Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and a spear was in Saul's hand. She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. Kings daughters are among Your noble ladies;At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir. '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 there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush. "Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel. "The LORD has done accordingly as He spoke through me; for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David. As David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying, "I am going the way of all the earth Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man. Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here." He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts. After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, "No! Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel. And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place. But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully. The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights. So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 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. Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father. These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work. The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD and so bring wrath on yourself from the LORD? "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." "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." But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he scorned them. "Do this thing: remove the kings, each from his place, and put captains in their place, and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. So Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, "My father, shall I kill them? Elisha said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you. But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak." "Even now, take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes. And the raiders came from the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual, and another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another company turned toward the border which overlooks the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city. And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp." And the LORD said to him, 'How?' Then Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." 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." But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. "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. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?" The battle became heavy against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was wounded by the archers. Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. "If we say, 'We will enter the city,' then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Would you kill those you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of these your prophets, for the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." "Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life, for you are safe with me." Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. And someone said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. '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."'" So she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when they went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. "The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. David took these words to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath. Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father. "Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life, for you are safe with me." The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it was for the priests. Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king. And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float. David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. Then Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad and said to him, "Go, bring them to the city." 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." And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three times and stopped. For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son became king in his place. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. He said, "What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death? Then they went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David His servant and to Israel His people. "And behold, I will send the lad, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? Was it not just a question?" And the king bowed himself on the bed. In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo. Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,Hallelujah! "The LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' 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. Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here." 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. 'Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem. "Please run now to meet her and say to her, 'Is it well with you? 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. Righteous lips are the delight of kings,And he who speaks right is loved. The LORD sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken through His servants the prophets. When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter." It is neither new moon nor sabbath." yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." 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." The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there." Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and, So David reigned over all Israel; and David. These are they who served the king, apart from those whom the king put in the fortified cities through all Judah. King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle." Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." 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. "Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day. And the Lord helped David wherever he went. "May God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if by morning I leave as much as one male of any who belong to him." And he said, "The LORD'S arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them." Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger burned against David and he said, "Why have you come down? Then he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. Far from it! 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. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him. And the LORD said, 'These have no master. "But if I say to the youth, 'Behold, the arrows are beyond you,' go, for the LORD has sent you away. The king made of the almug trees supports for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again nor have they been seen to this day. "Now therefore, behold, the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the LORD has proclaimed disaster against you." When Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. On the top of the pillars was lily design. Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly put the people under oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today.'" 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. 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. Go and do so.' He said to them, "Return to me again in three days." So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali. Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon's table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking. Then the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. Surely such a Passover had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah. And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return." So they camped one over against the other seven days. But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Every man of Judah and Jerusalem returned with Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. He said, "Go up and succeed, for they will be given into your hand." David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi. And they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the inner room of the house of Baal. And the watchman reported, "The messenger came to them, but he did not return." For the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the LORD. "Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever."'". Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." 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. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. "Is it not the wheat harvest today? Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal " And they proclaimed it. So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place. These are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; Ben-deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan; Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher); Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife); Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam; Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his); Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also married Basemath the daughter of Solomon); Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land. He said, "Which way shall we go up?" 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. Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. He said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD who is with you when you render judgment. So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her. "Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? When Saul and his men went to seek him, they told David, and he came down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. Then he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger burned against David and he said, "Why have you come down? Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress. Tell me, what do you have in the house?" "Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has taunted the armies of the living God." 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. 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?" Now Solomon the son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and exalted him greatly. Then the king of Israel called an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah, Imla's son." When Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. But the first woman said, "No! Then he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 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." All Judah was standing before the LORD, with their infants, their wives and their children. I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle." Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. "Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today; that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, 'My name shall be there,' to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place. When Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking with the kings in the temporary shelters, he said to his servants, "Station yourselves." 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. "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house; then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men, that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers. He said, "I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place. "Now you, arise, go to your house. Kings will be your guardians,And their princesses your nurses.They will bow down to you with their faces to the earthAnd lick the dust of your feet;And you will know that I am the Lord;Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame. Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them. Why did this mad fellow come to you?" God also raised up another adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal and he died. The king said to her, "Do not be afraid; but what do you see?" we have our ups and downs lyrics twisted vine engagement ring with wedding band the king is in the field bible verse. For this reason he has not come to the king's table." Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured. When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid. What shall we do?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil." "Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. Then he found another man and said, "Please strike me." But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days. Let each of them return to his house in peace.'" He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. Amen. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out. 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. For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations. Open your mouth for the mute, For the rights of all the unfortunate. 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. Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets. Besides, Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of the kingdom. So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard. And David fled and escaped that night. Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die." Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place. So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick. And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." 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." 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. "He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers. But for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem; because David did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself. And the people were very weary. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will overtake us. He defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute. WebOther Translations of Nehemiah 8:14-18 King James Version. Solomons wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. And Saul answered, "I am greatly distressed; for the Philistines are waging war against me, and God has departed from me and no longer answers me, either through prophets or by dreams; therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I should do." So he turned and went away in a rage. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? Ask for him also the kingdom--for he is my older brother--even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!"
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