1 Kings1

1Now king David [beloved] was old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
2For what reason his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in youri bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
3So they sought for a fair girl throughout all the coasts of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and found Avishag [my father is a wanderer] a Shunamit [double resting place], and brought her to the king.
4And the girl [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
5Then Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] the son of Haggit [festive] exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
6And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have youi done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his mother] bore him after Avshalom [my father is peace].
7And he conferred with Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam], and with Avyatar [my father is great] the priest: and they following Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] helped [him].
8But Tzadok [righteous] the priest, and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows], and Natan [giver] the prophet, and Shime’i [Fame], and Re’i [friendly], and the mighty men which [belonged] to David [beloved], were not with Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah].
9And Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] killed sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zochelet [serpent], which [is] by ‘Ein-Rogel (a place near Jerusalem) [Fount of the Fuller (washer and/or bleacher of clothes)], and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] the king’s servants:
10But Natan [giver] the prophet, and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built], and the mighty men, and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] his brother, he called not.
11For what reason Natan [giver] spoke unto Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] the mother of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], saying, Have youi not heard that Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] the son of Haggit [festive] does reign, and David [beloved] our lord knows [it] not?
12Now therefore come, let me, I pray youi, give youri counsel, that youi may save youri own life, and the life of youri son Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
13Go and get youi in unto king David [beloved], and say unto him, Didst not youi, my lord, O king, swear unto youi female servant, saying, Assuredly Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] youri son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then does Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] reign?
14Behold, while youi yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after youi, and confirm youri words.
15And Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Avishag [my father is a wanderer] the Shunamit [double resting place] ministered unto the king.
16And Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] bowed, and did obesiance (bowing or kneeling in respect) unto the king. And the king said, What would youi?
17And she said unto him, My lord, youi swore by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] unto youri female servant, [saying], Assuredly Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] youri son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
18And now, behold, Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] reigns; and now, my lord the king, youi know [it] not:
19And he has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Avyatar [my father is great] the priest, and Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the captain of the host: but Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] youri servant has he not called.
20And youi, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [are] upon youi, that youi should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
21Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] shall be counted offenders.
22And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Natan [giver] the prophet also came in.
23And they told the king, saying, Behold Natan [giver] the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
24And Natan [giver] said, My lord, O king, have youi said, Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
25For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Avyatar [my father is great] the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, Long live king Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah]!
26But me, [even] me youri servant, and Tzadok [righteous] the priest, and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows], and youri servant Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], has he not called.
27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and youi have not showed [it] unto youri servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
28Then king David [beloved] answered and said, Call me Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath]. And she came into the king’s presence, and stood before the king.
29And the king swore, and said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, that has redeemed my soul out of all distress,
30Even as I swore unto youi by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, Assuredly Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] youri son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
31Then Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David [beloved] live forever.
32And king David [beloved] said, Call me Tzadok [righteous] the priest, and Natan [giver] the prophet, and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows]. And they came before the king.
33The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] my son to ride upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gikhon (Bursting Forth):
34And let Tzadok [righteous] the priest and Natan [giver] the prophet anoint him there king over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and blow you2f with the trumpet, and say, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] save king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
35Then you2f shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
36And B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of my lord the king say so [too].
37As the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David [beloved].
38So Tzadok [righteous] the priest, and Natan [giver] the prophet, and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows], and the K’reti [executioners], and the P’leti [couriers], went down, and caused Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] to ride upon king David’s [beloved]’s mule, and brought him to Gikhon (Bursting Forth).
39And Tzadok [righteous] the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] save king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
40And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
41And Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] and all the guests that [were] with him heard [it] as they had made an end of eating. And when Yo’av [Yehovah is father] heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, For what reason [is this] noise of the city being in an uproar?
42And while he yet spoke, behold, Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the son of Avyatar [my father is great] the priest came: and Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] said unto him, Come in; for youi [are] a valiant man, and brings good tidings.
43And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] answered and said to Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah], Truly our lord king David [beloved] has made Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] king.
44And the king has sent with him Tzadok [righteous] the priest, and Natan [giver] the prophet, and B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows], and the K’reti [executioners], and the P’leti [couriers], and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
45And Tzadok [righteous] the priest and Natan [giver] the prophet have anointed him king in Gikhon (Bursting Forth): and they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This [is] the noise that you2f have heard.
46And also Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sits on the throne of the kingdom.
47And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David [beloved], saying, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] make the name of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] better than youi name, and make his throne greater than youi throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
48And also thus said the king, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which has given [one] to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing [it].
49And all the guests that [were] with Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.
50And Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] feared because of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
51And it was told Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], saying, Behold, Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] fears king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]: for, lo, he has caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
52And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to (to do entirely, do wholly) the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
53So king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]: and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] said unto him, Go to youri house.
1Now the days of David [beloved] drew near that he should die; and he charged Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] his son, saying,
2I go the way of all the earth: be youi strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
3And keep the charge of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], that youi may prosper in all that youi do, and to wherever youi turn yourself:
4That the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) may continue his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If youi children take heed to their way, to walk before me in twith all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail youi (said he) a man on the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
5Moreover youi know also what Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam] did to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], unto Avner [my father is a lamp] the son of Ner [lamp], and unto ‘Amasa [burden] the son of Yeter [abundance], whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his belt that [was] about his waist, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.
6Do therefore according to youri wisdom, and let not his grey head go down to the grave in peace.
7But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai [my iron] the Gil’adi [Hill of Testimony], and let them be of those that eat at youi table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Avshalom [my father is peace] youri brother.
8And, behold, [youi have] with youi Shime’i [Fame] the son of Gera [A Grain], from the tribe of Binyamin [A Son of the Right Hand] of Bachurim [young men’s Villiage], which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Machanayim [Two Camps]: but he came down to meet me at Yarden [Descender], and I swore to him by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, I will not put youi to death with the sword.
9Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for youi [are] a wise man, and know what youi ought to do unto him; but his grey head bring youi down to the grave with blood.
10So David [beloved] slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David [beloved].
11And the days that David [beloved] reigned over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [were] forty years: seven years reigned he in Hevron [Seat of Association], and thirty and three years reigned he in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
12Then sat Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] upon the throne of David [beloved] his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
13And Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] the son of Haggit [festive] came to Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] the mother of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]. And she said, Come youi peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
14He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto youi. And she said, Say on.
15And he said, youi know that the kingdom was my, and [that] all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
16And now I ask one petition of youi, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
17And he said, Speak, I pray youi, unto Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the king, (for he will not say youi No,) that he give me Avishag [my father is a wanderer] the Shunamit [double resting place] to wife.
18And Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] said, Well; I will speak for youi unto the king.
19Bat-Sheva [daughter of an oath] therefore went unto king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], to speak unto him for Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah]. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
20Then she said, I desire one small petition of youi; [I pray youi], say me not No. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say youi No.
21And she said, Let Avishag [my father is a wanderer] the Shunamit [double resting place] be given to Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] youri brother to wife.
22And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] answered and said unto his mother, And why do youi ask Avishag [my father is a wanderer] the Shunamit [double resting place] for Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah]? ask for him the kingdom also; for he [is] my elder brother; even for him, and for Avyatar [my father is great] the priest, and for Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam].
23Then king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] swore by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] do so to me, and more also, if Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] have not spoken this word against his own life.
24Now therefore, [as] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, which has established me, and set me on the throne of David [beloved] my father, and who has made me an house, as he promised, Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah] shall be put to death this day.
25And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sent by the hand of B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows]; and he fell upon him that he died.
26And unto Avyatar [my father is great] the priest said the king, Get youi to ‘Anatot [answers to prayer], unto youri own fields; for youi [are] worthy of death: but I will not at this time put youi to death, because youi barest the ark of the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) before David [beloved] my father, and because youi have been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
27So Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] thrust out Avyatar [my father is great] from being priest unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); that he might fulfill the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke concerning the house of ‘Eli [ascension] in Shiloh [Place of Rest].
28Then tidings came to Yo’av [Yehovah is father]: for Yo’av [Yehovah is father] had turned after Adoniyah [my lord is Yehovah], though he turned not after Avshalom [my father is peace]. And Yo’av [Yehovah is father] fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
29And it was told king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] that Yo’av [Yehovah is father] was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and, behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sent B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows], saying, Go, fall upon him.
30And B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] came to the tabernacle of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said unto him, Thus says the king, Come forth. And he said, No; but I will die here. And B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Yo’av [Yehovah is father], and thus he answered me.
31And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that youi may take away the innocent blood, which Yo’av [Yehovah is father] shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
32And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David [beloved] not knowing [thereof, that is to say], Avner [my father is a lamp] the son of Ner [lamp], captain of the host of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and ‘Amasa [burden] the son of Yeter [abundance], captain of the host of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
33Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Yo’av [Yehovah is father], and upon the head of his seed forever: but upon David [beloved], and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace forever from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
34So B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] went up, and fell upon him, and killed him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
35And the king put B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] in his room over the host: and Tzadok [righteous] the priest did the king put in the room of Avyatar [my father is great].
36And the king sent and called for Shime’i [Fame], and said unto him, Build youi an house in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and dwell there, and go not forth there any to which.
37For it shall be, [that] on the day youi go out, and pass over the brook Kidron [dark], youi shall know for certain that youi shall surely die: youri blood shall be upon youri own head.
38And Shime’i [Fame] said unto the king, The saying [is] good: as my lord the king has said, so will youri servant do. And Shime’i [Fame] dwelt in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] many days.
39And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shime’i [Fame] ran away unto Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] son of Ma’akhah [oppression] king of Gat [Winepress]. And they told Shime’i [Fame], saying, Behold, youri servants [be] in Gat [Winepress].
40And Shime’i [Fame] arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gat [Winepress] to Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] to seek his servants: and Shime’i [Fame] went, and brought his servants from Gat [Winepress].
41And it was told Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] that Shime’i [Fame] had gone from Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to Gat [Winepress], and was come again.
42And the king sent and called for Shime’i [Fame], and said unto him, Did I not make youi to swear by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and protested unto youi, saying, Know for a certain, on the day youi go out, and walk abroad any to which, that youi shall surely die? and youi said unto me, The word [that] I have heard [is] good.
43Why then have youi not kept the oath of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the commandment that I have charged youi with?
44The king said moreover to Shime’i [Fame], youi know all the wickedness which youri heart is privy (knowing a secret) to, that youi did to David [beloved] my father: therefore the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall return youri wickedness upon youri own head;
45And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] [shall be] Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous), and the throne of David [beloved] shall be established before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) forever.
46So the king commanded B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows]; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
1And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made alliance with Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and took Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] daughter, and brought her into the city of David [beloved], until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the wall of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] round about.
2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), until those days.
3And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] loved the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), walking in the statutes of David [beloved] his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
4And the king went to Giv’on [Hill City] to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] offer upon that altar.
5In Giv’on [Hill City] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) appeared to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] in a dream by night: and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] said, Ask what I shall give youi.
6And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] said, youi have showed unto youi servant David [beloved] my father great mercy, according as he walked before youi in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with youi; and youi have kept for him this great kindness, that youi have given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day.
7And now, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], youi have made youi servant king instead of David [beloved] my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or come in.
8And youri servant [is] in the midst of youri people which youi have chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
9Give therefore youri servant an understanding heart to judge youri people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this youri so great a people?
10And the speech pleased the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things], that Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had asked this thing.
11And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] said unto him, Because youi have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life; neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of youri enemies; but have asked for yourself understanding to discern judgment;
12Behold, I have done according to youri words: lo, I have given youi a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like youi before youi, neither after youi shall any arise like unto youi.
13And I have also given youi that which youi have not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto youi all youri days.
14And if youi will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as youri father David [beloved] did walk, then I will lengthen youri days.
15And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] awoke; and, behold, [it was] a dream. And he came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things], and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
16Then came there two women, [that were] prostitutes, unto the king, and stood before him.
17And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we [were] together; [there was] no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while youri female servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22And the other woman said, No; but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] youri son. And this said, No; but the dead [is] youri son, and the living [is] my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
23Then said the king, The one says, This [is] my son that lives, and youri son [is] the dead: and the other says, No; but youri son [is] the dead, and my son [is] the living.
24And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26Then spoke the woman whose the living child [was] unto the king, for her bowels (inward parts; affections) yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no way slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither my nor youri, [but] divide [it].
27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and assuredly not (by no means) slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
28And all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [was] in him, to do judgment.
1So king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] was king over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
2And these [were] the princes which he had; ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Tzadok [righteous] the priest,
3Elichoref [God of winter (harvest time)] and Achiyah [brother of Yehovah], the sons of Shisha [Yehovah contends], scribes; Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the son of Achilud [child’s brother], the recorder.
4And B’nayahu [Yehovah has built] the son of Y’hoyada [Yehovah knows] [was] over the host: and Tzadok [righteous] and Avyatar [my father is great] [were] the priests:
5And ‘Azaryah [Yehovah has helped] the son of Natan [giver] [was] over the officers: and Zavud [given] the son of Natan [giver] [was] principal officer, [and] the king’s friend:
6And Achishar [my brother sang] [was] over the household: and Adoniram [my lord is exalted] the son of ‘Avda [servant of Yehovah] [was] over the tribute.
7And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had twelve officers over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which provided victuals (food for humans) for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
8And these [are] their names: The son of Hur [Liberty], in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful]:
9The son of Deker [son of stabbing], in Makatz [end], and in Sha’alvim [Place of Foxes], and Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun], and Eilon-Beit-Hanan [oak of the house of grace]:
10The son of Hesed [son of mercy], in Arubot [windows]; to him [pertained] Sokhoh [bushy], and all the land of Hefer [A Well]:
11The son of Avinadav [my father is noble], in all the region of Dor [Generation]; which had Tafat [ornament] the daughter of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] to wife:
12Ba’ana [in the affliction] the son of Achilud [child’s brother]; [to him pertained] Ta’anakh [Sandy] and Megiddo [Place of Crowds], and all Beit-Sh’an [House of Ease], which [is] by Tzartan [their distress] beneath Yizre’el [God Sows], from Beit-Sh’an [House of Ease] to Avel-M’cholah [Meadow of Dancing], [even] unto [the place that is] beyond Yokne’am [The People Lament]:
13The son of Gever [the Son of man], in Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region]; to him [pertained] the towns of Ya’ir [He Enlightens] the son of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], which [are] in Gil’ad [Rocky Region]; to him [also pertained] the region of Argov [Heap of Clods], which [is] in Bashan [Fruitful], threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars:
14Ahinadav [Generous] the son of ‘Iddo [His witness] [had] Machanayim [Two Camps]:
15Achima’atz [my brother is anger (wrath)] [was] in Naftali [My Wrestling]; he also took Basmat [spice] the daughter of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] to wife:
16Ba’anah [in affliction] the son of Hushai [hasting] [was] in Asher [Happy] and in Alot [mistresses]:
17Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the son of Paruach [sprout], in Yissakhar [There Is Recompense]:
18Shime’i [Fame] the son of Elah [an oak], in Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength]:
19Gever [the Son of man] the son of Uri [my light, my fire] [was] in the country of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], [in] the country of Sichon [Warrior] king of the Emori [Highlanders], and of ‘Og [Long-necked] king of Bashan [Fruitful]; and [he was] the only officer which [was] in the land.
20Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
21And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and unto the border of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: they brought presents, and served Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] all the days of his life.
22And Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
23Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow (to approve, commend, accept) deer, and fatted fowl.
24For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tifsach [cross over] even to ‘Azah [The Strong], over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
25And Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan [Judge] even to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], all the days of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
26And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
27And those officers provided victual for king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and for all that came unto king Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
28Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.
29And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gave Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
30And Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].
31For he was wiser than all men; than Eitan [enduring] the Ezrachi [a native (as arising out of the soil)], and Heiman [faithful], and Kalkol [sustaining], and Darda [pearl of knowledge], the sons of Machol [dancing]: and his fame was in all nations round about.
32And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
33And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in L’vanon [Whiteness] even unto the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
34And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
1And Hiram [noble] king of Tzor (Tyre) [a rock] sent his servants unto Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram [noble] was ever a lover of David [beloved].
2And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sent to Hiram [noble], saying,
3youi know how that David [beloved] my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) put them under the soles of his feet.
4But now the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given me rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil evident.
5And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke unto David [beloved] my father, saying, Your1s son, whom I will set upon youri throne in youri room, he shall build an house unto my name.
6Now therefore command youi that they hew me cedar trees out of L’vanon [Whiteness]; and my servants shall be with youri servants: and unto youi will I give wages for youri servants according to all that youi shall appoint: for youi know that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Tzidonim [Hunting].
7And it came to pass, when Hiram [noble] heard the words of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) this day, which has given unto David [beloved] a wise son over this great people.
8And Hiram [noble] sent to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], saying, I have considered the things which youi sent to me for: [and] I will do all youri desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
9My servants shall bring [them] down from L’vanon [Whiteness] unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that youi shall appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and youi shall receive [them]: and youi shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
10So Hiram [noble] gave Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his desire.
11And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gave Hiram [noble] twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] to Hiram [noble] year by year.
12And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram [noble] and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]; and they two made a league (a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service.) together.
13And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] raised a levy out of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
14And he sent them to L’vanon [Whiteness], ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in L’vanon [Whiteness], [and] two months at home: and Adoniram [my lord is exalted] [was] over the levy.
15And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;
16Beside the chief of Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
18And Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] builders and Hiram [noble]’s builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were come out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], in the fourth year of Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], in the month Ziv [brightness], which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
2And the house which king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] built for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
3And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
4And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
5And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
6The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought there: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.
9So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.
11And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], saying,
12[Concerning] this house which youi are in building, if youi will walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with youi, which I spoke unto David [beloved] youi father:
13And I will dwell among the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and will not forsake my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
14So Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] built the house, and finished it.
15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].
17And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
18And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
19And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
20And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar [which was of] cedar.
21So Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
22And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23And within the oracle he made two k’vurim (cherubim) [of] olive tree, [each] ten cubits high.
24And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub [keruv], and five cubits the other wing of the cherub [keruv]: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits.
25And the other cherub [keruv] [was] ten cubits: both the k’vurim (cherubim) [were] of one measure and one size.
26The height of the one cherub [keruv] [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub [keruv].
27And he set the k’vurim (cherubim) within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the k’vurim (cherubim), so that the wing of the one touched the [one] wall, and the wing of the other cherub [keruv] touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
28And he overlaid the k’vurim (cherubim) with gold.
29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of k’vurim (cherubim) and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31And for the entering of the oracle he made doors [of] olive tree: the lintel (top of the door frame) [and] side posts [were] a fifth part [of the wall].
32The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of k’vurim (cherubim) and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the k’vurim (cherubim), and upon the palm trees.
33So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of] olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall].
34And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were] folding.
35And he carved [thereon] k’vurim (cherubim) and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) laid, in the month Ziv [brightness]:
38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul [increase: produce], which [is] the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1But Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2He built also the house of the forest of L’vanon [Whiteness]; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
4And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
5And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
6And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.
7Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made also an house for Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] daughter, whom he had taken [to wife], like unto this porch.
9All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping (top of a wall, sloped to drain off water), and [so] on the outside toward the great court.
10And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and for the porch of the house.
13And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sent and fetched Hiram [noble] out of Tzor [a rock].
14He [was] a widow’s son of the tribe of Naftali [My Wrestling], and his father [was] a man of Tzor [a rock], a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and wrought all his work.
15For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass (go around, encircle; encompass) either of them about.
16And he made two columns [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one column [was] five cubits, and the height of the other column [was] five cubits:
17[And] nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the columns which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one column, and seven for the other column.
18And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the columns that [were] upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other column.
19And the columns that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20And the columns upon the two pillars [had pomegranates] also above, over against the belly which [was] by the network: and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other column.
21And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Yakhin [He will establish]: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Bo’az [a high rate of movement].
22And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass (go around, encircle; encompass) it round about.
24And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.
26And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
27And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:
29And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, and k’vurim (cherubim): and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work.
30And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had supports: under the Wash basin [were] supports molten, at the side of every addition.
31And the mouth of it within the column and above [was] a cubit: but the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their borders, Foursquare (squared; four cornered), not round.
32And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the height of a wheel [was] a cubit and half a cubit.
33And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, [were] all molten.
34And [there were] four supports to the four corners of one base: [and] the supports [were] of the very base itself.
35And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass (go around, encircle; encompass) of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof [were] of the same.
36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved k’vurim (cherubim), lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of everyone, and additions round about.
37After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.
38Then made he ten lavers of brass: one Wash basin contained forty baths: [and] every Wash basin was four cubits: [and] upon everyone of the ten bases one Wash basin.
39And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
40And Hiram [noble] made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram [noble] made an end of doing all the work that he made king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):
41The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the columns that [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the columns which [were] upon the top of the pillars;
42And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, [even] two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the columns that [were] upon the pillars;
43And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram [noble] made to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [were of] bright brass.
46In the plain of Yarden [Descender] did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Sukkot [Booths] and Tzartan [their distress].
47And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
48And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the showbread [was],
49And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right [side], and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs [of] gold,
50And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the house, [that is to say], of the temple.
51So was ended all the work that king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] brought in the things which David [beloved] his father had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
1Then Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] assembled the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], unto king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) out of the city of David [beloved], which [is] Tziyon [parched place].
2And all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] assembled themselves unto king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] at the feast in the month Etanim [enduring], which [is] the seventh month.
3And all the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came, and the priests took up the ark.
4And they brought up the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] bring up.
5And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that were assembled unto him, [were] with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place, even] under the wings of the k’vurim (cherubim).
7For the k’vurim (cherubim) spread forth [their] two wings over the place of the ark, and the k’vurim (cherubim) covered the ark and the rods (clubs) thereof above.
8And they drew out the rods (clubs), that the ends of the rods (clubs) were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
9[There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] put there at Horev [Desert], when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) made [a covenant] with the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when they came out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].
10And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),
11So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had filled the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
12Then spoke Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
13I have surely built youi an house to dwell in, a settled place for youi to abide in forever.
14And the king turned his face about, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] (and all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] stood;)
15And he said, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which spoke with his mouth unto David [beloved] my father, and has with his hand fulfilled [it], saying,
16Since the day that I brought forth my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], I chose no city out of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to build an house, that my name might be in it; but I chose David [beloved] to be over my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
17And it was in the heart of David [beloved] my father to build an house for the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
18And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto David [beloved] my father, Whereas it was in youi heart to build an house unto my name, youi did well that it was in youi heart.
19Nevertheless youi shall not build the house; but youri son that shall come forth out of youri waist, he shall build the house unto my name.
20And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has performed his word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the room of David [beloved] my father, and sit on the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
21And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein [is] the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].
22And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] stood before the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the presence of all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
23And he said, LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [there is] no God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] like youi, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and mercy with youi servants that walk before youi with all their heart:
24Who have kept with youri servant David [beloved] my father that youi promised him: youi spoke also with youri mouth, and have fulfilled [it] with youri hand, as [it is] this day.
25Therefore now, LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], keep with youri servant David [beloved] my father that youi promised him, saying, There shall not fail youi a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; so that youri children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as youi have walked before me.
26And now, O God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], let youi word, I pray youi, be verified, which youi spoke unto youri servant David [beloved] my father.
27But will God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain youi; how much less this house that I have built?
28Yet have youi respect unto the prayer of youri servant, and to his supplication, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which youri servant prays before youi today:
29That youri eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which youi have said, My name shall be there: that youi may hearken unto the prayer which youri servant shall make toward this place.
30And hearken youi to the supplication of youri servant, and of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], when they shall pray toward this place: and hear youi in heaven youri dwelling place: and when youi hear, forgive.
31If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before youri altar in this house:
32Then hear youi in heaven, and do, and judge youri servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
33When youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against youi, and shall turn again to youi, and confess youri name, and pray, and make supplication unto youi in this house:
34Then hear youi in heaven, and forgive the sin of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and bring them again unto the land which youi gave unto their fathers.
35When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against youi; if they pray toward this place, and confess youri name, and turn from their sin, when youi afflict them:
36Then hear youi in heaven, and forgive the sin of youri servants, and of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that youi teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon youri land, which youi have given to youri people for an inheritance.
37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];
38What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by any man, [or] by all youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39Then hear youi in heaven youri dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart youi know; (for youi, [even] youi only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
40That they may fear youi all the days that they live in the land which youi gave unto our fathers.
41Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], but comes out of a far country for youri name’s sake;
42(For they shall hear of youri great name, and of youi strong hand, and of youri stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
43Hear youi in heaven youri dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to youi for: that all people of the earth may know youri name, to fear youi, as [do] youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by youri name.
44If youri people go out to battle against their enemy, to wherever youi shall send them, and shall pray unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) toward the city which youi have chosen, and [toward] the house that I have built for youri name:
45Then hear youi in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46If they sin against youi, (for [there is] no man that sins not,) and youi be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
47[Yet] if they shall consider themselves in the land to which they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto youi in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
48And [so] return unto youi with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto youi toward their land, which youi gave unto their fathers, the city which youi have chosen, and the house which I have built for youri name:
49Then hear youi their prayer and their supplication in heaven youri dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
50And forgive youri people that have sinned against youi, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against youi, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
51For they [be] youri people, and youri inheritance, which youi brought forth out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], from the midst of the furnace of iron:
52That youri eyes may be open unto the supplication of youri servant, and unto the supplication of youri people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto youi.
53For youi did separate them from among all the people of the earth, [to be] youri inheritance, as youi spoke by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] youri servant, when youi brought our fathers out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], O Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER).
54And it was [so], that when Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), he arose from before the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
55And he stood, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with a loud voice, saying,
56Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that has given rest unto his people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] his servant.
57The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
58That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
59And let these my words, which I have made supplication before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), be near unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] at all times, as the matter shall require:
60That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [and that there is] none else.
61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62And the king, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
63And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] dedicated the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
64The same day did the king hallow (to approve, commend, accept) the middle of the court that [was] before the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that [was] before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [was] too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65And at that time Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] held a feast, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamat [Fortress] unto the river of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen days.
66On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had done for David [beloved] his servant, and for Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] his people.
1And it came to pass, when Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had finished the building of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the king’s house, and all Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] desire which he was pleased to do,
2That the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) appeared to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Giv’on [Hill City].
3And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, I have heard youri prayer and youri supplication, that youi have made before me: I have consecrated this house, which youi have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
4And if youi will walk before me, as David [beloved] youri father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded youi, [and] will keep my statutes and my judgments:
5Then I will establish the throne of youri kingdom upon Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] forever, as I promised to David [beloved] youri father, saying, There shall not fail youi a man upon the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
6[But] if you2f shall at all turn from following me, you2f or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7Then will I cut off Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8And at this house, [which] is high, everyone that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore has the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) brought upon them all this evil.
10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had built the two houses, the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the king’s house,
11([Now] Hiram [noble] the king of Tzor (Tyre) [a rock] had furnished Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gave Hiram [noble] twenty cities in the land of Galil [circuit, district].
12And Hiram [noble] came out from Tzor (Tyre) [a rock] to see the cities which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had given him; and they pleased him not.
13And he said, What cities [are] these which youi have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Kavul [binding] unto this day.
14And Hiram [noble] sent to the king four tons of gold.
15And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] raised; for to build the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and his own house, and Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound], and the wall of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and Hatzor [Castle], and Megiddo [Place of Crowds], and Gezer [Portion].
16[For] Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] had gone up, and taken Gezer [Portion], and burnt it with fire, and slain the Kena’ani [Merchant] that dwelt in the city, and given it [for] a present unto his daughter, Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] wife.
17And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] built Gezer [Portion], and Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] the lower,
18And Ba’alat [mistress], and Tadmor [palm tree] in the wilderness, in the land,
19And all the cities of store that Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] desired to build in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and in L’vanon [Whiteness], and in all the land of his dominion.
20[And] all the people [that were] left of the Emori [Highlanders], Hitti [Terrorists], P’rizi [Dwellers in Unwalled Towns], Hivi [Villagers], and Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot], which [were] not of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],
21Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] levy a tribute of bond service unto this day.
22But of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] make no bondmen: but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] work, five hundred and fifty, which bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.
24But Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] daughter came up out of the city of David [beloved] unto her house which [Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]] had built for her: then did he build Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound].
25And three times in a year did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and he burnt incense upon the altar that [was] before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). So he finished the house.
26And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made a navy of ships in ‘Etzyon-Gever [backbone of a man], which [is] beside Elot [grove of lofty trees], on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom [Red].
27And Hiram [noble] sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
28And they came to Ofir [reducing to ashes], and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
1And when the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] heard of the fame of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] concerning the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), she came to prove him with hard questions.
2And she came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
3And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] told her all her questions: there was not [any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
4And when the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] had seen all Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] wisdom, and the house that he had built,
5And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); there was no more spirit in her.
6And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of youri acts and of youri wisdom.
7However I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the half was not told me: youi wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard.
8Happy [are] youri men, happy [are] these youri servants, which stand continually before youi, [and] that hear youri wisdom.
9Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) be the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which delighted in youi, to set youi on the throne of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) loved Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] forever, therefore made he youi king, to do judgment and justice.
10And she gave the king an hundred and twenty tons of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] gave to king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
11And the navy also of Hiram [noble], that brought gold from Ofir [reducing to ashes], brought in from Ofir [reducing to ashes] great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
12And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
13And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gave unto the Queen of Sh’va [seven, an oath] all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14Now the weight of gold that came to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] in one year was six hundred threescore and six tons of gold,
15Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffick (trade; do business) of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia [steppe-dwellers], and of the governors of the country.
16And king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target (small shield; buckler).
17And [he made] three hundred shields [of] beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of L’vanon [Whiteness].
18Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
19The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was] round behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
20And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
21And all king Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of L’vanon [Whiteness] [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish [yellow jasper] with the navy of Hiram [noble]: once in three years came the navy of Tarshish [yellow jasper], bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23So king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24And all the earth sought to Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], to hear his wisdom, which God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had put in his heart.
25And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
27And the king made silver [to be] in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance.
28And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had horses brought out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
29And a chariot came up and went out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hitti [Terrorists], and for the kings of Aram (Syria) [exalted], did they bring [them] out by their means.
1But king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House], women of the Mo’avi [of his father], [what father?] ‘Amon [Inbred], Edomi [red], people of Tzidon [Hunting], [and] Hitti [Terrorists];
2Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], You2f shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: [for] surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] clave unto these in love.
3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
4For it came to pass, when Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as [was] the heart of David [beloved] his father.
5For Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] went after ‘Ashtoret [star] the goddess of the people of Tzidon [Hunting], and after Milkom [great king] the abomination of the ‘Amon [Inbred].
6And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and went not fully after the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as [did] David [beloved] his father.
7Then did Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] build an high place for K’mosh [Subduer], the abomination of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], in the hill that [is] before Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and for Molekh [king], the abomination of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred].
8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
9And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was angry with Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], because his heart was turned from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which had appeared unto him twice,
10And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded.
11For what reason the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], Forasmuch as this is done of youi, and youi have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded youi, I will surely rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart) the kingdom from youi, and will give it to youri servant.
12Yet in youri days I will not do it for David [beloved] youri father’s sake: [but] I will rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart) it out of the hand of youri son.
13However I will not rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart) away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to youi son for David [beloved] my servant’s sake, and for Yerushalayim’s [Foundation of Peace] sake which I have chosen.
14And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stirred up an adversary unto Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], Hadad [mighty] the Edomi [red]: he [was] of the king’s seed in Edom [Red].
15For it came to pass, when David [beloved] was in Edom [Red], and Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom [Red];
16(For six months did Yo’av [Yehovah is father] remain there with all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], until he had cut off every male in Edom [Red])
17That Hadad [mighty] fled, he and certain Edomi [red] of his father’s servants with him, to go into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; Hadad [mighty] [being] yet a little child.
18And they arose out of Midyan [Strife], and came to Pa’ran [place of caverns]: and they took men with them out of Pa’ran [place of caverns], and they came to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], unto Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals (food for humans), and gave him land.
19And Hadad [mighty] found great favour in the sight of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House], so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tachp’neis [wife of the king] the queen.
20And the sister of Tachp’neis [wife of the king] bore him G’nuvat [theft] his son, whom Tachp’neis [wife of the king] weaned in Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] house: and G’nuvat [theft] was in Par’oh’s [Pharaoh - Great House] household among the sons of Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House].
21And when Hadad [mighty] heard in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] that David [beloved] slept with his fathers, and that Yo’av [Yehovah is father] the captain of the host was dead, Hadad [mighty] said to Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House], Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
22Then Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] said unto him, But what have youi lacked with me, that, behold, youi seek to go to youri own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
23And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon [prince] the son of Elyada [God knows], which fled from his lord Hadad’ezer [mighty - meaning disputed] king of Tzovah [station]:
24And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David [beloved] killed them [of Tzovah [station]]: and they went to Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], and dwelt in it, and reigned in Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver].
25And he was an adversary to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] all the days of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], beside the mischief that Hadad [mighty] [did]: and he abhorred Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and reigned over Aram (Syria) [exalted].
26And Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], an Efrat [ashiness: fruitfulness] of Zereda, Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] servant, whose mother’s name [was] Tz’ru’ah [full breasted], a widow woman, even he lifted up [his] hand against the king.
27And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] built Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound], [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David [beloved] his father.
28And the man Yarov’am [the people will contend] [was] a mighty man of valour: and Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add].
29And it came to pass at that time when Yarov’am [the people will contend] went out of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], that the prophet Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the Shiloni [peace bringer] [place of rest] found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in the field:
30And Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve pieces:
31And he said to Yarov’am [the people will contend], Take youi ten pieces: for thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Behold, I will rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart) the kingdom out of the hand of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and will give ten tribes to youi:
32(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s [beloved]’s sake, and for Yerushalayim’s [Foundation of Peace] sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God])
33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped ‘Ashtoret [star] the goddess of the people of Tzidon [Hunting], K’mosh [Subduer] the god of the Mo’avi [of his father], and Milkom [great king] the god of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] David [beloved] his father.
34However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David [beloved] my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
35But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto youi, [even] ten tribes.
36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David [beloved] my servant may have a light always before me in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
37And I will take youi, and youi shall reign according to all that youri soul desires, and shall be king over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
38And it shall be, if youi will hearken unto all that I command youi, and will walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David [beloved] my servant did; that I will be with youi, and build youi a sure house, as I built for David [beloved], and will give Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] unto youi.
39And I will for this afflict the seed of David [beloved], but not forever.
40Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] sought therefore to kill Yarov’am [the people will contend]. And Yarov’am [the people will contend] arose, and fled into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], unto Shishak [greedy of fine linen] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and was in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] until the death of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
41And the rest of the acts of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and all that he did, and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace]?
42And the time that Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] reigned in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [was] forty years.
43And Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David [beloved] his father: and Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] his son reigned in his stead.
1And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] went to Sh’khem [Shoulder]: for all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were come to Sh’khem [Shoulder] to make him king.
2And it came to pass, when Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], who was yet in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], heard [of it], (for he was fled from the presence of king Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], and Yarov’am [the people will contend] dwelt in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place];)
3That they sent and called him. And Yarov’am [the people will contend] and all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came, and spoke unto Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], saying,
4Your1s father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make youi the grievous service of youri father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve youi.
5And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
6And king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] consulted with the old men, that stood before Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] his father while he yet lived, and said, How do you2f advise that I may answer this people?
7And they spoke unto him, saying, If youi will be a servant unto this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be youri servants forever.
8But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, [and] which stood before him:
9And he said unto them, What counsel give you2f that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which youri father did put upon us lighter?
10And the young men that were grown up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shall youi speak unto this people that spoke unto youi, saying, Your1s father made our yoke heavy, but make youi [it] lighter unto us; thus shall youi say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father’s waist (hips).
11And now whereas my father did burden (to load) you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12So Yarov’am [the people will contend] and all the people came to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;
14And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
15For what reason the king listened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that he might perform his saying, which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke by Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the Shiloni [peace bringer] [place of rest] unto Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect].
16So when all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] saw that the king listened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David [beloved]? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Yishai [I possess]: to your tents, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: now see to youri own house, David [beloved]. So Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] departed unto their tents.
17But [as for] the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] which dwelt in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] reigned over them.
18Then king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] sent Adoram [my lord is exalted], who [was] over the tribute; and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].
19So Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] rebelled against the house of David [beloved] unto this day.
20And it came to pass, when all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard that Yarov’am [the people will contend] was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: there was none that followed the house of David [beloved], but the tribe of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] only.
21And when Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] was come to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], he assembled all the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], with the tribe of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], an hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to bring the kingdom again to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace].
22But the word of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came unto Sh’may’yah [Yehovah hears] the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], saying,
23Speak unto Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace], king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and unto all the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and to the remnant of the people, saying,
24Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), You2f shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They listened therefore to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
25Then Yarov’am [the people will contend] built Sh’khem [Shoulder] in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and dwelt in it; and went out from there, and built P’nu’el [Facing God].
26And Yarov’am [the people will contend] said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David [beloved]:
27If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, [even] unto Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and they shall kill me, and go again to Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves [of] gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: behold youri gods, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which brought youi up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].
29And he set the one in Beit-El [House of God], and the other put he in Dan [Judge].
30And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship] before the one, [even] unto Dan [Judge].
31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner].
32And Yarov’am [the people will contend] ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beit-El [House of God], sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beit-El [House of God] the priests of the high places which he had made.
33So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beit-El [House of God] the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
1And, behold, there came a man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] out of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto Beit-El [House of God]: and Yarov’am [the people will contend] stood by the altar to burn incense.
2And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, O altar, altar, thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David [beloved], Yoshiyahu [whom Yehovah heals] by name; and upon youi shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon youi, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon youi.
3And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out.
4And it came to pass, when king Yarov’am [the people will contend] heard the saying of the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which had cried against the altar in Beit-El [House of God], that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
5The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had given by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
6And the king answered and said unto the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], Entreat now the face of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] besought the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the king’s hand was restored him again, and became as [it was] before.
7And the king said unto the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give youi a reward.
8And the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] said unto the king, If youi will give me half youri house, I will not go in with youi, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
9For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that youi came.
10So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beit-El [House of God].
11Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beit-El [House of God]; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had done that day in Beit-El [House of God]: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
12And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] went, which came from Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
13And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
14And went after the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, [Are] youi the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] that came from Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]? And he said, I [am].
15Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
16And he said, I may not return with youi, nor go in with youi: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with youi in this place:
17For it was said to me by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that youi came.
18He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as youi [are]; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, Bring him back with youi into youri house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him.
19So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
20And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto the prophet that brought him back:
21And he cried unto the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] that came from Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Forasmuch as youi have disobeyed the mouth of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and have not kept the commandment which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] commanded youi,
22But came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which [the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)] did say to youi, Eat no bread, and drink no water; youri carcass shall not come unto the sepulcher of youri fathers.
23And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, [that is to say], for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass.
25And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came and told [it] in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): therefore the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has delivered him unto the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke unto him.
27And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled [him].
28And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor torn the ass.
29And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
30And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
31And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher wherein the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
32For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) against the altar in Beit-El [House of God], and against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Shomron [watch mountain], shall surely come to pass.
33After this thing Yarov’am [the people will contend] returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.
34And this thing became sin unto the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend], even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the earth.
1At that time Aviyah [Yehovah is (my) father] the son of Yarov’am [the people will contend] fell sick.
2And Yarov’am [the people will contend] said to his wife, Arise, I pray youi, and disguise yourself, that youi be not known to be the wife of Yarov’am [the people will contend]; and get youi to Shiloh [Place of Rest]: behold, there [is] Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king over this people.
3And take with youi ten loaves, and cracknels (dry, brittle cakes or buscuits), and a pot of honey, and go to him: he shall tell youi what shall become of the child.
4And Yarov’am’s [the people will contend] wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh [Place of Rest], and came to the house of Achiyah [brother of Yehovah]. But Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
5And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Achiyah [brother of Yehovah], Behold, the wife of Yarov’am [the people will contend] comes to ask a thing of youi for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus shall youi say unto her: for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall feign (to pretend to be; to disguise) herself [to be] another [woman].
6And it was [so], when Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, youi wife of Yarov’am [the people will contend]; why pretend youi yourself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to youi [with] heavy [tidings].
7Go, tell Yarov’am [the people will contend], Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Forasmuch as I exalted youi from among the people, and made youi prince over my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],
8And rent the kingdom away from the house of David [beloved], and gave it youi: and [yet] youi have not been as my servant David [beloved], who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in my eyes;
9But have done evil above all that were before youi: for youi have gone and made youi other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind youri back:
10Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend], and will cut off from Yarov’am [the people will contend] him that pisses against the wall, [and] him that is shut up and left in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and will take away the remnant of the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend], as a man takes away dung, till it be all gone.
11Him that dies of Yarov’am [the people will contend] in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken [it].
12Arise youi therefore, get youi to youri own house: [and] when youri feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
13And all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Yarov’am [the people will contend] shall come to the grave, because in him there is found [some] good thing toward the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend].
14Moreover the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall raise him up a king over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who shall cut off the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend] that day: but what (will God do) even now?
15For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall strike Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to anger.
16And he shall give Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] up because of the sins of Yarov’am [the people will contend], who did sin, and who made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin.
17And Yarov’am’s [the people will contend] wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirtzah [Favourable]: [and] when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
18And they buried him; and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke by the hand of his servant Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the prophet.
19And the rest of the acts of Yarov’am [the people will contend], how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
20And the days which Yarov’am [the people will contend] reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadav [Generous] his son reigned in his stead.
21And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] the son of Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] reigned in Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]. Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the city which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) did choose out of all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Na’amah [Loveliness] an ‘Amonit [tribal].
22And Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) cast out before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], [that] Shishak [greedy of fine linen] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] came up against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]:
26And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Shlomo (Solomon) [peace] had made.
27And king Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] made in their stead brazen shields, and committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.
28And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29Now the rest of the acts of Rechav’am [a people has enlarged], and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]?
30And there was war between Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] and Yarov’am [the people will contend] all [their] days.
31And Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David [beloved]. And his mother’s name [was] Na’amah [Loveliness] an ‘Amonit [tribal]. And Aviyam [Yah is my father] his son reigned in his stead.
1Now in the eighteenth year of king Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect] reigned Aviyam [Yah is my father] over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
2Three years reigned he in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Ma’akhah [oppression], the daughter of Avishalom [my father is peace].
3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as the heart of David [beloved] his father.
4Nevertheless for David’s [beloved]’s sake did the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] give him a lamp in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], to set up his son after him, and to establish Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]:
5Because David [beloved] did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriyah [Yehovah is my light (flame)] the Hitti [Terrorists].
6And there was war between Rechav’am [a people has enlarged] and Yarov’am [the people will contend] all the days of his life.
7Now the rest of the acts of Aviyam [Yah is my father], and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]? And there was war between Aviyam [Yah is my father] and Yarov’am [the people will contend].
8And Aviyam [Yah is my father] slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David [beloved]: and Asa [healer; injurious?] his son reigned in his stead.
9And in the twentieth year of Yarov’am [the people will contend] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] reigned Asa [healer; injurious?] over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
10And forty and one years reigned he in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] Ma’akhah [oppression], the daughter of Avishalom [my father is peace].
11And Asa [healer; injurious?] did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as [did] David [beloved] his father.
12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13And also Ma’akhah [oppression] his mother, even her he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa [healer; injurious?] destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron [dark].
14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s [healer; injurious?] heart was perfect with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) all his days.
15And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), silver, and gold, and vessels.
16And there was war between Asa [healer; injurious?] and Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] all their days.
17And Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went up against Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and built Ramah [Hill], that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].
18Then Asa [healer; injurious?] took all the silver and the gold [that were] left in the treasures of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa [healer; injurious?] sent them to Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad], the son of Tavirmmon [good is pomegranate], the son of Hezyon [vision], king of Aram (Syria) [exalted], that dwelt at Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], saying,
19[There is] a league between me and youi, [and] between my father and youri father: behold, I have sent unto youi a present of silver and gold; come and break youri league with Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that he may depart from me.
20So Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] listened unto king Asa [healer; injurious?], and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and struck ‘Iyon [a ruin], and Dan [Judge], and Avel-Beit-Ma’akhah [meadow of the house of oppression], and all Kinn’rot [harps], with all the land of Naftali [My Wrestling].
21And it came to pass, when Ba’sha [wicked] heard [thereof], that he left off building of Ramah [Hill], and dwelt in Tirtzah [Favourable].
22Then king Asa [healer; injurious?] made a proclamation throughout all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah [Hill], and the timber thereof, which Ba’sha [wicked] had built; and king Asa [healer; injurious?] built with them Geva [hill] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], and Mitzpah [watchtower].
23The rest of all the acts of Asa [healer; injurious?], 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 Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
24And Asa [healer; injurious?] slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David [beloved] his father: and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] his son reigned in his stead.
25And Nadav [Generous] the son of Yarov’am [the people will contend] began to reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in the second year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and reigned over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] two years.
26And he did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin.
27And Ba’sha [wicked] the son of Achiyah [brother of Yehovah], of the house of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense], conspired against him; and Ba’sha [wicked] struck him at Gib’ton [mound], which [belonged] to the P’lishtim [Immigrants]; for Nadav [Generous] and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] laid siege to Gib’ton [mound].
28Even in the third year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] did Ba’sha [wicked] slay him, and reigned in his stead.
29And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he struck all the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend]; he left not to Yarov’am [the people will contend] any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke by his servant Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] the Shiloni [peace bringer] [place of rest]:
30Because of the sins of Yarov’am [the people will contend] which he sinned, and which he made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] sin, by his provocation which he provoked the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to anger.
31Now the rest of the acts of Nadav [Generous], and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
32And there was war between Asa [healer; injurious?] and Ba’sha [wicked] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] all their days.
33In the third year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] began Ba’sha [wicked] the son of Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] to reign over all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Tirtzah [Favourable], twenty and four years.
34And he did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and walked in the way of Yarov’am [the people will contend], and in his sin which he made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin.
1Then the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Hanani [gracious] against Ba’sha [wicked], saying,
2Forasmuch as I exalted youi out of the dust, and made youi prince over my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and youi have walked in the way of Yarov’am [the people will contend], and have made my people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
3Behold, I will take away the posterity of Ba’sha [wicked], and the posterity of his house; and will make youi house like the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect].
4Him that dies of Ba’sha [wicked] in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
5Now the rest of the acts of Ba’sha [wicked], and what he did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
6So Ba’sha [wicked] slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirtzah [Favourable]: and Elah [an oak] his son reigned in his stead.
7And also by the hand of the prophet Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Hanani [gracious] came the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) against Ba’sha [wicked], and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend]; and because he killed him.
8In the twenty and sixth year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] began Elah [an oak] the son of Ba’sha [wicked] to reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Tirtzah [Favourable], two years.
9And his servant Zimri [My Music], captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirtzah [Favourable], drinking himself drunk in the house of Artza [earthy] steward of [his] house in Tirtzah [Favourable].
10And Zimri [My Music] went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and reigned in his stead.
11And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, [that] he killed all the house of Ba’sha [wicked]: he left him not one that pisses against a wall, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.
12Thus did Zimri [My Music] destroy all the house of Ba’sha [wicked], according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke against Ba’sha [wicked] by Yehu [Yehovah is He] the prophet,
13For all the sins of Ba’sha [wicked], and the sins of Elah [an oak] his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin, in provoking the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to anger with their vanities.
14Now the rest of the acts of Elah [an oak], and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
15In the twenty and seventh year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] did Zimri [My Music] reign seven days in Tirtzah [Favourable]. And the people [were] encamped against Gib’ton [mound], which [belonged] to the P’lishtim [Immigrants].
16And the people [that were] encamped heard say, Zimri [My Music] has conspired, and has also slain the king: wherefore all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] made ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah], the captain of the host, king over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that day in the camp.
17And ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] went up from Gib’ton [mound], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, and they besieged Tirtzah [Favourable].
18And it came to pass, when Zimri [My Music] saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
19For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), in walking in the way of Yarov’am [the people will contend], and in his sin which he did, to make Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin.
20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri [My Music], and his treason that he wrought, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
21Then were the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tivni [intelligent] the son of Ginat [protection], to make him king; and half followed ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah].
22But the people that followed ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] prevailed against the people that followed Tivni [intelligent] the son of Ginat [protection]: so Tivni [intelligent] died, and ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] reigned.
23In the thirty and first year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] began ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] to reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirtzah [Favourable].
24And he bought the hill Shomron [watch mountain] of Shemer [preserved] for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer [preserved], owner of the hill, Shomron [watch mountain].
25But ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and did worse than all that [were] before him.
26For he walked in all the way of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], and in his sin which he made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin, to provoke the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to anger with their vanities.
27Now the rest of the acts of ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] which he did, and his might that he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
28So ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomron [watch mountain]: and Ach’av [father’s brother] his son reigned in his stead.
29And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa [healer; injurious?] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] began Ach’av [father’s brother] the son of ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] to reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and Ach’av [father’s brother] the son of ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] reigned over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Shomron [watch mountain] twenty and two years.
30And Ach’av [father’s brother] the son of ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) above all that [were] before him.
31And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], that he took to wife Izevel [Ba’al exalts] the daughter of Etba’al [with Ba’al] king of the people of Tzidon [Hunting], and went and served Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and worshipped him.
32And he reared up an altar for Ba’al [lord (a false god)] in the house of Ba’al [lord (a false god)], which he had built in Shomron [watch mountain].
33And Ach’av [father’s brother] made a grove; and Ach’av [father’s brother] did more to provoke the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to anger than all the kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that were before him.
34In his days did Hi’el [God lives] the Beit-Eli [House of God] build Yericho [Its Moon]: he laid the foundation thereof in Aviram [My Father is Exalted] his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] S’guv [exalted], according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke by Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity].
1And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the Tishbi [captivity], [who was] of the inhabitants of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], said unto Ach’av [father’s brother], [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
2And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto him, saying,
3Get youi hence, and turn youi eastward, and hide yourself by the brook K’rit [cutting], that [is] before Yarden [Descender].
4And it shall be, [that] youi shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed youi there.
5So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for he went and dwelt by the brook K’rit [cutting], that [is] before Yarden [Descender].
6And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
8And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came unto him, saying,
9Arise, get youi to Tzarfat [refinery], which [belongs] to Tzidon [Hunting], and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain youi.
10So he arose and went to Tzarfat [refinery]. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray youi, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11And as she was going to fetch [it], he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray youi, a morsel of bread in youri hand.
12And she said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] lives, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a pot: and, 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.
13And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as youi have said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me, and after make for youi and for youri son.
14For thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the pot of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) send rain upon the earth.
15And she went and did according to the saying of Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah]: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
16[And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the pot of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which he spoke by Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah].
17And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
18And she said unto Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], What have I to do with youi, O youi man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? are youi come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
19And he said unto her, Give me youri son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
20And he cried unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], have youi also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
21And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], I pray youi, let this child’s soul come into him again.
22And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) heard the voice of Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah]; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said, See, youri son lives.
24And the woman said to Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], Now by this I know that youi [are] a man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [and] that the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in youri mouth [is] truth.
1And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself unto Ach’av [father’s brother]; and I will send rain upon the earth.
2And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] went to show himself unto Ach’av [father’s brother]. And [there was] a sore famine in Shomron [watch mountain].
3And Ach’av [father’s brother] called ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah], which [was] the governor of [his] house. (Now ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah] feared the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) greatly:
4For it was [so], when Izevel [Ba’al exalts] cut off the prophets of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah] took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
5And Ach’av [father’s brother] said unto ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah], Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach’av [father’s brother] went one way by himself, and ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah] went another way by himself.
7And as ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah] was in the way, behold, Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Is it really] youi my lord Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah]?
8And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell youri lord, Behold, Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] [is here].
9And he said, What have I sinned, that youi would deliver youri servant into the hand of Ach’av [father’s brother], to slay me?
10[As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] lives, there is no nation or kingdom, to which my lord has not sent to seek youi: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found youi not.
11And now youi say, Go, tell youri lord, Behold, Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] [is here].
12And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from youi, that the Spirit of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall carry youi to where I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ach’av [father’s brother], and he cannot find youi, he shall slay me: but I youri servant fear the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) from my youth.
13Was it not told my lord what I did when Izevel [Ba’al exalts] killed the prophets of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), how I hid an hundred men of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14And now youi say, Go, tell youri lord, Behold, Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] [is here]: and he shall slay me.
15And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.
16So ‘Ovadyah [servant of Yehovah] went to meet Ach’av [father’s brother], and told him: and Ach’av [father’s brother] went to meet Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah].
17And it came to pass, when Ach’av [father’s brother] saw Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], that Ach’av [father’s brother] said unto him, [Are] youi he that troubles Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
18And he answered, I have not troubled Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; but youi, and youri father’s house, in that you2f have forsaken the commandments of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and youi have followed Ba’alim [lords (false gods)].
19Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] unto mount Carmel [Garden-land], and the prophets of Ba’al [lord (a false god)] four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Izevel’s [Ba’al exalts] table.
20So Ach’av [father’s brother] sent unto all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel [Garden-land].
21And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] came unto all the people, and said, How long lame (crippled in the feet) you2f between two opinions? if the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [be] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], follow him: but if Ba’al [lord (a false god)], [then] follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
22Then said Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain a prophet of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); but Ba’al’s [lord (a false god)] prophets [are] four hundred and fifty men.
23Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay [it] on wood, and put no fire [under]:
24And call you2f on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] that answers by fire, let him be God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
25And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said unto the prophets of Ba’al [lord (a false god)], Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress [it] first; for you2f [are] many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire [under].
26And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed [it], and called on the name of Ba’al [lord (a false god)] from morning even until noon, saying, O Ba’al [lord (a false god)], hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
27And it came to pass at noon, that Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] perhaps he sleeps, and must be awakened.
28And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
29And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that [there was] neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
30And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [that was] broken down.
31And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Ya’akov [Heal of God], unto whom the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came, saying, Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall be youri name:
32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
33And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour [it] on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did [it] the second time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they did [it] the third time.
35And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
36And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the prophet came near, and said, LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Avraham [Exalted Father], Yitz’khak [Laughter], and of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], let it be known this day that youi [are] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and [that] I [am] youri servant, and [that] I have done all these things at youri word.
37Hear me, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), hear me, that this people may know that youi [are] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and [that] youi have turned their heart back again.
38Then the fire of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that [was] in the trench.
39And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), he [is] the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), he [is] the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
40And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said unto them, Take the prophets of Ba’al [lord (a false god)]; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] brought them down to the brook Kishon [Winding], and killed them there.
41And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said unto Ach’av [father’s brother], Get youi up, eat and drink; for [there is] a sound of abundance of rain.
42So Ach’av [father’s brother]went up to eat and to drink. And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] went up to the top of Carmel [Garden-land]; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
43And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
44And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ach’av [father’s brother], Prepare [youi chariot], and get youi down, that the rain stop youi not.
45And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ach’av [father’s brother] rode, and went to Yizre’el [God Sows].
46And the hand of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was on Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah]; and he girded up his waist, and ran before Ach’av [father’s brother] to the entrance of Yizre’el [God Sows].
1And Ach’av [father’s brother] told Izevel [Ba’al exalts] all that Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2Then Izevel [Ba’al exalts] sent a messenger unto Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], saying, So let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not youri life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
3And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life, and came to Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], which [belongs] to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and left his servant there.
4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel [Mal’ach] touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.
6And he looked, and, behold, [there was] a cake baked on the coals, and a pot of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
7And the angel of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great for youi.
8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horev [Desert] the mount of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
9And he came there unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [came] to him, and he said unto him, What do youi here, Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah]?
10And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]: for the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] have forsaken youi covenant, thrown down youi altars, and slain youi prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And, behold, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); [but] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [was] not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [was] not in the earthquake:
12And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [was] not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13And it was [so], when Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] heard [it], that he wrapped his face in his Mantle (cloak; covering garment) (cloak), and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, [there came] a voice unto him, and said, What do youi here, Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah]?
14And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]: because the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] have forsaken youri covenant, thrown down youri altars, and slain youri prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
15And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, Go, return on youi way to the wilderness of Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver]: and when youi come, anoint Haza’el [one who sees God] [to be] king over Aram (Syria) [exalted]:
16And Yehu [Yehovah is He] the son of Nimshi [rescued] shall youi anoint [to be] king over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and Eli-sha [my God is salvation] the son of Shafat [He Has Judged] of Avel-M’cholah [Meadow of Dancing] shall youi anoint [to be] prophet in youri room.
17And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapes the sword of Haza’el [one who sees God] shall Yehu [Yehovah is He] slay: and him that escapes from the sword of Yehu [Yehovah is He] shall Eli-sha [my God is salvation] slay.
18Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], all the knees which have not bowed unto Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and every mouth which has not kissed him.
19So he departed there, and found Eli-sha [my God is salvation] the son of Shafat [He Has Judged], who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] passed by him, and cast his Mantle (cloak; covering garment) (cloak) upon him.
20And he left the oxen, and ran after Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], and said, Let me, I pray youi, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow youi. And he said unto him, Go (and return) back again: for what I have done to youi.
21And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], and ministered unto him.
1And Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] the king of Aram (Syria) [exalted] gathered all his host together: and [there were] thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Shomron [watch mountain], and warred against it.
2And he sent messengers to Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] into the city, and said unto him, Thus says Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad],
3Your1s silver and youri gold [is] my; youri wives also and youri children, [even] the best, [are] my.
4And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] answered and said, My lord, O king, according to youri saying, I [am] yoursi, and all that I have.
5And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad], saying, Although I have sent unto youi, saying, youi shall deliver me youri silver, and youri gold, and youri wives, and youri children;
6Yet I will send my servants unto youi tomorrow about this time, and they shall search youri house, and the houses of youri servants; and it shall be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant in youri eyes, they shall put [it] in their hand, and take [it] away.
7Then the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeks mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
8And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Listen not [unto him], nor consent.
9For what reason he said unto the messengers of Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad], Tell my lord the king, All that youi did send for to youri servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
10And Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Shomron [watch mountain] shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
11And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] answered and said, Tell [him], Let not him that put on [his harness] boast himself as he that puts it off.
12And it came to pass, when [Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad]] heard this message, as he [was] drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set [yourselves in array (to put on; to clothe)]. And they set [themselves in array (to put on; to clothe)] against the city.
13And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Have youi seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into youri hand this day; and youi shall know that I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
14And Ach’av [father’s brother] said, By whom? And he said, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [Even] by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, youi.
15Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, [even] all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [being] seven thousand.
16And they went out at noon. But Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] [was] drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
17And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Shomron [watch mountain].
18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
19So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
20And they killed everyone his man: and the Aram [Syrians] fled; and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] pursued them: and Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] the king of Aram (Syria) [exalted] escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
21And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Aram [Syrians] with a great slaughter.
22And the prophet came to the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and said unto him, Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what youi do: for at the return of the year the king of Aram (Syria) [exalted] will come up against youi.
23And the servants of the king of Aram (Syria) [exalted] said unto him, Their gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
24And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
25And number youi an army, like the army that youi have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they. And he listened unto their voice, and did so.
26And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] numbered the Aram [Syrians], and went up to Aphek [Enclosure], to fight against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
27And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] pitched before them like two little herds of goats; but the Aram [Syrians] filled the country.
28And there came a man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and spoke unto the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and said, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Because the Aram [Syrians] have said, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of the hills, but he [is] not God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into youri hand, and you2f shall know that I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
29And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And [so] it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] killed of the Aram [Syrians] an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
30But the rest fled to Aphek [Enclosure], into the city; and [there] a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left. And Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
31And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray youi, put sackcloth on our waist, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: perhaps he will save youri life.
32So they girded sackcloth on their waist, and [put] ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and said, Your1s servant Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] says, I pray youi, let me live. And he said, [Is] he still alive? he [is] my brother.
33Now the men did diligently observe whether [anything would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Your1s brother Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad]. Then he said, Go you2f, bring him. Then Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad] came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
34And [Ben-Hadad [son of the (false god) Hadad]] said unto him, The cities, which my father took from youri father, I will restore; and youi shall make streets for youi in Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver], as my father made in Shomron [watch mountain]. Then [said Ach’av [father’s brother]], I will send youi away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
35And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Strike me, I pray youi. And the man refused to strike him.
36Then said he unto him, Because youi have not obeyed the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), behold, as soon as youi are departed from me, a lion shall slay youi. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.
37Then he found another man, and said, Strike me, I pray youi. And the man struck him, so that in striking a blow he wounded [him].
38So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with bandages over his eyes.
39And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Your1s servant went out into the thick of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall youri life be for his life, or else youi shall pay a talent (weight of money; weight; gift) of silver.
40And as youri servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto him, So [shall] youri judgment [be]; yourself have decided [it].
41And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] he discerned that he [was] of the prophets.
42And he said unto him, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Because youi have let go out of [youri] hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore youri life shall go for his life, and youri people for his people.
43And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Shomron [watch mountain].
1And it came to pass after these things, [that] Navot [fruits] the Yizre’eli [God Sows] had a vineyard, which [was] in Yizre’el [God Sows], right next to the palace of Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Shomron [watch mountain].
2And Ach’av [father’s brother] spoke unto Navot [fruits], saying, Give me youri vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give youi for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to youi, I will give youi the monetary value of it in money.
3And Navot [fruits] said to Ach’av [father’s brother], The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto youi.
4And Ach’av [father’s brother] came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Navot [fruits] the Yizre’eli [God Sows] had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give youi the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
5But Izevel [Ba’al exalts] his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is youri spirit so sad, that youi eat no bread?
6And he said unto her, Because I spoke unto Navot [fruits] the Yizre’eli [God Sows], and said unto him, Give me youri vineyard for money; or else, if it please youi, I will give youi [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give youi my vineyard.
7And Izevel [Ba’al exalts] his wife said unto him, Do youi now govern the kingdom of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? arise, [and] eat bread, and let youri heart be merry: I will give youi the vineyard of Navot [fruits] the Yizre’eli [God Sows].
8So she wrote letters in Ach’av’s [father’s brother] name, and sealed [them] with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that [were] in his city, dwelling with Navot [fruits].
9And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Navot [fruits] on high among the people:
10And set two men, sons of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], before him, to bear witness against him, saying, youi did blaspheme God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] and the king. And [then] carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
11And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Izevel [Ba’al exalts] had sent unto them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
12They proclaimed a fast, and set Navot [fruits] on high among the people.
13And there came in two men, children of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], and sat before him: and the men of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing] witnessed against him, [even] against Navot [fruits], in the presence of the people, saying, Navot [fruits] did blaspheme God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
14Then they sent to Izevel [Ba’al exalts], saying, Navot [fruits] is stoned, and is dead.
15And it came to pass, when Izevel [Ba’al exalts] heard that Navot [fruits] was stoned, and was dead, that Izevel [Ba’al exalts] said to Ach’av [father’s brother], Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Navot [fruits] the Yizre’eli [God Sows], which he refused to give youi for money: for Navot [fruits] is not alive, but dead.
16And it came to pass, when Ach’av [father’s brother] heard that Navot [fruits] was dead, that Ach’av [father’s brother] rose up to go down to the vineyard of Navot [fruits] the Yizre’eli [God Sows], to take possession of it.
17And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the Tishbi [captivity], saying,
18Arise, go down to meet Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which [is] in Shomron [watch mountain]: behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Navot [fruits], to which he is gone down to possess it.
19And youi shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Have youi killed, and also taken possession? And youi shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), In the place where dogs licked the blood of Navot [fruits] shall dogs lick youri blood, even yoursi.
20And Ach’av [father’s brother] said to Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], Have youi found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found [youi]: because youi have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
21Behold, I will bring evil upon youi, and will take away youri posterity, and will cut off from Ach’av [father’s brother] him that pisses against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],
22And will make youri house like the house of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], and like the house of Ba’sha [wicked] the son of Achiyah [brother of Yehovah], for the provocation with which youi have provoked [me] to anger, and made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin.
23And of Izevel [Ba’al exalts] also spoke the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, The dogs shall eat Izevel [Ba’al exalts] by the wall of Yizre’el [God Sows].
24Him that dies of Ach’av [father’s brother] in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
25But there was none like unto Ach’av [father’s brother], which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), whom Izevel [Ba’al exalts] his wife stirred up.
26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all [things] as did the Emori [Highlanders], whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) cast out before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
27And it came to pass, when Ach’av [father’s brother] heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
28And the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came to Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the Tishbi [captivity], saying,
29See youi how Ach’av [father’s brother] humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.
1And they continued three years without war between Aram (Syria) [exalted] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
2And it came to pass in the third year, that Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] came down to the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
3And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto his servants, Know you2f that Ramot [Heights] in Gil’ad [Rocky Region] [is] ours, and we do nothing to take it not out of the hand of the king of Aram (Syria) [exalted]?
4And he said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], Will youi go with me to battle to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region]? And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said to the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], I [am] as youi [are], my people as youri people, my horses as youri horses.
5And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said unto the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Enquire, I pray youi, at the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) today.
6Then the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region] to battle, or shall I refrain (restrain; refrein from acting)? And they said, Go up; for the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
7And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) besides, that we might enquire of him?
8And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], [There is] yet one man, Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] the son of Yimlah [whom God will fill up], by whom we may enquire of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] said, The king shouldn’t say such a thing.
9Then the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] called an officer, and said, Quickly bring [here] Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] the son of Yimlah [whom God will fill up].
10And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in an open place in the entrance of the gate of Shomron [watch mountain]; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
11And Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Kena’anah [trader] made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), With these shall youi push the Aram [Syrians], until youi have consumed them.
12And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region], and prosper: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall deliver [it] into the king’s hand.
13And the messenger that was gone to call Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] spoke unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with one mouth: let youri word, I pray youi, be like the word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good.
14And Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] said, [As] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, what the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) says unto me, that will I speak.
15So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Mikhay’hu [who is like God?], shall we go against Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region] to battle, or shall we hold off? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
16And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure (to command under oath or threat) youi that youi tell me nothing but [that which is] true in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)?
17And he said, I saw all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
18And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], Did I not tell youi that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
19And he said, Hear youi therefore the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): I saw the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
20And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said, Who shall persuade Ach’av [father’s brother], that he may go up and fall at Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region]? And one said do it this way, and another said do it this way.
21And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, I will persuade (entice) him.
22And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, How? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said, youi shall persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
23Now therefore, behold, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these youri prophets, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken evil concerning youi.
24But Tzidkiyah [Yehovah is righteous] the son of Kena’anah [trader] went near, and struck Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) from me to speak to youi?
25And Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] said, Behold, youi shall find out in that day, when youi shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
26And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said, Take Mikhay’hu [who is like God?], and carry him back unto ‘Amon [master workman] the governor of the city, and to Yo’ash [Given by the Lord] the king’s son;
27And say, Thus says the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
28And Mikhay’hu [who is like God?] said, If youi return at all in peace, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has not spoken by me. And he said, Listen, O people, everyone of you.
29So the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] went up to Ramot-Gil’ad [rocky region].
30And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put youi on youri robes. And the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] disguised himself, and went into the battle.
31But the king of Aram (Syria) [exalted] commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
32And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] cried out.
33And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it [was] not the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that they turned back from pursuing him.
34And a [certain] man drew a bow at random, and struck the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn youri hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
35And the battle increased that day: and the king was detained (held) up in his chariot facing the Aram [Syrians], and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
36And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
37So the king died, and was brought to Shomron [watch mountain]; and they buried the king in Shomron [watch mountain].
38And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Shomron [watch mountain]; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which he spoke.
39Now the rest of the acts of Ach’av [father’s brother], and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?
40So Ach’av [father’s brother] slept with his fathers; and Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] his son reigned in his stead.
41And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] the son of Asa [healer; injurious?] began to reign over Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] in the fourth year of Ach’av [father’s brother] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
42Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] [was] thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And his mother’s name [was] ‘Azuvah [forsaken] the daughter of Shilchi [armed].
43And he walked in all the ways of Asa [healer; injurious?] his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): nevertheless the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
44And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] made peace with the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
45Now the rest of the acts of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], and his might that he showed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]?
46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa [healer; injurious?], he took out of the land.
47[There was] then no king in Edom [Red]: a deputy [was] king.
48Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] made ships of Tarshish [yellow jasper] to go to Ofir [reducing to ashes] for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at ‘Etzyon-Gever [backbone of a man].
49Then said Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] the son of Ach’av [father’s brother] unto Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged], Let my servants go with youri servants in the ships. But Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] would not.
50And Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David [beloved] his father: and Y’horam [Yehovah is exalted] his son reigned in his stead.
51Achazyah [Yehovah possesses] the son of Ach’av [father’s brother] began to reign over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in Shomron [watch mountain] the seventeenth year of Y’hoshafat [Yehovah has judged] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and reigned two years over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
52And he did evil in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of N’vat [aspect], who made Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to sin:
53For he served Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], according to all that his father had done.

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