Shall I kill them?" So he finished the house. Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth." For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Behold, I have sent you a present of silver and gold; go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me." So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you sent for to your servant at the first I will do, but this thing I cannot do.'" The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'" When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy." 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. And where are you from?" And the Lord helped David wherever he went. The watchman reported, "He came even to them, and he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." And he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat." WebOther Translations of Nehemiah 8:14-18 King James Version. So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house. She arose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord's servants." Wikipedia So they poured it out for the men to eat. 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. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?" Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!" Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring. The king said to her, "Do not be afraid; but what do you see?" But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent. '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.' '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. Now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him." But the woman said to him, "Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. 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. who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. 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. Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, "My father, shall I kill them? And Doeg the Edomite turned around and attacked the priests, and he killed that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you. He gathered men to himself and became leader of a marauding band, after David slew them of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and stayed there, and reigned in Damascus. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three times and stopped. Then Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel; now therefore, listen to the words of the LORD. She looked and behold, the king was standing by the pillar, according to the custom, with the captains and the trumpeters beside the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets Then Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! So Judah gathered together to seek help from the LORD; they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD. So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous." Amen. "You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile. 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.'" Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married. Then he said, "Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it." Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. "Then the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security. He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" 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. But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. So please let your word be like one of them and speak favorably." 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. When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers. So the king He did right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done. So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. Next Jesse made Shammah pass by. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. Now there was an evil spirit from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand. And the Lord helped David wherever he went. So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine's head in his hand. Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah. And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen they could not be counted or numbered. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them." "For thus says the LORD, 'You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts. So Saul took his sword and fell on it. So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites arose and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land, slaughtering the Moabites. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. Now the LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what the LORD had commanded. 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 Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved over David because his father had dishonored him. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day." David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail on account of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt 10,000 and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel to this day. They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them. The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the, So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the. So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king's mother and the king's wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul. And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Now the people were camped against. He said, "In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me the ephod." On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds, Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and said, "Who are you?" 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." Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins! So the king appointed for her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now." 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. "Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat." On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, because there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings. So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering." He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. The LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived. Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt. 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'?" So all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet. He took great pride in the ways of the LORD and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah. And he came and prostrated himself before King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." with three layers of huge stones and one layer of timbers. They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul. Then Elisha came to Damascus Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here." Then he mustered the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and there were 232; and after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, 7,000. 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. I, Darius, have issued this decree, let it be carried out with all diligence!". And the king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it." Why did this mad fellow come to you?" He said, "Go up and succeed, for they will be given into your hand." Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. D When Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him, then Saul was even more afraid of David. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. But I will settle him in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.. And they made his chariot ready. And Jonathan called after the lad, "Hurry, be quick, do not stay!" "After whom has the king of Israel come out? But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying, read more. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan who read it. 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 So Saul took his sword and fell on it. So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, "Go up to your house in peace See, I have listened to you and granted your request." Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah.And they told David, saying, It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.. For I am sent to you with a harsh message. Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David's name; then they waited. For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts. The people were then summoned to Saul at Gilgal. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him. He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. He said, "Which way shall we go up?" Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. So Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. The LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. But of the Son He says,Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom. And he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; also oxen, donkeys, and sheep he struck with the edge of the sword. So the king of Assyria returned and did not remain there in the land. But the sons of the slayers he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the Law of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin." Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. 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 one of the people said, "Your father strictly put the people under oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today.'" And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he. And do not stand in the place of great men; So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David. M 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. Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats. Samuel said, Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? He acted wickedly in so doing. Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now therefore, please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time." Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And he put his hand on it, then Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died. He did right in the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of his father David, nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left. 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. "Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever."'". N His armor bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself, and here I am with you according to your desire." "Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai and your colleagues, the officials of the provinces beyond the River, keep away from there. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze. So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes. So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, "Return to me on the third day." Turn behind me." Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows." "Of Jezebel also has the LORD spoken, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.' O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant." Therefore they returned and told him. Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, because they did not open to him; therefore he struck it and ripped up all its women who were with child. The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans with a great slaughter. For it was borrowed." Saul's servants then said to him, "Behold now, an evil spirit from God is terrorizing you. "If he says, 'It is good,' your servant will be safe; but if he is very angry, know that he has decided on evil. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits. But David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law?" He said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Make this valley full of trenches.' So they brought a sword before the king. Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them. And the LORD said, 'These have no master. But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away, that I may go to my own country." 'Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.' But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back. WebKing James Version 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; Read full chapter Matthew 13:38 in all English translations Matthew 12 Matthew 14 1 John 3:8 King James Version 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods." In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, "Ask what you wish me to give you."