent them away, and they went <i>back</i> to their master. And the predatory bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.


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And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad the king of Syria assembled all his camp, and went up, and besieged Samaria.


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And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an asss head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of doves dung for five pieces of silver.


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And it happened as the king of Israel was passing along upon the wall, that a woman cried unto him, saying, Help, my Lord, O king.


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And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? shall it be out of the threshingfloor, or out of the winepress?


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And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she said, This woman said unto me, Give up thy son, that we may eat him today, and my son we will eat tomorrow.


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So we boiled my son, and ate him; but when I said unto her on the next day, Give up thy son, that we may eat him: she hid her son.


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And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes, as he was passing along upon the wall: and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his flesh.


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Then said he, May God do so unto me and continue so yet farther, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day.


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But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and he sent a man from before him; but before the messenger could yet come to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of the murderer hath sent to remove my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him back with the door: is not the sound of his masters feet behind him?


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And while he was yet speaking with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what shall I hope for in the Lord any longer?


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Then said Elisha, Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus hath said the Lord, About this time tomorrow a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.


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Then answered the lord of the king, on whose hand he used to lean, the man of God, and said, Behold, will the Lord make windows in the heavens, that this thing shall be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but thereof shalt thou not eat.


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And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why do we remain here until we die?


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If we say, We will enter into the city, then is the famine in the city, and we shall die there; and if we remain here, we die <i>also</i>: now therefore come, and let us go over unto the camp of the Syrians; if they will let us live, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.


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And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.


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For the Lord had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, the noise of a large army: and they said one to the other, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.


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And they were arisen and fled in the twilight, and had left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, the camp as it was, and fled for their life.


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And so came these lepers to the uttermost part of the camp, and they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away thence silver, and gold, and garments, and went and hid them; and they returned, and entered into another tent, and carried away <i>something</i> thence, and went and hid it.


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And then they said one to the other, We do not act correctly; this day is a day of good tidings; and if we remain silent, and tarry till the morninglight, we shall incur guilt: now then come, and let us go and tell it at the kings house.


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So they went and called unto one of the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, nor the voice of man; but the horses were tied, and the asses were tied, and the tents as they had been.


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And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I can easily tell you what the Syrians have done to us: they know that we are hungry; and they are therefore gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, If they should come out of the city, we will catch them alive, and enter into the city.


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And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, let it fare with them as with all the multitude of Israel that are left in it, <i>or</i> let it fare with them as with all the multitude of Israel that have perished: and let us send out and see.


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And they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the camp of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.


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And they went after them as far as the Jordan; and, lo, the whole way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste: and the messengers returned, and told it to the king.


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And the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians: and a seah of fine flour was to be had for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.


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And the king had appointed the lord on whose hand he used to lean to have the charge of the gate; and the people trod him down in the gate, and he died; as the man of God had spoken, which he spoke when the king came down to him.


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And it came to pass as the man of God was speaking to the king, saying, Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria:


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That the Lord had answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if even the Lord were to make windows in the heavens, would such a thing be? And he had said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but thereof shalt thou not eat.


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And Elisha spoke unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; for the Lord hath called for a famine, and it is also coming in the land for seven years.


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And the woman arose, and did after the word of the man of God; and she went, she with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.


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And it came to pass at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines; and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.


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And the king was just speaking with Gechazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Relate to me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.


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And it came to pass, as he was just relating to the king how he had restored the dead to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gechazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.


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And the king asked of the woman, who related it to him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that belongeth to her, and all the products of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.


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And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad, the king of Syria, was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come even hither.


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And the king said unto Chazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord from him, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness?


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So Chazael went to meet him, and took a present in his hand, and all manner of good things of Damascus, a burden for forty camels, and he came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad the king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover from this sickness?


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And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover; nevertheless the Lord hath shown me that he shall surely die.


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And Chazael said, Why doth my Lord weep? And he said, Because I know what evil thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and their children wilt thou dash, and their pregnant women wilt thou rip up.


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And Chazael said, But what is thy servant, the dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord hath caused me to see thee as king over Syria.


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So he went away from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What hath Elisha said to thee? And he said, he said to me that thou couldst surely recover.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a cover lid, and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face, and he died: and Chazael became king in his stead.


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And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Achab the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being yet king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah became king.


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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done; for a daughter of Achab had he for wife: and he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.


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Yet would the Lord not destroy Judah for the sake of David his servant, as he said unto him, to give him a government and to his children at all times.


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And Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots were with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites who compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled unto their tents.


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Yet Edom revolted from under the power of Judah even until this day; then did Libnah revolt at the same time.


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And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Achazyahu his son became king in his stead.


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In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Achab the king of Israel became Achazyahu, the son of Jehoram the king of Judah, king.


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Two and twenty years old was Achazyahu when he became king; and one year did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Athalyahu, the <i>grand</i>daughter of Omri the king of Israel.


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And he walked in the way of the house of Achab, and did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, like the house of Achab; for he was the soninlaw of the house of Achab.


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And he went with Joram the son of Achab to the war against Chazael the king of Syria at Ramothgilad: and the Syrians smote Joram.


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And king Joram returned to be healed in Yizreel of the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Chazael the king of Syria. And Achazyahu the son of Jehoram the king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Achab in Yizreel, because he was sick.


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And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this flask of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramothgilad:


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And when thou art come thither, look out there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and cause him to stand up from the midst of his brethren, and bring him in to the innermost chamber;


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And thou shalt then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus hath said the Lord, I have anointed thee as king over Israel. Then must thou open the door, and flee, and not wait for any thing.


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And when he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; and he said, I have a word for thee, O captain. And Jehu said, For whom of all of us? And he said, For thee, O captain.


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And he arose, and went into the house: and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, I anoint thee as king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.


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And thou shalt smite the house of Achab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Izebel.


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And the whole house of Achab shall perish: and I will cut off from Achab every male, and the guarded and fortified in Israel;


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And I will make the house of Achab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Basha the son of Achiyah;


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And Izebel shall the dogs eat in the field of Yizreel, with none to bury her. And he <i>then</i> opened the door, and fled.


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But Jehu came forth to the servants of his Lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this madman to thee? And he said unto them, Ye yourselves know the man, and his talk.


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And they said, It is false: only tell us, we pray thee. And he said, So and so did he speak to me, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, I anoint thee as king over Israel.


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Then they hastened, and they took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs; and they blew the cornet, saying, Jehu is king.


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So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept guard at Ramothgilad, he and all Israel, because of Chazael the king of Syria.


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But king Jehoram was returned to be healed in Yizreel of the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him, when he was fighting with Chazael the king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none that escapeth go forth out of the city to go to tell it in Yizreel.


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So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Yizreel; for Joram was lying there. And Achazyah the king of Judah was come down to see Joram.


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And the watchman stood on the tower in Yizreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came; and he said, A company do I see, And Jehoram said, Take a horseman, and send out to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?


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So there went one riding on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus hath said the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee about behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came up to them, but he hath not returned.


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Then sent he out a second rider on horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus hath said the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee about behind me.


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And the watchman told, saying, He came up to them, but he hath not returned: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth as though he were mad.


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And Jehoram said, Harness up. And his chariot was harnessed up. And Jehoram the king of Israel and Achazyahu the king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of land of Naboth the Yizreelite.


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And it came to pass, when Jehoram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said, What peace can there be with the acts of incest of thy mother Izebel and her many witchcrafts?


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And Jehu grasped the bow with his full strength, and struck Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.


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Then said he to Bidkar his officer, Lift up, <i>and</i> cast him down in the part of the field that was Naboths the Yizreelite; for remember how that I and thou rode alongside each other after Achab his father, when the Lord pronounced over him this fatal decree:


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Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will repay thee in this part of the field, saith the Lord. And now lift up, <i>and</i> cast him down into the field, according to the word of the Lord.


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And when Achazyahu the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the gardenhouse; but Jehu pursued after him, and said, Also him smite in the chariot. <i>And they did so</i> on the ascent to Gur, which is by Yibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.


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And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.


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And Jehu came to Yizreel; and when Izebel heard of it, she painted her eyes, and ornamented her head, and looked out at the window.


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And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three chamberlains.


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And he said, Pitch her down. So they pitched her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses; and he trod her under foot.


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And he came in, and ate and drank; and then said he, Look, I pray you, after this accursed one, and bury her; for she is a kings daughter.


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And they went to bury her: but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.


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And they returned, and told him; and he said, It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by means of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the field of Yizreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Izebel:


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And the carcass of Izebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Yizreel; so that they shall not say, This is Izebel.


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And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, unto the rulers of Yizreel, the elders, and to those that brought up Achabs children, saying,


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And now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing that there are with you your masters sons, and there are with you the chariots and the horses, and the fortified city, and the armor:


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Select then the best and the most fitting of your masters sons, and set him on his fathers throne, and fight for your masters house.


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But they were exceedingly much afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings could not stand before him: how then shall we be able to stand?


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And the superintendent over the house, and the commander over the city, and the elders, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and all that thou mayest say unto us will we do; we will not set up any one as king: do what is good in thy eyes.


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Then wrote he to them a letter the second time, saying, If ye be for me, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, then take the heads of the men, your masters sons, and come to me to Yizreel by this time tomorrow. Now the kings sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.


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And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the kings sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Yizreel.


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And the messenger came, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the kings sons. And he said, Place ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.


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And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who hath killed all these?


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Know now that there shall not fall of the word of the Lord unto the earth, the least that the Lord hath spoken concerning the house of Achab; and the Lord hath done that which he spoke by means of his servant Elijah.


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And Jehu smote all that yet remained of the house of Achab in Yizreel, and all his great men, and his acquaintance, and his priests, until he had left him none that escaped.


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And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria; he was just at the bindinghouse of the shepherds, on the way:


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When Jehu met with the brothers of Achazyahu the king of Judah, and he said, Who are ye? And they said, The brothers of Achazyahu are we; and we are come down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.


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And he said, Seize them alive. And they seized them alive, and slaughtered them at the pit of the bindinghouse, two and forty men; and he left not one of them remaining.


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And he went away thence, and met Yehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is all right in thy heart, as my heart is with thy heart? And Yehonadab answered, It is; it is: give me thy hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.


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And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that yet remained unto Achab in Samaria, till he had exterminated him, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken to Elijah.


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And Jehu assembled all the people, and said unto them, Achab hath served Baal a little: Jehu will serve him much.


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And now call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests: let no one be missing; for I have a great sacrifice to make for Baal; whosoever will be missing, shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, in order to destroy the worshippers of Baal.


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And Jehu sent throughout all Israel: and there came all the worshippers of Baal, so that there was not a man remaining that came not; and they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.


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And he said unto him that was over the wardrobe, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought forth for them the vestments.


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And Jehu went, with Yehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and he said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be not here with you any of the servants of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal entirely alone.


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And they went in to prepare sacrifices and burntofferings; but Jehu had set for himself without eighty men, and said, <i>If there be</i> a man that escapeth from the men whom I deliver into your hands, <i>there shall be given</i> life for his life.


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And it came to pass, as soon as they had made an end of preparing the burntoffering, that Jehu said to the runners and to the officers, Go in, smite them: let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the runners and the captains cast them out, and went as far as the city of the house of Baal.


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And they broke down the statue of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a common sewer unto this day.


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Nevertheless the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from in following them, <i>namely,</i> the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.


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And the Lord said unto Jehu, Forasmuch as thou hast acted well in doing what is right in my eyes, and hast done in accordance with all that was in my heart unto the house of Achab: children of the fourth generation after thee shall sit upon the throne of Israel.


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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who induced Israel to sin.


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In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short; and Chazael smote them in all the boundary of Israel;


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From the Jordan to the rising of the sun, all the land of Gilad, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Menassites, from Aroer which is by the river Arnon, both Gilad and Bashan.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his mighty deeds, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoachaz his son became king in his stead.


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And when Athalyah the mother of Achazyahu saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.


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But Yehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, the sister of Achazyahu, took Joash the son of Achazyahu, and stole him away from among the kings sons that were slain, him and his nurse into the bedchamber: and they hid him from Athalyah, so that he was not slain.


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And he was with her in the house of the Lord hidden for six years, while Athalyah was reigning over the land.


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And in the seventh year Yehoyada sent and fetched the rulers over the hundreds, of the guards and the runners, and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant with them, and made them swear in the house of the Lord, and showed them the kings son.


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And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keeping watch in the kings house;


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And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the runners; so shall ye keep watch at the house, as a defence.


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And two parts of you all that are relieved on the sabbath, even they shall keep watch in the house of the Lord about the king.


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And ye shall encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he that cometh within the ranges shall be put to death: and be ye with the king when he goeth out and when he cometh in.


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And the captains over the hundreds did in accordance with all that Yohayada the priest had commanded: and they took every man his men that came in on the sabbath, with those that were to be relieved on the sabbath, and came to Yehoyada the priest.


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And the priest gave to the captains over the hundred the spears and shields that had belonged to king David, that were in the house of the Lord.


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And the runners stood every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and within, round about the king.


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And he brought forth the kings son, and put the crown upon him, and <i>gave him</i> the testimony, and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, Long live the king.


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And when Athalyah heard the noise of the runners <i>and</i> of the people, she came to the people in the house of the Lord.


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And she looked, and, behold, the king stood upon a stand, according to custom, and the princes and the trumpeters were by the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets: and Athalyah then rent her clothes, and cried, Conspiracy! conspiracy!


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But Yehoyada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the commanders of the army, and said unto them, Lead her forth to within the ranges: and him that followeth her put to death with the sword. For the priest had said, She shall not be slain in the house of the Lord.


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And they made way for her; and she went by the way of the entrance of the horses into the kings house: and she was put to death there.


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And Yehoyada made a covenant between the Lord and between the king and between the people, that they should be a people unto the Lord; and between the king and between the people.


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And then came all the people of the land into the house of Baal, and pulled it down: his altars and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and Mattan the priest of Baal they slew before the altars. And the priest appointed superintendents over the house of the Lord.


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And he took the chiefs over hundreds, and the guards, and the runners, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the runners to the kings house: and he sat on the throne of the kings.


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And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; but Athalyah they had slain with the sword at the kings house.


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<n>(12:2)</n> In the seventh year of Jehu became Jehoash king; and forty years did he reign in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Zibyah of Beersheba.


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<n>(12:3)</n> And Jehoash did what is right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, that Yehoyada the priest instructed him.


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<n>(12:4)</n> Only the highplaces were not removed: the people as yet sacrificed and burnt incense on the highplaces.


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<n>(12:5)</n> And Jehoash said to the priests, all the money of the dedicated things that may be brought into the house of the Lord, the money of every one that passeth the numbering, the money any man is valued at, and all the money that cometh into any mans heart to bring into the house of the Lord,


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<n>(12:6)</n> The priests shall take to themselves, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach may be found.


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<n>(12:7)</n> But it happened, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.


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<n>(12:8)</n> Then called king Jehoash for Yehoyada the priest, and the <i>other</i> priests, and he said unto them, Wherefore do ye not repair the breaches of the house? and now ye shall take no more money from your acquaintances, but ye shall give it up <i>at once</i> for the breaches of the house.


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<n>(12:9)</n> And the priests consented neither to take any more money from the people, nor to repair the breaches of the house.


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<n>(12:10)</n> But Yehoyada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and he placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept watch at the threshold put therein all the money, that was brought into the house of the Lord.


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<n>(12:11)</n> And it happened, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the kings scribe and the highpriest came up, and they put up in bags, after having counted, the money that was found in the house of the Lord.


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<n>(12:12)</n> And they gave the money, after it was counted, into the hands of those who overlooked the workmen, that had been appointed as overseers of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and to the builders, that wrought on the house of the Lord,


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<n>(12:13)</n> And to the masons, and the hewers of stone, and for the purchase of timber and hewn stones to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.


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<n>(12:14)</n> Nevertheless there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, knives, basins, trumpets, all kinds of vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the Lord;


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<n>(12:15)</n> But they gave it to those who overlooked the workmen, and they repaired therewith the house of the Lord.


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<n>(12:16)</n> And they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give it to those who overlooked the workmen; for they acted in good faith.


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<n>(12:17)</n> The money for trespassofferings and the money for sinofferings was not brought into the house of the Lord: it belonged to the priests.


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<n>(12:18)</n> At that time Chazael the king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and captured it: and Chazael directed his face to go up against Jerusalem.


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<n>(12:19)</n> Then took Jehoash the king of Judah all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Achazyahu, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the kings house, and sent it to Chazael the king of Syria: and he withdrew from Jerusalem.


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<n>(12:20)</n> And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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<n>(12:21)</n> And his servants arose, and formed a conspiracy, and smote Joash in Bethmillo, which <i>lieth on the road</i> that goeth down to Silla.


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<n>(12:22)</n> And Yozachar the son of Shimath, and Yehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amazyah his son became king in his stead.


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In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Achazyahu the king of Judah became Jehoachaz the son of Jehu king over Israel in Samaria <i>for</i> seventeen years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin: he departed not therefrom.


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And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and he gave them up into the hand of Chazael the king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Chazael, all the time.


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And Jehoachaz besought the Lord; and the Lord hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.


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(And the Lord gave Israel a deliverer, so that they came out from under the power of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as in times past.


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Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who induced Israel to sin, therein the people walked: and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria.)


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For he had left of people to Jehoachaz none but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand men on foot; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust at threshing.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoachaz, and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Jehoachaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son became king in his stead.


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In the thirty and seventh year of Joash the king of Judah became Jehoash the son of Jehoachaz king over Israel in Samaria, <i>for</i> sixteen years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin: therein he walked.


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And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his mighty deeds wherewith he fought against Amazyah the king of Judah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.


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Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he had to die. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and their horsemen.


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And he said to the king of Israel, Place thy hand upon the bow. And he placed his hand <i>upon it</i>: and Elisha laid his hands upon the kings hands.


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And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then said Elisha, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of victory from the Lord, and the arrow of victory over Syria; and thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till they be consumed.


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And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Strike upon the ground. And he struck three times, and stopped.


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And the man of God was angry with him, and said, Thou shouldst have struck five or six times; then wouldst thou have smitten the Syrians till they had been consumed: whereas now thou shalt smite the Syrians three times.


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And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the predatory bands of Moabites frequently invaded the land at the coming in of the year.


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And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they saw the band; and they cast down the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and as the man came, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and rose up on his feet.


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And the Lord became gracious unto them, and had mercy on them, and turned his regard unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he cast them not off from his presence even until now.


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And Jehoash the son of Jehoachaz took again the cities out of the power of Benhadad the son of Chazael, which he had taken out of the power of Jehoachaz his father in the war. Three times did Joash beat him, and he recovered the cities of Israel.


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In the second year of Joash the son of Joachaz the king of Israel became Amazyahu, the son of Joash the king of Judah, king.


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Twenty and five years was he old when he became king, and twenty and nine years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Yehoaddan of Jerusalem.


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And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not like David his father: in accordance with all that Joash his father had done, <i>so</i> did he.


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Nevertheless the highplaces were not removed: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the highplaces.


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And it came to pass, when the kingdom was firmly established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father.


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But the children of the murderers he put not to death: as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, that the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


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He it was that smote of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand men, and seized Sela in the war, and called its name Yoktheel until this day.


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Then sent Amazyah messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoachaz the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.


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And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amazyahu the king of Judah, saying, The thornbush that was in the Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in the Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for wife. And there passed along the wild beasts that were in Lebanon, and trod down the thornbush.


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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: keep thy glory and stay in thy house; and why wilt thou meddle with misfortune, that thou mayest fall, thou, and Judah with thee?


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But Amazyahu would not hear. Therefore Jehoash the king of Israel went up; and he and Amazyahu the king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.


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And Jehoash the king of Israel caught Amazyahu the king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Achazyahu, at Bethshemesh; and he came to Jerusalem, and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the cornergate, four hundred cubits.


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And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house, and the children of the chiefs as hostages, and returned to Samaria.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his mighty deeds, and how he fought with Amazyahu the king of Judah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel: and Jeroboam his son became king in his stead.


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And Amazyahu the son of Joash the king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash, the son of Jehoachaz the king of Israel, fifteen years.


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And the rest of the acts of Amazyahu, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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Now they raised a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: wherefore he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.


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And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.


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And all the people of Judah took Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and they made him king instead of his father Amazyahu.


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In the fifteenth year of Amazyahu the son of Joash the king of Judah became Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel king in Samaria, <i>for</i> forty and one years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin.


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He restored the boundary of Israel from the entrance of Chamath unto the sea of the plain; in accordance with the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he had spoken by means of his servant Jonah the son of Amitthai, the prophet, who was of Gathchepher.


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For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; that the guarded was no more, and that the fortified was no more, and there was no helper for Israel.


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And the Lord had not spoken that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens; but he helped them by means of Jeroboam the son of Joash.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his mighty deeds, how he warred, and how he brought back Damascus and Chamath, <i>which had belonged</i> to Judah, to Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, with the kings of Israel: and Zechariah his son became king in his stead.


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In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam the king of Israel became Azaryah, the son of Amazyah king of Judah, king.


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Sixteen years old was he when he became king, and two and fifty years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Yecholyahu of Jerusalem.


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And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that Amazyahu his father had done;


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And the Lord afflicted the king with leprosy, and he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in the leperhouse. And Jotham the kings son was over the house, <i>and</i> judged the people of the land.


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And the rest of the acts of Azaryahu, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And Azaryah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son became king in his stead.


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In the thirty and eighth year of Azaryahu the king of Judah became Zechariah the son of Jeroboam king over Israel in Samaria <i>for</i> six months.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin.


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And Shallum the son of Yabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and put him to death, and became king in his stead.


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And the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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This was the word of the Lord which he spoke unto Jehu, saying, Sons of the fourth generation shall sit after thee on the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.


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Shallum the son of Yabesh became king in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziyah the king of Judah; and he reigned for the space of one month in Samaria.


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Then went up Menachem the son of Gadi from Thirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Yabesh in Samaria, and put him to death, and became king in his stead.


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And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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At that time did Menachem smite Thiphsach, and all that was therein, and its territory from Thirzah; because they opened not to him, he smote it; and all the pregnant women therein he ripped up.


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In the nine and thirtieth year of Azaryah the king of Judah became Menachem the son of Gadi king over Israel, <i>for</i> ten years, in Samaria.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin, all his days.


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<i>Then</i> came Pul the king of Assyria against the land: and Menachem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.


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And Menachem exacted the money from all Israel, from all the mighty men of the army, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver from every man; and the king of Assyria then returned and stayed not there in the land.


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And the rest of the acts of Menachem, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the fiftieth year of Azaryah the king of Judah became Pekachyah the son of Menachem king over Israel in Samaria, <i>for</i> two years.


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And he did what is evil m the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin.


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And Pekach the son of Remalyahu, an officer of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the fortress of the kings house, with the aid of Argob and the Aryeh, and with him were fifty men of the children of the Giladites: and he put him to death, and became king in his stead.


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And the rest of the acts of Pekachyah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the fiftysecond year of Azaryah the king of Judah became Pekach the son of Remalyahu king over Israel in Samaria, <i>for</i> twenty years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin.


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In the days of Pekach the king of Israel came Tiglathpilesser the king of Assyria, and took Iyon, and Abelbeth, maachah, and Yanoach, and Kedesh, and Chazor, and Gilad, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and led them away as exiles to Assyria.


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And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekach the son of Remalyahu, and smote him, and put him to death, and became king in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziyah.


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And the rest of the acts of Pekach, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the second year of Pekach the son of Remalyahu the king of Israel became Jotham, the son of Uzziyah the king of Judah, king.


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Five and twenty years old was he when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Yerusha, the daughter of Zadok.


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And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord: in accordance with all that Uzziyahu his father had done, <i>so</i> did he.


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Nevertheless, the highplaces were not removed: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the highplaces. He it was that built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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In those days began the Lord to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekach the son of Remalyahu.


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And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Achaz his son became king in his stead.


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In the seventeenth year of Pekach the son of Remalyahu, became Achaz, the son of Jotham the king of Judah, king.


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Twenty years old was Achaz when he became king, and sixteen years did he reign in Jerusalem; and he did not what is right in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.


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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even his son he caused to pass through the fire, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.


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And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the highplaces, and on the hills, and under every green tree.


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Then came up Rezin the king of Syria and Pekach the son of Remalyahu the king of Israel to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Achaz, but were not able to make an attack.


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At that time did Rezin the king of Syria bring Elath back to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath: and the Edomeans came to Elath and dwelt there, even until this day.


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And Achaz then sent messengers to Tiglathpilesser the king of Assyria, saying, Thy servant and thy son am I: come up, and help me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.


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And Achaz took the silver and the gold that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house, and sent <i>the same</i> to the king of Assyria as a bribe.


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And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and captured it, and led <i>the people of</i> it away captive to Kir, and Rezin did he put to death.


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And King Achaz went to meet Tiglathpilesser the king of Assyria to Damascus, and he saw the altar that was at Damascus: and king Achaz then sent to Uriyah the priest the form of the altar, and its pattern, after all its workmanship.


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And Uriyah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that king Achaz had sent from Damascus, so did Uriyah the priest make it against the arrival of king Achaz from Damascus.


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And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached to the altar and offered thereon.


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And he burnt his burntoffering and his meatoffering, and poured out his drinkoffering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar.


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And as respecteth the copper altar which was before the Lord, he moved it back from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and set it on the side of the altar to the north.


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And king Achaz commanded Uriyah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burntoffering, and the evening meatoffering, and the kings burntoffering, and his meatoffering, with the burntoffering of all the people of the land, and their meatoffering, and their drinkofferings; and all the blood of the burntoffering, and all the blood of the sacrifices shalt thou sprinkle on it; and the copper altar shall be for me to visit occasionally.


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And king Achaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the lavers from off them; and the sea he took down from off the copper oxen that were under it, and placed it upon a pavement of stones.


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And the covered passage for the sabbath that they had built on the house, and the outer kings entrance, turned he from the house of the Lord, on account of the king of Assyria.


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Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son became king in his stead.


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In the twelfth year of Achaz the king of Judah became Hoshea the son of Elah king in Samaria over Israel, <i>for</i> nine years.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel that were before him.


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Against him came up Shalmanesser, the king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and rendered him tribute.


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And the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy on Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt, and had raised no tribute for the king of Assyria, as <i>before</i> year by year; and the king of Assyria made him prisoner, and shut him up in a prisonhouse.


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And the king of Assyria came up over all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.


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In the ninth year of Hoshea did the king of Assyria capture Samaria, and he led Israel away as exiles into Assyria, and settled them in Chalach and in Chabor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of Media.


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This took place, because the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,


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And had walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel, and in those of the kings of Israel, which they had made.


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And <i>because</i> the children of Israel had secretly done things that are not right against the Lord their God, and had built themselves highplaces in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen up to fortified cities;


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And had burnt there incense on all the highplaces, like the nations that the Lord had led away exiles before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger;


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The Lord had indeed warned Israel and Judah, by means of all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn ye back from your evil ways, and keep my commandments <i>and</i> my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I have sent to you by means of my servants the prophets.


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But they would not hear, and hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who had not believed in the Lord their God;


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And they despised his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had entrusted to them; and they followed after what is vanity, and became vain, and followed after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, not to do like them.


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And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves molten images, two calves, and made a grove, and bowed down to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;


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And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and enchantments, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.


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Therefore became the Lord very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence: there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.


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Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs of Israel which they had made.


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Therefore did the Lord reject all the seed of Israel, and he afflicted them, and gave them up into the hand of spoilers, until that he had cast them out of his presence.


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For Israel had torn themselves from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam misled Israel from following the Lord, and caused them to commit a great sin;


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And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not therefrom.


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Until that the Lord removed Israel out of his presence, as he had spoken by means of all his servants the prophets; and Israel was led away as exiles out of their own land to Assyria even until this day.


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And the king of Assyria brought <i>men</i> from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Chamath, and from Sepharvayim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in the room of the children of Israel: and they took possession of Samaria, and dwelt in its cities.


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And it happened at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord; wherefore the Lord sent among them lions, which slew some of them.


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And they said to the king of Assyria, as followeth, The nations that thou hast led away, and settled in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; wherefore he hath sent among them lions, and, behold, they are slaying them, since they know not the manner of the God of the land.


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Then commanded the king of Assyria, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye led away from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.


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And there came one of the priests whom they had led away as exiles from Samaria, and dwelt in Bethel; and he taught them how they should fear the Lord.


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Yet they made, every nation, their own gods; and they put them in the houses of the highplaces which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.


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And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Neregal, and the men of Chamath made Ashima.


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And the Avvites made Nibchaz and Tharthak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvayim.


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And they feared <i>also</i> the Lord; and they made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the highplaces, and these sacrificed for them in the houses of the highplaces.


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The Lord did they fear, and their own gods did they serve, after the manner of the nations whence they had been led away.


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Even until this day do they act after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they act after their own customs, and after their manner, nor after the law and after the commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Israel, whose name he styled Israel;


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With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;


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But the Lord, who hath brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great might and with an outstretched arm, him alone shall ye fear, and to him shall ye bow yourselves down, and to him shall ye sacrifice;


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And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he hath written for you, shall ye observe to do for all time; and ye shall not fear other gods.


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So were these nations, while they feared the Lord, also serving their graven images; and both their children and their childrens children do until this day as their fathers have done.


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And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel, that Hezekiah, the son of Achaz the king of Judah, became king.


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Twenty and five years old was he when he became king, and twenty and nine years did he reign in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.


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And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that David his father had done.


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He it was that removed the highplaces, and broke the statues, and cut down the groves, and stamped in pieces the copper serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days were the children of Israel burning incense to it; and he called it Nechushtan.


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In the Lord the God of Israel did he trust; and after him there was not his like among all the kings of Judah, nor among those that were before him.


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And he adhered to the Lord, and turned not away from following him; but he kept his commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.


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And the Lord was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.


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He it was that smote the Philistines, as far as Gazzah, and its territory, from the tower of the watchmen up to the fortified city.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel, that Shalmanesser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.


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And they captured it at the end of three years,in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Israel, was Samaria captured.


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And the king of Assyria led away Israel as exiles unto Assyria, and transported them to Chalach and to Chabor, by the river of Gozan, and to the cities of Media;


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Because they had not obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, but had transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and had not obeyed, nor done accordingly.


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And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib the king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and seized on them.


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And Hezekiah the king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; retire from me: what thou wilt impose on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah the king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.


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And Hezekiah gave up all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house.


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At that time did Hezekiah cut off <i>the gold from</i> the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorsills which Hezekiah the king of Judah had overlaid, and gave the same to the king of Assyria.


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And the king of Assyria sent Tharthan and Rubsariss and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a strong army against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem; and when they were come up, they came and halted by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the washers field.


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And they called for the king, when there came out to them Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, who was superintendent over the house, and Shebnah the scribe, and Yoach the son of Assaph the recorder.


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And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus hath said the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherewith thou hast trusted?


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Thou saidst, but it was only a word uttered with the lips, <i>I have</i> counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom didst thou trust, that thou rebelledst against me?


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Now, behold, thou trustedst thee upon yon cracked reedstaff, upon Egypt, which, if a man lean on it, will enter into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh the king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.


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But if ye should say unto me, In the Lord our God have we trusted: is he not the one whose highplaces and whose altars Hezekiah hath removed, when he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar shall ye prostrate yourselves in Jerusalem?


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And now, I pray thee, enter into a contest with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.


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How then wilt thou turn back the face of a single chieftain among the least of my masters servants, while thou hast put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!


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Now am I come up without the Lord<i>s will</i> against this place to destroy it? The Lord hath said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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Then said Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, and Shebnah, and Yoach, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, we pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jewish language before the ears of the people that are on the wall.


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But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master then sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? is it not rather to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own excrement, and drink their own urine with you?


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Then stood Rabshakeh up and called out with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and spoke, and said, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:


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Thus hath said the king. Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand;


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Neither let Hezekiah induce you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given up into the hand of the king of Assyria:


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Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus hath said the king of Assyria, Make a treaty of peace with me, and come out to me, and eat ye every man of his own vine, and every man of his figtree, and drink ye every man the waters of his cistern;


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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oilolive trees, and of honey, that ye may live, and not die; and hearken not unto Hezekiah; for he will mislead you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.


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Have the gods of the nations delivered in anywise each his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Where are the gods of Chamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvayim, Hena, and Ivvah? have they then delivered Samaria out of my hand?


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Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But the people remained silent, and answered him not a word; for it was the kings command, saying, Ye shall not answer him.


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Then came Elyakim the son of Chilkiyah, who was superintendent over the house, and Shebnah the scribe, and Yoach the son of Assaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent; and they told unto him the words of Rabshakeh.


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And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.


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And he sent Elyakim, who was superintendent over the house, and Shebnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.


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And they said unto him, Thus hath said Hezekiah, A day of trouble, and of rebuke, and derision is this day; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.


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Perhaps the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God; and who hath reproached with the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up a prayer in behalf of the remnant that is still found here.


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And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus hath said the Lord, Be not afraid because of the words which thou hast heard, with which the boys of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.


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Behold, I will put an <i>other</i> spirit in him, that when he will hear a rumor, he shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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And Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.


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And he heard it said of Thirhakah the king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight with thee; and he again sent messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, as followeth, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given up into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Behold, thou thyself hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, by destroying them utterly: and thou alone shouldst be delivered?


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Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them; as Gozan, and Charan, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, who were in Thelassar?


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Where is the king of Chamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvayim, of Hena, and Ivvah?


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And Hezekiah took the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and read them: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread them out before the Lord.


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And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, who dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the <i>true</i> God, thou alone, for all the kingdoms of the earth; for it is thou who hast made the heavens and the earth.


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Bend down, O Lord, thy ear, and hear! open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see! and hear the words of Sennacherib, that which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.


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And they have placed their gods into the fire; for they are no gods, but the work of mans hands, wood and stone: and these have they destroyed.


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And now, O Lord our God, save us, I beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, thou alone.


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Then sent Isaiah the son of Amoz to Hezekiah, saying, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, What thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib the king of Assyria have I heard.


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This is the word that the Lord hath spoken over him: She despiseth thee, she laugheth thee to scorn, the virgin daughter of Zion; behind thee shaketh her head the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Whom hast thou blasphemed, and <i>whom</i> hast thou scorned? and against whom hast thou raised thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the Holy One of Israel.


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By thy messengers thou hast blasphemed the Lord and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I indeed come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its firtrees: and I will enter into the lodgings on its summit, the forest of its fruitful soil.


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I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the streams of besieged places.


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Hadst thou not heard that in distant ages I had prepared this? in the times of antiquity when I formed it? now have I brought it along, and it came to pass, to desolate into ruinous heaps fortified cities.


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And thus their inhabitants were short of power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the herbs of the field, and as the green grass; as the moss on the housetops, and as corn blasted before the ear appeareth.


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Because of thy raging against me and thy tumult that is come up into my ears, will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle between thy lips; and I will cause thee to turn back on the way by which thou camest.


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And this shall be unto thee the sign, Ye shall eat this year what groweth of itself, and in the second year what springeth up after the same; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.


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And the remnant of the house of Judah that is escaped shall yet again strike root downward, and bear fruit upward.


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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which escapeth out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.


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Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow thereon, nor come before it with shield, nor cast up against it an embankment.


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On the way by which he came, by the same shall he return, and into this city shall he not come, saith the Lord.


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And it came to pass, on the same night, that an angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty and five thousand men: and when people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.


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And it came to pass, as he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Essarchaddon his son became king in his stead.


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In those days Hezekiah fell sick unto death; and there came to him Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet, and said unto him, Thus hath said the Lord, Give thy charge to thy house; for thou shalt die, and not live.


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I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now that I have walked before thee in truth, and with an undivided heart, and have done what is good in thy eyes. And Hezekiah wept aloud.


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And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,


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Return, and say to Hezekiah the ruler of my people, Thus hath said the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will heal thee: on the third day shalt thou go up unto the house of the Lord.


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And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and out of the hand of the king of Assyria will I deliver thee and this city; and I will shield this city for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.


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And Isaiah said, Fetch a lump of figs. And they fetched and laid it on the inflammation, and he recovered.


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And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What sign shall there be that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?


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And Isaiah said, This shall be unto thee the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?


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And Hezekiah said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten degrees: no; but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.


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And Isaiah the prophet called unto the Lord; and he caused the shadow to return, by the degrees which the <i>sun</i> was gone down on the dial of Achaz, backward, ten degrees.


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And at that time sent Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylon, letters and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.


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And Hezekiah listened unto them, and showed them the whole of his treasurehouse, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the whole of his armorhouse, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing that Hezekiah showed them not, in his house and in all his dominion.


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Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What did these men say? and whence did they come unto thee? And Hezekiah said, From a far off country are they come, from Babylon.


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And he said, What did they see in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there was nothing that I did not show them in my treasures.


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Behold, days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.


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And of thy sons that will issue from thee, whom thou wilt beget, shall they take; and they shall be courtservants in the palace of the king of Babylon.


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Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not so, if there be peace and stability in my days?


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And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his mighty deeds, and how he made the pool, and the aqueduct, and brought the water into the city, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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Twelve years old was Menasseh when he became king, and fifty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Chephzibah.


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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.


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And he built up again the highplaces which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as Achab the king of Israel had done; and he bowed down to all the host of heaven, and served them.


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And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.


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And he caused his son to pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much that is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.


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And he set a hewn image of the Asherah that he had made in the house, 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 for ever:


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And I will not cause any more the foot of Israel to move out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to act in accordance with all that I have commanded them, and in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.


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But they hearkened not: and Menasseh seduced them to do what is evil more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.


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Forasmuch as Menasseh the king of Judah hath done these abominations, having done wickedly more than all that the Emorites had done, who were before him, and hath induced Judah also to sin with his idols:


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Therefore thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.


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And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measureline of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achab: and I will wipe off Jerusalem as one wipeth off a dish, wiping it, and turning it on its face.


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And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and give them up into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;


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Forasmuch as they have done what is evil in my eyes, and have been provoking me to anger, from the day that their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even until this day.


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And also innocent blood did Menasseh shed in very great abundance, till he had filled <i>therewith</i> Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he induced Judah to sin, to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.


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Now the rest of the acts of Menasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he committed, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And Menasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son became king in his stead.


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Twenty and two years old was Amon when he became king, and two years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Charuz of Yotbah.


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And he walked in all the way that his father had walked in, and served the idols that his father had served, and bowed himself down to them;


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And the people of the land slew all those that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.


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Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son became king in his stead.


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Eight years old was Josiah when he became king, and thirty and one years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Yedidah, the daughter of Adayah of Bozkath.


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And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right or to the left.


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And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azalyahu, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,


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Go up to Chilkiyahu the highpriest, that he may collect up all the money which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people:


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And let them deliver it into the hand of those who overlook the workmen, that have been appointed as overseers of the house of the Lord; and let them give it to those who do the work who are in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house:


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Unto the carpenters, and the builders, and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stones to repair the house.


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Nevertheless shall there be no reckoning made with them for the money that is delivered into their hand, because they deal faithfully.


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And Chilkiyahu the highpriest said unto Shaphan the scribe, A book of the law have I found in the house of the Lord. And Chilkiyah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.


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And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have taken out all the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of those who overlook the workmen, that have been appointed overseers of the house of the Lord.


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And Shaphan the scribe also told the king, saying, A book hath Chilkiyahu the priest given me. And Shaphan read it before the king.


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And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.


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And the king commanded Chilkiyah the priest, and Achikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michayah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Assahyah a servant of the kings, saying,


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Go ye, inquire of the Lord in my behalf, and in behalf of the people, and in behalf of all Judah, concerning the words of this book that hath been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that hath been kindled against us, because our fathers did not hearken unto the words of this book, to do in accordance with all that is prescribed concerning us.


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And Chilkiyahu the priest, and Achikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Assahyah, went unto Chuldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Charchass, the keeper of the wardrobe; <i>now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the suburb;</i>and they spoke unto her.


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And she said unto them, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, Say unto the man that hath sent you to me,


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Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read;


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Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense unto other gods, in order to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands: therefore is my wrath kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.


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But with respect to the king of Judah who sendeth you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, Concerning the words which thou hast heard;


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Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I had spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become an astonishment and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me: I also have heard it, saith the Lord.


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Therefore, behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy graves in peace; and thy eyes shall not look on all the evil which I am bringing over this place. And they brought the king word again.


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And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, from the small to the great: and he read before their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord.


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And the king stood upon the stand, and he made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies and his statutes with all <i>their</i> heart and all <i>their</i> soul, to maintain the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.


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And the king commanded Chilkiyahu the highpriest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to carry forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven: and they burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes unto Bethel.


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And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed that they might burn incense on the highplaces in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also that burnt incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.


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And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and ground it small to powder, and cast its powder upon the graves of the children of the people.


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And he pulled down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.


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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the highplaces where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to BeerSheba, and he pulled down the highplaces of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a mans left at the gate of the city.


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Nevertheless the priests of the highplaces came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they ate unleavened bread in the midst of their brethren.


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And he defiled the Thopheth, which was in the valley Benhinnom, so that no man should cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.


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And he put down the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, from the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nethanmelech the chamberlain, who was over the suburbs; and the chariots of the sun he burnt with fire.


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And the altars that were on the roof of the upperchamber of Achaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Menasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down, and tore them away from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.


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And the highplaces that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of destruction, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Kemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.


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And he broke in pieces the standing images, and cut down the Asherahgroves, and filled their places with the bones of men.


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So also the altar that was at Bethel, the highplace which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who induced Israel to sin, had made,also that altar and the highplace did he pull down; and he burnt the highplace, ground it small to powder, and burnt then the Asherah.


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And Josiah turned about, and beheld the graves that were there in the mount, and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who had proclaimed these events.


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Then said he, What kind of monument is that which I see? And the men of the city said to him, It is the grave of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.


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And he said, Let him rest: no man shall disturb his bones. So they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.


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And also all the houses of the highplaces that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made as provocations to anger, did Josiah remove, and did to them in accordance with all the acts that he had done in Bethel.


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And he slaughtered all the priests of the highplaces that were there upon the altars, and burnt mens bones upon them, and returned <i>then</i> to Jerusalem.


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And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.


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For there had not been holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel; nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah;


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And also the men of familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah clear away; in order that he might accomplish the words of the law which were written in the book that Chilkiyahu the priest had found in the house of the Lord.


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And like unto him there was no king before him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and after him there arose none like him.


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Notwithstanding this the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great anger, since his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provokings wherewith Menasseh had provoked him to anger.


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And the Lord said, Also Judah will I remove out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.


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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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In his days went up Pharaohnechoh the king of Egypt against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he saw him.


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And his servants carried him dying in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoachaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his fathers stead.


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Twenty and three years old was Jehoachaz when he became king; and three months did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Chamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


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And Pharaohnechoh put him in fetters at Riblah in the land of Chamath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem, and imposed a fine on the land of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.


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And Pharaohnechoh made Elyakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoyakim, and took Jehoachaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.


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And Jehoyakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money by the order of Pharaoh: from every one according to his estimation did he exact the silver and gold from the people of the land, to give it unto Pharaohnechoh.


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Twenty and five years old was Jehoyakim when he became king; and eleven years did be reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedayah of Rumah.


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In his days came up Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and Jehoyakim became his servant for three years: and then he returned and rebelled against him.


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And the Lord sent against him predatory bands of the Chaldeans, and predatory bands of the Syrians, and predatory bands of the Moabites, and predatory bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by means of his servants the prophets.


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But only at the order of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove the same out of his sight, for the sins of Menasseh, in accordance with all that he had done;


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And also for the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; wherefore the Lord would not pardon.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoyakim, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.


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And the king of Egypt came no more again out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken from the brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that had pertained to the king of Egypt.


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Eighteen years old was Jehoyachin when he became king, and three months did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Nechushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.


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At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was put in a state of siege.


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And Jehoyachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his courtofficers: and the king of Babylon took him <i>captive</i> in the eighth year of his reign.


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And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the kings house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had spoken.


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And he led away as exiles all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand exiles, and all the craftsmen and locksmiths: there was none left, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.


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And he led away Jehoyachin as exile to Babylon; and the kings mother, and the kings wives, and his courtofficers, and the mighty men of the land, he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.


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And all the men of might, seven thousand <i>in number</i>, and the craftsmen and the locksmiths a thousand <i>in number</i>, all strong men, apt for war; and the king of Babylon brought them into exile to Babylon.


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And the king of Babylon made Mattanyah his uncle king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.


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Twenty and one years old was Zedekiah when he became king, and eleven years did he reign in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Chamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


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For through the anger of the Lord it occurred in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


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And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built a mound all around about it.


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And on the ninth of the month, when the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land:


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The city was broken into, and all the men of war <i>fled</i> in the night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the kings garden; <i>while the Chaldeans were all round about the city;</i>and the people went the way toward the plain.


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And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from around him.


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And they seized the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they called him to account.


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And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.


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And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, came Nebusaradan, the chief of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:


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And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the kings house; also, all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great mans house burnt he with fire.


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And the walls of Jerusalem round about did all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the guard tear down.


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And the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had run over to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebusaradan the captain of the guard lead away into exile;


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But from the poorest of the land the captain of the guard left some to be vinedressers and husbandmen.


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And the pillars of copper that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the copper sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldeans break up, and they carried the copper thereof to Babylon.


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And the pots, and the shovels, and the knives, and the spoons, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, took they away.


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And the censers, and the bowls, the gold of the golden things, and the silver of the silver things, took the captain of the guard away.


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The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the copper of all these vessels was too much to be weighed.


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Eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and the capital upon it was copper; and the height of the capital was three cubits; and the wreathed work, and the pomegranates upon the capitals round about, were all of copper: and the same had the second pillar together with the wreathed work.


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And the captain of the guard took Serayah the chiefpriest, and Zephanyahu the second priest, and the three doorkeepers;


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And out of the city he took one courtofficer that was appointed over the men of war, and five men of those that could come into the kings presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the chief of the army, who ordered to the army the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city:


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And Nebusaradan the captain of the guard took these, and conducted them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;


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And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Chamath. So did Judah wander away into exile out of their land.


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And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them Gedalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shaphan.


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And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedalyahu, they came to Gedalyahu to Mizpah; even Ishmael the son of Nethanyah, and Jochanan the son of Kareach, and Serayah the son of Tanchumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazanyahu the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.


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And Gedalyahu swore to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Be not afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans: remain in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it will be well with you.


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But it happened in the seventh month, that there came Ishmael the son of Nethanyah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and ten men with him, and they smote Gedalyahu, so that he died, also the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.


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And then arose all the people, from small to great, and the captains of the armies, and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.


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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoyachin the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth <i>day</i> of the month, that Evilmerodach the king of Babylon in the year that he became king did lift up the head of Jehoyachin the king of Judah out of the prison;


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And he spoke kindly to him, and set his chair above the chair of the kings that were with him in Babylon:


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And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, the necessary ration for the day on its day, all the days of his life.


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And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Chavilah, and Sabta, and Ramah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Ramah: Sheba, and Dedan.


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The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Chul, and Gether, and Meshech.


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And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided; and his brothers name was Joktan.


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These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebayoth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,


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And the sons of Keturah, the concubine of Abraham: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Yishbak, and Shuach. And the sons Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.


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And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Chanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.


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The sons of Shobal: Alyan, and Manachath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibon: Ayah, and Anah.


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And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.


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And Chusham died and there reigned in his stead Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab; and the name of his city was Avith.


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And Baalchanan died, and there reigned in his stead Hadad; and the name of his city was Pai; and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.


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The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, the three <i>who</i> were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of the Lord: and he slew him.


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And their sisters were Zeruyah, and Abigayil. And the sons of Zeruyah: Abshai, and Joab, and Assahel, three.


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And Caleb the son of Chezron begat <i>children</i> of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these are her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.


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And afterward came Chezron to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilad, and he took her <i>for wife</i> when he was sixty years old: and she bore unto him Segub.


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But Geshur and Aram took the small towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even sixty cities. All these <i>belonged to</i> the sons of Machir the father of Gilad.


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And after Chezron was dead in Calebephratah, then bore Chezrons wife Abiyah unto him Ashchur the father of Thekoa.


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And the sons of Jerachmeel the firstborn of Chezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Achiyah.


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And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.


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Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarcha.


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Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerachmeel were, Mesha, his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and of the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.


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She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah. Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Giba: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.


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These were the sons of Caleb: Benchur, the firstborn of Ephratah, Shobal the father of Kiryathyearim,


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And the families of Kiryathyearim are the Yithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites: from these came the Zorathites, and the Eshthaulites.


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The sons of Salma: Bethlechem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth of the house of Joab, and Chazihammanachthi, the Zorite.


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And the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez: the Thirathites, the Shimathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came from Chammath, the father of the house of Rechab.


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And these were the sons of David, who were born unto him in Hebron: The firstborn, Amnon, of Achinoam the Jizreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigayil the Carmelitess;


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The third, Abshalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Thalmai the king of Geshur; the fourth, Adoniyah the son of Chaggith;


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Six were born unto him in Hebron: and he reigned there seven years and six months; and thirty and three years he reigned in Jerusalem.


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And these were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shima, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;


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<i>These were</i> all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Thamar their sister.


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And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Jochanan, the second Jehoyakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.


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And the sons of Pedayah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimi: and the sons of Zerubbabel were, Meshullam, and Chananyah, and Shelomith their sister;


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And the sons of Chananyah: Pelatyah, and Jeshayah; the sons of Rephayah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Ohadiah, the sons of Shechanyah.


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And the sons of Shechanyah: Shemayah: and the sons of Shemayah were Chattush, and Yigal, and Bariach, and Nearyah, and Shaphat, six.


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And the sons of Elyoenai were, Hodavyahu, and Elyashib, and Pelayah, and Akkub, and Jochanan, and Delayah, and Anani, seven.


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And Reayah the son of Shobal begat Jachath, and Jachath begat Achumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.


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And these were <i>those of</i> the father of Etam, Jizreel, and Yishma, and Yidbash: and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.


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And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Chushah. These are the sons of Chur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlechem.


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And Naarah bore him Achuzzam, and Chepher, and Themeni. and Haachashthari. These were the sons of Naarah.


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And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him in pain.


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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my boundary, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst act for me against the evil, that it may not give me pain! And God granted him what he had asked for.


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And Eshthon begat Bethrapha, and Passeach, and Techinnah the father of Irnachash. These are the men of Rechah.


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And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Serayah begat Joab, the father of the valley of the carpenters; for they were carpenters.


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And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she conceived <i>and bore</i> Miriam, and Shammai, and Yishbach the father of Eshthemoa.


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And his wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Cheber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoach. And these are the sons of D the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered had taken <i>for wife</i>.


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And the sons of the wife of Hodiyah the sister of Nacham: The father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshthemoa the Maachathite.


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And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Benchanan, and Thilon. And the sons of Yishi were, Zocheth, and Benzocheth.


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The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lechah, and Ladah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea.


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And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilechem. And these are ancient things.


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There were the potters, and those that dwelt in plantations and sheepfolds: for the kings sake to do his work they dwelt there.


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And Shimi had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, nor did all their family multiply, equal to the children of Judah.


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And at Bethmarcaboth, and Chazarsussim, and at Bethbiri, and at Shaarayim. These were their cities until the reign of David.


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And all their villages that were round about these same cities as far as Baal. These were their dwellingplaces, and after them are they recorded.


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And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedayah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemayah:


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These mentioned by their names were princes in their families; and their family divisions spread themselves out greatly.


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And they went to the entrance of Gedur, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.


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And they found a fat and good pasture, and the land was roomy, and quiet, and peaceable; for descendants of Ham dwelt there before that time.


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And then came these written down by name in the days of Hezekiah the king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.


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And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir having at their head Pelatyah, and Nearyah, and Rephayah, and Uzziel, the sons of Yishi.


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And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israelfor he was the firstborn; but, when the defiled his fathers bed, was his birthright given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: so that the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the firstbirth.


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For Judah became the mightiest of his brothers, and the prince descended from him: while the firstbirthright belonged to Joseph,


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Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneesser the king of Assyria carried into exile: he was the prince of the Reubenites.


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And his brethren by their families, according to their genealogy after their generations, were, the chief, Jeiel, and Zecharyahu,


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And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, and as far as Nebo and Baalmeon;


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And to the eastward he dwelt as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates; because their cattle were numerous in the land of Gilad.


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And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarenes, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents in the whole front of the land to the east of Gilad.


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And their brethren according to their family divisions were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Yakan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.


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These are the children of Abichayil the son of Churi, the son of Jaroach, the son of Gilad, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jachdo, the son of Buz:


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And they dwelt in Gilad, in Bashan, and in its minor towns, and in all the open districts of Sharon, as far as their terminations.


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All these were recorded by their genealogies in the days of Jotham the king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the king of Israel.


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The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, and to draw the bow, and practised in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and sixty, that went out to the army.


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And they obtained help against them, and the Hagarenes were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for to God they cried in the battle, and he was entreated by them; because they put their trust in him.


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And they led away captive their cattle: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of human beings one hundred thousand.


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For there fell down many slain; because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the exile.


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And the children of the half tribe of Menasseh dwelt in the land: from Bashan unto Baalchermon and Senir and mount Chermon were they numerous.


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And these were the heads of their family divisions: namely, Epher, and Yishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodavyah, and Jachdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, <i>and</i> heads of their family divisions.


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But they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God had destroyed from before them.


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And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul the king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilnesser the king of Assyria, and he carried them into exile, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, and brought them unto Chalach, and Chabor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, even until this day.


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<n>(5:29)</n> And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Elazar, and Ithamar.


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<n>(5:36)</n> And Jochanan begat Azaryah, he it is that officiated as priest in the house that Solomon had built in Jerusalem;


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<n>(5:41)</n> And Jehozadak went away, when the Lord carried Judah and Jerusalem into exile through the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.


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<n>(6:4)</n> The sons of Merari: Machli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.


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<n>(6:16)</n> And these are those whom David appointed for the purpose of conducting the singing in the house of the Lord, after the ark had a restingplace.


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<n>(6:17)</n> And they ministered before the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation with singing, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they acted according to their prescribed manner in their service.


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<n>(6:18)</n> And these are those that so acted with their sons. Of the sons of the Kehathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,


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<n>(6:24)</n> And his relative Assaph was he, who stood on his right hand, <i>even</i> Assaph the son of Berachyah, the son of Shima,


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<n>(6:29)</n> And their brethren the sons of Merari <i>stood</i> on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,


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<n>(6:33)</n> And their brethren the Levites were superadded for all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.


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<n>(6:34)</n> But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burntoffering, and upon the altar of incense, <i>and were</i> for all the work of the most holy place, and to make an atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.


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<n>(6:39)</n> And these are their dwellingplaces with their castles in their boundaries; unto the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kehathites; for theirs was the <i>first</i> lot,


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<n>(6:40)</n> And they gave unto them Hebron in the land of Judah, with its open spaces round about it.


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<n>(6:42)</n> And to the sons of Aaron they gave <i>of</i> the cities of refuge Hebron, and Libnah with its open spaces, and Jattir, and Eshthemoa, with its open spaces.


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<n>(6:45)</n> And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its open spaces, and Alemeth with its open spaces, and Anathoth with its open spaces. And all their cities were thirteen cities after their families.


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<n>(6:46)</n> And unto the sons of Kehath that were left of the family of that tribe, <i>were given</i> from the half tribe, the half tribe of Menasseh, by lot, ten cities.


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<n>(6:47)</n> And to the sons or Gershom after their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Menasseh in Bashan, <i>were given</i> thirteen cities.


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<n>(6:48)</n> Unto the sons of Merari after their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, <i>were given</i> by lot, twelve cities.


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<n>(6:50)</n> And they gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, and from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin these cities, which they called by names.


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<n>(6:51)</n> And some of the families of the sons of Kehath had the cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.


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<n>(6:52)</n> And they gave unto them, <i>of</i> the cities of refuge Sechem with its open spaces in the mountain of Ephraim, and Gezer with its open spaces.


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<n>(6:55)</n> And from the half tribe of Menasseh: Aner with its open spaces: and Bilam with its open spaces, for the family of the remaining portion of the sons of Kehath.


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<n>(6:56)</n> Unto the sons of Gershom <i>were given</i> from the family of the half tribe of Menasseh, Golan in Bashan with its open spaces, and Ashtaroth with its open spaces.


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<n>(6:57)</n> And from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its open spaces, Dobrath with its open spaces,


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<n>(6:59)</n> And from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its open spaces, and Abdon with its open spaces,


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<n>(6:61)</n> And from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its open spaces, and Chammon with its open spaces, and Kiryathayim with its open spaces.


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<n>(6:62)</n> Unto the remaining portion of the children of Merari <i>were given</i> from the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its open spaces, Tabor with its open spaces.


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<n>(6:63)</n> And on the other side the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its open spaces, and Jahzah with its open spaces,


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<n>(6:65)</n> And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilad with its open spaces, and Machanayim with its open spaces.


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And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephayah, and Jeriel, and Jachmai, and Yibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their family divisions, of Tola, being valiant men of might, after their descent. Their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and six hundred.


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And the sons of Uzzi: Yizrachyah. And the sons of Yizrachyah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Yishiyah, five, chief men all of them.


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And with them according to their descent, after their family divisions, were bands of the army for war, six and thirty thousand men; for they had many wives and sons.


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And their brethren of all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, eighty and seven thousand reckoned by their genealogies in all.


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And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of family divisions, being mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.


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And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elyoenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abiyah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these are the sons of Becher.


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And reckoned by their genealogy after their descent, heads of their family divisions, mighty men of valor, there were twenty thousand and two hundred.


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And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Kenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Achishachar.


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All these the sons of Jediael by the heads of their divisions, being mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred, fit to go out to the army for war.


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The sons of Menasseh: Assriel, whom <i>his wife</i> bore; his concubine the Aramitess bore Machir the father of Gilad.


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And Machir took for wife <i>the sister</i> of Chuppim and Shuppim, whose sisters name was Maachah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.


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And Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.


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And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelach, and Bered his son, and Tachath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tachath his son,


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And Zabad his son, and Shuthelach his son, and Ezer, and Elad, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, when they came down to take away their cattle.


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And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because misfortune had come into his house.


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And their possessions and dwellingplaces were, Bethel and its villages, and at the east Naaran, and at the west Gezer, with its villages, and Shechem with its villages, as far as Gazzah and its villages.


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And by the borders of the children of Menasseh: Bethshean and its villages, Tanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, Dor and its villages. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.


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All these were the children of Asher, heads of their family divisions, selected mighty men of valor, chiefs of the princes. And being recorded according to their genealogy for the army for the war, their number was of men twenty and six thousand.


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And these are the sons of Echud: these are the heads of the family divisions of the inhabitants of Geba, who were exiled to Manachath;


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And Shacharayim begat children in the fields of Moab, after he had sent them awayChushim and Baara his wives.


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And Beriah, and Shema, who were the heads of the family divisions of the inhabitants of Ayalon; these were those who drove away the inhabitants of Gath;


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These were the heads of the family divisions, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.


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And Mikloth begat Shimah. And these also dwelt alongside of their brethren in Jerusalem, with their brethren.


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And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jehonathan and Malkishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.


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And Achaz begat Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;


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And Azel had six sons, and these are their names, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Shearyah, and Obadiah, and Chanan. All these were the sons of Azel.


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And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.


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And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, who drew the bow, and had many sons, and sons sons, one hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.


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So all Israel were recorded by their genealogies, and, behold, they are written in the book of the Kings of Israel; but <i>the men of</i> Judah were carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.


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And the first inhabitants that <i>dwelt again</i> in their possessions in their cities, were the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the templeservants.


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And in Jerusalem dwelt some of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Menasseh.


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Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.


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And Yibneyah the son of Jerocham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatyah, the son of Reuel, the son of Yibniyah;


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And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chiefs of the divisions of their family divisions.


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And Azaryah the son of Chilkiyah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Merayoth, the son of Actitub, the ruler of the house of God.


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And Adayah the son of Jerocham, the son of Pashchur, the son of Malkiyah, and Masai the son of Adiel, the son of Jachzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer:


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And their brethren, chiefs of their family divisions, were one thousand and seven hundred and sixty, very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.


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And of the Levites: Shemayah the son of Chasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Chashabyah, of the sons of Merari;


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And Bakbakkar, Cheresh, and Galal, and Matthanyah the son of Micha, the son of Zichri, the son of Assaph;


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And Obadiah the son of Shemayah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechyah the son of Assa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.


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And the gatekeepers were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Achiman, and their brethren, Shallum being the chief;


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And up to this time they are in the kings gate to the eastward: they are the gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi.


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And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebyassaph, the son of Korach, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korchites, being over the work of the service, were the watchmen at the threshold of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the camp of the Lord, were the watchmen at the entrance <i>thereof</i>.


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And Phinehas the son of Elazar was the ruler over them in times past; <i>and</i> the Lord was with him.


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<i>And</i> Zechariah the son of Meshelemyah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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All of these selected to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were recorded according to their genealogy in their villages; <i>and they were</i> those <i>whom</i> David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their trust.


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Both they and their children had the oversight over the gates of the house of the Lord, <i>namely,</i> the house of the tabernacle, as watches.


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And their brethren, who were in their villages, had to come after every seven days from time to time in common with these.


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For in <i>their</i> trust were these four chief gatekeepers these Levites, and they were <i>appointed</i> over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.


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And they lodged round about the house of God; because upon them rested the duty of watching, and they had the supervision of the opening thereof each and every morning.


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And some of them had the charge of the vessels for the service; for by number did they bring them in, and by number did they carry them out.


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Some of them also were appointed over the vessels, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.


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And Matthithyah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korchite, had the trust over the meatofferings that were baked in the pans.


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And others of their brethren, of the sons of the Kehathites, were over the orders of the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.


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But these the singers, the chiefs of the divisions of the Levites, remained in the chambers free of service; for day and night were they obliged to engage in that work.


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These are the chiefs of the divisions of the Levites, being the chiefs for their generations: these dwelt at Jerusalem.


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And Mikloth begat Shimam. And they also dwelt alongside of their brethren at Jerusalem, with their brethren.


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And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jehonathan, and Malkishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.


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And Azel had six sons, and these are their names, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Shearyah, and Obadiah, and Chanan: these were the sons of Azel.


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Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and there fell down <i>many</i> slain on mount Gilboa.


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And the Philistines pursuing them overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malkishua, the sons of Saul.


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And the battle was heavy against Saul, and he was found by the archers, and he was greatly in dread of the archers.


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And Saul said to his armorbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and wantonly illuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was greatly afraid: wherefore Saul took the sword and fell upon it.


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And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead: they forsook their cities, and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the Philistines came to strip the slain; and they found Saul and his sons fallen on mount Gilboa.


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And they stripped him, and they carried away his head, and his armor, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it to their idols, and to the people.


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And they put his armor in the house of their gods, and his skull they fastened in the temple of Dagon.


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Then arose all the valiant men, and carried away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Yabesh; and they buried their bones under the terebinth in Yabesh, and they fasted seven days.


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And <i>so</i> died Saul for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he had not kept, and also for asking one of a familiar spirit to inquire of the same;


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And had not inquired of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned over the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.


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Then did all Israel gather themselves unto David unto Hebron, saying Behold, thy bone and thy flesh are we.


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Already yesterday and even before, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord, thy God, said unto thee, Thou shalt indeed feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be truly a chief over my people Israel.


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Thus came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David as king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord through means of Samuel.


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And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; and there were the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land.


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And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David captured the stronghold of Zion, the same is the City of David.


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And David said, Whosoever doth smite the Jebusites at first shall be head and chief. Then did Joab the son of Zeruyah go up at first, and became headman.


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And he built the city round about, even from the Millo as far as the surrounding district, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.


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These also are the principals of the mighty men whom David had, who held firmly with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.


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And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashoham, the son of Chachmoni, the chief of the captains, who lifted up his spear against three hundred slain at one time.


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He was with David at Passdammim, and the Philistines were gathered together there to battle, and there was a piece of ground full of barley; and the people had fled from before the Philistines.


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And they placed themselves in the midst of that piece <i>of ground</i>, and they delivered it, and smote the Philistines: and the Lord helped <i>them</i> with a great victory.


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And these three, the chiefs of the thirty, went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Adullam; and the camp of the Philistines was pitched in the valley of Rephaim.


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And David longed, and said, Oh that some one would bring me water to drink out of the well of Bethlechem, which is by the gate!


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And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlechem, which was by the gate, and carried it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink thereof, and poured it out unto the Lord.


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And he said, Far be it from me, before my God, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men that went at the risk of their lives? for at the risk of their lives did they bring it; and thus he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.


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And Abshai the brother of Joab was the chief of these three; and he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain, and had a name among the three.


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Of the three, he was more honored than the two, wherefore he became their captain; he nevertheless attained not unto the three <i>in prowess</i>.


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Banayah the son of Jehoyada, the son of a valiant man, great in many acts, of Kahzeel: he it was that smote the two lionlike heroes of Moab; he also went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a day when it snowed.


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And he smote an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptians hand was a spear like a weavers beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and he snatched the spear out of the Egyptians hand, and slew him with his own spear.


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Behold, he was indeed more honored than the thirty; but he attained not to the first three. And David appointed him over his private council.


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And the mighty men of the armies were, Assahel the brother of Joab, Elchanan the son of Dodo of Bethlechem.


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Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and with him were thirty <i>men</i>.


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And these are those that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, confederates for the war,


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Who were armed with bows, and could use both the right and the left hand in <i>hurling</i> stones and shooting arrows with the bow, even of the brethren of Saul out of Benjamin.


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The chiefs were Achiezer, then Joash, the sons of Hashemaab the Gibathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Anthothite,


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And Yishmayah the Gibonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jachaziel, and Jochanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,


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And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the stronghold in the wilderness mighty men of valor, and men of the army for the war, that could handle shield and lance, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as the roebucks upon the mountains in swiftness.


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These were of the sons of Gad, the chiefs of the army, one of the least could fight with a hundred, and the greatest with a thousand.


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These are those that passed over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all the men of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.


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And David went out to meet them, and commenced and said unto them. If ye be come for peace unto me, to help me, my heart shall be inclined toward you to unite with you; but if it be to betray me to my adversaries while there is no violence in my hands, then may the God of our fathers look on and decide it.


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Then a spirit invested Amassai, the chief of the captains, <i>who said,</i> Thine are we, David, and with thee, O son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to every one that helpeth thee; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and placed them at the head of the troop.


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And some of Menasseh went over to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but he helped them not; for upon consultation did the lords of the Philistines send him away, saying, With our heads will he go over to his master Saul.


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As he was going over to Ziklag, there went over to him of Menasseh, Adnach, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of the thousands that belonged to Menasseh.


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And they were those that helped David against the band <i>of Amelekites</i>; for they were all mighty men of valor, and they became officers in the army.


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For all the time, day by day, people used to come to David to help him, until the camp became great, like the camp of God.


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And these are the numbers of the heads of those ready armed for the host that came to David to Hebron, to turn over the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the order of the Lord.


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The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed for the host.


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And Jehoyada was the leader of the family of Aaron, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred.


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And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand; for till that time the greatest part of them had kept the charge of the house of Saul.


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And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valor, men of fame in their family divisions.


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And of the half tribe of Menasseh eighteen thousand, who had been expressed by name, to come to make David king.


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And of the children of Issachar, those who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do,their heads were two hundred; and all their brethren were ready at their order.


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Of Zebulun, such as went forth to the host, arrayed for battle, with all manner of weapons of war, fifty thousand; and these were ready to place themselves in battle array with an undivided heart.


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And of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them were with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.


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And from the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, with all manner of weapons of the host for war, one hundred and twenty thousand.


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All these men of war, that placed themselves in battle array, came with an entire heart to Hebron, to make David King over all Israel; and also all the rest of Israel were of one heart to make David king.


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And they were there with David three days eating and drinking; for their brethren had prepared for them.


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And also those that were nigh unto them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought in bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food made of meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.


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And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, if it seem good unto you, and if it be of the Lord our God, let us send widely about unto our brethren who are left in all the lands of Israel, and with them unto the priests and Levites who are in their cities and open districts, that they may gather themselves together unto us.


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And let us bring round the ark of our God to us; for we have inquired not at it in the days of Saul.


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And all the congregation said that this should be done; for the king was right in the eyes of all the people.


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So David assembled all Israel together, from Shichor of Egypt even unto the entrance of Chemath, to bring the ark of God from Kiryathyearim.


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And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, <i>that is</i> to Kiryathyearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubim, whose name is called <i>on it</i>.


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And they conveyed the ark of God in a new wagon out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Achyo guided the wagon.


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And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and on harps, and on psalteries, and on tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.


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And when they came as far as the threshingfloor of Kidon, Uzza put forth his hand to take hold of the ark; for the oxen shook it.


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And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he had put forth his hand toward the ark: and he died there before God.


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And it was grievious to David, because the Lord had suddenly taken away Uzza; and he called that place Perezuzza <i>Breach of Uzza</i> until this day.


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So David removed not the ark unto himself into the city of David, but had it carried round into the house of Obededom the Gittite.


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And the ark of God remained in the house of Obededom, in his house, three months. And the Lord blessed the house of Obededom, and all that belonged to him.


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And Churam the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and trees of cedars, and masons and carpenters, to build him a house.


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And David felt conscious that the Lord had established him as king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, because of his people Israel.


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And these are the names of the children that he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,


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But when the Philistines heard that David had been anointed as king over all Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.


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And David asked counsel of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said unto him, Go up; and I will deliver them into thy hand.


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And they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken down my enemies through my hand as a breach <i>is made</i> by water: therefore they called the name of that place Baalperazim.


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And David asked again counsel of God; and God said unto him, Thou shalt not go up after them: turn about from them, and come upon them opposite the mulberrytrees,


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And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of walking on the tops of the mulberrytrees, that then thou shalt go out to battle; for God will be gone forth before thee to smite the camp of the Philistines.


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And David did as God had commanded him; and they smote the camp of the Philistines from Gibon as far as Gezer.


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And the fame of David went out into all the lands; and the Lord laid the dread of him upon all the nations.


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And <i>David</i> made himself houses in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.


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Then said David, None shall carry the ark of God but the Levites; for of them hath the Lord made choice to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.


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And David assembled all Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto its place, which he had prepared for it.


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And David called for Zadok and Ebyathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Assayah, and Joel, Shemayah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,


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And he said unto them, Ye are the chiefs of the family divisions of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and bring up the ark of the Lord the God of Israel unto <i>the place which</i> I have prepared for it.


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For, because ye <i>did</i> it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach among us; because we had not sought him after the prescribed manner.


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So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord the God of Israel.


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And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord, on their shoulders, by means of barrows placed upon them.


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And David said to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, to sing aloud, by lifting up the voice for joy.


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So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and of his brethren, Assaph the son of Berechyahu, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushayahu;


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And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zecharyahu, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jechiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benayahu, and Maasseyahu, and Matthithyahu, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneyahu, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.


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And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jechiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maasseyahu, and Benayahu, with psalteries on Alamoth;


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And Matthithyahu, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneyahu, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azazyahu, with harps on the Sheminith to play as leaders.


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And Kenanyahu was the chief of the Levites in conducting the singing: he instructed in conducting the singing, because he was skilful.


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And Shebanyahu, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amassai, and Zecharyahu, and Benayahu, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow on the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obededom and Jechiyah were gatekeepers for the ark.


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And it was David, with the elders of Israel, and the officers over the thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obededom with joy.


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And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.


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And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and <i>so were</i> all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singers, and Kenanyahu the chief in conducting the singing of the singers; but David had also upon him an ephod of linen.


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Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, playing aloud on psalteries and harps.


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And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came as far as the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked through the window, and saw king David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.


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And they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burntofferings and peaceofferings before God.


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And when David had made an end of offering the burntofferings and the peaceofferings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.


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And he dealt out to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.


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And he placed before the ark of the Lord several of the Levites as ministers, and to chaunt hymns, and to give praise and thanks unto the Lord the God of Israel:


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Assaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jechiel, and Matthithyah, and Eliab, and Benayahu, and Obededom; and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Assaph played aloud with the cymbals.


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And Benayahu and Jachaziel the priests were with the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.


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On that daythen did David appoint for the first time to give thanks to the Lord through means of Assaph and his brethren.


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Ascribe unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; take up an offering, and come into his presence; bow down before the Lord in the beauty of holiness.


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Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth.


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Then shall the trees of the forest sing joyfully at the presence of the Lord; because he cometh to judge the earth.


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And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, to glorify ourselves in thy praise.


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Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from everlasting even unto everlasting. And all the people said, Amen, and praise unto the Lord.


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And he left there in charge before the ark of the covenant of the Lord Assaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, at the work of every day on its day,


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And Obededom with their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obededom the son of Jeduthun and Chossah to be gatekeepers;


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And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord, in the highplace that was at Gibon,


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To offer burntofferings unto the Lord upon the altar of the burntoffering continually at morning and at evening, and this in accordance with all that is written in the law of the Lord which he had commanded concerning Israel;


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And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were selected who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because unto everlasting endureth his kindness;


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And with them, with Heman and Jeduthun, the trumpets and cymbals to play aloud, and the musical instruments of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be for the service at the gate.


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And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said unto Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under curtains.


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Go and say unto David my servant, Thus hath said the Lord, Not thou shalt build for me the house to dwell in;


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For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel even until this day; but have been <i>moving</i> from tent to tent, and from <i>one</i> tabernacle <i>to another</i>.


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In all the places where I moved about among all Israel, did I speak a word to any one of the judges of Israel, whom I had ordained to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built for me a house of cedar?


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Now therefore, thus shalt thou say unto my servant, to David, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, I took thee away from the sheepcote, from behind the flocks, to be a ruler over my people Israel;


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And I have been with thee withersoever thou didst go, and I have cut off all thy enemies from thy presence, and I have made thee a name; like the name of the great men who are on the earth;


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And I have procured a place for my people Israel, and I have planted them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and be no more troubled; and that the children of wickedness shall not waste them any more, as aforetimes,


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And <i>as it was</i> since the time that I ordained judges to be over my people Israel; and I have humbled all thy enemies; and now I tell thee that the Lord will build for thee a house.


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And it shall come to pass, that, when thy days will be completed that thou must go <i>to sleep</i> with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall be of thy sons, and I will establish his kingdom.


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I too will be to him as a father, and he shall indeed be unto me as a son: and my kindness will I not cause to depart from him, as I caused it to depart from him that was before thee;


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But I will place him firmly in my house and in my kingdom for evermore; and his throne shall be established for ever.


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Then went king David in and sat down before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me as far as hitherward?


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And this was <i>yet</i> too small a thing in thy eyes, O God, and thou hast spoken concerning thy servants house for a distant time, and hast regarded me as though I belonged to the rank of a man of high degree, O Lord God.


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What can David add yet more <i>to speak</i> unto thee of the honor of thy servant? since thou knowest well thy servant.


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O Lord, for the sake of thy servant, and in accordance with thy own heart, hast thou done all this great thing, to make known all these great things.


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O Lord, there is none like thee, and there is no god beside thee, in accordance with all that we have heard with our ears.


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And who is like thy people Israel, the only nation on the earth which God went to redeem for himself as a people, to acquire for thyself a name for great and terrible deeds, by driving out nations from before thy people, which thou hadst redeemed out of Egypt?


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And thou hast instituted thy people Israel unto thyself as a people for ever; and thou, Lord, art indeed become their God.


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And now, O Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be verified for ever, and do as thou hast spoken.


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Yea, let it be verified, and let thy name be magnified unto everlasting, that men may say, The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God for Israel; and may the house of David thy servant be established before thee.


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For thou, O my God, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, that thou wilt build for him a house; therefore hath thy servant found himself able to pray before thee.


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And now, O Lord, thou art the <i>true</i> God, and thou hast spoken concerning thy servant this goodness:


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And now hast thou been pleased to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord, hast blessed, and <i>it will remain</i> blessed for ever.


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And it came to pass after this, that David smote the Philistines, and humbled them; and he took Gath and its dependent towns out of the hand of the Philistines.


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David also smote Hadarezer the king of Zobah, at Chamath, as he went to establish his dominion at the river Euphrates.


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And David captured from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand men on foot; and David hamstringed all the chariotteams, but reserved of them a hundred chariotteams.


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And the Syrians of Damascus came to aid Hadarezer the king of Zobah, when David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.


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Then did David put <i>garrisons</i> in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became unto David servants, bringing presents. And the Lord helped David withersoever he went.


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And David took the quivers of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.


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And from Tibchath, and from Kun, cities of Hadarezer, did David take exceedingly much copper; thereof made Solomon the copper sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of copper.


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And when Tou the king of Chamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer the king of Zobah:


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Then did he send Hadoram his son unto king David, to ask him after his wellbeing, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him: for Hadarezer had been engaged in wars with Tou; and <i>he had with him</i> all manner of vessels of gold and silver and copper.


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Also these did king David sanctify unto the Lord, with the silver and the gold that he had carried away from all the nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.


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And Abshai the son of Zeruyah smote of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand <i>men</i>.


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And he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became servants unto David. And the Lord helped David withersoever he went.


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And Zadok the son of Achitub, and Abimelech the son of Ebyathar, were <i>the</i> priests; and Shavsha was scribe;


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And Benayahu the son of Jehoyada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were the first at the side of the king.


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And it came to pass after this, that Nachash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son became king in his stead.


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And David said, I will show kindness unto Chanun the son of Nachash, because his father showed kindness unto me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came unto the land of the children of Ammon to Chanun, to comfort him.


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And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Chanun, Doth David honor thy father in thy eyes, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee in order to search out, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?


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Chanun thereupon took Davids servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as the hipbone, and sent them away.


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And some people went and told David concerning these men. And he sent <i>persons</i> to meet them: because the men were greatly ashamed; and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beard be grown, and then return.


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And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become in bad odor with David, Chanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves from Mesopotamia, and from Syriamaachah, and from Zobah, chariots and horsemen.


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And they hired for themselves thirty and two thousand <i>warriors in</i> chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people: and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together out of their cities, and came to the battle.


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And the children of Ammon came out, and put themselves in battle array at the entrance of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.


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When now Joab saw that the front of battle was against him before and behind, he made a selection from all the chosen men of Israel, and arrayed himself against the Syrians.


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And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abshai his brother, and they arrayed themselves against the children of Ammon.


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And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then shalt thou bring me help; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then will I help thee.


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Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves in behalf of our people, and in behalf of the cities of our God, and may the Lord do that which seemeth good in his eyes.


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And Joab drew nigh and the people that were with him in front of the Syrians unto the battle, and they fled from before him.


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And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then did they also fly before Abshai his brother, and entered into the city. And Joab went back to Jerusalem.


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And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they sent messengers, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the army of Hadarezer went before them.


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And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came up with them, and arrayed himself against them. So when David had arrayed himself against the Syrians <i>for</i> battle, they fought with him.


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And the Syrians fled from before Israel: and David slew of the Syrians <i>the men of</i> seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand men on foot, and Shophach the captain of the army he put to death.


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And when the vassals of Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: and the Syrians would not help the children of Ammon any more.


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And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the same season of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that Joab led out the power of the army, and destroyed the country of the children of Ammon, and he came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained behind at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and pulled it down.


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And David took the crown of Malkam from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and thereon a precious stone; and it was set on the head of David: and the booty of the city he brought out in great abundance.


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And the people that were therein he brought forward, and cut them with saws, and with iron threshingwagons, and with axes; and thus did David unto all the cities of the children of Ammon; and David returned then with all the people unto Jerusalem.


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And it came to pass after this, that there arose a battle at Gezer with the Philistines: then smote Sibbechai the Chushathite Sippai, one of the children of the Rapha; and they were humbled.


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And there was again a battle with the Philistines, when Elchanan the son of Yair smote Lachmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weavers beam.


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And there was again a battle at Gath, where was a man of <i>great</i> stature, whose fingers and toes were six on each <i>hand and foot</i>, four and twenty <i>in all</i>; and he also was born to the Rapha.


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These were born unto the Rapha in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.


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And David said to Joab, and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring their number to me, that I may know it.


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Then said Joab, May the Lord add unto his people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold more: are they not all, my lord the king, my lords servants? why then will my lord require this thing? why shall it be a cause of guiltiness for Israel?


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Nevertheless the kings word remained firm against Joab; and Joab went out, and moved about throughout all Israel, and came <i>back</i> to Jerusalem.


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And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto David: and there were <i>in</i> all Israel a thousand times thousand and one hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and <i>of</i> Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew the sword.


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And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing; but now, I beseech thee, cause the iniquity of thy servant to pass away; for I have acted very foolishly.


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Go and speak unto David, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Three things do I offer thee: choose for thyself one of them, and I will do it unto thee.


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Whether there shall be three years famine; or three months, to be destroyed before thy adversaries, so that the sword of thy enemies overtake thee; or that during three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, shall be in the land, and an angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the boundaries of Israel? And now reflect what word I shall bring back to him that hath sent me.


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And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall then into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are very great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.


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And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was destroying, the Lord looked on, and he bethought himself of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough: now stay thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord standing between the earth and the heavens, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then fell David, with the elders wrapt in sackcloth, upon their faces.


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And David said unto God, Was it not I that ordered to count the people? and I am the one that have sinned and have done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God, let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my fathers house, but not against thy people, that there should be a plague.


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And the angel of the Lord spoke to Gad to say to David, that David should go up, to erect an altar unto the Lord on the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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And when Ornan turned back, and saw the angel, then did he and his four sons with him hide themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.


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And as David came up to Ornan, Ornan looked up and saw David; and he went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.


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Then said David to Ornan, "Grant me the site of this threshingfloor, that I may build thereon an altar unto the Lord: for the full price shalt thou give it unto me, so that the plague may be stayed from the people."


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And Ornan said unto David, Take it for thyself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes: lo, I give the oxen for burntofferings, and the threshingrollers for wood, and the wheat for the meatoffering; the whole do I give <i>thee</i>.


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And king David said to Ornan, No: but I will surely buy it at the full value; for I will not take what is thine for the Lord, so as to offer burntofferings without paying therefore.


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And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burntofferings and peaceofferings, and he called on the Lord: and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burntoffering.


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At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then did he sacrifice there.


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But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burntoffering, were at that time in the highplace at Gibon.


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But David was not able to go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.


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And David said, This is the house of the Lord the <i>true</i> God, and this is the altar for the burntoffering for Israel.


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And David ordered to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel: and he appointed <i>them</i> to be masons to hew cut stones to build the house of God.


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And iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings, did David prepare; and copper in abundance, <i>which</i> could not be weighed;


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Also cedartrees <i>which</i> could not be counted; for the Zidonians and the Tyrians had brought cedartrees in abundance to David.


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And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built <i>in honor</i> of the Lord must be exceedingly great, for fame and for glory throughout all the countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David made abundant preparation before his death.


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And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the Lord my God;


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But there came concerning me the word of the Lord, saying, Blood in abundance hast thou shed, and great wars hast thou made: thou shalt not build a house unto my name, because much blood hast thou shed upon the earth before me.


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Behold, a son will be born to thee, he it is who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for Solomon <i>The Peaceful</i> shall be his name, and peace and quietness will I bestow on Israel in his days.


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He it is who shall build a house unto my name; and he shall be unto me as a son, and I will be unto him as a father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.


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Now, my son, may the Lord be with thee, that thou mayest prosper, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken concerning thee.


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Only may the Lord give thee intelligence and understanding, and give thee charge over Israel, so that thou mayest observe the law of the Lord thy God.


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Then wilt thou prosper, if thou observe to practise the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; be not afraid, nor be thou dismayed.


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And, behold, during my affliction have I prepared for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand times thousand talents of silver; and of copper and iron <i>as much as</i> cannot be weighed; for in <i>such</i> abundance was it: and wood and stone have I prepared; and thou must add thereto.


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Moreover there are with thee in abundance workmen, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of skilful men for every kind of work.


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The gold, the silver, and the copper, and the iron cannot be numbered: arise, <i>therefore,</i> and be doing, and may the Lord be with thee.


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Behold the Lord your God is with you; and he hath given you rest on every side; for he hath given up into my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.


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Now direct your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; and arise, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord the <i>true</i> God, <i>in order</i> to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built unto the name of the Lord.


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And then were numbered the Levites from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, of men, was thirty and eight thousand.


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Of these were twenty and four thousand to superintend the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges;


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And four thousand were gatekeepers: and four thousand those who praised the Lord with the instruments which I have made, to praise therewith.


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The sons of Shimi: Shelomith, and Chaziel, and Haran, three. These were the chiefs of the families of Ladan.


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And the sons of Shimi were, Jachath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimi.


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And Jachath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons: therefore were they accounted as one family division in the numbering.


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The sons of Amram, Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was set apart, to sanctify him as most holy, he with his sons for ever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.


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And the sons of Eliezer were, Rechahyah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rechahyah became exceedingly numerous.


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The sons of Hebron: Jeriyahu the chief, Amaryah the second, Jachaziel the third, and Jekamam the fourth.


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And Elazar died, and had no sons, but daughters; and the sons of Kish, their brethren, took them <i>for wives</i>.


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These were the sons of Levi after their family divisions, even the chiefs of the families, as they were counted by numbering the names after their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward.


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For David said, The Lord the God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, and he dwelleth in Jerusalem for evermore.


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And also the Levites are no more bound to carry the tabernacle, and all its vessels for the service thereof.


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Therefore by the last words of David were there numbered of the Levites those who were from twenty years old and above;


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Because their station was to be at the side of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the chambers, and by the purification of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;


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And for the shewbread, which was put in rows, and for the fine flour for meatoffering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is sodden, and for all manner of dry and wet measure;


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And at all the offering of burntofferings unto the Lord on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the appointed feasts, according to the number, and after the manner prescribed for them, continually before the Lord;


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And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the Lord.


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And the divisions of the sons of Aaron were: The sons of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Elazar, and Ithamar.


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But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no children: and Elazar and Ithamar became priests.


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And David divided them off with Zadok of the sons of Elazar, and Achimelech of the sons of Ithamar, to their office in their service.


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And the sons of Elazar were found more numerous in the chiefs of males than the sons of Ithamar; and they divided them accordingly. Of the sons of Elazar there were sixteen chiefs of the family divisions, and of the sons of Ithamar, eight for their family divisions.


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And they divided them off by lot, both the first and the last; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors <i>of the house</i> of God, were from the sons of Elazar, and from the sons of Ithamar.


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And Shemayah the son of Nethanel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them down before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Achimelech the son of Ebyathar, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and Levites: one family division being drawn of Elazar, and one being equally drawn of Ithamar.


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This was their office in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to the manner prescribed to them, under the supervision of Aaron their father, as the Lord the God of Israel had commanded him.


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And of the rest of the sons of Levi there were, of the sons of Amram: Shubael. Of the sons of Shubael: Jechdeyahu.


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And the sons <i>of Hebron</i>: Jeriyah, Amaryahu the second, Jachaziel the third, Jekamam the fourth.


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And the sons of Mushi were Machli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their family divisions.


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These likewise cast lots in the same manner as their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of king David, and Zadok, and Achimelech, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and Levites, even the principal of the families equally with his youngest brother.


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David also divided off with the chiefs of the host for the service of the sons of Assaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, those who uttered praise <i>accompanied</i> with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and their number was of the men <i>that did</i> the work in their service.


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Of the sons of Assaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethanyah, and Asharelah, the sons of Assaph under the supervision of Assaph, who uttered praise under the supervision of the king.


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Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedalyahu, and Zeri, and Jeshayahu, Chashahyahu, and Matthithyahu, six, under the supervision of their father Jeduthun, who uttered praise with a harp, in order to give thanks and to utter praise unto the Lord.


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Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiyahu, Matthanyahu, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Chananyah, Chanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Machazoth;


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All these sons of Heman the kings seer in the words of God, were to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


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All these were under the supervision of their father at the singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, under the supervision of the king, Assaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.


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And their number, with their brethren that were practised in singing unto the Lord, even all that were acquainted <i>therewith</i>, was two hundred eighty and eight.


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And they cast lots, division against <i>division</i>, the small well as the great, the one acquainted with his business together with the scholar.


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And there came forth the first lot for Assaph for Joseph; Gedalyahu was the second, he with his brethren and sons, being twelve:


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Concerning the divisions of the gatekeepers <i>who were</i> of the Korchites: Meshelemyahu the son of Kore, of the sons of Assaph.


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And Meshelemyahu had sons: Zecharyahu the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebaiyahu the third, Jathniel the fourth,


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And Obededom had sons: Shemayah the firstborn, Jehosabad the second, Joach the third, and Sachar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,


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Also unto Shemayah his son there were born sons, that were rulers for the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.


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The sons of Shemayah were Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, <i>and</i> Elsahad, his brothers <i>were</i> valiant men, Elihu, and Semachyahu.


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All these were of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren were valiant men in strength for the service, being sixty and two <i>descendants</i> of Obededom.


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Also Chossah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, for <i>though</i> he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;


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Chilkiyahu the second, Tehalyahu the third, Zecharyahu the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Chossah were thirteen.


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These divisions of the gatekeepers, after the chief men, had the watch along with their brethren, to minister in the house of the Lord.


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And they cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their family divisions, for each and every gate.


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And the lot at the east fell for Shelemyahu. And for Zecharyahu his son, an intelligent counsellor, they cast lots, and his lot came out at the north.


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For Shuppim and for Chossah at the west, by the gate Shallecheth, on the ascending causeway, watch alongside of watch.


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At the east were six Levites, at the north four for every day, at the south four for every day, and for <i>the house of</i> Assuppim always two.


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And of the Levites, Achiyah was over the treasuries of the house of God, and over the treasuries of the holy things.


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<i>As concerning</i> the sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershunites of Ladan, the chiefs of the families of Ladan the Gershunite, were the Jechielites.


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The sons of Jechieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, were over the treasuries of the house of the Lord.


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And his brethren by Eliezer: Rechabyahu his son, and Jeshayahu his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.


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This Shelomoth and his brethren were over all the treasuries of the holy things, which king David had sanctified, together with the chiefs of the family divisions, the captains over the thousands and the hundreds, and the captains of the army.


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And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruyah, had sanctified, whatsoever <i>any one</i> had sanctified, was under the supervision of Shelomoth and of his brethren.


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Of the Yizharites were Kenanyahu and his sons for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.


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Of the Hebronites were Chashabyahu and his brethren, valiant men, a thousand and seven hundred <i>in number</i>, appointed over the affairs of Israel on this side of the Jordan to the west, for all the business of the Lord, and for the service of the king.


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Of the Hebronites was Jeriyah the chief, for the Hebronites, according to their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the reign of David were they inquired into, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilad.


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And his brethren, valiant men, were two thousand and seven hundred chiefs of families: and king David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Menasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and the affairs of the king.


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And <i>these are</i> the children of Israel after their number; <i>to wit,</i> the chiefs of the family divisions and the captains of the thousands and the hundreds, and their officers that served the king in every matter of the divisions, that came in and went out month by month, throughout all the months of the year, every division being twenty and four thousand.


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Over the first division for the first month was Jashobam the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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<i>He</i> of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the armies for the first month.


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And over the division of the second month was Dodai the Achochite, and of his division was Mikloth also the ruler; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The third captain of the army for the third month was Benayahu the son of Jehoyada, the priest, the chief; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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This Benayahu was the mighty among the thirty, and <i>set</i> over the thirty; and of his division was Ammizabad his son.


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The fourth for the fourth month was Assahel the brother of Joab, with Zebadyah his son after him; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The fifth for the fifth month was the captain Shamhuth the Yizrachite; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The sixth for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Thekoite; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The seventh for the seventh month was Chelez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The eighth for the eighth month was Sibbechai the Chushathite, of the Zarchites: and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The ninth for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anthothite, of Benjamin; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The tenth for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarchites; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The eleventh for the eleventh month was Benayah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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The twelfth for the twelfth month was Cheldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his division were twenty and four thousand.


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Moreover over the tribes of Israel: Of the Reubenites was ruler Eliezer the son of Zichri; of the Simeonites, Shephatyahu the son of Maachah;


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Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Azazyahu; of the half tribe of Menasseh, Joel the son of Pedayahu;


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Of the half tribe of Menasseh in Gilad, Yiddo the son of Zecharyahu; of Benjamin, Jaassiel the son of Abner;


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But David took not their number from twenty years old and under; because the Lord had said he would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.


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Joab the son of Zeruyah began to number <i>them</i>; but he finished not, and there came wrath because of it against Israel: and the number was not entered in the account of the chronicles of king David.


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And over the kings treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziyahu.


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And over those that did the work of the field, in the tillage of the ground, was Ezri the son of Kelub.


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And over the vineyards was Shimi the Ramathite; and over what was in the vineyards, as regardeth the supplies of wine, was Zabdi the Shiphmite.


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And over the olivetrees and the sycamoretrees that were in the lowlands was Baalchanan the Gederite: and over the supplies of oil was Joash.


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And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.


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And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the sheasses was Yechdeyahu the Meronothite.


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And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerene. All these were the rulers of the property which belonged to king David.


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Also Jonathan Davids uncle was a counsellor, being a man of understanding and acquainted with law; and Jeshiel the son of Chachmoni was with the kings sons;


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And after Achithophel <i>came</i> Jehoyada the son of Benayahu and Ebyathar; and the captain of the kings army was Joab.


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And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the captains of the thousands, and the captains of the hundreds, and the rulers of all the property and the cattle of the king and of his sons, with the courtservants, and the mighty men, and with all the valiant men of the army, unto Jerusalem.


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Then arose king David upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people! I had in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and I had made preparations to build;


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But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build a house unto my name; because thou art a man of war, and blood hast thou shed.


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Yet the Lord the God of Israel made choice of me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever; for of Judah had he made choice as ruler, and among the house of Judah, of the house of my father; and among the sons of my father had he pleasure in me to make <i>me</i> king over all Israel:


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And of all my sons,for the Lord hath given me many sons, hath he made choice of Solomon my son, to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.


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And he hath said unto me, Solomon thy son it is that shall build my house and my courts; for I have made choice of him to be as a son unto me, and I will be indeed to him as a father.


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Moreover, I will firmly establish his kingdom for everlasting, if he be strong to execute my commandments and my ordinances as it is this day.


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And now before the eyes of all Israel, the congregation of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, <i>I admonish you</i> observe and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God: in order that ye may keep possession of this good land, and leave it for an inheritance unto your children after you forever.


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And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.


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See now that the Lord hath made choice of thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong and do it.


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Then gave David to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of its apartments, and of its treasuries, and of upper chambers, and of its inner chambers, and of the place of the cover of the ark.


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And the pattern of all that he had in his spirit, concerning the courts of the house of the Lord, and concerning all the chambers round about, concerning the treasuries of the house of God, and concerning the treasuries of the holy things:


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Also concerning the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and concerning all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and concerning all the vessels of service of the house of the Lord;


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Concerning the golden vessels, after the weight of the gold, for all the vessels of all manner of service; concerning all the vessels of silver after the weight, for all the vessels of every kind of service;


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Also the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, after the weight for every candlestick, and for its lamps; and concerning the candlesticks of silver after the weight, for the candlestick, and for its lamps, according to the use of every candlestick;


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And the gold after the weight for the tables of the rows of shewbread, for every table; and the silver for the tables of silver;


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Also <i>concerning</i> the forks, and the bowls, and the supporters of pure gold; and concerning the golden cups after the weight for every cup; and concerning the silver cups after the weight for every cup;


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And concerning the altar of incense the refined gold after the weight; and concerning the pattern of the chariot of the golden cherubim, which spread out <i>their wings</i>, and over the ark of the covenant of the Lord.


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All <i>this, said David,</i> was put in writing from the hand of the Lord, who gave me instruction <i>respecting</i> all the works of the pattern.


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And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and of good courage, and do <i>the work</i>; fear not, and be not dismayed; for the Lord God, <i>yea,</i> my God is with thee: he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.


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And, behold, the divisions of the priests and the Levites are there for all the service of the house of God; and with thee are in all manner of workmanship all kinds of men distinguished in wisdom, for every manner of service; and the princes and all the people are ready <i>to obey</i> all thy words.


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And king David said unto all the assembly, Solomon, the only son of mine whom God hath made choice of, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; because not for man is the palace to be, but for the Lord God.


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But with all my might have I made ready for the house of my God, the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the copper for the things of copper, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, onyx stones, and stones to be set, bright stones, and stones of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.


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Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, have I acquired as my own property gold and silver; <i>and this</i> have I given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house:


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Three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses;


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All that is needed of gold and of silver, and for every manner of work <i>to be made</i> by the hands of artificers. And who <i>now</i> is willing to consecrate his hand this day unto the Lord?


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Thereupon offered voluntarily the chiefs of the family divisions and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of the thousands and of the hundreds, with the supervisors of the kings work;


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And they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drachms, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of copper eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.


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And those with whom stones were found gave them to the treasury of the house of the Lord, under the supervision of Jechiel the Gershunite.


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Then did the people rejoice, because they had voluntarily offered: for with an undivided heart did they offer to the Lord: and also king David rejoiced with great joy.


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And David blessed the Lord before the eyes of all the congregation; and David said, Blessed be thou, O Lord the God of Israel our father, from everlasting even unto everlasting.


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Thine, O Lord, are the greatness, and the might, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, yea, all that is in the heavens and on the earth: thine, O Lord, is the kingdom, and thou art exalted as the head above all.


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And riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all; and in thy hand are power and might; and it is in thy hand to make great, and to give strength unto all.


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For who am I, and what is my people, that we should possess the power to offer voluntarily after this sort? for from thee is every thing, and out of thy own have we given unto thee.


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For strangers are we before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope <i>of abiding</i>.


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O Lord our God! all this abundant store which we have prepared to build for thee a house for thy holy name, is out of thy own hand, and thine is all.


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And I know, my God, that thou probest the heart, and uprightness thou receivest in favor. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart have I voluntarily offered all these things; and now thy people, that are present here, do I see with joy offering voluntarily unto thee.


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O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our father, preserve this for ever as the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and direct their heart firmly unto thee.


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And unto Solomon my son do thou give an undivided heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all, and to build the palace, for which I have made preparation.


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And David said to all the assembly. Bless now the Lord your God. And all the assembly blessed the Lord the God of their fathers, and bent down their heads, and prostrated themselves to the Lord, and to the king.


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And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord, and they offered burntofferings unto the Lord, on the morrow after that day, one thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand sheep, with their drinkofferings, and <i>other</i> sacrifices in abundance for all Israel;


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And they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great joy. And they declared the second time Solomon the son of David to be king, and they anointed him unto the Lord as chief ruler, and Zadok as priest.


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Then sat Solomon on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and he was prosperous; and all Israel obeyed him.


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And all the princes, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of king David, submitted themselves unto king Solomon.


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And the Lord made Solomon exceedingly great before the eyes of all Israel; and he bestowed upon him a royal majesty such as had not been on any king over Israel before him.


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And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three <i>years</i>.


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And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son became king in his stead.


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And the acts of king David, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,


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Together with all his reign and his mighty deeds, and the times that passed over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the <i>various</i> countries.


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And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and caused him to become exceedingly great.


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Then said Solomon unto all Israel, to the captains of the thousands and of the hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the chiefs of the family divisions <i>that they should go with him</i>.


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Thereupon went Solomon, and all the assembly with him, to the highplace that was at Gibon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.


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Nevertheless the ark of God had David brought up from Kiryathyearim to <i>the place which</i> David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.


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But the copper altar, which Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Chur, had made, he placed before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the assembly sought for it.


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And Solomon sacrificed there on the copper altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered upon it a thousand burntofferings.


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And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shown unto David my father great kindness, and hast made me king in his stead.


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Now, O Lord God, let thy word unto David my father be verified; for thou hast made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.


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Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who could <i>otherwise</i> judge this thy great people?


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And God said unto Solomon, Whereas this hath been in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thy enemies, and hast not even asked long life; but hast asked for thyself wisdom and knowledge, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:


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<i>Therefore</i> are the wisdom and the knowledge granted unto thee; and riches, and wealth, and honor, will I give thee, such as no kings that have been before thee have had, and the like of which after thee none shall have.


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Then came Solomon from the highplace that was at Gibon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.


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And Solomon brought together chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the chariotcities, and with the king at Jerusalem.


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And the king rendered the silver and gold at Jerusalem like stones, and cedartrees he rendered as the sycamoretrees that are in the lowlands for abundance.


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And Solomon had his horses brought out of Egypt; a company of the kings merchants bought a quantity at a price.


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And they brought up, and fetched out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.


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<n>(1:18)</n> And Solomon ordered to build a house for the name of the Lord, and a house for his royal residence.


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<n>(2:1)</n> And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and as superintendents over them three thousand and six hundred.


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<n>(2:2)</n> And Solomon sent to Churam the king of Tyre, saying, As thou hast dealt with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, <i>even so deal with me</i>.


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<n>(2:3)</n> Behold, I am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to sanctify it to him, to burn before him incense of spices, and for the continual rows of showbread, and for the burntofferings at morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the newmoons, and on the stated festivals of the Lord our God: this being for ever obligatory on Israel.


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<n>(2:5)</n> But who possesseth the power to build him a house? for the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him: and who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?


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<n>(2:6)</n> And now send me a skilful man to work in gold, and in silver and in copper, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that understandeth how to engrave with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom David my father hath provided.


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<n>(2:7)</n> Send me also cedartrees, firtrees, and sandalwood, from the Lebanon; for I know well that thy servants have the skill to cut the trees of Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,


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<n>(2:8)</n> Even to prepare for me timber in abundance; for the house which I am building is to be wonderfully great.


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<n>(2:9)</n> And, behold, for the hewers that cut the timber will I give unto thy servants twenty thousand cors of threshed wheat, and twenty thousand cors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.


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<n>(2:10)</n> Then answered Churam the king of Tyre in writing, and he sent it to Solomon, Out of the love of the Lord for his people hath he set thee as king over them.


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<n>(2:11)</n> And Churam said, Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, that hath made the heavens and the earth, who hath given to king David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and understanding, who is to build a house unto the Lord, and a house for royal residence.


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<n>(2:13)</n> The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, while his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in copper, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to execute any manner of engraving, and to devise every kind of work of art which may be given to him, together with thy skilful men, and skilful men of my lord David thy father.


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<n>(2:14)</n> And now the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, of which my lord hath spoken, let him send unto his servants:


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<n>(2:15)</n> And we will truly cut down trees out of the Lebanon, as much as thou mayest need; and we will bring them to thee in boats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry them up to Jerusalem.


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<n>(2:16)</n> And Solomon numbered all the strange men that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.


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<n>(2:17)</n> And he made of them seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred superintendents to set the people to work.


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And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where He had appeared unto David his father, on the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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Now in this manner was the foundation laid of the house of God <i>at its</i> building <i>by</i> Solomon: The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.


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And the porch that was in the front of the length was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.


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And the great house he ceiled with firwood, which he overlaid with pure gold, and he wrought thereon palmtrees and chains.


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And he covered the house, the beams, the sills, and its walls, and its doors, with gold: and he engraved cherubim on the walls.


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And he made the most holy house, its length being in front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits: and he covered it with fine gold, <i>amounting</i> to six hundred talents.


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And the weight of the nails <i>amounted</i> to fifty shekels of gold. And the upper chambers he covered with gold.


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And he made in the most holy house two cherubim of sculpture work, and they overlaid them with gold.


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And regarding the wings of the cherubim their length was twenty cubits; the wing of the one amounting to five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing of five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.


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And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing of five cubits was joined closely to the wing of the other cherub.


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The wings of these cherubim <i>as they were</i> spread out were twenty cubits: and they were standing on their feet, and their faces were inward.


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And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought thereon cherubim.


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And he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits in length, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.


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And he made chains in the debir; and <i>others which</i> he placed on the top of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and placed them on the chains.


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And he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and he called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.


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He made also an altar of copper, twenty cubits being its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.


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He made also the molten sea, being ten cubits from the one brim to the other, rounded all about, and it was five cubits in height: and a line of thirty cubits did encompass it round about.


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And likenesses of oxen were under it, encompassing it all round about, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea round about: the oxen were in two rows <i>and were</i> cast <i>with it</i>, when it was cast.


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And its thickness was a hands breadth, and its brim like the brim of a cup, with lilybuds; and it could hold and contain three thousand baths.


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He made also ten lavers; and he placed five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: what belonged to the burntoffering they rinsed off at them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.


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And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their prescribed manner: and he placed <i>them</i> in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left.


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He made also ten tables, and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred bowls of gold.


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And he made the court of the priests, and the great outcourt, and doors for the outcourt, and their doors he overlaid with copper.


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And Churam made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Churam made an end of doing the work which he made for king Solomon in the house of God:


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The two pillars, and the bowls, and the capitals on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the bowlshaped capitals which were on the top of the pillars;


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And the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowlshaped capitals which were upon the front of the pillars.


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And the pots also, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their instruments, did ChuramAbiv make for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, of polished copper.


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In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clayground between Succoth and Zeredathah.


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And Solomon made all these vessels in very great abundance; for the weight of the copper was not inquired into.


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And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of God; and the altar of gold also, and the tables whereon the showbread <i>was set</i>;


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And the candlesticks with their lamps, to light them after the prescribed manner before the debir, of pure gold.


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And the knives, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers were of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.


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And so was ended all the work which Solomon made for the house of the Lord; and Solomon brought in the things sanctified by David his father; and the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he placed in the treasuries of the house of God.


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Then did Solomon assemble the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the divisions of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.


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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast which is <i>in</i> the seventh month.


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And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle: these did the priests and the Levites bring up.


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And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, which could not be numbered nor told for multitude.


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And the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves from above.


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And they had made the staves so long that the ends of the staves were seen <i>standing out</i> from the ark in the front of the debir; but they were not seen without; and they have remained there until this day.


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There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses had placed <i>therein</i> at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.


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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place; for all the priests that were present had sanctified themselves, the divisions not having been observed; 


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And the Levites the singers, all together, of Assaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east side of the altar, and with them were one hundred and twenty priests blowing on trumpets; 


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And it came thus to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice <i>accompanied</i> with trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and in praising the Lord, For he is good; because unto everlasting endureth his kindness: that the house, even the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud;


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And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.


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And I have indeed built a dwellinghouse for thee, and have settled a place for thy abode for ever."


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And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel was standing.


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And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hands fulfilled it, when he said,


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Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I did not make choice of any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; nor did I make choice of any man to be a ruler over my people of Israel;


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But I have made choice of Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have made choice of David to be over my people Israel,


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And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.


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But the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well in that it was in thy heart:


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Nevertheless thou shalt not thyself build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.


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And the Lord hath fulfilled his word that he hath spoken; and I am risen up in the stead of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord hath spoken, and I have built the house unto the name of the Lord the God of Israel.


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And I have placed there the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord which he hath made with the children of Israel.


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And he now placed himself before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands;


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For Solomon had made a laver of copper, and had placed it in the midst of the outcourt, five cubits being its length, five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height; and he placed himself upon it, and kneeled down upon his knees in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;


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And he said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like thee in the heavens, or on the earth, thou who keepest the covenant, and the kindness for thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;


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Who has kept for thy servant David my father that which thou hadst promised him; and thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.


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And now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for thy servant David my father that which thou hast spoken concerning him, saying, There shall never fail thee a man in my sight who sitteth on the throne of Israel, if thy children but take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.


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And now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant, unto David.


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For, in truth, will God then dwell with men on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!


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Yet wilt thou turn thy regard unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen unto the entreaty and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:


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That thy eyes may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which thou hast said that thou wouldst put thy name there; that thou mayest listen unto the prayer which thy servant will pray at this place.


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And listen thou to the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they will pray at this place: and oh, do thou hear from thy dwellingplace, from heaven; and hear, and forgive.


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Then do thou hear from heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.


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And if thy people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and they return and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house:


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Then do thou hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and cause them to return unto the land which thou hast given to them and to their fathers.


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When the heavens be shut up, and there he no rain, because they have sinned against thee, and they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them:


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Then do thou hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou wilt direct them unto the good way, wherein they should walk; and give then rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.


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If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, blasting, or mildew, if there be locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in their land, in their gates at whatsoever plague, and at whatsoever sickness;


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What prayer and what supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, when they shall be conscious every man of his plague and his pain, and he then spread forth his hands toward this house:


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Then do thou hear from heaven the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and give to every man in accordance with all his ways, as thou mayest know his heart; for thou, thyself alone, knowest the heart of the children of men;


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In order that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, all the days that they live on the face of the land which thou hast given unto our fathers.


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But also to the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a faroff country for the sake of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm, if they come and pray in this house,


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Mayest thou likewise listen from heaven, from the place of thy dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger will call on thee for: in order that all people of the earth may know thy name, both to fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and to understand that this house, which I have built, is called by thy name.


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If thy people go out to battle against their enemies on the way on which thou mayest send them, and they do pray unto thee in the direction of this city which thou hast chosen, and of the house that I have built unto thy name:


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If they sin against theefor there is no man that may not sin,and thou be angry with them, and give them up before the enemy, so that their captors carry them away captive unto a land far off or near;


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And if they then take it to their heart in the land whither they have been carried captive, and repent and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, and have acted wickedly;


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And they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have been carried captive, and they pray in the direction of their land, which thou hast given unto their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built unto thy name:


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Then hear thou from heaven, from the place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and procure them justice, and forgive thy people for what they have sinned against thee.


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Now, my God, let I beseech thee, thy eyes be open, and thy ears be attentive unto the prayer on this place.


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And now arise, O Lord God, unto thy restingplace, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, clothe themselves with salvation, and let thy pious servants rejoice in happiness.


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And when Solomon had made an end of praying, a fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burntoffering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.


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And the priests were not able to enter into the house of the Lord; because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lords house.


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And all the children of Israel were looking on as the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord <i>was resting</i> upon the house; and they kneeled down with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and prostrated themselves, and gave thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; because unto everlasting endureth his kindness.


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And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep: and so they dedicated the house of God, the king and all the people.


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And the priests were standing on their stations, and the Levites with the instruments of the music of the Lord, which king David had made to give thanks unto the Lord, because unto everlasting endureth his kindness, with the song of praise of David in their hand; and the priests blew the trumpets opposite to them, and all Israel were standing.


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And Solomon hallowed the interior of the court that was before the house of the Lord; for he prepared there the burntofferings, and the fat of the peaceofferings; because the copper altar which Solomon had made was not able to contain the burntofferings, and the meatofferings, and the fat.


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And Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Chamath unto the river of Egypt.


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And they held on the eighth day a solemn assembly; for the dedication of the altar they held seven days, and the feast seven days.


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And on the threeandtwentieth day of the seventh month he dismissed the people unto their tents, joyful and glad of heart because of the good that the Lord had done for David, and for Solomon, and for Israel his people.


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Thus did Solomon complete the house of the Lord, and the kings house; and <i>in</i> all that came into Solomons heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he prospered.


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Then appeared the Lord to Solomon during the night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and I have made choice of this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.


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If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I give a charge to the locusts to devour off the land, or if I send a pestilence among my people:


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And if my people, over whom my name is called, do then humble themselves, and pray, and seek my presence, and turn away from their evil ways: then will I also hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.


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And now I have chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times.


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And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father hath walked, so as to do in accordance with all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my ordinances:


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Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, just as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall never fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.


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But if ye will indeed turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and will go and serve other gods, and bow down to them:


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Then will I pluck them up out of my land which I have given unto them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast away from my sight, and I will render it to be for a proverb and for a byword among all the people.


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And this house, which hath been so exalted, shall become an astonishment to every one that passeth by it: so that he will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?


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And men shall then say, For the cause that they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and they took hold of other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore hath he brought upon them all this evil.


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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,


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That <i>as regardeth</i> the cities which Churam had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.


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And he built the upper Bethchoron, and the lower Bethchoron, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;


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And Baalath, and all the treasurecities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and all the <i>other</i> desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in the Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.


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All the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,


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Out of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not destroyedthese did Solomon levy as tributary <i>laborers</i> until this day.


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Yet of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen for his work; but they were men of war, and chiefs of his captains; and officers of his chariots and of his horsemen.


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And these were the chiefs of the superintendents whom king Solomon had, <i>even</i> two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh did Solomon bring up out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, No wife of mine shall dwell in a house of David the king of Israel, because they are holy, because there came <i>once</i> unto them the ark of the Lord.


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Then did Solomon offer burntofferings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,


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Even according to what was the due of <i>every</i> day on its day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the newmoons, and on the stated festivals, three times in the year, on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles.


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And he stationed, according to the prescription of David his father, the divisions of the priests at their service, and the Levites at their stations, to praise and minister next to the priests, in the requirement of every day on its day, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at every gate; for so was the charge of David the man of God.


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And they departed not from the charge of the king concerning the priests and Levites respecting every matter, and respecting the treasuries.


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And <i>so</i> was all the work of Solomon successful from the day of founding the house of the Lord, even until it was finished. <i>So</i> was perfected the house of the Lord.


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And Churam sent him by means of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and they fetched away thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought the same to king Solomon.


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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with riddles at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and with camels bearing spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was on her heart.


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And Solomon solved for her all her questions; and there was nothing hidden from Solomon which he did not tell her.


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And the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her.


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And she said to the king, The truth <i>only</i> was the word that I heard in my own land of thy acts, and of thy wisdom.


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And I believed not in their words, until I came, and my eyes saw <i>all</i>; and, behold, the onehalf of the greatness of thy wisdom hath not been told me: thou excellest the report which I have heard.


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Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, who stand before thee continually, and hear thy wisdom.


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Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath had delight in thee to place thee on his throne, as a king for the Lord thy God; because thy God loved Israel, to sustain them for ever, therefore hath he placed thee over them as king, to exercise justice and righteousness.


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And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones: and there never were any such spices as those which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.


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And also the servants of Churam, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought sandaltrees and precious stones.


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And the king made of the sandaltrees steps for the house of the Lord, and for the kings palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were never seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.


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And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her pleasure, whatsoever she asked, beside <i>a return for</i> that which she had brought unto the king. And she turned about and went away to her own country, she and her servants.


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Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty and six talents of gold;


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Besides what the travelling tradesmen and the merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.


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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold he used for each one target.


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And <i>he made</i> three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold he used for each one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


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And the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold, fastened into the throne; and there were arms on either side, on the place of the seat; and two lions stood beside the arms;


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And twelve lions stood there upon the six steps on both sides: there was not the like made in any kingdom.


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And all king Solomons drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: no silver was valued in the days of Solomon at the least.


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For the kings ships went to Tharshish with the servants of Churam; once in three years did the Tharshishships use to come home laden with gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.


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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.


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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, armor, and spices, horses, and mules; <i>and</i> so year by year.


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And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he quartered in the cities for chariots, and near the king at Jerusalem.


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And he was ruling over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt.


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And the king rendered silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedartrees he rendered like the sycamoretrees that are in the lowlands, for abundance.


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And the remainder of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Achiyah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Yedo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son became king in his stead.


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And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.


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Thy father made our yoke hard; but now do thou make lighter the hard service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.


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Then consulted king Rehoboam with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do you advise that I should return an answer to this people?


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And they spoke unto him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak to them good words: then will they be servants unto thee for all times.


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But he forsook the counsel which the old men had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and who stood before him.


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And he said unto them, How do you counsel how we should give an answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make lighter the yoke which thy father did put upon us?


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Then spoke with him the young men that were grown up with him, saying, Thus must thou say unto the people that have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but do thou make it lighter unto us: thus must thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than my fathers loins.


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And now <i>if</i> my father hath burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: <i>if</i> my father hath chastised you with whips, then will I <i>do it</i> with scorpionthorns.


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When now Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Return to me on the third day:


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And he spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add thereto; my father chastised you with whips, but I will <i>do it</i> with scorpionthorns.


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And the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was so brought about from God, in order that the Lord might fulfill his word, which he had spoken by means of Achiyahu the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


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So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? nor have we an inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; now, see to thy own house, David. So did all Israel go to their tents.


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Then sent king Rehoboam Hadoram who was over the tribute; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed with his might to get upon his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.


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And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring back the kingdom again to Rehoboam.


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Thus hath said the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight with your brethren: return every man to his house; for from me hath this thing been brought about. And they hearkened to the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.


