Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel. Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. 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. 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. 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?" When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. He built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars. "It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing; The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had. The three older sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. For it came about, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck down every male in Edom (for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom), that Hadad fled to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah defeated 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. "So now also, please listen to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way." "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.' "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. 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. Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites and priests, and some of the heads of the fathers' households of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD and to judge disputes among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. read more. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. 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? So he made him ride in his chariot. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat saying, "Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works." Is it well with your husband? What has he done?" All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of these your prophets, for the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." Enjoy your glory and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall, and Judah with you?" So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. So the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him. Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying, "Now, when this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons, select the best and fittest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house." It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." Now Jehoshaphat reigned over 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." At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared. 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. Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 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." Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. In all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Saul looked at David with suspicion from that day on. Amen. But certain worthless men said, How can this one deliver us? And they despised him and did not bring him any present. And the raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual, and another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border which overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. So why should my father hide this thing from me? "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." Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around. "Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including goods, garments and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. read more. 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. Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; they are there to this day. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him. Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. "And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me." So he departed from Elisha and returned to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" Then David came to Saul and attended him; and Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor bearer. 'Also let the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying, "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father. David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand. And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. As the lad was running, he shot an arrow past him. Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel. "The LORD said to him, 'How?' The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the So He said, "Go forth and stand on the mountain before the LORD " And behold, the LORD was passing by! Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the Lord has set a king over you. WebThis is quite a king, whos given some extremely exalted titles: Mighty God, Eternal Father, and famously, Prince of Peace. He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD, 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'" 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." 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." Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? Then the other woman said, "No! "You shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth." He is Micaiah son of Imlah." Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, "Why do you not repair the damages of the house? 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. Then he hastily took the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him that he was of the prophets. And one said this while another said that. She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv. 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? When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" When Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. If your sons will keep My covenantAnd My testimony which I will teach them,Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.. So the king 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured. Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the door of the king's house. Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king. 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. But the man refused to strike him. 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. Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 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. "For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD." When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died. 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. For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You." '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 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. 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. And all the kings of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD. Also the ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt. Then Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the lad's face, but there was no sound or response. He acted valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them. So they brought back word to the king. So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. 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. 'I will take you, and you shall reign over whatever you desire, and you shall be king over Israel. There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. Act resolutely, and the Lord be with the upright.. 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. Is anything too hard for me? So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." So the LORD established the kingdom in his control, and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. He permitted no man to oppress them,And He reproved kings for their sakes, saying. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. When he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah. And Jonathan's lad picked up the arrow and came to his master. Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, "Why do we sit here until we die? She said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Tell the man who sent you to me, thus says the LORD, "Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. For I have regarded My people, because their cry has come to Me., Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, Reign over us!, Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, Long live King Solomon!. read more. "It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. Thus Saul was David's enemy continually. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God diverted them from him. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 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 name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, because Jezebel his wife incited him. But not one of all the people answered him. Then the royal officer answered the man of God and said, "Now behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" Saul came to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the valley. So Edom revolted against Judah to this day Then Libnah revolted at the same time. Now look after your own house, David!" And when they went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. So Ahab went up to eat and drink. "Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you." So Joram reined about and fled and said to Ahaziah, "There is treachery, O Ahaziah!" WebThis is the text and a scan of the actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version, the 'HE' Bible, for 1 Samuel Chapter 16. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. 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. For in that I cut off the edge of your robe and did not kill you, know and perceive that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands, and I have not sinned against you, though you are lying in wait for my life to take it. In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah became king. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. "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?" Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. WebAnd Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders. It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row. '", "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. Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built! He took great pride in the ways of the LORD and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. "The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.". Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 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. 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. "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day." Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found." Now all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter. 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. The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. "Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" 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. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. Bible And all the people said, "That is a good idea." He came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. He said, "Which way shall we go up?" But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." 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. Toi sent Joram his son to King David to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had been at war with Toi. And the. The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. He said to her, "Give me your son."