The people were then summoned to Saul at Gilgal. "He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers. 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. "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. Jonathan said to David, "Go in safety, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of the LORD, saying, 'The LORD will be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.'" Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me but always evil. There they also offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem. So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?" Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me the ephod." "Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them. So he made a covenant with him and let him go. But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Geocoding Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. And he said, "Bring up Samuel for me." He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him." 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." 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? All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children. 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. Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and investigate and see how this sin has happened today. Why will you continue to rebel? So Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah. So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. And the oil stopped. When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 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." 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? "For on the day you go out and cross over the brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head." In this verse Jesus presents the example of the lilies, who also do no labour. In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. Shimei the Ramathite had charge of the vineyards; and Zabdi the Shiphmite had charge of the produce of the vineyards stored in the wine cellars. 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. Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold; go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me." 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 earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the But he went in and stood before his master. Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise now, and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people. The King is in the Field - It Is Finished Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and, So David reigned over all Israel; and David. When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead." None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; read more. Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was hidden from the king which he did not explain to her. 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?" And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you. I will call to the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the LORD by asking for yourselves a king." So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is the king of Israel," and they turned aside to fight against him. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot. And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. Then Joram said, "Get ready." Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers. 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 Saul's shepherds. Now the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? But in the dearth of people is a princes ruin. 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. He said, "Which way shall we go up?" "Nevertheless I did not believe the reports, until I came and my eyes had seen it. The other cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubim were of the same measure and the same form. The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, "Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. And Adoniram was over the forced laborers. Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built! David then arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. Then the messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-hadad, 'Surely, I sent to you saying, "You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children," but about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants; and whatever is desirable in your eyes, they will take in their hand and carry away.'" And I will subdue all your enemies. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. Why do you bring him to me? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master. And King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah. "Now then arise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light, depart." Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth." Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five cubits the other wing of the cherub; from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing were ten cubits. And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." 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. "Now therefore, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. These are they who served the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified cities through all Judah. The other cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubim were of the same measure and the same form. Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry. And he said, "The LORD'S arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them." Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, "If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time." From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a very large amount of bronze. As Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it well, Zimri, your master's murderer?" When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, "Is all well?" He also sought Ahaziah, and they caught him while he was hiding in Samaria; they brought him to Jehu, put him to death and buried him For they said, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done. "Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. WebTwo verses earlier at Matthew 6:26 Jesus told his followers not to worry about food, because even the birds are provided for by God. But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. Then they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, read more. "And I issued a decree that any man who violates this edict, a timber shall be drawn from his house and he shall be impaled on it and his house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this. Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. Then David came to Saul and attended him; and Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor bearer. Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan and Ishvi and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab and the name of the younger Michal. And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? '", Then King Darius issued a decree, and search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon. So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD before the new court, and he said, "O LORD, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? May the LORD therefore reward you with good in return for what you have done to me this day. 'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' And Jehu said, "For which one of us?" David slaughtered them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself and observe and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will come up against you." I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men. But one son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. And he sat on the throne of the kings. They went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon. "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city. "May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? "Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. He said, "If the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you? And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. And what is your further request? But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. So all the people came near to him. When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance. 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. bible They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." He is Micaiah, son of Imla." "This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body. So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. It came about when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. 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. And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" And the people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you." So David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. I So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick. And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. "Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. Web8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? "He said, 'I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death." I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth. 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. "He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants. And Jehu said, "For which one of us?" So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself. David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives. Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria. But I will settle him in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever., As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel., As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel., The Lord has sworn to DavidA truth from which He will not turn back:Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them. Ahab called Obadiah who was over the household (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly; for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.) For what have I done? The. When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 men of the Arameans. And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil." But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites arose and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land, slaughtering the Moabites. read more. Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. So the work of the pillars was finished. And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns., And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, Amen. WebVerse Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved!