Jeroboam's idolatry.

CHAP. XIII.

His hand withereth. the children of Israel: return every house of David, Josiah by name : and man to his house; for this thing is upon thee shall he offer the priests of from me. They hearkened therefore the high places that burn incense upor to the word of the LORD, and returned thee, and men's bones shall be burnt to depart, according to the word of the upon thee.

LORD. 3 And he gave a sign the same day, 25 ¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem saying, This is the sign which the in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein :LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar and went out from thence, and built shall be rent, and the ashes that arı Penuel. upon it shall be poured out. 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, 4 And it came to pass, when king Now shall the kingdom return to the Jeroboam beard the saying of the man house of David: [of God, which bad cried against the 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his in the house of the Lono at Jerusalein, hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold then shall the heart of this people tum on him. And his hand, which he put again unto their lord, even unto Reho- forth against him, dried up, so that he boam king of Judah, and they shall could not pull it in again to him. kill me, and go again to Rehoboam 5 The altar was also rent, and the king of Judah. ashes poured out from the altar, ac cording to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy goda, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.

30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

32 And Jeroborm ordained 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 Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.

33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his Town heart: and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar and burnt incense.

6 And the king_answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD thy God,and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it icas before.

7 TAnd the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will 1 eat bread nor drink water in this place:

9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.

11 T Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons caine and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had epoken unto the AND, behold, there came a man of king,them they told also to their father.

CHAP. XIII.

God out of Judah by the word of | 12 And their father said unto them the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam What way went he? For his sons had stood by the altar to burn incense. seen what way the man of God went, 2 And he cried against the altar in which came from Judah. the word of the LORD, and said, O 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle altar, altar! thus saith the Lono, Be-me the ass. So they saddled him the hold, a child shall be born unto the lass, and he rode thereon,

The deceived

14 And went after the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of nud found him sitting under an oak the LORD; therefore the Lono hath deand he said unto him, drt thou the livered him unto the lion, which hath man of God that camest from Judah?[toru him, and slain him, according to And he said, I am. the word of the LORD, which he spake

15 Then he said unto him, Come unto him. home with me, and eat bread.

27 And he spake to his sons, saying, 16. And he said, I may not return Saddle me the ass. And they saddled with thee, nor go in with thee; aei-him.

ther will I eat bread nor drink water 28 And he went, and found his carwith thee in this place :

17 For it was said to me by the word of the Lond, Thou shalt eat no bread uor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, sayung, Bring him back with thee into thy Douse, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drauk water.

20 ¶ And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lono came unto the prophet that brought him back:

case cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torr the ass.

29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him.

30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! 31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

21 And he cried unto the man of God 32 For the saying which he cried by that came from Judab, saying, Thus the word of the LORD against the altar saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou in Beth-el, and against all the houses hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, of the high places which are in the and hast not kept the commandment cities of Samaria, shall surely come to which the LORD thy God commanded|pass. thee,

22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy father.

23 ¶ And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for hun the ass,' to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

and

24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him ; his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood oy the carcase.

33 T After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

A

CHAP. XIV.

T that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thy self, that thou be not known to be the 25 And, behold, men passed by, and wife of Jeroboam, and get thee to saw the carcase cast in the way, and Sbilob: behold, there is Abijah the the lion standing by the carcase: and prophet, which told me that Ï should they came and told it in the city where be king over this people.

the old prophet dwelt.

3 And take with thee ten loaves, and 26 T And when the prophet that cracknels, and a cruse of honey,and go brought him back from the way heard to him: he shall tell thee what shall thereof, he said, it is the man of God,|become of the child.

CHAP. XIV.

12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to 24 And there were also Sodomites in thine own house; and when thy feet the land: and they did according to enter into the city, the child shall die. Jall the abominations of the nations 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, which the LonD cast out before the and bury bim; for he only of Jerobo- children of Israel. am shall come to the grave, because in 25 T And it came to pasa in the fifth him there is found some good thing to-year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak ward the Lord God of Israel in the king of Egypt came up against Jurusa house of Jeroboam. leni:

14 Moreover, the LORD shall raise 26 And he took away the treasures him up a king over Israel, who shall of the house of the Loud, and the

Abijam's wicked reign. I. KINGS. Asa's good reign. treasures of the king's house; ne even] 9 And in the twentieth year of Jetook away all: and he took away all roboam king of Israel reigned Asa over the shields of gold which Soloman had Judah.

made. 10 And forty and one years reigned 27 And king Rehoboam made in their he in Jerusalem; and his mother's stead brazen shields, and committed name was Maachah, the daughter of them unto the hands of the chief of | Abishalom.

the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.

28 And it was so, when the king went nto the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

12 And he took away the Sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Reho- 13 And also Maachab his mother boam, and all that he did, are they not even ber he removed from being queen, written in the book of the Chronicles because she had made an idol in a of the kings of Judah? grove: and Asa destroyed her idol, 30 And there was war between Reho-and burnt it by the brook Kidron. boam and Jeroboam all their days. 14 But the high places were not re31 And Rehoboam slept with his fa- moved: nevertheless Asa's heart was thers, and was buried with his fathers perfect with the Load all his days. in the city of David: and his mother's 15 And he brought in the things which name was Naamah, an Ammonitess: his father had dedicated, and the things and Abijam his son reigned in his which himself had dedicated, into the stead. house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.

CHAP. XV.

NOW in the eighteenth year of king

16 And there was war between Asa Jeroboam the son of Nebat reign-and Baasha king of Israel all their ed Abijain over Judah. days.

2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him : and his heart was not perfect with the Lon D his God, as the heart of David lus father.

4 Nevertheless, for David's sake, did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judalı, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house,and delivered them into the hand of his servants;. and king Asasent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of He zion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Da

5 Because David did that which was|mascus, saying, right in the eyes of the LouD, and 19 There is a league between me and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 And there was war between Reboboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

thee, and betweeû my father and thy father; behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. 20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the host 7¶ Now the rest of the acts of Abi-which he had against the cities of Is jam, and all that he did, are they not rael, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and written in the book of the Chronicles Abel-beth-maachab, and all Cinne of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they baried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

roth, with all the land of Naphtali. 21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. 22 Then king Asa made a proclama [tion throughout all Judah; (none was

Nadab sluin.

CHAP. XVI exempted;) and they took away the stoues of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Gaba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

Jehu's prophecy.

CHAP. XVI.

HEN the word of the Lond came
Jehu the son of Havani against

Baasha, saying,

2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of 23 ¶ The rest of all the acts of Asa, the dus, and made thee prince over and all his might, and all that he did, my people Israel, and thou hast walk and the cities which he built, are they ed in the way of Jeroboam, and hast not written in the book of the Chron-made my people Israel to sin, to pro icles of the kings of Judah? Neverthe-voke me to anger with their sins: less in the tune of his old age he was 3 Behold, I will take away the pos diseased in his feet. terity of Baasha, and the posterity of

2-1 And Asa slept with his fathers, his house; and will make thy house and was buried with his fathers in the like the house of Jeroboam the son of city of David his father; and Jehosh-Nebat.

aphat his son reigned in his stead. 4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the ci 25 ¶ And Nabab the son of Jeroboam ty shall the dogs eat; and him that dibegan to reign over Israel in the sec-eth of his in the field shall the fowla ond year of Asa king of Judah, and of the air eat. reigned over Israel two years. 26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israeli 6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead. 7 And also by the band of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha,and agamst his house, even for all the evil that he 28 Even in the third year of Asa king did in the sight of the Loan,in provoof Judah did Baasha slay him, and king him to anger with the work of reigned in his stead. his hands, in being like the house of

27 ¶ And Baasha the son of Ahijab, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; (for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon ;)

29 And it came to pass, when he Jeroboam; and because he killed him. reigned, that he smote all the house 8 In the twenty and sixth year of of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam | Asa king of Judah began Elah the son any that breathed, until he had des of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tir troyed him, according unto the saying zah, two years.

of the LORD, which he spake by his 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of servant Ahijah the Shilonite: half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.

30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which be sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation where with he provoked the Lond God of Israel to anger.

31 T Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

32 And there was war between Asa & Baasha king of Israe, all their days. 33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijab | to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jero boam, and in his sin wherewith he inade Isracl to sin.

10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

11 T And it came to pass when be began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that piss eth against a wall, neither of his kins folks, nor of his friends.

12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, 13 For all the sins of Baasha,and the sins of Elah his son by which they sin