20 And Araunah looked, and saw 23 All these things did Araunah, the king and his servants coming on as a king, give unto the king. And toward him: And Araunah went Araunah said unto the king, The out, and bowed himself before the LORD thy God accept thee. king on his face upon the ground. d 24 And the king said unto Aran21 And Araunah said, Where- nah, Nay; but I will surely buy it fore is my lord the king come to his of thee at a price: neither will I servant? And David said, To buy offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD the threshing-floor of thee, to build my God of that which doth cost me an altar unto the LORD, that the nothing. So David bought the plague may be stayed from the peo-threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty ple. shekels of silver.

u 22 And Araunah said unto Da- ƒ 25 And David built there an alvid, Let my lord the king take and tar unto the LORD, and offered offer up what seemeth good unto burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. him behold, here be oxen for burnt- So the LORD was entreated for the sacrifice, and threshing-instruments land, and the plague was stayed and other instruments of the oxen from Israel.

for wood.

The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called, The Third Book of the KINGS.

CHAP. I.
Now singen ears, and
TOW king David was old

they covered him with clothes, but
he gat no heat.

2 Wherefore 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 thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

also was a very goodly man; and
7 and he conferred with Joab
his mother bare him after Absalom.

the son of Zeruiah, and with Abia-
thar the priest and they, following
Adonijah, helped him.
f3 But Zadok the priest, and Be-
naiah the son of Johoiada, and Na-
than the prophet, and Shimei, and
Rei, and the mighty men which
belonged to David, were not with
Adonijah.

3 So they sought for a fair dam-g 9 And Adonijah slew sheep, and sel throughout all the coasts of oxen, and fat cattle, by the stone of Israel, and found Abishag a Shu- Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and nammite, and brought her to the called all his brethren the king's king. sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants :

4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him but the king knew her not.

f5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king and he prepared him chariots and horseinen, and fifty men to run before him.

f6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he

10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not. f11 ¶ Wherefore Nathan spake unto Beth-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our LORD knoweth it not?

12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that

the trumpet, and say, God save king | Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and Solomon.

35 Then ye 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 Israel and over Judah.

36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.

the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:

45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

f 46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed

37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David. f38 So Zadok the priest, and Na-himself upon the bed. than the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

39 And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.

40 And 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.

c 48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.

f 50 T And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon for lo, he hath caught f41 And Adonijah and all the hold on the horns of the altar, sayguests that were with him heard it ing, Let king Solomon swear unto as they had made an end of eating.me to-day that he will not slay his And when Joab heard the sound of servant with the sword. the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the 42 And while he yet spake, be-earth but if wickedness shall be hold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar | found in him, he shall die.

the priest came and Adonijah said 53 So king Solomon sent, and unto him, Come in; for thou art a they brought him down from the valiant man, and bringest good tidings.

43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

4 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of

altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon and Solomon said unto him, Go to thy house.

CHAPTER II.

21 go the way of all the earth: f10 So David slept with his fabe thou strong therefore, and shew thers, and was buried in the city of thyself a man; David.

d 3 And keep the charge of the g 11 And the days that David reignLORD thy God, to walk in his ways, ed over Israel were forty years: seven to keep his statutes, and his com- years reigned he in Hebron, and mandments, and his judgments, and thirty and three years reigned he in his testimonies, as it is written in Jerusalem. the law of Moses, that thou mayest f 12 ¶ Then sat Solomon upon the prosper in all that thou doest, and throne of David his father; and his whithersoever thou turnest thyself. kingdom was established greatly.

4 That the LORD may continue f 13 ¶ And Adonijah the son of his word which he spake concerning Haggith came to Bath-sheba the me, saying, If thy children take mother of Solomon. And she said, heed to their way, to walk before Comest thou peaceably? And he me in truth, with all their heart, said, Peaceably. and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

g 8 And behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

w9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

self unto her, and sat down on his rose up to meet her, and bowed himthrone, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

small petition of thee; I pray thee,
20 Then she said, I desire one
say me not nay. And the king said
unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I
I will not say thee nay.

Shunammite be given to Adonijah
21 And she said, Let Abishag the
thy brother to wife.

22 And king Solomon answered
and said unto his mother, And why
dost thou ask Abishag the Shunam-
401

saith Joab, and thus he answered me.

mite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abi- 31 And the king said unto him, athar the priest, and for Joab the Do as he hath said, and fall upon son of Zeruiah. him, and bury him, that thou mayest take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.

u 23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day. f 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoida; and he fell upon him that he died.

26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Ámasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

34 So Benajah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. f 35 ¶ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over 27 So Solomon thrust out Abia-the host: and Zadok the priest did thar from being priest unto the the king put in the room of AbiaLORD; that he might fulfil the thar.

word of the LORD, which he spake 36 ¶ And the king sent and callconcerning the house of Eli in Shi-ed for Shimei, and said unto him, Joh. Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.

28 ¶ Then tidings came to Joab: (for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Ab- 37 For it shall be, that on the day salom) and Joab fled unto the ta-thou goest out, and passest over the bernacle of the LORD, and caught brook Kidron, thou shalt know for hold on the horns of the altar. certain that thou shalt surely die : thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusa

30 And Benaiah came to the ta-lem many days. bernacle of the LORD, and said un-g 39 And it came to pass at the to him, Thus saith the king, Come end of three years, that two of the forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus

servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath: and they told Shimei, say.