And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.. 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. Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines. When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. 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." A dead dog, a single flea? 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. "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. 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. David called to the people and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Will you not answer, Abner?" Then David put garrisons among the Arameans of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, bringing tribute. For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David's name; then they waited. So the work of the pillars was finished. He said, "What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death? The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. It came about afterward that David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul's robe. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married. 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." Then he said, "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today." So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD. When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed 22,000 men of the Arameans. Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel. In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years. So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from God that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. All the officials, the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David pledged allegiance to King Solomon. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. read more. So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away. So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Arameans in the Valley of Salt. He said to him, "Go in peace." And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, "Why do you not repair the damages of the house? Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the royal officers, "Go in, kill them; let none come out." Then he opened the door and fled. Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life. "It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. read more. 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 LORD'S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD'S anointed." Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. So they brought back word to the king. besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. Who is this King of glory? "Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel, and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you--yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight; you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back-- therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. And he said, "Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it." And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. So the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor bearer and said, "Come up to us and we will tell you something " And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hands of Israel." So Judah gathered together to seek help from the LORD; they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD. Now Azmaveth the son of Adiel had charge of the kings storehouses. So they poured it out for the men to eat. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim But he took Jehoahaz away and brought him to Egypt, and he died there. "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." And he said to them, "You know very well the man and his talk." And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother." Now Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army, and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots And he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it. So none of the people tasted food. "So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. Now Nadab the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. 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. Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. I, Darius, have issued this decree, let it be carried out with all diligence!". Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, "It is an accident, he is not clean, surely he is not clean." "Now then, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, just as one hunts a partridge in the mountains." Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming. "Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands'?" I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines previously, who went up with them all around in the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. So each man girded on his sword. And he said, "I will go up; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return." So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.' Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive." Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them. Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king. In John 8:12 [emphasis mine], Jesus says, "I AM the Light (the manifest radiance of God's life) of the world, and the one following (or co-walking But he refused and said, "I will not eat " However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed. 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. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." "Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on. Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out. "If it please my father to do you harm, may the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not make it known to you and send you away, that you may go in safety And may the LORD be with you as He has been with my father. 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." The men of David said to him, "Behold, this is the day of which the LORD said to you, 'Behold; I am about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.'" Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? David persuaded his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. "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. Then Samuel took the flask of oil, poured it on his head, kissed him and said, Has not the, Then Samuel said to the people, Come and let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there., So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the, Samuel said, Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite. Web92 Bible Verses about Kings throne. Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread." He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. Then a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because the Arameans have said, "The LORD is a god of the mountains, but He is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'" Then Joram crossed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him. Shitrai the Sharonite had charge of the cattle which were grazing in Sharon; and Shaphat the son of Adlai had charge of the cattle in the valleys. Then 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." When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David's name; then they waited. Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt." When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him." Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." He also said, "Why then is my lord pursuing his servant? And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.. 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? "Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and will cut off from Ahab every male, both bond and free in Israel; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin. It shall be granted you. For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great." So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few. Then Saul clothed David with his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor. His father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel (now the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite), that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. And be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in." They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed." He said, "Throw her down." He said, "Why will you go to him today? He did much evil in the sight of the LORD provoking Him to anger. They killed each his man; and the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land. And they made his chariot ready. And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? In those days the LORD began to cut off portions from Israel; and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. "Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, "Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together. So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. Micaiah said, "Therefore, hear the word of the LORD. It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." "The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go." So the people departed. A warrior is not delivered by great strength. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!" Proverbs 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves so I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some measure of deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by means of Shishak. But Solomon did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen. And he brought them to Samaria. 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.' Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. And they said, "Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord." Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, "If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time." 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. Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him. And he answered, "I shall go." And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest." Our lord King David has made Solomon king. When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?" The women sang as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands." So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth. Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. Is anything too hard for me? They gave the money which was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD; and to the masons and the stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the damages to the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I shall speak." So David arose and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. David was the youngest. Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. Then a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because the Arameans have said, "The LORD is a god of the mountains, but He is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'" So Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him and said, "Do you come in peace?" On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel. If the rulers temper rises against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great offenses. '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.'" Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number now and see who has gone from us." "I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days. And there were in the same country The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Or for rulers to desire strong drink, For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the afflicted. Then David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your sight, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?" But there were not made for the house of the LORD silver cups, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver from the money which was brought into the house of the LORD; for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD. So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
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