1:1: Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
1:2: Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses].
1:3: So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the wilderness.
1:4: But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath Jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
1:5: Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tent of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly sought to it.
1:6: Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
1:7: In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, Ask what I shall give you.
1:8: Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
1:9: Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
1:10: Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
1:11: God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:
1:12: wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like.
1:13: So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
1:14: Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
1:15: The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
1:16: The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.
1:17: They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

2:1: Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
2:2: Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
2:3: Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you did deal with David my father, and did send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me].
2:4: Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.
2:5: The house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.
2:6: But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
2:7: Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
2:8: Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with your servants,
2:9: even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
2:10: Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2:11: Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.
2:12: Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
2:13: Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's,
2:14: the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
2:15: Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:
2:16: and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.
2:17: Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
2:18: He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

3:1: Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
3:2: He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3:3: Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4: The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
3:5: The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.
3:6: He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
3:7: He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
3:8: He made the most holy house: the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
3:9: The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
3:10: In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
3:11: The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
3:12: The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.
3:13: The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
3:14: He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
3:15: Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
3:16: He made chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
3:17: He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

4:1: Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
4:2: Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
4:3: Under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
4:4: It stood on 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 set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
4:5: It was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
4:6: He made also ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
4:7: He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8: He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
4:9: Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
4:10: He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.
4:11: Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the house of God:
4:12: the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
4:13: and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
4:14: He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
4:15: one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
4:16: The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of it, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.
4:17: In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
4:18: Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
4:19: Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the show bread;
4:20: and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
4:21: and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;
4:22: and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple, were of gold.

5:1: Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
5:2: Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
5:3: nd all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was [in] the seventh month.
5:4: All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
5:5: and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.
5:6: King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
5:7: The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
5:8: For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
5:9: The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.
5:10: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
5:11: It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;
5:12: also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
5:13: it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
5:14: so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.

6:1: Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
6:2: But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.
6:3: The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
6:4: He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
6:5: Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:
6:6: but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7: Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
6:8: But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
6:9: nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
6:10: Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
6:11: There have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.
6:12: He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands
6:13: (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
6:14: and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
6:15: who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
6:16: Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.
6:17: Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
6:18: But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
6:19: Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;
6:20: that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
6:21: Listen you to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
6:22: If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
6:23: then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
6:24: If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
6:25: then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
6:26: When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
6:27: then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
6:28: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
6:29: whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:
6:30: then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)
6:31: that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
6:32: Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:
6:33: then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
6:34: If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
6:35: then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
6:36: If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
6:37: yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;
6:38: if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
6:39: then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
6:40: Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
6:41: Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
6:42: Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] loving kindnesses to David your servant.

7:1: Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
7:2: The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house.
7:3: All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.
7:4: Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
7:5: King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
7:6: The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for ever,) when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
7:7: Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.
7:8: So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
7:9: On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
7:10: On the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
7:11: Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
7:12: Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
7:13: If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
7:14: if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
7:15: Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
7:16: For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
7:17: As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
7:18: then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.
7:19: But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
7:20: then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
7:21: This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
7:22: They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

8:1: It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,
8:2: that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3: Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
8:4: He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
8:5: Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
8:6: and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
8:7: As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
8:8: of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them did Solomon raise a levy [of bondservants] to this day.
8:9: But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
8:10: These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
8:11: Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Yahweh has come.
8:12: Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,
8:13: even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents.
8:14: He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
8:15: They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
8:16: Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was completed.
8:17: Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
8:18: Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

9:1: When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.
9:2: Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hid from Solomon which he didn't tell her.
9:3: When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
9:4: and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
9:5: She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
9:6: However I didn't believe their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard.
9:7: Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.
9:8: Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
9:9: She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
9:10: The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
9:11: The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
9:12: King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
9:13: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
9:14: besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
9:15: King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one buckler.
9:16: [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17: Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
9:18: nd there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
9:19: Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
9:20: All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
9:21: For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22: So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
9:23: All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
9:24: They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
9:25: Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
9:26: He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
9:27: The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
9:28: They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
9:29: Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
9:30: Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
9:31: Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

10:1: Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
10:2: It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon,) that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
10:3: They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
10:4: Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
10:5: He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
10:6: King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people?
10:7: They spoke to him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.
10:8: But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
10:9: He said to them, What counsel give you, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?
10:10: The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
10:11: Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
10:12: So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
10:13: The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
10:14: and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
10:15: So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was brought about of God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
10:16: When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So all Israel departed to their tents.
10:17: But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
10:18: Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
10:19: So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

11:1: When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
11:2: But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
11:3: Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
11:4: Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
11:5: Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
11:6: He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7: Beth Zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
11:8: and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9: and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10: and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
11:11: He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.
11:12: In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
11:13: The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
11:14: For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Yahweh;
11:15: and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
11:16: After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
11:17: So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.
11:18: Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
11:19: and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
11:20: After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
11:21: Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
11:22: Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king.
11:23: He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

12:1: It happened, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.
12:2: It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,
12:3: with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
12:4: He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
12:5: Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
12:6: Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous.
12:7: When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
12:8: Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
12:9: So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
12:10: King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
12:11: It was so, that as often as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.
12:12: When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things [found].
12:13: So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
12:14: He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.
12:15: Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
12:16: Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.

13:1: In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
13:2: Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
13:3: Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
13:4: Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
13:5: Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
13:6: Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.
13:7: There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them.
13:8: Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.
13:9: Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.
13:10: But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
13:11: and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.
13:12: Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.
13:13: But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
13:14: When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
13:15: Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
13:16: The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.
13:17: Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
13:18: Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
13:19: Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns of it, and Jeshanah with the towns of it, and Ephron with the towns of it.
13:20: Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Yahweh struck him, and he died.
13:21: But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
13:22: The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

14:1: So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
14:2: Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God:
14:3: for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
14:4: and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
14:5: Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:6: He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
14:7: For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
14:8: Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.
14:9: There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah.
14:10: Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
14:11: Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength: help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; don't let man prevail against you.
14:12: So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
14:13: Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.
14:14: They struck all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.
14:15: They struck also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

15:1: The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:
15:2: and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
15:3: Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:
15:4: But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
15:5: In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
15:6: They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
15:7: But be you strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.
15:8: When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
15:9: He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
15:10: So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11: They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
15:12: They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
15:13: and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
15:14: They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15:15: All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest round about.
15:16: Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
15:17: But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
15:18: He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
15:19: There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

16:1: In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
16:2: Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
16:3: [There is] a league between me and you, as [there was] between my father and your father: behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
16:4: Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.
16:5: It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
16:6: Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
16:7: At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand.
16:8: Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
16:9: For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.
16:10: Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
16:11: Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
16:12: In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn't seek Yahweh, but to the physicians.
16:13: Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
16:14: They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for him.

17:1: Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.
17:2: He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
17:3: Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,
17:4: but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
17:5: Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance.
17:6: His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
17:7: Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
17:8: and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
17:9: They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
17:10: The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
17:11: Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
17:12: Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
17:13: He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
17:14: This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;
17:15: and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred eighty thousand;
17:16: and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
17:17: Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
17:18: and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for war.
17:19: These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

18:1: Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab.
18:2: After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up [with him] to Ramoth-gilead.
18:3: Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? He answered him, I am as you are, and my people as your people; and [we will be] with you in the war.
18:4: Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.
18:5: Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.
18:6: But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?
18:7: The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. Jehoshaphat said, Don't let the king say so.
18:8: Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
18:9: Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
18:10: Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, until they be consumed.
18:11: All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
18:12: The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: let your word therefore, Please be like one of theirs, and speak you good.
18:13: Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
18:14: When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? He said, Go up, and prosper; and they shall be delivered into your hand.
18:15: The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
18:16: He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
18:17: The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
18:18: [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
18:19: Yahweh said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? One spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
18:20: There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will entice him. Yahweh said to him, 'How?'
18:21: He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
18:22: Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
18:23: Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
18:24: Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
18:25: The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
18:26: and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
18:27: Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
18:28: So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
18:29: The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
18:30: Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
18:31: It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.
18:32: It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
18:33: A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.
18:34: The battle increased that day: however the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.

19:1: Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
19:2: Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? for this thing wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
19:3: Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
19:4: Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
19:5: He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
19:6: and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.
19:7: Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
19:8: Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
19:9: He charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
19:10: Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, and you shall not be guilty.
19:11: Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the good.