Asa's good reign. Before CHRIST 958. b 2 Chr. 13, 2. c Ps. 119, 80. 1. KINGS. CHRIST Jehu's prophecy against Baasha. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation through- Before mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abi-out all Judah; (none was exempted ;) and they took eir. 951. shalom. away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded: and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. c 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him and his heart was not perMat. 15, 20, fect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David 2 Tim. 3, 5. his father. 21. h: 2Sam. 11, 4. & 12, 9. i ch. 14, 30. 955. k Deut. 51, 6. f 5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. 7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that 26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and m ch. 11, 6 he did, are they not written in the book of the Chroni-walked in the "way of his father, and in his sin where- n 1 Sam. 8, cles of the kings of Judah? And there was war be- with he made Israel to sin. tween Abijam and Jeroboam. 8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they chap. 2, 10. buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. 91 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalein. And his mother's name was Maachah, the 2, 10, 12 daughter of Abishalom. 14 But the high places were not removed: never-icles of the kings of Israel? r Deut. 12, theless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days. 17 And Baasha king of Israel " went up against were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent y ch. 11,23. them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of y Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy ech. 15, 16. house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. feb. 14, 10. 4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the g ch. 15, 29 dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall ↳ Ps. 50, 22 the fowls of the air eat. 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book ich. 15, 23. of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? k ch. 14, 17. 6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. 21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard there- 7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the Ich. 14, of that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt inson of Hanani, came the word of the LORD against Tirzah. Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil and his might that he shewed, are they not written Before CHAPTER XVII. Before that he did in the † sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him. 8 I In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of h. 21, 20. Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over m Hos. 1, 5. Israel in Tirzah, ° two years. + Heh, eyes, ver. 19, 30. i 925. g verses 17, in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. 18, 21, 227 291 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king h ch. 2, 10. of Judah, began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over i verse 14. n ch. 15, 29. 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his char-Isracl: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel, clip. 20, 2 iots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah, in Samaria, twenty and two years. o verse 10. P drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, stewp 2 Sam. 12, ard of his house in Tirzah. 2 Kings 9,7. 11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha; he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his † kinsfolks nor of his friends. 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, Num. 35,12 according to the word of the LORD, which he spake 1 verse 15 against Baasha † by Jehu the prophet: Rom. 3, 15. the hand of, 13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah Heb. by his son, by which they sinned, and by which they verses 3, made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of ch 15, 29 Israel to anger with their vanities. verse 7. Isa. 10,6, 7. 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that Deut. 32, he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? 2 Kings 17, 15. 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light & ver. 31,33. thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife 'Jezebel the daughter ch18,4 of Ethbaal king of the " Zidonians, and went and Rev. 2, 20. served Baal, and worshipped him. & 8. m Gen. 10, 15. 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the "house Josh. 13, 6. of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. chap. 11, 5 10, 21. 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab P did n2 Kings more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him. 34 In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jeri- peh. 18, 10, cho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his 22 30,42 first-born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun. CHAPTER XVII. 15 1 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king AND+Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabit 1 Elijah is fed by ravens....17 He raiseth the widow's son. ants of Gilead, " said unto Ahab, As the LORD jaku, that is of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. § God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall r I Cor. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, & not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my a James 5, which belonged to the Philistines. 17. 8. 2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, b Deut. 10, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; er 78, 23 and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. c d Job 38,41 5 So he went, and did according unto the word e Prov. 5, E. of the LORD: for he went and 'dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him & bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening: and he drank of the brook. 7 And it came to pass, after a while, that the brook h Mat. 16, 21. f ch. 19, a g lab. 3, 17, Mat. 19, 26. 11. 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his trea-dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 1) Gen. 22, 8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, son that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel? saying, i Obadiah 41, 17. 21 Then were the people of Israel divided † into 9 Arise, get thee to 'Zarephath, which belongeth to verse 2). Ch. 9,6 two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded Luke 4, 2 of Ginath, to make him king; and half followedOmri. § a widow woman there to sustain thee. 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed { against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. k verse 4. Psalm 24, 1. 10 So he arose, and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called Gen. 21, to her, and said, 'Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water Heb. 11,37 in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not "a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, & and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. & p 2 Chr. 20, 15 And she went, and did Paccording to the saying of Elijah and she, and he, and her house, did eat q Gen. 7, 1. many days. verse 7. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did Heb. soul, the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. Gen. 27 Job 27, S. ↑ Heb. What is to Judg. 11, 2 Sam. 16, me and thee, 12 10. John 2, 4. 1. r Deut. 33, Judg. 16, 15. 17 And it came to pass, after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no † breath left in him. 18 And she said unto Elijah, † What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?? 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And 1 Sam. 9, 6, he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into chap. 13, 1 a loft where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. { 20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widOW with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 8. Ps. 22, 1, x Job 2, 10. y verse 9. Prov. 14, 21. 2 Acts 20, u 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. He reproveth Ahab. cir. 906. thee: and when they said, He is not there, he took an Before oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee CHRIST not. 11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. 12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry 52 Kings 2, thee whither I know not; and so when I come and Acts 8, 59. tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me : but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the Joshua 7,9. soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel Ezek. 2, 8. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four Act 26. down out of the chamber into the house, and deliver-hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four chap. 16, * Mat. 26, ed him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy lundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. son liveth! 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: 4 For it was so, when Jezebel "cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) 5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. 6 So they divided the land between them, to pass 1 Gen. 39, 4. throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. 20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and b Josh. 19, gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How longhalt ye between two opinions? if the chap. 16, LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. 22 Then said Elijah unto * I, I chap. 22, 6. only, Tennis, is ophet of the people, 11, even's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I 1 ver. 19, 20 will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that Ser answereth" by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. 25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under: 26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal, from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us! But there was "no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mock- Eccl. 11, 9. ed them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. Lev. 19, 28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves, after Deut. 14, 1. their manner, with knives and lancets, till 'the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And it came to pass, when mid-day was past, Ef Eph. 4,3 Ezra 6,12 ! Cor. 1, 10. 1 Gen. $2, 23. $1. ! Heb. atranding of two 30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, * Israel shall be thy name: Elijah comforted by an angel. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went 'for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. Before CHRIST cir. 906. e Deut. 28, 28. d Acts 23 12 e Pr. 4, 16. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wil- Rom. 3, 15. derness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: (2 Cor. 12 and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. g Num. 11, 15. Junab 4, 3. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, Joah, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto Phil 1, 25. him, Arise, and eat. b Gen. 23, & 13,5 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the 1 Cor. 10, altar, tas great as would contain two measures of seed. 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bul- { lock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake " to the house Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt-baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. sacrifice, and on the wood. And he did eat and drink, and † laid him down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. down. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went & Phil. 4,13. in the strength of that meat" forty days and forty nights, unto "Horeb the mount of God. 1,14 band again, and he turned laid himself k 1 Prov. 10, 22. Hab. 3, 17, 13. 21, 22. 11. John 2, 17. 9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged Dan. 1, 15 there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? m Exod.34, 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the M42 LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have n Exod. 2 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me; that this people forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and (Jer. 10, 23 may know that thou art the LORD God, and that' thouslain thy prophets with the sword: and 'I,even I o Exod. 23, 1 Thes. 1,8 hast turned their heart back again. only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. II And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount Num. 25, before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, P. 69, 3. and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks, before the LORD; but the chap. 18 LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind any chap. 15, earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: 22 12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he 'wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and 23 stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed 2 Chr. 7, 1. the burnt-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on verse 24 their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; John 5,35. the LORD, he is the God. Hosea 6, 4. i Song 2, 15. 40 And Elijah said unto them, 'Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and' Elijah brought them down to the 18,20 brook Kishon, and slew them there." * Jer. 48, 10. . Deut. 13, 43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toJanes 5, ward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again' seven times. 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that Lake 12,1. he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was'a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went "to Josh. 19, Jezreel. 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the is LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel 2 King have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword: and I, even 12 I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. y Luke 4,27 15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus : and when thou comest, anoint " Hazael to be king over Syria. Ben-hadud besiegeth Samaria. CHRIST 901. * Mai 8, 22. Luke 9, 52. k I. KINGS. Before said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? 21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh Luke 5, 29. with the instruments of the oxen, and ' gave unto the people, and they did eat; then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. a ch. 15, 20. 2 Kings 8, 15. CHAPTER XX. By the direction of the prophet the Syrians are slain. The Syrians overthrown. Before CHRIST 901. was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. 17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and Prov.51, 4, they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. 18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war," take them alive. 5. ch. 9. u 1 Sam. 2 3. 19 So these young men of the princes of the prov- Ps. 75, 5. AND Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all inces came out of the city, and the army which followed them. his host together: and there were thirty and two Gen. 14,1. kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. 5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; 6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to-morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is † pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away. 7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of Lev. 4, 15. the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how Prov. 11, 4. this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for Pr. 1, 19. my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and Tim. 6,10. for my gold, and † I denied him not. 14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus 1 Cor.1,27, saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order r2 Sam. 17, the battle? And he answered, Thou. 28. 2. sverse 12. 22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, a strengthen thyself, and mark and see what thou doest: for at the "return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they 2 Chr. 26, were stronger than we: but let us fight against them Isa. 26, 11. in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. c ch. 14,24 24 And do this thing: "Take the kings away, every Isa. 42, 8. man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: dJob 5, 15, 25 And number thee an army like the army that Prov. 21,30 thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so. 14. 26 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up eJosh.13,4 eto Aphek, to fight against Israel. & 19, 35. Judg. 1, 31. f Judg. 6, 5 Jer. 17, 5. g verses 13 22. 27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and verse 30. were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians' filled the country. 28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD," Be- 17, 23 cause the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the 42, hills, but he is not God of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. h Isa. 29. 29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days; and so it was, that in the seventh day i Josh. 6, 14 the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew k verse 20 of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one s. 5, 11 day. 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, irto the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, † into an inner chamber. Ps. 107, 42 † Heb. into a chamber ch. 22, 25. 31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we wi have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are chamber merciful kings: let us, I pray thee,' put sackcloth on Dan. 4, 37. our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the 1 Gen. 37, king of Israel; peradventure he will save thy life. $4. m verse 4 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, 15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes and said, "Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, P. 12, 2 of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thir- let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my ty-two and after them he numbered all the people, brother. ceen all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. 33 Now the men did diligently observe whether 16 And they went out at noon: but Ben-hadad § any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch { |