I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 366
The History of the People of Israel
:6 Gibethon of Philistia. The army in 18 Zimri has conspired, and assaiied the king, and has made himself king of all ····-the Commander of the army of Israel at the Camp was Gomri; so Gomri, andthe forces of Israel with him, went up from Gibethou and besieged Thirtzah. But when Zimri saw that the city was stormed, he went to Armon, the palace of the king, and burnt him- self with the king's palace, and died, because of the sins that he sinned in doing wrong in the sight of the EVBR·LIv1NG, by walking in the way of jerabam, and the sins he com- mitted which made Israel sin. 20 For the rest of the acts of Zimri and the conspiracy that he con- spired, they are recorded in the history of the events of the times of the kings of Israel. (nc. 928 to 925.) ®ilril War in 21 22 israel. Then the forces of Israel divided.
Half of the forces went after Thibni- ben—Ginath to make him king, and half after Gomri. But the force that followed Gomri was stronger- than the force that followed Thibni-ben- Ginath, so Thibni was killed, and Gomri made himself king. (ac. 925.) ®¤mri §irign¤ in israel. In the twentwfirst year of Asa,
king of judah, Gomri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Thirtzah, and then he bought Mount Shomeron from Shomer, for two talents of silver, and built. on the hill, and called the name of the city which he had built,. after the name of Shomer, the ownerof the hill,-—-Shomeron. Gomri, however,.did wrong in the
sight of the Evan-Livmc,-—and wrong greater than all who were
26 before him, and walked completely Turned by the Greek translators into
and socalled in the_0ld Versions, made fom a Latin translation of the Greek gpone.- . . in the path of jerabam, the son of Nebat, and in his sins, that he caused Israel to sin, to provoke the EVER-LIVING GOD of Israel to de- stroy them. For the rest of the affairs of Gornri 27 what he did, and the great things
that he accomplished — they are written in the history of events of the days of the kings of Israel. Then Gomri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron, and Akhab his son reigned in his stead. (B.c. 918.) Abel: Reign: in Hzrae1.~——%isim·g uf iezalsel.
And Akhab··ben—Gomri began to
reign over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of judah, and Akhab-ben-Gomri reigned over Israel in Shomeron twenty—two years. But Akhab—ben·Gomri did wrong in the sight of the Evna~L1v1NG, more than all before him. For it was little to him to walk in the sins of ]erabam-ben- Nabat, for he took as a wife Aisabel the daughter of Athbal, king of the Zidonians, and went and served Bal, and worshipped him. He also raised an Altar to Bal, in the Temple of Bal which he built in Shomeron. Akhab besides made sh1·ines, and
added to the insults to the EVER- Lrvme, the Gon of Israel, beyond all the kings of Israel that were before him. In his day ]a1 built Beth—]al,»-··that is ]erikho;—— by Abiram his eldest son he laid the foundations, and by Shezib, his youngest, he set up its gates, as the Evsnmxvine announced, when he spoke by the means of joshualrben- Nun. 28 33 34
(About ac. oro.) iife nf Elia}; the ®l;irl;lvite.——®l;e Erngehg uf israel. But Eliah the Thishbite, from
Thishbi in Gilad, said to Akhab, ‘By the life of the .Evs1z-1.1vmc GOD of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not be for these years dew or rain, except my mouth demands it! Then the Message of the Even-
G0 from here,~and proceed to the East, and hide yourself near the brook Kerith, which runs into the jordan, and the brook will give you drink, 366 17
