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9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house
 of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was
 pleased to do,
9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared
 unto him at Gibeon.
9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
 supplication, that thou hast made before me:  I have hallowed this house,
 which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and
 mine heart shall be there perpetually.
9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
 integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
 commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as
 I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
 upon the throne of Israel.
9:6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children,
 and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before
 you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and
 this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight;
 and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall
 be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done
 thus unto this land, and to this house?
9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
 brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold
 upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:  therefore hath
 the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built
 the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
9:11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
 and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king
 Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given
 him; and they pleased him not.
9:13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my
 brother?  And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
9:15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to
 build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of
 Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
9:16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it
 with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it
 for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his
 chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to
 build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
9:20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
 Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of
 Israel,
9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children
 of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon
 levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen:  but they
 were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and
 rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
9:23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work,
 five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the
 work.
9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house
 which Solomon had built for her:  then did he build Millo.
9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace
 offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense
 upon the altar that was before the LORD.  So he finished the house.
9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside
 Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of
 the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and
 twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

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10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the
 name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that
 bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones:  and when she was
 come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions:  there was not any thing hid
 from the king, which he told her not.
10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the
 house that he had built,
10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
 attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his
 ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more
 spirit in her.
10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own
 land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen
 it:  and, behold, the half was not told me:  thy wisdom and prosperity
 exceedeth the fame which I heard.
10:8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
 continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
10:9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on
 the throne of Israel:  because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore
 made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and 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 king Solomon.
10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in
 from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
 LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: 
 there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
 whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
 bounty.  So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
 hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
10:15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the
 spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of
 the country.
10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:  six
 hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
10:17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of
 gold went to one shield:  and the king put them in the house of the forest
 of Lebanon.
10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
 the best gold.
10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round
 behind:  and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat,
 and two lions stood beside the stays.
10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the
 six steps:  there was not the like made in any kingdom.
10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
 vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none
 were of silver:  it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: 
 once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver,
 ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for
 wisdom.
10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had
 put in his heart.
10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels
 of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate
 year by year.
10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen:  and he had a
 thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he
 bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
 made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for
 abundance.
10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:  the
 king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels
 of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty:  and so for all the kings
 of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by
 their means.

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11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter
 of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and
 Hittites;
11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of
 Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: 
 for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:  Solomon
 clave unto these in love.
11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
 concubines:  and his wives turned away his heart.
11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away
 his heart after other gods:  and his heart was not perfect with the LORD
 his God, as was the heart of David his father.
11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and
 after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after
 the LORD, as did David his father.
11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of
 Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
 abomination of the children of Ammon.
11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and
 sacrificed unto their gods.
11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from
 the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
 after other gods:  but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of
 thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have
 commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it
 to thy servant.
11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
 sake:  but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one
 tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake
 which I have chosen.
11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: 
 he was of the king's seed in Edom.
11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of
 the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in
 Edom;
11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, 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 Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran:  and they took men
 with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt;
 which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave
 him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
 weaned in Pharaoh's house:  and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among
 the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
 that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me
 depart, that I may go to mine own country.
11:22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that,
 behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?  And he answered, Nothing:
  howbeit let me go in any wise.
11:23 And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
 which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when
 David slew them of Zobah:  and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein,
 and reigned in Damascus.
11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the
 mischief that Hadad did:  and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's
 servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up
 his hand against the king.
11:27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the
 king:  Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of
 David his father.
11:28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour:  and Solomon seeing
 the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the
 charge of the house of Joseph.
11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
 that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad
 himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in
 twelve pieces:
11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces:  for thus saith the
 LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of
 Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
 Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
 Israel: )
11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the
 goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the
 god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that
 which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments,
 as did David his father.
11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand:  but I will
 make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom
 I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
 unto thee, even ten tribes.
11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have
 a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to
 put my name there.
11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
 soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee,
 and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my
 statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with
 thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give
 Israel unto thee.
11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam.  And Jeroboam arose, and
 fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the
 death of Solomon.
11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his
 wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
 forty years.
11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
 David his father:  and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

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12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem:  for all Israel were come to Shechem to
 make him king.
12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in
 Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon,
 and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
12:3 That they sent and called him.  And Jeroboam and all the congregation
 of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous:  now therefore make thou the
 grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us,
 lighter, and we will serve thee.
12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to
 me.  And the people departed.
12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon
 his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer
 this people?
12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this
 people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words
 to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
 and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which
 stood before him:
12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this
 people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did
 put upon us lighter?
12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying,
 Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy
 father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt
 thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's
 loins.
12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add
 to your yoke:  my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
 you with scorpions.
12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the
 king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's
 counsel that they gave him;
12:14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My
 father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke:  my father also
 chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was
 from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by
 Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the
 people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?  neither
 have we inheritance in the son of Jesse:  to your tents, O Israel:  now
 see to thine own house, David.  So Israel departed unto their tents.
12:17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of
 Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all
 Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.  Therefore king Rehoboam made
 speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come
 again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him
 king over all Israel:  there was none that followed the house of David, but
 the tribe of Judah only.
12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of
 Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen
 men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring
 the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all
 the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
 brethren the children of Israel:  return every man to his house; for this
 thing is from me.  They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and
 returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and
 went out from thence, and built Penuel.
12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the
 house of David:
12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at
 Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord,
 even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to
 Rehoboam king of Judah.
12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and
 said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:  behold thy
 gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
12:30 And this thing became a sin:  for the people went to worship before
 the one, even unto Dan.
12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of
 the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
 day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered
 upon the altar.  So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he
 had made:  and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he
 had made.
12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth
 day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his
 own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel:  and he
 offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

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13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the
 LORD unto Bethel:  and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O
 altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the
 house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of
 the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt
 upon thee.
13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the
 LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are
 upon it shall be poured out.
13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of
 God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his
 hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him.  And his hand, which he put
 forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
 according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
 LORD.
13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat now the
 face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me
 again.  And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was
 restored him again, and became as it was before.
13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
 thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine
 house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water
 in this place:
13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread,
 nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
 Bethel.
13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told
 him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel:  the
 words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their
 father.
13:12 And their father said unto them, What way went he?  For his sons had
 seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass.  So they saddled him the
 ass:  and he rode thereon,
13:14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: 
 and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? 
 And he said, I am.
13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee:  neither
 will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread
 nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
13:18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel
 spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee
 into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water.  But he lied
 unto him.
13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank
 water.
13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
 LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
13:21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus
 saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and
 hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
13:22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of
 the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy
 carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk,
 that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had
 brought back.
13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him:  and
 his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also
 stood by the carcase.
13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and
 the lion standing by the carcase:  and they came and told it in the city
 where the old prophet dwelt.
13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
 thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the
 word of the LORD:  therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion,
 which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD,
 which he spake unto him.
13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass.  And they saddled
 him.
13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the
 lion standing by the carcase:  the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn
 the ass.
13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it
 upon the ass, and brought it back:  and the old prophet came to the city,
 to mourn and to bury him.
13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
 saying, Alas, my brother!
13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
 sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man
 of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the
 altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are
 in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made
 again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:  whosoever
 would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high
 places.
13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it
 off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

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14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
 thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to
 Shiloh:  behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I
 should be king over this people.
14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and
 go to him:  he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to
 the house of Ahijah.  But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
 reason of his age.
14:5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
 ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick:  thus and thus shalt
 thou say unto her:  for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall
 feign herself to be another woman.
14:6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came
 in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest
 thou thyself to be another?  for I am sent to thee with heavy
 tidings.
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
 exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people
 Israel,
14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: 
 and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments,
 and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right
 in mine eyes;
14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee:  for thou hast gone
 and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and
 hast cast me behind thy back:
14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and
 will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him
 that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the
 house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
 that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat:  for the LORD hath
 spoken it.
14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house:  and when thy
 feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him:  for he only of
 Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good
 thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut
 off the house of Jeroboam that day:  but what?  even now.
14:15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and
 he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their
 fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made
 their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did
 sin, and who made Israel to sin.
14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:  and
 when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the
 word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
 prophet.
14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
 reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
 kings of Israel.
14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years:  and
 he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.  Rehoboam was
 forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
 years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the
 tribes of Israel, to put his name there.  And his mother's name was
 Naamah an Ammonitess.
14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to
 jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their
 fathers had done.
14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every
 high hill, and under every green tree.
14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land:  and they did according
 to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the
 children of Israel.
14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
 king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
 treasures of the king's house; he even took away all:  and he took away all
 the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed
 them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the
 king's house.
14:28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that
 the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
 in the city of David.  And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 
 And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned
 Abijam over Judah.
15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was
 Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before
 him:  and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of
 David his father.
15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in
 Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and
 turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his
 life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his
 life.
15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  And there was
 war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of
 David:  and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over
 Judah.
15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem.  And his mother's
 name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did
 David his father.
15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
 idols that his fathers had made.
15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen,
 because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and
 burnt it by the brook Kidron.
15:14 But the high places were not removed:  nevertheless Asa's heart was
 perfect with the LORD all his days.
15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the
 things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and
 gold, and vessels.
15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
 days.
15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that
 he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the
 treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house,
 and delivered them into the hand of his servants:  and king Asa sent them
 to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that
 dwelt at Damascus, saying,
15:19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and
 thy father:  behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold;
 come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart
 from me.
15:20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the
 hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan,
 and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off
 building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was
 exempted:  and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof,
 wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of
 Benjamin, and Mizpah.
15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he
 did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of
 the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  Nevertheless in the time of his old
 age he was diseased in his feet.
15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
 city of David his father:  and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second
 year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his
 father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
 against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the
 Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and
 reigned in his stead.
15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of
 Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed
 him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant
 Ahijah the Shilonite:
15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made
 Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel
 to anger.
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
 days.
15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah
 to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
 Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.