The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their fathers. Then Solomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem. Heal the sick in it and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you.. Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." The angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you." 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. Then the messengers returned and told the king. It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends. And such were some of you. Go and do so.' They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the LORD with them; and they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people. Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her for my wife? Now what is your petition? read more. When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Strike this people with blindness, I pray." Now the famine was severe in Samaria. They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 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 when she came in to him, he said, "Take up your son." "It shall come about, the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death. Then Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. And the. You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations. Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." And the lords of the Philistines were proceeding on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were proceeding on in the rear with Achish. Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now therefore, please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time." Or what evil is in my hand? Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites." And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. "I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel." Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. So Joram reined about and fled and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah!" Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way. "It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. And he said, "I will go up; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?" And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan." Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. '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. Bible And he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat." "Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive. WebNaboth Is Killed in His Grape-Field - Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a field of grape-vines in Jezreel beside the family of Ahab king of Samaria. So each man girded on his sword. "Please run now to meet her and say to her, 'Is it well with you? And Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze. 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 Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they would be the LORD'S people, also between the king and the people. So she said to Elijah, "What do I have to do with you, O man of God? So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her put to death with the sword." In the field, he receives them all pleasantly and shows a 'Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. I will also make the land drink the discharge of your bloodAs far as the mountains,And the ravines will be full of you. The. Now look after your own house, David!" But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me." There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels. "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. The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah. So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. Moreover, the word of the LORD through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck it. But he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and have some left over.'" So the LORD delivered Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Shall I kill them?" And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. The God of Israel said,The Rock of Israel spoke to me,He who rules over men righteously,Who rules in the fear of God. And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. Then David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me, and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand. 'Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'" So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city. So David had captured all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of the other livestock, and they said, "This is David's spoil." And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there. Now the dread of the LORD was on all the kingdoms of the lands which were around Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and He will give you into our hands." But Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death." How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?" Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? "My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place where you direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household." So he prepared a great feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went to their master. Saul said, "May you be blessed of the LORD, for you have had compassion on me. He also defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech. He placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had captured. 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. Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" 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. Here I am, I must die!" Now when he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the ranks of the Philistines?" Saul said, "May you be blessed of the LORD, for you have had compassion on me. And Jehu said, "For which one of us?" David was the youngest. All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reigned twelve years; he reigned six years at Tirzah. When they began singing and praising, the LORD set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were routed. As the LORD lives, all of you must surely die, because you did not guard your lord, the LORD'S anointed. 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. Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?" "But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies; because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.'" "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. He said to him, "Far from it, you shall not die. And what is my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?" And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali. So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. Then Rehoboam took as a wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, and she bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham. The one crag rose on the north opposite Michmash, and the other on the south opposite Geba. 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. For if I should indeed learn that evil has been decided by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you about it?" But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" 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? And Jotham slept with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Saul camped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, beside the road, and David was staying in the wilderness When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness, David sent out spies, and he knew that Saul was definitely coming. Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' "If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you'; then we will stand in our place and not go up to them. And Elisha said to him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" Now all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. Selah I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 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. Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." 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 he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him. But Samuel said, "What have you done?" And they said, "Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king." So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. The Philistine also said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field." Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. Then he died in a ripe old age, full of days, riches and honor; and his son Solomon reigned in his place. 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. And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king. 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." "Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that You, O LORD, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again." Then the commanders of the Philistines went out to battle, and it happened as often as they went out, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul. Then Elisha came to Damascus Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here." Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are 450 men. "Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him." When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?" Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. So they camped one over against the other seven days. He took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me." "Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. Ben-hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria." But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. So he said to his men, "Far be it from me because of the LORD that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD'S anointed." And they said, "Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king." And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. 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. And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD. WebIsaiah 32:15 - Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. And the king said to the guards who were attending him, "Turn around and put the priests of the LORD to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me " But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the LORD. And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem. Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." "Now then, listen to their voice; however, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them." The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. 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. But He did not answer him on that day. "You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master's grandson may have food; nevertheless Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall eat at my table regularly." And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. bible So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal There they also offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. So it came about whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the harp and play it with his hand; and Saul would be refreshed and be well, and the evil spirit would depart from him. So David arose and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. They gave the money which was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD; and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the damages to the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. So Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. All the people of the land entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground. Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." Again he prostrated himself and said, "What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog like me?" He is my brother." As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." read more. read more. So he brought out garments for them. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send and see." 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 made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them. When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance. just as He says also in another passage,You are a priest foreverAccording to the order of Melchizedek., The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind,You are a priest foreverAccording to the order of Melchizedek.. For what have I done? Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself and observe and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will come up against you." Now it came about, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords. Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. The messengers came again and said, Thus says Ben-hadad: I sent to you, saying, Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.. Then David inquired of the LORD once more. As the lad was running, he shot an arrow past him. Jonathan said to David, "Go in safety, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of the LORD, saying, 'The LORD will be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.'" "I have surely built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever." They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
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