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." Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 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." But he said, "No, for I will die here." Then David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your sight, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?" 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. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses and mules, so much year by year. So Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. And Jehonadab answered, "It is " Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. Lets lodge in the villages.- World Messianic Bible Or again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son? So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael. Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his own house in the wilderness. Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers. And they leaped about the altar which they made. Judge not, that you be not judged. As he was talking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath, was coming up from the army of the Philistines, and he spoke these same words; and David heard them. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. Then the other woman said, "No! Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king. And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and deliver Keilah." 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. "It shall come about, the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death. Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. In the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. Then Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." Now it came about in the morning that Jonathan went out into the field for the appointment with David, and a little lad was with him. "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row. "Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive. 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.. He also sought Ahaziah, and they caught him while he was hiding in Samaria; they brought him to Jehu, put him to death and buried him For they said, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." Thus they destroyed the cities; and each one threw a stone on every piece of good land and filled it So they stopped all the springs of water and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth only they left its stones; however, the slingers went about it and struck it. Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, "O Baal, answer us." "All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. So Saul's servants spoke these words to David. 'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies; because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.'" "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." When all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, even they also pursued them closely in the battle. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. "Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her for my wife? When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, "Why have you deceived me? On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds, Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and said, "Who are you?" 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. "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 king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland. Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested. Now what is your petition? And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray You, let this child's life return to him." Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. "I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel." I will call to the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the LORD by asking for yourselves a king." So they were called the land of Cabul to this day. Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." He answered, "You shall not kill them. So he departed from Elisha and returned to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back. He said, "Take them alive." She is his mother." So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those left behind remained. And the king bowed himself on the bed. So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt. He said to him, "It is I. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. A king who sits on the throne of justiceDisperses all evil with his eyes. In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned nine years. So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and righteousness for all his people. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns., And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, Amen. Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.. Shall this one come into my house?" Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces. "If he says, 'It is good,' your servant will be safe; but if he is very angry, know that he has decided on evil. Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; The kings wrath is like the roaring of a lion,But his favor is like dew on the grass. 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. "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger. When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes--now he was passing by on the wall--and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body. So he put out his hand and took it. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.. 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. And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." He said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from me to speak to you?" It is not so!" 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? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?" 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. This is the noise which you have heard. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and I have done all these things at Your word. But Nabal answered David's servants and said, "Who is David? Now Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower." "You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "Have you murdered and also taken possession?"' And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised; not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He promised through Moses His servant. It came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them. Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem. And he answered, "He told me that you would surely recover." "My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place where you direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household." Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." Then he sent messengers to the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, "Thus says Ben-hadad, 'Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives and children are also mine.'" Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" He said, "All is well My master has sent me, saying, 'Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.'" For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day. Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way. Therefore He killed him and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse. And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were appointed over the army and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever follows her put to death with the sword." 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. "Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? All the priests of the high places who were there he slaughtered on the altars and burned human bones on them; then he returned to Jerusalem. So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. "It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there." They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has departed from you and has become your adversary? Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. "Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully." 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. '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.' "And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."' And they made his chariot ready. Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn around and attack the priests." Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. He departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes. They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." The LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? Then they sent word to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned and is dead." Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life. Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger burned against David and he said, "Why have you come down? "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger. "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?" 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. But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. Labs 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. He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great wealth. Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, "Who is on my side? So they listened to the words of the LORD and returned from going against Jeroboam. Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel. "Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. 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. Then Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. He spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions." And Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal. The LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall eat at my table regularly." Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn around and attack the priests." "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. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! 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." In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, "Behold, a gift for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD: to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the Negev, and to those who were in Jattir, and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa, and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites, and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Bor-ashan, and to those who were in Athach, and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were accustomed to go." And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? He did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not yet a prophet of the LORD here that we may inquire of 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. Then the king faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing. Now it came about in those days that the Philistines gathered their armed camps for war, to fight against Israel. But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For they will drink and forget what is decreed. "You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him." But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. "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. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem. As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, from them Solomon levied forced laborers, even to this day. About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over My people Israel; and he will deliver My people from the hand of the Philistines. So they camped one over against the other seven days. Then he came there to a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" Now three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the LORD. "They cried out to the LORD and said, 'We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.' "Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. And two or three officials looked down at him. In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah. So they seized her, and when she arrived at the horses' entrance of the king's house, she was put to death there. A wise king winnows the wicked,And drives the threshing wheel over them. So he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. 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.
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