Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, I appointed to utter destruction, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came therefore thy life shall go for his life, forth to him; and he caused him to and thy people for his people.

come up into the chariot.

43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee inf Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

f35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.

w 36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

i 39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst 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 thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom

CHAP. XXI.

AND it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto mine house : and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or if it scem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

f 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

f5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it and he answered, I will not give thee my vine. yard.

e 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders

and to the nobles that were in his possession? And thou shalt speak city, dwelling with Naboth. unto him, saying, Thus saith the

9 And she wrote in the letters, LORD, In the place where dogs licksaying, Proclaim a fast, and set ed the blood of Naboth shall dogs Naboth on high among the people.lick thy blood, even thine.

10 And set two men, sons of Be-c 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast lial, before him, to bear witness thou found me, O mine enemy? against him, saying, Thou didst And he answered, I have found blaspheme God and the king. And thee: because thou hast sold thythen carry him out, and stone him, self to work evil in the sight of the that he may die. LORD. f 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. c 12 They proclaimed a fast, and 22 And will make thy house like set Naboth on high among the peo-the house of Jeroboam the son of ple. Nebat, and like the house of Baa

:

r 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

13 And there came in two men, sha the son of Abijah, for the prochildren of Belial, and sat before vocation wherewith thou hast prohim and the men of Belial witness-voked me to anger, and made Ised against him, even against Na- rael to sin. both, in the presence of the people, r 23 And of Jezebel also spake the saying, Naboth did blaspheme God LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat and the king. Then they carried Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. him forth out of the city, and stoned w 24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the him with stones, that he died. city the dogs shall eat and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. f15 And it came to pass, when c 25 But there was none like unJezebel heard that Naboth was ston- to Ahab, which did sell himself to ed, and was dead, that Jezebel said work wickedness in the sight of the to Ahab, Arise, take possession of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirthe vineyard of Naboth the Jezreel-red up. ite, which he refused to give thee for money for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

f16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to 27 And it came to pass, when the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreel-Ahab heard those words, that he ite, to take possession of it. rent his clothes, and put sackcloth f17 And the word of the LORD upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, in sackcloth, and went softly. 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.

19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken

28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth 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.

With these shalt thou push the SyND they continued three rians, until thou have consumed

A years without war between them.

12 And all the prophets prophe 2 And it came to pass in the third sied so, saying, Go up to Ramothyear, that Jehoshaphat the king of gilead, and prosper: for the LORD Judah came down to the king of Is-shall deliver it into the king's hand. rael.

33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. t 34 And a certain man drew a bow 23 Now therefore, behold, the at a venture, and smote the king of LORD hath put a lying spirit in the Israel between the joints of the harmouth of all these thy prophets, and ness: wherefore he said unto the the LORD hath spoken evil concern-driver of his chariot, Turn thy hand, ing thee. and carry me out of the host; for I

f 24 But Zedekiah the son of Che- am wounded. naanah went near, and smote Mi-f 35 And the battle increased that caiah on the cheek, and said, Which day and the king was stayed up way went the Spirit of the LORD in his chariot against the Syrians, from me to speak unto thee? and died at even: and the blood r25 And Micaiah said, Behold, ran out of the wound into the midst thou shalt see in that day, when thou of the chariot. shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

f 26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come

a 36 And 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. f37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. a 38 And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs in peace. licked up his blood; and they washr28 And Micaiah said, If thou re-ed his armour; according unto the turn at all in peace, the LORD hath word of the LORD which he spake. not spoken by me. And he said, 39 Now the rest of the acts of Hearken, O people, every one of you. Ahab, and all that he did, and the 29 So the king of Israel and Je-ivory house which he made, and all hoshaphat the king of Judah went the cities that he built, are they not up to Ramoth-gilead. written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? f 40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

f 41 ¶ And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

51 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, say- 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and ing, Fight neither with small nor five years old when he began to great, save only with the king of Is-reign; and he reigned twenty and rael. five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

c 32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

c 43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: ne

vertheless the high places were not servants go with thy servants in the

taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

f 45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah ?

ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

50 T And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

f 51 ¶ Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned 46 And the remnant of the sodom-two years over Israel. ites which remained in the days of c 52 And he did evil in the sight of his father Asa, he took out of the land. g 47 There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king. g43 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not: for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber. f49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my

the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:

t 53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

The Second Book of the KINGS, commonly called, The Fourth Book of the KINGS.

CHAP. I.

THEN Moab rebelled against
Israel after the death of

6 And they said unto him, There

came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the Ahab. king that sent you, and say unto him, g 2 And Ahaziah fell down through Thus saith the LORD, Is it not bea lattice in his upper chamber that cause there is not a God in Israel, was in Samaria, and was sick and that thou sendest to inquire of Baalhe sent messengers, and said unto zebub the god of Ekron? therefore them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the thou shalt not come down from that god of Ekron, whether I shall re-bed on which thou art gone up, but cover of this disease. shalt surely die.

3 But the angel of the LORD said 7 And he said unto them, What to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up manner of man was he which came to meet the messengers of the king up to meet you, and told you these of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it words?

not because there is not a God in Isf 8 And they answered him, He rael, that ye go to inquire of Baal-was a hairy man, and girt with a zebub the god of Ekron? girdle of leather about his loins. w 4 Now therefore thus saith the And he said, It is Elijah the TishLORD, Thou shalt not come down bite.

from that bed on which thou art gonef 9 Then the king sent unto him a up, but shalt surely die. And Eli-captain of fifty with his fifty. And jah departed. he went up to him: and behold, he f5 And when the messengers sat on the top of a hill. And he turned back unto him, he said unto spake unto him, Thou man of God, them, Why are ye now turned back?the king hath said, Come down.