The Story of Ahikar from the Ancient Writings of The Set-Apart Bible. Read free with the Sacred Names (Yahweh, Yahshua, Elohim) and audio narration.
1 The story of Haiqâr the Wise, Vizier of Sennacherib the King, and of Nadan, sister’s son to Haiqâr the Sage.
2 There was a Vizier in the days of King Sennacherib, son of Sarhadum, King of Assyria and Nineveh, a wise man named Haiqâr, and he was Vizier of the king Sennacherib.
3 He had a fine, fortune and much goods, and he was skilful, wise, a philosopher, in knowledge, in opinion and in government, and he had married sixty women, and had built a castle for each of them.
4 But with it all he had no child by any. of these women, who might be his heir.
5 And he was very sad on account of this, and one day he assembled the astrologers and the learned men and the wizards and explained to them his condition and the matter of his barrenness.
6 And they said to him, ‘Go, sacrifice to the gods and beseech them that perchance they may provide thee with a boy.’
7 And he did as they told him and offered sacrifices to the idols, and besought them and implored them with request, and entreaty.