Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of the LORD." "Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. 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." Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you." I, Darius, have issued this decree, let it be carried out with all diligence!". They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. He departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes. Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today." He brought into the house of the LORD the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils. Then Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. 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 the LORD will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the LORD has been pleased to make you a people for Himself. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. 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. Tell me, what do you have in the house?" Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the Lord has set a king over you. '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.' Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully. 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 Then he said to them, "Depart for three days, then return to me." The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you put on your robes." Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,And guided them with his skillful hands. Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, "I have a word for you, O captain." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother." Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit. Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. And now, see where the king's spear is and the jug of water that was at his head." 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. "Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,' to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat saying, "Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works." Then he brought the kings son out and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony; and they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, Long live the king!, Samuel said to all the people, Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. The king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in his place, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar. Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And he listened to their voice and did so. Then the messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-hadad, 'Surely, I sent to you saying, "You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children," but about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants; and whatever is desirable in your eyes, they will take in their hand and carry away.'" J Now in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of the LORD saying, read more. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. But of the Son He says,Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom. Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn. And he sought many wives for them. They killed each his man; and the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. 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. When your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up one of your descendants after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. You can now go to any verse in this Bible in seconds with minimal clicks. Then Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands " And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all night. So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped. So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul's head, and they went away, but no one saw or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a sound sleep from the LORD had fallen on them. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place. Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? He acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel. In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. KJ21. The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood. So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself. So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 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. But he kept silent. Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it. He fixed his gaze steadily on him until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept. He had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and handsome man, and there was not a more handsome person than he among the sons of Israel; from his shoulders and up he was taller than any of the people. Shall I overtake them?" So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. 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." Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face each other." When he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him. Then all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. On the top of the pillars was lily design. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, having done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols; therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. Now in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him in the house of the LORD. Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. 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. Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. So they related to him the words of the men of Jabesh. Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman." For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord. Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah, Imla's son." Now the three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem. All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. As Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it well, Zimri, your master's murderer?" They gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit revived. Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. Now then, here is your wife, take her and go.. It came about when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." When he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah. Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. It happened in the morning about the time of offering the sacrifice, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. So he made him ride in his chariot. Then the messenger who went to summon Micaiah spoke to him saying, "Behold now, the words of the prophets are uniformly favorable to the king. There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. He said to him, "Go in peace." So these went out from the city, the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and the army which followed them. When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed herself to the ground. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt." "But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king will be swept away." He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. "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. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house. She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Saul then said to him, "Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he would rise up against me by lying in ambush as it is this day?" Then Saul said, "I have sinned. They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand." Is anything too hard for me? "Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" 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. When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one escape or leave the city to go tell it in Jezreel." So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel. from Aram and Moab and the sons of Ammon and the Philistines and Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. 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. And he said to them, "You know very well the man and his talk." And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You. I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly,read more.even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. View 1 Samuel Chapter 16 as text-only. O Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone. Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father. "But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the LORD has given them into our hands; and this shall be the sign to us." Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. And the. Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death But Jonathan, Saul's son, greatly delighted in David. 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. And their Creator will not be gracious to them. He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD. Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" "You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. And she said to him, "Speak." Then they spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! "If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, because it is the yearly sacrifice there for the whole family.' Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. "And they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.'" So he said, "Thus says the LORD, 'By the young men of the rulers of the provinces.'" And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. So Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is east of Egypt. When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." 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. Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the LORD which He spoke. 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?. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three times and stopped. So David's young men retraced their way and went back; and they came and told him according to all these words.