him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
18 Yet I have left meseven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal,
and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who wasplowing withtwelve
yoke of oxenbefore him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle
upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and
my mother, and thenI 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 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.
1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there werethirty and two
kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred
against it.
2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith
Benhadad,
3 Thy silver and thy gold ismine; thy wives also and thy children, eventhe goodliest, aremine.
4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I amthine,
and all that I have.
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;
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, thatwhatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes,
they shall put itin their hand, and take itaway.
7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see
how this manseeketh 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.
8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
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.
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.
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.
12 And it came to pass, when Benhadadheard this message, as he wasdrinking, he and the
kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set
themselves in arrayagainst the city.
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 amthe LORD.
14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Evenby the young men of the
princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
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, evenall the children of Israel, being
seven thousand.
16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad wasdrinking 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 Benhadad sent out, and
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.
19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which
followed them.
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.
21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians
with a great slaughter.
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.
23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods aregods 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.
24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their
rooms:
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, andsurely we shall be stronger than they.
And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
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.
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.
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 isGod of the hills, but he isnot God of the
valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that
I amthe LORD.
29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And soit 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.
30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and therea wall fell upon twenty and seven
thousand of the men that wereleft. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner
chamber.
31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of
Israel aremerciful 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.
32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and putropes 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, Ishe yet
alive? he ismy brother.
33 Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would comefrom 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.
34 And Benhadadsaid 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.
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.
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.
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.
38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with
ashes upon his face.
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.
40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto
him, So shallthy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him
that he wasof the prophets.
42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thyhand a man
whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for
his people.
43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
1 And it came to pass after these things, thatNaboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was
in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of
herbs, because it isnear 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.
3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my
fathers unto thee.
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.
5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou
eatest no bread?
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 anothervineyard for it: and he
answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
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.
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed themwith his seal, and sent the letters unto
the elders and to the nobles that werein his city, dwelling with Naboth.
9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
people:
10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst
blaspheme God and the king. And thencarry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
11 And the men of his city, eventhe elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city,
did as Jezebel had sent unto them, andas it waswritten in the letters which she had sent unto
them.
12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.