And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And the LORD said, "He will come down." And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died. What has he done?" 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. The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. 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." Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites." "When you have stayed for three days, you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself on that eventful day, and you shall remain by the stone Ezel. 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. Then Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, "Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this oracle against him: 'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this property,' says the LORD. "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. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. WebThe King James Bible - Offline content to use anytime without Internet access - Easy and quick navigation with no distraction - Share a verse with someone easily - Bookmark a verse to read later - Change Bible text size - Switch between day and night time reading modes We believe the Bible should Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? And he said to him, "Speak!" But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land." When both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, the Philistines said, "Behold, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves." He said, "Go up and succeed, for they will be given into your hand." They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 Arameans. So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 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. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. "If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah." Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. And he shot. Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder. And He said to him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all." Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." He threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people that they may eat." Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.'" When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" What is my iniquity? And he said, "Do it a third time," and they did it a third time. Naaman said, "If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules' load of earth; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering nor will he sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD. He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inner and outer sanctuaries. He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Many seek the rulers favor,But justice for man comes from the Lord. When the words which David spoke were heard, they told them to Saul, and he sent for him. So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. This is the word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God. Why are you then laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?" He also walked according to their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out. So David arose early, he and his men, to depart in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother." Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Now the three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem. Do not associate with those who are given to change. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?" This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will overtake us. Saul then said, "Thus you shall say to David, 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies '" Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. Then they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.' Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. Turn behind me." And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. He bought the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill. Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape." It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. For you are Saul." And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much. 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. They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the army of the Arameans, saying, "Go and see." Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. And the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel. 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." Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants of the land from ancient times, as you come to Shur even as far as the land of Egypt. 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 Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one escape or leave the city to go tell it in Jezreel." And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel sin; he did not turn from them. Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him. 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." "How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hand and destroy you from the earth?" Then Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and oxen for him and the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. And they said, "Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king." And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. A Psalm of David.The Lord says to my Lord:Sit at My right handUntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean." Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire; and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way. 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. Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as head and leader among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king. Then he said, "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today." The servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. Genesis 4:8 chapter context similar meaning copy save. So the king Then Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle." "Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.' Now Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand and go to Ramoth-gilead. At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah. About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal and he died. "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 also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good feeling toward David, shall I not then send to you and make it known to you? So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem. I have carried out the command of the LORD." So he took a bow and arrows. For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? God also raised up another adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel. So they brought back word to the king. The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul. Solomon said, "If he is a worthy man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he will die." Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again because my life was precious in your sight this day. Behold, Amariah the chief priest will be over you in all that pertains to the Lord, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all that pertains to the king. "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' 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. "We made a raid on the Negev of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire." And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king." Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all the unfortunate. But the man refused to strike him. So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the. For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel. Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who provided for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he."
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