And so King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth, - as to riches, and wisdom.

and removed from all the cities of Judah, the high places, and the sun-images, - and the kingdom became quiet before him.

And Asa became diseased - in the thirty-ninth year of his reign - in his feet, exceedingly severe, was his disease, - yet, even in his disease, he sought not Yahweh, but unto physicians.

He too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, - for, his mother, became his counselor, to work lawlessness.

Wherefore he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, like the house of Ahab, - for, they, became his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.

But Jehoiada waxed old and became satisfied with days, and died, - a hundred and thirty years old, when he died.

But, when he became strong, uplifted was his heart, unto ruin, for he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God, - and entered into the temple of Yahweh, to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

yet became they mockers of the messengers of God, and despisers of his words, and mimics of his prophets, - until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people, until there was no healing.

and he exiled the remnant left from the sword, into Babylon, - where they became his and his sons, as servants, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: