Then David defeated Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to restore his rule at the River. He said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD who is with you when you render judgment. But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I shall speak." The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other." The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland. "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." "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom." 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 he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths None remained except the poorest people of the land. And she said, "Speak." So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. All the officials, the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David pledged allegiance to King Solomon. They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helped him. Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land." So he said to his men, "Far be it from me because of the LORD that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD'S anointed." He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. "Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it shall not be quenched."' The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled. Treason!" '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.'" "But they forgot the LORD their God, so He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the LORD which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people. When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers. Do not claim honor in the presence of the king,And do not stand in the place of great men; So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron; then they anointed David king over Israel. From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead. Then he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son. But of the Son He says,Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom. So he said to his men, "Far be it from me because of the LORD that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD'S anointed." He threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people that they may eat." Now King Solomon was king over all Israel. 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. Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold. Then the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and imposed on the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. Could I not wash in them and be clean?" Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight, John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 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. When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him." Thus David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah. He said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day that you have found nothing in my hand." "Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, "I have anointed you king over Israel."' Then Saul said to Samuel, "I did obey the voice of the LORD, and went on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 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. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three times and stopped. For the Lord Most High is to be feared,A great King over all the earth. The strength of the King loves justice;You have established equity;You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse Every man to your tents, O Israel; Now look after your own house, David " So all Israel departed to their tents. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" And you said to me, 'The word which I have heard is good.' I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left. "He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants. He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine. And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and not be moved again; and the wicked will not waste them anymore as formerly. 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. So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean. read more. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground. 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?" And the name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 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. As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand." Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number now and see who has gone from us." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" To Him be honor and eternal dominion! "For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. 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. Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and a spear was in Saul's hand. "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. Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram, but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. He made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor. "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."'" But Amaziah would not listen. As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.' And Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, and he arose, went and took hold of the horns of the altar. 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. So they ate and drank that day before the Lord with great gladness.And they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, and they anointed him as ruler for the Lord and Zadok as priest. 'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.' However, as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin, from these Jehu did not depart, even the golden calves that were at Bethel and that were at Dan. The mother of the lad said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king." 92 Bible verses about Kings - Knowing Jesus So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 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." "Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way. And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! "So now, take your stand, that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous acts of the LORD which He did for you and your fathers. And be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in." Also the Levites shall be officers before you. "Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life, for you are safe with me." When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice. WebEcclesiastes 5:9. And so it was. Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of the LORD." He said, "Which way shall we go up?" Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. "Now, my father, see! Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand." He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron. Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years." It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently. Do not fear, beasts of the field,For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,For the tree has borne its fruit,The fig tree and the vine have yielded in full. Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? David said to him, "To whom do you belong? The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. WebVerse Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved! He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. And Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze. "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear." 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. Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. For there is no other except it here." Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. Isaiah 35:7 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. Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the sons of Israel stoned him to death. He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. "If you will not listen to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the command of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your fathers. So he returned to meet him and told him, "The lad has not awakened." And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? 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. 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! Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Then he would cure him of his leprosy." And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.. The king said to Barzillai, You cross over with me and I will, After coming into the house they saw the Child with, So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels, Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in, Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the. Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he took him up into the chariot. Now the men of Israel were hard-pressed on that day, for Saul had put the people under oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food before evening, and until I have avenged myself on my enemies." And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it, and did not inquire of the Lord. Then he charged them saying, "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully and wholeheartedly. "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." 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." Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah. He said, "In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. And he sat on the throne of the kings. He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? They arose from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land. 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? Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset, saying, "Every man to his city and every man to his country." 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!" He did right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done. Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? 'Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments and My statutes; but I will take the kingdom from his son's hand and give it to you, even ten tribes. "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." Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army. Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. Now he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him. So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel." "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." After this event Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again he made priests of the high places from among all the people; any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places. Why did this mad fellow come to you?" read more. 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. "He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king's house (one third also shall be at the gate Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense. All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. The battle became heavy against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was wounded by the archers. Bible So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people. Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has departed from you and has become your adversary? read more. Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son. He said, "In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!" For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?" As soon as Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, then he built the Millo. But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he scorned them. These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.. Then he turned away from him to another and said the same thing; and the people answered the same thing as before. So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of him a king. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house. "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." Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, then turned and proceeded on down to Gilgal." Bible Verses So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. 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. As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Then Jehu sent throughout Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. 'I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
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