But the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's household!" So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. 20 Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's palace He took everything; he even took the golden shields which Solomon had made. The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. He said, "Why will you go to him today? It came about afterward that David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul's robe. 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. And he shot. After this event Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again he made priests of the high places from among all the people; any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places. 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. Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? "For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way which you came.'" Before the days had expired David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven. Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face each other." And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin. Now the servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their gods are gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we; but rather let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they. 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. 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel. But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.
Biblia - Fabulis Explicavit: The Shepherds Visit Jesus in Bethlehem And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash, therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the LORD.' 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'?" '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.'" Never again did such abundance of spices come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon. but sought the God of his father, followed His commandments, and did not act as Israel did. Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again because my life was precious in your sight this day. 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. 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. Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" Then Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 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?" In a multitude of people is a kings glory,But in the dearth of people is a princes ruin. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David who is with the flock." And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes." Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. 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." And who is the son of Jesse? 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 there were about four hundred men with him. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. She arose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord's servants." But David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law?" But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem. Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. "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." He said, "Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD." So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul's head, and they went away, but no one saw or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a sound sleep from the LORD had fallen on them. Genesis 4:8 chapter context similar meaning copy save. 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?" So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.'" Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Now the king of Aram had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." Far from it! Saul hurled the spear for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name." The king said to her, "Do not be afraid; but what do you see?" So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael. But Jehoshaphat was not willing. Our lord King David has made Solomon king. Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD terrorized him. When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Then he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son. He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." And their Creator will not be gracious to them. Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants of the land from ancient times, as you come to Shur even as far as the land of Egypt. "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk And send rain on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance. 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. But Naaman was furious and went away and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.' They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing;They will enter into the Kings palace. "So now also, please listen to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way." Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me." 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." 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 built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." 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. So he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." Say among the nations, The Lord reigns;Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved;He will judge the peoples with equity.. 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? The scepter shall not depart from Judah,Nor the rulers staff from between his feet,Until Shiloh comes,And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid. And all the people said, "That is a good idea." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel sin, but he walked in them. "When you have stayed for three days, you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself on that eventful day, and you shall remain by the stone Ezel. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. As the lad was running, he shot an arrow past him. All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the kings mother, and she sat on his right. So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. "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." It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments. Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon. And he said, "I am."
The king Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. So he was seven years in building it. Now the rest of the acts of Azariah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean. It is not so!" When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God." "In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter." "And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me." But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal. Then he said to him, "Because you have not listened to the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you." "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 let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place. And all the kings of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. The Levites, from the sons of the Kohathites and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel, with a very loud voice. Then he brought the king's son out and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony; and they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!" Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned two years. David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? 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." But he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.'" 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 So Saul took his sword and fell on it. "Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?" "Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully." "For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king." And he put his hand on it, then Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. He had conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest; and following Adonijah they helped him. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. And David said, "The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine " And Saul said to David, "Go, and may the LORD be with you." And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 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. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you.. But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast them from His presence until now. So Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers. After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. So he brought out garments for them. And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph. They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing; The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had. But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man go back, that he may return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. read more. 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.'"