“ Then how much less this house that I have made? 28 But turn toward the prayer of your servant, and toward his entreaty, Yahweh my god, to hear the shout and the prayer which your servant prays before you today, 29 so that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which you said, My name will be there; to hear the prayer which your servant prayers toward this place. 30 And listen to the entreaty of your servant, and your people Israel, when they pray toward this place, and hear it in your dwelling-place in the sky; hear and forgive. ”

“ And whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. 18 And I have a remnant of seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to the Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.
19 And he went from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen ahead of him, and he was with the twelfth. And Elijah passed by him, and throw his mantle onto him. 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Please, let me kiss my father and my mother, and I will follow you. ”

“ Chapter 20 1 And Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all his forces, and thirty-two kings were with him, and horses, and chariots, and he went up and besieged Samaria, and made war against it. 2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, to the city, 3 and said to him, Thus says Ben-Hadad. Your silver and your gold are mine, and the best of your wives and children are mine.
4 And the king of Israel answered and said, As you say, my lord the king. I am yours, and everything I have. ”

“ Why do you disguise yourself. I have hard news for you. 7 Go tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, Because I exalted you, from among the people, and made you ruler over my people Israel, 8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you, and you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes, 9 but have done evil more than all who were before you, and have gone and made yourself other gods, and cast images, to provoke me to anger, and have turned your back on me ”

“ Eat, because the journey will be hard for you. 8 And he got up, and ate, and drank, and went on the strength of that meal for forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.
9 And he came there to the cave, and stayed the night there, and there a message from Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been greatly zealous for Yahweh, the god of armies, because the people of Israel have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left. And they seek to take my life. ”

“ And the famine was strong in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called to Obadiah, who was steward of his house. Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly. 4 For when Jezebel had cut off the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them, fifty to a cave, and provided them bread and water. 5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all the springs, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass, and save the horses and mules, and we will not lose all the livestock. ”

“ Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh chose, in which to set his name, out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they provoked Yahweh more than all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed. 23 And they also built for themselves shrines, and pillars, and Asherahs, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were male cult prostitutes [54] in the land. ”

“ When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by Yahweh, ‘I will not put you to death.’ [8] 9 So do not let him go unpunished, because you are wise, and you know what you should do with him. Kill the old man violently. [9] 10 Then David passed away to be with his ancestors, [10] and he was buried in the city of David.
11 David’s time as king [11] over Israel was forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years. 12 Then Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was securely established. ”

“ He will tell you what will become of the lad. 4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and rose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. And Ahijah could not see, because his eyes were dim with age.
5 And Yahweh said to Ahijah, Here comes the wife of Jeroboam to ask you something about her son, because he is sick. Say such and such to her when she comes in. She will be pretending to be someone else. ”

“ Chapter 11 1 And King Solomon loved many foreign women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite women, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hitties -- 2 of the nations of which Yahweh said to the Israelites, You are not to go to bed with them, nor they to you. Surely they would turn away your heart to follow their gods. Solomon joined himself to these women in love. ”

“ Chapter 8 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, clan leaders of all the Israelites, to King Solomon at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to King Solomon in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy objects which were in the tabernacle ”

“ Benaiah returned a message to the king: "This is how Joab replied to me."
31 The king said to him, "Do just as he said. Kill him and bury him, to turn away [19] the innocent blood which Joab shed from me and from my father's house. 32 Yahweh will return his bloodshed back onto his own head, because he attacked two men better and more decent than himself, and stabbed them to death, without the knowledge of my father David: Abner son of Ner, [5] leader of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, leader of the army of Judah. ”

“ That is why they were stronger than us. But let us fight with them in the plain, and surely we will overpower them. [65] 24 And this is what you should do. Remove each of the kings from his place, and set captains in their place. 25 And number yourself an army like the army that you lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot, and we will fight against them in the plain. Surely we will overpower them. And he listened to their voice, and did so.
26 And then, when the next year came around, Ben-Hadad took a count of Aram, and went up to Aphek to fight with Israel. ”

“ He came and did homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house."
Chapter 2 1 As the days approached when David would die, he commanded his son Solomon: 2 "I am about to go the way of all the earth. [3] Be strong, and become a man. ”

“ Let each return to his house in peace.
18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy anything good about me, but only evil?
19 And he said, Therefore hear the message of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of the sky standing around him, to his right and left. 20 And Yahweh said, Who will deceive Ahab into going up and falling at Ramoth Gilead? And one spoke this way, and another spoke that way. 21 And a spirit came out, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will deceive him. And Yahweh said to him, How? ”

“ He overlaid them inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of cypress. 16 And he built twenty cubits from the edges of the house with cedar boards, from the floor to the walls, which he built for it from within, for the back room, for the holy of holies. 17 And the house, that is, the nave in front of it, was forty cubits. 18 And the cedar of the house along the back wall was engraved with gourds and blooming flowers, all cedar. ”

“ And you will do me the favor of providing food for my house.
10 And Solomon gave Solomon all the ceder and cypress trees he wanted. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors [26] of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of beaten oil, which Solomon gave to Hiram each year.
12 And Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant.
13 And king Solomon raised forced labor from all Israel, and the labor force was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts. ”

“ Set my bones next to his bones, 32 because the message which he called out by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the shrines which are in the city of Samaria, will come to pass.
33 After this event, Jeroboam did not return from his evil way. And he continued to appoint priests of the high place from among the lower orders of people. Whoever desired to, he appointed, and they became priests of the shrine. ”

“ He prepared chariots and riders for himself, and fifty men to run in front of him.
6 And his father never confronted him at any time, to say, "Why are you doing this?" In addition, he had a striking figure. He was born after Absalom. 7 He conferred with Joab ben Zeruiah, and Abiathar the priest, and they provided support to Adonijah. 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah ben Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and David's warriors were not with Adonijah. ”

“ And he came to king Solomon, and did all his workmanship.
15 And he fashioned two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits tall, and a line of twelve cubits was the circumference of each. 16 And he made two capitals to set on top of the pillars, of cast bronze. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 17 [There were] lattices of lattice-work, a network of chains for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars, seven for the one capital, and seven for the other. ”

“ Literally, Your blood will be on your head.1 2 3 shrines: these are the cultic locations often translated as "high places." "Shrines" more accurately captures the meaning of the Hebrew bamot1 2 The Hebrew word olot, generally translated as "burnt offerings," refers to a specific kind of animal sacrifice in which the animal was burned completely, and no parts were to be eaten by the supplicants. Literally speaking, an olah (the singular form) is a "going-up" offering, in reference to the idea that the entire animal "goes up" in smoke. ”

“ And Solomon made a house for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom he took as wife, like this porch.
9 All these were of valuable stones, measured hewed stones, cut with saws, inside and outside, and from foundation to coping, and outside as far as the large court. 10 And the foundation was of valuable stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11 And above were valuable stones, measured hewed stones, and cedar. ”

“ Four cubits was the length of each movable stand, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 28 And this was how the stands were made. They had side panels, and the panels were within frames. 29 And on the panels within the frames were lions, and oxen, and cherubim, and likewise upon the frames. Above and below the lions and oxen were hanging decorations. [33] 30 There were four bronze wheels for each movable stand, and bronze seranim. [34] And its four corners had supports for them. Under the basin were cast supports, across from each decoration. ”