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“ He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house. 002:001 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 002:002 I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man; 002:003 and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. ”

“ Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you. 013:003 He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out. 013:004 It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. ”

“ Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh. 008:001 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. 008:002 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. ”

“ He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king. 022:016 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh? 022:017 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace. 022:018 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? ”

“ He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh. 021:021 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall,{or, male} and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel: 021:022 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin. ”

“ He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. 018:044 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." ”

“ I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 021:008 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, [and] who lived with Naboth. 021:009 She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 021:010 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death. ”

“ I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 005:009 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. 005:010 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. ”

“ Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah: 016:010 and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place. 016:011 It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single one who urinates on a wall,{or, male} neither of his relatives, nor of his friends. ”

“ When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar? 001:042 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news. 001:043 Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king: 001:044 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule ”

“ When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. 001:024 Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? 001:025 For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, [Long] live king Adonijah. ”

“ The messengers departed, and brought him word again. 020:010 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me. 020:011 The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off. ”

“ They told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath. 002:040 Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. 002:041 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. 002:042 The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die? ”

“ The famine was sore in Samaria. 018:003 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly: 018:004 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) 018:005 Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals. ”

“ Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 014:022 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 014:023 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree ”

“ Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. 016:016 The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. 016:017 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. ”

“ Yahweh, he is God. 018:040 and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. 018:041 Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. 018:042 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. 018:043 He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. ”

“ I don't know how to go out or come in. 003:008 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. 003:009 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people? 003:010 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ”

“ I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 022:020 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner ”

“ He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife) , like this porch. 007:009 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 007:010 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 007:011 Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. 007:012 The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams ”