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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. 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." Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is this you, Elijah my master?" The guards stood each with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king. So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. "You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. And the. Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him. But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind. In the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. The battle raged that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans until the evening; and at sunset he died. Then Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, nor is this the city; follow me and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." Then the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king. 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. Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing." Shabbat is when the farmer is invited to the palace. Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number now and see who has gone from us." Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. "He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." He placed the cherubim in the midst of the inner house, and the wings of the cherubim were spread out, so that the wing of the one was touching the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall. That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land. "Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men whose origin I do not know?" The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. smartass things to say to your teacher; the king is So he returned to meet him and told him, "The lad has not awakened." Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomons reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord. I gave you a king in My angerAnd took him away in My wrath. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? It came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Then they hurried and each man took his garment and placed it under him on the bare steps, and blew the trumpet, saying, "Jehu is king!" 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.'" And David said, "There is none like it; give it to me." All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children. "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."'" So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. Then Joram said, "Get ready." And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. 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 she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. "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." So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. 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? 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. Solomon said, "If he is a worthy man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he will die." Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt." When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" 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. "Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel, and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you--yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight; you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back-- therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. 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. Samuel said to all the people, Do you see him, Then they brought out the kings son and put the crown on him, and gave him. read more. 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. However, the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give a lamp to him through his sons always. You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. Then he opened the door and fled. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings 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. It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. At the turn of the year, Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." He said, "Open the window toward the east," and he opened it. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. "He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." "Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. Far from it! When the king asked the woman, she related it to him. "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. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood. At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field. So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it, and did not inquire of the Lord. Amen. Then Jehu sent throughout Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.. Then he charged them saying, "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully and wholeheartedly. He put garrisons in Edom. Lets lodge in the villages.- World Messianic Bible Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." Next Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin. Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. He said, "Call her." But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.' "Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" And the field is being visited by its raison d'tre, by its ultimate function and essence. And David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; and Saul was lying in the circle of the camp, and the people were camped around him. 'Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'" So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. "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." They went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon. So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days. read more. And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me the ephod." And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Elisha died, and they buried him. "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." "Moreover the LORD will also give over Israel along with you into the hands of the Philistines, therefore tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. What is my iniquity? Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. So they seized her, and when she arrived at the horses' entrance of the king's house, she was put to death there. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will overtake us. 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. When Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, read more. "It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you where I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth. She is his mother." When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, "Drive and go forward; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you." David said to Achish, "But what have I done? But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he scorned them. When Saul and his men went to seek him, they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. read more. When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the more. 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. In John 8:12 [emphasis mine], Jesus says, "I AM the Light (the manifest radiance of God's life) of the world, and the one following (or co-walking Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. 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. Why did this mad fellow come to you?" 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. Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the LORD." But there was no voice and no one answered. He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inner and outer sanctuaries. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. 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. But he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.'" But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place. He said to him, "It is I. "Now therefore, what do you have on hand? 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 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God. And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return." As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, from them Solomon levied forced laborers, even to this day. He brought into the house of the LORD the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils. But she did not tell her husband Nabal. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out. And he said, "Your servant went nowhere." "The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go." Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Therefore they returned and told him. Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but pay it for the damages of the house." 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. These are they who served the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified cities through all Judah. David said to him, "To whom do you belong? 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 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. L The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice. Would you kill those you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD." Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. The king said, "Get me a sword." When Saul hears of it, he will kill me." David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives. The king said to Barzillai, You cross over with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me.. Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said. So the king And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him from the day he deserted to me to this day?" Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there." So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place the Rock of Escape. You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!" But it came about that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damages of the house. Selah And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn. So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me now a man who can play well and bring him to me." When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died. Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon. The gatekeepers called and told it within the king's household. For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death But Jonathan, Saul's son, greatly delighted in David. Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah defeated 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. And he said to her, "There is not one vessel more." So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah, Imla's son." But they feared greatly and said, "Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how then can we stand?" Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." 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. The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel." Now the news came to Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he had not followed Absalom And Joab fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar. WebThe Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 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. He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king's house (one third also shall be at the gate Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense. Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the army of the Arameans, saying, "Go and see." '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.'" KJ21. When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people in the house of the LORD. So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes. When these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also, and went and hid them.