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21 After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.
2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, so that I may make myself a garden of herbs from it, because it is nearby my house. And I will give you a better vineyard for it than what you have. Or if you prefer, I will give you its worth in money.”
3 And Naboth said to Ahab, “The LORD keep me from giving the inheritance of my father to you.”
4 Then Ahab came into his house, heavy and in displeasure because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him. For he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay upon his bed and turned his face and would eat no bread.
5 Then Jezebel, his wife, came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad that you eat no bread?”
6 And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it.’” but he answered, “I will not give you my vineyard.”
7 Then Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Up! Eat bread and be of good cheer. I will deliver to you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and set Naboth among the chief of the people.
10 “And set two wicked men before him. And let them witness against him, saying, ‘You blasphemed God and the king!’ Then carry him out and stone him so that he may die.”
11 And the men of the city, the elders and governors who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
12 They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth among the chief of the people.
13 And two wicked men came and sat before him. And the wicked men witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth blasphemed God and the king!” Then they carried him away out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”
15 And when Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Up! Take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he refused to give you for money. For Naboth is not alive, but is dead.”
16 And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he rose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
17 And the Word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:
18 “Arise! Go down to meet Ahab, king of Israel, who is in Samaria, lo, in the vineyard of Naboth. He has gone down to take possession of it.
19 “Therefore, you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Have you killed and also gotten possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood also.”’”
20 And Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you. For you have sold yourself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD.
21 ‘Behold, I will bring misery upon you, and will take away your posterity, and will cut off every male in Israel from Ahab, him who is shut up as well as him who is left in Israel.
22 ‘And I will make your House like the House of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the House of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked and made Israel sin.’”
23 And also, the LORD spoke of Jezebel, saying, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
24 “The dogs shall eat him of Ahab’s stock who dies in the city. And him who dies in the fields shall the birds of the air eat.”
25 (But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, and whom Jezebel, his wife, provoked.
26 For he had acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.)
27 Now, when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth upon himself, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
28 And the Word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying:
29 “Do you see how Ahab is humbled before Me? Because he submits himself before Me, I will not bring that misery in his days. But I will bring misery upon his House in his sons’ days.”
22 And they continued for three years without war between Aram and Israel.
2 And in the third year, Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.
3 (For the king of Israel had said to his servants, “Did you not know that Ramoth Gilead was ours? But we stay and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?)
4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle against Ramoth Gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.”
5 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please ask counsel of the LORD today.”
6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I let it alone?” And they said, “Go up. For the LORD shall deliver it into the hands of the king.”
7 And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not still here a Prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?”
8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man (Micaiah, the son of Imlah) by whom we may ask counsel of the LORD, but I hate him. For he does not prophesy good to me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Do not let the king say so.”
9 Then the king of Israel called a eunuch, and said, “Quickly, call Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, each sat on his throne, in their apparel, in the threshing floor, at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all the prophets prophesied before them.
11 And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘With these shall you push the Aramites, until you have consumed them.’”
12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper, for the LORD shall deliver it into the king’s hand.”
13 And the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one accord. Please let your word, therefore, be like the word of one of them, and speak good.
14 And Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, whatever the LORD says to me, that will I speak.”
15 So he came to the king, and the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we leave off?” And he answered him, “Go up, and prosper. And the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.”
16 And the king said to him, “How often shall I charge you to tell me nothing but that which is true in the Name of the LORD?”
17 Then he said, “I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that had no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master. Let every man return to his house in peace.’”
18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would prophesy no good to me, but evil?”
19 Again he said, “Hear, therefore, the Word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sit on His throne. And all the host of Heaven stood around Him on His right and on His left.
20 “And the LORD said, ‘Who shall entice Ahab, so that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ And one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner.
21 “Then a spirit came forth and stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘With what?’
22 “And he said, ‘I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You shall entice and shall also prevail. Go forth and do so.’
23 “Now, therefore, behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these, your prophets. And the LORD has appointed misery upon you.”
24 Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “When did the spirit of the LORD go from me, to speak to you?”
25 And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go from chamber to chamber to hide yourself.”
26 And the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and carry him to Amon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the king’s son,
27 “and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in the prison house and feed him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.”’”
28 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Listen, all you people!”
29 So, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth Gilead.
30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will change my apparel, and will enter into the battle. But you put on your apparel.” And the king of Israel changed himself and went into the battle.
31 And the king of Aram commanded his thirty-two captains over his chariots, saying, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only against the king of Israel!”
32 And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely it is the king of Israel!” And they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried.
33 And when the captains of the chariots saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from him.
34 Then a man drew a bow mightily and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. Therefore, he said to his chariot man, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am hurt.”
35 And the battle increased that day. And the king stood still in his chariot, against the Aramites, and died at evening. And the blood ran out of the wound, into the midst of the chariot.
36 And there was a proclamation throughout the battle, around the going down of the Sun, saying, “Every man to his city. And every man to his own country.”
37 So the king died and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.
38 And someone washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria. And the dogs licked up his blood (and they washed his armor), according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke.
39 Concerning the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
40 So Ahab slept with his fathers. And Ahaziah, his son, reigned in his place.
41 And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, began to reign upon Judah in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel.
42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa, his father, and did not depart from them, but did that which was right in the Eyes of the LORD. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still offered and burnt incense in the high places.
44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Concerning the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his worthy deeds that he did, and his battles which he fought, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
46 And the Sodomites who remained in the days of his father, Asa, he put clear out of the land.
47 There was then no king in Edom. The deputy was king.
48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to sail to Ophir for gold. But they did not go, for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
49 Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.
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 place.
51 Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel in Samaria, in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
52 But 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 sin.
53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to wrath, according to all that his father had done.
26 And as they led Him away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene, coming out of the field. And they laid the cross on him, to bear it after Jesus.
27 And a great multitude of the people followed Him; and also women, who mourned and lamented Him.
28 But Jesus turned back to them, and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me. But weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 “For behold, the days will come when it shall be said, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts which never nursed.’
30 “Then they shall begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’
31 “For if they do these things to a green tree, what shall be done to the dry?”
32 And there were two others who were criminals, being led with Him to be slain.
33 And when they had come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified Him and the criminals there - one on the right hand and the other on the left.
34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them! For they do not know what they do!” And they divided His clothing and cast lots.
35 And the people stood and looked on. And the rulers mocked Him with them, saying, “He saved others! Let Him save Himself if He is the Christ! The Chosen of God!”
36 The soldiers also mocked Him, and came and offered Him vinegar,
37 and said, “If You are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
38 And an inscription was also written over Him, in Greek letters, and in Latin, and in Hebrew, “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
39 And one of the criminals who were hanged, railed at Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us!”
40 But the other answered, and rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation?
41 “We are indeed here righteously! For we receive things worthy of what we have done. But this Man has done nothing wrong!”
42 And he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your Kingdom.”
43 Then Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”
44 And it was about the sixth hour. And there was a darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour.
45 And the Sun was darkened. And the veil of the Temple was torn in the middle.
46 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said, “Father! Into Your hands I commend My spirit. And when He had said this, He gave up the ghost.
47 Now when the centurion saw what had been done, he glorified God, saying, “Surely this Man was Just.”
48 And all the people that came together to that sight, observing the things which had been done, struck their breasts and returned.
49 And those who knew Him stood at a distance - and the women who followed Him from Galilee – observing these things.
50 And behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a counselor; a good man, and just.
51 He had not consented to their counsel and deeds. He was from Arimathea, a city of the Jews. He also waited for the Kingdom of God.
52 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
53 And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid it in a tomb, hewn out of a rock (in which no one had ever yet laid).
54 And that day was the Preparation. And the Sabbath drew near.
55 And also the women who followed (who came with Him from Galilee) saw the sepulcher, and how His body was laid.
56 And they returned and prepared odors, and ointments, and rested on the Sabbath, according to the Commandment.
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