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. 'Thus says the LORD, "You must not go up and fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me."'" For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. "Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table." Then he opened the door and fled. After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel. Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. And he arose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but his army fled to their tents. So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one escape or leave the city to go tell it in Jezreel." It came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?". "Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and oxen for him and the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead. It came about when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. 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? The people rushed greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' AMP. "And when the LORD does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel, this will not cause grief or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord having avenged himself. that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. Then Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, both the money of each man's assessment and all the money which any man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD, let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found." Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. But he took Jehoahaz away and brought him to Egypt, and he died there. He said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day that you have found nothing in my hand." I will also make the land drink the discharge of your bloodAs far as the mountains,And the ravines will be full of you. So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's household heard of it, they went down there to him. Do you see a man skilled in his work?He will stand before kings;He will not stand before obscure men. But the first woman said, "No! Z, They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.. Then he said, "I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the LORD your God." The KJV does not get more original or authentic than this. And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions were good in Judah. Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he recovered for Israel, Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying, "Now, when this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons, select the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house." Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the LORD; thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'" Click to switch to the standard King James Version of 1 Samuel Chapter 16. They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab had done, because he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab. "Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds. "Nevertheless, as the LORD God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one male." But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. But Samuel said, "How can I go? Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the lad sneezed seven times and the lad opened his eyes. Then she turned and went to her own land together with her servants. In Ecbatana in the fortress, which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found and there was written in it as follows: "Memorandum-- "In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: 'Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt and let its foundations be retained, its height being 60 cubits and its width 60 cubits; read more. Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and, So David reigned over all Israel; and David. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? He said to him, "I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water '" But he lied to him. Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from my lord? When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil The LORD has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head " Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife. Then the Philistine came on and approached David, with the shield-bearer in front of him. Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son's days." WebVerse 2 Kings 23:4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the Lords temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to But David said, "What have I done now? And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. Then he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." Micaiah said, "If you indeed return safely the LORD has not spoken by me " And he said, "Listen, all you people." So all the people came near to him. So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war. When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? The king said to her, "Do not be afraid; but what do you see?" They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." A wise king winnows the wicked,And drives the threshing wheel over them. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. He built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars. From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. From the algum trees the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the kings palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; and none like that was seen before in the land of Judah. Who says to a king, Worthless one,To nobles, Wicked ones; Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of the LORD." So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. "I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, read more. Also the whole altar which was by the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this oracle against him: 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. Now the LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place. Now the men of Israel were hard-pressed on that day, for Saul had put the people under oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food before evening, and until I have avenged myself on my enemies." And they answered, "We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother." And he said to her, "There is not one vessel more." Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. And the Lord anointed you king over Israel. So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "You shall not go up or fight against your relatives; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me."'" And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. 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. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured. T As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.' 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. Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. Now it came about in those days that the Philistines gathered their armed camps for war, to fight against Israel. Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now reign over Israel? WebThe Lord will be king over the whole earth. Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron And the people who were with him were about six hundred men, and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the LORD at Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood. "But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD thus shall you say to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Regarding the words which you have heard, because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares the LORD. Then he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the LORD has spoken, 'Behold, the altar shall be split apart and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.'" Then he said to them, "Depart for three days, then return to me." When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil The LORD has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head " Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife. Then David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this band?" "For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD." "When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape." Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done., surely as I vowed to you by the Lord the God of Israel, saying, Your son Solomon shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; I will indeed do so this day., The king said to Queen Esther, The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman at the citadel in Susa. He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. And she said to him, "Speak." Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards' room. "He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. ", and they said to him, Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. The king went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Jonathan then answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem, for he said, 'Please let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. David then arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And he said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this band." So Israel departed to their tents. Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor bearer and said, "Come up to us and we will tell you something " And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hands of Israel." Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; then these men were brought before the king. At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and I have done all these things at Your word. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot. He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron. We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; To your tents, O Israel! Will you go with me to fight against Moab?" And he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat." So Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. All Israel heard the news that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master! "May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you. For this reason he has not come to the king's table." Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?" 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel. Baal-hanan the Gederite had charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah; and Joash had charge of the stores of oil. Then they sent word to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned and is dead." 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. Then Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place. 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?. Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." "Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin. "Now behold, as your life was highly valued in my sight this day, so may my life be highly valued in the sight of the LORD, and may He deliver me from all distress." So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron And the people who were with him were about six hundred men, and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the LORD at Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day." So with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed. read more. Now three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the LORD. And Abner said, "By your life, O king, I do not know." But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. Web8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. And the king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you." Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 'Tomorrow go down against them. Then he said, "Go, bring him." "Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on. Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king. Nehemiah 8:14-18 - NIV - They found written in the Law "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day." Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly. When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?" This is the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield. David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" WebNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house, then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. "Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not insulted, nor did we miss anything as long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields. "For as the LORD lives, who delivers Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, although the Lord your God was your king. In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. Then there was no harm in the pot. Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. 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?" So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." "But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever." For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above.
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