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The First Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 19

   {19:1} Ach'av told Izevel all that Eliyah had done, and withal how
 he had slain all the prophets with the sword. {19:2} Then Izevel send
 a messenger to Eliyah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more
 also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow
 about this time. {19:3} When he saw that, he arose, and went for his
 life, and came to Be'er-Sheva, which belongs to Yehudah, and left his
 servant there. {19:4} But he himself went a day's journey into the
 wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: 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. {19:5}
 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel
 touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. {19:6} He looked, and,
 behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of
 water. He ate and drink, and laid him down again. {19:7} 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 you. {19:8} He arose,
 and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days
 and forty nights to Horev the Mount of God. {19:9} He came there to a
 cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him,
 and he said to him, What are you doing here, Eliyah? {19:10} He said,
 I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God [1>]Tzva'ot[<1],; for
 the children of Yisra'el have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your
 altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am
 left; and they seek my life, to take it away. {19:11} He said, Go
 forth, and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD
 passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke
 in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind:
 and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the
 earthquake: {19:12} and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was
 not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. {19:13} It
 was so, when Eliyah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle,
 and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, there
 came a voice to him, and said, What are you doing here, Eliyah?
 {19:14} He said, I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God
 [2>]Tzva'ot[<2],; for the children of Yisra'el have forsaken your
 covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the
 sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
 away. {19:15} The LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the
 wilderness of Dammesek: and when you come, you shall anoint Haza'el to
 be king over Aram; {19:16} and Yehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint
 to be king over Yisra'el; and Elisha the son of Shafat of
 Avel-Mecholah shall you anoint to be prophet in your room. {19:17} It
 shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Haza'el shall Yehu
 kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Yehu shall Elisha kill.
 {19:18} Yet will I leave [me] seven thousand in Yisra'el, all the
 knees which have not bowed to Ba`al, and every mouth which has not
 kissed him. {19:19} So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of
 Shafat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he
 with the twelfth: and Eliyah passed over to him, and cast his mantle
 on him. {19:20} He left the oxen, and ran after Eliyah, and said, Let
 me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow
 you. He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
 {19:21} He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and
 killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen,
 and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after
 Eliyah, and ministered to him.

   {20:1} Ben-Hadad the king of Aram gathered all his host together;
 and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and
 he went up and besieged Shomron, and fought against it. {20:2} He sent
 messengers to Ach'av king of Yisra'el, into the city, and said to him,
 Thus says Ben-Hadad, {20:3} Your silver and your gold is mine; your
 wives also and your children, even the best, are mine. {20:4} The king
 of Yisra'el answered, It is according to your saying, my lord, O king;
 I am yours, and all that I have. {20:5} The messengers came again, and
 said, Thus speaks Ben-Hadad, saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You
 shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your
 children; {20:6} but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about
 this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your
 servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes,
 they shall put it in their hand, and take it away. {20:7} Then the
 king of Yisra'el called all the Zakenim of the land, and said, Please
 notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives,
 and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't
 deny him. {20:8} All the Zakenim and all the people said to him, Don't
 you listen, neither consent. {20:9} Therefore he said to the
 messengers of Ben-Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send
 for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not
 do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again. {20:10}
 Ben-Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also,
 if the dust of Shomron shall suffice for handfuls for all the people
 who follow me. {20:11} The king of Yisra'el answered, Tell him, Don't
 let him who girds on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off.
 {20:12} It happened, when [Ben-Hadad] heard this message, as he was
 drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his
 servants, Set [yourselves in array]. They set [themselves in array]
 against the city. {20:13} Behold, a prophet came near to Ach'av king
 of Yisra'el, and said, Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this
 great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day;
 and you shall know that I am the LORD. {20:14} Ach'av said, By whom?
 He said, Thus says the LORD, By the young men of the princes of the
 provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? He answered, You.
 {20:15} Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the
 provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he
 mustered all the people, even all the children of Yisra'el, being
 seven thousand. {20:16} They went out at noon. But Ben-Hadad was
 drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the
 thirty-two kings who helped him. {20:17} The young men of the princes
 of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told
 him, saying, There are men come out from Shomron. {20:18} He said,
 Whether they are come out for shalom, take them alive, or whether they
 are come out for war, taken them alive. {20:19} So these went out of
 the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army
 which followed them. {20:20} They killed everyone his man; and the
 Aram fled, and Yisra'el pursued them: and Ben-Hadad the king of Aram
 escaped on a horse with horsemen. {20:21} The king of Yisra'el went
 out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Aram with a
 great slaughter. {20:22} The prophet came near to the king of
 Yisra'el, and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see
 what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Aram will come
 up against you. {20:23} The servants of the king of Aram said to him,
 Their god is a god 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} Do this thing: take the kings away, every
 man out of his place, and put captains in their room; {20:25} and
 number you an army, like the army that you have 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. He listened to their voice,
 and did so. {20:26} It happened at the return of the year, that
 Ben-Hadad mustered the Aram, and went up to Afek, to fight against
 Yisra'el. {20:27} The children of Yisra'el were mustered, and were
 provisioned, and went against them: and the children of Yisra'el
 encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Aram
 filled the country. {20:28} A man of God came near and spoke to the
 king of Yisra'el, and said, Thus says the LORD, Because the Aram have
 said, the LORD is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the
 valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your
 hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD. {20:29} They encamped one
 over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day
 the battle was joined; and the children of Yisra'el killed of the Aram
 one hundred thousand footmen in one day. {20:30} But the rest fled to
 Afek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men
 who were left. Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner
 chamber. {20:31} His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that
 the kings of the house of Yisra'el are merciful kings: let us, we pray
 you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to
 the king of Yisra'el: peradventure he will save your life. {20:32} So
 they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their heads,
 and came to the king of Yisra'el, and said, Your servant Ben-Hadad
 says, please let me live. He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
 {20:33} Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether
 it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben-Hadad. Then he said,
 Go you, bring him. Then Ben-Hadad came forth to him; and he caused him
 to come up into the chariot. {20:34} [Ben-Hadad] said to him, The
 cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you
 shall make streets for you in Dammesek, as my father made in Shomron.
 I, [said Ach'av], will let you go with this covenant. So he made a
 covenant with him, and let him go. {20:35} A certain man of the sons
 of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of the LORD, Please
 strike me. The man refused to strike him. {20:36} Then said he to him,
 Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as
 you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was
 departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him. {20:37} Then he
 found another man, and said, Please strike me. The man struck him,
 smiting and wounding him. {20:38} So the prophet departed, and waited
 for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over
 his eyes. {20:39} As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he
 said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold,
 a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man:
 if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life,
 or else you shall pay a talent of silver. {20:40} As your servant was
 busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Yisra'el said to him, So
 shall your judgment be; yourself have decided it. {20:41} He hurried,
 and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Yisra'el
 discerned him that he was of the prophets. {20:42} He said to him,
 Thus says the LORD, Because you have let go out of your hand the man
 whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for
 his life, and your people for his people. {20:43} The king of Yisra'el
 went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Shomron.

   {21:1} It happened after these things, that Navot the Yizre`eli had
 a vineyard, which was in Yizre`el, hard by the palace of Ach'av king
 of Shomron. {21:2} Ach'av spoke to Navot, saying, Give me your
 vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near
 to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: or,
 if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.
 {21:3} Navot said to Ach'av, the LORD forbid it me, that I should give
 the inheritance of my fathers to you. {21:4} Ach'av came into his
 house sullen and angry because of the word which Navot the Yizre`eli
 had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the
 inheritance of my fathers. He laid him down on his bed, and turned
 away his face, and would eat no bread. {21:5} But Izevel his wife came
 to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no
 bread? {21:6} He said to her, Because I spoke to Navot the Yizre`eli,
 and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it
 please you, I will give you [another] vineyard for it: and he
 answered, I will not give you my vineyard. {21:7} Izevel his wife said
 to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Yisra'el? arise, and eat
 bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of
 Navot the Yizre`eli. {21:8} So she wrote letters in Ach'av's name, and
 sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the Zakenim and to
 the nobles who were in his city, [and] who lived with Navot. {21:9}
 She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Navot on
 high among the people: {21:10} and set two men, base fellows, before
 him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and
 the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death. {21:11} The men
 of his city, even the Zakenim and the nobles who lived in his city,
 did as Izevel had sent to them, according as it was written in the
 letters which she had sent to them. {21:12} They proclaimed a fast,
 and set Navot on high among the people. {21:13} The two men, the base
 fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness
 against him, even against Navot, in the presence of the people,
 saying, Navot did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth
 out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones. {21:14} Then
 they sent to Izevel, saying, Navot is stoned, and is dead. {21:15} It
 happened, when Izevel heard that Navot was stoned, and was dead, that
 Izevel said to Ach'av, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Navot
 the Yizre`eli, which he refused to give you for money; for Navot is
 not alive, but dead. {21:16} It happened, when Ach'av heard that Navot
 was dead, that Ach'av rose up to go down to the vineyard of Navot the
 Yizre`eli, to take possession of it. {21:17} The word of the LORD came
 to Eliyah the Tishbi, saying, {21:18} Arise, go down to meet Ach'av
 king of Yisra'el, who dwells in Shomron: behold, he is in the vineyard
 of Navot, where he is gone down to take possession of it. {21:19} You
 shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the LORD, Have you killed and
 also taken possession? You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the
 LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Navot shall dogs
 lick your blood, even yours. {21:20} Ach'av said to Eliyah, Have you
 found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have
 sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.
 {21:21} Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you
 away and will cut off from Ach'av every man-child, and him who is shut
 up and him who is left at large in Yisra'el: {21:22} and I will make
 your house like the house of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, and like the
 house of Ba`sha the son of Achiyah for the provocation with which you
 have provoked me to anger, and have made Yisra'el to sin. {21:23} Of
 Izevel also spoke the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Izevel by the
 rampart of Yizre`el. {21:24} Him who dies of Ach'av in the city the
 dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the
 sky eat. {21:25} (But there was none like Ach'av, who did sell himself
 to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, whom Izevel his
 wife stirred up. {21:26} He did very abominably in following idols,
 according to all that the Amori did, whom the LORD cast out before the
 children of Yisra'el.) {21:27} It happened, when Ach'av heard those
 words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and
 fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. {21:28} The word of the
 LORD came to Eliyah the Tishbi, saying, {21:29} See you how Ach'av
 humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I
 will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I
 bring the evil on his house.



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Footnotes:
[1] {19:10} of hosts or of armies

[2] {19:14} of hosts or of armies


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