to the death of Solomon, six hundred and eighty-three years and seven months.
Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon about the time of the arrival of Menelaus in Phenicia, after the capture of Troy, as is said by Menander of Pergamus, and Lætus in The Phenicia. And after Solomon, Roboam his son reigned for seventeen years; and Abimelech the son of Sadoc was high priest. In his reign, the kingdom being divided, Jeroboam, of the tribe of Ephraim, the servant of Solomon, reigned in Samaria; and Achias the Shilonite continued to prophesy; also Samæas the son of Amame, and he who came from Judah to Jeroboam,[1] and prophesied against the altar. After him his son Abijain, twenty-three years; and likewise his son Asaman.[2] The last, in his old age, was diseased in his feet; and in his reign prophesied Jehu the son of Ananias.
After him Jehosaphat his son reigned twenty-five years.[3] In his reign prophesied Elias the Thesbite, and Michæas the son of Jebla, and Abdias the son of Ananias. And in the time of Michæas there was also the false prophet Zedekias, the son of Chonaan. These were followed by the reign of Joram the son of Jehosaphat, for eight years; during whose time prophesied Elias; and after Elias, Elisæus the son of Saphat. In his reign the people in Samaria ate doves' dung and their own children. The period of Jehosaphat extends from the close of the third book of Kings to the fourth. And in the reign of Joram, Elias was translated, and Elisæus the son of Saphat commenced prophesying, and prophesied for six years, being forty years old.
Then Ochozias reigned a year. In his time Elisæus continued to prophesy, and along with him Adadonæus.[4] After him the mother of Ozias,[5] Gotholia,[6] reigned eight[7] years,
- ↑ See 1 Kings xiii. 1, 2. The text has ἐπὶ Ροβοὰμ, which, if retained, must be translated, "in the reign of Roboam." But Jeroboam was probably the original reading.
- ↑ Asa.
- ↑ So Lowth corrects the text, which has five.
- ↑ Supposed to be "son of Oded" or "Adad," i.e. Azarias.
- ↑ i.e. of Ochozias.
- ↑ Athalia.
- ↑ She was slain in the seventh year of her reign.
