I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel;For He is the living God and enduring forever,And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,And His dominion will be forever. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." Now when Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." But Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen these." 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. Thus he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam, Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin. Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few. So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the. And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return." Then Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" "When you arrive there, search out Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and bid him arise from among his brothers, and bring him to an inner room. He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Was it not just a question?" So he made him ride in his chariot. Then he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. David attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.. "But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for they assisted me when I fled from Absalom your brother. Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, "Let there be a treaty between you and me, as between my father and your father. "But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD thus shall you say to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Regarding the words which you have heard, because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares the LORD. And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food. And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. Then he said, "I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the LORD your God." He took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. 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? Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary. Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion. And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The king answered the people harshly, for he forsook the advice of the elders which they had given him, and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions." And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 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." "All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" But not one of all the people answered him. But the lad was not aware of anything; only Jonathan and David knew about the matter. 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. And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king. Samuel said, "Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? 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? Is it well with the child?'" Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram. And he shot. Now there was an evil spirit from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand. David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? And he answered, "Nothing; nevertheless you must surely let me go." Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no other except it here." Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children. Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. Then he said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" Then Shimei arose and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to look for his servants. For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them. It is I who says of Cyrus, He is My shepherd!And he will perform all My desire.And he declares of Jerusalem, She will be built,And of the temple, Your foundation will be laid., New American Standard Bible Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." And he said, "You have acted treacherously; roll a great stone to me today." Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Then he charged them saying, "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully and wholeheartedly. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah became king in his place. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house. Then Solomon said, "You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. He said, "Throw her down." But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "You shall not go up or fight against your relatives; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me."'" All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.. But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. He called to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?" Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. read more. Q All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And they said, "He is witness." It is not so!" He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. So he made a covenant with him and let him go. '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.'" Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." And Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, and he arose, went and took hold of the horns of the altar. Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry. And Jehonadab answered, "It is " Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, "This is Jezebel."'" Then the king said to him, "How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?" There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits. All the kings servants and the people of the kings provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind. Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." WebThe King James Bible - Offline content to use anytime without Internet access - Easy and quick navigation with no distraction - Share a verse with someone easily - Bookmark a verse to read later - Change Bible text size - Switch between day and night time reading modes We believe the Bible should And the dread of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel. Then Joram said, "Get ready." Far from it! When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. 'Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were. Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. 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. 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 he said, "For you, O captain." When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the LORD. In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king over all Israel at Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years. So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexed, and came to Samaria. Saul vowed to her by the LORD, saying, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing." Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father. 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. 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. Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite. And he said to them, "You know very well the man and his talk." Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word." Saul then said, "Thus you shall say to David, 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies '" Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine. There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. And he said, "Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it." For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great." Then there was no harm in the pot. For he had dominion over everything west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around about him. So it came about on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but they were found with Saul and his son Jonathan. 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. The gatekeepers called and told it within the king's household. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD. The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans with a great slaughter. And the LORD said, "They will surrender you." David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, "Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, 'So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'" He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the LORD. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. 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. "But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God." "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. 'I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. "He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants. 'I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these! And Jehu said, "For which one of us?" And he said, "Bring up Samuel for me." David was a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, a handsome man, and the LORD was with him. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field. But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. 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. So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her. WebAnd Gehazi said, My lord the king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. 6 When the king asked the woman, she told everything to him. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured. "You have declared today that you have done good to me, that the LORD delivered me into your hand and yet you did not kill me. "Is it not the wheat harvest today? "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." "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. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!, But Jesus said, Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.. Then Joram said, "Get ready." He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city. He will tell you what will happen to the boy." "I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days. 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. It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back. And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food. He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name." I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived. 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. But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak." Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The king said, "Get me a sword." Amen. And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she would not put him to death. I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall., For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth., Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; and they said to him, Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. 'Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun. "But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the LORD has given them into our hands; and this shall be the sign to us." But of the Son He says,Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.
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