The Tetragrammaton  =  hwhy = YaHuWaH

The First Book of MELAKIM

1:1 Now sovereign Dawiyd was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm. 1:2 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let there be sought for my master the sovereign a young virgin: and let her stand before the sovereign, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my master the sovereign may keep warm.” 1:3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Ysra'al, and found Abyishag the Shuwnamiyth, and brought her to the sovereign. 1:4 The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the sovereign, and ministered to him; but the sovereign didn’t know her intimately. 1:5 Then AdoniYahuw the son of Chaggiyith exalted himself, saying, “I will be sovereign.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 1:6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Abiyshalowm. 1:7 He conferred with Yow'ab the son of TseruwYahuw, and with Ebyathar the priest: and they following AdoniYahuw helped him. 1:8 But Tsadowq the priest, and BenaYahuw the son of Yahuwyada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shim'iy, and Re'iy, and the mighty men who belonged to Dawiyd, were not with AdoniYahuw.  1:9 AdoniYahuw killed sheep and cattle and fatlings by the stone of Zocheleth, which is beside Eyn Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Yahuwdah, the king’s servants: 1:10 but Nathan the prophet, and BenaYahuw, and the mighty men, and Shelomoh his brother, he didn’t call.  1:11 Then Nathan spoke to Bath-Sheba the mother of Shelomoh, saying, “Haven’t you heard that AdoniYahuw the son of Chaggiyith reigns, and Dawiyd our master doesn’t know it?  1:12 Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Shelomoh. 1:13 Go in to sovereign Dawiyd, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my master, sovereign, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shelomoh your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? Why then does AdoniYahuw reign?’ 1:14 Behold, while you yet talk there with the sovereign, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.”

1:15 Bath-Sheba went in to the sovereign into the chamber. The sovereign was very old; and Abyishag the Shuwnammiyth was ministering to the sovereign. 1:16 Bath-Sheba bowed, and did obeisance to the sovereign. The sovereign said, “What would you like?” 1:17 She said to him, “My master, you swore by  YaHuWaH your Aluahiym to your handmaid, ‘Assuredly Shelomoh your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’ 1:18 Now, behold, AdoniYahuw reigns; and you, my master the sovereign, don’t know it!  1:19 He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the sovereign, and Ebyathar the priest, and Yow'ab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Shelomoh your servant. 1:20 You, my master the sovereign, the eyes of all Ysra'al are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my master the sovereign after him. 1:21 Otherwise it will happen, when my master the sovereign shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Shelomoh shall be counted offenders.”

1:22 Behold, while she yet talked with the sovereign, Nathan the prophet came in. 1:23 They told the sovereign, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!”

When he had come in before the sovereign, he bowed himself before the sovereign with his face to the ground. 1:24 Nathan said, “My master, sovereign, have you said, ‘AdoniYahuw shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’ 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the army, and Ebyathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, ‘Long live sovereign AdoniYahuw!’ 1:26 But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, and Tsadowq the priest, and BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada, and your servant Shelomoh. 1:27 Is this thing done by my master the sovereign, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my master the sovereign after him?”

1:28 Then sovereign Dawiyd answered, “Call to me Bath-Sheba.” She came into the king’s presence, and stood before the sovereign. 1:29 The sovereign swore, and said, “As YaHuWaH lives, Who has redeemed my being out of all adversity, 1:30 most certainly as I swore to you by YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, saying, ‘Assuredly Shelomoh your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ most certainly so will I do this day.”

1:31 Then Bath-Sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the sovereign, and said, “Let my master sovereign Dawiyd live forever!”

1:32 Master Dawiyd said, “Call to me Tsadowq the priest, Nathan the prophet, and BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada.” They came before the sovereign. 1:33 The sovereign said to them, “Take with you the servants of your master, and cause Shelomoh my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Giychown. 1:34 Let Tsadowq the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there sovereign over Ysra'al. Blow the shofar, and say, ‘Long live sovereign Shelomoh!’ 1:35 Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be sovereign in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Ysra'al and over Yahuwdah.”

1:36 BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada answered the sovereign, and said, “Amein. May YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of my master the sovereign, say so. 1:37 As YaHuWaH has been with my master the sovereign, even so may he be with Shelomoh, and make his throne greater than the throne of my master sovereign Dawiyd.”

1:38 So Tsadowq the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada, and the Kerethiy and the Pelethiy, went down, and caused Shelomoh to ride on sovereign David’s mule, and brought him to Giychown. 1:39 Tsadowq the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Shelomoh. They blew the shofar; and all the people said, “Long live sovereign Shelomoh!”

1:40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them. 1:41 AdoniYahuw and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. When Yow'ab heard the sound of the shofar, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”

1:42 While he yet spoke, behold, Yahuwnathan the son of Ebyathar the priest came: and AdoniYahuw said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”

1:43 Yahuwnathan answered AdoniYahuw, “Most certainly our master sovereign Dawiyd has made Shelomoh sovereign.  1:44 The sovereign has sent with him Tsadowq the priest, Nathan the prophet, BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada, and the Kerethiy and the Pelethiy; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule. 1:45 Tsadowq the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him sovereign in Giychown. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard. 1:46 Also, Shelomoh sits on the throne of the kingdom. 1:47 Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our master sovereign Dawiyd, saying, ‘May your Aluahiym make the name of Shelomoh better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the sovereign bowed himself on the bed.  1:48 Also thus said the sovereign, ‘Blessed be YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.’”

1:49 All the guests of AdoniYahuw were afraid, and rose up, and each man went his way. 1:50 AdoniYahuw feared because of Shelomoh; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 1:51 It was told Shelomoh, saying, “Behold, AdoniYahuw fears sovereign Shelomoh; for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let sovereign Shelomoh swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1:52 Shelomoh said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.”

1:53 So sovereign Shelomoh sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and did obeisance to sovereign Shelomoh; and Shelomoh said to him, “Go to your house.”

2:1 Now the days of Dawiyd drew near that he should die; and he commanded Shelomoh his son, saying,  2:2 “I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; 2:3 and keep the instruction of YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the Torah of Moshah, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. 2:4 That YaHuWaH may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their being, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Ysra'al.’

2:5 “Moreover you know also what Yow'ab the son of TseruwYahuw did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Ysra'al, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Yether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace. 2:7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillay the Gil'adiy, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Abiyshalowm your brother.

2:8 “Behold, there is with you Shim'iy the son of Gera, the Benyemiyniy, of Bachuriym, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Machanayim; but he came down to meet me at the Yarden, and I swore to him by YaHuWaH, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’ 2:9 Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.” 2:10 Dawiyd slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of Dawiyd. 2:11 The days that Dawiyd reigned over Ysra'al were forty years; seven years reigned he in Chebrown, and thirty-three years reigned he in Yahrushalum. 2:12 Shelomoh sat on the throne of Dawiyd his father; and his kingdom was firmly established. 2:13 Then AdoniYahuw the son of Chaggiyith came to Bath-Sheba the mother of Shelomoh. She said, “Do you come peaceably?”

He said, “Peaceably. 2:14 He said moreover, I have something to tell you.”

She said, “Say on.”

2:15- 2:16 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Ysra'al set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from  YaHuWaH. Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.”

She said to him, “Say on.” 2:17 He said, “Please speak to Shelomoh the sovereign (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abyishag the Shuwnammiyth as wife.”

2:18 Bath-Sheba said, “Alright. I will speak for you to the sovereign.”

2:19 Bath-Sheba therefore went to sovereign Shelomoh, to speak to him for AdoniYahuw. The sovereign rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.  2:20 Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.”

The sovereign said to her, “Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.”

2:21 She said, “Let Abyishag the Shuwnammiyth be given to AdoniYahuw your brother as wife.”

2:22 And sovereign Shelomoh answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abyishag the Shuwnammiyth for AdoniYahuw? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Ebyathar the priest, and for Yow'ab the son of TseruwYahuw.” 2:23 Then sovereign Shelomoh swore by YaHuWaH, saying, “Aluahiym do so to me, and more also, if AdoniYahuw has not spoken this word against his own life. 2:24 Now therefore as YaHuWaH lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of Dawiyd my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely AdoniYahuw shall be put to death this day.”

2:25 King Shelomoh sent by BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada; and he fell on him, so that he died. 2:26 To Ebyathar the priest the sovereign said, “Go to Anathowth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Master YaHuWaH before Dawiyd my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.” 2:27 So Shelomoh thrust out Ebyathar from being priest to YaHuWaH, that he might fulfill the word of  YaHuWaH, which he spoke concerning the house of Eliy in Shiyloh.

2:28 The news came to Yow'ab; for Yow'ab had turned after AdoniYahuw, though he didn’t turn after Abiyshalowm. Yow'ab fled to the Tent of  YaHuWaH, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 2:29 It was told sovereign Shelomoh, “Yow'ab has fled to the Tent of  YaHuWaH, and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Shelomoh sent BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”

2:30 BenaYahuw came to the Tent of  YaHuWaH, and said to him, “Thus says the sovereign, ‘Come forth!’”

He said, “No; but I will die here.”

BenaYahuw brought the sovereign word again, saying, “Thus said Yow'ab, and thus he answered me.”

2:31 The sovereign said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Yow'ab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house. 2:32 YaHuWaH will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father Dawiyd didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Ysra'al, and Amasa the son of Yether, captain of the army of Yahuwdah.  2:33 So shall their blood return on the head of Yow'ab, and on the head of his seed forever. But to Dawiyd, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from YaHuWaH.”

2:34 Then BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 2:35 The sovereign put BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada in his room over the army; and Tsadowq the priest did the sovereign put in the room of Ebyathar. 2:36 The sovereign sent and called for Shim'iy, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Yahrushalum, and dwell there, and don’t go out from there anywhere. 2:37 For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Qidrown, know for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your own head.”

2:38 Shim'iy said to the sovereign, “The saying is good. As my master the sovereign has said, so will your servant do.” Shim'iy lived in Yahrushalum many days.

2:39 It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shim'iy ran away to Akiysh, son of Ma'akah, sovereign of Gath. They told Shim'iy, saying, “Behold, your servants are in Gath.”

2:40 Shim'iy arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Akiysh, to seek his servants; and Shim'iy went, and brought his servants from Gath. 2:41 It was told Shelomoh that Shim'iy had gone from Yahrushalum to Gath, and was come again.

2:42 The sovereign sent and called for Shim'iy, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by YaHuWaH, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’ 2:43 Why then have you not kept the oath of  YaHuWaH, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”  2:44 The sovereign said moreover to Shim'iy, “You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to Dawiyd my father. Therefore YaHuWaH shall return your wickedness on your own head. 2:45 But sovereign Shelomoh shall be blessed, and the throne of Dawiyd shall be established before YaHuWaH forever.” 2:46 So the sovereign commanded BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Shelomoh.

3:1 Shelomoh made affinity with Par'oh sovereign of Mistrayim, and took Par'oh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of Dawiyd, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the House of YaHuWaH, and the wall of Yahrushalum all around.  3:2 Only the people slaughtered in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of YaHuWaH until those days. 3:3 Shelomoh loved YaHuWaH, walking in the statutes of Dawiyd his father: only he slaughtered and burnt incense in the high places. 3:4 The sovereign went to Gibeon to slaughter there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Shelomoh offer on that altar. 3:5 In Gibeon  YaHuWaH appeared to Shelomoh in a dream by night; and Aluahiym said, “Ask what I shall give you.”

3:6 Shelomoh said, “You have shown to your servant Dawiyd my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 3:7 Now,YaHuWaH my Aluahiym, you have made your servant sovereign instead of Dawiyd my father. I am but a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. 3:8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered nor counted for multitude. 3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?”

3:10 The speech pleased the Master, that Shelomoh had asked this thing. 3:11 Aluahiym said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; 3:12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you. 3:13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the sovereigns like you, all your days.  3:14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father Dawiyd walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

3:15 Shelomoh awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Yahrushalum, and stood before the ark of the covenant of YaHuWaH, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

3:16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the sovereign, and stood before him. 3:17 The one woman said, “Oh, my master, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. 3:18 It happened the third day after I delivered, that this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. 3:19 This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. 3:20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 3:21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”

3:22 The other woman said, “No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son.”

This said, “No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son.” Thus they spoke before the sovereign.

3:23 Then the sovereign said, “The one says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’” 3:24 The sovereign said, “Get me a sword.” They brought a sword before the sovereign.  3:25 The sovereign said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

3:26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the sovereign, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my master, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!”

But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it.”

3:27 Then the sovereign answered, “Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother.”

3:28 All Ysra'al heard of the judgment which the sovereign had judged; and they feared the sovereign: for they saw that the wisdom of Aluahiym was in him, to do justice.

4:1 Master Shelomoh was sovereign over all Ysra'al. 4:2 These were the princes whom he had: Azaryahuw the son of Tsadowq, the priest;  4:3 Elihoreph and AchiYahuw, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Yahuwshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;  4:4 and BenaYahuw the son of YahuwYada was over the army; and Tsadowq and Ebyathar were priests; 4:5 and Azaryahuw the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Tsabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, and the king’s friend; 4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. 4:7 Shelomoh had twelve officers over all Ysra'al, who provided food for the sovereign and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. 4:8 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; 4:9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; 4:10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher); 4:11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Shelomoh as wife); 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Tsarethan, beneath Yizre'el, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Yokmeam;  4:13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gil'ad (to him pertained the towns of Yair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gil'ad; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);  4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 4:15 Ahima'az, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Shelomoh as wife); 4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 4:17 Yahuwshaphat the son of Paruah, in Yissachar; 4:18 Shim'iy the son of Ela, in Binyamin; 4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gil'ad, the country of Sihon sovereign of the Emoriy and of Og sovereign of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land. 4:20 Yahuwdah and Ysra'al were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. 4:21 Shelomoh ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Pelishtiym, and to the border of Mistrayim: they brought tribute, and served Shelomoh all the days of his life. 4:22 Shelomoh’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, 4:23 ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. 4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the sovereigns on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him. 4:25 Yahuwdah and Ysra'al lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Shelomoh. 4:26 Shelomoh had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 4:27 Those officers provided food for sovereign Shelomoh, and for all who came to sovereign Shelomoh’s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. 4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where the officers were, every man according to his duty. 4:29 Aluahiym gave Shelomoh wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. 4:30 Shelomoh’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Mistrayim.  4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around. 4:32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanown even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.  4:34 There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, from all sovereigns of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

5:1 Hiram sovereign of Tyre sent his servants to Shelomoh; for he had heard that they had anointed him sovereign in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of Dawiyd. 5:2 Shelomoh sent to Hiram, saying,  5:3 “You know how that Dawiyd my father could not build a house for the name of YaHuWaH his Aluahiym for the wars which were about him on every side, until YaHuWaH put them under the soles of his feet. 5:4 But now YaHuWaH my Aluahiym has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence. 5:5 Behold, I purpose to build a House for the Name of YaHuWaH my Aluahiym, as YaHuWaH spoke to Dawiyd my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your room, he shall build the House for My Name.’{ And, behold, I am commanding a house to be built to the Name of YaHuWaH my Aluahiym, as YaHuWaH spoke to my father David, saying, Your son whom I will appoint (Nathan) in your place ( to be rival with) on your throne, he shall build the house for My Name.}  5:6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanown. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Tsiydoniy.”

5:7 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Shelomoh, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is YaHuWaH this day, who has given to Dawiyd a wise son over this great people.” 5:8 Hiram sent to Shelomoh, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanown to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

5:10 So Hiram gave Shelomoh timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. 5:11 Shelomoh gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. Shelomoh gave this to Hiram year by year. 5:12 YaHuWaH gave Shelomoh wisdom, as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Shelomoh; and they two made a league together. 5:13 Sovereign Shelomoh raised a levy out of all Ysra'al; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 5:14 He sent them to Lebanown, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanown, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor. 5:15 Shelomoh had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;  5:16 besides Shelomoh’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work. 5:17 The sovereign commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. 5:18 Shelomoh’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

6:1- 6:2 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Ysra'al were come out of the land of Mistrayim, in the fourth year of Shelomoh’s reign over Ysra'al, in the month Tsiv, which is the second month, that he began to build the House of YaHuWaH. The House which sovereign Shelomoh built for YaHuWaH, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 6:3 The porch before the temple of the House, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was its breadth before the house. 6:4 For the House he made windows of fixed lattice work. 6:5 Against the wall of the House he built stories all around, against the walls of the House all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side chambers all around.  6:6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the House all around, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. 6:7 The House, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the House, while it was in building. 6:8 The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side of the House: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.  6:9 So he built the House, and finished it; and he covered the House with beams and planks of cedar.  6:10 He built the stories against all the House, each five cubits high: and they rested on the House with timber of cedar.

6:11 The Word of YaHuWaH came to Shelomoh, saying, 6:12 “Concerning this House which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes, and execute My ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My Word with you, which I spoke to Dawiyd your father. 6:13 I will dwell among the children of Ysra'al, and will not forsake My people Ysra'al.”

6:14 So Shelomoh built the House, and finished it. 6:15 He built the walls of the House within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the House to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the House with boards of fir. 6:16 He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the House with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls of the ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the Most Set-apart Place. 6:17 The House, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long. 6:18 There was cedar on the House within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 6:19-6:20 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the House within, to set there the ark of the covenant of YaHuWaH. Within the oracle was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar. 6:21 So Shelomoh overlaid the House within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 6:22 The whole House he overlaid with gold, until all the House was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. 6:23 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. 6:24 Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 6:25 The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.  6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 6:27 He set the cherubim within the inner House; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, 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 touched one another in the midst of the House. 6:28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold. 6:29 He carved all the walls of the House around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside. 6:30 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside. 6:31 For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall. 6:32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees. 6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall; 6:34 and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 6:35 He carved thereon cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work. 6:36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams. 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the House of  YaHuWaH laid, in the month Tsiv. 6:38 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 fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

7:1 Shelomoh was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 7:2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanown; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 7:3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.  7:4 There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks. 7:5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.  7:6 He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them. 7:7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. 7:8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Par'oh’s daughter (whom Shelomoh had taken as wife), like this porch. 7:9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 7:10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 7:11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. 7:12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the House of  YaHuWaH, and the porch of the House. 7:13 master Shelomoh sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.  7:14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to sovereign Shelomoh, and performed all his work. 7:15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about. 7:16 He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.  7:17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. 7:18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital. 7:19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.  7:20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows around on the other capital. 7:21 He set up the pillars at 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. 7:22 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. 7:23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. 7:24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea: the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 7:25 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. 7:26 It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 7:27 He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height. 7:28 The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; 7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 7:30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 7:31 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round. 7:32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 7:33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten. 7:34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base: its supports were of the base itself. 7:35 In the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its stays and its panels were of the same. 7:36 On the plates of its stays, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around. 7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 7:38 He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin. 7:39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.  7:40 Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for sovereign Shelomoh in the house of YaHuWaH the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that 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; 7:42 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;  7:43 and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; 7:44 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; 7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for sovereign Shelomoh, in the house of YaHuWaH, were of burnished brass. 7:46 In the plain of the Jordan did the sovereign cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Tsarethan. 7:47 Shelomoh left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out. 7:48 Shelomoh made all the vessels that were in the House of YaHuWaH: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold; 7:49 and the menorahs, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 7:50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most set-apart place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple, of gold. 7:51 Thus all the work that sovereign Shelomoh worked in the house of  YaHuWaH was finished. Shelomoh brought in the things which Dawiyd his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of  YaHuWaH.

8:1 Then Shelomoh assembled the elders of Ysra'al, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ houses of the children of Ysra'al, to sovereign Shelomoh in Yahrushalum, to bring up the ark of the covenant of  YaHuWaH out of the city of Dawiyd, which is Tsiyown. 8:2 All the men of Ysra'al assembled themselves to sovereign Shelomoh at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 8:3 All the elders of Ysra'al came, and the priests took up the ark. 8:4 They brought up the ark of YaHuWaH, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the set-apart vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up. 8:5 sovereign Shelomoh and all the congregation of Ysra'al, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude. 8:6 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of YaHuWaH to its place, into the oracle of the House, to the most set-apart place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 8:7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above. 8:8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the set-apart place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day. 8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Mosheh put there at Choreb, when YaHuWaH made a covenant with the children of Ysra'al, when they came out of the land of Mistrayim. 8:10 -8:11-8:12 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the set-apart place, that the cloud filled the House of YaHuWaH, so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the esteem of YaHuWaH filled the House of  YaHuWaH. Then Shelomoh said, “ YaHuWaH has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness. 8:13 I have surely built You a House of habitation, a place for You to dwell in forever.”

8:14 The sovereign turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Ysra'al: and all the assembly of Ysra'al stood. 8:15 He said, “Blessed is  YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, who spoke with His mouth to Dawiyd your father, and has with His hand fulfilled it, saying, 8:16 ‘Since the day that I brought forth My people Ysra'al out of Mistrayim, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Ysra'al to build a House, that My Name might be there; but I chose Dawiyd to be over My people Ysra'al.’

8:17 “Now it was in the heart of Dawiyd my father to build a House for the Name of YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al. 8:18 But YaHuWaH said to Dawiyd my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a House for My Name, you did well that it was in your heart. 8:19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the House; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the House for My Name.’ 8:20 YaHuWaH has established His Word that He spoke; for I have risen up in the place of Dawiyd my father, and I sit on the throne of Ysra'al, as YaHuWaH promised, and have built the House for the Name of YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al. 8:21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of YaHuWaH, which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Mistrayim.”

8:22 Shelomoh stood before the altar of YaHuWaH in the presence of all the assembly of Ysra'al, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; 8:23 and he said, “ YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, there is no Aluahiym  like You, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before You with all their heart; 8:24 who have kept with Your servant Dawiyd my father that which You promised him. Yes, You spoke with Your mouth, and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. 8:25 Now therefore, may YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym  of Ysra'al, keep with your servant Dawiyd 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 Ysra'al, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’

8:26 “Now therefore, Aluahiym  of Ysra'al, please let Your Word be verified, which You spoke to Your servant Dawiyd my father. 8:27 But will Aluahiym  in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain You; how much less this House that I have built! 8:28 Yet have respect for the prayer of Your servant, and for his supplication,YaHuWaH my Aluahiym, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You this day;  8:29 that Your eyes may be open toward this House night and day, even toward the place of which You have said, ‘My Name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. 8:30 Listen to the supplication of Your servant, and of Your people Ysra'al, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, Your dwelling place; and when You hear, pardon.

8:31 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before Your altar in this House; 8:32 then hear in heaven, and do, and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

8:33 “When Your people Ysra'al are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against You; if they turn again to You, and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House: 8:34 then hear in heaven, and pardon the sin of Your people Ysra'al, and bring them again to the land which You gave to their fathers.

8:35 “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 afflict them: 8:36 then hear in heaven, and pardon the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Ysra'al, 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.

8:37 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is; 8:38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all Your people Ysra'al, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this House:  8:39 then hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and pardon, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart You know; (for You, even You only, know the hearts of all the children of men;) 8:40 that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.

8:41 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of Your people Ysra'al, when he shall come out of a far country for Your Name’s sake 8:42 (for they shall hear of Your Great Name, and of Your Mighty Hand, and of Your outstretched Arm); when he shall come and pray toward this House; 8:43 hear in heaven, 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, to fear You, as do Your people Ysra'al, and that they may know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name.

8:44 “If Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to YaHuWaH toward the city which You have chosen, and toward the House which I have built for Your Name; 8:45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 8:46 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 the land of the enemy, far off or near; 8:47 yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to You in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’ 8:48 if they return to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the House which I have built for Your Name: 8:49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause; 8:50 and pardon Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against You; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 8:51 (for they are Your people, and Your inheritance, which You brought forth out of Mistrayim, from the midst of the furnace of iron); 8:52 that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant, and to the supplication of Your people Ysra'al, to listen to them whenever they cry to You. 8:53 For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by Moshah Your servant, when You brought our fathers out of Mistrayim, Master YaHuWaH.”

8:54 It was so, that when Shelomoh had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to YaHuWaH, he arose from before the altar of  YaHuWaH, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. 8:55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Ysra'al with a loud voice, saying, 8:56 “Blessed be YaHuWaH, who has given rest to His people Ysra'al, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one Word of all His good promise, which He promised by Moshah His servant. 8:57 May YaHuWaH our Aluahiym be with us, as He was with our fathers. Let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; 8:58 that He may incline our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. 8:59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before YaHuWaH, be near to YaHuWaH our Aluahiym  day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Ysra'al, as every day shall require; 8:60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that YaHuWaH, He is Aluahiym. There is none else.

8:61 “Let your heart therefore be perfect with YaHuWaH our Aluahiym, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”

8:62 The sovereign, and all Ysra'al with him, offered slaughterings before  YaHuWaH.

Shelomoh offered for the slaughter of peace offerings, which he offered to YaHuWaH, two and twenty thousand head of cattle, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the sovereign and all the children of Ysra'al dedicated the House of YaHuWaH. The same day did the sovereign make the middle of the court set-apart that was before the House of YaHuWaH; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before YaHuWaH was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. 8:65 So Shelomoh held the feast at that time, and all Ysra'al with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Mistrayim, before YaHuWaH our Aluahiym, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the sovereign, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that YaHuWaH had shown to Dawiyd His servant, and to Ysra'al His people.

9:1 It happened, when Shelomoh had finished the building of the House of  YaHuWaH, and the king’s house, and all Shelomoh’s desire which he was pleased to do,  9:2 that YaHuWaH appeared to Shelomoh the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 9:3 YaHuWaH said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me. I have made this House set-apart, which you have built, to put My Name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. 9:4 As for you, if you will walk before Me, as Dawiyd your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances; 9:5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Ysra'al into the ages, according as I promised to Dawiyd your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Ysra'al.’ 9:6 But if you turn away from following Me, you or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other mighty ones, and worship them; 9:7 then will I cut off Ysra'al out of the land which I have given them; and this House, which I have made set-apart for My Name, will I cast out of My sight; and Ysra'al shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 9:8 Though this House is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, ‘Why has YaHuWaH done thus to this land, and to this House?’ 9:9 and they shall answer, ‘Because they forsook YaHuWaH their Aluahiym, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Mistrayim, and laid hold of other mighty ones, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore YaHuWaH has brought all this evil on them.’”

9:10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Shelomoh had built the two houses, the house of YaHuWaH and the king’s house 9:11 (now Hiram the sovereign of Tyre had furnished Shelomoh with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then sovereign Shelomoh gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 9:12 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Shelomoh had given him; and they didn’t please him. 9:13 He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day. 9:14 Hiram sent to the sovereign one hundred twenty talents of gold.

9:15 This is the reason of the levy which sovereign Shelomoh raised, to build the house of YaHuWaH, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Yahrushalum, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 9:16 Par'oh sovereign of Mistrayim had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Shelomoh’s wife. 9:17 Shelomoh built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower, 9:18 and Ba'alath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land, 9:19 and all the storage cities that Shelomoh had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Shelomoh desired to build for his pleasure in Yahrushalum, and in Lebanown, and in all the land of his dominion. 9:20 As for all the people who were left of the Emoriy, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Yebusites, who were not of the children of Ysra'al; 9:21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Ysra'al were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Shelomoh raise a levy of bondservants to this day.  9:22 But of the children of Ysra'al did Shelomoh make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 9:23 These were the chief officers who were over Shelomoh’s work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work. 9:24 But Par'oh’s daughter came up out of the city of Dawiyd to her house which Shelomoh had built for her: then did he build Millo. 9:25 Three times a year did Shelomoh offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to YaHuWaH, burning incense therewith, on the altar that was before YaHuWaH. So he finished the House. 9:26 Master Shelomoh made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Sea of Suf, in the land of Edom. 9:27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shelomoh. 9:28 They came to Owphiyr, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to sovereign Shelomoh.

10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Shelomoh concerning the name of  YaHuWaH, she came to prove him with hard questions.  10:2 She came to Yahrushalum with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Shelomoh, she talked with him of all that was in her heart. 10:3 Shelomoh told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the sovereign which he didn’t tell her. 10:4 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Shelomoh, and the House that he had built, 10:5 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of YaHuWaH; there was no more spirit in her. 10:6 She said to the sovereign, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom. 10:7 However I didn’t believe the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it. Behold, the half was not told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard. 10:8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom. 10:9 Blessed is  YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Ysra'al. Because YaHuWaH loved Ysra'al forever, therefore made He you sovereign, to do justice and righteousness.” 10:10 She gave the sovereign one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones. There came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to sovereign Shelomoh.

10:11 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Owphiyr, brought in from Owphiyr great plenty of almug trees and precious stones. 10:12 The sovereign made of the almug trees pillars for the House of YaHuWaH, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day. 10:13 Sovereign Shelomoh gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Shelomoh gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants. 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Shelomoh in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold, 10:15 besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the sovereigns of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country. 10:16 Sovereign Shelomoh made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler. 10:17 He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the sovereign put them in the house of the forest of Lebanown.  10:18 Moreover the sovereign made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. 10:19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. 10:20 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. 10:21 All sovereign Shelomoh’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanown were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Shelomoh. 10:22 For the sovereign had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.  10:23 So sovereign Shelomoh exceeded all the sovereigns of the earth in riches and in wisdom. 10:24 All the earth sought the presence of Shelomoh, to hear his wisdom, which Aluahiym had put in his heart.  10:25 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. 10:26 Shelomoh gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the sovereign at Yahrushalum. 10:27 The sovereign made silver to be in Yahrushalum as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 10:28 The horses which Shelomoh had were brought out of Mistrayim; and the king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price. 10:29 A chariot came up and went out of Mistrayim for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the sovereigns of the Hittites, and for the sovereigns of Aram, did they bring them out by their means.

11:1 Now sovereign Shelomoh loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Par'oh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Tsiydoniy, and Hittites; 11:2 of the nations concerning which YaHuWaH said to the children of Ysra'al, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their mighty ones.” Shelomoh joined to these in love. 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 11:4 For it happened, when Shelomoh was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other mighty ones; and his heart was not perfect with YaHuWaH his Aluahiym, as was the heart of Dawiyd his father. 11:5 For Shelomoh went after Ashtoreth the mighty goddess of the Tsiydoniy, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 11:6 Shelomoh did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, and didn’t go fully after YaHuWaH, as did Dawiyd his father. 11:7 Then did Shelomoh build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Yahrushalum, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.  11:8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and slaughtered to their mighty ones. 11:9 YaHuWaH was angry with Shelomoh, because his heart was turned away from YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, who had appeared to him twice, 11:10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other mighty ones: but he didn’t keep that which YaHuWaH commanded. 11:11 Therefore YaHuWaH said to Shelomoh, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. 11:12 Notwithstanding I will not do it in your days, for Dawiyd your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for Dawiyd My servant’s sake, and for Yahrushalum’s sake which I have chosen.”

11:14  YaHuWaH raised up an adversary to Shelomoh, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom. 11:15 For it happened, when Dawiyd was in Edom, and Yow'ab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom 11:16 (for Yow'ab and all Ysra'al remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);  11:17 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Mistrayim, Hadad being yet a little child. 11:18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Mistrayim, to Par'oh sovereign of Mistrayim, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.  11:19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Par'oh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.  11:20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Par'oh’s house; and Genubath was in Par'oh’s house among the sons of Par'oh. 11:21 When Hadad heard in Mistrayim that Dawiyd slept with his fathers, and that Yow'ab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Par'oh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”

11:22 Then Par'oh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?”

He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.”

11:23 Aluahiym  raised up another adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer sovereign of Tsobah. 11:24 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when Dawiyd killed them of Tsobah: and they went to Dammeseq, and lived therein, and reigned in Dammeseq. 11:25 He was an adversary to Ysra'al all the days of Shelomoh, besides the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Ysra'al, and reigned over Aram. 11:26 Yarob'am the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Tseredah, a servant of Shelomoh, whose mother’s name was Tseruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the sovereign. 11:27 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the sovereign: Shelomoh built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of Dawiyd his father. 11:28 The man Yarob'am was a mighty man of valor; and Shelomoh saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Yowseph. 11:29 It happened at that time, when Yarob'am went out of Yahrushalum, that the prophet AchiYahuw the Shilonite found him in the way; now AchiYahuw had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field. 11:30 AchiYahuw laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces. 11:31 He said to Yarob'am, “Take ten pieces; for thus says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym  of Ysra'al, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Shelomoh, and will give ten tribes to you  11:32 (but he shall have one tribe, for My servant Dawiyd’s sake and for Yahrushalum’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Ysra'al); 11:33 because that they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsiydoniy, Chemosh the mighty one of Moab, and Milcom the mighty one of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in My ways, to do that which is right in My eyes, and to keep My statutes and My ordinances, as Dawiyd his father did.

11:34 “‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for Dawiyd My servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept My commandments and My statutes; 11:35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes. 11:36 To his son will I give one tribe, that Dawiyd My servant may have a lamp always before Me in Yahrushalum, the city which I have chosen to put My Name there. 11:37 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your being desires, and shall be sovereign over Ysra'al. 11:38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in My Ways, and do that which is right in My eyes, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as Dawiyd My servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for Dawiyd, and will give Ysra'al to you.  11:39 I will for this afflict the seed of Dawiyd, but not forever.’” 11:40 Shelomoh sought therefore to kill Yarob'am; but Yarob'am arose, and fled into Mistrayim, to Shishak sovereign of Mistrayim, and was in Mistrayim until the death of Shelomoh. 11:41 Now the rest of the acts of Shelomoh, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren’t they written in the book of the acts of Shelomoh? 11:42 The time that Shelomoh reigned in Yahrushalum over all Ysra'al was forty years. 11:43 Shelomoh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of Dawiyd his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

12:1 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Ysra'al were come to Shechem to make him sovereign. 12:2 It happened, when Yarob'am the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Mistrayim, where he had fled from the presence of sovereign Shelomoh, and Yarob'am lived in Mistrayim, 12:3 and they sent and called him), that Yarob'am and all the assembly of Ysra'al came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 12:4 “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.”

12:5 He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.”

The people departed. 12:6 sovereign Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Shelomoh his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?”

12:7 They spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

12:8 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. 12:9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, 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?’”

12:10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. 12:11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

12:12 So Yarob'am and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the sovereign asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.” 12:13 The sovereign answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,  12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

12:15 So the sovereign didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of  YaHuWaH, that he might establish His word, which YaHuWaH spoke by AchiYahuw the Shilonite to Yarob'am the son of Nebat. 12:16 When all Ysra'al saw that the sovereign didn’t listen to them, the people answered the sovereign, saying, “What portion have we in Dawiyd? Neither do we have an inheritance in the son of Yesse. To your tents, Ysra'al! Now see to your own house, Dawiyd.” So Ysra'al departed to their tents.

12:17 But as for the children of Ysra'al who lived in the cities of Yahuwdah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 12:18 Then sovereign Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Ysra'al stoned him to death with stones. Sovereign Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Yahrushalum. 12:19 So Ysra'al rebelled against the house of Dawiyd to this day. 12:20 It happened, when all Ysra'al heard that Yarob'am was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him sovereign over all Ysra'al: there was none who followed the house of Dawiyd, but the tribe of Yahuwdah only. 12:21 When Rehoboam was come to Yahrushalum, he assembled all the house of Yahuwdah, and the tribe of Binyamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Ysra'al, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Shelomoh. 12:22 But the Word of Aluahiym came to Shemaiah the man of Aluahiym, saying, 12:23 “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Shelomoh, sovereign of Yahuwdah, and to all the house of Yahuwdah and Binyamin, and to the rest of the people, saying, 12:24 ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers, the children of Ysra'al. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is of Me.”’” So they listened to the Word of YaHuWaH, and returned and went their way, according to the Word of YaHuWaH.

12:25 Then Yarob'am built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel. 12:26 Yarob'am said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of Dawiyd. 12:27 If this people goes up to offer slaughterings in the House of YaHuWaH at Yahrushalum, then the heart of this people will turn again to their master, even to Rehoboam sovereign of Yahuwdah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam sovereign of Yahuwdah.” 12:28 Whereupon the sovereign took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Yahrushalum. Look and see your mighty ones, Ysra'al, which brought you up out of the land of Mistrayim!” 12:29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 12:30 This thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan. 12:31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. 12:32 Yarob'am ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Yahuwdah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 12:33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Ysra'al, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

13:1 Behold, there came a man of Aluahiym out of Yahuwdah by the Word of  YaHuWaH to Beth Al: and Yarob'am was standing by the altar to burn incense. 13:2 He cried against the altar by the Word of YaHuWaH, and said, “Altar, altar, thus says YaHuWaH: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of Dawiyd, YosiYahuw by name. On you he shall slaughter the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’” 13:3 He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which YaHuWaH has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

13:4 It happened, when the sovereign heard the saying of the man of Aluahiym, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Yarob'am put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself. 13:5 -13:6 The altar also was split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of Aluahiym had given by the Word of YaHuWaH. The sovereign answered the man of Aluahiym, “Now entreat the favor of YaHuWaH your Aluahiym, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.”

The man of Aluahiym  entreated  YaHuWaH, and the king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

13:7 The sovereign said to the man of Aluahiym, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

13:8 The man of Aluahiym  said to the sovereign, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; 13:9 for so was it commanded me by the Word of  YaHuWaH, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.’” 13:10 So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.

13:11 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of Aluahiym had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the sovereign.

13:12 Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of Aluahiym  went, who came from Yahuwdah. 13:13 He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it. 13:14 He went after the man of Aluahiym, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of Aluahiym who came from Yahuwdah?”

He said, “I am.” 13:15 Then he said to him, “Come home with me, and eat bread.”

13:16 He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place. 13:17 For it was said to me by the Word of YaHuWaH, ‘You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.’”

13:18 He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an messenger spoke to me by the word of YaHuWaH, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

13:19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water. 13:20 It happened, as they sat at the table, that the Word of YaHuWaH came to the prophet who brought him back;  13:21 and he cried to the man of Aluahiym  who came from Yahuwdah, saying, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of YaHuWaH, and have not kept the commandment which  YaHuWaH your Aluahiym commanded you, 13:22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”

13:23 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.  13:24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body. 13:25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of Aluahiym who was disobedient to the mouth of YaHuWaH. Therefore YaHuWaH has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the Word of YaHuWaH, which He spoke to him.” 13:27 He spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” They saddled it.  13:28 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey. 13:29 The prophet took up the body of the man of Aluahiym, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him. 13:30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

13:31 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of Aluahiym is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. 13:32 For the saying which he cried by the Word of YaHuWaH against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Shomerown, will surely happen.”

13:33 After this thing Yarob'am didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. 13:34 This thing became sin to the house of Yarob'am, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.

14:1 At that time Abiyah the son of Yarob'am fell sick. 14:2 Yarob'am said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won’t be recognized as the wife of Yarob'am. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is AchiYahuw the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be sovereign over this people. 14:3 Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

14:4 Yarob'am’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of AchiYahuw. Now AchiYahuw could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. 14:5   YaHuWaH said to AchiYahuw, “Behold, the wife of Yarob'am comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

14:6 It was so, when AchiYahuw heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, “Come in, you wife of Yarob'am! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news. 14:7 Go, tell Yarob'am, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over My people Ysra'al, 14:8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of Dawiyd, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as My servant Dawiyd, who kept My commandments, and who followed Me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in My eyes, 14:9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other mighty ones, and molten images, to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back: 14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Yarob'am, and will cut off from Yarob'am everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Ysra'al, and will utterly sweep away the house of Yarob'am, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone. 14:11 He who dies of Yarob'am in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for YaHuWaH has spoken it.”’ 14:12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 14:13 All Ysra'al shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of  Yarob'am shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, in the house of Yarob'am. 14:14 Moreover YaHuWaH will raise him up a sovereign over Ysra'al, who shall cut off the house of Yarob'am. This is day! What? Even now. 14:15 For  YaHuWaH will strike Ysra'al, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Ysra'al out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking YaHuWaH to anger. 14:16 He will give Ysra'al up because of the sins of Yarob'am, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Ysra'al to sin.”

14:17 Yarob'am’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirtzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 14:18 All Ysra'al buried him, and mourned for him, according to the Word of YaHuWaH, which He spoke by His servant AchiYahuw the prophet. 14:19 The rest of the acts of Yarob'am, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al. 14:20 The days which Yarob'am reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. 14:21 Rehoboam the son of Shelomoh reigned in Yahuwdah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yahrushalum, the city which YaHuWaH had chosen out of all the tribes of Ysra'al, to put His Name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.  14:22 Yahuwdah did that which was evil in the sight of  YaHuWaH, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 14:23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which YaHuWaH drove out before the children of Ysra'al. 14:25 It happened in the fifth year of sovereign Rehoboam, that Shishak sovereign of Mistrayim came up against Yahrushalum; 14:26 and he took away the treasures of the house of YaHuWaH, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Shelomoh had made. 14:27 sovereign 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. 14:28 It was so, that as often as the sovereign went into the house of  YaHuWaH, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. 14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 14:30 There was war between Rehoboam and Yarob'am continually. 14:31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abiyam his son reigned in his place.

15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of sovereign Yarob'am the son of Nebat began Abiyam to reign over Yahuwdah.  15:2 Three years reigned he in Yahrushalum: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.  15:3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with YaHuWaH his Aluahiym, as the heart of Dawiyd his father. 15:4 Nevertheless for Dawiyd’s sake did YaHuWaH his Aluahiym  give him a lamp in Yahrushalum, to set up his son after him, and to establish Yahrushalum; 15:5 because Dawiyd did that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH, and didn’t turn aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Yarob'am all the days of his life.  15:7 The rest of the acts of Abiyam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? There was war between Abiyam and Yarob'am. 15:8 Abiyam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of Dawiyd: and Asa his son reigned in his place. 15:9 In the twentieth year of Yarob'am sovereign of Ysra'al began Asa to reign over Yahuwdah. 15:10 Forty-one years reigned he in Yahrushalum: and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.  15:11 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of  YaHuWaH, as did Dawiyd his father. 15:12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 15:13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Qidrown.  15:14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with YaHuWaH all his days. 15:15 He brought into the house of YaHuWaH the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.  15:16 There was war between Asa and Ba'asha sovereign of Ysra'al all their days. 15:17 Ba'asha sovereign of Ysra'al went up against Yahuwdah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah. 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of YaHuWaH, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and sovereign Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, sovereign of Aram, who lived at Dammeseq, saying, 15:19 “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Ba'asha sovereign of Ysra'al, that he may depart from me.”

15:20 Ben-Hadad listened to sovereign Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Ysra'al, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. 15:21 It happened, when Ba'asha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirtzah. 15:22 Then sovereign Asa made a proclamation to all Yahuwdah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Ba'asha had built; and sovereign Asa built therewith Geba of Binyamin, and Mizpah. 15:23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. 15:24 Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd his father; and Yahuwshaphat his son reigned in his place. 15:25 Nadab the son of Yarob'am began to reign over Ysra'al in the second year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah; and he reigned over Ysra'al two years. 15:26 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Ysra'al to sin. 15:27 Ba'asha the son of AchiYahuw, of the house of Yissachar, conspired against him; and Ba'asha struck him at Gibbethown, which belonged to the Pelishtiym; for Nadab and all Ysra'al were laying siege to Gibbethown. 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah did Ba'asha kill him, and reigned in his place. 15:29 It happened that, as soon as he was sovereign, he struck all the house of Yarob'am: he didn’t leave to Yarob'am any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of YaHuWaH, which he spoke by his servant AchiYahuw the Shilonite;  15:30 for the sins of Yarob'am which he sinned, and with which he made Ysra'al to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked  YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, to anger.  15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 15:32 There was war between Asa and Ba'asha sovereign of Ysra'al all their days. 15:33 In the third year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah began Ba'asha the son of AchiYahuw to reign over all Ysra'al in Tirtzah, and reigned twenty-four years. 15:34 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, and walked in the way of Yarob'am, and in his sin with which he made Ysra'al to sin.

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16:1 The Word of YaHuWaH came to Yahuw the son of Chananiyy against Ba'asha, saying, 16:2 “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over My people Ysra'al, and you have walked in the way of Yarob'am, and have made My people Ysra'al to sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins; 16:3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Ba'asha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Yarob'am the son of Nebat. 16:4 The dogs will eat Ba'asha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the sky will eat.”

16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Ba'asha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al?  16:6 Ba'asha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirtzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place. 16:7 Moreover by the prophet Yahuw the son of Chananiy came the Word of YaHuWaH against Ba'asha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of YaHuWaH, to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Yarob'am, and because he struck him.

16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah began Elah the son of Ba'asha to reign over Ysra'al in Tirtzah, and reigned two years. 16:9 His servant Zimriy, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirtzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Artsa, who was over the household in Tirtzah:  16:10 and Zimriy went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah, and reigned in his place. 16:11 It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Ba'asha: he didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends. 16:12 Thus Zimriy destroyed all the house of Ba'asha, according to the Word of  YaHuWaH, which he spoke against Ba'asha by Yahuw the prophet, 16:13 for all the sins of Ba'asha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Ysra'al to sin, to provoke YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, to anger with their vanities. 16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah did Zimriy reign seven days in Tirtzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethown, which belonged to the Pelishtiym.  16:16 The people who were encamped heard say, Zimriy has conspired, and has also struck the sovereign: therefore all Ysra'al made Omriy, the captain of the army, sovereign over Ysra'al that day in the camp. 16:17 Omriy went up from Gibbethown, and all Ysra'al with him, and they besieged Tirtzah. 16:18 It happened, when Zimriy saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died, 16:19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, in walking in the way of Yarob'am, and in his sin which he did, to make Ysra'al to sin. 16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimriy, and his treason that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 16:21 Then were the people of Ysra'al divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him sovereign; and half followed Omriy. 16:22 But the people who followed Omriy prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Giynath: so Tibni died, and Omriy reigned. 16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah began Omriy to reign over Ysra'al, and reigned twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirtzah. 16:24 He bought the hill Shomerown of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Shomerown. 16:25 Omriy did that which was evil in the sight of  YaHuWaH, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him. 16:26 For he walked in all the way of Yarob'am the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Ysra'al to sin, to provoke YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, to anger with their vanities.  16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omriy which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 

16:28 So Omriy slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomerown; and Ach'ab his son reigned in his place. 16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa sovereign of Yahuwdah began Ach'ab the son of Omriy to reign over Ysra'al: and Ach'ab the son of Omriy reigned over Ysra'al in Shomerown twenty-two years. 16:30 Ach'ab the son of Omriy did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH above all that were before him.

  16:31 It happened, as if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Yarob'am the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Iyzebel the daughter of Ethba'al sovereign of the Tsiydoniy [like Babel], and went and served Ba'al, and worshiped him. 16:32 He reared up an altar for Ba'al in the house of Ba'al, which he had built in Shomerown. 16:33 Ach'ab made the Asherah [wooden image]; and Ach'ab did yet more to provoke YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, to anger than all the sovereigns of Ysra'al who were before him. 16:34 In his days did Chiy'el of Bayith ha-Eliy built Yerichow: he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiyram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Seguwb, according to the Word of YaHuWaH, which He spoke by Yahoshua the son of Nuwn.

[The man: EliYahuw is abruptly introduced (1 Kings 17:1 "And EliYahuw…") on the scene of gross apostasy. Normally the parentage of the prophets is mentioned but EliYahuw's parentage is omitted. This implies that he did not come from a reputable religious background. EliYahuw is a Tishbite, from the little village of Tishbe on the other side of the Yarden River. Therefore, he was not a part of the religious establishment but an outsider.  It seems that he was not of Ysra'al and would be considered a "gentile" by them. It appears that he was naturally of a "rough" ruwach and was called to do "rough" work for YaHuWaH. He grew up in a tough environment and was ready for a tough assignment. ... and like Yahuwchanan the Immerser who dwelt in the desert, and came in the Ruwach and Power of Eliyahuw, he did not mince words or "soft peddle" his message.]

(EliYahuw = My Al, YaHuWaH is He)

17:1 EliYahuw the Tishbiy, who was of the foreigners (sojourners/resident aliens) of Gil'ad, said to Ach'ab, “As YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym  of Ysra'al, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” 17:2 The Word of YaHuWaH came to him, saying, 17:3 “Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Keriyth, that is before the Yarden. 17:4 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 17:5 So he went and did according to the Word of  YaHuWaH; for he went and lived by the brook Keriyth, that is before the Yarden. 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. 17:7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 17:8 The Word of YaHuWaH came to him, saying, 17:9 “Arise, go to Tsarephath, which belongs to Tsiydown, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

17:10 So he arose and went to Tsarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”

17:11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

17:12 She said, “As YaHuWaH your Aluahiym  lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

17:13 EliYahuw said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. 17:14 For thus says YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, ‘The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that YaHuWaH sends rain on the earth.’”

17:15 She went and did according to the saying of EliYahuw: and she, and he, and her house, ate many days. 17:16 The jar of meal didn’t empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the Word of YaHuWaH, which He spoke by EliYahuw. 17:17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 17:18 She said to EliYahuw, “What have I to do with you, you man of Aluahiym? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

17:19 He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. 17:20 He cried to YaHuWaH, and said,"YaHuWaH my Aluahiym, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?”

17:21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to YaHuWaH, and said, “YaHuWaH my Aluahiym, please let this child’s being come into him again.”

17:22   YaHuWaH listened to the voice of EliYahuw; and the being of the child came into him again, and he revived. 17:23 EliYahuw took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and EliYahuw said, “Behold, your son lives.”

17:24 The woman said to EliYahuw, “Now I know that you are a man of Elohi, and that the Word of YaHuWaH in your mouth is truth.”

18:1 It happened after many days, that the Word of YaHuWaH came to EliYahuw, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ach'ab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

18:2 EliYahuw went to show himself to Ach'ab. The famine was severe in Shomerown. 18:3 Ach'ab called ObadYahuw, who was over the household. (Now ObadYahuw feared YaHuWaH greatly: 18:4 for it was so, when Iyzebel cut off the prophets of YaHuWaH, that ObadYahuw took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) 18:5 Ach'ab said to ObadYahuw, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'ab went one way by himself, and ObadYahuw went another way by himself.  18:7 As ObadYahuw was in the way, behold, EliYahuw met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my master EliYahuw?”

18:8 He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your master, ‘Behold, EliYahuw is here!’”

18:9 He said, “Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ach'ab, to kill me? 18:10 As YaHuWaH your Aluahiym lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my master has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you. 18:11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your master, “Behold, EliYahuw is here!”’ 18:12 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Ruwach of YaHuWaH will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ach'ab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared YaHuWaH from my youth. 18:13 Wasn’t it told my master what I did when Iyzebel killed the prophets of YaHuWaH, how I hid one hundred men of YaHuWaH’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 18:14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your master, “Behold, EliYahuw is here;”’ and he will kill me!”

18:15 EliYahuw said, “As YaHuWaH Master of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.” 18:16 So ObadYahuw went to meet Ach'ab, and told him; and Ach'ab went to meet EliYahuw. 18:17 It happened, when Ach'ab saw EliYahuw, that Ach'ab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Ysra'al?”  [Rev. 11]

18:18 He answered, “I have not troubled Ysra'al; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of YaHuWaH, and you have followed the Ba'als. 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Ysra'al to Mount Karmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Ba'al, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah [the groves], who eat at Iyzebel’s table.”

18:20 So Ach'ab sent to all the children of Ysra'al, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Karmel. 18:21 EliYahuw came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If  YaHuWaH is Aluahiym, follow Him; but if Ba'al, then follow him.”

But the people answered him not a word.

18:22 Then EliYahuw said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of YaHuWaH; but Ba'al’s prophets are four hundred fifty men. 18:23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. 18:24 You call on the name of your mighty one, and I will call on the Name of YaHuWaH. The Aluahiym who answers by fire, let him be Aluahiym .”

All the people answered, “It is well spoken.”

18:25 EliYahuw said to the prophets of Ba'al, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your mighty one, but put no fire under it.”

18:26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Ba'al [the lord] from morning even until noon, saying, Ba'al [lord], hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.  18:27 It happened at noon, that EliYahuw mocked them, and said, “Shout louder! Surely he is a mighty one. Either he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

18:28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. 18:29 It was so, when midday was past, that they prayed and called on Ba'al until the time of the offering ; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who paid attention.

18:30 EliYahuw said to all the people, “Come near to me;” and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of YaHuWaH that was thrown down. 18:31 EliYahuw took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Ya'aqob, to whom the Word of YaHuWaH came, saying, “Ysra'al shall be your name.” 18:32 With the stones he built an altar in the Name of YaHuWaH. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed. 18:33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”  18:34 He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time.  (picture of immersion) 18:35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water. (immersion first then the Fire)

18:36 It happened at the time of bringing of the evening offering, that EliYahuw the prophet came near, and said, “YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Abraham, of Yitschaq, and of Ysra'al, let it be known this day that you are Aluahiym in Ysra'al, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your Word.  18:37 Hear me, YaHuWaH, hear me, that this people may know that You,YaHuWaH, are Aluahiym, and that You have turned their heart back again.”

18:38 Then the fire of YaHuWaH fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 18:39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “YaHuWaH, He is Aluahiym!  YaHuWaH, He is Aluahiym!”

18:40 EliYahuw said to them, “Seize the prophets of Ba'al! Don’t let one of them escape!”

They seized them. EliYahuw brought them down to the brook Qiyshown, and killed them there. 18:41 EliYahuw said to Ach'ab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

18:42 So Ach'ab went up to eat and to drink. EliYahuw went up to the top of Karmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. 18:43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”

He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.”

He said, “Go again” seven times.

18:44 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.”

He said, “Go up, tell Ach'ab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”

18:45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ach'ab rode, and went to Yizre'e'l.  18:46 The Hand of  YaHuWaH was on EliYahuw; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ach'ab to the entrance of Yizre'e'l.

19:1 Ach'ab told Iyzebel all that EliYahuw had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 19:2 Then Iyzebel sent a messenger to EliYahuw, saying, “So let the mighty ones do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

19:3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Be'er Sheba, which belongs to Yahuwdah, and left his servant there. 19:4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O YaHuWaH, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers!”

19:5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, a messenger touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

19:6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and laid down again. 19:7 The messenger of YaHuWaH came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

19:8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Choreb the Mount of Aluahiym. 19:9 He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the Word of YaHuWaH came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, EliYahuw?”

19:10 He said, “I have been very jealous for YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym Master of Armies; for the children of Ysra'al have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and slain Your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

19:11 He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before YaHuWaH.”

Behold, YaHuWaH passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before YaHuWaH; but YaHuWaH was not in the wind. After the wind an earthquake; but YaHuWaH was not in the earthquake. 19:12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but YaHuWaH was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 19:13 It was so, when EliYahuw heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly, a Voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, EliYahuw?”

19:14 He said, “I have been very jealous for YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym Master of Armies; for the children of Ysra'al have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and slain Your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

19:15 The YaHuWaH said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Dammeseq. When you arrive, you shall anoint Chaza'el to be sovereign over Aram. 19:16 You shall anoint Yahuw the son of Nimshiy to be sovereign over Ysra'al; and you shall anoint Eliyshua the son of Shaphat of Abel Mechowlah to be prophet in your place. 19:17 It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Chaza'el, Yahuw will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Yahuw, Eliyshua will kill. 19:18 Yet will I leave seven thousand in Ysra'al, all the knees which have not bowed to Ba'al, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

About "Elisha" --- Elishuwa (Elohiym is deliverance/saving)

It is also interesting to note that the prophet "Elisha" is phonetically spelled - and should be pronounced as - Al-ee-shoo'-ah - and in Hebrew is spelled: אֱלִישׁ֫וּעַ

(aleph-lamed-yod-shin-waw-ayin) Notice the "shoo-ah" ending --- shin-waw-ayin -- which in Hebrew would be the "uw" sound after the "ayin", thus making the true spelling of Elisha to be Elishuwa. #474 & 477 (from Al and yasha

Original Word: אֱלִישׁ֫וּעַ

Transliteration: Elishua

Phonetic Spelling: (Al-ee-shoo'-ah)

Short Definition: Elishua

19:19 So he departed there, and found Eliyshua the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and EliYahuw passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him. 19:20 He left the oxen, and ran after EliYahuw, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”

He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”

19:21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after EliYahuw, and served him.

20:1 Ben-Hadad the sovereign of Aram gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two sovereigns with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Shomerown, and fought against it. 20:2 He sent messengers to Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al, into the city, and said to him, “Thus says Ben-Hadad, 20:3 ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’”

20:4 The sovereign of Ysra'al answered, “It is according to your saying, my master, O sovereign. I am yours, and all that I have.”

20:5 The messengers came again, and said, “Ben-Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children; 20:6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”

20:7 Then the sovereign of Ysra'al called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

20:8 All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, neither consent.”

20:9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, “Tell my master the sovereign, ‘All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I cannot do.’”

The messengers departed, and brought him back the message. 20:10 Ben-Hadad sent to him, and said, “The mighty ones do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Shomerown shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

20:11 The sovereign of Ysra'al answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”

20:12 It happened, when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the sovereigns, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.

20:13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al, and said, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am YaHuWaH.’”

20:14 Ach'ab said, “By whom?”

He said, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘By the young men of the princes of the provinces.’”

Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?”

He answered, “You.”

20:15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two. After them, he mustered all the people, even all the children of Ysra'al, being seven thousand. 20:16 They went out at noon. But Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the sovereigns, the thirty-two sovereigns who helped him. 20:17 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out from Shomerown.”

20:18 He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”

20:19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them. 20:20 They each killed his man. The Aram fled, and Ysra'al pursued them. Ben-Hadad the sovereign of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. 20:21 The sovereign of Ysra'al went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Aram with a great slaughter. 20:22 The prophet came near to the sovereign of Ysra'al, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year [spring equinox] the sovereign of Aram will come up against you.”

20:23 The servants of the sovereign of Aram said to him, “Their mighty one is a mighty one of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 20:24 Do this thing: take the sovereigns away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their place. 20:25 Muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. We will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than them.”

He listened to their voice, and did so. 20:26 It happened at the return of the year, [spring equinox] that Ben-Hadad mustered the Aram, and went up to Apheq, to fight against Ysra'al. 20:27 The children of Ysra'al were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them. The children of Ysra'al encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Aram filled the country. 20:28 A man of Aluahiym came near and spoke to the sovereign of Ysra'al, and said, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Because the Aram have said, "YaHuWaH is a mighty one of the hills, but he is not a mighty one of the valleys;” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am YaHuWaH.’”

20:29 They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Ysra'al killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Aram in one day. 20:30 But the rest fled to Apheq, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. 20:31 His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the sovereigns of the house of Ysra'al are merciful sovereigns. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the sovereign of Ysra'al. Maybe he will save your life.”

20:32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the sovereign of Ysra'al, and said, “Your servant Ben-Hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’”

He said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

20:33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben-Hadad.”

Then he said, “Go, bring him.”

Then Ben-Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. 20:34 Ben-Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Dammeseq, as my father made in Shomerown.”

“I,” said Ach'ab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

20:35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the Word of YaHuWaH, “Please strike me!”

The man refused to strike him. 20:36 Then said he to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of YaHuWaH, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you.” As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

20:37 Then he found another man, and said, “Please strike me.”

The man struck him, smiting and wounding him. 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the sovereign by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. 20:39 As the sovereign passed by, he cried to the sovereign; and he said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’ 20:40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.”

The sovereign of Ysra'al said to him, “So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it.”

20:41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the sovereign of Ysra'al recognized that he was of the prophets. 20:42 He said to him, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’”

20:43 The sovereign of Ysra'al went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Shomerown.

21:1 It happened after these things, that Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy had a vineyard, which was in Yizre'el, near the palace of Ach'ab sovereign of Shomerown.  21:2 Ach'ab spoke to Nabowth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

21:3 Nabowth said to Ach'ab, “May YaHuWaH forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

21:4 Ach'ab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. 21:5 But Iyzebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

21:6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

21:7 Iyzebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Ysra'al? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy.” 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ach'ab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Nabowth. 21:9 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Nabowth on high among the people. 21:10 Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed Aluahiym and the sovereign!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

21:11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Iyzebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Nabowth on high among the people. 21:13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Nabowth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Nabowth cursed Aluahiym and the sovereign!” Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. 21:14 Then they sent to Iyzebel, saying, “Nabowth has been stoned, and is dead.”

21:15 It happened, when Iyzebel heard that Nabowth was stoned, and was dead, that Iyzebel said to Ach'ab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy, which he refused to give you for money; for Nabowth is not alive, but dead.”

21:16 It happened, when Ach'ab heard that Nabowth was dead, that Ach'ab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy, to take possession of it. 21:17 The Word of YaHuWaH came to EliYahuw the Tishbite, saying, 21:18 “Arise, go down to meet Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al, who dwells in Shomerown. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Nabowth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. 21:19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Nabowth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”

A Prophetic Allegory of Rev. 13 as seen in 1 Melakim 21:1-17 and embracing the following texts:

Yo'el 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of YaHuWaH, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare Your people, YaHuWaH, and don’t give Your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their Aluah?’”

YashaYahuw 27:12 It shall happen in That Day, that YaHuWaH shall thresh from the flowing stream of the River to the brook of Mitsrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one, descendants of Ysra'al. 27:13 It shall happen in That Day that a Great Shofar shall be blown (Yom Kippur); and those who were ready to perish in the land of Ashshuwr, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim, shall come; and they shall worship YaHuWaH in the qodesh mountain at Yahrushalum.  (gathering of the living set-apart ones )

Matt. 24:31& Marq 13:27  He shall send out His Messengers with the sound of the Great Shofar [Yom Kippur], and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.  Yo'el 2:32 It will happen that whosoever shall call on the Name of YaHuWaH shall be delivered (saved);  for in Mount Tsiyown and in Yahrushalum there shall be those who escape [are delivered], as YaHuWaH  has said, and in the remnant, those whom YaHuWaH shall call.

1 Melakim 21:1 It happened after these things, that Nabowth [Ysra'al] the Yizre'e'liy had a vineyard,[Everlasting Inheritance of the Remnant of Ysra'al] which was in Yizre'el, near the palace of Ach'ab [the Beast] sovereign of Shomerown [the World].  21:2 Ach'ab [the Beast] spoke to Nabowth [Ysra'al], saying, “Give me your vineyard [The Remnant of  Ysra'al, - He wanted control of the entire world  but Ysra'al's stood in his way] that I may have it for a garden of herbs [the new kingdom of the Beast], because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard [Satan's kingdom under the Beast] than it. [Rev. 13:3  And I saw one of his heads,   as having been slain to death, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the earth wondered after the beast (will rush after him.)]    Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.” [the ability to buy and sell]

21:3 Nabowth [Ysra'al] said to Ach'ab [the Beast], “May YaHuWaH forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!” [The Kingdom of Yahuwshua and His Righteousness - Endless Life/New Earth]  21:4 Ach'ab [the Beast] came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.[... and one of his heads was wounded to death] 21:5 But Iyzebel [2nd Beast/False Prophet - see also Rev. 2:19-23] his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”  21:6 He said to her, “Because I spoke to Nabowth the Yizre'e'liy, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

21:7 Iyzebel [2nd Beast/Harlot/False Prophet] his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Ysra'al [the World]? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will [2nd Beast] give you the vineyard of Nabowth [the Remnant of Ysra'al] the Yizre'e'liy.” 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ach'ab’s [the Beast's] name, and sealed them with his seal, [Rev. 13:17 and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name.][Rev. 13:12 He exercises all the authority of the first Beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship (obey) the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed.] and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Nabowth. 21:9 She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast [Yom Kippur - The Great Shofar], and set Nabowth [Ysra'al] on high among the people. 21:10 Set two men [He had two horns like a lamb], base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed Aluahiym and the sovereign!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

[13:15 It was given to him to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak [bring forth actions, laws, etc.], and cause to be killed as many as would not worship (obey) the image of the beast. 13:7 It was given to him to fight with ha'qedoshim, and to overcome them.   Rule over every tribe, people, tongues, and goy was given to him. ]

21:11 The men of his [Nabowth's/Ysra'al] city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Iyzebel [2nd Beast] had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. [Rev. 13:15 ... and cause to be killed as many as would not worship (obey) the image of the Beast . Matt. 24:10 Then the many shall stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.  24:11 Many preachers of the Lie shall arise, and shall lead the many astray. 24:12 Because iniquity shall be multiplied the love of the many shall grow cold; Marq 13:12  Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death, ... 13:13 You will be detested by all men for My Name’s sake, but he who endures in My Name to the end, the same will be delivered.]

 21:12 They proclaimed a fast [Yom Kippur - Great Shofar], and set Nabowth [Ysra'al] on high among the people. 21:13 The two men, the base fellows,[the two horns - false witnesses] came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Nabowth [Ysra'al], in the presence of the people, [Rev. 13:13  And he does great signs, so that he even cast fire down from the heaven on the earth in the presence of  men.]  saying, “Nabowth [Ysra'al] cursed Aluahiym [god] and the sovereign [the Beast]!” Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.  [and cause to be killed as many as would not worship (obey) the image of the beast.]  21:14 Then they sent to Iyzebel [the 2nd Beast Whore], saying, “Nabowth [Ysra'al] has been stoned, and is dead.”[Rev. 14:13 I heard the Voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in YaHuWaH from now on.’” “Yes,” says the haQadosh Ruwach, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.” ] 

21:15 It happened, when Iyzebel [2nd Beast] heard that Nabowth  [Ysra'al] was stoned, and was dead, that Iyzebel [2nd Beast] said to Ach'ab [the Beast], “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Nabowth [the inheritance of Ysra'al] the Yizre'e'liy, which he refused to give you for money [did not bow before the "buy and sell degree" of the 2nd Beast]; for Nabowth [Ysra'al] is not alive, but dead.” 

[Rev. 11:7 When they have completed their testimony, the Beast coming up out of the abyss [pit of the deep] will make war  against them and will overcome them, and will kill them off .....  11:10 Those who dwell on the earth gloat over them, and celebrate and shall give gifts to one another, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 13:14  And he leads astray those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given to do before [in the presence] of the beast; saying to those dwelling on the earth, to make and image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and resurrected. ]

(The “anti-Mashiyach /Beast" and the entire “new world order” with all their followers shall believe they have won against YaHuWaH. Ysra'al shall appear destroyed once and for all, along with all that bear witness of Torah and testify of Yahuwshua.)

21:16 It happened, when Ach'ab [the Beast] heard that Nabowth [Ysra'al] was dead, that Ach'ab [the Beast] rose up to go down to the vineyard [Ysra'al's Inheritance] of Nabowth [Ysra'al] the Yizre'e'liy, to take possession of it. [total control of the world - 13:8 All those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slaughtered Lamb, from the disruption of the world, shall worship (obey) him.]

However!

21:17 The Word of YaHuWaH came to EliYahuw the Tishbite, saying, 21:18 “Arise, go down to meet Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al, who dwells in Shomerown. Behold, he is in the vineyard of Nabowth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. 21:19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YaHuWaH, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Nabowth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”  [Rev. 13:9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. 13:10 He who brings into captivity, he shall go into captivity. He who kills with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the endurance and the belief of ha'qedoshim.]

and ..... 

16:10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the Beast, and his reign was darkened. .... 17:16 The ten horns which you saw on the Beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall lay her waste and naked, and eat her flesh, and burn her with fire! [YirmYâhuw chapters 50-51][ she will be "nuked" by them] .... 18:8 Therefore in one day her plagues shall come: death, mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire .... 19:20 The Beast was taken, and with him the Preacher of the Lie who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.  These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 

21:20 Ach'ab said to EliYahuw, “Have you found me, my enemy?”

He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of YaHuWaH.  Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ach'ab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Ysra'al. 21:22 I will make your house like the house of Yarob'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of AchiYahuw for the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and have made Ysra'al to sin.” 21:23 YaHuWaH also spoke of Iyzebel, saying, “The dogs shall eat Iyzebel by the rampart of Yizre'el. 21:24 The dogs will eat he who dies of Ach'ab in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field.”

21:25 But there was none like Ach'ab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of  YaHuWaH, whom Iyzebel his wife stirred up.  21:26 He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Emoriy did, whom YaHuWaH cast out before the children of Ysra'al.  21:27 It happened, when Ach'ab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.

21:28 The Word of YaHuWaH came to EliYahuw the Tishbiy, saying, 21:29 “See how Ach'ab humbles himself before Me? Because he humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son’s days will I bring the evil on his house.”

22:1 They continued three years without war between Aram and Ysra'al. 22:2 It happened in the third year, that Yahuwshaphat the sovereign of Yahuwdah came down to the sovereign of Ysra'al.  22:3 The sovereign of Ysra'al said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth in Gil'ad is ours, and we are still, and don’t take it out of the hand of the sovereign of Aram?” 22:4 He said to Yahuwshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gil'ad?”

Yahuwshaphat said to the sovereign of Ysra'al, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.” 22:5 Yahuwshaphat said to the sovereign of Ysra'al, “Please inquire first for the Word of  YaHuWaH.”

22:6 Then the sovereign of Ysra'al gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gil'ad to battle, or shall I forbear?”

They said, “Go up; for YaHuWaH will deliver it into the hand of the sovereign.”

22:7 But Yahuwshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of YaHuWaH, that we may inquire of him?”

22:8 The sovereign of Ysra'al said to Yahuwshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of YaHuWaH, MikaYahuw the son of Yimlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”

Yahuwshaphat said, “Let not the sovereign say such things.”

22:9 Then the sovereign of Ysra'al called an officer, and said, “Quickly get MikaYahuw the son of Yimlah.”

22:10 Now the sovereign of Ysra'al and Yahuwshaphat the sovereign of Yahuwdah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Shomerown; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 22:11 TsidiqiYahuw the son of Kena'anah made him horns of iron, and said, “Thus says YaHuWaH, ‘With these you shall push the Aram, until they are consumed.’” 22:12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gil'ad, and prosper; for YaHuWaH will deliver it into the hand of the sovereign.”

22:13 The messenger who went to call MikaYahuw spoke to him, saying, “See now, the the prophets declare good to the sovereign with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

22:14 MikaYahuw said, “As YaHuWaH lives, what YaHuWaH says to me, that I will speak.”

22:15 When he had come to the sovereign, the sovereign said to him, “MikaYahuw, shall we go to Ramoth Gil'ad to battle, or shall we forbear?”

He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and YaHuWaH will deliver it into the hand of the sovereign.” 22:16 The sovereign said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the Name of YaHuWaH?”

22:17 He said, “I saw all Ysra'al scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. YaHuWaH said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”

22:18 The sovereign of Ysra'al said to Yahuwshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

22:19 MikaYahuw said, “Therefore hear the word of YaHuWaH. I saw YaHuWaH sitting on His throne, and all the army of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left. 22:20   YaHuWaH said, ‘Who shall entice Ach'ab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gil'ad?’ One said one thing; and another said another. 22:21 A spirit came out and stood before YaHuWaH, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ 22:22 

  YaHuWaH said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’ 22:23 Now therefore, behold,YaHuWaH has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and YaHuWaH has spoken evil concerning you.”

22:24 Then TsidiqiYahuw the son of Kena'anah came near, and struck MikaYahuw on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Ruwach of YaHuWaH go from me to speak to you?”

22:25 MikaYahuw said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”

22:26 The sovereign of Ysra'al said, “Take MikaYahuw, and carry him back to Amown the governor of the city, and to Yow'ash the king’s son. 22:27 Say, ‘Thus says the sovereign, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

22:28 MikaYahuw said, “If you return at all in peace, YaHuWaH has not spoken by me.” He said, “Take heed, all you people!”

22:29 So the sovereign of Ysra'al and Yahuwshaphat the sovereign of Yahuwdah went up to Ramoth Gil'ad. 22:30 The sovereign of Ysra'al said to Yahuwshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The sovereign of Ysra'al/Ach'ab disguised himself, and went into the battle.

22:31 Now the sovereign of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, except only with the sovereign of Ysra'al. 22:32 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Yahuwshaphat, that they said, “Surely that is the sovereign of Ysra'al!” and they turned aside to fight against him. Yahuwshaphat cried out. 22:33 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the sovereign of Ysra'al, that they turned back from pursuing him. 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the sovereign of Ysra'al/Ach'ab between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.” 22:35 The battle increased that day. The sovereign was propped up in his chariot facing the Aram, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.  22:36 A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

22:37 So the sovereign died, and was brought to Shomerown; and they buried the sovereign in Shomerown. 22:38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Shomerown; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the Word of YaHuWaH which he spoke.

22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ach'ab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Ysra'al? 22:40 So Ach'ab slept with his fathers; and AchazYahuw his son reigned in his place. 22:41 Yahuwshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Yahuwdah in the fourth year of Ach'ab sovereign of Ysra'al. 22:42 Yahuwshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Yahrushalum. His mother’s name was Azuwbah the daughter of Shilchiy. 22:43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of YaHuWaH: however the high places were not taken away; the people still slaughtered and burnt incense in the high places. 22:44 Yahuwshaphat made peace with the sovereign of Ysra'al. 22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Yahuwshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the sovereigns of Yahuwdah? 22:46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.  22:47 There was no sovereign in Edom: a deputy was sovereign. 22:48 Yahuwshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Owphiyr for gold: but they didn’t go; for the ships were broken at Etsyown Geber. 22:49 Then AchazYahuw the son of Ach'ab said to Yahuwshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Yahuwshaphat would not. 22:50 Yahuwshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of Dawiyd his father; Yarob'am his son reigned in his place. 22:51 AchazYahuw the son of Ach'ab began to reign over Ysra'al in Shomerown in the seventeenth year of Yahuwshaphat sovereign of Yahuwdah, and he reigned two years over Ysra'al. 22:52 He did that which was evil in the sight of YaHuWaH, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of  Yarob'am the son of Nebat, in which he made Ysra'al to sin. 22:53 He served Ba'al, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger YaHuWaH, the Aluahiym of Ysra'al, according to all that his father had done.