The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after
Elijah, and 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?
19:21 And he returned back from him, and
took a yoke of oxen, and slew
them, and boiled their flesh 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.
20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered
all his host together:
and there were thirty and two kings with
him, and horses, and
chariots; and he went up and besieged
Samaria, and warred against it.
20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of
Israel into the city, and
said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad, 20:3 Thy
silver and thy gold is
mine; thy wives also and thy children, even
the goodliest, are mine.
20:4 And the king of Israel answered and
said, My lord, O king,
according to thy saying, I am thine, and all
that I have.
20:5 And the messengers came again, and
said, Thus speaketh Benhadad,
saying, Although I have sent unto thee,
saying, Thou shalt deliver me
thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and
thy children; 20:6 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.
20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the
elders of the land, and
said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man
seeketh mischief: for he
sent unto me for my wives, and for my
children, and for my silver, and
for my gold; and I denied him not.
20:8 And all the elders and all the people
said unto him, Hearken not
unto him, nor consent.
20:9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers
of Benhadad, Tell my lord
the king, All that thou didst send for to
thy servant at the first I
will do: but this thing I may not do. And
the messengers departed, and
brought him word again.
20:10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said,
The gods do so unto me,
and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall
suffice for handfuls for
all the people that follow me.
20:11 And the king of Israel answered and
said, Tell him, Let not him
that girdeth on his harness boast himself as
he that putteth it off.
20:12 And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad
heard this message, as he
was drinking, he and the kings in the
pavilions, that he said unto his
servants, Set yourselves in array. And they
set themselves in array
against the city.
20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto
Ahab king of Israel,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen
all this great multitude?
behold, I will deliver it into thine hand
this day; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD.
20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said,
Thus saith the LORD, Even
by the young men of the princes of the
provinces. Then he said, Who
shall order the battle? And he answered,
Thou.
20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the
princes of the provinces,
and they were two hundred and thirty two:
and after them he numbered
all the people, even all the children of
Israel, being seven thousand.
20:16 And they went out at noon. But
Benhadad was drinking himself
drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings,
the thirty and two kings
that helped him.
20:17 And the young men of the princes of
the provinces went out
first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told
him, saying, There are men
come out of Samaria.
20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out
for peace, take them
alive; or whether they be come out for war,
take them alive.
20:19 So these young men of the princes of
the provinces came out of
the city, and the army which followed them.
20:20 And they slew every one his man: and
the Syrians fled; and
Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king
of Syria escaped on an
horse with the horsemen.
20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and
smote the horses and
chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great
slaughter.
20:22 And the prophet came to the king of
Israel, and said unto him,
Go, 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.
20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria
said unto him, Their gods
are gods of the hills; therefore they were
stronger than we; but let
us fight against them in the plain, and
surely we shall be stronger
than they.
20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings
away, every man out of his
place, and put captains in their rooms:
20:25 And number thee an army,
like the army that 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.
20:26 And it came to pass at the return of
the year, that Benhadad
numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek,
to fight against Israel.
20:27 And the children of Israel were
numbered, and 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.
20:28 And there came a man of God, and spake
unto the king of Israel,
and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the
Syrians have said, The LORD
is God of the 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.
20:29 And they pitched one over against the
other seven days. And so
it was, that in the seventh day the battle
was joined: and the
children of Israel slew of the Syrians an
hundred thousand footmen in
one day.
20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the
city; and there a wall fell
upon twenty and seven thousand of the men
that were left. And Benhadad
fled, and came into the city, into an inner
chamber.
20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold
now, we have heard that
the kings of the house of Israel are
merciful kings: let us, I pray
thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes
upon our heads, and go out
to the king of Israel: peradventure he will
save thy life.
20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their
loins, and put ropes on their
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and
said, Thy servant Benhadad
saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he
said, Is he yet alive? he is
my brother.
20:33 Now the men did diligently observe
whether any thing would come
from him, and did hastily catch it: and they
said, Thy brother
Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him.
Then Benhadad came forth to
him; and he caused him to come up into the
chariot.
20:34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The
cities, which my father took
from thy father, I will restore; and thou
shalt make streets for thee
in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.
Then said Ahab, I will send
thee away with this covenant. So he made a
covenant with him, and sent
him away.
20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the
prophets said unto his
neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me,
I pray thee. And the man
refused to smite him.
20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou
hast not obeyed the voice of
the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art
departed from me, a lion shall
slay thee.
And as soon as he was departed from him, a
lion found him, and slew
him.
20:37 Then he found another man, and said,
Smite me, I pray thee. And
the man smote him, so that in smiting he
wounded him.
20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited
for the king by the way, and
disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried
unto the king: and he said,
Thy servant went out into the midst of the
battle; and, behold, a man
turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and
said, Keep this man: if
by any means he be missing, then shall thy
life be for his life, or
else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and
there, he was gone. And the
king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy
judgment be; thyself hast
decided it.
20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away
from his face; and the
king of Israel discerned him that he was of
the prophets.
20:42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Because thou hast let
go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to
utter destruction,
therefore thy life shall go for his life,
and thy people for his
people.
20:43 And the king of Israel went to his
house heavy and displeased,
and came to Samaria.
21:1 And it came to pass after these things,
that Naboth the
Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in
Jezreel, hard by the palace of
Ahab king of Samaria.
21:2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying,
Give me thy vineyard, that I
may have it for a garden of herbs, because
it is near unto my house:
and I will give thee for it a better
vineyard than it; or, if it seem
good to thee, I will give thee the worth of
it in money.
21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD
forbid it me, that I should
give the inheritance of my fathers unto
thee.
21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and
displeased because of the
word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken
to him: for he had said, I
will not give thee the inheritance of my
fathers. And he laid him down
upon his bed, and turned away his face, and
would eat no bread.
21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and
said unto him, Why is thy
spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
21:6 And he said unto her,
Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite,
and said unto him, Give me
thy vineyard for money; or else, if it
please thee, I will give thee
another vineyard for it: and he answered, I
will not give thee my
vineyard.
21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him,
Dost thou now govern the
kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and
let thine heart be merry:
I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite.
21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name,
and sealed them with his
seal, and sent the letters unto the elders
and to the nobles that were
in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying,
Proclaim a fast, and set
Naboth on high among the people: 21:10 And
set two men, sons of
Belial, before him, to bear witness against
him, saying, Thou didst
blaspheme God and the king. And then carry
him out, and stone him,
that he may die.
21:11 And the men of his city, even the
elders and the nobles who were
the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel
had sent unto them, and as
it was written in the letters which she had
sent unto them.
21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth
on high among the people.
21:13 And there came in two men, children of
Belial, and sat before
him: and the men of Belial witnessed against
him, even against Naboth,
in the presence of the people, saying,
Naboth did blaspheme God and
the king. Then they carried him forth out of
the city, and stoned him
with stones, that he died.
21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying,
Naboth is stoned, and is
dead.
21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel
heard that Naboth was stoned,
and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab,
Arise, take possession of the
vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he
refused to give thee for
money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard
that Naboth was dead, that
Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite, to
take possession of it.
21:17 And the word of the LORD came to
Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of
Israel, which is in Samaria:
behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth,
whither he is gone down to
possess it.
21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying,
Thus saith the LORD, Hast
thou killed, and also taken possession? And
thou shalt speak unto him,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place
where dogs licked the blood
of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even
thine.
21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou
found me, O mine enemy? And
he answered, I have found thee: because thou
hast sold thyself to work
evil in the sight of the LORD.
21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee,
and will take away thy
posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him
that pisseth against the
wall, and him that is shut up and left in
Israel, 21:22 And will make
thine house like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and like the
house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the
provocation wherewith thou
hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel
to sin.
21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD,
saying, The dogs shall eat
Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the
dogs shall eat; and him
that dieth in the field shall the fowls of
the air eat.
21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab,
which did sell himself to
work wickedness in the sight of the LORD,
whom Jezebel his wife
stirred up.
21:26 And he did very abominably in
following idols, according to all
things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD
cast out before the children
of Israel.
21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard
those words, that he rent
his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his
flesh, and fasted, and lay in
sackcloth, and went softly.
21:28 And the word of the LORD came to
Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself
before me? because he
humbleth himself before me, I will not bring
the evil in his days: but
in his son's days will I bring the evil upon
his house.
22:1 And they continued three years without
war between Syria and
Israel.
22:2 And it came to pass in the third year,
that Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his
servants, Know ye that
Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still,
and take it not out of the
hand of the king of Syria? 22:4 And he said
unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt
thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead?
And Jehoshaphat said to the
king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people
as thy people, my horses
as thy horses.
22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of
Israel, Enquire, I pray
thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the
prophets together, about
four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall
I go against Ramothgilead
to battle, or shall I forbear? And they
said, Go up; for the LORD
shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here
a prophet of the LORD
besides, that we might enquire of him? 22:8
And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man,
Micaiah the son of Imlah,
by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I
hate him; for he doth not
prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And
Jehoshaphat said, Let not
the king say so.
22:9 Then the king of Israel called an
officer, and said, Hasten
hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.
22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah sat
each on his throne, having put on their
robes, in a void place in the
entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the
prophets prophesied
before them.
22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made
him horns of iron: and he
said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt
thou push the Syrians,
until thou have consumed them.
22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so,
saying, Go up to
Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD
shall deliver it into the
king's hand.
22:13 And the messenger that was gone to
call Micaiah spake unto him,
saying, Behold now, the words of the
prophets declare good unto the
king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray
thee, be like the word of
one of them, and speak that which is good.
22:14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth,
what the LORD saith unto
me, that will I speak.
22:15 So he came to the king. And the king
said unto him, Micaiah,
shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle,
or shall we forbear? And
he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the
LORD shall deliver it into
the hand of the king.
22:16 And the king said unto him, How many
times shall I adjure thee
that thou tell me nothing but that which is
true in the name of the
LORD? 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel
scattered upon the hills,
as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the
LORD said, These have no
master: let them return every man to his
house in peace.
22:18 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell
thee that he would prophesy no good
concerning me, but evil? 22:19
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of
the LORD: I saw the LORD
sitting on his throne, and all the host of
heaven standing by him on
his right hand and on his left.
22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade
Ahab, that he may go up
and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on
this manner, and another
said on that manner.
22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and
stood before the LORD, and
said, I will persuade him.
22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
And he said, I will go
forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the
mouth of all his prophets.
And he said, Thou shalt persude him, and
prevail also: go forth, and
do so.
22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath
put a lying spirit in the
mouth of all these thy prophets, and the
LORD hath spoken evil
concerning thee.
22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went
near, and smote Micaiah
on the cheek, and said, Which way went the
Spirit of the LORD from me
to speak unto thee? 22:25 And Micaiah said,
Behold, thou shalt see in
that day, when thou shalt go into an inner
chamber to hide thyself.
22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take
Micaiah, and carry him back
unto Amon the governor of the city, and to
Joash the king's son; 22:27
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this
fellow in the prison, and feed
him with bread of affliction and with water
of affliction, until I
come in peace.
22:28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at
all in peace, the LORD hath
not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O
people, every one of you.
22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah went up
to Ramothgilead.
22:30 And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and enter into the battle; but put
thou on thy robes. And the
king of Israel disguised himself, and went
into the battle.
22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his
thirty and two captains that
had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight
neither with small nor
great, save only with the king of Israel.
22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains
of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is
the king of Israel. And they
turned aside to fight against him: and
Jehoshaphat cried out.
22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains
of the chariots perceived
that it was not the king of Israel, that
they turned back from
pursuing him.
22:34 And a certain man drew a bow at a
venture, and smote the king of
Israel between the joints of the harness:
wherefore he said unto the
driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and
carry me out of the host;
for I am wounded.
22:35 And the battle increased that day: and
the king was stayed up in
his chariot against the Syrians, and died at
even: and the blood ran
out of the wound into the midst of the
chariot.
22:36 And there went a proclamation
throughout the host about the
going down of the sun, saying, Every man to
his city, and every man to
his own country.
22:37 So the king died, and was brought to
Samaria; and they buried
the king in Samaria.
22:38 And one washed the chariot in the pool
of Samaria; and the dogs
licked up his blood; and they washed his
armour; according unto the
word of the LORD which he spake.
22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and
all that he did, and the
ivory house which he made, and all the
cities that he built, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and
Ahaziah his son reigned in
his stead.
22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began
to reign over Judah in the
fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years
old when he began to
reign; and he reigned twenty and five years
in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Azubah the daughter of
Shilhi.
22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa
his father; he turned not
aside from it, doing that which was right in
the eyes of the LORD:
nevertheless the high places were not taken
away; for the people
offered and burnt incense yet in the high
places.
22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the
king of Israel.
22:45 Now the rest of the acts of
Jehoshaphat, and his might that he
shewed, and how he warred, are they not
written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? 22:46 And
the remnant of the
sodomites, which remained in the days of his
father Asa, he took out
of the land.
22:47 There was then no king in Edom: a
deputy was king.
22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to
go to Ophir for gold: but
they went not; for the ships were broken at
Eziongeber.
22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto
Jehoshaphat, Let my
servants go with thy servants in the ships.
But Jehoshaphat would not.
22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and
Jehoram his son reigned
in his stead.
22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign
over Israel in Samaria
the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and reigned two
years over Israel.
22:52 And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the way
of his father, and in the way of his mother,
and in the way of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin: 22:53 For he served
Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to
anger the LORD God of
Israel, according to all that his father had
done.
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