Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. WebVerse Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved! 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. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all the unfortunate. Is it well with the child?'" Then Abner replied, "Who are you who calls to the king?" And where are you from?" Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp crag on the one side and a sharp crag on the other side, and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. He said, "Go up and succeed, for they will be given into your hand." Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." And they leaped about the altar which they made. Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. 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. 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 came about at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a cloud as small as a man's hand is coming up from the sea." 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. When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was hidden from the king which he did not explain to her. C If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die." Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 Arameans. Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from all their districts. M Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed because your seat will be empty. Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number now and see who has gone from us." The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet. And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 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. Saul then said, "Thus you shall say to David, 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies '" Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard. I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle." "For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria." Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. So Saul said, "Bring to me the burnt offering and the peace offerings." However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. 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. Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return." Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them; and David took control of the chief city from the hand of the Philistines. Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. 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." And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And he said, 'I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' When the queen of Sheba perceived all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her. He makes me lie down in green pastures. So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" By me kings reign,And rulers decree justice. Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done." In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.'" They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David who is with the flock." So Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" He did much evil in the sight of the LORD provoking Him to anger. "They have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary there for Your name, saying, 'Should evil come upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before You (for Your name is in this house) and cry to You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver us.' Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. "For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 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 Sauls shepherds. So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Samaria. When the people entered the forest, behold, there was a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. The king said, "You inquire whose son the youth is." They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 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. "For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day." "When you arrive there, search out Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and bid him arise from among his brothers, and bring him to an inner room. "For a command came to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.'" When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave And behold, a voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" Samuel said, "Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. 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 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. 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. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet. Then Zimri went in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place. Then Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. He arose and went into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. So he said, "You know that the kingdom was mine and that all Israel expected me to be king; however, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the LORD. In this verse Jesus presents the example of the lilies, who also do no labour. He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with those who were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. Then Joram said, "Get ready." Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland. Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD. In the light of a kings face is life,And his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain. So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" "Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. He said, "Call her." So he went another way and did not return by the way which he came to Bethel. But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal. The period which he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years. Now David had said, "Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good. So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One,In Your splendor and Your majesty! But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land." 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. There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.. 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. 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 Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under oath; therefore, he put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened. Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way. "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay. Bathsheba said, "Very well; I will speak to the king for you." Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel." 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. "As you did not obey the LORD and did not execute His fierce wrath on Amalek, so the LORD has done this thing to you this day. He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you. 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. When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife. I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly, even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Now when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of him?" But he kept silent. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son became king in his place. Now it came about after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. Webthe king is in the field bible verse. But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I shall speak." U "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. Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud. Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "Let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. He wrought wonders before their fathersIn the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 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. But he went in and stood before his master. The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans with a great slaughter. They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people. 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. The LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. read more. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish me to give you." The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." "Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?" There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back. So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. ", So he sent and brought him in. She said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Tell the man who sent you to me, thus says the LORD, "Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. Publisher: OpenBible.info. So the LORD established the kingdom in his control, and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. But the rest fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell on 27,000 men who were left And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber. Far from it! 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 shall their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever; but to David and his descendants and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the LORD forever." They also brought barley and straw for the horses and. The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it was for the priests. Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats. The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, "Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and used to pay the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams. "I have surely built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever."