Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. So he sent and brought him in. 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. "If it please my father to do you harm, may the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not make it known to you and send you away, that you may go in safety And may the LORD be with you as He has been with my father. 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?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you." Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel. Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? "For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria." For the sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir destroying them completely; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. David said to Ahimelech, "Now is there not a spear or a sword on hand? So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it." All Israel heard the news that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. Now the war against the Philistines was severe all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he attached him to his staff. Labs Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter. Jonathan then answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem, for he said, 'Please let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. And he said, "Listen, all you people." Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day. A warrior is not delivered by great strength. So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then he would cure him of his leprosy." So please let your word be like one of them and speak favorably." But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory! He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. If a king judges the poor with truth,His throne will be established forever. So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth. And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king." And now, see where the king's spear is and the jug of water that was at his head." Then Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, both the money of each man's assessment and all the money which any man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD, let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found." "As you did not obey the LORD and did not execute His fierce wrath on Amalek, so the LORD has done this thing to you this day. So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine's head in his hand. For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." '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. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. And his mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. But Jehoshaphat was not willing. He took all the gold and silver and all the utensils which were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." 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. Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and, So David reigned over all Israel; and David. God reigns over the nations,God sits on His holy throne. "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." 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. Then the messengers returned and told the king. Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. But all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them. 'Now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel. 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. When midday was past, they raved until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice; but there was no voice, no one answered, and no one paid attention. Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around. "And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." And he said, 'I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. And you shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours."'" "How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom. I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle." The king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down by Saul's side, but David's place was empty. As he was relating to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and for her field. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. '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.'" When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him." When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house And Jehu pursued him and said, "Shoot him too, in the chariot " So they shot him at the ascent of Gur, which is at Ibleam. The young men of the rulers of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out and they told him, saying, "Men have come out from Samaria." Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. "And who will listen to you in this matter? But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man go back, that he may return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. Who?" Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying, "You know that David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." So with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed. Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. King Solomon also built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 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.'" Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah. By me kings reign,And rulers decree justice. When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, although the. He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, "See, your son is alive." And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first to last, behold, they are written in the annals of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites." I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
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