"But now bring me a minstrel " And it came about, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. Jehoash did right in the sight of the LORD all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him. So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him so that he died. When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you to take you as his wife." He said, "Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones." Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life. I see him, but not now;I behold him, but not near;A star shall come forth from Jacob,A scepter shall rise from Israel,And shall crush through the forehead of Moab,And tear down all the sons of Sheth. Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. 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." They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand." The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel. The woman came to Saul and saw that he was terrified, and said to him, "Behold, your maidservant has obeyed you, and I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me. They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. 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?. So Hiram gave Solomon as much as he desired of the cedar and cypress timber. 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." For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. "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." "The king has also said thus, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one to sit on my throne today while my own eyes see it.'" 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. 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. 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." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.'" When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including goods, garments and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry. It came about when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses." He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?" All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, for the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him Now he was at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household at Tirzah. He leads me beside still waters. Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years. Webthe king is in the field bible verse. So a horseman went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And when he had called her, she stood before him. Now the men took this as an omen, and quickly catching his word said, "Your brother Ben-hadad." Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Then Abner replied, "Who are you who calls to the king?" When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion do we have in David? So the king of Assyria returned and did not remain there in the land. Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. And the king said to the guards who were attending him, "Turn around and put the priests of the LORD to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me " But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the LORD. When he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who sang to the LORD and those who praised Him in holy attire, as they went out before the army and said, "Give thanks to the LORD, for His lovingkindness is everlasting." "Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, "I have anointed you king over Israel."' Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied. 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." The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.' When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. "He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor; and he allied himself by marriage with Ahab. "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. Then he turned away from him to another and said the same thing; and the people answered the same thing as before. 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. 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. The strength of the King loves justice;You have established equity;You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. The servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish me to give you." For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. Ahab said, "By whom?" This is the noise which you have heard. "Is it not the wheat harvest today? Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations. But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.read more.The Lord said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them. "So now also, please listen to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way." Shabbat is when the farmer is invited to the palace. For with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord? Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. "Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. Then David said, "O LORD God of Israel, Your servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account. In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah became king. Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn around and attack the priests." The rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? Then Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You will surely recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he will certainly die." Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. When these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also, and went and hid them. David said to his men, "Each of you gird on his sword." Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, "Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? but sought the God of his father, followed His commandments, and did not act as Israel did. Then Jehu sent throughout Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." He will tell you what will happen to the boy." 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 what is your request? K '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.'" 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." 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.'" A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding,But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days. "Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you But if there is iniquity in me, put me to death yourself; for why then should you bring me to your father?" 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. read more. He said, "Which way shall we go up?" Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent. Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. But he fled to Megiddo and died there. "Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze. These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work. The period which he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years. View 1 Samuel Chapter 16 as text-only. Then David said, "O LORD God of Israel, Your servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite. Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. "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.'" Why do you bring him to me? They said, "It is a lie, tell us now." And they made his chariot ready. Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me." Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD." He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze. It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, From the algum trees the king made steps for the house of the. ", Since the word of the king is authoritative, who will say to him, What are you doing?. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. "It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there." Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. WebGenesis 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. Now in the morning he went out and stood and said to all the people, "You are innocent; behold, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these? So Judah and Israel lived in safety, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. Saul said, "Listen now, son of Ahitub." And Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him." 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. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water? The couriers, hastened and impelled by the kings command, went out, riding on the royal steeds; and the decree was given out at the citadel in Susa. Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus spoke Joab, and thus he answered me." So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day. He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, Treason! He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 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. And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." And the one who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, all that you say to us we will do, we will not make any man king; do what is good in your sight." Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD before the new court, and he said, "O LORD, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? "For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safely? 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. Then the commanders of the Philistines went out to battle, and it happened as often as they went out, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul. And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son became king in his place. Furthermore, in your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound and the winged creature will make the matter known. Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel. Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and used to pay the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams. "Now therefore return and go in peace, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines." Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. One of his servants said, "Please, let some men take five of the horses which remain, which are left in the city. So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men. And all who were able to put on armor and older were summoned and stood on the border. For the Lord Most High is to be feared,A great King over all the earth. "If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God. For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great." But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. As the LORD lives, all of you must surely die, because you did not guard your lord, the LORD'S anointed. But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot. Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? And his mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. 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. See now, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. What then have they done in the rest of the kings provinces! Thus he said to him, "Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also." But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers." Many seek the rulers favor,But justice for man comes from the Lord. So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. 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. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? 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 the dread of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel. Then the two worthless men came in and sat before him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." Solomon's provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal, ten fat oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, a hundred sheep besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." Then he charged them saying, "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully and wholeheartedly. So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few. Now Saul and his son Jonathan and the people who were present with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin while the Philistines camped at Michmash. Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. He said, "Throw her down." Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that there is here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but only the worshipers of Baal." So he said, "Thus says the LORD, 'By the young men of the rulers of the provinces.'" In the field, he receives them all pleasantly and shows a And he said, 'I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' "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." And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return." So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king's table regularly Now he was lame in both feet. Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. "In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter." Also Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's merchants procured them from Kue for a price. But there was no voice and no one answered. 'Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.'" But you shall speak to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! She is his mother." He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin. What is my iniquity? For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 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. Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.