Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he turned and went away in a rage. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people. As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.. "For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?" He also walked according to their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. Now then, here is your wife, take her and go. Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him. The king of Israel replied, "It is according to your word, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have." The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built. And the LORD said, "They will surrender you." ", So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king. "Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. Then Saul said to Samuel, "I did obey the voice of the LORD, and went on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. For I am sent to you with a harsh message. Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. WebAnd Gehazi said, My lord the king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. 6 When the king asked the woman, she told everything to him. "Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, He is God." They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; I have indeed transgressed the command of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and slaughter it here and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are these all the children?" read more. At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field. Is anything too hard for me? Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they." WebNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. "Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." "Keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn, so that the LORD may carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' "Here I am; bear witness against me before the LORD and His anointed Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?" And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever., Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her; and she gave birth to a son, and he named him Solomon. "As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent to search for you; and when they said, 'He is not here,' he made the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. So Joram reined about and fled and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah!" Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. When this king arrives, he will be the embodiment of the power and presence of the God of Israel, and he will bring about the fulfillment of The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. "Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,' to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. And I live among a people of unclean lips; And they *sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying. Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions. A Psalm of David. "I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel." And he brought them to Samaria. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. Now Hazael king of Aram had oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. Now the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken captive a little girl from the land of Israel; and she waited on Naaman's wife. Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. And they leaped about the altar which they made. So it came about on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but they were found with Saul and his son Jonathan. And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? And he came and prostrated himself before King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they." On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, because there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings. And the Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute. I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and not be moved again; and the wicked will not waste them anymore as formerly. When the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." "Now then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to do so; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand." "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Then they told David, saying, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are plundering the threshing floors." For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." And he said to her, "There is not one vessel more." "He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants. "But now your kingdom shall not endure The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you." In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. And who is like you in Israel? Then the two worthless men came in and sat before him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." Then he returned and came to Achish. And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. He is my brother." So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house. And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD. He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine. So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. "And behold, I will send the lad, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' He did not leave to Jeroboam any persons alive, until he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite, and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. But David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lords anointed and be without guilt?, Then David said to him, How is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lords anointed?. Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. Also the ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones. They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. "If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of the LORD, that I may not die? Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, "The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange." WebOther Translations of Nehemiah 8:14-18 King James Version. Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 'You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. So Edom revolted against Judah to this day Then Libnah revolted at the same time. Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army are pleasing in my sight; for I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king. Long live the king!, Then they brought out the kings son and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony and made him king. "Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the LORD. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son Abijah became king in his place. They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." On that day the Lord will be one and his name one. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. Then they spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." And the messengers departed and brought him word again. Then some came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, out of Aram and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (that is Engedi)." "Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you." He made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor. And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. Behold, I will deliver them into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'" But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!" And when she came in to him, he said, "Take up your son." Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king. Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out. When both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, the Philistines said, "Behold, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves." Turn behind me." And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me." For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights. When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back. Then they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much. Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? They gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit revived. His attendant said, "What, will I set this before a hundred men?" David said to Achish, "But what have I done? Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then Saul said, "I have sinned. So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place. It is not so!" The one crag rose on the north opposite Michmash, and the other on the south opposite Geba. Saul vowed to her by the LORD, saying, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing." Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king. Y Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, "If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time." "Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah." As David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, "I am going the way of all the earth Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man. Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, "Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, 'So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'" The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David's earlier days and did not seek the Baals, read more. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. "If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of the LORD, that I may not die? In the light of a kings face is life,And his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain. So all the people came near to him. Is it well with the child?'" Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. T H When he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah. So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, Thus says the. And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! Surely there is no one like him among all the people. So all the people shouted and said, Long live the king!, Now it came about when Hushai the Archite, Davids friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, Long live the king! He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great wealth. So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus spoke Joab, and thus he answered me." The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! And he said, "I am a young man of Egypt, a servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me behind when I fell sick three days ago. And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me but always evil. Then Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is David not hiding with us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" David said to Ahimelech, "Now is there not a spear or a sword on hand? Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel." Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines previously, who went up with them all around in the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice, behold, I have done according to your words Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you. Was it not just a question?" Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house in the wilderness. For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike." Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the, Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also., Thus I will harden Pharaohs heart, and he will chase after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the, Then Solomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaohs daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the, In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the. Shimei then said to the king, "The word is good. Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood." When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people." WebThe king in the field is making contact with the source of his sustenance, with the underpinnings of his sovereignty. Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the LORD. Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart." Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? So the people departed. Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the LORD will work for us, for the LORD is not restrained to save by many or by few." "When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,' you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman. So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. For the LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab." Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor." He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" It was told King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar. Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying, "You know that David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil." The watchman reported, "He came even to them, and he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." Then the king said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?" Act resolutely, and the Lord be with the upright.. And he said, "I am." King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield. And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.