1Ki 15:1 And in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam reigned over Judah.
1Ki 15:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, those that he did before him, and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of his father David.
1Ki 15:4 But for David’s sake Jehovah his God gave to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem.
1Ki 15:5 For David did that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
1Ki 15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
1Ki 15:7 And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1Ki 15:8 And Abijam lay with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place.
1Ki 15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel Asa reigned over Judah.
1Ki 15:10 And he reigned forty one years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like his father David.
1Ki 15:12 And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers made.
1Ki 15:13 And he also removed his mother Maachah from being queen, in that she made a horrid thing for Asherah. And Asa cut down her horrid thing and burned it by the torrent Kidron.
1Ki 15:14 But they did not remove the high places. Only the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all the days.
1Ki 15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated and his holy things, into the house of Jehovah, silver and gold and vessels.
1Ki 15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1Ki 15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, to keep anyone from going out and coming in to Asa the king of Judah.
1Ki 15:18 And Asa took all the silver and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house, and gave them into his servants’ hand; and King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, the king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
1Ki 15:19 A treaty between you and me, between my father and your father! Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha the king of Israel, that he go up from me.
1Ki 15:20 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent his army commanders against the cities of Israel. And he struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1Ki 15:21 And it happened, when Baasha heard, he ceased building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
1Ki 15:22 And King Asa proclaimed to all Judah (no one was exempt) and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber with which Baasha had built. And King Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1Ki 15:23 And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah? Only, at the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1Ki 15:24 And Asa lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.
1Ki 15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa the king of Judah. And he reigned over Israel two years.
1Ki 15:26 And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
1Ki 15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him And Baasha struck him at Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines. For Nadab and all Israel had laid siege to Gibbethon.
1Ki 15:28 And in the third year of Asa the king of Judah, Baasha killed him, and reigned in his place.
1Ki 15:29 And it happened when he reigned, he struck all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him according to the saying of Jehovah which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the man of Shiloh;
1Ki 15:30 because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin by his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger.
1Ki 15:31 And the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel?
1Ki 15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha the king of Israel all their days.
1Ki 15:33 In the third year of Asa the king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah reigned over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty four years.
1Ki 15:34 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin.

1Ki 14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam was sick.
1Ki 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Please rise up and disguise yourself, that you may not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam. And you shall go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there. He spoke to me of being king over this people.
1Ki 14:3 And you shall take ten loaves in your hand, and biscuits, and a flask of honey, and come to him. He will tell you what shall become of the boy.
1Ki 14:4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and rose up and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah. And Ahijah was not able to see, for his eyes were set because of his age.
1Ki 14:5 And Jehovah said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask a thing of you for her son, for he is sick. You shall say this and this to her, and it shall be when she comes in, she will act as a foreigner.
1Ki 14:6 And it happened when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you acting as a foreigner? And I am sent to you with a hard thing.
1Ki 14:7 Go, say to Jeroboam, So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Because I have exalted you from among the people, and have appointed you leader over My people Israel;
1Ki 14:8 and have torn the kingdom from the house of David, and have given it to you, and you have not been as My servant David who kept My commandments, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in My eyes;
1Ki 14:9 and you did evil above all who have been before you, and went and made for yourself other gods and casted images to provoke Me to anger; and you have cast Me behind your back
1Ki 14:10 therefore, behold, I am bringing evil to the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him who urinates against the wall, bound and free in Israel; and will sweep away the rest of the house of Jeroboam as a man sweeps away the dung, until it is all gone.
1Ki 14:11 The dogs shall eat those of Jeroboam who die in the city. And the birds of the heavens shall eat those who die in a field; for Jehovah has spoken.
1Ki 14:12 And you, rise up, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy shall die.
1Ki 14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him, for only this one of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because there has been found in him a good thing toward Jehovah, God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
1Ki 14:14 And Jehovah shall raise up a king over Israel for Himself, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. And what? Even now!
1Ki 14:15 And Jehovah shall strike Israel as the reed waves in the water, and shall pluck up Israel from off this good land that He gave to their fathers. And He shall scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking Jehovah to anger.
1Ki 14:16 And He shall give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.
1Ki 14:17 And Jeroboam’s wife rose up and left, and came to Tirzah. She came in to the threshold of the house, and the boy died.
1Ki 14:18 And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the Word of Jehovah that He spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
1Ki 14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.
1Ki 14:20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years. And he lay with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
1Ki 14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty one years old when he began to reign. And he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
1Ki 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked Him to jealousy above all their fathers did by their sins that they had sinned.
1Ki 14:23 And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.
1Ki 14:24 And also the sodomite was in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
1Ki 14:25 And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem.
1Ki 14:26 And he took the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house; yea, he took all. And he took all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
1Ki 14:27 And King Rehoboam made in their place bronze shields. And he gave them into the hand of the commander of the runners, who kept the door of the king’s house.
1Ki 14:28 And it happened, when the king went to the house of Jehovah, the runners bore them, and brought them back to the room of the runners.
1Ki 14:29 And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?
1Ki 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
1Ki 14:31 And Rehoboam lay with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

1Ki 13:1 And, behold, a man of God had come from Judah to Bethel, by the Word of Jehovah, and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
1Ki 13:2 And he cried against the altar, by the Word of Jehovah, and said, Altar! Altar! So says Jehovah, Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, his name Josiah, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you, and they shall burn the bones of man on you.
1Ki 13:3 And on that day he gave a sign, saying, This is the sign that Jehovah has spoken, Behold, the altar is torn, and the ashes that are on it poured out.
1Ki 13:4 And it happened when the king heard the saying of the man of God which he had cried against the altar in Bethel, Jereboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, Seize him. And his hand which he put out against him withered, and he was not able to bring it back to him.
1Ki 13:5 And the altar was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the Word of Jehovah.
1Ki 13:6 And the king answered and said to the man of God, Please entreat the face of Jehovah your God, and pray for me, and my hand shall come back to me. And the man of God entreated the face of Jehovah, and the hand of the king came back to him, and it was as at the beginning.
1Ki 13:7 And the king spoke to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a gift.
1Ki 13:8 And the man of God said to the king, If you would give me the half of your house, I would not go in with you, nor will I eat bread, nor will I drink water in this place.
1Ki 13:9 For so He commanded me by the Word of Jehovah, saying, You shall not eat bread nor drink water, nor turn back in the way that you have come.
1Ki 13:10 And he went on another way, and did not turn back in the way in which he came into Bethel.
1Ki 13:11 And a certain aged prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel, the words that he had spoken to the king; yea, they told them to their father.
1Ki 13:12 And their father said to them, Where is this man, what way did he go? And his sons saw the way that the man of God from Judah had gone.
1Ki 13:13 And he said to his sons, Saddle the ass for me. And they saddled the ass for him, and he rode on it,
1Ki 13:14 and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak tree. And he said to him, are you the man of God who has come from Judah? And he said, I am.
1Ki 13:15 Then he said to him, Come home with me and eat bread.
1Ki 13:16 And he said, I am not able to go back with you, and to go in with you, nor may I eat bread or drink water with you in this place;
1Ki 13:17 for a word came to me by the Word of Jehovah, You shall not eat bread nor drink water there; you shall not turn back to go in the way in which you came.
1Ki 13:18 And he said to him, I also am a prophet like yourself, and an angel spoke to me by the Word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, and he shall eat bread and water (he lied to him).
1Ki 13:19 And he turned back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.
1Ki 13:20 And it happened as they were sitting at the table, and a Word of Jehovah came to the prophet who brought him back;
1Ki 13:21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, So says Jehovah, Because you have resisted the mouth of Jehovah, and have not kept the command that Jehovah your God charged you,
1Ki 13:22 and turned back and ate bread and drank water in the place of which He said to you, You shall not eat bread nor drink water; your carcass shall not come to the burying place of your fathers.
1Ki 13:23 And after he ate bread and after he drank, it happened that he saddled the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1Ki 13:24 And he left, and a lion found him in the way and killed him; and his carcass was thrown down in the way, and the ass was standing near it, and the lion was standing near the carcass.
1Ki 13:25 And behold, men were passing by and saw the carcass thrown in the way, and the lion standing near the carcass; and they came and spoke of it in the city in which the old prophet lived.
1Ki 13:26 And the prophet who brought him back out of the way heard and said, It is the man of God who provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and Jehovah gave him to the lion, and it tore him apart and killed him, according to the Word of Jehovah that He spoke to him.
1Ki 13:27 And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle the ass for me. And they saddled.
1Ki 13:28 And he went and found the carcass thrown down in the way, and the ass and the lion were standing near the carcass; the lion had not eaten the carcass nor had he torn apart the ass.
1Ki 13:29 And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God and placed it on the ass, and brought it back; and the old prophet came into the city to mourn and to bury him.
1Ki 13:30 And he placed his carcass in his own grave, and they mourned for him, O my brother!
1Ki 13:31 And it happened, after he buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, At my death, you shall bury me in the burying place in which the man of God is buried; place my bones beside his bones;
1Ki 13:32 for the word that he cried by the Word of Jehovah concerning the altar in Bethel, and concerning all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely occur.
1Ki 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but turned again and made from the lowest of the people priests of high places; he who desired, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
1Ki 13:34 And in this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it from off the face of the earth.

1Ki 12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
1Ki 12:2 And it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard (and he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of Solomon the king, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt)
1Ki 12:3 that they sent and called for him; and they came, Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
1Ki 12:4 Your father made our yoke hard; and now you should lighten some of the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve you.
1Ki 12:5 And he said to them, Go; yet in three days come back to me. And the people went.
1Ki 12:6 And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had been standing before the face of his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, How do you advise in order to answer this people?
1Ki 12:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you are servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them and speak to them good words, then they will be servants to you forever.
1Ki 12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they advised him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, who were standing before him.
1Ki 12:9 And he said to them, What do you advise, and we shall answer the people who have spoken to me, saying, Lighten some of the yoke that your father put upon us?
1Ki 12:10 And they spoke to him, the young men who had grown up with him, saying, So you shall say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and you make it light on us; so you shall speak to them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father,
1Ki 12:11 and now my father laid a heavy yoke on you, and I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I will surely chastise you with scorpions.
1Ki 12:12 And they came, Jeroboam and all the people, to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, Come back to me on the third day.
1Ki 12:13 And the king replied to the people harshly, and forsook the counsel of the elders which they advised him,
1Ki 12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I shall add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I will surely chastise you with scorpions.
1Ki 12:15 And the king did not listen to the people, for the turn of events was from Jehovah, in order to lift up His Word that Jehovah spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1Ki 12:16 And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, and the people sent the king back word, saying, What portion do we have in David? Yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, O David! And Israel went to its tents.
1Ki 12:17 As to the sons of Israel, those living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1Ki 12:18 And King Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the tribute, and all Israel threw stones at him, and he died. And King Rehoboam made haste to go up into a chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
1Ki 12:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
1Ki 12:20 And it happened when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the company, and caused him to reign over all Israel; none followed after the house of David except the tribe of Judah only.
1Ki 12:21 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and gathered all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen makers of war to fight with the house of Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon,
1Ki 12:22 then the Word of God came to Shemaiah a man of God, saying,
1Ki 12:23 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah, and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying,
1Ki 12:24 So says Jehovah, You shall not go up nor fight with your brothers the sons of Israel. Each turn back to his house, for this thing has been from Me. And they heard the Word of Jehovah, and turned to go back, according to the Word of Jehovah.
1Ki 12:25 And Jeroboam built Shechem in the hills of Ephraim and lived in it, and went out from there and built Penuel.
1Ki 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom shall turn back to the house of David;
1Ki 12:27 if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they will kill me and go again to Rehoboam the king of Judah.
1Ki 12:28 And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
1Ki 12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
1Ki 12:30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, to Dan.
1Ki 12:31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1Ki 12:32 And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah; and he offered on the altar, so he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he made; and he made stand in Bethel the priests of the high places that he made.
1Ki 12:33 And he offered up on the altar that he made in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast for the sons of Israel, and offered on the altar, to burn incense.

1Ki 11:1 And King Solomon loved many foreign women, even the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites;
1Ki 11:2 of the nations which Jehovah said to the sons of Israel, You shall not go in to them, and they shall not go in to you; they shall turn aside your heart after their gods; Solomon clung to these in love.
1Ki 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
1Ki 11:4 And it happened, at the time Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of his father David.
1Ki 11:5 And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites;
1Ki 11:6 and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David.
1Ki 11:7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon;
1Ki 11:8 and so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
1Ki 11:9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, for his heart had bent away from Jehovah, God of Israel who had appeared to him twice,
1Ki 11:10 and had given a charge to him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; and he did not keep that which Jehovah commanded.
1Ki 11:11 And Jehovah said to Solomon, Because this has been done by you, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes that I charged on you, I shall surely tear the kingdom from you and shall give it to your servant.
1Ki 11:12 Only, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I shall tear it out of your son’s hand.
1Ki 11:13 Only I will not tear away all the kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for my servant David’s sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
1Ki 11:14 And it happened, Jehovah raised an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the seed of the king in Edom.
1Ki 11:15 And it happened when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the ones who died, after he had stricken every male in Edom;
1Ki 11:16 Joab and all Israel remained there six months until every male in Edom was cut off.
1Ki 11:17 And Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; and Hadad was a little child.
1Ki 11:18 And they rose up out of Midian and came to Paran, and they took men with them out of Paran and came into Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt. And he gave him a house and commanded bread for him, and gave land to him.
1Ki 11:19 And Hadad found much favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
1Ki 11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him a son, Genubath, and Tahpenes weaned him in Pharaoh’s house among Pharaoh’s sons.
1Ki 11:21 And Hadad had heard in Egypt that David had slept with his fathers, and that Joab the commander of the army was dead. And Hadad said to Pharaoh, Send me away and I will go to my land.
1Ki 11:22 And Pharaoh said to him, But what are you lacking with me, that, lo, you are seeking to go to your land? And he said, Nothing. However, you shall certainly send me away.
1Ki 11:23 And God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer the king of Zobah.
1Ki 11:24 And he gathered men to himself, and was head of a troop when David killed them. And they went to Damascus and lived in it, and reigned in Damascus.
1Ki 11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the evil that Hadad did; and he despised Israel and reigned over Syria.
1Ki 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, a servant of Solomon (and his mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman) he also lifted up a hand against the king.
1Ki 11:27 And this was the thing for which he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, repairing the breaks of the city of his father David.
1Ki 11:28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty warrior. And Solomon saw the young man, that he was doing work. And he appointed him to all the burden of the house of Joseph.
1Ki 11:29 And at that time it happened that Jeroboam had gone out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him in the way. And he covered himself with a new garment, and both of them were by themselves in a field.
1Ki 11:30 And Ahijah laid hold on the new garment on him and tore it into twelve pieces.
1Ki 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces for yourself. For so says Jehovah, God of Israel, Behold, I am tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and giving to you the ten tribes.
1Ki 11:32 And he shall have the one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
1Ki 11:33 Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh the god of Moab, to Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and have not walked in My ways, to do the right in My eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, as his father David did.
1Ki 11:34 But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for My servant David’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commands and My statutes.
1Ki 11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it to you, ten tribes.
1Ki 11:36 And I will give one tribe to his son, that there may be a lamp to My servant David before Me all the days in Jerusalem the city that I have chosen to Myself, to put My name there.
1Ki 11:37 And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
1Ki 11:38 And it shall be, if you shall hear all that I command you, and shall walk in My ways, and do that which is right in My eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as My servant David did, then I shall be with you and shall build a sure house for you, as I built for David, and shall give Israel to you.
1Ki 11:39 And for this I will humble the seed of David; but not forever.
1Ki 11:40 And Solomon sought to put Jeroboam to death, and Jeroboam rose up and fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king of Egypt; and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
1Ki 11:41 And the rest of the matters of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
1Ki 11:42 And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years;
1Ki 11:43 and Solomon lay with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

1Ki 10:1 And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon as to the name of Jehovah, and she came to test him with hard questions.
1Ki 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great company, camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him all that had been in her heart.
1Ki 10:3 And Solomon told her all her matters; there was not one thing hidden from the king that he did not declare to her.
1Ki 10:4 And the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he built,
1Ki 10:5 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cupbearers and his burnt offering that he offered in the house of Jehovah; and there was no more breath in her.
1Ki 10:6 And she said to the king, The word that I heard in my land was true as to your matters and your wisdom.
1Ki 10:7 And I did not believe the words until I had come and my eyes had seen; and behold, the half was not told to me. You have wisdom and prosperity exceeding the fame which I heard.
1Ki 10:8 Oh the happiness of your men! Oh the happiness of your servants, these who stand before you continually, who hear your wisdom!
1Ki 10:9 Blessed be Jehovah your God who delighted in you, putting your person on the throne of Israel, because Jehovah loved Israel forever, therefore He appointed you king, to do judgment and righteousness.
1Ki 10:10 And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones; no spice like that came any more for abundance, that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
1Ki 10:11 And also, the navy of Hiram that bore gold from Ophir brought in from Ophir almug trees, a great many, and precious stones;
1Ki 10:12 and the king made the almug trees a support for the house of Jehovah, and for the king’s house, and harps and lyres for singers; no such almug trees have come, nor have there been seen such to this day.
1Ki 10:13 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, apart from that which he gave to her as a memorial of King Solomon. And she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.
1Ki 10:14 And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty six talents of gold,
1Ki 10:15 apart from the merchant men, and from the traffic of the traders, and from all the Arabian kings, and from the governors of the lands.
1Ki 10:16 And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target;
1Ki 10:17 and three hundred shields of beaten gold: three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1Ki 10:18 And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.
1Ki 10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind; and stays were on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays;
1Ki 10:20 and twelve lions were standing on the six steps, on this side and on that; there was not the like made in any kingdom.
1Ki 10:21 And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of refined gold; there was none of silver; it was not counted for anything in the days of Solomon;
1Ki 10:22 For the king had a navy of Tarshish at sea with a navy of Hiram; once in three years the navy of Tarshish would come bearing gold, and silver, and ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1Ki 10:23 And King Solomon was greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom;
1Ki 10:24 and all the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that God had put into his heart;
1Ki 10:25 and they were each one bringing his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a year by year matter.
1Ki 10:26 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand, four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem.
1Ki 10:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores that are in the low country, for abundance.
1Ki 10:28 And the horses that King Solomon had were brought from Egypt, and from Kue; the king’s merchants received them from Kue at a price;
1Ki 10:29 and a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria they brought them out by their means.

1Ki 9:1 And it happened, as Solomon finished building the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,
1Ki 9:2 that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as He appeared to him in Gibeon.
1Ki 9:3 And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever.
1Ki 9:4 And you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, in singleness of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you; you shall keep My statutes and My judgments;
1Ki 9:5 then I shall lift up the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke to your father David, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
1Ki 9:6 If you at all turn back, you and your sons, from following me, and do not keep My commands, My statutes which I have set before you, and you shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them,
1Ki 9:7 then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I shall send away from My face, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
1Ki 9:8 As to this house, which is high, everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?
1Ki 9:9 And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them. On account of this Jehovah has brought in upon them all this evil.
1Ki 9:10 And it happened, at the end of twenty years Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the house of the king.
1Ki 9:11 Hiram the king of Tyre had lifted Solomon with cedar trees and with fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
1Ki 9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given to him, and they were not right in his eyes.
1Ki 9:13 And he said, What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother? And one called them the land of Cabul to this day.
1Ki 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
1Ki 9:15 And this is the reason of the labor force that King Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1Ki 9:16 (Pharaoh the king of Egypt had gone up and had captured Gezer, and had burned it with fire. And he killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.)
1Ki 9:17 and Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the lower,
1Ki 9:18 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land;
1Ki 9:19 and all the store cities which Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
1Ki 9:20 All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not of the sons of Israel,
1Ki 9:21 their sons left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not been able to exterminate, Solomon even caused to go on them a burden of forced labor to this day.
1Ki 9:22 But Solomon did not give as a slave out of the sons of Israel, for they were the men of war, and his servants, and his rulers, and his commanders, and the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.
1Ki 9:23 These were the commanders of the officers who were over the work of Solomon: five hundred and fifty, those ruling among the people who were working in the work.
1Ki 9:24 But the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David to her house that he built for her; then he built Millo.
1Ki 9:25 And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to Jehovah, and he burned incense on the altar before Jehovah, and finished the house.
1Ki 9:26 And King Solomon built a navy in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the lip of the Sea of Reeds, in the land of Edom.
1Ki 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants in the navy, shipmen who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon;
1Ki 9:28 and they came to Ophir and took gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it in to King Solomon.

1Ki 8:1 Then Solomon gathered the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1Ki 8:2 And all the men of Israel were gathered to King Solomon, in the month of Ethanim, at the feast, which is the seventh month.
1Ki 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came in, and the priests lifted up the ark,
1Ki 8:4 and brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those the priests and the Levites brought.
1Ki 8:5 And King Solomon and all the company of Israel who had assembled to him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
1Ki 8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, to the holy place of the house, into the Holy of Holies, to the place of the wings of the cherubs;
1Ki 8:7 for the cherubs were spreading forth their wings to the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered over the ark, and over its staves from above.
1Ki 8:8 And they lengthened the staves, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place on the front of the Holy of Holies, and were not seen outside; and they are there to this day.
1Ki 8:9 Nothing was in the ark, only the two tables of stone which Moses put there in Horeb, when Jehovah cut a covenant with the sons of Israel as they went out of the land of Egypt.
1Ki 8:10 And it happened as the priests went out from the Holy of Holies, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah,
1Ki 8:11 and the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.
1Ki 8:12 And Solomon said, Jehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.
1Ki 8:13 Building I have built a house of loftiness for You, a settled place for You to abide in forever.
1Ki 8:14 And the king turned around his face and blessed the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel was standing.
1Ki 8:15 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of Israel, who spoke by His mouth with my father David, and by his hand has fulfilled it, saying,
1Ki 8:16 From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house for My name to be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel.
1Ki 8:17 And it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel;
1Ki 8:18 and Jehovah said to my father David, Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My name, you have done well that it has been in your heart;
1Ki 8:19 only, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall come out from your loins, he shall build the house for My name.
1Ki 8:20 And Jehovah has lifted up His Word that He spoke; for I have risen up instead of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spoke, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel;
1Ki 8:21 and set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Jehovah which He made with our fathers when He brought them out from the land of Egypt.
1Ki 8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah, across from the assembly of Israel, and spread his hands toward the heavens;
1Ki 8:23 and said, Jehovah, God of Israel, there is no God like You in the heavens above or on the earth beneath; who keeps covenant and mercy with Your servants that walk before You with all their heart;
1Ki 8:24 who have kept for Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him; yea, You spoke with Your mouth, and with Your hand have fulfilled it as it is this day.
1Ki 8:25 And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him, saying, There shall not be cut off from you a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel; only, if your sons watch their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.
1Ki 8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I beseech You, Your Word which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.
1Ki 8:27 But will God in truth dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and Heaven of the heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!
1Ki 8:28 Yet You have turned toward the prayer of Your servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today;
1Ki 8:29 for Your eyes are open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.
1Ki 8:30 And You shall listen to the supplication of Your servant, and of Your people Israel when they shall pray toward this place; yea, You shall listen in Your dwelling-place, in Heaven; and You shall hear and shall forgive.
1Ki 8:31 If any man sins against his neighbor, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and the oath has come before Your altar in this house,
1Ki 8:32 then You shall hear in Heaven, and shall act, and shall judge Your servants, to declare the wicked to be wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare the righteous to be righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
1Ki 8:33 When Your people Israel are stricken before the enemy, when they sin against You, if they turn again to You, and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this house;
1Ki 8:34 then You shall hear in Heaven, and shall forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and shall bring them back to the land that You gave to their fathers.
1Ki 8:35 When the heavens are restrained, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they have prayed toward this place, and confess Your name, and have turned from their sin because You have afflicted them,
1Ki 8:36 then You shall hear in Heaven, and shall forgive the sin of Your servants, and of Your people Israel, for You shall teach them the good way in which they shall go, and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
1Ki 8:37 When there is famine in the land; when there is pestilence, blasting, mildew, locusts; when there is the stripping locust; when its enemy has distressed it in the land in its gates; any plague, any sickness,
1Ki 8:38 any prayer, any supplication that shall come from any man of all of Your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and shall spread his hands toward this house,
1Ki 8:39 then You shall hear in Heaven Your dwellingplace and shall forgive and shall act, and shall give to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You have known, You alone, the heart of all the sons of Adam),
1Ki 8:40 so that they shall fear You all the days that they are living on the face of the land that You have given to our fathers.
1Ki 8:41 And also, to the alien who is not of Your people Israel, and has come from a land afar off for Your name’s sake,
1Ki 8:42 (for they shall hear of Your great name, and of Your strong hand, and of Your stretched out arm, and he shall have come in and prayed toward this house,)
1Ki 8:43 You shall hear in Heaven, Your dwellingplace, and shall do according to all that the stranger calls to You for, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You like Your people Israel, and to know that Your name has been called on this house which I have built.
1Ki 8:44 If Your people shall go out to battle against its enemy, in the way that You have sent them, and they have prayed to Jehovah the way of the city which You have chosen, and of the house which I have built for Your name,
1Ki 8:45 then hear their prayer and their supplication in Heaven, and perform their cause.
1Ki 8:46 When they sin against You (for there is not a man who does not sin) and You have been angry with them, and have given them up before an enemy, and they have been led away into captivity to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
1Ki 8:47 and they have turned their heart back in the land where they have been taken captive, and have repented, and made supplication to You in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely; we have done wickedly;
1Ki 8:48 and, they have turned back to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed to You the way of their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,
1Ki 8:49 then You shall hear their prayer and their supplication in Heaven Your dwellingplace, and shall perform their cause,
1Ki 8:50 and shall forgive Your people who have sinned against You, even all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and shall give them mercy before their captors, and they shall have mercy on them.
1Ki 8:51 For they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron;
1Ki 8:52 for Your eyes shall be open to the supplication of Your servant, and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them in all that they call to You for;
1Ki 8:53 for You have separated them to Yourself for an inheritance out of all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke by the hand of Your servant Moses when You brought out our fathers from Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.
1Ki 8:54 And it happened as Solomon finished praying to Jehovah all this prayer and supplication, he arose from before the altar of Jehovah, from bending on his knees, and his hands spread out to Heaven;
1Ki 8:55 and he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1Ki 8:56 Blessed be Jehovah who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He has spoken; not one word of all His good Word has fallen, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Moses.
1Ki 8:57 Jehovah our God is with us as He has been with our fathers; He shall not forsake us or leave us,
1Ki 8:58 to incline our heart to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers;
1Ki 8:59 and these words of mine which I have prayed before Jehovah be near to Jehovah our God by day and by night, to perform the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel, the matter of each day in its day;
1Ki 8:60 for all the peoples of the earth know that Jehovah, He is God; there is no other;
1Ki 8:61 let your heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.
1Ki 8:62 And the king and all Israel with him were offering a sacrifice before Jehovah;
1Ki 8:63 and Solomon offered the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he had offered to Jehovah: twenty two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.
1Ki 8:64 On that day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah, for he had made the burnt offering there, and the food offering, and the fat of the peace offerings; because the bronze altar that was before Jehovah was too small to contain the burnt offering, and the food offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
1Ki 8:65 And at that time Solomon made a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, fourteen days.
1Ki 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went to their tents rejoicing and joyous of heart for all the good that Jehovah had done to His servant David, and to His people Israel.

1Ki 7:1 And Solomon built his own house for thirteen years. And he finished all his house.
1Ki 7:2 And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits on four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars.
1Ki 7:3 And it was covered with cedar above, on the sides that lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
1Ki 7:4 And windows were in three rows, and light was against light in three rows.
1Ki 7:5 And all the doors and the side posts were square along with the windows; and the front of a window was against a window in three rows.
1Ki 7:6 And he made the porch of the pillars, its length fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. And the porch was before them; and the pillars and the roof were over them.
1Ki 7:7 And he made the porch of the throne where he judged, the porch of judgment. And it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
1Ki 7:8 As to his house where he lived, the other court was within the porch, as this work was. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken, like this porch.
1Ki 7:9 And these were of costly stones according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with a saw, inside and out, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside, to the great court.
1Ki 7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
1Ki 7:11 And above were costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stone and cedar.
1Ki 7:12 And the great court all around was three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams, even for the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and for the porch of the house.
1Ki 7:13 And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
1Ki 7:14 He was the son of a widow woman of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a man of Tyre, an engraver in bronze. And he was filled with the wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do all work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
1Ki 7:15 And he formed the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits went around the second pillar.
1Ki 7:16 And he made two capitals to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the one capital, and five cubits the height of the second capital.
1Ki 7:17 He made gratings of network with twisted threads of chain-work, for the capitals on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
1Ki 7:18 And he made the pillars. And two rows were all around on the one grating, to cover the capitals on the top with the pomegranates. And so he did for the other capital.
1Ki 7:19 And the capitals on the top of the pillars in the porch were lily-work, four cubits.
1Ki 7:20 And the capitals were on the two pillars, also above, over against the belly which was by the grating; and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows all around on the other capital.
1Ki 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple. And he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin. And he set up the left pillar, and called its name of Boaz.
1Ki 7:22 And on the top of the pillars was lily-work. So the work of the pillars was finished.
1Ki 7:23 And he made a casted sea of ten cubits from brim to brim; it was round all about. And its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits went around it all about.
1Ki 7:24 And gourds were below its brim all around, going around it, ten by the cubit, circling the sea all around; the gourds were cast in two rows when it was cast.
1Ki 7:25 It stood on twelve oxen: three facing the north, and three facing the west, and three facing the south, and three facing the east. And the sea was above on them; and all their hinder parts were inward.
1Ki 7:26 And its thickness was one hand wide; and its brim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, with a bud of a lily. It contained two thousand baths.
1Ki 7:27 And he made ten bases of bronze; four cubits the length of the one base, and four cubits the breadth, and three cubits the height.
1Ki 7:28 And this was the work of the base: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays.
1Ki 7:29 And on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubs. And a pedestal was on the stays above. And below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1Ki 7:30 And the one base had four wheels of bronze, and axles of bronze. And its four feet were supports to them; under the basin were casted supports with wreaths at each side.
1Ki 7:31 And its mouth within and above the capital was a cubit; and its mouth was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and half of the cubit. And also on its mouth were carvings; and their borders were square, not round.
1Ki 7:32 And the four wheels were under the borders. And the hands of the wheels were in the base; and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and a half.
1Ki 7:33 And the work of the wheels was as the work of a chariot wheel, their hands, and their rims, and their spokes, and their hubs were all casted.
1Ki 7:34 And there were four supports to the four corners of one base; the supports were of the base itself.
1Ki 7:35 And in the top of the base was a round compass of half a cubit high. And on the top of the base its sides and its borders were from it.
1Ki 7:36 And he engraved cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its sides, and on its borders, as the place of each, with wreaths all around.
1Ki 7:37 So he made the ten bases, one casting, one measure, one form was to them all.
1Ki 7:38 And he made ten basins of bronze; the one basin contained forty baths. The one basin was four cubits, one basin on the one base, to the ten bases.
1Ki 7:39 And he put the five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. And he put the sea on the right side of the house, eastward, across from the south.
1Ki 7:40 And Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the bowls. And Hiram finished all the work that he made for King Solomon for the house of Jehovah:
1Ki 7:41 two pillars, and two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two gratings to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
1Ki 7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two gratings, two rows of pomegranates for each grating, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
1Ki 7:43 and ten bases, and ten basins on the bases;
1Ki 7:44 and one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
1Ki 7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And all these vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of Jehovah were of burnished bronze.
1Ki 7:46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the thick soil of the ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
1Ki 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed because they were very, very many; the weight of the bronze was not searched out.
1Ki 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Jehovah: the altar of gold; and the table of gold on which was the Bread of the Presence;
1Ki 7:49 and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left before the Holy of Holies, of refined gold, and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs were of gold;
1Ki 7:50 and the basins, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans were of refined gold; and the hinges for the doors of the inner house, for the Holy of Holies, for the doors of the house of the temple were of gold.
1Ki 7:51 And it was complete, all the work that King Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the sanctified things of his father David: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels he had put into the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.

Victory is the place where our breaking point becomes our turning point.

  -- L. Burt

1Sa 25:1 And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered, and mourned for him. And they buried him in his house, in Ramah. And David rose up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1Sa 25:2 And a certain man was in Maon, and his work was in Carmel. And the man was very great, and there were three thousand sheep and a thousand goats to him. And he was shearing his flock in Carmel.
1Sa 25:3 And the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name, Abigail. And the woman was of good understanding, and beautiful of form. And the man was cruel and evil in his dealings. And He was of Caleb.
1Sa 25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his flock.
1Sa 25:5 And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and you shall come to Nabal and ask him of his welfare in my name.
1Sa 25:6 And say this, Long life and peace to you! And peace to your house, and peace to all that you have.
1Sa 25:7 And now, I have heard that you have shearers. And your shepherds have been with us; we have not shamed them, nor was anything missing to them all the days they were in Carmel.
1Sa 25:8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. And may the young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come at a good day. Please give that which your hand finds to your servants, and to your son, to David.
1Sa 25:9 And the young men of David came and spoke to Nabal according to all these words, in the name of David, and rested.
1Sa 25:10 And Nabal answered David’s servants and said, Who is David, and who the son of Jesse? The servants have multiplied today who have broken away from his master.
1Sa 25:11 And shall I take my bread, and my water, and my meat which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I have not known, from where they are?
1Sa 25:12 And the young men of David turned to their way, and returned and came and told him according to all these words.
1Sa 25:13 And David said to his men, Each man gird on his sword. And David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
1Sa 25:14 And one young man of the youths told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David has sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our lord, and he screamed at them.
1Sa 25:15 And the men were good to us, and have not shamed us, and we have not missed anything all the days we have gone up and down with them when we were in the field.
1Sa 25:16 They have been a wall to us both by day and by night, all the days we have been with them, feeding the flock.
1Sa 25:17 And now, know and consider what you should do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and on all his house. And he is a son of worthlessness, no one can speak to him.
1Sa 25:18 And Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five prepared sheep, and five measures of roasted grain, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. And she set them on the asses.
1Sa 25:19 And she said to her young men, Pass on before me. Behold, I am coming after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
1Sa 25:20 And it happened she was riding on the ass and coming down by the cover of the mountain. And, behold, David and his men were coming down to meet her; and she met them.
1Sa 25:21 And David had said, Surely, in vain I have guarded all that belongs to this fellow in the wilderness, so that not anything was missed of all that was his. And he has returned to me evil for good.
1Sa 25:22 So may God do to the enemies of David, and may He do more so, if I leave any of all that is to him to the light of the morning, of one who urinates against a wall.
1Sa 25:23 And Abigail saw David, and she hurried, and she dismounted from the ass and fell on her face before David and bowed to the earth.
1Sa 25:24 And she fell at his feet and said, On me, even me, my lord, be the iniquity. And please, let your handmaid speak in your ears; and hear the words of your handmaid.
1Sa 25:25 Please, do not let my lord set his heart toward this man of worthlessness, on Nabal. For as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him. And I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
1Sa 25:26 And now, my lord, as Jehovah lives, and as your soul lives, in that Jehovah has withheld you from coming in with blood, and delivering your hand for you; even now let your enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil to my lord.
1Sa 25:27 And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, even let it be given to the young men who go after my lord.
1Sa 25:28 Please, bear with the transgression of your handmaid, for Jehovah shall certainly make a sure house for my lord. For my lord has fought the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in you all your days.
1Sa 25:29 And if a man rises up to pursue you and to seek your soul, the soul of my lord will be bound up in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God; and the souls of your enemies, He shall sling them from the hollow of the sling.
1Sa 25:30 And it shall be, when Jehovah does to my lord according to all the good which He has spoken concerning you, and has commanded you to be ruler over Israel,
1Sa 25:31 that this shall not be for a cause of staggering, or of stumbling of heart to my lord, either to shed blood for nothing, or that my lord saved himself. And may Jehovah do good to my lord, and you remember your handmaid.
1Sa 25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed is Jehovah the God of Israel, who has sent you to meet me today.
1Sa 25:33 And blessed is your discernment. And blessed are you in that you have kept me from coming in with blood this day, and from delivering myself with my own hand.
1Sa 25:34 And, indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from doing evil to you, for unless you had hurried and had come to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal one who urinates against the wall till the light of morning.
1Sa 25:35 And David received from her hand what she had brought to him. And he said to her, Go in peace to your house. See, I have heard your voice, and have accepted your face.
1Sa 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal. And, behold, he was at a feast in his house, like the feast of the king. And Nabal’s heart felt good within him, and he was drunk to excess. And she did not tell him a word, more or less, until the light of the morning.
1Sa 25:37 And it happened in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things. And his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.
1Sa 25:38 And it happened about ten days later, Jehovah struck Nabal and he died.
1Sa 25:39 And David heard that Nabal had died, and said, Blessed be Jehovah who has contended for the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal; and His servant has been kept back from evil. And Jehovah has caused the evil doing of Nabal to return on his head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.
1Sa 25:40 And David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you to take you to him for a wife.
1Sa 25:41 And she rose up and bowed her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
1Sa 25:42 And Abigail hurried and arose and rode on an ass, and five of her young women following her. And she went after David’s messengers. And she became a wife to him.
1Sa 25:43 And David had taken Ahinoam from Jezreel. And they became, even both of them, wives to him.
1Sa 25:44 And Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

1Sa 24:1 And it happened, when Saul had returned from after the Philistines, they told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.
1Sa 24:2 And Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the front of the rocks of the wild goats.
1Sa 24:3 And on the way he came in to the folds of the flock. And there was a cave. And Saul went in to cover his feet. And David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave.
1Sa 24:4 And David’s men said to him, Behold, the day of which Jehovah said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it is good in your eyes. But David rose up and quietly cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe.
1Sa 24:5 And it happened afterward, the heart of David struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
1Sa 24:6 And he said to his men, Far be it from me, by Jehovah. I shall not do this thing to my lord, to the anointed of Jehovah, to put out my hand against him. For he is the anointed of Jehovah.
1Sa 24:7 And David held back his men by words, and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. And Saul rose up from the cave and went in the way.
1Sa 24:8 And David rose up afterward and went out from the cave and called after Saul, saying, My lord the king! And Saul looked behind him. And David was bowing face to the earth and prostrated himself.
1Sa 24:9 And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of man, saying, Behold, David seeks to do you evil?
1Sa 24:10 See, this day your eyes have seen how Jehovah has delivered you today into my hand in the cave. And one said to kill you, but I had pity on you. And I said, I shall not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.
1Sa 24:11 And my father, behold! Yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you are hunting my soul, to take it.
1Sa 24:12 Jehovah shall judge between you and me, and Jehovah shall avenge me of you. But my hand shall not be on you.
1Sa 24:13 As the proverb of the ancients says, Wickedness proceeds from the wicked. But my hand shall not be on you.
1Sa 24:14 After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After a flea?
1Sa 24:15 Yea, Jehovah shall be judge, and shall judge between you and me. Yea, He shall see and contend for my cause, and shall deliver me out of your hand.
1Sa 24:16 And it happened, when David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
1Sa 24:17 And he said to David, You are more righteous than I. For you have done good to me, and I have rewarded you with evil.
1Sa 24:18 And you have today shown that you have dealt well with me, in that Jehovah shut me up into your hand, and you did not kill me.
1Sa 24:19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go on his way well? And Jehovah will repay you good for that which you have done to me today.
1Sa 24:20 And now, behold, I know that you shall certainly reign, and the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
1Sa 24:21 And now, swear to me by Jehovah that you shall not cut off my seed after me, nor shall you destroy my name from the house of my father.
1Sa 24:22 And David swore to Saul. And Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up into the stronghold.

1Sa 23:1 And they spoke to David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing floors.
1Sa 23:2 And David asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go? And shall I strike against these Philistines? And Jehovah said to David, Go, and you shall strike the Philistines and save Keilah.
1Sa 23:3 And David’s men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; and how shall we go to Keilah to the armies of the Philistines?
1Sa 23:4 And David once again inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered him and said, Rise up, go down to Keilah, for I have given the Philistines into your hand.
1Sa 23:5 And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and led away their livestock, and killed among them with a great blow. And David saved those living in Keilah.
1Sa 23:6 And it happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David, near Keilah, an ephod came in his hand.
1Sa 23:7 And it was told to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has estranged him into my hand. For he is shut in, to enter into a city of gates and a bar.
1Sa 23:8 And Saul heard and called all the people to battle, to go down to Keilah, to lay siege to David and to his men.
1Sa 23:9 But David knew that Saul was devising evil against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod near.
1Sa 23:10 And David said, O Jehovah the God of Israel, Your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.
1Sa 23:11 Will the masters of Keilah shut me up into his hand? Will Saul come down as Your servant has heard? I pray You, Jehovah the God of Israel, tell your servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down.
1Sa 23:12 And David said, Will the masters of Keilah shut me and my men up into Saul’s hand? And Jehovah said, They will shut you up.
1Sa 23:13 And David and his men, about six hundred men, rose up and left Keilah, and went wherever they could go. And it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah. And he ceased to go out.
1Sa 23:14 And David stayed in the wilderness, in the strongholds. And he stayed in the hill, in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him all his days. And God did not give him into his hand.
1Sa 23:15 And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph, in the forest.
1Sa 23:16 And Jonathan the son of Saul rose up and went out to David, to the forest. And he made his hand strong in God,
1Sa 23:17 and said to him, Do not fear, for the hand of my father Saul shall not find you; and you shall reign over Israel; and I shall be second to you. And my father Saul knows it is so.
1Sa 23:18 And they cut a covenant, both of them, before Jehovah. And David stayed in the forest, and Jonathan went to his house.
1Sa 23:19 And the men of Ziph went to Saul, to Gibeah, saying, Is not David hiding himself with us in strongholds, in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is south of the wilderness?
1Sa 23:20 And now, come down according to all the desires of your soul, O king. Come down, and our duty is to deliver him up into the king’s hand.
1Sa 23:21 And Saul said, You are blessed of Jehovah, for you have had pity on me.
1Sa 23:22 Please go, make yet more sure, and know, and see his place where his foot is; who has seen him there, for one has said to me, He is being very crafty.
1Sa 23:23 And see and know of all the hiding places where he hides himself. And you shall return to me ready, and I shall go with you, and it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search him out through all the thousands of Judah.
1Sa 23:24 And they rose up and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
1Sa 23:25 And Saul and his men went to search. And they told David. And he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul heard, and pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
1Sa 23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to go away from the face of Saul. And Saul and his men were encircling David and his men, to catch them.
1Sa 23:27 And a messenger came to Saul, saying, Hurry, and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.
1Sa 23:28 And Saul turned back from pursuing David, and went to meet the Philistines. On account of this they have called that place, The Rock of the Division.
1Sa 23:29 And David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds at En-gedi.

1Sa 22:1 And David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And his brothers heard, and all his father’s house, and they went down to him there.
1Sa 22:2 And every man in distress, and every man who had a creditor, and every man bitter of soul, gathered themselves to him. And he became commander over them. And about four hundred men were with him.
1Sa 22:3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come and be with you, until I know what God will do to me.
1Sa 22:4 And he settled them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the days David was in the stronghold.
1Sa 22:5 And Gad the prophet said to David, You shall not remain in the stronghold. Go, and you come into the land of Judah. And David left and came into the forest of Hareth.
1Sa 22:6 And Saul heard that David had been discovered, and the men with him. And Saul was staying in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand. And all his servants were standing by him.
1Sa 22:7 And Saul said to his servants who were standing by him, Now hear, Benjamites. Will the son of Jesse also give to any of you fields and vineyards? Will he make each of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,
1Sa 22:8 that all of you have conspired against me, and no one was revealing in my ear when my son cut a covenant with the son of Jesse? And not one of you is sorry for me, even to reveal in my ear that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.
1Sa 22:9 And Doeg the Edomite, even he was set over Saul’s servants, answered and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1Sa 22:10 And he asked for him of Jehovah, and gave provisions to him, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
1Sa 22:11 And the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests in Nob. And they came, all of them, to the king.
1Sa 22:12 And Saul said, Now hear, son of Ahitub. And he said, I am here, my lord.
1Sa 22:13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse by your giving bread and a sword to him, and to ask of God for him, to rise up against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1Sa 22:14 And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who among all your servants is as David the faithful, and son-in-law of the king; who does your bidding, and is honorable in all your house?
1Sa 22:15 Have I today begun to ask of God for him? Far be it from me! Do not let the king lay anything against his servant, against any of my father’s house, for your servant has known nothing of this, more or less.
1Sa 22:16 And the king said, dying you shall die, Ahimelech, you and your father’s house.
1Sa 22:17 And the king said to the runners that stood by him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he was fleeing, and did not reveal it in my ear. But the king’s servants were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.
1Sa 22:18 And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell on the priests and killed eighty five men bearing a linen ephod in that day.
1Sa 22:19 And he struck Nob, the city of the priests with the mouth of the sword, from man even to woman, from child even to suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the mouth of the sword.
1Sa 22:20 And one son escaped of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. And his name was Abiathar, and he fled after David.
1Sa 22:21 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of Jehovah.
1Sa 22:22 And David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he certainly would tell Saul. I am turned to grief for every life of the house of your father.
1Sa 22:23 Stay with me. Do not fear. For he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you will be under protection.

1Sa 21:1 And David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech trembled at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, and no man with you?
1Sa 21:2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a matter; and he said to me, Do not let a man know anything of the matter about which I am sending you, and which I told you. And I have directed the young men to such and such a place.
1Sa 21:3 And now, what is there under your hand? Give five loaves into my hand, or whatever is found.
1Sa 21:4 And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but only holy bread, if the young men have only been kept from a woman.
1Sa 21:5 And David answered the priest and said to him, Surely, a woman has been kept from us as yesterday and the third day, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy. And in a way the holy bread is common; also surely today it is sanctified in the vessels.
1Sa 21:6 And the priest gave the holy bread to him, for there was no bread there except the Bread of the Presence which is taken from the presence of Jehovah in order to put hot bread in on the day it is taken away.
1Sa 21:7 And a man was there on that day, of the servants of Saul, detained before Jehovah. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.
1Sa 21:8 And David said to Ahimelech, Is there not here under your hand a spear or sword? For I have taken neither my sword or my weapons, for the king’s matter was urgent.
1Sa 21:9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck in the valley of Elah; behold, it is wrapped in the cloak behind the ephod. If you desire, take it for yourself; for there is no other here except it. And David said, There is none like it. Give it to me.
1Sa 21:10 And David rose up and fled from the face of Saul on that day, and he came to Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa 21:11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is this not David the king of the land? Is it not of this one they sang in dances, saying, Saul killed his thousands, and David his myriads?
1Sa 21:12 And David put these words in his heart, and was very much afraid of the face of Achish the king of Gath.
1Sa 21:13 And he changed his behavior before their eyes, and pretended himself to be insane in their hand, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall onto his beard.
1Sa 21:14 And Achish said to his servants, Behold, you see the man is showing madness. Why do you bring him to me?
1Sa 21:15 Do I have need of maddened ones, that you have brought this one in to show madness beside me? Shall this one come into my house?

1Sa 20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?
1Sa 20:2 And he said to him, Far be it! You shall not die. Behold, my father shall not do anything great or small, and not reveal it to my ear. And why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.
1Sa 20:3 And David again swore and said, Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes; and he said, Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and your soul lives, there is only a step between me and death.
1Sa 20:4 And Jonathan said to David, What your soul may say, I also will do for you.
1Sa 20:5 And David said to Jonathan, Behold, the new moon is tomorrow. And sitting I should certainly sit with the king to eat. And you shall send me away, and I shall be hidden in the field until the third evening.
1Sa 20:6 If looking your father looks for me, then you shall say, David asked earnestly of me to run to his city Bethlehem; for the yearly sacrifice is there for all the family.
1Sa 20:7 If he shall say so, Good! Peace shall be for your servant. But if it burns him greatly, know that evil has been determined by him.
1Sa 20:8 And you shall do kindness to your servant, for you have brought your servant with you into a covenant of Jehovah. And if there is iniquity in me, you kill me. For why is this, that you bring me to your father?
1Sa 20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from you! For if I knew with certainty that evil was determined by my father to come on you, would I not tell it to you?
1Sa 20:10 Then David said to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? Or what if your father answers harshly?
1Sa 20:11 And Jonathan said to David, Come, and we shall go out to the field; and both of them went out to the field.
1Sa 20:12 And Jonathan said to David, Jehovah the God of Israel be witness when I search my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, and behold, there is good toward David and I do not send to you and do not reveal it in your ear,
1Sa 20:13 so may Jehovah do to Jonathan and do much more than this. If it should seem good to my father to do evil to you, then I will reveal it in your ear and send you away. And you shall go in peace; and may Jehovah be with you, as He was with my father.
1Sa 20:14 And not only while I live, even you shall do with me the kindness of Jehovah, that I not die,
1Sa 20:15 but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, not even when Jehovah cuts off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the earth.
1Sa 20:16 And Jonathan covenanted with the house of David, that Jehovah should seek it from the hand of David’s enemies.
1Sa 20:17 And Jonathan again made David swear, because he loved him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1Sa 20:18 And Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and you shall be expected, for your seat will be empty.
1Sa 20:19 And on the third day you shall quickly come down, and shall come there to the place where you were hidden in the day of the deed. And you shall remain near the stone Ezel.
1Sa 20:20 And I will shoot three arrows to the side, shooting at a mark for myself.
1Sa 20:21 And, behold, I shall send a boy, saying, Find the arrows! If I expressly say to the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you, take them; then you come, for peace shall be to you, and there is nothing, as Jehovah lives.
1Sa 20:22 But if I say to the young man, Behold, the arrows are away from you and onwards; go, for Jehovah has sent you away.
1Sa 20:23 As to the thing which we have spoken, you and I; behold, Jehovah is between you and me forever.
1Sa 20:24 And David was hidden in the field. And it was the new moon. And the king sat down by the food to eat.
1Sa 20:25 And the king sat on his seat, as from time to time, on the seat by the wall. And Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat at Saul’s side. And David’s place was empty.
1Sa 20:26 But Saul did not say anything on that day, for he said, It is an accident; he is not clean; he is surely not clean.
1Sa 20:27 And it happened on the day after the new moon, David’s place was empty. And Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?
1Sa 20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked of me to go to Bethlehem.
1Sa 20:29 And he said, Please send me away, for we have a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother commanded me. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me be released, and to see my brothers. So he has not come to the table of the king.
1Sa 20:30 And the anger of Saul glowed against Jonathan. And he said to him, Son of a perverse rebelliousness! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?
1Sa 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on earth you shall not be established, you and your kingdom. And now send and bring him to me, for he is a son of death.
1Sa 20:32 And Jonathan answered his father Saul, and said to him, Why should he die? What has he done?
1Sa 20:33 And Saul threw the spear at him, to strike him. And Jonathan knew that it had been determined by his father to kill David.
1Sa 20:34 And Jonathan rose up from the table in the heat of anger. And he did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved for David. For his father had put him to shame.
1Sa 20:35 And it happened in the morning that Jonathan went out in the field for the meeting with David. And a little boy was with him.
1Sa 20:36 And he said to the boy, Now run and find the arrow which I am shooting. The boy ran, and he shot the arrow, causing it to pass over him.
1Sa 20:37 And the boy came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot. And Jonathan called after the boy and said, Is the arrow not away from you and onwards?
1Sa 20:38 And Jonathan called after the boy, Hurry, make haste, do not stand! And Jonathan’s boy gathered the arrow and came to his master.
1Sa 20:39 And the boy did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
1Sa 20:40 And Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy with him, and said to him, Go, bring them to the city.
1Sa 20:41 The boy left, and David rose up from the south side. And he fell on his face to the ground. And he bowed three times. And they each one kissed his friend. And they each wept on his friend, until David was overcome.
1Sa 20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn, the two of us, in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah shall be between you and me, and between my seed and your seed forever. And he rose up and went. And Jonathan went into the city.

1Sa 19:1 And Saul spoke to his son Jonathan, and to all his servants, to kill David.
1Sa 19:2 And Saul’s son Jonathan delighted exceedingly in David. And Jonathan told David, saying, My father Saul is seeking to kill you. And, now, please be on guard in the morning, and you shall stay in the secret place, and shall hide.
1Sa 19:3 And I, I will go out and will stand by my father’s side in the field where you are. And I will speak of you to my father, and shall see what it is, and will tell you.
1Sa 19:4 And Jonathan spoke good of David to his father Saul, and said to him, Do not let the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you; also because his works for you are very good.
1Sa 19:5 Yea, he has put his life in his hand and killed the Philistine. And Jehovah worked a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. And why do you sin against innocent blood, to put David to death for no reason?
1Sa 19:6 And Saul listened to Jonathan’s voice, and Saul swore, As Jehovah lives he shall not die.
1Sa 19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was before him as yesterday and the day before.
1Sa 19:8 And there was war again. And David went out and fought against the Philistines, and struck among them with a great slaughter. And they fled from his face.
1Sa 19:9 And the evil spirit from Jehovah was on Saul. And he was sitting in his house, and his spear in his hand. And David was playing with the hand.
1Sa 19:10 And Saul tried to strike with the spear through David and through the wall. But he burst forth from Saul’s presence. And he struck the spear through the wall. And David fled, and escaped during that night.
1Sa 19:11 And Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. And his wife Michal told David, saying, If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.
1Sa 19:12 And Michal made David go down through the window. And he went, and fled, and escaped.
1Sa 19:13 And Michal took an image and laid it on the bed; and she put the quilt of goat’s hair at his head-place, and covered with a spread.
1Sa 19:14 And Saul sent messengers to take David. And she said, He is sick.
1Sa 19:15 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, to kill him.
1Sa 19:16 And the messengers came in. And, behold, the image was on the bed, and the quilt of goat’s hair was at his head-place.
1Sa 19:17 And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me this way, that you have sent away my enemy, and he has escaped? And Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Send me away; why should I kill you?
1Sa 19:18 And David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he went, he and Samuel, and they lived in Naioth.
1Sa 19:19 And it was told to Saul, saying, Behold, David is in Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David. And they saw the assembly of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them. And the Spirit of God came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
1Sa 19:21 And they told Saul, and he sent other messengers. And they also prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers, a third time. And they also prophesied.
1Sa 19:22 And he went, he also, to Ramah, and came to the great well in Sechu. And Saul asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, in Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa 19:23 And he went there, to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God was on him, him also. And going on, he went and prophesied until he came into Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa 19:24 And he stripped off his garments, he also, and he prophesied before Samuel, even he. And he fell down disrobed all that day and all that night. Because of this they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?