"Now, my father, see! Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." So Hilkiah and those whom the king had told went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her regarding this. 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? "This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it. Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah. When the queen of Sheba perceived all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot. "Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel. "For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king." For to which of the angels did God ever say, You are my Son, today I have begotten you? But the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's household!" 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. "Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. He took the captains of hundreds and the Carites and the guards and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guards to the king's house. "Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will entice him.' 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. So Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, "Do you come in peace?" And where are you from?" Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. Now Saul and his son Jonathan and the people who were present with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash. 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. the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. He came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the LORD their God. Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." All Israel heard the news that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. When the lad reached the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?" Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand." '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.' A truth from which He will not turn back: Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. 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." From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a very large amount of bronze. Pharaohs officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaohs house. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people. Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them; and David took control of the chief city from the hand of the Philistines. "But now your kingdom shall not endure The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you." Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the LORD'S battles " For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him." 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 he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you., Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and He will give you into our hands." And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. The servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men. Why do you bring him to me? Now Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, "Is all well? For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts. And the messengers departed and brought him word again. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the. "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. read more. Now Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field. Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and investigate and see how this sin has happened today. Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim. In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its plans. And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.. And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. "Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. Ask for him also the kingdom--for he is my older brother--even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!" And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab." Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp." When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, "Is all well?" So he put out his hand and took it. As Samuel turned to go, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. And the king said to her, "What is the matter with you?" Do not give your strength to women,Or your ways to that which destroys kings. And as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, "O man of God, there is death in the pot." Who is this King of glory? Then he opened the door and fled. And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" 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. 21 So now swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my And you said to me, 'The word which I have heard is good.' To Him be honor and eternal dominion! So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. It was told King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, "The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange." And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? A dead dog, a single flea? "It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. And he said to them, "You know very well the man and his talk." And he said, "Do it a third time," and they did it a third time. It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die. Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not follow the LORD fully, as David his father had done. The men of David said to him, "Behold, this is the day of which the LORD said to you, 'Behold; I am about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.'" Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" 'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.' Then one said, "Please be willing to go with your servants." Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary. Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. So he departed from him some distance. Now the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, "Inasmuch as I exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins, behold, I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 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? David said to Ahimelech, "Now is there not a spear or a sword on hand? Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule. "The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go." They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people. He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inner and outer sanctuaries. There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. 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. It came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. So he was hidden with her in the house of the LORD six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land. When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven. Is it well with your husband? "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. Click to switch to the standard King James Version of 1 Samuel Chapter 16. Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" The king said to him, "Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, that you may remove from me and from my father's house the blood which Joab shed without cause. So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Samaria. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the ranks of the Philistines?" The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul. 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. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of the LORD, "Please strike me." When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly. And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he." Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel. For if I should indeed learn that evil has been decided by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you about it?" The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul. "Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place."'" When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him forsook the law of the LORD. For You meet him with the blessings of good things;You set a crown of fine gold on his head. When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, "Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please take a present from your servant now." Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." When they began singing and praising, the LORD set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were routed. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! And they said, "He is witness." "Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him." And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold. I see him, but not now;I behold him, but not near;A star shall come forth from Jacob,A scepter shall rise from Israel,And shall crush through the forehead of Moab,And tear down all the sons of Sheth. For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. 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. Z, They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.. 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. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. None but the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. So he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do I have to do with you? What then have they done in the rest of the kings provinces! 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? But the people said to Saul, "Must Jonathan die, who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons. Then the two worthless men came in and sat before him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. 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. He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones. 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 David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish king of Gath. So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 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.'" Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. Now Hadad found great favor before Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? There they also offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are 450 men. "Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.' And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place. "Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him." Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. "Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers." Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest we have utterly destroyed." Now the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we are still doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?" Who says to a king, Worthless one,To nobles, Wicked ones; Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. Is it well with the child?'" "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? 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. And behold, the half was not told me. read more. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground. that his heart may not be lifted up above his, So he sent and brought him in. So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and righteousness for all his people. Why does it have strange spelling? And the oil stopped. And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house. Turn behind me." Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest we have utterly destroyed." Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father. Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house. '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. Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! "Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself. Then she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. They took bribes and perverted justice. "Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. He is Micaiah son of Imlah." Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." And they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the inner room of the house of Baal. Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

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