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drb@Joshua:2:9 @the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea at your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: Sehon and Og whom you slew.

drb@Joshua:5:1 @Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.

drb@Joshua:9:1 @Now When these things were heard of, all the kings beyond the Jordan, that dwelt in the mountains and in the plains, in the places near the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they also that dwell by Libanus, the Hethite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

drb@Joshua:9:10 @And to the two kings of the Amorrhites that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, that was in Astaroth:

drb@Joshua:10:5 @So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.

drb@Joshua:10:6 @But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon which was besieged, sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him: Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly and save us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.

drb@Joshua:10:16 @For the five kings were fled, and had hidden themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda.

drb@Joshua:10:17 @And it was told Josue that the five kings were found hidden in a cave of the city of Maceda.

drb@Joshua:10:22 @And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth to me the five kings that lie hid therein.

drb@Joshua:10:23 @And the ministers did as they were commanded: and they brought out to him the five kings out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon.

drb@Joshua:10:24 @And when they were Drought out to him, he called all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and set your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and put their feet upon the necks of them lying under them,

drb@Joshua:10:39 @He took it and destroyed it: the king also thereof and all the towns round about he destroyed with the edge of the sword: he left not in it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and Lebna and to their kings, so did he to Dabir and to the king thereof.

drb@Joshua:10:40 @So Josue conquered all the country of the hills and of the south and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he left not any remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the Lord the God of Israel had commanded him,

drb@Joshua:10:42 @And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.

drb@Joshua:11:2 @And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in the mountains and in the plains over against the south side of Ceneroth, and in the levels and the countries of Dor by the sea side:

drb@Joshua:11:5 @And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

drb@Joshua:11:12 @And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the cities round about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God had commanded him.

drb@Joshua:11:17 @And part of the mountain that goeth up to Seir as far as Baalgad, by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their kings he took, smote and slew.

drb@Joshua:11:18 @Josue made war a long time against these kings.

drb@Joshua:12:1 @These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that looketh towards the wilderness.

drb@Joshua:12:7 @These are the kings of the land, whom Josue and the children of Israel slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the held of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and Josue delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one their divisions,

drb@Joshua:12:24 @The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one.

drb@Joshua:24:12 @And I sent before you hornets: and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow.

drb@Judges:1:7 @And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

drb@Judges:5:3 @Hear, O ye kings, give ear, ye princes: It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord the God of Israel.

drb@Judges:5:19 @The kings came and fought, the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanach by the waters of Mageddo, and yet they took no spoils.

drb@Judges:8:5 @And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to the people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue Zebee, and Salmana the kings of Madian.

drb@Judges:8:21 @And Zebee and Salmana said: Do thou rise, and run upon us: because the strength of a man is according to his age: Gedeon rose up and slew Zebee and Salmana: and he took the ornaments and bosses, with which the necks of the camels of kings are wont to be adorned.

drb@Judges:8:26 @And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand seven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and purple raiment which the kings of Madian were went to use, and besides the golden chains that were about the camels' necks.

drb@1Samuel:10:18 @And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who afflicted you.

drb@1Samuel:14:47 @And Saul having his kingdom established over Israel, fought against all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the Philistines; and whithersoever he turned himself, he overcame.

drb@1Samuel:27:6 @Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg belongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day.

drb@2Samuel:10:19 @And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and fifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.

drb@2Samuel:11:1 @And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.

drb@1Kings:1:1 @Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was covered with clothes, he was not warm.

drb@1Kings:1:2 @His servants therefore said to him: Let us seek for our lord the king, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and cherish him, and sleep in his bosom, and warm our lord the king.

drb@1Kings:1:3 @So they sought a beautiful young woman in all the coasts of Israel, and they found Abisag a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.

drb@1Kings:1:4 @And the damsel was exceeding beautiful, and she slept with the king: and served him, but the king did not know her.

drb@1Kings:1:5 @And Adonias the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying: I will be king. And he made himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

drb@1Kings:1:6 @Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.

drb@1Kings:1:7 @And he conferred with Joab the son of Sarvia, and with Abiathar the priest, who furthered Adonias's side.

drb@1Kings:1:8 @But Sadoc the priest, and Banaias the son of Joiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of David's army was not with Adonias.

drb@1Kings:1:9 @And Adonias having slain rams and calves, and all fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Juda, the king's servants:

drb@1Kings:1:10 @But Nathan the prophet, and Banaias, and all the valiant men, and Solomon his brother, he invited not.

drb@1Kings:1:11 @And Nathan said to Bethsabee the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not heard that Adonias the son of Haggith reigneth, and our lord David knoweth it not?

drb@1Kings:1:12 @Now then come, take my counsel and save thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

drb@1Kings:1:13 @Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord O king, swear to me thy handmaid, saying: Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?

drb@1Kings:1:14 @And while thou art yet speaking there with the king, I will come in after thee, and will fill up thy words.

drb@1Kings:1:15 @So Bethsabee went in to the king into the chamber: now the king was very old, and Abisag the Sunamitess ministered to him.

drb@1Kings:1:16 @Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped the king. And the king said to her: What is thy will?

drb@1Kings:1:17 @She answered and said: My lord, thou didst swear to thy handmaid by the Lord thy God, saying: Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

drb@1Kings:1:18 @And behold now Adonias reigneth, and thou, my lord the king, knowest nothing of it.

drb@1Kings:1:19 @He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the general of the army: but Solomon thy servant he invited not.

drb@1Kings:1:20 @And now, my lord O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the king, after thee.

drb@1Kings:1:21 @Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

drb@1Kings:1:22 @As she was yet speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came.

drb@1Kings:1:23 @And they told the king, saying: Nathan the prophet is here. And when he was come in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing down to the ground,

drb@1Kings:1:24 @Nathan said: My lord O king, hast thou said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit upon my throne?

drb@1Kings:1:25 @Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias:

drb@1Kings:1:26 @But me thy servant, and Sadoc the priest, and Banaias the son of Joiada, and Solomon thy servant he hath not invited.

drb@1Kings:1:27 @Is this word come out from my lord the king, and hast thou not told me thy servant who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

drb@1Kings:1:28 @And king David answered and said: Call to me Bethsabee. And when she was come in to the king, and stood before him,

drb@1Kings:1:29 @The king swore and said: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress,

drb@1Kings:1:30 @Even as I swore to thee by the Lord the God of Israel, saying: Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead, so will I do this day.

drb@1Kings:1:31 @And Bethsabee bowing with her face to the earth worshipped the king, saying: May my lord David live for ever.

drb@1Kings:1:32 @King David also said: Call me Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaias the son of Joiada. And when they were come in before the king,

drb@1Kings:1:33 @He said to them: Take with you the servants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon my mule: and bring him to Gihon.

drb@1Kings:1:34 @And let Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say: God save king Solomon.

drb@1Kings:1:35 @And you shall come up after him, and he shall come, and shall sit upon my throne, and he shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him to be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.

drb@1Kings:1:36 @And Banaias the son of Joiada answered the king, saying: Amen: so say the Lord the God of my lord the king.

drb@1Kings:1:37 @As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, so be he with Solomon, and make his throne higher than the throne of my lord king David.

drb@1Kings:1:38 @So Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet went down, and Banaias the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they set Solomon upon the mule of king David, and brought him to Gihon.

drb@1Kings:1:39 @And Sadoc the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon: and they sounded the trumpet, and all the people said: God save king Solomon.

drb@1Kings:1:40 @And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the noise of their cry.

drb@1Kings:1:41 @And Adonias, and all that were invited by him, heard it, and now the feast was at an end: Joab also hearing the sound of the trumpet, said: What meaneth this noise of the city in an uproar?

drb@1Kings:1:42 @While he yet spoke, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonias said to him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man, and bringest good news.

drb@1Kings:1:43 @And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not so: for our lord king David hath appointed Solomon king.

drb@1Kings:1:44 @And hath sent with him Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaias the son of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi, and they have set him upon the king's mule.

drb@1Kings:1:45 @And Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again: this is the noise that you have heard.

drb@1Kings:1:46 @Moreover Solomon sitteth upon the throne of the kingdom,

drb@1Kings:1:47 @And the king's servants going in have blessed our lord king David, saying: May God make the name of Solomon greater than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king adored in his bed:

drb@1Kings:1:48 @And he said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who hath given this day one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing

drb@1Kings:1:49 @Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid, and they all arose and every man went his way.

drb@1Kings:1:50 @And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose, and went, and took hold on the horn of the altar.

drb@1Kings:1:51 @And they told Solomon, saying: Behold Adonias, fearing king Solomon, hath taken hold of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not kill his servant with the sword.

drb@1Kings:1:52 @And Solomon said: If he be a good man, there shall not so much as one hair of his head fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him, he shall die.

drb@1Kings:1:53 @Then king Solomon sent, and brought him out from the altar: and going in he worshipped king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to thy house.

drb@1Kings:2:1 @And the days of David drew nigh that he should die, and he charged his son Solomon, saying:

drb@1Kings:2:2 @I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage, and shew thyself a man.

drb@1Kings:2:3 @And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and observe his ceremonies, and his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayest understand all thou dost, and whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself:

drb@1Kings:2:4 @That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me, saying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.

drb@1Kings:2:5 @Thou knowest also what Joab the son of Sarvia hath done to me, what he did to the two captains of the army of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether: whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

drb@1Kings:2:6 @Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

drb@1Kings:2:7 @But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai the Galaadite, and let them eat at thy table: t for they met me when I fled from the face of Absalom thy brother.

drb@1Kings:2:8 @Thou hast also with thee Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse, when I went to the camp: but because he came down to meet me when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with a sword:

drb@1Kings:2:9 @Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou art a wise man, and knowest what to do with him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to hell.

drb@1Kings:2:10 @So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

drb@1Kings:2:11 @And the days that David reigned in Israel, were forty gears: in Hebron he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem thirty-three.

drb@1Kings:2:12 @And Solomon sat upon the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was strengthened exceedingly.

drb@1Kings:2:13 @And Adonias the son of Haggith came to Bethsabee the mother of Solomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? he answered: Peaceable.

drb@1Kings:2:14 @And he added: I have a word to speak with thee. She said to him: Speak. And he said:

drb@1Kings:2:15 @Thou knowest that the kingdom was nine, and all Israel had preferred me to be their king: but the kingdom is transferred, and is become my brother's: for it was appointed him by the Lord.

drb@1Kings:2:16 @Now therefore I ask one petition of thee: turn not away my face. And she said to him: Say on.

drb@1Kings:2:17 @And he said: I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag the Sunamitess to wife.

drb@1Kings:2:18 @And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for thee to the king.

drb@1Kings:2:19 @Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias: and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his throne: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand.

drb@1Kings:2:20 @And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee, do not put me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother, ask: for I must not turn away thy face.

drb@1Kings:2:21 @And she said: Let Abisag the Sunamitess be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.

drb@1Kings:2:22 @And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou ask Abisag the Sunamitess for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom: for he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Sarvia.

drb@1Kings:2:23 @Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: So and so may God do to me, and add more, if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his own life.

drb@1Kings:2:24 @And now as the Lord liveth, who hath established me, and placed me upon the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonias shall be put to death this day.

drb@1Kings:2:25 @And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias the son of Joiada, who slew him, and he died.

drb@1Kings:2:26 @And the king said also to Abiathar the priest: Go to Anathoth to thy lands, for indeed thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst carry the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my father endured.

drb@1Kings:2:27 @So Solomon cast out Abiathar, from being the priest of the Lord, that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning the house of Deli in Silo.

drb@1Kings:2:28 @And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord and laid hold on the horn of the altar.

drb@1Kings:2:29 @And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias the son of Joiada, saying: Go, kill him.

drb@1Kings:2:30 @And Banaias came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him: Thus saith the king: Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth, but here I will die. Banaias brought word back to the king, saying: Thus saith Joab, and thus he answered me.

drb@1Kings:2:31 @And the king said to him: Do as he hath said: and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed by Joab, from me, and from the house of my father.

drb@1Kings:2:32 @And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing it, Abner the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, general of the army of Juda.

drb@1Kings:2:33 @And their blood shall return the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever. But to David and his seed and his house, and to his throne be peace for ever from the Lord.

drb@1Kings:2:34 @So Banaias the son of Joiada went up, and setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the desert.

drb@1Kings:2:35 @And the king appointed Banaias the son of Joiada in his room over the army, and Sadoc the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.

drb@1Kings:2:36 @The king also sent, and called for Semei, and said to him: Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from thence any whither.

drb@1Kings:2:37 @For on what day soever thou shalt go out, and shalt pass over the brook Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be upon thy own head:

drb@1Kings:2:38 @And Semei said to the king: The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem, many days.

drb@1Kings:2:39 @And it came to pass after three years, that the servants of Semei ran away to Achis the son of Maacha the king of Geth: and it was told Semei that his servants were gone to Geth.

drb@1Kings:2:40 @And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Achis to Geth to seek his servants, and he brought them out of Geth.

drb@1Kings:2:41 @And it was told Solomon that Semei had gone from Jerusalem to Geth, and was come back.

drb@1Kings:2:42 @And sending he called for him, and said to him: Did I not protest to thee by the Lord, and tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt go out and walk abroad any whither, know that thou shalt die? And thou answeredst me: The word that I have heard is good.

drb@1Kings:2:43 @Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee?

drb@1Kings:2:44 @And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head:

drb@1Kings:2:45 @And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.

drb@1Kings:2:46 @So the king commanded Banaias the son of Joiada: and he went out and struck him, and he died.

drb@1Kings:3:1 @And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

drb@1Kings:3:2 @But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

drb@1Kings:3:3 @And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David his father, only he sacrificed in the high places: and burnt incense.

drb@1Kings:3:4 @He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the great high place: a thousand victims for holocausts did Solomon offer upon that altar in Gabaon.

drb@1Kings:3:5 @And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.

drb@1Kings:3:6 @And Solomon said: Thou hast shewn great mercy to thy servant David my father, even at, he walked before thee in truth, and justice, and an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for him, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

drb@1Kings:3:7 @And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and come in.

drb@1Kings:3:8 @And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

drb@1Kings:3:9 @Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people which is so numerous?

drb@1Kings:3:10 @And the word was pleasing to the Lord that Solomon had asked such a thing

drb@1Kings:3:11 @And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life or riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment,

drb@1Kings:3:12 @Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, insomuch that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee.

drb@1Kings:3:13 @Yea and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee: to wit riches and glory, as that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore.

drb@1Kings:3:14 @And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and Beep my precepts, and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.

drb@1Kings:3:15 @And Solomon awaked, and perceived that it was a dream: and when he was come to Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered holocausts, and sacrificed victims of peace offerings, and made a great feast for all his servants.

drb@1Kings:3:16 @Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him:

drb@1Kings:3:17 @And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber.

drb@1Kings:3:18 @And the third day, after that I was delivered, she also was delivered, and we were together, and no other person with us in the house, only we two.

drb@1Kings:3:19 @And this woman's child died in the night: for in her sleep she overlaid him.

drb@1Kings:3:20 @And rising in the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I thy handmaid was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.

drb@1Kings:3:21 @And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but considering him more diligently when it was clear day, I found that it was not mine which I bore.

drb@1Kings:3:22 @And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest, but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary she said: Thou liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner they strove before the king.

drb@1Kings:3:23 @Then said the king: The one saith, My child is alive, and thy child is dead. And the other answereth: Nay, but thy child is dead, and mine liveth.

drb@1Kings:3:24 @The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had brought a sword before the king,

drb@1Kings:3:25 @Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

drb@1Kings:3:26 @But the woman whose child was alive, said to the king, (for her bowels were moved upon her child,) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

drb@1Kings:3:27 @The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed, for she is the mother thereof.

drb@1Kings:3:28 @And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

drb@1Kings:4:1 @And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:

drb@1Kings:4:2 @And these were the princes which he had: Azarias the son of Sadoc the priest:

drb@1Kings:4:3 @Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa, scribes: Josaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder:

drb@1Kings:4:4 @Banaias the son of Joiada, over the army: and Sadoc and Abiathar priests.

drb@1Kings:4:5 @Azarias the son of Nathan, over them that were about the king: Zabud, the son of Nathan the priest, the king's friend:

drb@1Kings:4:6 @And Ahisar governor of the house: and Adoniram the son of Abda over the tribute.

drb@1Kings:4:7 @And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and for his household: for every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the year.

drb@1Kings:4:8 @And these are their names: Benhur, in mount Ephraim,

drb@1Kings:4:9 @Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and in Bethsames, and in Elon, and in Bethanan.

drb@1Kings:4:10 @Benhesed in Aruboth: his was Socho, and all the land of Epher

drb@1Kings:4:11 @11Benabinadab, to whom belonged all Nephath-Dor, he had Tapheth the daughter of Solomon to wife.

drb@1Kings:4:12 @Bana the son of Ahilud, who governed Thanac and Mageddo, and all Bethsan, which is by Sarthana beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan unto Abelmehula over against Jecmaan.

drb@1Kings:4:13 @Bengaber in Ramoth Galaad: he had the towns of Jair the son of Manasses in Galaad, he was chief in all the country of Argob, which is in Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and brazen bolts.

drb@1Kings:4:14 @Abinadab the son of Addo was chief in Manaim.

drb@1Kings:4:15 @Achimaas in Nephtali: he also had Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife.

drb@1Kings:4:16 @Baana the son of Husi, in Aser and in Baloth.

drb@1Kings:4:17 @Josaphat the son of Pharue, in Issachar.

drb@1Kings:4:18 @Semei the son of Ela in Benjamin.

drb@1Kings:4:19 @Gaber the son of Uri, in the land of Galaad, in the land of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites and of Og the king of Basan, over all that were in that land.

drb@1Kings:4:20 @Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

drb@1Kings:4:21 @And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines,. even to the border of Egypt: and they brought him presents, and served him, all the days of his life.

drb@1Kings:4:22 @And the provision of Solomon for each day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

drb@1Kings:4:23 @Ten fat oxen and twenty out of the pastures, and a hundred rams, besides venison of harts, roes, and buffles, and fatted fowls.

drb@1Kings:4:24 @For he had all the country which was beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all the kings of those countries: and he had peace on every side round about.

drb@1Kings:4:25 @And Juda and Israel dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

drb@1Kings:4:26 @And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thou- sand for the saddle.

drb@1Kings:4:27 @And the foresaid governors of the king fed them: and they furnished the necessaries also for king Solomon's table, with great care in their time.

drb@1Kings:4:28 @They brought barley also and straw for the horses, and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.

drb@1Kings:4:29 @And God gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart as the sand that is on the sea shore.

drb@1Kings:4:30 @And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians,

drb@1Kings:4:31 @And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about.

drb@1Kings:4:32 @Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a thousand and five.

drb@1Kings:4:33 @And he treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

drb@1Kings:4:34 @And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom.

drb@1Kings:5:1 @And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon: for he heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram had always been David's friend.

drb@1Kings:5:2 @And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

drb@1Kings:5:3 @Thou knowest the will of David my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

drb@1Kings:5:4 @But now the Lord my God hath given me rest round about: and there is no adversary nor evil occurrence.

drb@1Kings:5:5 @Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying: my son, whom I will set upon the throne in thy piece, he shall build a house to my name.

drb@1Kings:5:6 @Give orders therefore that thy servants cut me down cedar trees out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask, for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians.

drb@1Kings:5:7 @Now when Hiram had heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced exceedingly, and said: Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath given to David a very wise son over this numerous people.

drb@1Kings:5:8 @And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast desired of me: and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar trees, and fir trees.

drb@1Kings:5:9 @My servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: and I will put them together in floats in the sea, and convey them to the place, which thou shalt signify to me; and will land them there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt allow me necessaries, to furnish food for my household.

drb@1Kings:5:10 @So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and fir trees, according to all his desire.

drb@1Kings:5:11 @And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, for provision for his house, and twenty measures of the purest oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram every year.

drb@1Kings:5:12 @And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league together

drb@1Kings:5:13 @And king Solomon chose workmen cut of all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand men.

drb@1Kings:5:14 @And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand every month by turns, so that two months they were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

drb@1Kings:5:15 @And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

drb@1Kings:5:16 @Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand, and three hundred that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.

drb@1Kings:5:17 @And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

drb@1Kings:5:18 @And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

drb@1Kings:6:1 @And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio (the same is the second month), he began to build a house to the Lord.

drb@1Kings:6:2 @And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

drb@1Kings:6:3 @And there was a porch before the temple of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth before the face of the temple.

drb@1Kings:6:4 @And he made in the temple oblique windows.

drb@1Kings:6:5 @And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round about, in the walls of the house round about the temple and the oracle, and he made sides round about.

drb@1Kings:6:6 @The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third door was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.

drb@1Kings:6:7 @And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

drb@1Kings:6:8 @The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

drb@1Kings:6:9 @So he built the house, and finished it: end he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

drb@1Kings:6:10 @And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.

drb@1Kings:6:11 @And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:

drb@1Kings:6:12 @This house, which thou buildest, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee which I spoke to David thy father.

drb@1Kings:6:13 @And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

drb@1Kings:6:14 @So Solomon built the house and finished it

drb@1Kings:6:15 @And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roots, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

drb@1Kings:6:16 @And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

drb@1Kings:6:17 @And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.

drb@1Kings:6:18 @And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

drb@1Kings:6:19 @And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:6:20 @Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and overlaid it with most pure gold. And the altar also he covered with cedar.

drb@1Kings:6:21 @And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

drb@1Kings:6:22 @And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the oracle he covered also with gold.

drb@1Kings:6:23 @And he made in the oracle two cherubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.

drb@1Kings:6:24 @One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.

drb@1Kings:6:25 @The second cherub also was ten cubits: and the measure, and the work was the same in both the cherubims:

drb@1Kings:6:26 @That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.

drb@1Kings:6:27 @And he set the cherubims in the midst of the inner temple: and the cherubims stretched forth their wings, and the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall: and the other wings in the midst of the temple touched one another.

drb@1Kings:6:28 @And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

drb@1Kings:6:29 @And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.

drb@1Kings:6:30 @And the floor of the house he also overlaid with gold within and without.

drb@1Kings:6:31 @And in the entrance of the oracle he made little doors of olive tree, and posts of five corners,

drb@1Kings:6:32 @And two doors of olive tree: and he carved upon them figures of cherubims, and figures of palm trees, and carvings very much projecting: and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered both the cherubims and the palm trees, and the other things with gold.

drb@1Kings:6:33 @And he made in the entrance of the temple posts of olive tree foursquare:

drb@1Kings:6:34 @And two doors of fir tree, one of each side: and each door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.

drb@1Kings:6:35 @And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.

drb@1Kings:6:36 @And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

drb@1Kings:6:37 @In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded in the month Zio:

drb@1Kings:6:38 @And in the eleventh year in the month Bul (which is the eighth month) the house was finished in all the works thereof, and in all the appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years in building it.

drb@1Kings:7:1 @And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.

drb@1Kings:7:2 @He built also the house of the forest of Libanus, the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.

drb@1Kings:7:3 @And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was held up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars,

drb@1Kings:7:4 @Set one against another,

drb@1Kings:7:5 @And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in- all things equal.

drb@1Kings:7:6 @And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and thirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch: and pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.

drb@1Kings:7:7 @He made also the porch of the throne, wherein is the seat of judgment: and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top.

drb@1Kings:7:8 @And in the midst of the porch, was a small house where he sat in judgment, of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch,

drb@1Kings:7:9 @All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without unto the great court.

drb@1Kings:7:10 @And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits:

drb@1Kings:7:11 @And above there were costly stones, or equal measure, hewed; and, in like manner, planks of cedar:

drb@1Kings:7:12 @And the greater court was made round with three rows of hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar, moreover also in the inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.

drb@1Kings:7:13 @And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,

drb@1Kings:7:14 @The son of a widow woman of the tribe of Nephtali, whose father was a Tyrian, an artificer in brass, and full of wisdom, and understanding, and skill to work all work in brass. And when he was come to king Solomon, he wrought all his work.

drb@1Kings:7:15 @And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.

drb@1Kings:7:16 @He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

drb@1Kings:7:17 @And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.

drb@1Kings:7:18 @And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to cover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in like manner did he to the other chapiter.

drb@1Kings:7:19 @And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work in the porch, of four cubits.

drb@1Kings:7:20 @And again other chapiters in the top of the pillars above, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network: and of pomegranates there were two hundred in rows round about the other chapiter.

drb@1Kings:7:21 @And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple: and when he had set up the pillar on the right hand, he called the name thereof Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pillar, and called the name thereof Booz.

drb@1Kings:7:22 @And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

drb@1Kings:7:23 @He made also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

drb@1Kings:7:24 @And a graven work under the brim of it compassed it, for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.

drb@1Kings:7:25 @And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the north, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and three towards the east, and the sea was above upon them, and their hinder parts were all hid within.

drb@1Kings:7:26 @And the laver was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.

drb@1Kings:7:27 @And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in length, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.

drb@1Kings:7:28 @And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.

drb@1Kings:7:29 @And between the little crowns and the ledges were lions, and oxen, and cherubims: and in the joinings likewise above: and under the lions and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging down.

drb@1Kings:7:30 @And every base had four wheels, and axletrees of brass: and at the four sides were undersetters under the laver molten, looking one against another.

drb@1Kings:7:31 @The mouth also of the laver within, was in the top of the chapiter: and that which appeared without, was of one cubit all round, and together it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of the pillars were divers engravings: and the spaces between the pillars were square, not round.

drb@1Kings:7:32 @And the four wheels, which were at the four corners of the base, were joined one to another under the base: the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

drb@1Kings:7:33 @And they were such wheels as are used to be made in a chariot: and their axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all east.

drb@1Kings:7:34 @And the four undersetters that were at every corner of each base, were of the base itself cast and joined together.

drb@1Kings:7:35 @And in the top of the base there was a round compass of half a cubit, so wrought that the laver might be set thereon, having its gravings, and divers sculptures of itself.

drb@1Kings:7:36 @He engraved also in those plates, which were of brass. and in the corners, cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man standing, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but added round about.

drb@1Kings:7:37 @After this manner he made ten bases, of one casting and measure, and the like graving.

drb@1Kings:7:38 @He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bases, and was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many lavers.

drb@1Kings:7:39 @And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple, and five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the temple over against the east southward.

drb@1Kings:7:40 @And Hiram made caldrons, and shovels, and basins, and finished all the work of king Solomon in the temple of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:7:41 @The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the chapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords, that were upon the top of the pillars.

drb@1Kings:7:42 @And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks: two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters, which were upon the tops of the pillars.

drb@1Kings:7:43 @And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.

drb@1Kings:7:44 @And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.

drb@1Kings:7:45 @And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the basins. All the vessels that Hi- ram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of fine brass.

drb@1Kings:7:46 @In the plains of the Jordan did the king cast them in a clay ground, between Socoth and Sartham.

drb@1Kings:7:47 @And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

drb@1Kings:7:48 @And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, upon which the leaves of proposition should be set:

drb@1Kings:7:49 @And the golden candlesticks, five on the right hand, and five on the left, over against the oracle, of pure gold: and the flowers like lilies, and the lamps over them of gold: and golden snuffers,

drb@1Kings:7:50 @And pots, and fleshhooks, and bowls, and mortars, and censers, of most pure gold: and the hinges for the doors of the inner house of the holy of holies, and for the doors of the house of the temple were of gold.

drb@1Kings:7:51 @And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of the Lord, and brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up in the treasures of the house of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:8:1 @Then all the ancients of Israel with the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families of the children of Israel were assembled to king Solomon in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.

drb@1Kings:8:2 @And all Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon on the festival day in the month of Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.

drb@1Kings:8:3 @And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,

drb@1Kings:8:4 @And carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, that were in the tabernacle: and the priests and the Levites carried them.

drb@1Kings:8:5 @And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were assembled unto him went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed sheep and oxen that could not be counted or numbered.

drb@1Kings:8:6 @And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims.

drb@1Kings:8:7 @For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the art, and the staves thereof above.

drb@1Kings:8:8 @And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.

drb@1Kings:8:9 @Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

drb@1Kings:8:10 @And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, that a cloud filled the house of the Lord,

drb@1Kings:8:11 @And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:8:12 @Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.

drb@1Kings:8:13 @Building I have built a house for thy dwelling, to be thy most firm throne for ever.

drb@1Kings:8:14 @And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of Israel stood.

drb@1Kings:8:15 @And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and with his own hands hath accomplished it, saying:

drb@1Kings:8:16 @Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there: but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

drb@1Kings:8:17 @And David my father would have built a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel:

drb@1Kings:8:18 @And the Lord said to David my father: Whereas thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind

drb@1Kings:8:19 @Nevertheless thou shalt not build me a house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

drb@1Kings:8:20 @The Lord hath performed his word which he spoke: and I stand in the room of David my father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

drb@1Kings:8:21 @And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

drb@1Kings:8:22 @And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven;

drb@1Kings:8:23 @And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven above, or on earth beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that have walked before thee with all their heart.

drb@1Kings:8:24 @Who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him: with thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands thou hast performed, as this day proveth.

drb@1Kings:8:25 @Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked in my sight.

drb@1Kings:8:26 @And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words be established, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father

drb@1Kings:8:27 @Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

drb@1Kings:8:28 @But have regard to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, O Lord my God: hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee this day:

drb@1Kings:8:29 @That thy eyes may be open upon this house night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth in this place to thee.

drb@1Kings:8:30 @That thou mayest hearken to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven; and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

drb@1Kings:8:31 @If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound: and come because of the oath before thy altar to thy house,

drb@1Kings:8:32 @Then hear thou in heaven: and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his own head, and justifying the just, and rewarding him according to his justice.

drb@1Kings:8:33 @If thy people Israel shall fly before their enemies, (because they will sin against thee,) and doing penance, and confessing to thy name, shall come, and pray, and make supplications to thee in this house:

drb@1Kings:8:34 @Then hear thou in heaven, and for- give the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

drb@1Kings:8:35 @If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions:

drb@1Kings:8:36 @Then hear thou them in heaven, and forgive the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel: and shew them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people in possession.

drb@1Kings:8:37 @If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew, if their enemy afflict them besieging the gates, whatsoever plague, whatsoever infirmity,

drb@1Kings:8:38 @Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall happen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands in this house,

drb@1Kings:8:39 @Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as thou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the children of men)

drb@1Kings:8:40 @That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.

drb@1Kings:8:41 @Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake, (for they shall hear every where of thy great name and thy mighty hand,

drb@1Kings:8:42 @And thy stretched out arm,) so when he shall come, and shall pray in this place,

drb@1Kings:8:43 @Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy dwelling place, and do all those things, for which that stranger shall call upon thee: that all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy name, as do thy people Israel, and may prove that thy name is called upon on this house, which I have built.

drb@1Kings:8:44 @If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have built to thy name:

drb@1Kings:8:45 @And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.

drb@1Kings:8:46 @But if they sin against thee (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies far or near;

drb@1Kings:8:47 @Then if they do penance in their heart in the place of captivity, and being converted make supplication to thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:

drb@1Kings:8:48 @And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they had been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built to thy name:

drb@1Kings:8:49 @Then hear thou in heaven, in the firmament of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them:

drb@1Kings:8:50 @And forgive thy people, that have sinned against thee, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against thee: and give them mercy before them that have made them captives, that they may have compassion on them.

drb@1Kings:8:51 @For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.

drb@1Kings:8:52 @That thy eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, to hear them in all things for which they shall call upon thee.

drb@1Kings:8:53 @For thou hast separated them to thyself for an inheritance from among all the people of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

drb@1Kings:8:54 @And it came to pass, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he rose from before the altar of the Lord: for he had fixed both knees on the ground, and had spread his hands towards heaven.

drb@1Kings:8:55 @And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a, loud voice, saying:

drb@1Kings:8:56 @Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed so much as one word of all the good things that he promised by his servant Moses.

drb@1Kings:8:57 @The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us off:

drb@1Kings:8:58 @But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his judgments which he commanded our fathers.

drb@1Kings:8:59 @And let these my words, wherewith I have prayed before the Lord, he nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he may do judgment for his servant, and for his people Israel day by day:

drb@1Kings:8:60 @That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

drb@1Kings:8:61 @Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.

drb@1Kings:8:62 @And the king, and all Israel him, offered victims before the Lord.

drb@1Kings:8:63 @And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king, and the children of Israel dedicated the temple of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:8:64 @In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and fat of the peace offerings.

drb@1Kings:8:65 @And Solomon made at the same time a solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great multitude from the entrance of Emath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.

drb@1Kings:8:66 @And on the eighth day he sent away the people: and they blessed the king, and went to their dwellings rejoicing, and glad in heart for all the good things that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

drb@1Kings: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 that he desired, and was pleased to do,

drb@1Kings:9:2 @That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.

drb@1Kings:9:3 @And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

drb@1Kings:9:4 @And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances and my judgments,

drb@1Kings:9:5 @I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised David thy father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of Israel.

drb@1Kings:9:6 @But if you and your children revolting shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them:

drb@1Kings:9:7 @I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.

drb@1Kings:9:8 @And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house:

drb@1Kings:9:9 @And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

drb@1Kings:9:10 @And when twenty years were ended after Solomon had built the two houses, that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,

drb@1Kings:9:11 @11(Hiram the king of Tyre furnishing Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and gold according to all he had need of.) then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

drb@1Kings:9:12 @And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had given him, and they pleased him not,

drb@1Kings:9:13 @And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.

drb@1Kings:9:14 @And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

drb@1Kings:9:15 @This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.

drb@1Kings:9:16 @Pharao the king of Egypt came up and took Gazer, and burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it for a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

drb@1Kings:9:17 @So Solomon built: Gazer, and Beth-horon the nether,

drb@1Kings:9:18 @And Baalath, and Palmira in the land of the wilderness.

drb@1Kings:9:19 @And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled, he fortified, the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.

drb@1Kings:9:20 @All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel:

drb@1Kings:9:21 @Their children, that were left in the land, to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.

drb@1Kings:9:22 @But of the children of Israel Solomon made not any to be bondmen, but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the chariots and horses.

drb@1Kings:9:23 @And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.

drb@1Kings:9:24 @And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.

drb@1Kings:9:25 @Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings upon the altar which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.

drb@1Kings:9:26 @And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

drb@1Kings:9:27 @And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

drb@1Kings:9:28 @And they came to Ophir, and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.

drb@1Kings:10:1 @And the queen of Saba, having; heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.

drb@1Kings:10:2 @And entering into Jerusalem with a great train, and riches, and camels that carried spices, and an immense quantity of gold, and precious stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to him all that she had in her heart.

drb@1Kings:10:3 @And Solomon informed her of all the things she proposed to him: there was not any word the king was ignorant of, and which he could not answer her.

drb@1Kings:10:4 @And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,

drb@1Kings:10:5 @And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord: she had no longer any spirit in her,

drb@1Kings:10:6 @And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my own country,

drb@1Kings:10:7 @Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not believe them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy works, exceed the fame which I heard.

drb@1Kings:10:8 @Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

drb@1Kings:10:9 @Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice

drb@1Kings:10:10 @And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great store, and precious stones: there was brought no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.

drb@1Kings:10:11 @(The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.

drb@1Kings:10:12 @And the king made of the thyine trees the rails of the house of the Lord, and of the king's house, and citterns and harps for singers: there were no such thyine trees as these brought, nor seen unto this day.)

drb@1Kings:10:13 @And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she desired, and asked of him: besides what he offered he himself of his royal bounty. And she returned, and went to her own country with her servants.

drb@1Kings:10:14 @And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold:

drb@1Kings:10:15 @Besides that which the men brought him that were over the tributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the country.

drb@1Kings:10:16 @And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sides of gold for the plates of one shield.

drb@1Kings:10:17 @And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of gold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Libanus.

drb@1Kings:10:18 @King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it with the finest gold.

drb@1Kings:10:19 @It had six steps: and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were two hands on either side holding the seat: and two lions stood, one at each hand.

drb@1Kings:10:20 @And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps on the one side and on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom.

drb@1Kings:10:21 @Moreover all the vessels, out of which king Solomon drank, were of gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it in the days of Solomon:

drb@1Kings:10:22 @For the king's navy, once in three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and elephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks.

drb@1Kings:10:23 @And king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches, and wisdom.

drb@1Kings:10:24 @And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to hear his wisdom, which God had given in his heart.

drb@1Kings:10:25 @And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of gold, garments and armour, and spices, and horses and mules every year.

drb@1Kings:10:26 @And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horseman: and he bestowed them in fenced cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.

drb@1Kings:10:27 @And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

drb@1Kings:10:28 @And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for the king's merchants brought them out of Coa, and bought them at a set price.

drb@1Kings:10:29 @And a chariot of four horses came out of Egypt, for six hundred sides of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And after this manner did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell horses.

drb@1Kings:11:1 @And king Solomon loved many strange women besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

drb@1Kings:11:2 @Of the nations concerning which the Lord said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in unto them, neither shall any of them come in to yours: for they will most certainly turn away your heart to follow their gods. And to these was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

drb@1Kings:11:3 @And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.

drb@1Kings:11:4 @And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

drb@1Kings:11:5 @But Solomon worshipped Astarthe the goddess of the Sidonians, and Moloch the idol of the ammonites.

drb@1Kings:11:6 @And Solomon did that which was net pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David his father.

drb@1Kings:11:7 @Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch the idol of the children of Ammon.

drb@1Kings:11:8 @And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

drb@1Kings:11:9 @And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his mind was turned away from the Lord the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

drb@1Kings:11:10 @And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not follow strange gods: but he kept not the things which the Lord commanded him.

drb@1Kings:11:11 @The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Because thou hast done this, and hast not kept my covenant, and my precepts, which I have commanded thee, I will divide and rend thy kingdom, and will give it to thy servant

drb@1Kings:11:12 @Nevertheless 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.

drb@1Kings:11:13 @Neither will I take away the whole kingdom, but I will give one tribe to thy son for the sake of David my servant, and Jerusalem which I have chosen.

drb@1Kings:11:14 @And the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Adad the Edomite of the king's seed, in Edom.

drb@1Kings:11:15 @For when David was in Edom, and Joab the general of the army was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in Edom,

drb@1Kings:11:16 @(For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had slain every male in Edom,)

drb@1Kings:11:17 @Then Adad fled, he and certain Edomites, of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt: and Adad was then a little boy.

drb@1Kings:11:18 @And they arose out of Madian, and came into Pharan, and they took men with them from Pharan, and went into Egypt to Pharao the king of Egypt: who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and assigned him land.

drb@1Kings:11:19 @And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave him to wife, the own sister of his wife Taphnes the queen.

drb@1Kings:11:20 @And the sister of Taphnes bore him his son Genubath, and Taphnes brought him up in the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with Pharao among his children.

drb@1Kings:11:21 @And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the general of the army was dead, he add to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.

drb@1Kings:11:22 @And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing: yet I beseech thee to let me go.

drb@1Kings:11:23 @God also raised up against him an adversary, Razon the son of Eliada, 'who had fled from his master Adarezer the king of Soba:

drb@1Kings:11:24 @And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of robbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.

drb@1Kings:11:25 @And he was an adversary to Israel, all the days of Solomon: and this is the evil of Adad, and his hatred against Israel, and he reigned in Syria.

drb@1Kings:11:26 @Jeroboam also the son of Nabat an Ephrathite of Sareda, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.

drb@1Kings:11:27 @And this is the cause of his rebellion against him, for Solomon built Mello, and filled up the breach of the city of David his father.

drb@1Kings:11:28 @And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty man: and Solomon seeing him a young man ingenious and industrious, made him chief over the tributes of all the house of Joseph.

drb@1Kings:11:29 @So it came to paste at that time, that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias the Silonite, clad with a new garment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the held.

drb@1Kings:11:30 @And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:

drb@1Kings:11:31 @31And he said to Jeroboam: Take to 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 thee ten tribes.

drb@1Kings:11:32 @But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant David, and Jerusalem the city, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:

drb@1Kings:11:33 @Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos the god of Moab, and Moloch the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments as did David his father.

drb@1Kings:11:34 @Yet I will not take away all the 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, who kept my commandments and my precepts.

drb@1Kings:11:35 @But I will take away the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give thee ten tribes:

drb@1Kings:11:36 @And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a lamp for my servant David before me always in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.

drb@1Kings:11:37 @And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

drb@1Kings:11:38 @If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my commandments and my precepts, as David my servant did: I will be with thee, and will build thee up a faithful house, as I built a house for David, and I will deliver Israel to thee:

drb@1Kings:11:39 @And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but yet not for ever.

drb@1Kings:11:40 @Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam: but he arose, and fled into Egypt to Sesac the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

drb@1Kings:11:41 @And the rest of the words of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom: behold they are all written in the book of the words of the days of Solomon.

drb@1Kings:11:42 @And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel, were forty years.

drb@1Kings:11:43 @And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father, and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:12:1 @And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.

drb@1Kings:12:2 @But Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt.

drb@1Kings:12:3 @And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:

drb@1Kings:12:4 @Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now therefore do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

drb@1Kings:12:5 @And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone,

drb@1Kings:12:6 @King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people?

drb@1Kings:12:7 @They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and condescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle words to them, they will be thy servants always.

drb@1Kings:12:8 @But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and stood before him.

drb@1Kings:12:9 @And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke which thy father put upon us lighter?

drb@1Kings:12:10 @And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.

drb@1Kings:12:11 @And now my father put a, heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.

drb@1Kings:12:12 @So Jeroboam and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.

drb@1Kings:12:13 @And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,

drb@1Kings:12:14 @And he 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 beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.

drb@1Kings:12:15 @And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias the Silonite, to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

drb@1Kings:12:16 @Then the people seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel, now David look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

drb@1Kings:12:17 @But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.

drb@1Kings:12:18 @Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:

drb@1Kings:12:19 @And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day.

drb@1Kings:12:20 @And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they gathered an assembly, and sent and called him, and made him king over all Israel, and there was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Juda only.

drb@1Kings:12:21 @And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered together all the house of Juda, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred four- score thousand chosen men for war, to fight against the house of Israel and to bring the kingdom again under Roboam the son of Solomon.

drb@1Kings:12:22 @But the word of the Lord came to Semeias the man of God, saying:

drb@1Kings:12:23 @Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon, the king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying:

drb@1Kings:12:24 @Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: let every man return to his house, for this thing is from me. They hearkened to the word of the Lord, and returned from their journey, as the Lord had commanded them.

drb@1Kings:12:25 @And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and going out from thence he built Phanuel.

drb@1Kings:12:26 @And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David,

drb@1Kings:12:27 @If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem: and the heart of this people will turn to their lord Roboam the king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return to him.

drb@1Kings:12:28 @And finding out a device he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

drb@1Kings:12:29 @And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:

drb@1Kings:12:30 @And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.

drb@1Kings:12:31 @And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

drb@1Kings:12:32 @And he appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, after the manner of the feast that was celebrated in Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in like manner in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves, which he had made: and he placed in Bethel priests of the high places, which he had made.

drb@1Kings:12:33 @And he went up to the altar, which he had built in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel, and went upon the altar to burn incense.

drb@1Kings:13:1 @And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense.

drb@1Kings:13:2 @And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee.

drb@1Kings:13:3 @And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

drb@1Kings:13:4 @And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And his hand which he stretched forth against him withered: and he was not able to draw it back again to him.

drb@1Kings:13:5 @The altar also was rent, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given before in the word of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:13:6 @And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

drb@1Kings:13:7 @And the king said to the man of God: Come home with me to dine, and I will make thee presents.

drb@1Kings:13:8 @And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me half thy house I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place:

drb@1Kings:13:9 @For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me: Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water, nor return by the same way that thou camest.

drb@1Kings:13:10 @So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that he came into Bethel.

drb@1Kings:13:11 @Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to him and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

drb@1Kings:13:12 @And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed him the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.

drb@1Kings:13:13 @And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had saddled him, he got up,

drb@1Kings:13:14 @And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a turpentine tree: and he said to him: Art thou the man of God that camest from Juda? He answered: I am.

drb@1Kings:13:15 @And he said to him: Come home with me, to eat bread

drb@1Kings:13:16 @But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I eat bread, nor drink water in this place:

drb@1Kings:13:17 @Because the Lord spoke to me in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.

drb@1Kings:13:18 @He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

drb@1Kings:13:19 @And brought him back with him: so he ate bread and drank water in his house.

drb@1Kings:13:20 @And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:

drb@1Kings:13:21 @And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

drb@1Kings:13:22 @And hast returned and eaten bread, and drunk water in the place wherein he commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink water, thy dead body shall not be brought into the sepulchre of thy fathers.

drb@1Kings:13:23 @And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the prophet, whom he had brought back.

drb@1Kings:13:24 @And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body.

drb@1Kings:13:25 @And behold, men passing by saw the dead body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city, wherein that old prophet dwelt.

drb@1Kings:13:26 @And when that prophet, who had brought him back out of the way, heard of it, he said: It is the man of God, that was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered him to the lion, and he hath torn him, and killed him according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.

drb@1Kings:13:27 @And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass. And when they had saddled it,

drb@1Kings:13:28 @And he was gone, he found the dead body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the dead body, nor hurt the ass.

drb@1Kings:13:29 @And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and going back brought it into the city of the old prophet, to mourn for him.

drb@1Kings:13:30 @And he laid his dead body in his own sepulchre: and they mourned over him, saying: Alas! alas! my brother.

drb@1Kings:13:31 @And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried: lay my bones beside his bones.

drb@1Kings:13:32 @For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold in the word of the Lord against the altar that is in Bethel: and against all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of Samaria.

drb@1Kings:13:33 @After these words Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on the contrary he made of the meanest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a priest of the high places.

drb@1Kings:13:34 @And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.

drb@1Kings:14:1 @At that time Abia the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

drb@1Kings:14:2 @And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where Ahias the prophet is, who told me, that I should reign over this people.

drb@1Kings:14:3 @Take also with thee ten leaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall become of this child.

drb@1Kings:14:4 @Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias: but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.

drb@1Kings:14:5 @And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman,

drb@1Kings:14:6 @Ahias heard the sound of her feet coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

drb@1Kings:14:7 @Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel:

drb@1Kings:14:8 @And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee, and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

drb@1Kings:14:9 @But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

drb@1Kings:14:10 @Therefore behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut of from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

drb@1Kings:14:11 @Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

drb@1Kings:14:12 @Arise thou therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,

drb@1Kings:14:13 @And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, be- cause in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

drb@1Kings:14:14 @And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

drb@1Kings:14:15 @And the Lord God shall strike 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 to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

drb@1Kings:14:16 @And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

drb@1Kings:14:17 @And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died;

drb@1Kings:14:18 @And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias the prophet.

drb@1Kings:14:19 @And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

drb@1Kings:14:20 @And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:14:21 @And Roboam the son of Solomon reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city, which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name wee Naama an Ammonitess.

drb@1Kings:14:22 @And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

drb@1Kings:14:23 @For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:

drb@1Kings:14:24 @There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

drb@1Kings:14:25 @And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

drb@1Kings:14:26 @And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

drb@1Kings:14:27 @And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the. hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.

drb@1Kings:14:28 @And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

drb@1Kings:14:29 @Now the rest of the sets of Roboam, end all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.

drb@1Kings:14:30 @And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.

drb@1Kings:14:31 @And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama an Ammonitess: and Abiam his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:15:1 @Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over Juda.

drb@1Kings:15:2 @He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha the daughter of Abessalom.

drb@1Kings:15:3 @And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: end his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

drb@1Kings:15:4 @But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

drb@1Kings:15:5 @Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias the Hethite.

drb@1Kings:15:6 @But there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam all the time of his life.

drb@1Kings:15:7 @And the rest of the words of Abiam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.

drb@1Kings:15:8 @And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:15:9 @So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, reigned Asa king of Juda,

drb@1Kings:15:10 @And he reigned one end forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

drb@1Kings:15:11 @And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David his father:

drb@1Kings:15:12 @And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

drb@1Kings:15:13 @Moreover he also removed his mother Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:

drb@1Kings:15:14 @But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:

drb@1Kings:15:15 @And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and he had vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.

drb@1Kings:15:16 @And there was war between Asa, and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

drb@1Kings:15:17 @And Baasa king of Israel went up against Juda, and built Rama, that no man might go out or come in, of the side of Asa king of Juda.

drb@1Kings:15:18 @Then Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house, and delivered it into the hands of his servants: and sent them to Benadad son of Tabremon the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:

drb@1Kings:15:19 @There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: therefore I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and I desire thee to come, and break thy league with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me

drb@1Kings:15:20 @Benadad hearkening to king Asa, sent the captains of his army against the cities of Israel, and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and Abeldomum Maacha, and all Cenneroth, that is all the land of Nephtali.

drb@1Kings:15:21 @And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa.

drb@1Kings:15:22 @But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.

drb@1Kings:15:23 @But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and all that he did and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

drb@1Kings:15:24 @And he slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Josaphat his son reigned in his place.

drb@1Kings:15:25 @But Nadab the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel the second year of Asa king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.

drb@1Kings:15:26 @And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

drb@1Kings:15:27 @And Baasa the son of Ahias of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a city of the Philistines: for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.

drb@1Kings:15:28 @So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa king of Juda, and reigned in his place.

drb@1Kings:15:29 @And when he was king he cut off all the house of Jeroboam: he left not so much as one soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias the Silonite:

drb@1Kings:15:30 @Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence, wherewith he provoked the Lord the God of Israel.

drb@1Kings:15:31 @But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@1Kings:15:32 @And there was war between Asa and Baasa the king of Israel all their days.

drb@1Kings:15:33 @In the third year of Asa king of Juda, Baasa the son of Ahias reigned over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty years.

drb@1Kings:15:34 @And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

drb@1Kings:16:1 @Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying:

drb@1Kings:16:2 @Forasmuch as I have exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins:

drb@1Kings:16:3 @Behold, I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity of his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

drb@1Kings:16:4 @Him that dieth of Baasa in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.

drb@1Kings:16:5 @But the rest of the acts of Baasa and all that he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@1Kings:16:6 @So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:16:7 @And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this cause he slew him, that is to say, Jehu the son of Hanani, the prophet.

drb@1Kings:16:8 @In the six and twentieth year of Asa king of Juda, Ela the son of Baasa reigned over Israel in Thersa two years.

drb@1Kings:16:9 @And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen, rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the house of Arsa the governor of Thersa.

drb@1Kings:16:10 @And Zambri rushing in, struck him and slew him in the seven and twentieth year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:16:11 @And when he was king and sat upon his throne, he slew all the house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall, and all his kinsfolks and friends.

drb@1Kings:16:12 @And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the word of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa in the hand of Jehu the prophet,

drb@1Kings:16:13 @For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela his son, who sinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord the God of Israel with their vanities.

drb@1Kings:16:14 @But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@1Kings:16:15 @In the seven and twentieth year of Asa king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon a city of the Philistines.

drb@1Kings:16:16 @And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the king, all Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in the camp that day.

drb@1Kings:16:17 @And Amri went up, and all Israel with him from Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.

drb@1Kings:16:18 @And Zambri seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into the palace and burnt himself with the king's house: and he died

drb@1Kings:16:19 @In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

drb@1Kings:16:20 @But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and tyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@1Kings:16:21 @Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half of the people followed Thebni the son of Gineth, to make him king: and one half followed Amri

drb@1Kings:16:22 @But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people that followed Thebni the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri reigned.

drb@1Kings:16:23 @In the one and thirtieth year of Asa king of Juda, Amri reigned over Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years.

drb@1Kings:16:24 @And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer for two talents of silver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Semer the owner of the hill.

drb@1Kings:16:25 @And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly above all that were before him.

drb@1Kings:16:26 @And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

drb@1Kings:16:27 @Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@1Kings:16:28 @And d Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Achab his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:16:29 @Now Achab the son of Amri reigned over Israel in the eight and thirtieth year of Asa king of Juda. And Achab the son of Amri reigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.

drb@1Kings:16:30 @And Achab the son of Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

drb@1Kings:16:31 @Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

drb@1Kings:16:32 @And he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria,

drb@1Kings:16:33 @And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

drb@1Kings:16:34 @In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho: in Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son Segub he set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue the son of Nun.

drb@1Kings:17:1 @And Elias the Thesbite of the inhabitants of Galaad said to Achab: As the Lord liveth the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

drb@1Kings:17:2 @And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

drb@1Kings:17:3 @Get thee hence, and go towards the east and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan,

drb@1Kings:17:4 @And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

drb@1Kings:17:5 @So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.

drb@1Kings:17:6 @And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of tile torrent.

drb@1Kings:17:7 @But after some time the torrent was dried up, for it had not rained upon the earth.

drb@1Kings:17:8 @Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

drb@1Kings:17:9 @Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

drb@1Kings:17:10 @He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

drb@1Kings:17:11 @And when she was going to fetch it he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.

drb@1Kings:17:12 @And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

drb@1Kings:17:13 @And Elias said to her: Fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me: and after make for thyself and thy son.

drb@1Kings:17:14 @For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.

drb@1Kings:17:15 @She went and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

drb@1Kings:17:16 @The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

drb@1Kings:17:17 @And it came to pass after this that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.

drb@1Kings:17:18 @And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?

drb@1Kings:17:19 @And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

drb@1Kings:17:20 @And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a so maintained, so as to kill her son?

drb@1Kings:17:21 @And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: 0 Lord my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

drb@1Kings:17:22 @And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.

drb@1Kings:17:23 @And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth

drb@1Kings:17:24 @And the woman said to Elias: Now, by this I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.

drb@1Kings:18:1 @After many days the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third year, saying: Go and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the face of the earth.

drb@1Kings:18:2 @And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

drb@1Kings:18:3 @And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.

drb@1Kings:18:4 @For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.

drb@1Kings:18:5 @And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.

drb@1Kings:18:6 @And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.

drb@1Kings:18:7 @And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?

drb@1Kings:18:8 @And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.

drb@1Kings:18:9 @And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me thy servant into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?

drb@1Kings:18:10 @As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found

drb@1Kings:18:11 @And now thou sayest to me: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.

drb@1Kings:18:12 @And when I am gone from thee, the spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab, and he not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.

drb@1Kings:18:13 @Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

drb@1Kings:18:14 @And now thou sayest: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.

drb@1Kings:18:15 @And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.

drb@1Kings:18:16 @Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.

drb@1Kings:18:17 @And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?

drb@1Kings:18:18 @And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.

drb@1Kings:18:19 @Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.

drb@1Kings:18:20 @Achab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered together the prophets unto mount Carmel.

drb@1Kings:18:21 @And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.

drb@1Kings:18:22 @And Elias said again to the people: I only remain a prophet of the Lord: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.

drb@1Kings:18:23 @Let two bullocks be given us, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces and lay it upon wood, but put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under it.

drb@1Kings:18:24 @Call ye on the names of your gods, and I will call on the name of my Lord: and the God that shall answer by fire, let him be God. And all the people answering said: A very good proposal.

drb@1Kings:18:25 @Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal: Choose you one bullock and dress it first, because you are many: and call on the names of your gods, but put no fire under.

drb@1Kings:18:26 @And they took the bullock which he gave them, and dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar that they had made.

drb@1Kings:18:27 @And when it was now noon, Elias jested at them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he is a God, and perhaps he is talking, or is in an inn, or on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep, and must be awaked.

drb@1Kings:18:28 @So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.

drb@1Kings:18:29 @And after midday was past, and while they were prophesying, the time was come of offering sacrifice, and there was no voice heard, nor did any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed:

drb@1Kings:18:30 @Elias said to all the people: Come se unto me. And the people coming near unto him, he repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken down:

drb@1Kings:18:31 @And he took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.

drb@1Kings:18:32 @And he built with the stones an altar to the name of the Lord: and he made a trench for water, of the breadth of two furrows round about the altar.

drb@1Kings:18:33 @And he laid the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it upon the wood.

drb@1Kings:18:34 @And he said: Fill four buckets with water, and pour it upon the burnt offering, and upon the wood. And again he said: Do the same the second time. And when they had done it the second time, he said: Do the same also the third time. And they did so the third time.

drb@1Kings:18:35 @And the water run round about the altar, and the trench was filled with water.

drb@1Kings:18:36 @And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias the prophet came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.

drb@1Kings:18:37 @Hear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people may learn, that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart again.

drb@1Kings:18:38 @Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

drb@1Kings:18:39 @And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord he is God, the Lord he is God.

drb@1Kings:18:40 @And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.

drb@1Kings:18:41 @And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat, and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

drb@1Kings:18:42 @Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself down upon the earth put his face between his knees,

drb@1Kings:18:43 @And he said to his servant: Go up, and look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times.

drb@1Kings:18:44 @And at the seventh time, behold, a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.

drb@1Kings:18:45 @And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the heavens grew dark, with clouds, and wind, and there fell a great rain. And Achab getting up went away to Jezrahel:

drb@1Kings:18:46 @And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his loins and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.

drb@1Kings:19:1 @And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

drb@1Kings:19:2 @And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

drb@1Kings:19:3 @Then Elias was afraid, and rising up he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,

drb@1Kings:19:4 @And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord, take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.

drb@1Kings:19:5 @And he cast himself down, end slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.

drb@1Kings:19:6 @He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.

drb@1Kings:19:7 @And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.

drb@1Kings:19:8 @And he arose, and ate, and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

drb@1Kings:19:9 @And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave: and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?

drb@1Kings:19:10 @And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away

drb@1Kings:19:11 @And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord over throwing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: the Lord is not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake: the Lord is not in the earthquake.

drb@1Kings:19:12 @And after the earthquake a fire: the Lord is not in the fire, and after the fire a whistling of a gentle air.

drb@1Kings:19:13 @And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth stood in the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered:

drb@1Kings:19:14 @With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.

drb@1Kings:19:15 @And the Lord said to him: Go, and return on thy way through the desert to Damascus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

drb@1Kings:19:16 @And thou shalt anoint Jehu the son of Namsi to be king over Israel: and Eliseus the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint to be prophet in thy room.

drb@1Kings:19:17 @And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.

drb@1Kings:19:18 @And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped him kissing the hands.

drb@1Kings:19:19 @And Elias departing from thence, found Eliseus the son of Saphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that were ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen: and when Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle upon him.

drb@1Kings:19:20 @And he forthwith left the oxen and ran after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee.

drb@1Kings:19:21 @And returning back from him, he took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled the flesh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and rising up he went away, and followed Elias, and ministered to him.

drb@1Kings:20:1 @And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his host, and there were two and thirty kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and going up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.

drb@1Kings:20:2 @And, sending messengers to Achab king of Israel into the city,

drb@1Kings:20:3 @He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver, and thy gold is mine: and thy wives, and thy goodliest children are mine.

drb@1Kings:20:4 @And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord 0 king, I am thine, and all that I have.

drb@1Kings:20:5 @And the messengers came again, and said: Thus saith Benadad, who sent us unto thee: Thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children thou shalt deliver up to me.

drb@1Kings:20:6 @To morrow therefore at this same hour I will send my servants to thee, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants: and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their hands, and take away.

drb@1Kings:20:7 @And the king of Israel called all the ancients of the land, and said: Mark, and see that he layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver and gold: and I said not nay.

drb@1Kings:20:8 @And all the ancients, and all the people said to him: Hearken not to him, nor consent to him.

drb@1Kings:20:9 @Wherefore he answered the messengers of Benadad: Tell my lord the king: All that thou didst send for to me thy servant at first, I will do: but this thing I cannot do.

drb@1Kings:20:10 @And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

drb@1Kings:20:11 @And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.

drb@1Kings:20:12 @And it came to pass, when Benadad heard this word, that he and the kings were drinking in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset the city

drb@1Kings:20:13 @And behold a prophet coming to Achab king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multitude, behold I will deliver them into thy hand this day: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord.

drb@1Kings:20:14 @And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who shall begin to fight? And he said: Thou.

drb@1Kings:20:15 @So he mustered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and he found the number of two hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered after them the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand:

drb@1Kings:20:16 @And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

drb@1Kings:20:17 @And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Benadad sent. And they told him, saying: There are men come out of Samaria.

drb@1Kings:20:18 @And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.

drb@1Kings:20:19 @So the servants of the princes of the provinces went out, and the rest of the army followed:

drb@1Kings:20:20 @And every one slew the man that came against him: and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued after them. And Benadad king of Syria fled away on horseback with his horsemen.

drb@1Kings:20:21 @But the king of Israel going out overthrew the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

drb@1Kings:20:22 @(And a prophet coming to the king of Israel, said to him: Go, and strengthen thyself, and know, and see what thou dost: for the next year the king of Syria will come up against thee.)

drb@1Kings:20:23 @But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

drb@1Kings:20:24 @Do thou therefore this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead:

drb@1Kings:20:25 @And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses according to the former horses, and chariots according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel and did so.

drb@1Kings:20:26 @Wherefore at the return of the year, p Benadad mustered the Syrians, ancient up to Aphec, to fight against Israel.

drb@1Kings:20:27 @And the children of Israel were mustered, and taking victuals went out on the other side, and camped over against them, like two little hocks of goats: but the Syrians filled the land.

drb@1Kings:20:28 @(And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

drb@1Kings:20:29 @And both sides set their armies in array one against the other seven days, and on the seventh day the battle was fought: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.

drb@1Kings:20:30 @And they that remained fled to Aphec, into the city: and the wall fell upon seven and twenty thousand men, that were left. And Benadad fleeing went into the city, into a chamber that was within a chamber.

drb@1Kings:20:31 @And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful: so let us put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

drb@1Kings:20:32 @So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant Benadad saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive he is my brother.

drb@1Kings:20:33 @The men took this for a sign: and in haste caught the word out of his mouth, and said: Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go, and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out to him, and he lifted him up into his chariot.

drb@1Kings:20:34 @And he said to him: The cities which my father took from thy father, I will restore: and do thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria, and having made a league I will depart from thee. So he made a league with him, and let him go.

drb@1Kings:20:35 @Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his companion in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.

drb@1Kings:20:36 @Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold then shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

drb@1Kings:20:37 @Then he found another man, and said to him: Strike me. And he struck him, and wounded him.

drb@1Kings:20:38 @So the prophet went, and met the king in the way, and disguised himself by sprinkling dust on his face and his eyes.

drb@1Kings:20:39 @And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy servant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run away, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall slip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

drb@1Kings:20:40 @And whilst I in a hurry turned this way and that, on a sudden he was not to be seen. And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy judgment, which thyself hast decreed.

drb@1Kings:20:41 @But he forthwith wiped off the dust from his face, and the king of Israel knew him, that he was one of the prophets.

drb@1Kings:20:42 @And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a mall worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people.

drb@1Kings:20:43 @And the king of Israel returned to his house, slighting to hear, and raging came into Samaria.

drb@1Kings:21:1 @And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in Jezrahel, had at that time a vineyard near the palace of Achab king of Samaria.

drb@1Kings:21:2 @And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

drb@1Kings:21:3 @Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

drb@1Kings:21:4 @And Achab came into his house angry and fretting, because of the word that Naboth the Jezrahelite had spoken to him, saying: I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his face to the wall, and would eat no bread.

drb@1Kings:21:5 @And Jezabel his wife went in to him, and said to him: What is the matter that thy soul is so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread?

drb@1Kings:21:6 @And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth the Jezrahelite, and said to him: Give me thy vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it. And he said: I will not give thee my vineyard.

drb@1Kings:21:7 @Then Jezabel his wife said to him: Thou art of great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer, I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite.

drb@1Kings:21:8 @So she wrote letter's in Achab's name, and sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.

drb@1Kings:21:9 @And this was the tenor of the letters: Proclaim a fast, and make Naboth sit among the chief of the people,

drb@1Kings:21:10 @And suborn two men, sons of Belial against him, and let them bear false witness: that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.

drb@1Kings:21:11 @And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them:

drb@1Kings:21:12 @They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth sit among the chief of the people.

drb@1Kings:21:13 @And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people, saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king: wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

drb@1Kings:21:14 @And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth is stoned, and is dead

drb@1Kings:21:15 @And it came to pass when Jezabel heard that Naboth was stoned, and dead, that she said to Achab: Arise and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite, who would not agree with thee, and give it thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

drb@1Kings:21:16 @And when Achab heard this, to wit, that Naboth was dead, he arose, and went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite, to take possession of it.

drb@1Kings:21:17 @And the word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite, saying:

drb@1Kings:21:18 @Arise, and go down to meet Achab king of Israel, who is in Samaria: behold he is going down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take possession of it:

drb@1Kings:21:19 @And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain, moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

drb@1Kings:21:20 @And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee, because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:21:21 @Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.

drb@1Kings:21:22 @And I will make thy house like the t house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast done, to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.

drb@1Kings:21:23 @And of Jezabel also the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.

drb@1Kings:21:24 @If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.

drb@1Kings:21:25 @Now there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel set him on,

drb@1Kings:21:26 @And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

drb@1Kings:21:27 @And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

drb@1Kings:21:28 @And the word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite, saying:

drb@1Kings:21:29 @Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

drb@1Kings:22:1 @And there passed three years without war between Syria and Israel.

drb@1Kings:22:2 @And in the third year, Josaphat king of Juda came down to the king of Israel.

drb@1Kings:22:3 @(And the king of Israel said to his servants: Know ye not-that Ramoth Galaad is ours, and we neglect to take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?)

drb@1Kings:22:4 @And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to Ramoth Galaad?

drb@1Kings:22:5 @And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As I am, so art thou: my people and thy people are one: and my horsemen, thy horsemen. And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I beseech thee, this day, the word of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:22:6 @Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

drb@1Kings:22:7 @And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire by him?

drb@1Kings:22:8 @And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: Micheas the son of Jemla; but I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king.

drb@1Kings:22:9 @Then the king of Israel called an eunuch, and said to him: Make haste, and bring hither Micheas the son of Jemla.

drb@1Kings:22:10 @Then the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, sat each on his throne clothed with royal robes, in a court by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them.

drb@1Kings:22:11 @And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.

drb@1Kings:22:12 @And all the prophets prophesied in like manner, saying: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the king's hands.

drb@1Kings:22:13 @And the messenger, that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one month declare good things to the king: let thy word therefore be like to theirs, and speak that which is good.

drb@1Kings:22:14 @But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

drb@1Kings:22:15 @So he came to the king, and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him: Go up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver it into the king's hands.

drb@1Kings:22:16 @But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord

drb@1Kings:22:17 @And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no master: let every man of them return to his house in peace.

drb@1Kings:22:18 @(Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Did I not tell thee, that he prophesieth no good to me, but always evil?)

drb@1Kings:22:19 @And he added and said: Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left:

drb@1Kings:22:20 @And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab king of Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this manner, and another otherwise.

drb@1Kings:22:21 @And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means?

drb@1Kings:22:22 @And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: a go forth, and do so.

drb@1Kings:22:23 @Now therefore behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.

drb@1Kings:22:24 @And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to thee?

drb@1Kings:22:25 @And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go into a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.

drb@1Kings:22:26 @And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas, and let him abide with Ammon the governor of the city, and with Joas the son of Amalech.

drb@1Kings:22:27 @And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress, till I return in peace.

drb@1Kings:22:28 @And Micheas said: If thou return in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said: Hear, all ye people.

drb@1Kings:22:29 @So the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda went up to Ramoth Galaad.

drb@1Kings:22:30 @And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: Take armour, and go into the battle, and put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel changed his dress, and went into the battle.

drb@1Kings:22:31 @And the king of Syria had commanded the two and thirty captains of the chariots, saying: You shall not fight against any, small or great, but against the king of Israel only.

drb@1Kings:22:32 @So when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat, they suspected that he was the king of Israel, and making a violent assault they fought against him: and Josaphat cried out.

drb@1Kings:22:33 @And the captains of the chariots perceived that he was not the king of and they turned away from him.

drb@1Kings:22:34 @And a certain man bent his bow, shooting at a venture, and chanced to strike the king of Israel between the lungs and the stomach. But he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the army, for I am grievously wounded.

drb@1Kings:22:35 @And the battle was fought that day, and the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

drb@1Kings:22:36 @And the herald proclaimed through all the army before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country.

drb@1Kings:22:37 @And the king died, b and was carried into Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria.

drb@1Kings:22:38 @And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed the reins, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.

drb@1Kings:22:39 @But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@1Kings:22:40 @So Achab slept with his fathers, and Ochozias his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:22:41 @But Josaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Juda in the fourth year of Achab king of Israel.

drb@1Kings:22:42 @He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Salai.

drb@1Kings:22:43 @And he walked in all the way of Asa his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

drb@1Kings:22:44 @Nevertheless he took not away the high places: for as Set the people offered sacrifices and burnt incense in the high places.

drb@1Kings:22:45 @And Josaphat had peace with the king of Israel.

drb@1Kings:22:46 @But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, and his bat- ties, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@1Kings:22:47 @And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa his father, he took out of the land.

drb@1Kings:22:48 @And there was then no king appointed in Edom.

drb@1Kings:22:49 @But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.

drb@1Kings:22:50 @Then Ochozias the ton of Achab said to Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.

drb@1Kings:22:51 @And Josaphat slept with his fathers. and was buried with them in the city of David his father: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.

drb@1Kings:22:52 @And Ochozias the son of Achab began to reign over Israel in Samaria, in the seventeenth gear of Josaphat king of Juda, and he reigned over Israel two years,

drb@1Kings:22:53 @And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

drb@1Kings:22:54 @He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

drb@2Kings:1:1 @And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.

drb@2Kings:1:2 @And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness.

drb@2Kings:1:3 @And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron?

drb@2Kings:1:4 @Wherefore thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away.

drb@2Kings:1:5 @And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?

drb@2Kings:1:6 @But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel that thou sendest to Beelzebub the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but then shalt surely die.

drb@2Kings:1:7 @And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?

drb@2Kings:1:8 @But they said: A hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias the Thesbite.

drb@2Kings:1:9 @And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down.

drb@2Kings:1:10 @And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him.

drb@2Kings:1:11 @And again he sent to him another captain of fifty men, and his fifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God, thus saith the king: Make haste and come down.

drb@2Kings:1:12 @Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And fire came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

drb@2Kings:1:13 @Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees, before Elias, and besought him and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me.

drb@2Kings:1:14 @Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first captains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I beseech thee to spare my life.

drb@2Kings:1:15 @And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, saying: Go down with him, fear not. He arose therefore, and went down with him to the king,

drb@2Kings:1:16 @And said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast sent messengers to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron, as though there were not a God in Israel, of whom thou mightest inquire the word; therefore from the bed on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die.

drb@2Kings:1:17 @So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elias spoke, and Joram his brother reigned in his stead, in the second year of Joram the son of Josaphat king of Juda: because he had no son.

drb@2Kings:1:18 @But the rest of the acts of Ochozias which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:2:1 @And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elias into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elias and Eliseus were going from Galgal.

drb@2Kings:2:2 @And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come down to Bethel,

drb@2Kings:2:3 @The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that this day the Lord will take away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold your peace.

drb@2Kings:2:4 @And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here because the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho,

drb@2Kings:2:5 @The sons of the prophets that were at Jericho, came to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that this day the Lord will take away thy master from thee? And he said: I also know it: hold your peace.

drb@2Kings:2:6 @And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as the Jordan. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee; and they two went on together,

drb@2Kings:2:7 @And fifty men of the sons of the prophets followed them, and stood in sight at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan.

drb@2Kings:2:8 @And Elias took his mantle and folded it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed over on dry ground.

drb@2Kings:2:9 @And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Eliseus said: I beseech thee that in me may be thy double spirit.

drb@2Kings:2:10 @And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.

drb@2Kings:2:11 @And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold a fiery chariot, and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

drb@2Kings:2:12 @And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.

drb@2Kings:2:13 @And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going back, he stood upon the bank of the Jordan,

drb@2Kings:2:14 @And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had fallen from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where is now the God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided, hither and thither, and Eliseus passed over.

drb@2Kings:2:15 @And the sons of the prophets at Jericho, who were over against him, seeing it said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground,

drb@2Kings:2:16 @And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest perhaps the spirit of the Lord hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.

drb@2Kings:2:17 @But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days but found him not.

drb@2Kings:2:18 @And they came back to him: for he abode at Jericho, and he said to them: Did I not say to you: Do not send?

drb@2Kings:2:19 @And the men of the city said to Eliseus: Behold the situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very bad, and the ground barren.

drb@2Kings:2:20 @And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

drb@2Kings:2:21 @He went out to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there shall be no more in them death or barrenness.

drb@2Kings:2:22 @And the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Eliseus, which he spoke.

drb@2Kings:2:23 @And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

drb@2Kings:2:24 @And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of them two and forty boys.

drb@2Kings:2:25 @And from thence he went to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.

drb@2Kings:3:1 @And Joram the son of Achab reigned over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of m Josaphat king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years.

drb@2Kings:3:2 @And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.

drb@2Kings:3:3 @Nevertheless he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.

drb@2Kings:3:4 @Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams with their fleeces.

drb@2Kings:3:5 @And when Achab was dead, he broke the league which he had made with the king of Israel.

drb@2Kings:3:6 @And king Joram went out that day from Samaria, and mustered all Israel.

drb@2Kings:3:7 @And he sent to Josaphat king of Juda, saying: The king of Moab is revolted from me, come with me against him to battle. And he answered: I will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my people, thy people: and my horses, thy horses.

drb@2Kings:3:8 @And he said: Which way shall we go up? But he answered: By the desert of Edom.

drb@2Kings:3:9 @So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom went, and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them.

drb@2Kings:3:10 @And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas, the Lord hath gathered us three kings together, to deliver us into the hands of Moab!

drb@2Kings:3:11 @And Josaphat said: Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may beseech the Lord by him? And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered: Here is Eliseus the son of Saphat, who poured water on the hands of Elias.

drb@2Kings:3:12 @And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is with him. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of Juda, and the king of Edom went down to him.

drb@2Kings:3:13 @And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three kings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab?

drb@2Kings:3:14 @And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of hosts liveth, in whose sight I stand, if I did not reverence the face of Josaphat king of Juda, I would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.

drb@2Kings:3:15 @But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:

drb@2Kings:3:16 @Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of this torrent full of ditches.

drb@2Kings:3:17 @For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be filled with waters, and you shall drink, you and your families, and your beasts.

drb@2Kings:3:18 @And this is a small thing in the sight of the Lord: moreover he will deliver also Moab into your hands.

drb@2Kings:3:19 @And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones.

drb@2Kings:3:20 @And it came to pass in the morning, when the sacrifices used to be offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

drb@2Kings:3:21 @And all the Moabites hearing that the kings were come up to fight against them, gathered together all that were girded with a belt upon them, and stood in the borders.

drb@2Kings:3:22 @And they rose early in the morning, and the sun being now up, and shining upon the waters, the Moabites saw the waters over against them red, like blood,

drb@2Kings:3:23 @And they said: It is the blood of the sword: the kings have fought among themselves, and they have killed one another: go now, Moab, to the spoils.

drb@2Kings:3:24 @And they went into the camp of Israel: but Israel rising up defeated Moab, who fled before them. And they being conquerors, went and smote Moab.

drb@2Kings:3:25 @And they destroyed the cities: and they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.

drb@2Kings:3:26 @And when the king of Moab saw this, to wit, that the enemies had prevailed, he took with him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to break in upon the king of Edom: but they could not.

drb@2Kings:3:27 @Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there was great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him, and returned into their own country.

drb@2Kings:4:1 @Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

drb@2Kings:4:2 @And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.

drb@2Kings:4:3 @And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.

drb@2Kings:4:4 @And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full take them away.

drb@2Kings:4:5 @So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in.

drb@2Kings:4:6 @And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.

drb@2Kings:4:7 @And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

drb@2Kings:4:8 @And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread; and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.

drb@2Kings:4:9 @And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.

drb@2Kings:4:10 @Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us, he may abide there

drb@2Kings:4:11 @Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber, and rested there.

drb@2Kings:4:12 @And he said to Giezi his servant Call this Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and she stood before him,

drb@2Kings:4:13 @He said to his servant: Say to her Behold thou hast diligently served us in all things, what wilt thou have me to de for thee? hast thou any business, and wilt thou that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people.

drb@2Kings:4:14 @And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

drb@2Kings:4:15 @Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and stood before the door.

drb@2Kings:4:16 @He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

drb@2Kings:4:17 @And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour, that Eliseus had said.

drb@2Kings:4:18 @And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,

drb@2Kings:4:19 @He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant: Take him, and carry him to his mother.

drb@2Kings:4:20 @And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she set him on her knees until noon, and then he died.

drb@2Kings:4:21 @And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,

drb@2Kings:4:22 @She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

drb@2Kings:4:23 @And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

drb@2Kings:4:24 @And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going. And do that which I bid thee.

drb@2Kings:4:25 @So she went forward, and came to the man of God to mount Carmel: and when the mall of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi his servant: Behold that Sunamitess.

drb@2Kings:4:26 @Go therefore to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? and she answered: Well.

drb@2Kings:4:27 @And when she came to the man of God to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

drb@2Kings:4:28 @And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?

drb@2Kings:4:29 @Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

drb@2Kings:4:30 @But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her.

drb@2Kings:4:31 @But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.

drb@2Kings:4:32 @Eliseus therefore went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed.

drb@2Kings:4:33 @And going in he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord.

drb@2Kings:4:34 @And he went up, and lay upon the child: and he put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he bowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm.

drb@2Kings:4:35 @Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened his eyes.

drb@2Kings:4:36 @And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And she being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son.

drb@2Kings:4:37 @She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and took up her son, and went out.

drb@2Kings:4:38 @And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him. And he said to one of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

drb@2Kings:4:39 @And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, and filled his mantle, and coming back he shred them into the pot of pottage, for he knew not what it was.

drb@2Kings:4:40 @And they poured it out for their companions to eat: and when they had tasted of the pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat thereof.

drb@2Kings:4:41 @But he said: Bring some meal. And when they had brought it, he cast it into the pot, and said: Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was now no bitterness in the pot.

drb@2Kings:4:42 @And a certain man came from Baalsalisa bringing to the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty leaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.

drb@2Kings:4:43 @And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.

drb@2Kings:4:44 @So he fief it before them: and they ate, and there was left according to the word of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:5:1 @Naaman, general of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man and rich, but a leper.

drb@2Kings:5:2 @Now there had gone out robbers from Syria, and had led away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she waited upon Naaman's wife.

drb@2Kings:5:3 @And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet, that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath.

drb@2Kings:5:4 @Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told him, saying: Thus and thus said tile girl from the land of Israel.

drb@2Kings:5:5 @And the king of Syria sad to him: Go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and tell changes of raiment,

drb@2Kings:5:6 @And brought the letter to the king of Israel, in these words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman my servant, that thou mayest heal him of his leprosy.

drb@2Kings:5:7 @And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me, to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

drb@2Kings:5:8 @And when Eliseus the man of God had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel.

drb@2Kings:5:9 @So Naaman came with Iris horses and chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus:

drb@2Kings:5:10 @And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thee shalt be clean.

drb@2Kings:5:11 @Naaman was angry and went away, saying: I thought he would hare come out to me, and standing would hare invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me.

drb@2Kings:5:12 @Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,

drb@2Kings:5:13 @His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt he clean?

drb@2Kings:5:14 @Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times: according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child, and he was made clean.

drb@2Kings:5:15 @And returning to the man of God with all his train, be came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee therefore take a blessing of thy servant.

drb@2Kings:5:16 @But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.

drb@2Kings:5:17 @And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.

drb@2Kings:5:18 @But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for thy servant, when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship: and he leaneth upon my hand, if I bow down in the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me thy servant for this thing.

drb@2Kings:5:19 @And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him in the springtime of the earth.

drb@2Kings:5:20 @But Giezi the servant of the man of God said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take some thing of him:

drb@2Kings:5:21 @21And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well?

drb@2Kings:5:22 @And he said: Well: my master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just now there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

drb@2Kings:5:23 @And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he forced him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they carried them before him.

drb@2Kings:5:24 @And when he was come, and now it was the evening, he took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and sent the men away, and they departed.

drb@2Kings:5:25 @But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said: Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.

drb@2Kings:5:26 @But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants.

drb@2Kings:5:27 @But the leprosy of Naaman shall also stick to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper as white as snow.

drb@2Kings:6:1 @And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

drb@2Kings:6:2 @Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go.

drb@2Kings:6:3 @And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.

drb@2Kings:6:4 @So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan they cut down wood.

drb@2Kings:6:5 @And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the axe fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.

drb@2Kings:6:6 @And the man of God said: Where did it fall? and he shewed him the place. Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the iron swam.

drb@2Kings:6:7 @And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand and took it.

drb@2Kings:6:8 @And the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying: In such and such a place let us lay ambushes.

drb@2Kings:6:9 @And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

drb@2Kings:6:10 @And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God had told him, and prevented him, and looked well to himself there not once nor twice.

drb@2Kings:6:11 @And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel?

drb@2Kings:6:12 @And one of his servants said: No one, my lord O king: but Eliseus the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.

drb@2Kings:6:13 @And he said to them: Go, and see where he is: that I may send, and take him. And they told him, saying: Behold he is in Dothan.

drb@2Kings:6:14 @Therefore he sent thither horses and chariots, and the strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city

drb@2Kings:6:15 @And the servant of the man of God rising early, went out, and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots: and he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?

drb@2Kings:6:16 @But he answered: Fear not: for there are more with us than with them.

drb@2Kings:6:17 @And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round about Eliseus.

drb@2Kings:6:18 @And the enemies came down to him, but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness. And the Lord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.

drb@2Kings:6:19 @And Eliseus said to them: This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will shew you the man whom you seek. So he led them into Samaria.

drb@2Kings:6:20 @And when they were come into Samaria, Eliseus said: Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst of Samaria.

drb@2Kings:6:21 @And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My father, shall I kill them?

drb@2Kings:6:22 @And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

drb@2Kings:6:23 @And a great provision of meats was set before them, and they ate and drank, and he let them go, and they went away to their master, and the robbers of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

drb@2Kings:6:24 @And tit came to pass after these things, that Benadad king of Syria gathered together all his army, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

drb@2Kings:6:25 @And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeon's dung, for five pieces of silver.

drb@2Kings:6:26 @And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord O king.

drb@2Kings:6:27 @And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

drb@2Kings:6:28 @This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

drb@2Kings:6:29 @So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

drb@2Kings:6:30 @When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.

drb@2Kings:6:31 @And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add more, if the head of Eliseus the son of Saphat shall stand on him this day.

drb@2Kings:6:32 @But Eliseus sat in his house, and the ancients sat with him. So he sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off my head? Look then, when the messenger shall come, shut the door, and suffer him not to come in: for behold the sound of his master's feet is behind him.

drb@2Kings:6:33 @While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?

drb@2Kings:7:1 @And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: To morrow about this time a bushel of fine hour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.

drb@2Kings:7:2 @Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

drb@2Kings:7:3 @Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?

drb@2Kings:7:4 @If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die: come, therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but die.

drb@2Kings:7:5 @So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp, And when they were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found no man there.

drb@2Kings:7:6 @For the Lord had made them hear, in the camp of Syria, the noise of chariots, and of horses, and of a very great army, and they said one to another: Behold the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyptians, and they are come upon us.

drb@2Kings:7:7 @Wherefore they arose, and fled away in the dark, and left their tents, and their horses and asses in the camp, and fled, desiring to save their lives.

drb@2Kings:7:8 @So when these lepers were come to the beginning of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank: and they took from thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid it: and they came again, and went into another tent, and carried from thence in like manner, and hid it.

drb@2Kings:7:9 @Then they said one to another: We do not well: for this is a day of good tidings. If we hold our peace, and do not tell it till the morning, we shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go and tell it in the king's court.

drb@2Kings:7:10 @So they came to the gate of the city, and told them, saying: We went to the camp of the Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses, and asses tied, and the tents standing.

drb@2Kings:7:11 @Then the guards of the gate went, and told it within the king's palace.

drb@2Kings:7:12 @And he arose in the night and said to his servants: I tell you what the Syrians have done to us: They know that we suffer great famine, and therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in the fields, saying: When they come out of the city we shall take them alive, and then we may get into the city.

drb@2Kings:7:13 @And one of his servants answered: Let us take the five horses that are remaining in the city (because there are no more in the whole multitude of Israel, for the rest are consumed,) and let us send and see.

drb@2Kings:7:14 @They brought therefore two horses, and the king sent into the camp of the Syrians, saying: Go, and see.

drb@2Kings:7:15 @And they went after them as far as the Jordan: and behold all the way was full of garments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their fright, and the messengers returned end told the king.

drb@2Kings:7:16 @And the people going out pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a bushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, according to the word of the Lord

drb@2Kings:7:17 @And the king appointed that lord on whose hand he leaned, to stand at the gate: and the people trod upon him in the entrance of the gate; and he died, as the man of God had said, when the king came down to him.

drb@2Kings:7:18 @And it came to pass according to the word of the man of God, which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time to morrow in the gate of Samaria.

drb@2Kings:7:19 @When that lord answered the mall of' God, and said: Although the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, could this come to pass which thou sayest? And he said to him: Thou shalt see with thy eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.

drb@2Kings:7:20 @And so it fell out to him as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

drb@2Kings:8:1 @And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath exiled a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years.

drb@2Kings:8:2 @And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

drb@2Kings:8:3 @And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house, and for her lands.

drb@2Kings:8:4 @And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God, saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.

drb@2Kings:8:5 @And when he was telling the king how he had raised one dead to life, the woman appeared, whose son he had restored to life, crying to the king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi said: My lord O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.

drb@2Kings:8:6 @And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land, to this present.

drb@2Kings:8:7 @Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Benadad king of Syria was sick: and they told him, saying: The man of God is come hither.

drb@2Kings:8:8 @And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee presents, and go to meet the man of God, and consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?

drb@2Kings:8:9 @And Hazael went to meet him, taking with him presents, and all the good things of Damascus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he stood before him, he said: Thy son Benadad the king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying: Can I recover of this my illness?

drb@2Kings:8:10 @And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou shalt recover: bat the Lord hath shewn me that he shall surely die.

drb@2Kings:8:11 @And he stood with him, and was troubled so far as to blush: and the man of God wept.

drb@2Kings:8:12 @And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities then wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women.

drb@2Kings:8:13 @And Hazael said: But what am I thy servant a dog, that I should do this great thing? And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewn me that thou shalt be king of Syria.

drb@2Kings:8:14 @And when he was departed from Eliseus, he came to his master, who said to him: What saith Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me: Thou shalt recover.

drb@2Kings:8:15 @And on the next day he took a blanket, and pouted water on it, and spread it upon his face: and he died, and Hazael reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:8:16 @In the fifth year of Joram son of Achab king of Israel, and of Josaphat king of Juda, reigned Joram son of Josaphat king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:8:17 @He was two and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:8:18 @And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord

drb@2Kings:8:19 @But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.

drb@2Kings:8:20 @In his days Edom revolted, from being under Juda, and made themselves a king.

drb@2Kings:8:21 @And Joram came to Seira, and all the chariots with him: and he arose in the night, and defeated the Edomites that had surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots, but the people fled into their tents.

drb@2Kings:8:22 @So Edom revolted from being under Juda, unto this day. Then Lobna also revolted at the same time.

drb@2Kings:8:23 @But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:8:24 @And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ochozias his son reigned in Iris stead.

drb@2Kings:8:25 @In the twelfth year of Joram son of Achab king of Israel, reigned Ochozias son of Joram king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:8:26 @Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.

drb@2Kings:8:27 @And he walked in the ways of the house of Achab: and he did evil before the Lord, as did the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of the house of Achab.

drb@2Kings:8:28 @He went also with Joram son of Achab, to fight against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:

drb@2Kings:8:29 @And he went back to be healed, in Jezrahel: because the Syrians had wounded him in Ramoth when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda, went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.

drb@2Kings:9:1 @And Eliseus the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, slid said to him: Gird up thy loins, and take this little bottle of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth Galaad.

drb@2Kings:9:2 @And when thou art come thither, thou shalt see Jehu the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi: and going in thou shalt make him rise up from amongst his brethren, and carry him into an inner chamber.

drb@2Kings:9:3 @Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel. And thou shalt open the door and flee, and shalt not stay there.

drb@2Kings:9:4 @So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went awry to Ramoth Galaad,

drb@2Kings:9:5 @And went in thither: and behold the captains of the army were sitting: and he said: I have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said: Unto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O prince.

drb@2Kings:9:6 @And he arose, and went into the chamber: and he poured the oil upon his head, and said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have anointed thee king over Israel, the people of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:9:7 @And thou shalt cut off the house of Achab thy master, and I will revenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord at the hand of Jezabel.

drb@2Kings:9:8 @And I will destroy all the house of Achab, and I will cut off from Achab him that pisseth against the well, and him that is shut up, and the meanest in Israel.

drb@2Kings:9:9 @And I will make the house of Achab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias.

drb@2Kings:9:10 @And the dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel, and there shall be no one to bury her. And he opened the door and fled.

drb@2Kings:9:11 @Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his lord: and they said to him: Are all things well? why came this mad man to thee? And he said to them: You know the man, and what he said.

drb@2Kings:9:12 @But they answered: It is false, but rather do thou tell us. And he said to them: Thus and thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus saith the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.

drb@2Kings:9:13 @Then they made haste and taking every man his garment laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.

drb@2Kings:9:14 @So Jehu the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi conspired against Joram. Now Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he and all Israel fighting with Hazael king of Syria:

drb@2Kings:9:15 @And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel of his wounds, for the Syrians had wounded him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said: If it please you, let no mall go forth or flee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.

drb@2Kings:9:16 @And he got up, and went into Jezrahel: for Joram was sick there, and Ochozias king of Juda was come down to visit Joram.

drb@2Kings:9:17 @The watchmen therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all well?

drb@2Kings:9:18 @So there went one in a chariot to meet him, and said: Thus saith the king: Are all things peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou to do with peace? go behind and follow me. And the watchman told, saying: The messenger came to them, but he returneth not.

drb@2Kings:9:19 @And he sent a second chariot of horses: and he came to them, and said: Thus saith the king: Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast thou to do with peace? pass, and follow me.

drb@2Kings:9:20 @And the watchman told, saying: He came even to them, but returneth not: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Namsi, for he drives furiously

drb@2Kings:9:21 @And Joram said: Make ready the chariot. And they made ready his chariot, and Joram king of Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite.

drb@2Kings:9:22 @And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel thy mother, and her many sorceries are in their vigour.

drb@2Kings:9:23 @And Joram turned his hand, and fleeing, said to Ochozias: There is treachery, Ochozias.

drb@2Kings:9:24 @But Jehu bent Iris bow with his hand, and shot Joram between the shoulders: and the arrow went out through his heart, and immediately he fell in his chariot.

drb@2Kings:9:25 @And Jehu said to Badacer his captain: Take him, and cast him into the field of Naboth the Jezrahelite: for I remember when I and thou sitting in a chariot followed Achab this man's father, that the Lord laid this burden upon him, saying:

drb@2Kings:9:26 @If I do not requite thee in this field, saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the blood of his children, which I saw yesterday, saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him into the field, according to the word of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:9:27 @But Ochozias king of Juda seeing this, fled by the way of the garden house: and Jehu pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his chariot. And they struck him in the going up to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam: and he fled into Mageddo, and died there.

drb@2Kings:9:28 @And his servants laid him upon his chariot, and carried him to Jerusalem: and they buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

drb@2Kings:9:29 @In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda,

drb@2Kings:9:30 @And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel hearing of his coming in, painted her face with stibic stone, and adorned her head, and looked out of a window

drb@2Kings:9:31 @At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said: Can there be peace for Zambri, that hath killed his master?

drb@2Kings:9:32 @And Jehu lifted up his face to the window, and said: Who is this? And two or three eunuchs bowed down to him.

drb@2Kings:9:33 @And he said to them: Throw her down headlong: and they threw her down, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the horses trod upon her.

drb@2Kings:9:34 @And when he was come in, to eat, and to drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursed woman, and bury her: because she is a king's daughter.

drb@2Kings:9:35 @And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands.

drb@2Kings:9:36 @And coming back they told him. And Jehu said: It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elias the Thesbite, saying: In the field of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezabel,

drb@2Kings:9:37 @And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the earth in the field of Jezrahel, so that they who pass by shall say: Is this that same Jezabel?

drb@2Kings:10:1 @And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and to them that brought up Achab's children, saying:

drb@2Kings:10:2 @As soon as you receive these letters, ye that have your master's sons, and chariots, and horses, and fenced cities, and armour,

drb@2Kings:10:3 @Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master.

drb@2Kings:10:4 @But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: Behold two kings could not stand before him, and how shall we be able to resist?

drb@2Kings:10:5 @Therefore the overseers of the house, and the rulers of the city, and the ancients, and the tutors sent to Jehu, saying: We are thy servants, whatsoever thou shalt command us we will do, neither will we make us a king: do thou all that pleaseth thee.

drb@2Kings:10:6 @And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.

drb@2Kings:10:7 @And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.

drb@2Kings:10:8 @And a messenger came, and told him, saying: They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the entering in of the gate until the morning.

drb@2Kings:10:9 @And when it was light, he went out, and standing said to all the people: You are just: if I conspired against my master, and slew him, who hath slain all these?

drb@2Kings:10:10 @See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any of the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Achab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his servant Elias.

drb@2Kings:10:11 @So Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in Jezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till there were no remains left of him.

drb@2Kings:10:12 @And he arose, and went to Samaria: and when he was come to the shepherds' cabin in the way,

drb@2Kings:10:13 @He met with the brethren of Ochozias king of Juda, and he said to them: Who are you? And they answered: We are the brethren of Ochozias, and are come down to salute the sons of the king, and the sons of the queen.

drb@2Kings:10:14 @And he said: Take them alive. And they took them alive, and killed them at the pit by the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not any of them.

drb@2Kings:10:15 @And when he was departed thence, he found Jonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him, and he blessed him. And he said to him: Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? And Jonadab said: It is. If it be, said he, give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And he lifted him up to him into the chariot,

drb@2Kings:10:16 @And he said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,

drb@2Kings:10:17 @And brought him into Samaria. And he slew all that were left of Achab in Samaria, to a man, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Elias.

drb@2Kings:10:18 @And Jehu gathered together all the people, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal a little, but I will worship him more.

drb@2Kings:10:19 @Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests: let none be wanting, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting shall not live. Now Jehu did this craftily, that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

drb@2Kings:10:20 @And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called,

drb@2Kings:10:21 @And he sent into all the borders of Israel, and all the servants of Baal came: there was not one left that did not come. And they went into the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was filled, from one end to the other.

drb@2Kings:10:22 @And he said to them that were over the wardrobe: Bring forth garments for all the servants of Baal. And they brought them forth garments.

drb@2Kings:10:23 @And Jehu and Jonadab the son of Rechab went to the temple of Baal, and said to the worshippers of Baal: Search, and see that there be not any with you of the servants of the Lord, but that there be the servants of Baal only.

drb@2Kings:10:24 @And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings: but Jehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any of the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth him go shall answer life for life.

drb@2Kings:10:25 @And it came to pass, when the burnt offering was ended, that Jehu commanded his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them, let none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew them with the edge of the sword, and cast them out: and they went into the city of the temple of Baal,

drb@2Kings:10:26 @And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it,

drb@2Kings:10:27 @And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.

drb@2Kings:10:28 @So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel:

drb@2Kings:10:29 @But yet he departed not from the sills of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that were in Bethel and Dan.

drb@2Kings:10:30 @And the Lord said to Jehu: Because thou hast diligently executed that which was right and pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart: thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth Generation.

drb@2Kings:10:31 @But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.

drb@2Kings:10:32 @In those days the Lord began to he weary of Israel: and Hazael ravaged them in all the coasts of Israel,

drb@2Kings:10:33 @From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Galaad, and Gad, and Ruben, and Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Amen, and Galaad, and Basan.

drb@2Kings:10:34 @But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and his strength, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:10:35 @And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:10:36 @And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel, in Samaria, was eight and twenty years.

drb@2Kings:11:1 @And Athalia the mother of Ochozias seeing that her son was dead, arose, and slew all the royal seed.

drb@2Kings:11:2 @But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the face of Athalia, so that he was not slain.

drb@2Kings:11:3 @And he was with her six years hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land.

drb@2Kings:11:4 @And in the seventh year Joiada seat, and taking the centurions and the soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord, shewed them the king's son:

drb@2Kings:11:5 @And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do:

drb@2Kings:11:6 @Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath, and keep the watch of the king's house. And let a third part be at the gate of Sur: and let a third part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the shieldbearers: and you shall keep the watch of the house of Messa.

drb@2Kings:11:7 @But let two parts of you, all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.

drb@2Kings:11:8 @And you shall compass him round about, having weapons in your hands: and if any man shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be slain: and you shall be with the king coming in and going out.

drb@2Kings:11:9 @And the centurions did according to all things that Joiada the priest had commanded them: and taking every one their men, that went in on the sabbath, with them that went out on the sabbath, came to Joiada the priest.

drb@2Kings:11:10 @And he gave them the spears, and the arms of king David, which were in the house of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:11:11 @And they stood having every one their weapons in their hands, from the right side of the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and of the temple, about the king

drb@2Kings:11:12 @And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and clapping their hands. they said, God save the king.

drb@2Kings:11:13 @And Athalia heard the noise of the people running: and going in to the people into the temple of the Lord,

drb@2Kings:11:14 @She saw the king standing upon a tribunal, as the manner was, and the singers, and the trumpets near him, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a conspiracy.

drb@2Kings:11:15 @But Joiada commended the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:11:16 @And they laid hands on her: and thrust her out by the way by which the horses go in, by the palace, and she was slain there.

drb@2Kings:11:17 @And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and the people, that they should be the people of the Lord, and between the king and the people.

drb@2Kings:11:18 @And all the people of the land went into the temple of Baal, and broke down his altars, and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly: they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before the altar. And the priest set guards in the house of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:11:19 @And he took the centurions, and the bands of the Cerethi and the Phelethi, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the house of the Lord: and they came by the way of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace. and he sat on the throne of the kings.

drb@2Kings:11:20 @And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the sword in the king's house.

drb@2Kings:11:21 @Now Joas was seven years old, when he began to reign.

drb@2Kings:12:1 @In the seventh year of Jehu Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.

drb@2Kings:12:2 @And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada the priest taught him.

drb@2Kings:12:3 @But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

drb@2Kings:12:4 @And Joas said to the priests: O All the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart they bring into the temple of the Lord:

drb@2Kings:12:5 @Let the priests take it according to their order, and repair the house, wheresoever they shall see any thing that wanteth repairing.

drb@2Kings:12:6 @Now till the three and twentieth year of king Joas, the priests did not make the repairs of the temple.

drb@2Kings:12:7 @And king Joas called Joiada the high priest and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you therefore money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.

drb@2Kings:12:8 @And the priests were forbidden to take any more money of the people, and to make the repairs of the house.

drb@2Kings:12:9 @And Joiada the high priest took a chest and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the altar at the right hand of them that came into the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the doors put therein all the money that was brought to the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:12:10 @And when they saw that there was very much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and poured it out, and counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord:

drb@2Kings:12:11 @And they gave it out by number and measure into the hands of them that were over the builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters, and the masons that wrought in the house of the Lord,

drb@2Kings:12:12 @And made the repairs: and to them that cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones, to be hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord might be completely finished, and wheresoever there was need of expenses to uphold the house

drb@2Kings:12:13 @But there were not made of the same money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of gold and silver, of the money that was brought into the temple of the Lord

drb@2Kings:12:14 @For it was given to them that did the work, that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.

drb@2Kings:12:15 @And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.

drb@2Kings:12:16 @But the money for trespass, and the money for sine, they brought not into the temple of the Lord, because it was for the priests.

drb@2Kings:12:17 @Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Geth, and took it and set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:12:18 @Wherefore Joas king of Juda took all the sanctified things, which Josaphat, and Joram, and Ochozias his fathers the kings of Juda had dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had offered: and all the silver that could be found in the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael king of Syria, and he went off from Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:12:19 @And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:12:20 @And his servants arose, and conspired among themselves, and slew Joas in the house of Mello in the descent of Sella.

drb@2Kings:12:21 @For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Jozabad the son of Somer his servant struck him, and he died: and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:13:1 @In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of Ochozias king of Juda, Joachaz the son of Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria, seventeen years.

drb@2Kings:13:2 @And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, and he departed not from them.

drb@2Kings:13:3 @And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael the king of Syria, and into the hand of Benadad the son of Hazael all days.

drb@2Kings:13:4 @But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them:

drb@2Kings:13:5 @And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out of the hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their pavilions as yesterday and the day before.

drb@2Kings:13:6 @But yet they departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a grove also in Samaria.

drb@2Kings:13:7 @And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had slain them, and had brought them low as dust by thrashing in the barnfloor.

drb@2Kings:13:8 @Rut the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his valour, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:13:9 @And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joas his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:13:10 @In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas king of Juda, Joas the son of Joachaz reigned over Israel in Samaria sixteen years.

drb@2Kings:13:11 @And he did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sine of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.

drb@2Kings:13:12 @But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all that he did, and his valour wherewith he fought against Amasias king of Juda, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:13:13 @And Joas slept with his fathers: and Jeroboam sat upon his throne. But Joas was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

drb@2Kings:13:14 @Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas king of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the guider thereof.

drb@2Kings:13:15 @And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and arrows

drb@2Kings:13:16 @He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand upon the bow. And when he had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands over the king's hands,

drb@2Kings:13:17 @And said: Open the window to the east. And when he had opened it, Eliseus said: Shoot an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of the deliverance from Syria: and thou shalt strike the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them.

drb@2Kings:13:18 @And he said: Take the arrows. And when he had taken them, he said to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three times and stood still.

drb@2Kings:13:19 @And the man of God was angry with him, and said: If thou hadst smitten five or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to utter destruction: but now three times shalt thou smite it.

drb@2Kings:13:20 @And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year.

drb@2Kings:13:21 @And some that were burying a man, saw the rovers, and cast the body into the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones of Eliseus, the man came to life, and stood upon his feet.

drb@2Kings:13:22 @Now Hazael king of Syria afflicted Israel all the days of Joachaz:

drb@2Kings:13:23 @And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob: and he would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present time.

drb@2Kings:13:24 @And Hazael king of Syria died, and Benadad his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:13:25 @Now Joas d the son of Joachaz, took the cities out of the hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, which he had taken out of the hand of Joachaz his father by war, three times did Joas beat him, and he restored the cities to Israel.

drb@2Kings:14:1 @In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king of Israel, reigned Amasias son of Joas king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:14:2 @He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and nine and twenty gears he reigned in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Joadan of Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:14:3 @And he did that which was right before the Lord, but yet not like David his father. He did according to all things that Joas his father did:

drb@2Kings:14:4 @But this only, that he took not away the high places: for yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

drb@2Kings:14:5 @And when he had possession of the kingdom, he put his servants to death that had slain the king his father:

drb@2Kings:14:6 @But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sins.

drb@2Kings:14:7 @He slew of Edom h in the valley of the Saltpits ten thousand men, and took the rock by war, and called the name thereof Jectehel, unto this day.

drb@2Kings:14:8 @Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz, son of Jehu king of Israel, saying: Come let us see one another.

drb@2Kings:14:9 @And Joas king of Israel sent again to Amasias king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed and trod down the thistle.

drb@2Kings:14:10 @Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: be content with the glory, and sit at home: why provokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee?

drb@2Kings:14:11 @But Amasias did not rest satisfied. So Joas king of Israel went up, and he and Amasias king of Juda saw one another in Bethsames a town in Juda.

drb@2Kings:14:12 @And Juda was put to the worst before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.

drb@2Kings:14:13 @But Joas king of Israel took Amasias, king of Juda the son of Joas, the son of Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him into Jerusalem: and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim to the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits.

drb@2Kings:14:14 @And he took all the gold, and silver, and all the vessels, that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

drb@2Kings:14:15 @But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought against Amasias king of Juda, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:14:16 @And Joas slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel: and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:14:17 @And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda lived, after the death of Joas son of Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years

drb@2Kings:14:18 @And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:14:19 @Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachis. And they sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.

drb@2Kings:14:20 @And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

drb@2Kings:14:21 @And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amasias.

drb@2Kings:14:22 @He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.

drb@2Kings:14:23 @In the fifteenth year of Amasias k son of Joas king of Juda, reigned Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel in Samaria, one and forty years:

drb@2Kings:14:24 @And he did that which was evil before the Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

drb@2Kings:14:25 @He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath, unto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.

drb@2Kings:14:26 @For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel that it was exceeding bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were shut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to help Israel.

drb@2Kings:14:27 @And the Lord did not say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.

drb@2Kings:14:28 @But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his velour, where- with he fought, and how he restored Damascus, and Emath to Juda in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:14:29 @And Jeroboam slept with his fathers the kings of Israel, and Zacharias his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:15:1 @In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Azarias son of Amasias, king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:15:2 @He was sixteen years old, when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:15:3 @And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father Amasias had done.

drb@2Kings:15:4 @But the high places he did not destroy: for the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

drb@2Kings:15:5 @And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham the king's soil governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.

drb@2Kings:15:6 @And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:15:7 @And Azarias slept with his fathers: and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:15:8 @In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias king of Juda, reigned Zacharias son of Jeroboam over Israel in Samaria six months:

drb@2Kings:15:9 @And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat who made Israel to sin.

drb@2Kings:15:10 @And Sellum the son of Jabes conspired against him: and struck him publicly and killed him, and reigned in his place.

drb@2Kings:15:11 @Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:15:12 @This was the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Jehu, saying: Thy children to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.

drb@2Kings:15:13 @Sellum the son of Jabes began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias king of Juda: and reigned one month in Samaria.

drb@2Kings:15:14 @And Manahem the son of Gadi went up from Thersa: and he came into Samaria, and struck Sellum the son of Jabes in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:15:15 @And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy, which he made, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:15:16 @Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all that were in it and the borders thereof from Thersa, because they would not open to him: and he slew all the women thereof that were with child, and ripped them up.

drb@2Kings:15:17 @In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias king of Juda, reigned Manahem son of Gadi over Israel ten years in Samaria.

drb@2Kings:15:18 @And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin all his days.

drb@2Kings:15:19 @And Phul king of the Assyrians came into the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand talents of silver, to aid him and to establish him in the kingdom

drb@2Kings:15:20 @And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and rich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sides of silver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in the land.

drb@2Kings:15:21 @And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:15:22 @And Manahem slept with his fathers: and Phaceia his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:15:23 @In the fiftieth year of Azarias king of Juda reigned Phaceia the son of Manahem over Israel in Samaria two years.

drb@2Kings:15:24 @And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

drb@2Kings:15:25 @And Phacee the son of Romelia, his captain conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near Argob, and near Arie, and with him fifty men of the sons of the Galaadites, and he slew him and reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:15:26 @And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:15:27 @In the two and fiftieth year of Azarias king of Juda reigned Phacee the son of Romelia over Israel in Samaria twenty years.

drb@2Kings:15:28 @And he did that which was evil before the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

drb@2Kings:15:29 @In the days of Phacee king of Israel came Theglathphalasar king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephtali: and carried them captives into Assyria.

drb@2Kings:15:30 @Now Osee son of Ela conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham the son of Ozias.

drb@2Kings:15:31 @But the rest of the acts of Phaces, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

drb@2Kings:15:32 @In the second year of Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel reigned Joatham son of Ozias king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:15:33 @He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa, the daughter of Sadoc.

drb@2Kings:15:34 @And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he.

drb@2Kings:15:35 @But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:15:36 @But the rest of the acts of Joatham, end all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:15:37 @In those days the Lord began to send into Juda Basin king of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia.

drb@2Kings:15:38 @And Joatham slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father, and Achaz his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:16:1 @In the seventeenth year of Phacee the son of Romelia reigned Achaz the son of Joatham king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:16:2 @Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord his Cod, as David his father.

drb@2Kings:16:3 @But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover he consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire according to the idols of the nations: which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

drb@2Kings:16:4 @He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills, and under every green tree.

drb@2Kings:16:5 @Then Basin king of Syria, and Phacee son of Romelia king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but were not able to overcome him.

drb@2Kings:16:6 @At that time Rasin king of Syria restored Aila to Syria, and drove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and dwelt there unto this day.

drb@2Kings:16:7 @And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathphalasar king of the Assyrians, saying: I am thy servant, and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are risen up together against me.

drb@2Kings:16:8 @And when he had gathered together the silver and gold that could be found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures, he sent it for a present to the king of the Assyrians.

drb@2Kings:16:9 @And he agreed to his desire: for the king of the Assyrians went up against Damascus, and laid it waste: and he carried away the inhabitants thereof to Cyrene, but Basin he slew.

drb@2Kings:16:10 @And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar king of the Assyrians, end when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias the priest a pattern of it, and its likeness according to all the work thereof.

drb@2Kings:16:11 @And Urias the priest built an altar according to all that king Achaz had commanded from Damascus, so did Urias the priest, until king Achaz came from Damascus.

drb@2Kings:16:12 @And when the king was come from Damascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and went up and offered holocausts, and his own sacrifice.

drb@2Kings:16:13 @And offered libations and poured the blood of the peace offerings, which he had offered upon the altar.

drb@2Kings:16:14 @But the altar of brass that was before the Lord, he removed from the face of the temple, and from the place of the altar, and from the place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at the side of the altar toward the north.

drb@2Kings:16:15 @And king Achaz commanded Urias the priest saying: Upon the great altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and the king's holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole people of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim thou shalt pour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.

drb@2Kings:16:16 @So Urias the priest did according to all that king Achaz had commanded him.

drb@2Kings:16:17 @And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that was upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held it up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

drb@2Kings:16:18 @The Musach also for the sabbath, which he had built in the temple: and the king's entry from without he turned into the temple of the Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.

drb@2Kings:16:19 @Now the rest of the acts of Achaz, which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:16:20 @And Achaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David, and Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:17:1 @In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria over Israel nine years.

drb@2Kings:17:2 @And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.

drb@2Kings:17:3 @Against him came up Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute.

drb@2Kings:17:4 @And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee endeavouring to rebel had sent messengers to Sua the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison,

drb@2Kings:17:5 @And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

drb@2Kings:17:6 @And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala and Habor by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

drb@2Kings:17:7 @For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they worshipped strange gods.

drb@2Kings:17:8 @And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.

drb@2Kings:17:9 @And the children of Israel offended the Lord their God with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

drb@2Kings:17:10 @And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

drb@2Kings:17:11 @And they burnt incense there upon altars after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord.

drb@2Kings:17:12 @And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do this thing.

drb@2Kings:17:13 @And the Lord testified to them in Israel and in Juda by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.

drb@2Kings:17:14 @And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord their God.

drb@2Kings:17:15 @And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

drb@2Kings:17:16 @And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal.

drb@2Kings:17:17 @And consecrated their sons, and their daughters through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

drb@2Kings:17:18 @And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of Juda.

drb@2Kings:17:19 @But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

drb@2Kings:17:20 @And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away from his face:

drb@2Kings:17:21 @Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam son of Nabat their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.

drb@2Kings:17:22 @And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,

drb@2Kings:17:23 @Till the Lord removed Israel from his face, as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants the prophets: and Israel was carried away out of their land to Assyria, unto this day

drb@2Kings:17:24 @And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

drb@2Kings:17:25 @And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.

drb@2Kings:17:26 @And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

drb@2Kings:17:27 @And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from thence captive, and let him go, and dwell with them: and let him teach them the ordinances of the God of the land.

drb@2Kings:17:28 @So one of the priests who had been carried away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should worship the Lord.

drb@2Kings:17:29 @And every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the temples of the high places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities where they dwelt.

drb@2Kings:17:30 @For the men of Babylon made Sochothbenoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the men of Emath made Asima.

drb@2Kings:17:31 @And the Hevites made Nebahaz and Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim burnt their children in fire, to Adramelech and Anamelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

drb@2Kings:17:32 @And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places.

drb@2Kings:17:33 @And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own gods according to the custom of the nations out of which they were brought to Samaria:

drb@2Kings:17:34 @Unto this day they followed the old manner: they fear not the Lord, neither do they keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he surnamed Israel:

drb@2Kings:17:35 @With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.

drb@2Kings:17:36 @But the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice.

drb@2Kings:17:37 @And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.

drb@2Kings:17:38 @And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship strange gods,

drb@2Kings:17:39 @But fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

drb@2Kings:17:40 @But they did not hearken, but did according to their old custom.

drb@2Kings:17:41 @So these nations feared the Lord, but nevertheless served also their idols: their children also and grandchildren, as their fathers did, so do they unto this day.

drb@2Kings:18:1 @In the third year of Osee the son of Ela king of Israel, reigned m Ezechias the son of Achaz king of Juda.

drb@2Kings:18:2 @He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi the daughter of Zacharias.

drb@2Kings:18:3 @And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

drb@2Kings:18:4 @He destroyed the n high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.

drb@2Kings:18:5 @He trusted in the Lord the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him:

drb@2Kings:18:6 @And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

drb@2Kings:18:7 @Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and in all things, to which he went forth, he behaved himself wisely. And he rebelled against the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.

drb@2Kings:18:8 @He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

drb@2Kings:18:9 @In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year of Osee the son of Ela king of Israel, Salmanasar king of the Assyrians came up to Samaria, and besieged it,

drb@2Kings:18:10 @And took it

drb@2Kings:18:11 @And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria, and placed them in Hale, and in Habor by the rivers of Gozan in the cities of the Medes:

drb@2Kings:18:12 @Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, they would not hear nor do.

drb@2Kings:18:13 @In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against the fenced cities of Juda: and took them.

drb@2Kings:18:14 @Then Ezechias king of Juda sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians put a tax upon Ezechias king of Juda, of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.

drb@2Kings:18:15 @And Ezechias gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's treasures.

drb@2Kings:18:16 @At that time Ezechias broke the doors of the temple of the Lord, and the plates of gold which he had fastened on them, and gave them to the king of the Assyrians.

drb@2Kings:18:17 @And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces from Lachis to king Ezechias with a strong army to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field.

drb@2Kings:18:18 @And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim the son of Helcias who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder.

drb@2Kings:18:19 @And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence, wherein thou trustest?

drb@2Kings:18:20 @Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?

drb@2Kings:18:21 @Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if a man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is Pharao king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.

drb@2Kings:18:22 @But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath commanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

drb@2Kings:18:23 @Now therefore come over to my master the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and see whether you be able to have riders for them.

drb@2Kings:18:24 @And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

drb@2Kings:18:25 @Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land and destroy it.

drb@2Kings:18:26 @Then Eliacim the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: We pray thee speak to us thy servants in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.

drb@2Kings:18:27 @And Rabsaces answered them, saying: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you?

drb@2Kings:18:28 @Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.

drb@2Kings:18:29 @Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of my hand.

drb@2Kings:18:30 @Neither let him make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

drb@2Kings:18:31 @Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me: and every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard, and of his own fig tree: and you shall drink water of your own cisterns,

drb@2Kings:18:32 @Till I come, and take you away to a land, like to your own land, a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives, and oil and honey, and you shall live, and not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will deliver us.

drb@2Kings:18:33 @Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

drb@2Kings:18:34 @Where is the god of Emath, end of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

drb@2Kings:18:35 @Who are they among all the gods of the nations, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

drb@2Kings:18:36 @But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.

drb@2Kings:18:37 @And Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Ezechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

drb@2Kings:19:1 @And when king Ezechias heard these words, he rent his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:19:2 @And he sent Eliacim, who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloths, to Isaias the prophet the son of Amos,

drb@2Kings:19:3 @And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the children are come to the birth, and the woman in travail hath not strength.

drb@2Kings:19:4 @It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and to reprove with words, which the Lord thy God hath heard: and do thou offer prayer for the remnants that are found.

drb@2Kings:19:5 @So the servants of king Ezechias came to Isaias.

drb@2Kings:19:6 @And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.

drb@2Kings:19:7 @Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return into his own country, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own country.

drb@2Kings:19:8 @And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.

drb@2Kings:19:9 @And when he heard of Theraca king of Ethiopia: Behold, he is come out to fight with thee: and was going against him, he sent messengers to Ezechias, saying:

drb@2Kings:19:10 @Thus shall you say to Ezechias king of Juda: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians

drb@2Kings:19:11 @Behold thou hast heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst thou alone be delivered?

drb@2Kings:19:12 @Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?

drb@2Kings:19:13 @Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana and of Ava?

drb@2Kings:19:14 @And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord,

drb@2Kings:19:15 @And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who sitteth upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kings of the earth: thou madest heaven and earth:

drb@2Kings:19:16 @Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the living God.

drb@2Kings:19:17 @Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.

drb@2Kings:19:18 @And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not Rods, but the works of men's hands of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

drb@2Kings:19:19 @Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou art the Lord the only God.

drb@2Kings:19:20 @And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherib king of the Assyrians.

drb@2Kings:19:21 @This is the word, that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.

drb@2Kings:19:22 @Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the holy one of Israel.

drb@2Kings:19:23 @By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.

drb@2Kings:19:24 @I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

drb@2Kings:19:25 @Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruin:

drb@2Kings:19:26 @And the inhabitants of them, were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

drb@2Kings:19:27 @Thy dwelling and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I knew before, and thy rage against me.

drb@2Kings:19:28 @Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way, by which thou camest.

drb@2Kings:19:29 @And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

drb@2Kings:19:30 @And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

drb@2Kings:19:31 @For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which shall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

drb@2Kings:19:32 @Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

drb@2Kings:19:33 @By the way that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.

drb@2Kings:19:34 @And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant's sake.

drb@2Kings:19:35 @And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.

drb@2Kings:19:36 @And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departing went away, and he re- turned and abode in Ninive.

drb@2Kings:19:37 @And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:20:1 @In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.

drb@2Kings:20:2 @And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying:

drb@2Kings:20:3 @I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

drb@2Kings:20:4 @And before Isaias was gone out of the middle of the court, the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

drb@2Kings:20:5 @Go back, and tell Ezechias the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee; on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:20:6 @And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David my servant's sake.

drb@2Kings:20:7 @And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of figs. And when they had brought it, and laid it upon his boil. he was healed.

drb@2Kings:20:8 @And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?

drb@2Kings:20:9 @And Isaias said to him: This shall be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back so many degrees?

drb@2Kings:20:10 @And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not desire that this be done, but let it return back ten degrees.

drb@2Kings:20:11 @And Isaias the prophet called upon the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backwards by the lines, by which it had already gone down in the dial of Achaz.

drb@2Kings:20:12 @At that time Berodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of the Babylonians, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that Ezechias had been sick

drb@2Kings:20:13 @And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he showed them the house of his aromatical spices, and the gold and the silver, and divers precious odours, and ointments, and the house of his vessels, and all that he had in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominions that Ezechias shewed them not.

drb@2Kings:20:14 @And Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said to him: From a far country they came to me out of Babylon.

drb@2Kings:20:15 @And he said: What did they see in thy house? Ezechias said: They saw all the things that are in my house: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewn them.

drb@2Kings:20:16 @And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:20:17 @Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

drb@2Kings:20:18 @And of thy sons also that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

drb@2Kings:20:19 @Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.

drb@2Kings:20:20 @And the rest of the acts of Ezechias and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought waters into the city, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:20:21 @And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:21:1 @Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba.

drb@2Kings:21:2 @And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

drb@2Kings:21:3 @And he turned, and built up the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

drb@2Kings:21:4 @And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

drb@2Kings:21:5 @And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:21:6 @And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divination, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

drb@2Kings:21:7 @He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

drb@2Kings:21:8 @And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them.

drb@2Kings:21:9 @But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

drb@2Kings:21:10 @And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:

drb@2Kings:21:11 @Because Manasses king of Juda hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:

drb@2Kings:21:12 @Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle.

drb@2Kings:21:13 @And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the pencil often over the face thereof.

drb@2Kings:21:14 @And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and a spoil to all their enemies

drb@2Kings:21:15 @Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

drb@2Kings:21:16 @Moreover Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

drb@2Kings:21:17 @Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, end his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:21:18 @And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amen his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:21:19 @Two and twenty years old was Amen when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth the daughter of Harus of Jeteba.

drb@2Kings:21:20 @And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done.

drb@2Kings:21:21 @And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them;

drb@2Kings:21:22 @And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:21:23 @And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.

drb@2Kings:21:24 @But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.

drb@2Kings:21:25 @But the rest of the acts of Amen which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:21:26 @And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:22:1 @Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.

drb@2Kings:22:2 @And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David his father: he turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left.

drb@2Kings:22:3 @And in the eighteenth year of b king Josias, the king sent Saphan the son of Assia, the son of Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the Lord, saying to him:

drb@2Kings:22:4 @Go to Helcias the high priest, that the money may be put together which is brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers of the temple have gathered of the people.

drb@2Kings:22:5 @And let it be given to the workmen by the overseers of the house of the Lord: and lot them distribute it to those that work in the temple of the Lord, to repair the temple:

drb@2Kings:22:6 @That is, to carpenters and masons, and to such as mend breaches: and that timber may be bought, and stones out of the quarries, to repair the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:22:7 @But let there be no reckoning made with them of the money which they receive, but let them have it in their power, and in their trust.

drb@2Kings:22:8 @And Helcias the high priest said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and he read it.

drb@2Kings:22:9 @And Saphan the scribe came to the king, and brought him word again concerning that which he had commanded, and said: Thy servants have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and they have given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the overseers of the works of the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:22:10 @And Saphan the scribe told the king, saying: Helcias the priest hath delivered to me a book. And when Saphan had read it before the king,

drb@2Kings:22:11 @And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent his garments.

drb@2Kings:22:12 @And he commanded Helcias the priest, and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Achobor the son of Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and Asaia the king's servant, saying:

drb@2Kings:22:13 @Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Juda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us.

drb@2Kings:22:14 @So Helcias the priest, and Ahicam, and Achobor, and Saphan, and Asaia went to Holda the prophetess the wife of Sellum the son of Thecua, the son of Araas keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second: and they spoke to her.

drb@2Kings:22:15 @And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to me:

drb@2Kings:22:16 @Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the king of Juda hath read:

drb@2Kings:22:17 @Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my indignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

drb@2Kings:22:18 @But to the king of Juda, who sent you to consult the Lord, thus shall you say: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Forasmuch as thou hast heard the words of the book,

drb@2Kings:22:19 @And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the inhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a curse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me, I also have heard thee, saith the Lord:

drb@2Kings:22:20 @Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy sepulchre in peace, that thy eyes may not see all the evils which I will bring; upon this place.

drb@2Kings:23:1 @And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.

drb@2Kings:23:2 @And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests and the prophets, and all the people both little and great: and in the hearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:23:3 @And the king stood upon the step: and made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all their soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were written in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.

drb@2Kings:23:4 @And the king commanded Helcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

drb@2Kings:23:5 @And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.

drb@2Kings:23:6 @And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people.

drb@2Kings:23:7 @He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.

drb@2Kings:23:8 @And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue governor of tile city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.

drb@2Kings:23:9 @However the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

drb@2Kings:23:10 @And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son or his daughter through fire to Moloch.

drb@2Kings:23:11 @And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the chariots of the sun with fire.

drb@2Kings:23:12 @And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron.

drb@2Kings:23:13 @The high places also that were at Jerusalem on the right side of the Mount of Offence, O which Solomon king of Israel had built to Astaroth the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled.

drb@2Kings:23:14 @And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

drb@2Kings:23:15 @Moreover the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove.

drb@2Kings:23:16 @And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.

drb@2Kings:23:17 @And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of Bethel.

drb@2Kings:23:18 @And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones

drb@2Kings:23:19 @Moreover all the temples of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

drb@2Kings:23:20 @And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there, upon the altars: and he burnt men's bones upon them: and returned to Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:23:21 @And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.

drb@2Kings:23:22 @Now there was no such a phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,

drb@2Kings:23:23 @As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.

drb@2Kings:23:24 @Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had been in the land of Juda, and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might perform the words of the law, that were written in the book which Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:23:25 @There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with ail his strength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did there arise any like him.

drb@2Kings:23:26 @But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him.

drb@2Kings:23:27 @And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.

drb@2Kings:23:28 @Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

drb@2Kings:23:29 @In his days Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet him: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.

drb@2Kings:23:30 @And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in Iris own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

drb@2Kings:23:31 @Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

drb@2Kings:23:32 @And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

drb@2Kings:23:33 @And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of Emath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon the land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

drb@2Kings:23:34 @And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim the son of Josias king in the room of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.

drb@2Kings:23:35 @And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had taxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the commandment of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every man according to his ability: to give to Pharao Nechao.

drb@2Kings:23:36 @Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida the daughter of Phadaia of Ruma.

drb@2Kings:23:37 @And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers had done.

drb@2Kings:24:1 @In his days Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him.

drb@2Kings:24:2 @And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants the prophets.

drb@2Kings:24:3 @And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did.

drb@2Kings:24:4 @And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

drb@2Kings:24:5 @But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept with his fathers:

drb@2Kings:24:6 @And Joachin his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Kings:24:7 @And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own country: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.

drb@2Kings:24:8 @Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, a and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:24:9 @And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

drb@2Kings:24:10 @At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts.

drb@2Kings:24:11 @And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came to the city with his servants to assault it.

drb@2Kings:24:12 @And Joachin king of Juda went out to the king of Babylon, he end his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

drb@2Kings:24:13 @And he brought out from thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

drb@2Kings:24:14 @And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

drb@2Kings:24:15 @And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem into Babylon.

drb@2Kings:24:16 @And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and the smiths a thousand, all that were valiant men and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.

drb@2Kings:24:17 @And he appointed Matthanias his uncle in his stead: and called his name Sedecias.

drb@2Kings:24:18 @Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

drb@2Kings:24:19 @And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

drb@2Kings:24:20 @For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Juda, till he cast them out from his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon

drb@2Kings:25:1 @And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, he and all his army against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: end raised works round about it.

drb@2Kings:25:2 @And the city was shut up and besieged till the eleventh year of king Sedecias,

drb@2Kings:25:3 @The ninth day of the month: and a famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

drb@2Kings:25:4 @And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden, (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about,) and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.

drb@2Kings:25:5 @And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him were scattered, and left him:

drb@2Kings:25:6 @So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.

drb@2Kings:25:7 @And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his face, and he put out his eyes, and bound him with chains, and brought him to Babylon.

drb@2Kings:25:8 @In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of the king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan commander of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.

drb@2Kings:25:9 @And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every house he burnt with fire

drb@2Kings:25:10 @And all the army of the Chaldees, which was with the commander of the troops, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

drb@2Kings:25:11 @And Nabuzardan the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.

drb@2Kings:25:12 @But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

drb@2Kings:25:13 @And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

drb@2Kings:25:14 @They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

drb@2Kings:25:15 @Moreover also the censers, and the bowls, such as were of gold in gold, and such as were of silver in silver, the general of the army took away.

drb@2Kings:25:16 @That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

drb@2Kings:25:17 @One pillar was eighteen cubits high, and the chapiter of brass which was upon it was three cubits high: and the network, and the pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of brass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.

drb@2Kings:25:18 @And the general of the army took Seraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and three doorkeepers.

drb@2Kings:25:19 @And out of the city one eunuch, who was captain over the men of war: and five men of them that had stood before the king, whom he found in the city, and Sopher the captain of the army who exercised the young soldiers of the people of the land: and threescore men of the common people, who were found in the city.

drb@2Kings:25:20 @These Nabuzardan the general of the army took away, and carried them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.

drb@2Kings:25:21 @And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Emath: so Juda was carried away out of their land.

drb@2Kings:25:22 @But over the people that remained in the land of Juda, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had left, he gave the government to Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan.

drb@2Kings:25:23 @And when all the captains of the soldiers had heard this, they and the men that were with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had made Godolias governor, they came to Godolias to Maspha, Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and Saraia the son of Thanehumeth the Netophathite, and Jezonias the son of Maachathi, they and their men.

drb@2Kings:25:24 @And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying: Be not afraid to serve the Chaldees: stay in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

drb@2Kings:25:25 @But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the seed royal came, and ten men with him: and smote Godolias so that he died: and also the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.

drb@2Kings:25:26 @And all the people both little and great, and the captains of the soldiers, rising up went to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.

drb@2Kings:25:27 @And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda, in the twelfth month the seven and twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin king of Juda out of prison.

drb@2Kings:25:28 @And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

drb@2Kings:25:29 @And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate bread always before him, all the days of his life.

drb@2Kings:25:30 @And he appointed him a continual allowance, which was also given him by the king day by day, all the days of his life.

drb@1Chronicles:1:43 @Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there was a king over the children of Israel: Bale the son of Beer: and the name of his city was Denaba.

drb@1Chronicles:1:51 @And after the death of Adad, there began to be dukes in Edom instead of kings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,

drb@1Chronicles:9:1 @And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

drb@1Chronicles:16:21 @He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake

drb@1Chronicles:19:9 @And the children of Ammon came out and put their army in array before the gate of the city: and the kings, that were come to their aid, stood apart in the field.

drb@1Chronicles:20:1 @And it came to pass after the course of a year, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab gathered together an army and the strength of the troops, and wasted the land of the children of Ammon: and went and besieged Rabba. But David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab smote Rabba, and destroyed it.

drb@2Chronicles:1:12 @Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee, nor after thee, shall be like thee.

drb@2Chronicles:1:17 @A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all the kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.

drb@2Chronicles:9:14 @Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the merchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the lords of the lands, who I brought gold and silver to Solomon.

drb@2Chronicles:9:22 @And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for riches and glory.

drb@2Chronicles:9:23 @And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of Solomon, that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his heart.

drb@2Chronicles:9:26 @And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.

drb@2Chronicles:16:11 @But the works of Asa the first and last are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:20:34 @But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, are written in the words of Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested into the books of the kings of Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:21:6 @And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

drb@2Chronicles:21:13 @But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,

drb@2Chronicles:21:20 @He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

drb@2Chronicles:24:16 @And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.

drb@2Chronicles:24:25 @And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

drb@2Chronicles:24:27 @And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Chronicles:25:26 @Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:27:7 @Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all his wars, and his works, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda.

drb@2Chronicles:28:2 @But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.

drb@2Chronicles:28:21 @And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing.

drb@2Chronicles:28:23 @Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:28:26 @But the rest of his acts, and all his works first and last are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:28:27 @And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they received him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his stead.

drb@2Chronicles:32:4 @He gathered together a very great multitude, and they stopped up all the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the land, saying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and And abundance of water.

drb@2Chronicles:32:32 @Now the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and of his mercies are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:33:18 @But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:34:11 @But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy stones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the building, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had destroyed.

drb@2Chronicles:35:18 @There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

drb@2Chronicles:35:24 @And they removed him from the chariot into another, that followed him after the manner of kings, and they carried him away to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in the monument of his fathers, and all Juda and Jerusalem mourned for him,

drb@2Chronicles:35:27 @And his works first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

drb@2Chronicles:36:8 @But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and his abominations, which he wrought, and the things that were found in him, are contained in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned in his stead.

drb@Ezra:4:13 @And now be it known to the king, that if this city be built up, and the walls thereof repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor yearly revenues, and this loss will fail upon the kings.

drb@Ezra:4:15 @That search may be made in the books of the histories of thy fathers, and thou shalt find written in the records: and shalt know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings and provinces, and that wars were raised therein of old time: for which cause also the city was destroyed.

drb@Ezra:4:19 @And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that this city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and wars have been raised therein.

drb@Ezra:4:20 @For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who hare had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues.

drb@Ezra:4:22 @See that you be not negligent in executing this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

drb@Ezra:6:14 @And the ancients of the Jews built and prospered according to the prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the Persians

drb@Ezra:7:12 @Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned scribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting.

drb@Ezra:9:7 @From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day.

drb@Nehemiah:9:24 @And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as it pleased them.

drb@Nehemiah:9:32 @Now therefore our God, great, strong and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.

drb@Nehemiah:9:34 @Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.

drb@Nehemiah:9:37 @And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.

drb@Esther:1:13 @Baked the wise men, who according to the custom of the kings, were always near his person, and all he did was by their counsel, who knew the laws, and judgments of their forefathers:

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