Then Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him. In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv. Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart." In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months. He said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'" 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. So when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely it is the king of Israel," and they turned aside to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out. When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" The king said to Barzillai, You cross over with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me.. So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine's head in his hand. But I will settle him in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.. But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites." 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. read more. Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place. And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. And Jonathan called after the lad, "Hurry, be quick, do not stay!" So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, "Go up to your house in peace See, I have listened to you and granted your request." After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. read more. Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face each other." When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid. He restores my soul. Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they would be the LORD'S people, also between the king and the people. Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. When there was war again, David went out and fought with the Philistines and defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled before him. "Now therefore return and go in peace, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines." "But they will become his slaves so that they may learn the difference between My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. WebNaboth Is Killed in His Grape-Field - Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a field of grape-vines in Jezreel beside the family of Ahab king of Samaria. After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field. Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." The Lord said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you are seeking to go to your own country?" Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." And he said, "For you, O captain." TopicalBible Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" read more. Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! It is He who changes the times and the epochs;He removes kings and establishes kings;He gives wisdom to wise menAnd knowledge to men of understanding. And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.. "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.' 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. "I have surely built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever." Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. Jaziz the Hagrite had charge of the flocks. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. 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. And he answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD. Could I not wash in them and be clean?" Selah. 'You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. Now the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifice before the LORD. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the kings mother, and she sat on his right. When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place. Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay. There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. 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. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.. Will You give them into the hand of Israel?" For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;Women come and make a fire with them,For they are not a people of discernment,Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.And their Creator will not be gracious to them. But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, , She looked and behold, the king was standing, Again he prostrated himself and said, What is your servant, that you should regard, They told the king, saying, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he prostrated himself. He said to her, "What is his form?" "Now therefore, know and consider what you should do, for evil is plotted against our master and against all his household; and he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him." "Moreover the LORD will also give over Israel along with you into the hands of the Philistines, therefore tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death; for Samuel grieved over Saul. "Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before the LORD, and wrath may not come on you and your brethren. And he said, "I am." 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? But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord! Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God diverted them from him. His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai. So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel. 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 Samuel said, "Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? 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. For there is no other except it here." Then David said, "You must not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us, who has kept us and delivered into our hand the band that came against us. Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and slaughter it here and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'" Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. And the king said to her, "What is the matter with you?" But he said, "Now bring meal." And Jonathan's lad picked up the arrow and came to his master. Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. So he said to the driver of the chariot, "Turn around and take me out of the fight, for I am severely wounded." David took these words to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this oracle against him: 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. Then some came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, out of Aram and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (that is Engedi)." These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king's friend; and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor. "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.' The prophet Gad said to David, "Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you. After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away, that I may go to my own country." So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one escape or leave the city to go tell it in Jezreel." 'You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. But he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and have some left over.'" Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Now the destruction of Ahaziah was from God, in that he went to Joram For when he came, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, "Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the LORD will work for us, for the LORD is not restrained to save by many or by few." Ahab said, "By whom?" read more. And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." But David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lords anointed and be without guilt?, Then David said to him, How is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lords anointed?. It was told King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar. and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.read more.Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hand, saying, 'Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.' The LORD sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets. The Philistine also said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field." 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. Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. He did not leave to Jeroboam any persons alive, until he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite, and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger. The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand. And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm. Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people. Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. But not one of all the people answered him. But Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so." It came about afterward that David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul's robe. For the sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir destroying them completely; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all that Solomon desired to do, that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them. But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!" "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." Why did this mad fellow come to you?" So the LORD delivered Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven. 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. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of the LORD." 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. 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. Bible Verses "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay. His servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life." 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 he went away from Jerusalem. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the, So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the. "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.