nasb 1Kings:1:1-27
nasb@1Kings:1:1 @Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.
nasb@1Kings:1:2 @So his servants said to him, "Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm."
nasb@1Kings:1:3 @So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
nasb@1Kings:1:4 @The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and served him, but the king did not cohabit with her.
nasb@1Kings:1:5 @Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen with fifty men to run before him.
nasb@1Kings:1:6 @His father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" And he was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalom.
nasb@1Kings:1:7 @He had conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and following Adonijah they helped him.
nasb@1Kings:1:8 @But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
nasb@1Kings:1:9 @Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants.
nasb@1Kings:1:10 @But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, and Solomon his brother.
nasb@1Kings:1:11 @Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it?
nasb@1Kings:1:12" @So now come, please let me give you counsel and save your life and the life of your son Solomon.
nasb@1Kings:1:13" @Go at once to King David and say to him, 'Have you not, my lord, O king, sworn to your maidservant, saying, " Surely Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne"? Why then has Adonijah become king?'
nasb@1Kings:1:14" @Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king, I will come in after you and confirm your words."
nasb@1Kings:1:15 @So Bathsheba went in to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
nasb@1Kings:1:16 @Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself before the king. And the king said, "What do you wish?"
nasb@1Kings:1:17 @She said to him, "My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God, saying, ' Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.'
nasb@1Kings:1:18" @Now, behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the king, you do not know it.
nasb@1Kings:1:19" @ He has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
nasb@1Kings:1:20" @As for you now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
nasb@1Kings:1:21" @Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders."
nasb@1Kings:1:22 @Behold, while she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
nasb@1Kings:1:23 @They told the king, saying, "Here is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground.
nasb@1Kings:1:24 @Then Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne'?
nasb@1Kings:1:25" @ For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons and the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest, and behold, they are eating and drinking before him; and they say, ' Long live King Adonijah!'
nasb@1Kings:1:26" @ But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and your servant Solomon, he has not invited.
nasb@1Kings:1:27" @Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"
nasb@1Kings:1:28 @Then King David said, "Call Bathsheba to me." And she came into the king's presence and stood before the king.
nasb@1Kings:1:29 @The king vowed and said, " As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
nasb@1Kings:1:30 @surely as I vowed to you by the LORD the God of Israel, saying, 'Your son Solomon shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place'; I will indeed do so this day."
nasb@1Kings:1:31 @Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king and said, " May my lord King David live forever."
nasb@1Kings:1:32 @Then King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." And they came into the king's presence.
nasb@1Kings:1:33 @The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
nasb@1Kings:1:34" @Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, ' Long live King Solomon!'
nasb@1Kings:1:35" @Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne and be king in my place; for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah."
nasb@1Kings:1:36 @Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! Thus may the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say.
nasb@1Kings:1:37" @ As the LORD has been with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David!"
nasb@1Kings:1:38 @So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
nasb@1Kings:1:39 @Zadok the priest then took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, " Long live King Solomon!"
nasb@1Kings:1:40 @All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.
nasb@1Kings:1:41 @Now Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "Why is the city making such an uproar?"
nasb@1Kings:1:42 @While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Then Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a valiant man and bring good news."
nasb@1Kings:1:43 @But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, "No! Our lord King David has made Solomon king.
nasb@1Kings:1:44" @The king has also sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites; and they have made him ride on the king's mule.
nasb@1Kings:1:45" @Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise which you have heard.
nasb@1Kings:1:46" @Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom.
nasb@1Kings:1:47" @Moreover, the king's servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' And the king bowed himself on the bed.
nasb@1Kings:1:48" @The king has also said thus, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one to sit on my throne today while my own eyes see it.'"
nasb@1Kings:1:49 @Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way.
nasb@1Kings:1:50 @And Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, and he arose, went and took hold of the horns of the altar.
nasb@1Kings:1:51 @Now it was told Solomon, saying, "Behold, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, for behold, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.'"
nasb@1Kings:1:52 @Solomon said, "If he is a worthy man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he will die."
nasb@1Kings:10:1 @Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
nasb@1Kings:10:2 @So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart.
nasb@1Kings:10:3 @Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was hidden from the king which he did not explain to her.
nasb@1Kings:10:4 @When the queen of Sheba perceived all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
nasb@1Kings:10:5 @the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.
nasb@1Kings:10:6 @Then she said to the king, "It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.
nasb@1Kings:10:7" @Nevertheless I did not believe the reports, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard.
nasb@1Kings:10:8" @How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.
nasb@1Kings:10:9" @ Blessed be the LORD your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness."
nasb@1Kings:10:10 @She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. Never again did such abundance of spices come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
nasb@1Kings:10:11 @Also the ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones.
nasb@1Kings:10:12 @The king made of the almug trees supports for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again nor have they been seen to this day.
nasb@1Kings:10:13 @King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire which she requested, besides what he gave her according to his royal bounty. Then she turned and went to her own land together with her servants.
nasb@1Kings:10:14 @Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
nasb@1Kings:10:15 @besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.
nasb@1Kings:10:16 @King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.
nasb@1Kings:10:17 @He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
nasb@1Kings:10:18 @Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.
nasb@1Kings:10:19 @There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.
nasb@1Kings:10:20 @Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom.
nasb@1Kings:10:21 @All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.
nasb@1Kings:10:22 @For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
nasb@1Kings:10:23 @So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
nasb@1Kings:10:24 @All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
nasb@1Kings:10:25 @They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
nasb@1Kings:10:26 @Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
nasb@1Kings:10:27 @The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
nasb@1Kings:10:28 @Also Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's merchants procured them from Kue for a price.
nasb@1Kings:10:29 @A chariot was imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and by the same means they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.
nasb@1Kings:11:1 @Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh- Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
nasb@1Kings:11:2 @from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the sons of Israel, " You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods." Solomon held fast to these in love.
nasb@1Kings:11:3 @He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.
nasb@1Kings:11:4 @For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
nasb@1Kings:11:5 @For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after Milcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites.
nasb@1Kings:11:6 @Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not follow the LORD fully, as David his father had done.
nasb@1Kings:11:7 @Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.
nasb@1Kings:11:8 @Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
nasb@1Kings:11:9 @Now the LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
nasb@1Kings:11:10 @and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what the LORD had commanded.
nasb@1Kings:11:11 @So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
nasb@1Kings:11:12" @Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
nasb@1Kings:11:13" @However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
nasb@1Kings:11:14 @Then the LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal line in Edom.
nasb@1Kings:11:15 @For it came about, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck down every male in Edom
nasb@1Kings:11:16 @(for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),
nasb@1Kings:11:17 @that Hadad fled to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy.
nasb@1Kings:11:18 @They arose from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land.
nasb@1Kings:11:19 @Now Hadad found great favor before Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
nasb@1Kings:11:20 @The sister of Tahpenes bore his son Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.
nasb@1Kings:11:21 @But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away, that I may go to my own country."
nasb@1Kings:11:22 @Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you are seeking to go to your own country?" And he answered, "Nothing; nevertheless you must surely let me go."
nasb@1Kings:11:23 @God also raised up another adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
nasb@1Kings:11:24 @He gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, after David slew them of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed there, and reigned in Damascus.
nasb@1Kings:11:25 @So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the evil that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram.
nasb@1Kings:11:26 @Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king.
nasb@1Kings:11:27 @Now this was the reason why he rebelled against the king- Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.
nasb@1Kings:11:28 @Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.
nasb@1Kings:11:29 @It came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field.
nasb@1Kings:11:30 @Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
nasb@1Kings:11:31 @He said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes
nasb@1Kings:11:32 @( but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel),
nasb@1Kings:11:33 @because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.
nasb@1Kings:11:34 @'Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments and My statutes;
nasb@1Kings:11:35 @but I will take the kingdom from his son's hand and give it to you, even ten tribes.
nasb@1Kings:11:36 @'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
nasb@1Kings:11:37 @'I will take you, and you shall reign over whatever you desire, and you shall be king over Israel.
nasb@1Kings:11:38 @'Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
nasb@1Kings:11:39 @'Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.'"
nasb@1Kings:11:40 @Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
nasb@1Kings:11:41 @Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
nasb@1Kings:11:42 @Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
nasb@1Kings:11:43 @And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.
nasb@1Kings:12:1 @Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
nasb@1Kings:12:2 @Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, he was living in Egypt (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon).
nasb@1Kings:12:3 @Then they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
nasb@1Kings:12:4" @ Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."
nasb@1Kings:12:5 @Then he said to them, " Depart for three days, then return to me." So the people departed.
nasb@1Kings:12:6 @King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?"
nasb@1Kings:12:7 @Then they spoke to him, saying, " If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
nasb@1Kings:12:8 @But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.
nasb@1Kings:12:9 @So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?"
nasb@1Kings:12:10 @The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!' But you shall speak to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!
nasb@1Kings:12:11 @'Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'"
nasb@1Kings:12:12 @Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, " Return to me on the third day."
nasb@1Kings:12:13 @The king answered the people harshly, for he forsook the advice of the elders which they had given him,
nasb@1Kings:12:14 @and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, " My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
nasb@1Kings:12:15 @So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a turn of events from the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
nasb@1Kings:12:16 @When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; To your tents, O Israel! Now look after your own house, David!" So Israel departed to their tents.
nasb@1Kings:12:17 @But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
nasb@1Kings:12:18 @Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
nasb@1Kings:12:19 @So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
nasb@1Kings:12:20 @It came about when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. None but the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
nasb@1Kings:12:21 @Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
nasb@1Kings:12:22 @But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
nasb@1Kings:12:23" @Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying,
nasb@1Kings:12:24 @'Thus says the LORD, "You must not go up and fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me."'" So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way according to the word of the LORD.
nasb@1Kings:12:25 @Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.
nasb@1Kings:12:26 @Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
nasb@1Kings:12:27" @ If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah."
nasb@1Kings:12:28 @So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt."
nasb@1Kings:12:29 @He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
nasb@1Kings:12:30 @Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
nasb@1Kings:12:31 @And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.
nasb@1Kings:12:32 @Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
nasb@1Kings:12:33 @Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
nasb@1Kings:13:1 @Now behold, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
nasb@1Kings:13:2 @He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD, 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'"
nasb@1Kings:13:3 @Then he gave a sign the same day, saying, " This is the sign which the LORD has spoken, 'Behold, the altar shall be split apart and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.'"
nasb@1Kings:13:4 @Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
nasb@1Kings:13:5 @The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
nasb@1Kings:13:6 @The king said to the man of God, "Please entreat the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
nasb@1Kings:13:7 @Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."
nasb@1Kings:13:8 @But the man of God said to the king, " If you were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
nasb@1Kings:13:9" @For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way which you came.'"
nasb@1Kings:13:10 @So he went another way and did not return by the way which he came to Bethel.
nasb@1Kings:13:11 @Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father.
nasb@1Kings:13:12 @Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons had seen the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
nasb@1Kings:13:13 @Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it.
nasb@1Kings:13:14 @So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."
nasb@1Kings:13:15 @Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread."
nasb@1Kings:13:16 @He said, " I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
nasb@1Kings:13:17" @For a command came to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.'"
nasb@1Kings:13:18 @He said to him, " I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.
nasb@1Kings:13:19 @So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.
nasb@1Kings:13:20 @Now it came about, as they were sitting down at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;
nasb@1Kings:13:21 @and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the command of the LORD, and have not observed the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
nasb@1Kings:13:22 @but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, "Eat no bread and drink no water"; your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers.'"
nasb@1Kings:13:23 @It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
nasb@1Kings:13:24 @Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body.
nasb@1Kings:13:25 @And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.
nasb@1Kings:13:26 @Now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him."
nasb@1Kings:13:27 @Then he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." And they saddled it.
nasb@1Kings:13:28 @He went and found his body thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten the body nor torn the donkey.
nasb@1Kings:13:29 @So the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.
nasb@1Kings:13:30 @He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, " Alas, my brother!"
nasb@1Kings:13:31 @After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
nasb@1Kings:13:32" @ For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria."
nasb@1Kings:13:33 @After this event Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again he made priests of the high places from among all the people; any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places.
nasb@1Kings:13:34 @This event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth.
nasb@1Kings:14:1 @At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
nasb@1Kings:14:2 @Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise now, and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people.
nasb@1Kings:14:3" @ Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."
nasb@1Kings:14:4 @Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
nasb@1Kings:14:5 @Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman."
nasb@1Kings:14:6 @When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.
nasb@1Kings:14:7" @Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, " Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,
nasb@1Kings:14:8 @and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you-- yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight;
nasb@1Kings:14:9 @you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back--
nasb@1Kings:14:10 @therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
nasb@1Kings:14:11" @ Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'
nasb@1Kings:14:12" @Now you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city the child will die.
nasb@1Kings:14:13" @All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
nasb@1Kings:14:14" @Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.
nasb@1Kings:14:15" @For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.
nasb@1Kings:14:16" @He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin."
nasb@1Kings:14:17 @Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.
nasb@1Kings:14:18 @All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
nasb@1Kings:14:19 @Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
nasb@1Kings:14:20 @The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
nasb@1Kings:14:21 @Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
nasb@1Kings:14:22 @Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.
nasb@1Kings:14:23 @For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
nasb@1Kings:14:24 @There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
nasb@1Kings:14:25 @Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
nasb@1Kings:14:26 @He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and he took everything, even taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
nasb@1Kings:14:27 @So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway of the king's house.
nasb@1Kings:14:28 @Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards' room.
nasb@1Kings:14:29 @Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
nasb@1Kings:14:30 @There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
nasb@1Kings:14:31 @And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place.
nasb@1Kings:15:1 @Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.
nasb@1Kings:15:2 @He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
nasb@1Kings:15:3 @He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David.
nasb@1Kings:15:4 @But for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;
nasb@1Kings:15:5 @because David did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
nasb@1Kings:15:6 @There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
nasb@1Kings:15:7 @Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
nasb@1Kings:15:8 @And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son became king in his place.
nasb@1Kings:15:9 @So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to reign as king of Judah.
nasb@1Kings:15:10 @He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
nasb@1Kings:15:11 @Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father.
nasb@1Kings:15:12 @He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
nasb@1Kings:15:13 @He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
nasb@1Kings:15:14 @But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.
nasb@1Kings:15:15 @He brought into the house of the LORD the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things- silver and gold and utensils.
nasb@1Kings:15:16 @Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
nasb@1Kings:15:17 @Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.
nasb@1Kings:15:18 @Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,
nasb@1Kings:15:19" @Let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold; go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me."
nasb@1Kings:15:20 @So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali.
nasb@1Kings:15:21 @When Baasha heard of it, he ceased fortifying Ramah and remained in Tirzah.
nasb@1Kings:15:22 @Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah--none was exempt--and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had built. And King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
nasb@1Kings:15:23 @Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
nasb@1Kings:15:24 @And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.
nasb@1Kings:15:25 @Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.
nasb@1Kings:15:26 @He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin.
nasb@1Kings:15:27 @Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
nasb@1Kings:15:28 @So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place.
nasb@1Kings:15:29 @It came about as soon as he was king, he struck down all the household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam any persons alive, until he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
nasb@1Kings:15:30 @and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
nasb@1Kings:15:31 @Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}