'Thus says the LORD, "You must not go up and fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me."'" But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "You shall not go up or fight against your relatives; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me."'" "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. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil. "For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day." "Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'. Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. Now the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we are still doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?" 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. David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, 'Behold, David seeks to harm you'? He brought into the house of the LORD the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." And they were three days taking the spoil because there was so much. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. S 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. N 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? "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. When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the LORD today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people." Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death But Jonathan, Saul's son, greatly delighted in David. Now Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower." And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field. They brought up the ark of the LORD and the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils, which were in the tent, and the priests and the Levites brought them up. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD provoking Him to anger. Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army are pleasing in my sight; for I have not found evil in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. "They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep. Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord. 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. 'Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'" So they took them alive and killed them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them. He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. Now the king of Aram had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone." Now it came about after this that the sons of Moab and the sons of Ammon, together with some of the Meunites, came to make war against Jehoshaphat. So he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, 'Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place.' His father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" Ahithophel was counselor to the king; and Hushai the Archite was the kings friend. "But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal." "But if I say to the youth, 'Behold, the arrows are beyond you,' go, for the LORD has sent you away. Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Now the destruction of Ahaziah was from God, in that he went to Joram For when he came, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light. But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place. "But they will become his slaves so that they may learn the difference between My service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." Then the king commanded all the people saying, "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God as it is written in this book of the covenant." And his mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. Saul's servants then said to him, "Behold now, an evil spirit from God is terrorizing you. And he said, "Listen, all you people." What then have they done in the rest of the kings provinces! David also said, "As the LORD lives, surely the LORD will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish. So they camped one over against the other seven days. read more. But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them or cast them from His presence until now. And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold. And He said to him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all." Then David crossed over to the other side and stood on top of the mountain at a distance with a large area between them. Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. The battle raged that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans until the evening; and at sunset he died. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." 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. And Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold and silver and bronze. In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. "Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that You, O LORD, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again." He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones. Now it came about after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" "When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. Then he opened the door and fled. Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. Surely at the command of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not forgive. He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, "Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? So David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? WebNebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God. He said to his father, "My head, my head." And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this dayin that they have forsaken Me and served other godsso they are doing to you also. The king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. And Hazael became king in his place. Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. I have carried out the command of the LORD." For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?" Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there. And he said, "Thus and thus he said to me, 'Thus says the LORD, "I have anointed you king over Israel."'" 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.'" Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD." "Now therefore, as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today." "Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind." So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him. The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days. Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions. Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. "So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace. All the kings servants and the people of the kings provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! "Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah." Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD. "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. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. "Moreover the LORD will also give over Israel along with you into the hands of the Philistines, therefore tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. And behold, the half was not told me. Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they would be the LORD'S people, also between the king and the people. Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. Zechariah 14:9 God kingdom After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'" In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. And when Saul heard it, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon. Then all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil by asking for ourselves a king." And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food. From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a very large amount of bronze. Then Pekah son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place. He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have dealt well with me, while I have dealt wickedly with you. So he said, "I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep which have no shepherd; And the LORD said, 'These have no master. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah said, Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lords anointed?, 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 Lords anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lords anointed., When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, Surely the Lords anointed is before Him.. And he answered, "He told me that you would surely recover." They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helped him. For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing. read more. Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood. But he went in and stood before his master. Some years later he went down to visit Ahab at Samaria. And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah."