WebEcclesiastes 5:9. And there came great wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land. "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." And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself. Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, "You are innocent; behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? "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. In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria. the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and. So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" Surely at the command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive. 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. Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." 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." 'Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.'" Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" "Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live." '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.'" But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days. Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death. He said to him, "It is I. Then he said to them, "Depart for three days, then return to me." Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats. "Now therefore, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians." But there were not made for the house of the LORD silver cups, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the LORD; for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD. Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You. Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. David then arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. which He will bring about at the proper timeHe who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. read more. She said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you." And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah." 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. Amen. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy." Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?" Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 'You have forsaken Me, so I also have forsaken you to Shishak.'" When he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who sang to the LORD and those who praised Him in holy attire, as they went out before the army and said, "Give thanks to the LORD, for His lovingkindness is everlasting." "Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." "So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him." For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel. He had large supplies in the cities of Judah, and warriors, valiant men, in Jerusalem. Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David who is with the flock." "Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" Then Saul lifted up his voice and wept. E And he offered the burnt offering. But David escaped from his presence twice. You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. F In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. "Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling. So he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around and take me out of the fight; for I am severely wounded." The king said to him, Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, that you may remove from me and from my fathers house the blood which Joab shed without cause. Then the king of Babylon made his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 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. He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city. "Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. As the lad was running, he shot an arrow past him. From the algum trees the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the kings palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; and none like that was seen before in the land of Judah. But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel. And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? "For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?" Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.read more.But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abrams wife. When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. 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 the LORD established the kingdom in his control, and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. "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.' Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them. I will lay your flesh on the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your refuse. Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." "But now your kingdom shall not endure The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you." The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. Or again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son? And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him before the people and killed him, and reigned in his place. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel. "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. And he offered the burnt offering. When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers. He said, "Throw her down." "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. 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!" "But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal." The king made of the almug trees supports for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again nor have they been seen to this day. "The LORD has done accordingly as He spoke through me; for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David. Then they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. And Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, and he arose, went and took hold of the horns of the altar. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. "And who will listen to you in this matter? Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. The king said to the man of God, "Please entreat the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me " So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before. "And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no one else. Solomon's provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal, ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule. However, as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin, from these Jehu did not depart, even the golden calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan. Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah--none was exempt--and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had built. But David said, "What have I done now? Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you." Moreover, the word of the LORD through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck it. The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub. And Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the camp, you and your men." Now then, here is your wife, take her and go.. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice. They killed each his man; and the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. David swore to Saul. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. He had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and handsome man, and there was not a more handsome person than he among the sons of Israel; from his shoulders and up he was taller than any of the people. Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from my lord? WebVerse 2 Kings 23:4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the Lords temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, visit Nabal and greet him in my name; and thus you shall say, 'Have a long life, peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. Now Saul and his son Jonathan and the people who were present with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash. Why did this mad fellow come to you?" I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Israel shall be your name." Thus he said to him, "Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also." "Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah." Then he would cure him of his leprosy." Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. 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. Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide yourself." 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. But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place. And Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the camp, you and your men." 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. 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. But consider now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me." 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'" Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the LORD'S battles " For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him." And he said, "Your servant went nowhere." When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good feeling toward David, shall I not then send to you and make it known to you? On the top of the pillars was lily design. When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
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