"Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. He said, "If the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you? "Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Your word, I pray, be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David. Then he died in a ripe old age, full of days, riches and honor; and his son Solomon reigned in his place. He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. Selah. And the king bowed himself on the bed. Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet, for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols. "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Turn behind me." So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from God that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him. And she said, "Speak." David was the youngest. Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it. "You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "Have you murdered and also taken possession?"' 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 people rushed greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing. They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Have you seen all this great multitude? So Saul's servants spoke these words to David. The King in the Field He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. 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." Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle or shall I refrain?" There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first to last, behold, they are written in the annals of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel. For there is no other except it here." Then Jehoahaz entreated the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them. And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son and her husband is old." When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite. It came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. 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. At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD, and he made his kinsman Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. Furthermore, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down Then he demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah. Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse Every man to your tents, O Israel; Now look after your own house, David " So all Israel departed to their tents. When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? 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. And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. 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. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. '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. Now the Lord loved him and sent word through Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah for the Lords sake. And the field is being visited by its raison d'tre, by its ultimate function and essence. Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them. So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built cities for defense in Judah. Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the LORD which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people. "Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today." "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's household heard of it, they went down there to him. They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. But not one of all the people answered him. So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. But Amaziah would not listen. When his servants told David these words, it pleased David to become the king's son-in-law. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the LORD require it at the hands of David's enemies." Now then, take and cast him into the property, according to the word of the LORD. 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 David arose and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. So Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." But David said, "What have I done now? Ahab said, "And I will let you go with this covenant." 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. Then Saul disguised himself by putting on other clothes, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, "Conjure up for me, please, and bring up for me whom I shall name to you." But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "How is it that your spirit is so sullen that you are not eating food?" They told the king, saying, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?" 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. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 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?" When the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. A king who sits on the throne of justiceDisperses all evil with his eyes. He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name." read more. 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. Nathan then said to David, You are the man! When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring. It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. And he answered, "Here I am, my lord." In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish me to give you." "Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, He is God." But one son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. 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." When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" When your feet enter the city the child will die. The people answered him in accord with this word, saying, "Thus it will be done for the man who kills him." Heal the sick in it and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near to you.. So she said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife." Then Saul said to David, "Blessed are you, my son David; you will both accomplish much and surely prevail " So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon. And they were unable to eat. So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle. 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. Since the word of the king is authoritative. Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see " And the LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. Turn behind me." And I will subdue all your enemies. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD terrorized him. 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 16 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV) He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat." and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers." Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above. Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites." In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. He said, "This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots. But the woman said to him, "Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. When midday was past, they raved until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no one answered, and no one paid attention. David also said, "As the LORD lives, surely the LORD will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish. He departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes. Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! Then one said, "Please be willing to go with your servants." 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!" "And who will listen to you in this matter? He called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the evil that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram. Then He said, 'You are to entice him and also prevail. He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. "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. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet. Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Also from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a very large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the bronze utensils. The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.' His attendant said, "What, will I set this before a hundred men?" Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they." Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household." Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. The Lord said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. 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. So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them. And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there. 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 he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." 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 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend of David. When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. "We made a raid on the Negev of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire." As he was talking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath, was coming up from the army of the Philistines, and he spoke these same words; and David heard them. Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. The mother of the lad said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." The LORD gave Israel a deliverer, so that they escaped from under the hand of the Arameans; and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as formerly. "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. Nevertheless, you are not pleasing in the sight of the lords. Now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him." None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house; then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers. He said, "Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD." Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army. Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" read more. And they made his chariot ready. Now it came about after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. "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 be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in." "However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen." The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its depth along the front of the house was ten cubits. And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and deliver Keilah." Then he said, "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today." So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. And he arose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; but his army fled to their tents. He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had made. Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" 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." from Aram and Moab and the sons of Ammon and the Philistines and Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. So the captains of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. Biblia - Fabulis Explicavit: The Shepherds Visit Jesus in Bethlehem Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them. "He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight." Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all who were before him. ", and they said to him, Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. 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. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do."
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