So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. "The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat." 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. 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." Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall eat at my table regularly." Now Achish said, "Where have you made a raid today?" W "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." Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. Saul's servants then said to him, "Behold now, an evil spirit from God is terrorizing you. So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.read more.Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will overtake us. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the city of David, which is Zion. Then in the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. 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. which He will bring about at the proper timeHe who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords. Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will cross over to the men and reveal ourselves to them. "Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. 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. Now she wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people; and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king ' Then take him out and stone him to death." So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. read more. Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt. So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Escape. Jehoshaphat his son then became king in his place, and made his position over Israel firm. After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah became king. So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. Then she said, "I am making one small request of you; do not refuse me." "Now then let the fear of the LORD be upon you; be very careful what you do, for the LORD our God will have no part in unrighteousness or partiality or the taking of a bribe." 'Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem. When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Why did this mad fellow come to you?" Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah defeated 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,The scepter of rulers, and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests; and the king said to the girl, Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you., As they drank their wine at the banquet, the king said to Esther, What is your petition, for it shall be granted to you. Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place. And the LORD said, "He will come down." So he said, "Go." Was it not just a question?" Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment. All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. Then Joram said, "Get ready." Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully. 'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name. Therefore they have named that place "The Valley of Beracah" until today. They also brought barley and straw for the horses and. But the Arameans wounded Joram. But the servants of Achish said to him, "Is this not David the king of the land? And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son became king in his place. 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." "Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, Treason! After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. He did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction. What shall we do?" Then he opened the door and fled. "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." She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. The King is in the Field. "Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place."'" Also Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's merchants procured them from Kue for a price. In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. 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. David girded his sword over his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? It was told Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah." 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. It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, From the algum trees the king made steps for the house of the. read more. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; and his son Abijah became king in his place. His attendant said, "What, will I set this before a hundred men?" Therefore now, send and bring him to me, for he must surely die." Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek, while the Israelites were camping by the spring which is in Jezreel. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?" Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." "Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?" "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.' smartass things to say to your teacher; the king is So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. 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?" "Do this thing: remove the kings, each from his place, and put captains in their place, and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. King Solomon also built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. read more. Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly put the people under oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today.'" "There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt." For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?" Solomon held fast to these in love. The king also said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which you acknowledge in your heart, which you did to my father David; therefore the LORD shall return your evil on your own head. Again the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together." Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? 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. 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. By me kings reign,And rulers decree justice. And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work. Even the garrison and the raiders trembled, and the earth quaked so that it became a great trembling. So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering." He gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, after David slew them of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed there, and reigned in Damascus. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. So he put out his hand and took it. Then Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! 'Also let the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.' "Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the LORD." 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." And he said, "For you, O captain." The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do I have to do with you? And he said, "Thus and thus he said to me, 'Thus says the LORD, "I have anointed you king over Israel."'" He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inner and outer sanctuaries. The servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people in the house of the LORD. Now all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife incited him. Now it came about in those days that the Philistines gathered their armed camps for war, to fight against Israel. Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths None remained except the poorest people of the land. He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. "Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." And he said, "Listen, all you people." WebWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the